Welcome to The Gurgler’s 2021 F1 Season Power Rankings – our way of using various F1 based stats to answer the question of really who is the best driver in F1 in 2021 – and this edition is for the Portuguese Grand Prix Ratings.
We have already provided our thoughts on the race, along with a description of the race and more.
Read the 2021 Portuguese Grand Prix Race Review here.
But our 2021 F1 Season Power Rankings goes a little bit deeper than just points scored on the Sunday. We take on board Free Practice, Qualifying, performance in relation to team mate, fastest lap, and a few more stats that are attempting to highlight a driver ourperforming the car.
A full explanation on what is included is below the visuals.
Our Portuguese Grand Prix Ratings has more than just a score, we have the race results, season progress, and some more F1 based points of interest.
Enjoy.
2021 F1 Season Power Rankings – R3 Portuguese Grand Prix Ratings
Here is the breakdown of the best and blurst driver from the most recent race.
The top three for our power Rankings do match the podium from the race, but McLaren’s Lando Norris was equal on our Power Rankings points with Bottas, and probably should have been higher.
Daniel Ricciardo is the surprise at the other end after failing to get out of Q1 while his team mate shone. Still, he is ahead of Mazepin who still had his best career yet.
As above the full explanation is later, but the points are set up that the driver who has the perfect race will score 100 points.
2021 F1 Season Power Rankings – Martini Medal Driver of the Year Progress
Here are the current overall standings for our Driver of the Year winner – the Martini Medal. Named in honour of one of F1’s most unsung heroes – Pierluigi Martini of Minardi fame.
It is really tight at the top between the top two drivers, and they look likely to battle for the Martini Medal all season long.
Behind those two are Lando Norris and Charles Leclerc in a sizeable gap above and below. Highlighting the great job both of those drivers can done this season so far.
Mazepin is still in negative territory after more mediocrity this weekend, and Vettel (who is third last in our ratings} is low for his historic achievements but hard to argue he hasn’t done much season.
2021 F1 Season Power Rankings – Other Interesting Stats
In case everything we have offered up isn’t enough, here is the best of the visuals from the F1 season so far.
2021 F1 Season Power Rankings – Points Explanation
Here’s how the points work this season. Essentially the perfect race (Win from Pole, Fastest Lap, thrash team mate, best in race etc) should amount to the perfect 100 points.
FIRST LAP GAINS +0.5pts per position gained -0.5pts per position lost.
CHAMPIONSHIP POINTS – 25pts to 1pt as per World Championship
BEAT TEAM MATE (RACE) – 10pts (if both finish or other driver got self inflicted DNF)
FASTEST LAP – 5pts – 1pt for top five drivers.
GRID POSITION TO RACE POSITION – formula +/- relative finish to grid
BEST OF THE REST (RACE) – 5pts to 1pt – top five non Mercedes-Red Bull drivers
QUALIFYING – 20pts to 1pt – Grid Position 1 to 20.
BEAT TEAM MATE (QUALIFYING) – 5pts
BEST OF THE REST (QUALIFYING) – 5pts to 1pt – top five non Mercedes-Red Bull drivers
GREAT/GRAPE – 5pts Great 2pts Honourable Mention -2Pts Dishonourable Mention -10Pts Grape
BEAT TEAM MATE (QUALIFYING) – Formula for % beaten team mate by
FREE PRACTICE HERO – 10Pts to 1Pt – Average Position across all three practice sessions.
WIN FROM POLE – Bonus 10 Points
WIN FROM POLE WITH FASTEST LAP – Bonus 5 Points
