Norris is a particular bad starter: the numbers

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When Norris starts from the front two rows he loses an average of 0.65 positions, the worst among top drivers in recent memory. He’s also the most likely to lose positions (40% of races vs Max at 16%) and the least likely to gain (10% of races, vs Max at 28%).

Note that this analysis only considers starts from the front two rows, which naturally biases the results toward losses (since there’s more room to move backward than forward). Even so Max still manages to gain positions on average. Alonso And Leclerc also perform strongly across these metrics.

Methodology:

• ~15 years of data analyzed
• Only races where the driver started in the front two rows
• Lap-1 position changes capped at ±4 to limit the impact of outliers

Edit: updated with data back to '96. Mark Webber hahahaha! Also, per /u/Ger_Oktoberfest's suggestion I added a position delta relative to the average, which broadly tells a similar story. Lastly, data sourced from the jolpica-F1 API.