Welcome to The Gurgler’s 2021 F1 Season G-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 the most recent race stars and duds are here with our 2021 Mexican Grand Prix Driver Ratings
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 outperforming the car.
A full explanation on what is included and the points awarded is below the visuals.
Our 2021 Mexican Grand Prix Driver Ratings is more than just a score, we have the race results, season progress, and so many F1 based points of interest in easy to consume visuals.
Enjoy.
2021 F1 Season Power Rankings – Race 18 2021 Mexican Grand Prix Driver Ratings
Here is the breakdown of the best and blurst driver from the most recent race.
- No surprise to see Max Verstappen once again top the table. While Saturday didn’t quite go to plan, Sunday was gold for the Dutchman who extended both his real championship lead and our Driver of the Year.
- Pierre Gasly was best of the rest with yet another impressive performance. He is third for our Driver of the Year since the summer break.
- Nikita Mazepin was third last for a change.
2021 F1 Season Power Rankings Progress – Martini Medal Driver of the Year
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.
We have the overall scores as they stand, plus a visual which shows the flow of each driver’s position throughout the season.
- Max Verstappen remains well out in front of our Driver of the Year standings, and has just about wrapped up our 2021 Driver of the Year.
- Charles Leclerc is flying home, and is now within nine points of overtaking Lando Norris on our Driver of the Year podium.
- Mr Saturday aka George Russell jumps Fernando Alonso on the strength of beating his team mate on a Saturday. Again.
- Further below you’ll find our Driver of the Year points from after the summer break with a few points of interest.
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.
TEAM MATE H2H
Here are the H2H results for the season so far.
Note that for the race we only count it when both drivers finish, unless the retired driver’s retirement was self inflicted as judged by us.
- George Russell and Pierre Gasly maintain their 100% qualifying record over their team mates.
- Gasly and Verstappen remain the best at beating their team mate on raceday.
- We gave one point each for qualifying and the race to see who is the overall winner over their team mate this season.
QUALIFYING ANALYSIS
So who is the most consistent qualifier? The closest to pole position overall time-wise? What’s gap between the team mates?
Do certain cars or drivers excel on certain tracks.
All of that and more is answered below.
RACE – FIRST LAP NET PROGRESS
Who’s gaining or losing on the first lap?
Kimi Raikkonen continues to be the first lap king, with twice as many positions gained on lap one that the nearest competitor, But the Mexican Grand Prix saw a rare off day for Kimi off the grid.
Gasly was the worst driver for lap one gain this season up until this race but was overtaken this race by Valtteri Bottas. Happily though for the second time this season he gained a place on the first lap.
Bottas’ -17 place start sees him last, but overall he’s only made places on lap one twice.
FREE PRACTICE RESULTS
For no good reason in the Free Practice results. This week we added total laps covered in Free Practice.
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 – Sprint Race Points added.
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 -5Pts Grape
BEAT TEAM MATE (QUALIFYING) Time Gap – Formula for % beaten team mate by
BEAT TEAM MATE (QUALIFYING) Position – 0.5 Pts for every position team mate is beaten by. 0 points for second car.
FREE PRACTICE HERO – 10Pts to 1Pt – Average Position across all three practice sessions.
WIN FROM POLE – Bonus 5 Points
WIN FROM POLE WITH FASTEST LAP – Bonus 10 Points
SPRINT RACE – Points awarded for top five – 5-4-3-2-1
