- 02 Aug 12, 20:59#314824Redbull have had 6 drivers in 7 years, so that is 0.85 drivers a year
The statistics being presented in this way give a misleading picture though. In these examples, each of the teams has had two seats available each season, but the way these figures are being presented is as though there were only one seat available. Do you understand what I mean?
So for Red Bull, in 7 years that works out at 14 seats available at that team. 6 drivers have filled those seats = driver change every 2 1/3 years.
0.85 drivers a year doesn't really mean anything....
Edit: Williams presented the same, more understandable way is, in 35 years, 70 seats available, 37 drivers in that time = driver change every 1.9 years.
Williams did not always have 2 cars to present. So even that could be miss leading
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Marc Gene
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Juan Pablo Montoya
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Nick Heidfeld
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Nico Rosberg
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Alexander Wurz
Kazuki Nakajima
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Kazuki Nakajima
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Kazuki Nakajima
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Nico Hülkenberg
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Well yes, but by far more often than not, so it's much more likely to be at least close to accurate. Think it takes it down to average change every 1.84 years. And to be fair, even that is's really fair, as many of the changes were for a single race or a few races covering for illness or injury as opposed to being legitimate driver changes, so it's likely actually above one every two years in reality. Either way, talking in these terms makes much more sense in general.
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