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 Styrian Grand Prix Ratings.
We have already provided our thoughts on the race, along with a description of the race and more.
Read the 2021 Styrian 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 outperforming the car.
A full explanation on what is included and the points awarded is below the visuals.
Our 2021 French Grand Prix Ratings has more than just a score, we have the race results, season progress, and so many F1 based points of interest.
Enjoy.
2021 F1 Season Power Rankings – R8 2021 Styrian Grand Prix Ratings
Here is the breakdown of the best and blurst driver from the most recent race.
No surprise it is Max Verstappen at the top of the charts and as per the race results was miles in front of everyone else.
This season’s best bang for buck driver Lando Norris outscores Lewis Hamilton and deservedly so after another outstanding weekend. His team mate however….only just outscored perennial tailender Nikita Mazepin.
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.
Max Verstappen extends his lead of our Driver of the Year points and is almost our rating equivalent of a race ahead.
A small change in the lower reaches of the season tally with Fernando Alonso making a move up.
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.
Pierre Gasly and George Russell continue the only 100% records in qualifying. Mick Schumacher, Max Verstappen and Lando Norris lead the race H2H with the near perfect 7/8.
A quick look at Bottas v Perez for the second drivers shows that Bottas is ahead of Perez for H2H against their team mate. But that might say more about the number one than the number two.
QUALIFYING AVERAGE GRID POSITION + DISTANCE FROM POLE
So who is the most consistent qualifier? The closest to pole position overall time-wise? What’s gap between the team mates?
All of that is answered below. But here are the barely interesting facts.
Five drivers remain 100% Q3 compliant in qualifying – Max Verstappen and the two Red Bull drivers, plus Lando Norris and Charles Leclerc.
Max Verstappen has yet to qualify outside of the top three.
Yuki Tsunoda has as many top ten grid slots as 20th place.
Drivers 4th to 8th are all within 0.1% from Pole position for the season so far.
With some all new qualifying visuals too.
RACE – FIRST LAP NET PROGRESS
Who’s gaining or losing on the first lap? Well Kimi Raikkonen continues to be the first lap king. Another five places in the Styrian Grand Prix sees his tally move to 21 places gained for the season so far.
Although Pierra Gasly was unlucky with his incident costing him a top starting position to back of the grid, his season stats show he has yet to improve on any first lap this season.
Nikita Mazepin gained his first positions on the opening lap of the season at the weekend’s race.
FREE PRACTICE RESULTS
For no good reason in the Free Practice results.
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 -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
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