Formula 1 Salaries vs. Points Won: Which Driver Provided the Best Value in 2014?

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Published: November 30, 2014

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From the end of the Australian Grand Prix—the first race of the season—the 2014 Formula One titles were never really in doubt. Mercedes built a dominant car and easily won the constructors' championship with three races to spare.

Their drivers, Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg, took the battle for the drivers' championship down to the final race of the season, but it had long been obvious that one of them would win it.

That Silver Arrows sweep did not come cheaply, though. Like Red Bull—who won the previous four drivers' and constructors' titles—Mercedes have one of the largest budgets in the sport, spending liberally on both their car development and driver salaries.



Even so, Mercedes were so far ahead of the pack in 2014 that they came out on top of our team value-for-money rankings last week. Williams and Force India, both teams with smaller budgets (and, not coincidentally, Mercedes engine customers), were just behind.

But what about the individual drivers? Just like among the teams, there is a huge discrepancy between what the top drivers and the rookies with some of the smaller teams earn. Over the summer break, we ranked the top drivers according how much they were paid for each point they scored this year. Now it is time to update that list.

As I wrote in the midseason article, the number of points a driver scores is as much a product of their car's competitiveness as it their driving skills. But these rankings can still give us an idea of who might have over- or under-performed this season.

Note that the list only includes the 17 drivers who scored points in 2014.



Daniel Ricciardo was the revelation of the season. No one—except maybe Mark Webber—thought he would not only win three races, but also convincingly beat his four-time defending world champion teammate, Sebastian Vettel.

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