Formula 1 | F1 puts a price on its drivers | Football24 News English

Let’s play a game… Would they be able to manage the best Formula 1 team? Well, do not ask and prove it. Because, just like in AS they can do it if we talk about football with Biwenger, the official website of the World Cup also has its own management game in which you can train your ideal team. 100 million dollars (83 euros) with which to choose a car and five drivers on the grid according to their values, and that is where the grace of the issue that concerns us lies, see how ‘F1.com’ considers each driver .

And at the head of all of them, how could it be otherwise, there is Hamilton with a price of 27.8 million euros. That the British, with his seven titles, is the most valued, is not news, what it is is that they include him in the game when he still has to renew with Mercedes. They take it for granted … Verstappen with 20.6 and Bottas with 19.6 are those who occupy the podium of this classification, away from the outstanding leader. The new signings of Red Bull and McLaren, Pérez and Ricciardo, complete the first five positions.

To find the two Spaniards that will be on the grid this season, you don’t have to go much lower, because both are in the Top 10: Alonso, eighth with a price of 12.9 and Sainz, ninth with a valuation of 11.9. The old couple at Ferrari, Leclerc (who will share ranks in the Scuderia with Madrid) and Vettel (who remains well placed despite his change to Aston Martin) gets ahead of them. And the one who beats Norris to be tenth is Stroll despite the fact that the British took 22 points from the Canadian last year.

In this way, for example, Signing Hamilton for your team costs more than twice as much as having Alonso, another of the great champions left on the grid. Of course, two things must be taken into account, that the value of each driver largely depends on the car he drives and that F1 will adjust the price of each one according to their performances in the World Championship. At the moment, these are the starting points for the first race of the season in Bahrain (March 28), then each one will be putting themselves in their place …