Communiqués de presse - First report of the Pegaso Driver Development Programme (season 59)

First report of the Pegaso Driver Development Programme (season 59)

As promised in the announcement from two weeks ago, I am going to inform you about the progress of the Pegaso Driver Development Programme members.

I will do so by using an Excel sheet containing all the data that can be accessed for each of the drivers of our shareholders and fans who have been active in recent times.
You can click on the image to see it in a bigger size.



The points you have in each section indicate how good you are performing in terms of skills, potential, rating and season series. On the other hand, the ‘hot seat score’ percentage tries to combine all these factors (plus a little bit of loyalty) to get one easy-to-read score that places your driver on the scorecard. Although it is not perfect, it gives you a good idea of where you stand relative to your peers and where you need to go if you want to reach the top of the table.

If you want to identify in a simple way how well or how badly you are doing:

- With a potential above 80, you should have options to race in F1 in low-table teams.
- With a potential above 85, running in a decent Formula 1 team would be very likely.
- With a potential above 90, your driver could be one of the best.
- A potential above 95 is exceptional and Formula 1 World Champion material.

It should be noted that the formula for potential has different targets per age. It's not perfect, but it is age-related and should give a good indication straight away.

Overall, three students stand out above the rest: Jaxton Blake, Howard Dewitt and Remco Raveel, the latter being the best trained, only surpassing Jan Bonmatí (fourth in order of potential) in skill points earned per season completed. Given their young age compared to Blake and Dewitt, it would be normal to see both as Pegaso's main drivers soon. John Cannon is well positioned to take over from either of the aforementioned or to fight for the Raveel/Bonmatí seats in the upcoming seasons.

Slightly behind (their age handicaps them), we would have Alberto Puig, Pieretto Taruffi and Esteban Lozada. The first one will get his chance in season 60 and the other two have enjoyed it or are currently in the process of doing so.

With less potential (and younger age too), we have Otto Ballermann, Raffaele Leo, Miguel Llorens, Carlos Luque, Brendan McGee, Fèlix Claramunt, Daniel Esteban Jr, Alex Barrios and Víctor Carreras. All of them are drivers who started at a similar time, with Claramunt and Luque being the youngest. They have been slightly slowed down by training mental skills. It is no coincidence that those with the highest ratings are ahead in training.

Several years younger, we have the most promising group of youngsters, made up of David Montero, Juan Barnard, Nacer Gonza and Ludovico Scarfiotti, the first two of the same age and the last two separated by a year each. Their training is practically optimal for the exponential rating growth they are experiencing. Nacer is the most remarkable case, having gone from a potential rating of 81 at the end of season 57 to 94 just three months later. Scarfiotti doesn't fall short either in the same period (from 76 to 87) and can be compared to Sergio Navarro, just a few days younger than him, with roughly the same rating, but with 20 points less in his driving and mental skills.

The rest of the drivers not mentioned, except for Ricardo José Pérez, who is a motorcycle driver and cannot be valued in the same way as the rest, and the under-21s, who still cannot be valued in the same way as the rest as they do not have maximised personal skills, are slightly behind for various reasons: not having chosen the right series, not having been consistent with training, having chosen the wrong approach during the first years of their career...

Of course, if you have any questions, you can send me a private message, as well as you can comment them in the team channels (fan club chat or worldwide forum post).