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#BEST F1 2018 DRIVER#
#BEST F1 2018 PLUS#

As of the end of the 2018 season, Nico Hülkenberg has started 156 Grands Prix-half as many as Fernando Alonso-and scored 474 career points, earned two fastest laps, and a pole position, but never a podium.It's not for a lack of competitiveness, though: the Finn had wins taken from him by a safety car in China, a puncture in Azerbaijan, and team orders in Germany as well as Russia.

#BEST F1 2018 DRIVER#

Valtteri Bottas became the first Mercedes driver since Michael Schumacher in 2012 not to score a win, and at fifth in the championship, was the team's lowest finisher since 2013, when Lewis Hamilton came home in the same position. The German Grand Prix was not on the 2017 calendar due to issues at the Nurburgring, but in 2018 F1 returned to Hockenheim for a terrific race that saw Sebastian Vettel crash out in the rain and.

The last driver to face this volume of retirements in one season was Carlos Sainz Jr., who had eight retirements in 2017. For context, Lewis Hamilton has had eight retirements during his entire time with Mercedes, starting in 2013.

#BEST F1 2018 PLUS#

Daniel Ricciardo suffered eight retirements in 2018, plus an MGU-K failure in Monaco that would have ended his race at any other circuit.Daniel Ricciardo became the first driver to score multiple wins, but no other podiums in a season since 1970, when Jochen Rindt's successful (but fatal) title campaign boasted the same feat.The last driver to do this? Also Alonso, against Nelson Piquet Jr. Fernando Alonso completed the first comprehensive F1 qualifying lockout in a decade, besting his teammate Stoffel Vandoorne 21:0 in qualifying.Prior to Hamilton in 2018, the last exception to this rule was Michael Schumacher in 2004. Lewis Hamilton broke the curse of the Hungarian Grand Prix, which dictated between 20 that the winner of said race would not go on to win the championship.For the first time since the 2015 season, no race sessions were red-flagged.Finishing, however, was another matter for several in each case, especially Marcus Ericsson and Sergey Sirotkin, neither of whom finished either contest, Abu Dhabi being their last in F1. Every driver that started in Australia also started in Abu Dhabi. 2018 was the first season in F1 history to feature no driver lineup changes from start to finish.