Here are The Gurgler’s 2024 Spanish Grand Prix Ratings – our way of rating the performances of the track which usually disappoints but was a decent enough race this season. And we might even have a title race.
Our G-Power Rankings goes a little bit deeper than just points scored on the Sunday and has a slightly cooler name than most. We take on board Free Practice, Qualifying, performance in relation to teammate, fastest lap, and a few more stats that are attempting to highlight a driver outperforming the car and/or thrashing their teammate.
Plus, we have a range of stats and barely interesting facts from the 2024 F1 Season so far.
READ MORE – Our 2024 Spanish Grand Prix Lap by Lap Summary and Highlights
2024 Spanish Grand Prix Ratings – Drivers
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, plus a few points of interest below.
Here is the breakdown of the Driver of the Year points from the most recent race and the season so far. Remembering our ratings go across a whole weekend, so the race winner who may not have had a great qualifying or sprint race may not come out on top.
LATEST RACE RATINGS
DRIVER OF THE SEASON UPDATE
2024 Spanish Grand Prix Ratings – Teams
This is essentially using the same drivers stats but in reverse for the worst score, but taking out anything that is a H2H between the drivers.
And our annual award focuses on the other end of the grid, highlighting the worst team of the season.
Of course, the worst team of the season award needs to be named after the worst F1 team of all time. And if you want to fund out more about Andrea Moda, follow this link.
LATEST RACE RATINGS
BEST OF 2024 STATS AND DRIVER OF THE YEAR
- Refer to the below to check out the teams progress in qualifying from 2023 and chart the progress of McLaren in particular. We split the Red Bulls because one driver often isn’t a fair indication of the car’s pace.
CURRENT TOP FOUR TEAMS GAP TO POLE FROM
QUALIFYING FROM ROUND 7
If you think Sergio Perez has underwhelmed recently you are right, he is towards the bottom when looking at qualifying from Round 7 onwards. It also shows Lando Norris on top for average grid position too, underlining the McLaren surge.
DANIEL RICCIARDO ON THE CUSP OF THE BOOT
Rumours have it that Daniel Ricciardo could be getting the arse soon, which is a shame for his many fans and admirers, but it’s also sort-of fair enough.
He’s down 8-2 in qualifying and 6-3 in the race, but he has closed the gap since Round 7 with the average grid position with one (but down) to Yuki Tsunoda, but the Australian is actually ahead for average % from pole (time-wise). But prior to that it is ugly, and as good as Yuki Tsunoda has been this season, it’s hardly form that is blowing anyone away, except for Jacques Villeneuve for other reasons. But let’s at some other stats.
It’s bad enough when your average qualifying position for the season is 13.2 (compared to Tsunoda 10.7) but then Ricciardo has bot yet managed to gain a place on the first lap in any race this season. Even excluding Japan where he never completed the first lap after reaching Tangletown with Albon, Ricciardo has lost places in five of the other nine races and made zero places in the others. Only Carlos Sainz and Lando Norris have failed to gain on lap one this season and they have the luxury of lofty grid positions and better cars.
In qualifying, when both drivers are part of the three session, Yuki Tsunoda leads 14-4. Fastest Lap is 5-3 to Tsunoda and Free Practice sessions are heavily weighted towards the Japanese driver.
Daniel Ricciardo is far from the worst driver in F1, and shouldn’t be the first driver sacked in 2024, that should be Logan Sargeant and/or Sergio Perez, but you know what you’re getting into with Red Bull, and his own arrival in F1 last season came via the ending of someone else’s career. So in this the most dangerous of sports, with the most dangerous of teams, you live by the sword and die by the sword, and Ricciardo has been too blunt so far in 2024.
DRIVER 2024 H2H RECORD
Beating your team mate in F1 is very important, which is why we keep an eye on the H2H stats through the season.
New for this week is the overall H2H. Which means the H2H from every session – FP and Qualifying, plus who set a faster Fastest Lap and two points for beating the team mate in the race. Note: both have to feature in same Q session for H2H point.
2024 F1 QUALIFYING STATS
Here our qualifying analysis covers just about everything we could find on qualifying.
QUALIFYING SUMMARY
QUALIFYING GRID SLOT TO % FROM POLE
QUALIFYING COMPARISON FROM 2023 SEASON to 2024 SEASON
QUALIFYING COMPARISON FROM 2023 SPANISH GP to 2024 SPANISH GP
QUALIFYING COMPARISON IN 2024 BY TRACK TYPE
NEW – TEAM AVERAGE GAP TO POLE BY ROUND
FIRST LAP POSITION + GRID TO RACE RESULT GAINS
Races can’t be won or lost at the first corner, well actually they can be lost at the first corner, and a good one can make all the difference. Unless you drive a Red Bull, then it doesn’t really matter.
So here are the stats on the lightning fast starters and the slow pokes.
FREE PRACTICE
Some say Free Practice is a giant waste of time, and they are probably right. Regardless here is the average position for each drivers in Free Practice this season. Each round an average of all the sessions.
FASTEST LAP
Fastest lap is only worth one point (inside the top ten) and is probably not that interesting, but still, have a visual for this season so far.
Current Race Power Rankings in Detail
2024 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
DNF Not Driver or Team Fault Minus 2 Points
DNF CAUSED BY DRIVER/TEAM INCOMPETENCE Minus 5 Points
SPRINT RACE POINTS – Points 8 to 1 as handed out in the sprint race.
SPRINT RACE CHANGE – 0.5 Points per change in end position to starting position.
SPRINT RACE QUAL – Points 8 to 1 as handed out in the order of qualifying 1st to 8th.
