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🇪🇸 Leer en españolEvery 2026 driver in every 2026 car: 24,200 seasons on how much the seat is worth
We put each 2026 driver in each 2026 car — 242 combinations, 100 championships each — to settle the argument that comes round every year: is he slow, or is the car? Verstappen takes the title 97% of the time in the Mercedes and 1% in his own Red Bull. And the grid’s weakest driver in the best car finishes ahead of the best driver in the worst one.
22 August 2026 · 8 min read
Seven transfers that never happened, actually run: four would have changed nothing
We genuinely placed each driver in the car he never drove, against that year’s real grid. Alonso in Vettel’s Red Bull wins exactly what Vettel won: that car won with anybody in it. The one that does swing is Hamilton in the 2017 Ferrari, where Vettel takes no titles at all and Hamilton takes 87%.
22 August 2026 · 8 min read
Senna versus Schumacher, same car, 2,400 championships: length decides everything
We made them team-mates in the same car and ran the championship at six different lengths. Over one race it is a coin toss (48.5%); over twenty-four, Schumacher takes two in three. He does not win more races — he loses fewer. And in the rain the simulator falls short, for a reason we spell out.
22 August 2026 · 7 min read
Eleven legends, one car, 8,250 seasons: the greatest-of-all-time league
We put eleven GOAT candidates in the exact same car and ran them against each other: 55 duels, 150 championships apiece. Verstappen and Schumacher pull clear; Senna, Prost and Hamilton finish in a dead heat no amount of simulation can break. And the rain did something that sent us looking inside the engine.
22 August 2026 · 9 min read
Zandvoort’s last lap: F1 is back, and a corner says goodbye
F1 restarts its second half at Zandvoort, and it is the last time: the contract runs out and the track is gone from 2027. What the calendar loses, who inherits its banking, how a championship led by Antonelli arrives, and why the new regulations had this coming.
20 August 2026 · 6 min read
What does a weak second driver cost? 1,200 seasons with the seat swapped
Massa next to Alonso, Pérez next to Verstappen: we re-ran four real seasons changing only who sits in the second car. Ferrari 2010 goes from winning 3% of the constructors’ titles to 89%; Red Bull 2024 leaves 179 points a year on the table and does not care.
18 August 2026 · 8 min read
How many races does it take for the best driver to win? 2,700 seasons measured
We re-ran 2007, 2010, 2021 and 2024 a hundred and fifty times each, with calendars of 5, 10, 16 and 22 races. In a lopsided year five races are already enough; in 2007, twenty-two are not — and forty barely help.
18 August 2026 · 8 min read
Twelve teammate duels, in exactly the same car
Senna against Prost, Alonso against Hamilton, Hamilton against Rosberg: twelve real pairings, five seasons each, machinery exactly equalised. The most famous duel in history ends in a technical draw; four others finish 5-0.
6 August 2026 · 9 min read
What age is a Formula 1 driver at their best? The curve and its trap
Fifteen hundred careers measured by age. The chart says drivers keep improving until 36 — and it lies: between 28 and 30, 74% of the grid disappears. What is left once you correct for survivorship bias.
6 August 2026 · 7 min read
What new regulations do to the grid: 1,200 seasons measured
A normal year moves a car performance by 2.64 points; the year new rules arrive, 8.49. And 58% of regulation changes produce a new grid leader. The numbers behind why Formula 1 comes in eras.
6 August 2026 · 7 min read
Talent or car? We simulated 2,000 driver careers to find out
Two thousand complete careers, from karting to retirement, measured one by one. Junior titles barely predict anything; the car decides almost everything: those who never drove a top-three car won no races at all, and those who got the best car became champion two times out of three.
6 August 2026 · 8 min read
How much is the car worth, and how much the driver? 600 simulated seasons
We put Schumacher, Alonso, Hamilton and Verstappen in the worst car on their own grid, and the slowest driver in the best one. 11,400 races later: the car is worth eight places, it does not hand you titles, and talent pays three times more when the machinery is poor.
5 August 2026 · 8 min read
What is the most dominant car in F1 history? 37 seasons measured with the same driver
We sat the same driver in the best car of every season since 1988 so they could be compared on one scale. The 2023 Red Bull wins. And the seasons that come out closest turn out to be, one by one, the most fondly remembered championships in F1.
5 August 2026 · 9 min read
How a Formula 1 simulator works under the hood
From a driver's DNA to a Grand Prix result: how a simulation engine turns attributes, car, weather and strategy into a full race. The logic behind F1 Legend Sim, explained step by step.
24 July 2026 · 9 min read
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