Let’s start off with both a little secret and also something correcting the record from the 2023 Formula 1 season. The alternative headline for this column was: ‘An apology to Nico Hulkenberg’.
The sentiment here is that the Haas racer was the one to suffer most in our driver ratings for 2023, when it was race performances only that were assessed for a mark out of 10. That’s a rather hyperbolic way of describing the situation, of course. But ultimately, when it came to our regular
