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F1 drivers S17 analysis

17.02.2016 - Here's a deep analysis of all F1 drivers in this season rated by total number of skills relevant to F1 racing summed up by importance (5x for mental and driving, 3x for technical and 1x for physical). Personal skills are added in brackets. Didn't add the special skills because virtually no one lost time training them and they're worthless for F1 so it's pretty redundant to count them in.
Also included a nice hex-graph fm style with the general skills of each driver, always liked those better than bars, and some other interesting info such as trained skills which assumes the driver started his/her career at the age of 18yo hence starting with 1040 skills already (counting specials and personal skills as well as the 90 free skill points). This is nothing more than an estimate though since each general skill can have up to 5 specific skills the trained skills value may vary +/-7. Keep in mind drivers start to lose skills at the age of 33, which means some drivers actually got more trained skills than the presented.

1) Paolo Grandi (Mercedes): 1377 (1677)

Age: 34
Rating: 5,287.749 (5,150.602+137.147)
WR: 6
NR: 1
Trained skills: 737
Manager: Braveheart

2) Guido Di Rado (McLaren): 1351 (1651)

Age: 30
Rating: 4,806.438 (4,670.213+136.225)
WR: 10
NR: 2
Trained skills: 711
Manager: danpic

3) Rocco Rapido (McLaren): 1321 (1621)

Age: 29
Rating: 6,215.692 (6,073.646+142.046)
WR: 2
NR: 1
Trained skills: 681
Manager: Invictus

4) Alex Botta (OMR): 1302 (1572)

Age: 34
Rating: 4,326.927 (4,213.998+112.930)
WR: 17
NR: 3
Trained skills: 632
Manager: sandrez

5) Damon Michael Novikov (Jordan): 1295 (1595)

Age: 27
Rating: 5,906.842 (5,785.981+120.861)
WR: 3
NR: 1
Trained skills: 655
Manager: Somebodystopme

6) Stanisław Bum (Mercedes): 1280 (1538)

Age: 34
Rating: 4,293.125 (4,188.056+105.070)
WR: 19
NR: 3
Trained skills: 598
Manager: Wokinger (retired)

7) Pentti Lund (Williams): 1270 (1570)

Age: 29
Rating: 3,881.915 (3,791.644+90.272)
WR: 32
NR: 1
Trained skills: 630
Manager: Gorilla

8) Sándor Torghelle (Williams): 1260 (1533)

Age: 28
Rating: 4,272.838 (4,166.064+106.774)
WR: 20
NR: 1
Trained skills: 593
Manager: iceman88

9) Dominik Dán (Ferrari): 1255 (1543)

Age: 34
Rating: 1,757.792 (1,680.444+77.348)
WR: 182
NR: 6
Trained skills: 653
Manager: Debik

10) Sergey Osmolovsky (BMW): 1251 (1536)

Age: 31
Rating: 3,370.902 (3,260.802+110.100)
WR: 46
NR: 1
Trained skills: 596
Manager: Wasp76

11) Сергей Калинин, Sergey Kalinin (BMW): 1238 (1538)

Age: 28
Rating: 4,943.740 (4,835.770+107.970)
WR: 9
NR: 2
Trained skills: 598
Manager: Sergun43

12) Олег Петров, Oleg Petrov (Toro Rosso): 1226 (1493)

Age: 31
Rating: 2,904.602 (2,809.176+95.426)
WR: 88
NR: 12
Trained skills: 553
Manager: XvitekX

13) Romain Louis Grosjean Jr (RBR): 1218 (1509)

Age: 27
Rating: 6,426.593 (6,308.920+117.673)
WR: 1
NR: 1
Trained skills: 569
Manager: SatF1

14) José Pedro Lamy (OMR): 1215 (1512)

Age: 27
Rating: 4,740.736 (4,646.736+94.000)
WR: 13
NR: 2
Trained skills: 572
Manager: Blazefp

15) Marcin Lupa (SSR): 1203 (1443)

Age: 33
Rating: 3,587.248 (3,503.322+83.926)
WR: 41
NR: 6
Trained skills: 503
Manager: iLupa

16) Maximus Vanderpuije (WAR): 1171 (1447)

Age: 27
Rating: 2,418.648 (2,318.538+100.109)
WR: 128
NR: 2
Trained skills: 507
Manager: daftkrft

17) Kamil Speedowski (SSR): 1168 (1369)

Age: 31
Rating: 3,662.734 (3,575.400+87.334)
WR: 38
NR: 4
Trained skills: 429
Manager: KamcioXD

18) Bretislav Zatacka (Jordan): 1164 (1464)

Age: 27
Rating: 4,310.466 (4,202.812+107.654)
WR: 18
NR: 2
Trained skills: 524
Manager: FBednar

19) Alexandre De Montferrand (RBR): 1147 (1435)

Age: 27
Rating: 4,400.859 (4,303.625+97.233)
WR: 16
NR: 3
Trained skills: 495
Manager: Promocourse

20) Rudi Bremser (LKR): 1147 (1366)

Age: 29
Rating: 1,040.963 (980.889+60.074)
WR: 368
NR: 8
Trained skills: 426
Manager: Rudi08

21) Rui B. Martins (WAR): 1143 (1368)

Age: 30
Rating: 3,183.194 (3,101.072+82.122)
WR: 59
NR: 3
Trained skills: 428
Manager: Toturi

22) Petter Solberg (Trabant): 1142 (1412)

Age: 27
Rating: 2,219.874 (2,138.491+81.383)
WR: 143
NR: 3
Trained skills: 472
Manager: killex

23) Charvec Libor (Ferrari): 1134 (1326)

Age: 34
Rating: 4,424.757 (4,322.652+102.105)
WR: 15
NR: 1
Trained skills: 386
Manager: midar

24) Volker Adler (Trabant): 1121 (1322)

Age: 34
Rating: 2,651.383 (2,595.191+56.192)
WR: 106
NR: 4
Trained skills: 382
Manager: midar

25) Sebastian Räikkönen (Toro Rosso): 1114 (1369)

Age: 29
Rating: 3,735.367 (3,641.449+93.918)
WR: 37
NR: 3
Trained skills: 429
Manager: Skinny

26) Lukin Kadeřábek (Audi): 1102 (1273)

Age: 35
Rating: 4,134.219 (4,024.634+109.585)
WR: 23
NR: 3
Trained skills: 333
Manager: Skinny

27) Oscar Nilsson (HamrHedZ): 1095 (1278)

Age: 29
Rating: 2,493.863 (2,436.290+57.574)
WR: 120
NR: 3
Trained skills: 338
Manager: OscarNilsson

28) Eduardo Diesel (LKR): 1055 (1220)

Age: 32
Rating: 777.772 (719.259+58.513)
WR: 517
NR: 13
Trained skills: 280
Manager: edis10

29) Виталий Ромадов, Vitaliy Romadov (HamrHedZ): 1053 (1206)

Age: 35
Rating: 2,028.427 (1,955.147+73.280)
WR: 161
NR: 19
Trained skills: 266
Manager: VCHLr

30) Dare Klun (Audi): 988 (1171)

Age: 26
Rating: 2,006.969 (1,952.250+54.719)
WR: 164
NR: 1
Trained skills: 231
Manager: Darac

*This data was gathered at day 15 of the season 17


I'll leave the individual conclusions to you but it's interesting to see that many teams have similarly skilled drivers although this seems to fade away at lower skilled drivers.
McLaren seems to be the team with the best set of drivers and they still have some seasons left to improve although it's safe to say they won't be getting much better than what they are now.
OMR has a great driver first driver but Lamy falls short skill-wise although shows great potential. Williams is a bit more consistent with 2 drivers on the back of top10. The surprise driver goes to Dominik Dán from Ferrari which has a very impressive set of skills specially considering the rating of the team.
The best driver is without a doubt Paolo Grandi but without a matching car it's clear all that skill is, on the current season, being wasted. The same team has now a retired driver rendering the team virtually nonexistent in races.
At least Rocco Rapido, Guido di Rado and Novikov seem to be in range of Grandi's skill, although there are others who will probably get there too these will most likely be the next 3 top drivers using this analysis. Mind you driving and mental skills take considerably more time to train than any other skill, so having those 2 general skills well trained is literally half way through to max out every skill. In that regard, considering their age, Grosjean Jr and Lamy might be able to get there as well.
It's also curious to see many top teams swapping their long term drivers for younger prospects such as RB, Jordan and OMR.

Special thanks to Promocourse for having the idea to do this even though it needed some tweaks.