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 so far in 2021 – and this edition is for the 2021 Spanish Grand Prix Ratings.
We have already provided our thoughts on the race, along with a description of the race and more.
Read the 2021 Spanish 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 and the points awarded is below the visuals.
Our 2021 Spanish 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 – R4 2021 Spanish Grand Prix Ratings
Here is the breakdown of the best and blurst driver from the most recent race.
Lewis Hamilton takes out our Spanish Grand Prix Power Ranking for the weekend, matching his win on the track. But he was helped by grabbing the first bonus points of the season for winning from pole position. That hasn’t happened until this for a variety of reasons.
The big surprise may be Charles Leclerc on the same points as Verstappen. Few can deny Leclerc did well, but as good as Verstappen? Certainly not on track, but our rankings give Leclerc bonus points for being the leading runner not currently driving a Mercedes and F1.
Further down Ricciardo got the better of Norris for a change this season but is still well behind in general.
At the bottom Nikita Mazepin climbed off the bottom for a race, but didn’t really change anything overall. Tsunoda had the worst race this weekend.
The full explanation is later, but the points are set up that the driver who has the perfect race will score 100 points representing a perfect 100% weekend.
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.
Lewis Hamilton skipped out to a small lead, but you get the feeling this will lchop and change all season long.
Behind those two are Lando Norris and Charles Leclerc. These drivers swapped positions from last week.
Mazepin is still in negative territory after more mediocrity this weekend and will be lucky to get into positive at all this 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
