Formula 1 drivers are paid to do one thing: win races. In this post, we’ll look at the data for driver pay and compare it to driver win rates and podium rates. This will also be a demo of how to make some nice charts in R, which is considerably more fun than making them in (::shudder::) Microsoft Excel. 1. Driver Salary Data Let’s start with a look at how much these guys are making this year. First, gather historical driver compensation data from the trusty internet, put them on a .csv file and load into R as a data […]