Fans and journalists love to assess drivers, discover who is starring, who is underperforming and how team-mates with the same machinery compare. With Formula 1 in its summer break, now seems like a good time to look at the crop of 2024.
There are, of course, plenty of ways to compare drivers, but one of the key ones is raw speed. Without it, no driver will be successful, and qualifying is, in theory, the least complicated indicator of pace.
