Fernando Alonso, the pilot who costs his team the least in repairs: this is the complete ranking

The implementation of a spending limit in Formula 1 has turned every accident or breakdown into a real headache for the teams.

With a ceiling imposed by regulations, the budget for the 2022 car development It is limited to how much can be saved in 2021, which implies that saving cars from breakdowns or accidents becomes not only a sports priority but also a financial one for each team.

With this focus in mind, a user of Reddit has made a particular World Cup: the Formula 1 destruction world championship. ‘Bass24proChevy‘has made a ranking based on how much it costs each team for the repairs required by their pilots, establishing as scales the prices of each piece to be replaced:

Depending on the accidents, breakdowns and setbacks that have required putting new parts in each car, this user has made his particular World Championship that, after the Italian GP, ​​is commanded by the same man who does it in the general championship of the normal championship: Max verstappen.

The impetus and aggressiveness of the Dutch driver is costing him dearly. Red Bull, that despite going first they are letting themselves a huge amount in repairing the flaws caused by each excess of optimism on the part of its leader, or each blow suffered by a rival.

This was the accident of Hamilton and Verstappen that left them out of the Italian GP with a penalty for the Red Bull

In Monza he was largely to blame (not all) for the accident with Lewis hamilton, and for this he has been sanctioned with 3 positions for the Russian GP, ​​although at Silverstone he had nothing to do when the British kicked him off the track. Total, Red Bull has already spent 3,444,056 euros in the Dutchman’s car, which is more than three times what it cost Mercedes to repair the car of the seven-time champion and top rival.

At the opposite pole from Verstappen stands Fernando Alonso. The veteran Asturian driver has hardly been a problem for Alpine’s coffers, and it only cost the French team 145,000 euros in total, for the touch with the wall he had in the first free practice of the Monaco GP. Since then, his car has remained intact and he has not required to go through the workshop to review ‘sheet and paint’.

While in the case of Verstappen that cost at least serves to make it a leader, there are others that are very expensive in relation to their performance. It is the case of Mick schumacher, which is second to last in the F1 World Championship but in this particular ranking it is 2nd, with more than 2.7 million cost for the Haas team.

Classification of the ‘Formula 1 World Destruction’ *

* Figures after the Italian GP of Formula 1, 14th Grand Prix of 2021.