Nine Q3 appearances is not too bad, though it took until the final race to qualify ahead of team-mate Pierre Gasly. The biggest problems were too many crashes (not necessarily in the races) and dropping back on Sunday after encouraging qualifying sessions. Unfortunately he never really managed to hone that raw pace into something significant.
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When the season began, Japanese driver Tsunoda looked fantastically quick but raw. Yuki Tsunoda, AlphaTauri (289pts) - Failed to deliver on raw pace and promise Qualifying record: 2-20 Total championship points: 0 (21st) Value added rating: 3 (14th) 19. And getting in the way of the front-runners when being lapped. In his defence, it did come down throughout the year and he eventually did stop spinning and crashing quite so often. The distance to team-mate Mick Schumacher was regularly enormous in qualifying and races. It is hard to look on Nikita Mazepin’s first season in F1 and say that he deserves his seat, especially when more talented and deserving others are without one. Nikita Mazepin, Haas (283 points) - Has to go a long way to justify his place
We have also included a separate "value added" rating, which can be positive or negative and is a measure of how much a driver has out-performed his team-mate or car.
We believe it rewards both standout performances and consistency throughout the field and does the best to take machinery out of the equation, though that can never be entirely done. We do not claim this to be definitive, but hopefully it makes for more interesting reading than simply looking at the final standings or a rating out of 10. From this they get their total end-of-season ranking points. Our subjective ratings are also factored in. This model takes into account a driver's performances in qualifying and the race, their results relative to the strength of their machinery, how much they out-perform their team-mate by, as well as any penalty points they accrue. As with the past three years, our rankings and ratings are calculated using a performance model that measures a variety of factors. With the season done and dusted, it is now time to run the rule over the 20 drivers who took part for the most part of the year. In the end it was Max Verstappen who triumphed over Lewis Hamilton, ending Mercedes' stranglehold of the drivers' title since 2014. Two drivers at the very highest level vying for the same piece of track week after week.Ĭrashes, smashes, controversy and two wins from the midfield, standout up-and-coming stars like Lando Norris and George Russell on the podium and - finally - a first McLaren victory since 2012.Ī healthy dose of debate added to it all, too, though were things taken too far? That can go one way or another. Was that the greatest F1 season ever? It was in my 25 years of watching, by a long way.
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