7399 km on average covered against 6513 km, a difference of 886 kilometers equal to almost three Grand Prix: this is the difference in terms of kilometers covered in the 13 races that were completed in this first part of the 2022 Formula 1 season between a car equipped with a Mercedes power unit and a single-seater powered by a Ferrari engine. The calculation was obviously made by dividing the total distance covered by Mercedes, McLaren, Aston Martin and Williams by eight and those of Ferrari, Alfa Romeo and Haas by six.
According to data collected by LightsoutF1blog, the ‘steamroller’ team of this first part of the World Championship is McLaren. The Woking side is the worst in terms of performance comparing the first part of 2021 to 2022, but it is the one which has had the least reliability problems during race day judging by the ranking relative to the kilometers covered. The podium is completed once again by Mercedes-powered teams, given that behind McLaren we find Aston Martin and Mercedes, with the latter missing the kilometers not covered by George Russell at Silverstone given that he was involved in a big crash at the start of the British Grand Prix.
The exception to Mercedes reliability is Williams, sixth with 600km shorter than McLaren, but the Grove team also pays for the fact that Albon like Russell was involved in the chaos at the start at Silverstone and the driving error made by Nicholas Latifi in Saudi Arabia. In front of Williams we find Alpine in fourth place, which nevertheless experienced several reliability problems especially with Fernando Alonso in the first part of the 2022 Formula One campaign. Fifth position for Red Bull, which was able to react to the problems it had in Bahrain (double k.o.) and in Australia with Max Verstappen to which we also add the DNF of Sergio Perez at the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve and then in Austria, however, not due to problems reliability (the floor was ruined after going off the track following contact with George Russell during the first lap).
Seventh place for AlphaTauri, then in the last three positions we find Ferrari engines, undoubtedly those most affected by reliability problems, as evidenced by an eloquent ranking. It is no coincidence that Charles Leclerc, Carlos Sainz, Valtteri Bottas and Kevin Magnussen have all already taken penalties on the starting grid, a scenario that will soon also involve Mick Schumacher and Zhou Guanyu. Ferrari and Haas also recorded a few drivers’ errors that must be taken into account in calculating the missing km, but in percentage terms the race contacts or the drivers’ mistakes are extremely less impactful than all the reliability issues that Ferrari has encountered, just like Alfa Romeo and Haas.
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Ranking of the kilometers covered in the race by adding up the first 13 GPs of the 2022 Formula 1 season
1) McLaren 7,594,985 km
2) Aston Martin 7533.522
3) Mercedes 7496.371
4) Alpine 7,318,882
5) Red Bull 7202.715
6) Williams 6969.623
7) AlphaTauri 6849.175
8) Haas 6716.666
9) Alfa Romeo 6520.363
10) Ferrari 6301.873
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