How does Colapinto compare to 25 years of Williams Rookies?

Argentina's Franco Colapinto is now 4 races into his Formula 1 career and its safe to say he has out performed even the most optimistic of goals set forth for him.
​1 Q3 appearance(the 1st for Williams this year), out qualified his team mate 2/4 times of trying, 2 points finishes, 14 places gained in races and 5 championship points- a wealth of achievements that not many rookies of any team can boast. But how does Franco compare to other Williams Rookies in their 1st 4 race weekends for the team in the last 25 years.

Mark Webber(joined 2005) had the most successful start to his Williams career in the last 1/4 century. Qualifying in the top 5 for all 4 of his 1st 4 races and finishing them inside the top 7 with the exception of his 2nd race which he did not finish. 
Juan Pablo Montoya(joined 2001), who is largely considered one of William most successful/notorious drivers had a torrid start to his time at the Grove based team, not finishing any of his 1st 4 races despite qualifying in the top 11 for all of them. 
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Colapinto is 1 of just 6 Williams Rookie drivers in the last 25 seasons to have finished all 4 of their 1st 4 Grand Prix, Russell, Bottas, Latifi, Kubica & Barrichello being the others.
While Colapinto doesn't have the best Qualifying average so far, starting outside the top 10, 3/4 times he has tried, his average Race position is up there with the best Williams has ever seen. 

Best Average Race Position

(From 1st 4 Races at Williams F1)

​1 6th Webber (2005)     
​2 10th Colapinto (2024)
3 10th Barrichello (2010)

Colapinto has had a more successful start to his career than regular race winners such as Jenson Button, George Russell, Valteri Bottas and Nico Roberg. 
Lance Stroll had a very solid Qualifying showing in his first 4 race weekends for Williams but sadly only finish 1 his 1st 4 starts. 
When compared to his current Williams team mates 1st stint at the team, Franco also comes off better with Albon only making it out of Q1 once in his 1st 4 times of trying(once not even setting a time and another being disqualified) compared to Colapinto's 3/4  and scored 1 point in 4 races to Colapinto's 5. 

Williams has a long distinguished history of bringing in and bringing up the very best drivers we have ever seen and Colapinto has definitely taken advantage of his opportunity with the team so far. He has 5 races(+ 2 Sprints) left to impress Sauber/Audi who have the ony unclaimed F1 seat for 2025 and if he finishes how he started he isn't just going to rank within the best rookies we have seen at Williams in the last 2 decades but also the best rookies we have seen in the sport it's self in recent years. 

Joanna Blackmore 
Writer @f1journal.co.uk