I think it's more about having rich, connected parents (as it always is, with almost anything), tbh... For like, almost half the grid, their parents are both spectacularly rich, and involved in the team in some way...

But it is amusing watching Alonso stick right up there with all the young eeedjits, despite being a decade past his prime (arguably), lol...

But for Lewis and a couple of others? Yeah, your point probably stands...

Fuck Mercedes, though (cheats, sore losers, etc.), so who cares, ha.