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Driver debutantes of 2022
Formula One facts and figures

Driver debutantes of 2022

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Nick de Vries and Zhou Guanyu made their debut in the 2022 season. Even though de Vries participated in only one race, when he replaced Alex Albon in the Monza race, as performers both drivers managed to get points, a fact that only happened in two other seasons. It is also interesting that both managed to get points in their first race. Zhou also achieved the fastest lap in one of the races.

None had a pole position, front row start, victory or podium finish.


In the only race in which de Vries participated, he qualified in 13th position, but started the race from 8th position following the penalties applied to several drivers, and will finish the race in 9th place. During the race, he managed to stay in 8th position for the first time 8 laps, following the last 8 laps of the race to be in position 9.

Zhou has the best ranking of position 9 at the Montreal race. During the race, he has the best ranking of 6th in lap number 8 at Suzuka. In the same race, he would have the fastest lap of the race in lap 24 when he was in 16th place.

Nr of debutants

So far, there has not been a single season in which we did not have at least one debutant driver. The fewest debutants, 2 each, were in 1985, 1998, 2008, 2012, 2018 and 2022

Scored points

In 2022, all rookie drivers scored points in at least one race. This happened only in two other seasons, 2018 with Charles Leclerc and Sergey Sirotnik and 2008 with Sebastian Bourdais and Nelsinho Piquet.

Nick de Vries got points in his first and only race.

Nr of rookies per season who scored points

Fastest lap

In 2022, Zhou Guanyu had the fastest lap in the Suzuka race. In the ranking of drivers with the most fastest laps in the first season, Hamilton leads with six followed by Farina, Fangio, Regazzoni and Montoya with three each.

SEASONDRIVER#ENTRANCE#FASTEST LAPS
1950Giuseppe Farina63
1950Juan Manuel Fangio73
1950Johnnie Parsons11
1954Karl Kling61
1958Phil Hill41
1960John Surtees41
1961Giancarlo Baghetti31
1970Clay Regazzoni83
1973James Hunt82
1984Ayrton Senna151
1994David Coulthard82
1996Jacques Villeneuve166
2001Juan Pablo Montoya173
2006Nico Rosberg181
2007Lewis Hamilton172
2010Vitaly Petrov191
2013Esteban Gutierrez191
2022Zhou Guanyu221

It didn't happen in 2022

There are some performances that in 2022 were not achieved by the drivers, namely pole position, front row starts, victory or ranking on the podium. We will take a look to statistics for this performances, just a short notice for  Lewis Hamilton and Jacques Villeneuve which will appear at the top in all these rankings.

Front row starts

Lance Stroll in 2017 is the last one who managed to start from the front row in the Monza race. In the top we find Hamilton with 12, Jacques Villeneuve with 9 and Fangio, Farina and Montoya with 5 each

SEASONDRIVER#ENTRANCE#FRONT ROW
1950Luigi Fagioli61
1950Freddie Agabashian11
1950Giuseppe Farina65
1950Alberto Ascari61
1950Juan Manuel Fangio75
1950Walt Faulkner11
1951Duke Nalon11
1954Karl Kling61
1955Eugenio Castellotti71
1957Stuart Lewis-Evans61
1958George Amick11
1960John Surtees41
1960Richie Ginther41
1961Ricardo Rodriguez11
1965Jackie Stewart102
1968Mario Andretti21
1970Clay Regazzoni82
1972Carlos Reutemann101
1996Jacques Villeneuve169
2001Juan Pablo Montoya175
2007Lewis Hamilton1712
2010Nico Hulkenberg191
2017Lance Stroll201

Pole position

The last driver who managed to obtain a pole position in his debut season is Hulkenberg in 2010, this being his only pole position in his career.

SEASONDRIVER#ENTRANCE#POLE POSITIONS
1950Giuseppe Farina62
1950Juan Manuel Fangio74
1950Walt Faulkner11
1951Duke Nalon11
1955Eugenio Castellotti71
1957Stuart Lewis-Evans61
1960John Surtees41
1968Mario Andretti21
1970Clay Regazzoni81
1972Carlos Reutemann101
1996Jacques Villeneuve163
2001Juan Pablo Montoya173
2007Lewis Hamilton176
2010Nico Hulkenberg191

Winning the race

This in his debut season seems quite difficult, Hamilton last achieved this in 2007. He leads the standings in a tie with Jacques Villeneuve both with four wins on debut.

SEASONDRIVER#ENTRANCE#WIN RACE
1950Johnnie Parsons11
1950Giuseppe Farina63
1950Juan Manuel Fangio73
1961Giancarlo Baghetti31
1965Jackie Stewart101
1970Emerson Fittipaldi61
1970Clay Regazzoni81
1996Jacques Villeneuve164
2001Juan Pablo Montoya171
2007Lewis Hamilton174

On the podium

Obtaining a podium in the debut season seems to be easier, a number of 53 drivers have achieved this performance. In 2017, Lance Stroll is the last driver who managed to finish a race on the podium in the Baku race. The most podium finishes in the debut season belong to Hamilton with 12 in 2007, followed by Jacques Villeneuve with 11 in 1996. The next ones in such a ranking have only 5 and it is Jackie Stewart in 1965 and Luigi Fagioli in 1950.

Nr of debut with podiums by season
List of debut with podiums
SEASONDRIVER#ENTRANCE#PODIUMS
1950Giuseppe Farina63
1950Louis Rosier72
1950Louis Chiron51
1950Bill Holland11
1950Alberto Ascari62
1950Juan Manuel Fangio73
1950Mauri Rose11
1950Dorino Serafini11
1950Reg Parnell21
1950Luigi Fagioli65
1950Peter Whitehead31
1950Johnnie Parsons11
1951Mike Nazaruk11
1951Manny Ayulo11
1952Mike Hawthorn51
1952Jean Behra61
1954Karl Kling61
1955Cesare Perdisa31
1955Eugenio Castellotti72
1956Alfonso de Portago51
1957Masten Gregory41
1958Phil Hill42
1958George Amick11
1959Dan Gurney42
1960Willy Mairesse31
1960Jim Clark61
1960John Surtees41
1960Richie Ginther41
1961Giancarlo Baghetti31
1965Jackie Stewart105
1970Clay Regazzoni84
1970Reine Wisell21
1970Emerson Fittipaldi61
1971Mark Donohue21
1973George Follmer131
1973James Hunt82
1976Gunnar Nilsson152
1984Ayrton Senna153
1993Michael Andretti131
1994David Coulthard81
1994Olivier Panis161
1994Jos Verstappen102
1996Jacques Villeneuve1611
1997Alexander Wurz31
1997Ralf Schumacher171
2001Juan Pablo Montoya174
2005Tiago Monteiro191
2006Robert Kubica61
2007Lewis Hamilton1712
2007Heikki Kovalainen171
2008Nelsinho Piquet181
2014Kevin Magnussen191
2017Lance Stroll201
About facts-figures section

All the articles in this section follow the statistical data.

In this section, I'm just trying to find some pattern from a statistical point of view compared to the results from Formula1.