![]() The experts are also able to demonstrate the huge amount of funding required, on average, to improve a team’s performance on the track. From the data assessed, their results show that 2012 was the season most reliant on driver skill for a race win: 16.7% - “perhaps due to rule changes that emphasized greater driving skill and strategy on the track”. ![]() They are able to compare, season-by-season, the variation of driver skill to the outlay of team spend on the car. They used statistical modelling, and data from the 2012-2019 F1 seasons, to determine finishing positions. ![]() The findings were teased apart by Rockerbie and co-author Stephen Easton, Professor of Economics, at Simon Fraser University. The 80-20 rule vastly underestimates the role of the driver, given the critical complementarity between driver and team.” After all, F1 cars do not drive themselves and drivers cannot ply their trade without an F1 car. More skilled drivers improve the return to team technology and vice-versa. “Our findings are particularly validating for drivers, as it shows they do not just drive the cars but also provide valuable input and feedback on the development of the cars. Random factors that occur during the race make up the rest. “The biggest factor is more nuanced and it’s the interaction between the driver and team, which accounts for 30-40%. The driver’s input accounts for roughly 15%. “What we find, however, is that the car and team’s input has been greatly overestimated. ![]() “There is a long-held belief, the so-called ‘80-20 rule’, in F1 that the car/team are responsible for 80% of race success, while the skill of the driver only accounts for 20%,” explains lead author Duane Rockerbie, from the University of Lethbridge, whose findings are published in the journal, Applied Economics. Newswise - Which is more important to driving success in Formula 1, driver, or team and machine? A new eight-season-long study out today, following this weekend’s exciting British Grand Prix, finds surprisingly the answer is not as much to do with the car as you might expect! ![]()
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