Ferrari stats: almost perfect balance between Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz. Almost perfect balance between Charles and Carlos .

The first half of the 2021 Formula 1 season has ended and it is now time for the first evaluations. For example, those within the teams, as almost each one began this championship with a well-defined hierarchy for the two drivers. Did the results of the first 11 races reflect the order between the first and second driver? Not always. Of course, no surprises for Mercedes and Red Bull: Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen are far too strong for the two second drivers. And the contribution of the various drivers to the team classification is also almost identical: Hamilton and Verstappen scored almost two thirds of the points of Mercedes and Red Bull, while Bottas and Perez the remaining third.

As for the fight for third place in the 2021 Formula 1 Constructor Standings, Scuderia Ferrari and McLaren had started with ‘fluid’ hierarchies: Charles Leclerc, Carlos Sainz, Lando Norris and Daniel Ricciardo are four excellent drivers and it would have been imprudent to choose a first and a second driver from the start. If the results of the Ferrari drivers (83-80 for Carlos Sainz) justified this choice, the same cannot be said of the McLaren drivers, with Lando Norris having more than double the points of his teammate.

On the other hand, surprises are falling among the teams competing for fifth place in the constructors’ standings, Alpine and AlphaTauri. As a result of the success in Hungary (also achieved thanks to his teammate), Esteban Ocon overtook Fernando Alonso in the standings, undoubtedly the first driver of the French team. In AlphaTauri, on the other hand, the hierarchies are confirmed, but the distance between Pierre Gasly and Yuki Tsunoda is perhaps even greater than what was predicted. The former Red Bull driver scored 73.5% of Faenza’s points: no one has done better this year.

No surprise, however, in Aston Martin, where Sebastian Vettel contributed 62.5% of the team’s points, and if his Hungaroring result would not have been disqualified, the percentage would have greatly increased. The Hungarian race also gave Williams the first points, with an excellent tally of 10 points that propelled the Grove team to eighth place among the constructors. Against all odds, Nicholas Latifi is ahead of George Russell (6-4).

At Alfa Romeo, the last of those to score points, the balance is pretty low: two points for Kimi Raikkonen, who in Hungary got one point over Antonio Giovinazzi. Zero points, on the other hand, for Haas.