A plethora of statistics that say it all about Alonso and his 2023 F1 season

Fernando Alonso He smiled again behind the wheel of a F1. After years of battling uncompetitive cars at ‘Great Circus’ and after his departure to head towards the Endurance World Cup and the Dakarhe once again had a car in which he would continue to fight for podiums at the beginning of the year in his first year at Aston Martin. He took advantage of this perfectly to get 6 boxes in the first 8 races. Then, with the green team’s progress stagnating, he managed to win two more and maximized his car’s results and performance until he sealed his 4th place in the Drivers’ World Championship.

Alonso went from 9th in the World Cup in 2022 to 4th in 2023with massive solvency and consistency in points making him the driver who won the most points compared to last year of the entire F1 grid.

Fernando Alonso scored a total of 81 points in 2022 with an Alpine that suffered from numerous reliability problems. Meanwhile, this course added 206 points to the total. That’s an increase of 125 points.

Second on the list is Max Verstappen. His dominance was huge, much more than in 2022 and he achieved 454 points last year, while in 2023 he conquered 575 with 19 wins out of 21 possible. That means, Max added 121 points compared to last year, 4 less than the growth experienced by Fernando Alonso.

The third on the list is Oscar Piastri, although with a ‘trap’, because in 2022 he did not drive in F1. In his first year in the ‘Great Circus’, with McLaren, he scored 97 points. Lando Norris, also with the team Movingexperienced an increase of 83 points.

The rise of Lance Stroll is remarkable. With the same car as Alonso, despite the massive improvement in the green car compared to last year, he added only 56 more points than those achieved in 2022.

Point difference of F1 drivers from 2022 to 2023

1. Fernando Alonso: 81 (2022), 206 (2023): +125 points
2. Max Verstappen. 454 (2022), 575 (2023): +121 points
3. Oscar Piastri: Beginner, 97 points
4. Lando Norris: 122 (2022), 205 (2023): +83 points
5. Lance Stroll: 18 (2022), 74 (2023): +56 points
6. Pierre Gasly: ​​23 (2022), 62 (2023): +39 points
7. Alex Albon: 4 (2022), 27 (2023): +23 points
8. Nico Hülkenberg 0 (2022), 9 (2023): +9 points
9. Daniel Ricciardo: Come back, 6 points
10. Yuki Tsunoda: 12 (2022), 17 (2023): +5 points
11. Liam Lawson: Newbie, 2 points
12. Logan Sargeant: Rookie, 1 point
13. Nyck de VRies: Rookie, 0 points
14. Zhou Guanyu: 6 (2022), 6 (2023): +0 points
15. Lewis Hamilton: 240 (2022), 234 (2023) -6 points
16. Sergio ‘Checo’ Pérez: 305 (2022), 285 (2023): -20 points
17. Kevin Magnussen 25 (2022), 3: –22 points
18. Esteban Ocon: 92 (2022), 58 (2023): -34 points
19. Valtteri Bottas 49 (2022), 10 (2023): -39 points
20. Carlos Sainz: 246 (2022), 200 (2023): -46 points
21. George Russell: 275 (2022), 175 (2023: -100 points
22. Charles Leclerc: 308 (2022), 206 (2023): -102 points