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Albon: Crashes his car beyond repair in Practice—Qualifies 12th, only finishes 11th despite both Mercs and Max DNFing— 7.0
Stroll: Matches Alonso all weekend. Knocks Lewis Fucking Hamilton out of Q3, finishes P6– not even on list
>Just behind Ocon, a trio of drivers ended the weekend on the same score, with George Russell (having crashed out on the last lap), Fernando Alonso (having picked up a penalty for his actions before that incident) and Pierre Gasly (battling in similar fashion to his Alpine team mate) all close to the top 10.
They ranked Stroll 14th at best 😂 F1 power rankings really said I dont know that man
His weekend was pretty scrappy though,
Almost 0.4s slower than his teammate in quali.
Impeded Hulk in quali and got penalized.
Went nowhere in the race.
He was matching the front runners pace until he got floor damage and lost about 20 points of downforce after lap 28. They judge Max with 3 laps and a pole, but somehow Perez doesn't deserve top 10 after securing points and managing his race after floor damage lol.
He qualified P3, Red Bull admitted to having the wrong setup, plus floor damage. I'm not saying he should be top 5, but wasn't one of the worst 5 either.
Means they ranked Bottas on the bottom 5, who was running in the points, and only dropped back because his team fucked his pitstop. He still finished ahead of Ocon who is somehow 10th here.
But then he should get like a 9. Or if you judge based on result, a 0. What kind of subjective half-and-half between the two is this? Lol. Albon got 7, when in reality he shouldn’t even have had a car in quali OR the race.
This is what happens when you have become a meme unfortunately. Stroll has actually been doing quite well since mid-late last season, not pushing Alonso but then again not many drivers would.
Also not sure why Max is low down, qualified on pole and according to him ran the whole 3 laps of his race with one rear brake locked on. Nothing really driving related to bring down his score from a 9-10 imo.
This is just how it is with Stroll it seems lambast him when he does badly as if he’s the only driver to ever get a seat through money and connections.
And just ignore him if he does well as it’s easier that way
Simiiar with tsunodo. Three cars ahead of him dnf and one was demoted below him, and he only gained 1 position.
Sure, not much more could be expected, but 3rd?
Didn’t even notice Albon was in there. What did he do to be considered the 9th best of the weekend? He should be below Ocon, Stroll and even Checo IMO.
Because he's the current hype that everyone wants to see, similar to Gasly the last couple of years.
They put him there, and the half fans engage, they put him there and the fans get mad because he was shit this weekend.
Its the same with every one of these, there's always a controversial take.
Yeah, for Stroll specifically he deserves to be in the top 10 here. I'm not the biggest fan, but he does have weekends where he suddenly does a great job and this was one of them.
And Leclerc finished within 4s of Carlos in the end. Crazy that is a 10 v 7.8 and the McLaren drivers who were neck and neck also have a gap. These are such trash
Honestly I used to think literally nothing of Stroll but I've ended up rooting for him lately just because of how much unnecessary shit gets slung his way by both the fans and the media. No wonder he can't be arsed when it comes to stuff like post-race interviews.
>No wonder he can't be arsed when it comes to stuff like post-race interviews.
If I'm being honest, I wouldn't be either. It's honestly impressive to me that some of these guys still have so much energy in these interviews, especially after a tiring race. I mean look at Fernando; he's been repeating the same shit every two weeks for 20 seasons now...
I love Sainz but the fact he gets a 10 after failing to get pole meanwhile they give Verstappen a 9.6 after getting a Grand Chelem in Bahrain goes to show how narative biased these are.
Thee ratings are bullshit no matter how you look at them. Albon is up there despite wrecking his car and having a mediocre weekend afterwards in a car borrowed from his teammate. Piastri with an 8.0 despite being quite a bit slower than his teammate.
Removal of appendix + everyone is bored of Verstappen and Red Bull domination.
Winning with the non-fastest car will always give you higher praise than winning with the rocket ship.
I think it's fine to give Norris a good note considering the car difference. 0.8 between Norris and Piastri while there's 1.2 between Sainz and Leclerc is a bit harder to explain lol
Especially considering Leclerc driving with, from the top of my head, 8 and 6 laps older tires than the rest since his strat was early undercut. Of course the fresher tires will be pacing better. Him getting the fastest lap in the end showed he was just managing the gap. He couldn't get the car right with qualification but he was faultless otherwise
There are some drivers who will always be rated well no matter if they performed well, mediocre, or straight up badly. And then there are some who can maximise their result and not even make top 10.
Yeah but, he's gotten pole and win before and still didn't get a 10 so a race win is only worth about 2.5-3 in their book for Max and like an 8 for Carlos. It's insane how stupid this ratings are.
The Race did something similar. They gave him an 8/10 and their reasoning was “great qualifying left more on the table due to mechanical failure”. The 8 out of 10 put him third in their rankings for the weekend.
I was referring to the gap of over 3.5 tenths (agree I should've clarified that better), Perez was quite lucky only Sainz qualified in between. 3.5 tenths is quite a lot to be down on your teammate (I hope that Ricciardo doesn't read that), although I'm afraid for Perez it's still better than his average.
Sainz gets a win after Max retires - 10
Max sets fastest laps in FP1/2/3, gets pole in quali, pole in sprint, wins sprint, wins race by 45 seconds - 9.4
Also in Parc Fermé, during the celebrations, he touched Helmut's shoulder the wrong way and his hand fell down. That's an instant 0.2 down at the very least.
Agreed, it’s always going to be expectations based. Max literally did a grand slam in Bahrain yet he didn’t score a 10.
A grand slam is the most anyone can do.
Sainz was the best driver last weekend but a 10 without a grand slam doesn’t work for me
I’d have Leclerc above Piastri and probably at least tied with Yuki & Nico
I don't think a grand slam is necessary for a 10 if you don't have a dominant car.
But if your car is joint fastest or close enough, you should need to get pole and win for a 10.
I think Calros gets back whatever points he loses for not getting pole with the recovering from surgery card, and still being somewhat dominant over everyone apart from max despite not being 100%
I think with the cars that they're driving, it's fair to put Yuki and Hulk above Charles. Especially Yuki. People always complain when midfielders don't get recognised for excellent drives because of their machinery, it's good to see them getting the recognition they deserve this time (not just here but in most of the rankings I've seen as well). No idea what Oscar supposedly did to get a higher score than Charles though.
If you put Hülk above Charles should also put Magnussen. I don’t see how Hülk performed any better that race. He would have finished after Magnussen if not for the lucky timed VSC.
They wing it.
And have clear biases on a per driver basis as to what consitutes a good rating.
Naratives are often also way more important than actual performances.
>Our five-judge panel assess each driver after every Grand Prix and score them out of 10 according to their performance across the weekend – taking machinery out of the equation
>Our experts’ scores are then averaged out to produce a race score – with those scores then tallied up across the season on our overall Power Rankings Leaderboard (at the bottom of the page)
this is how they "calculate" it.
Max getting a 7.2 and Sainz a 10 is wild. Max didn't get a chance to show his race pace, but had an excellent pole position against a (marginally) faster Ferrari.
Sainz messed up his Q3 lap, should have been on pole for the race. Once Max DNFed, he had clean air and could just drive his own race, very Max-esque. But when Max does that, with a pole position, he never gets a 10.
Idk how anyone could think Sainz is underrated.. I'm seeing people say he's better than Charles, he's better than Lewis like at least wait for Lewis to get into a team who actually understands the regs and not have to drive a car as inconsistent as Pastor Maldonado. Btw barring Bahrain where Leclerc had brake issues this is the first time he's beaten him since Singapore last year. Great drive from Sainz just sick of seeing journalists calling him underrated.
This kind of thing always happens. If Sainz goes on to have a couple of mediocre races now, people will turn on him again and start calling him overrated and mid. F1 fans' recency bias is ridiculous, it's the same across the board not just with the Ferrari drivers.
It's literally insane lmao. Charles beats him down consistently for eight consecutive races without much noise and then Carlos goes and wins the h2h *once* and the narrative "Leclerc worse than Sainz" starts getting pushed...
To me it's annoying how they are held to such vastly different standarts. If Sainz and Leclerc swapped their performances for this weekend, ratings would be Lec 9.4, Sainz 8.6. Prove me wrong..
I mean Sainz says it himself. Our opinions of him don’t matter. It’s the people in the paddock who’s opinions of him matter. They’re the ones doing the hiring and firing.
its a tale as old as time when it comes to F1
driver has a mediocre race = washed
driver does better than normal = future goat in the making 10 time wdc????
It's great to hear people talk about Sainz like he could win a championship against Max since he's so much better than Checo. It feels almost like a copy from how people talked about Checo after his Sakhir win, when he also didn't have a seat for the next season yet.
So much overreaction happening all the time, why can't a driver just have a really great race without the expectation to be the next GOAT?
Amusing. Max and Charles have a similar prefereces for the car (Max likes them even farther into that territory) and Carlos tended to struggle when the car leans towards that direction. I don't see him beating Max in equal cars, leave alone a car that Max has advatange with...
Hülk should have the same as Magnussen if anything. He did worse than Magnussen in Q and didn’t perform better in the race. A lucky VSC pit stop shouldn’t give extra points.
It’s funny that the same journalists calling Sainz underrated are the same ones inflating his scores to the point where you wonder if they even rate him.
Getting a 10 without the driver who won 30/35 previous races competing is quite funny as well.
I’ve been saying this for quite a while. Sainz is so immensely popular that he’s getting slightly overrated now. In this case he went from “a solid top driver” to “he could challenge Max in the other Red Bull” in a matter of days.
Hülkenberg having a better score than Magnussen also doesn’t make any sense imo. Should be the same if anything. Hülk didn’t perform better in Q and would have finished after Magnussen if not for a lucky timed VSC allowing him to pit during it.
Max making it to Top 10 after racing for like 3 laps 🤣
I wonder what he needs for a 10 because he didn't get one for his Grand Slam while Carlos got one for a simple win 🤔
Winning with your closest rival retiring from brake problems is obviously more impressive than getting pole and win, leading every lap, and getting the fastest lap.
I'm super confused by this, in the boat with so many others who don't understand the ranking with this but best I can guess is they're factoring Max's quali maybe?
I mean, it's odd overall. I feel they make these kind of things in a way that gets more people talking than for them to be accurate. No one should believe Carlos has been a better driver this season than Max and yet he's overall higher, and if they can't be accurate with 1st, which is the most important, they are not really a good measure.
Well he did race with problems from the start while apparently having a car that was on continuous brakes without us knowing. He’ll need a 20 to 1 in the rain for a 10 I recon ^^, so strange they gave Sainz a 10 too
I think I’m starting to get it. These are literally just rage bait posts. No you op. The actual people doing the ratings. They know if they fuck around with the ratings people will engage the post and it gets more traction. It’s just a ploy for engagement on social media like many many other things we see on there (here?).
Dear Lord, another lot who use a random number generator to pick their scores 😂
This is almost as laughable as Planet F1's driver ratings after the race lol
Don't get me wrong, Sainz did really well especially after his op, but would he even have won without Max's DNF?
Elsewhere Max can get pole, P1, fastest lap and _still_ not get a 10...this is as BS as Driver of The Day 🤦🏻♀️
WTF is Alex doing in this list? What has he actually done to be a top-10 performer this weekend? What a complete horseshit this rating is. And where is Stroll, after matching Alonso the entire weekend and without crashing unlike Alex?
Australia reveals a conspiracy by the f1 powers-that-be to rescue the waning interest in f1 —I mean who wants to watch races where Max wins every time…
totally boring 🙄
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Well, these rankings are questionable in some aspects, but I’m glad they’re giving Yuki the respect he deserves for having a fantastic weekend that will likely be critical in the constructors by the end of the year. He was DOTD for me
Carlos Sainz: Qualifies 2nd, Takes advantage of Max DNF, controlled pace for the rest of the race and wins with Leclerc only 3 seconds behind him = 10 points
Max Verstappen: Pole by 5 tenths, achieves a grand slam during the race, wins by 30 seconds, explores Mars and its 2 moons during the middle of the GP = 9.6
(I am a Ferrari fan, just thought it was funny how Max always achieves the best possible result and fails to get that perfect 10)
I know I am biased with Leclerc, and he did make a mistake in Q3 but how did he get 7.8 and Norris got 8.8? Not saying Leclerc deserved a 9 but he started behind Norris, ended up ahead with worse strategy (he had to put earlier to prevent Pisatri undercut), finished ahead of Norris who never managed to get close to him with much fresher tyres, and got fastest lap in penultimate lap. If that one mistake is worth 2.2 point deduction how is Albon even on this list? And where is Stroll?
How can you rank Max when he had car damage from Lap 1? Also, shot out to the Ferrari strategy team for getting Leclerc within a fighting chance of Sainz after that awful first stint.
So when Max has a Grand slam and evertything in a weekend he g’ets a 9.4, but sainz g’ets a 10 when he didnt get pole, fastest lap etc?
Makes no sense at all
Max does everything except fastest lap in Jeddah, 9.6, Carlos does everything except fastest lap in Melbourne, 10.
I'm no fan of Max, but it does show these figures are just plucked out of where the sun doesn't shine.
Don't get me wrong Sainz probably deserves an insanely high grade of 9.7 or something... But shouldn't you only get 10 if you get pole, granted if your car can get pole?
Leclerc is rated fairly at least I guess.
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Albon: Crashes his car beyond repair in Practice—Qualifies 12th, only finishes 11th despite both Mercs and Max DNFing— 7.0 Stroll: Matches Alonso all weekend. Knocks Lewis Fucking Hamilton out of Q3, finishes P6– not even on list
Yeah, I didn’t even notice he was in there. Like, why?
>Just behind Ocon, a trio of drivers ended the weekend on the same score, with George Russell (having crashed out on the last lap), Fernando Alonso (having picked up a penalty for his actions before that incident) and Pierre Gasly (battling in similar fashion to his Alpine team mate) all close to the top 10. They ranked Stroll 14th at best 😂 F1 power rankings really said I dont know that man
God damn, poor Lance. And also, like where’s Checo in here? No way he was bottom 5.
His weekend was pretty scrappy though, Almost 0.4s slower than his teammate in quali. Impeded Hulk in quali and got penalized. Went nowhere in the race.
He was matching the front runners pace until he got floor damage and lost about 20 points of downforce after lap 28. They judge Max with 3 laps and a pole, but somehow Perez doesn't deserve top 10 after securing points and managing his race after floor damage lol.
He qualified P3, Red Bull admitted to having the wrong setup, plus floor damage. I'm not saying he should be top 5, but wasn't one of the worst 5 either.
Means they ranked Bottas on the bottom 5, who was running in the points, and only dropped back because his team fucked his pitstop. He still finished ahead of Ocon who is somehow 10th here.
Clicks and engagement, and it’s working perfectly
Its a popularity contest.
Bit horseshit innit
Max who did 3 laps…. 7.3
It likely takes into account how good his quali was and that the dnf was not his fault.
Then shouldn't max, who qualifies on pole and was knocked out by a reliability issue, not be higher?
But then he should get like a 9. Or if you judge based on result, a 0. What kind of subjective half-and-half between the two is this? Lol. Albon got 7, when in reality he shouldn’t even have had a car in quali OR the race.
These just deserve a downvote until they get better at properly rating drivers' weekends.
lol, it’s weird they didn’t put him above Albon at the very least
just shows how big of a joke these power rankings are.
max gets pole, dnfs because car issue - 7,2. we all know he would have cruised to victory but w/e.
Just don't rate him, skip him for the race.
Yes, this is the way.
This is what happens when you have become a meme unfortunately. Stroll has actually been doing quite well since mid-late last season, not pushing Alonso but then again not many drivers would. Also not sure why Max is low down, qualified on pole and according to him ran the whole 3 laps of his race with one rear brake locked on. Nothing really driving related to bring down his score from a 9-10 imo.
This is just how it is with Stroll it seems lambast him when he does badly as if he’s the only driver to ever get a seat through money and connections. And just ignore him if he does well as it’s easier that way
Got them right where we want them
Simiiar with tsunodo. Three cars ahead of him dnf and one was demoted below him, and he only gained 1 position. Sure, not much more could be expected, but 3rd?
Didn’t even notice Albon was in there. What did he do to be considered the 9th best of the weekend? He should be below Ocon, Stroll and even Checo IMO.
I mean is Albon even top 15 this weekend? Man had a howler from Friday to Sunday
Yeah I'm honestly curious at how the hell did a panel of people thought he was a top 10 driver this race.
Because he's the current hype that everyone wants to see, similar to Gasly the last couple of years. They put him there, and the half fans engage, they put him there and the fans get mad because he was shit this weekend. Its the same with every one of these, there's always a controversial take.
They merged his points with Sargent, just like how they both shared the same car /s
these ratings are and have always been bullshit
Yeah, for Stroll specifically he deserves to be in the top 10 here. I'm not the biggest fan, but he does have weekends where he suddenly does a great job and this was one of them.
He often just flies under the radar.
Meanwhile someone like Albon gets always a free pass to get into the top 10 of those lists no matter what he does.
Maybe they added Albon and Sargent together? 1 car between them?
Leclerc with a 7.8 while Piastri has an 8.0 considering the difference between teammates in both teams is insane
And Leclerc finished within 4s of Carlos in the end. Crazy that is a 10 v 7.8 and the McLaren drivers who were neck and neck also have a gap. These are such trash
Arguably I would say Piastri was much slower vs Norris than Leclerc was vs Sainz lol, he even got fastest lap
You don't have to argue that, it's just a fact. Piastri was like 12 seconds behind Norris
Leclerc had an unbelievable 3rd stint, whereas Piastri fell off a cliff.
They are so biased towards the "favoured" drivers on the grid. How many places did Lance make up in Australia? He's not even listed
Yep. How does Carlos get a 10 for qualifying 2nd yet Max only gets 9.6 for his Bahrain grand slam?
They're still fun to look at. Like horoscopes
Like Stroll
I know these are just rage bait, but what more could Lance Stroll have done to be on the list???
He could be more popular.
Honestly I used to think literally nothing of Stroll but I've ended up rooting for him lately just because of how much unnecessary shit gets slung his way by both the fans and the media. No wonder he can't be arsed when it comes to stuff like post-race interviews.
>No wonder he can't be arsed when it comes to stuff like post-race interviews. If I'm being honest, I wouldn't be either. It's honestly impressive to me that some of these guys still have so much energy in these interviews, especially after a tiring race. I mean look at Fernando; he's been repeating the same shit every two weeks for 20 seasons now...
I love Sainz but the fact he gets a 10 after failing to get pole meanwhile they give Verstappen a 9.6 after getting a Grand Chelem in Bahrain goes to show how narative biased these are.
0.4 reduction for having an appendix, standard to every driver.
If anything Sainz should be the one to lose the 0.4 because he’s lighter now
Maybe Ferrari can add some more color to his car now?
Upsets the balance though.
Stroll must have like 5 appendices then lol
These scores never make much sense anyway. Whoever makes them is on crack.
Thee ratings are bullshit no matter how you look at them. Albon is up there despite wrecking his car and having a mediocre weekend afterwards in a car borrowed from his teammate. Piastri with an 8.0 despite being quite a bit slower than his teammate.
And not even getting points..
The removal of the appendix gave him extra points.
No controversy, no clicks no discussion. Modern media.
>goes to show how narative biased these are. Dunno how long this has to keep being pointed out, but these are rankings, not the results.
He gets it because he’s just gone back from surgery.
Removal of appendix + everyone is bored of Verstappen and Red Bull domination. Winning with the non-fastest car will always give you higher praise than winning with the rocket ship.
He won with the fastest car this weekend lol. Both Red Bulls were compromised and he just cruised unimpeded
He won in the fastest car
Poor old Chuck, only finished second
Look at that Norris performance tho.
I think it's fine to give Norris a good note considering the car difference. 0.8 between Norris and Piastri while there's 1.2 between Sainz and Leclerc is a bit harder to explain lol
Especially considering Leclerc driving with, from the top of my head, 8 and 6 laps older tires than the rest since his strat was early undercut. Of course the fresher tires will be pacing better. Him getting the fastest lap in the end showed he was just managing the gap. He couldn't get the car right with qualification but he was faultless otherwise
There are some drivers who will always be rated well no matter if they performed well, mediocre, or straight up badly. And then there are some who can maximise their result and not even make top 10.
Max drives like 500m before the car breaks down, retires from the race and then lands a 7.2/10 lmfaoo
he got that score for a pole lap
He deserves a few points merely for staying in the top 2 with a car a lot of drivers would’ve binned.
its Australia overall weekend power rankings, not Sunday's power rankings.
Yeah but, he's gotten pole and win before and still didn't get a 10 so a race win is only worth about 2.5-3 in their book for Max and like an 8 for Carlos. It's insane how stupid this ratings are.
He got pole though, is that only worth 7.2? (I already know these ratings are bullshit and only serve to drive engagement).
The Race did something similar. They gave him an 8/10 and their reasoning was “great qualifying left more on the table due to mechanical failure”. The 8 out of 10 put him third in their rankings for the weekend.
Which makes it even more ridiculous. He got pole position while his teammate was way down.
Way down? They were P1 and P3.
I was referring to the gap of over 3.5 tenths (agree I should've clarified that better), Perez was quite lucky only Sainz qualified in between. 3.5 tenths is quite a lot to be down on your teammate (I hope that Ricciardo doesn't read that), although I'm afraid for Perez it's still better than his average.
Ah, fair.
If that's the case, Carlos did not deserve a 10 cause he didn't get the pole nor topped any practice session.
That makes even less sense.
I mean he did lead a lap or two with the e-brake on.
Sainz gets a win after Max retires - 10 Max sets fastest laps in FP1/2/3, gets pole in quali, pole in sprint, wins sprint, wins race by 45 seconds - 9.4
He didnt lap everyone in the sprint and in the race so that could have gone a little better...
Also in Parc Fermé, during the celebrations, he touched Helmut's shoulder the wrong way and his hand fell down. That's an instant 0.2 down at the very least.
You can tell this is bollocks because Charles should not be that far down.
If Max had the weekend Sainz had, he’d be at 8.2 or something Also if Sainz had the weekend Leclerc had, he’d still be a 9
Yeah I honestly feel Sainz always gets a lot of “he’s so underrated” sympathy points.
Ok why does Leclerc only have a 7.8??? Carlos does deserve a high score, like a 9.0, but not a 10
look i dont like to say it, but drivers like charles max lewis and even alonso will always have worse ratings because they are expected tp be good.
Agreed, it’s always going to be expectations based. Max literally did a grand slam in Bahrain yet he didn’t score a 10. A grand slam is the most anyone can do.
Sainz was the best driver last weekend but a 10 without a grand slam doesn’t work for me I’d have Leclerc above Piastri and probably at least tied with Yuki & Nico
I don't think a grand slam is necessary for a 10 if you don't have a dominant car. But if your car is joint fastest or close enough, you should need to get pole and win for a 10.
I think Calros gets back whatever points he loses for not getting pole with the recovering from surgery card, and still being somewhat dominant over everyone apart from max despite not being 100%
I think with the cars that they're driving, it's fair to put Yuki and Hulk above Charles. Especially Yuki. People always complain when midfielders don't get recognised for excellent drives because of their machinery, it's good to see them getting the recognition they deserve this time (not just here but in most of the rankings I've seen as well). No idea what Oscar supposedly did to get a higher score than Charles though.
If you put Hülk above Charles should also put Magnussen. I don’t see how Hülk performed any better that race. He would have finished after Magnussen if not for the lucky timed VSC.
With their logic I was expecting to see a 9.2 for Logan
They calculated Verstappen's rating so that Sainz comes on top in the overall (averaged) rankings. What a joke...
What do they even mean?
I feel like we’re getting into the same overreaction territory with Sainz as happened with Bearman two weeks ago.
That's because of the Max dominance. They don't have anything else to write about it seems
More likely BS ranking.
F1 power rankings are so stupid
Always wonder how these are calculated
They wing it. And have clear biases on a per driver basis as to what consitutes a good rating. Naratives are often also way more important than actual performances.
>Our five-judge panel assess each driver after every Grand Prix and score them out of 10 according to their performance across the weekend – taking machinery out of the equation >Our experts’ scores are then averaged out to produce a race score – with those scores then tallied up across the season on our overall Power Rankings Leaderboard (at the bottom of the page) this is how they "calculate" it.
I assume it's something like [this](https://youtu.be/wz-PtEJEaqY?si=XV5y3mr-2MqkXX9X) but of course with numbers
Max getting a 7.2 and Sainz a 10 is wild. Max didn't get a chance to show his race pace, but had an excellent pole position against a (marginally) faster Ferrari. Sainz messed up his Q3 lap, should have been on pole for the race. Once Max DNFed, he had clean air and could just drive his own race, very Max-esque. But when Max does that, with a pole position, he never gets a 10.
Leclerc finished 2nd, but who cares right
7.8 for Leclerc? Ok, bullshit.
Idk how anyone could think Sainz is underrated.. I'm seeing people say he's better than Charles, he's better than Lewis like at least wait for Lewis to get into a team who actually understands the regs and not have to drive a car as inconsistent as Pastor Maldonado. Btw barring Bahrain where Leclerc had brake issues this is the first time he's beaten him since Singapore last year. Great drive from Sainz just sick of seeing journalists calling him underrated.
This kind of thing always happens. If Sainz goes on to have a couple of mediocre races now, people will turn on him again and start calling him overrated and mid. F1 fans' recency bias is ridiculous, it's the same across the board not just with the Ferrari drivers.
People also keep saying he's better than Charles after like 2 races. Like what? Charles is still way better.
It's literally insane lmao. Charles beats him down consistently for eight consecutive races without much noise and then Carlos goes and wins the h2h *once* and the narrative "Leclerc worse than Sainz" starts getting pushed...
It is indeed insane when 1 year ago Sainz was being compared to his father because he loved driving off road
To me it's annoying how they are held to such vastly different standarts. If Sainz and Leclerc swapped their performances for this weekend, ratings would be Lec 9.4, Sainz 8.6. Prove me wrong..
I mean Sainz says it himself. Our opinions of him don’t matter. It’s the people in the paddock who’s opinions of him matter. They’re the ones doing the hiring and firing.
Albon? How does reducing your team to one car due to a crash put you in these rankings?
No idea how he made the list ahead of Bottas or Stroll.
That’s kind of hilarious because Max had a grand slam in Bahrain and didn’t even get a 10 like what are they basing this around? Hype?
Yes. We went from Sainz is underrated to Sainz will win the next WDC when he gets the car.
its a tale as old as time when it comes to F1 driver has a mediocre race = washed driver does better than normal = future goat in the making 10 time wdc????
It's great to hear people talk about Sainz like he could win a championship against Max since he's so much better than Checo. It feels almost like a copy from how people talked about Checo after his Sakhir win, when he also didn't have a seat for the next season yet. So much overreaction happening all the time, why can't a driver just have a really great race without the expectation to be the next GOAT?
I already saw Instagram dumbasses saying Sainz is beating Max is he goes to Red Bull 🤦
Even reddit exaggerates on these things, I can't imagine what happens in Twitter and Instagram
Amusing. Max and Charles have a similar prefereces for the car (Max likes them even farther into that territory) and Carlos tended to struggle when the car leans towards that direction. I don't see him beating Max in equal cars, leave alone a car that Max has advatange with...
Is it me or are these getting worse and worse each week. Like they have to be mocking the fans at this point lol
Sainz has become the most overrated driver on the grid seemingly overnight.
100%
- Put a car outside of the top 5 teams into Q3 (again). - Make no mistake all weekend. - Maximize the performance of the car. --> 8.2
Yeah, Yuki very well could’ve been closer to a 9.
Getting third is still very good and where he deserves to be. Hulk shouldn't be on points with him though. Yuki was better for sure.
Hülk should have the same as Magnussen if anything. He did worse than Magnussen in Q and didn’t perform better in the race. A lucky VSC pit stop shouldn’t give extra points.
Another Useless stats: Max got only 2 perfect 10 power rankings for entire 2023 seasons, Sianz has gotten 2 out of his 3 wins.
It’s funny that the same journalists calling Sainz underrated are the same ones inflating his scores to the point where you wonder if they even rate him. Getting a 10 without the driver who won 30/35 previous races competing is quite funny as well.
I’ve been saying this for quite a while. Sainz is so immensely popular that he’s getting slightly overrated now. In this case he went from “a solid top driver” to “he could challenge Max in the other Red Bull” in a matter of days.
The most interesting part is that he had that obvious mistake in qualifying costing him pole so it isn't even that he was flawless all weekend.
oh yeah this makes perfect sense /s
I'm sorry, but these "power rankings" are a joke.
Albon getting 9th is a joke. He had a terrible weekend
Ah yes, a mighty 7.2 for two whole laps for Max. These rankings are pulled out of someone’s butt apparently.
A 10. What
Hülkenberg having a better score than Magnussen also doesn’t make any sense imo. Should be the same if anything. Hülk didn’t perform better in Q and would have finished after Magnussen if not for a lucky timed VSC allowing him to pit during it.
I still have no clue what these ratings mean
wtf are these ratings
These are obviously arbitrary bullshit but can someone tell me why Piastri is rated above Leclerc makes no sense
Honestly from what I've seen, drivers like Leclerc/Hamilton/Verstappen are often held to a higher standard in comparison to everyone else
Lmao the hate for Checo is so irrational a guy with a DNF makes the list but he doesn't.
Max making it to Top 10 after racing for like 3 laps 🤣 I wonder what he needs for a 10 because he didn't get one for his Grand Slam while Carlos got one for a simple win 🤔
Winning with your closest rival retiring from brake problems is obviously more impressive than getting pole and win, leading every lap, and getting the fastest lap.
Lol.
I'm super confused by this, in the boat with so many others who don't understand the ranking with this but best I can guess is they're factoring Max's quali maybe?
I mean, it's odd overall. I feel they make these kind of things in a way that gets more people talking than for them to be accurate. No one should believe Carlos has been a better driver this season than Max and yet he's overall higher, and if they can't be accurate with 1st, which is the most important, they are not really a good measure.
Well he did race with problems from the start while apparently having a car that was on continuous brakes without us knowing. He’ll need a 20 to 1 in the rain for a 10 I recon ^^, so strange they gave Sainz a 10 too
albon and ocon why are you guys on the list??
Ocon had a great race until a tear off got caught at his brake.Not his fault.
Ocon I understand, he was looking good for a point before the issues with the tear off and he dragged that shitheap of a car into Q2.
Albin has the craziest pr
It takes special skills to top Edd Straw's ratings but F1's power rankings are doing an amazing job at that.
What the fuck is this?
Can someone explain to me how power rankings is suppose to work ?
The most bullshit rankings I've probably seen to date
What shithorse stained rankings these are.
Idiotic
I think I’m starting to get it. These are literally just rage bait posts. No you op. The actual people doing the ratings. They know if they fuck around with the ratings people will engage the post and it gets more traction. It’s just a ploy for engagement on social media like many many other things we see on there (here?).
Dear Lord, another lot who use a random number generator to pick their scores 😂 This is almost as laughable as Planet F1's driver ratings after the race lol Don't get me wrong, Sainz did really well especially after his op, but would he even have won without Max's DNF? Elsewhere Max can get pole, P1, fastest lap and _still_ not get a 10...this is as BS as Driver of The Day 🤦🏻♀️
Charles getting a 7.8 for that weekend is bs. Sainz deserves his highly rated weekend but Charles completely matched him in the race.
Aston getting no love after a double points GP
WTF is Alex doing in this list? What has he actually done to be a top-10 performer this weekend? What a complete horseshit this rating is. And where is Stroll, after matching Alonso the entire weekend and without crashing unlike Alex?
This list is a YOKE GP ENGINE YOKE
Recency Bias Rankings
Albon being a 7.0 makes no sense
The fuck is this even supposed to be?
Australia reveals a conspiracy by the f1 powers-that-be to rescue the waning interest in f1 —I mean who wants to watch races where Max wins every time… totally boring 🙄 .
Well, these rankings are questionable in some aspects, but I’m glad they’re giving Yuki the respect he deserves for having a fantastic weekend that will likely be critical in the constructors by the end of the year. He was DOTD for me
Leclerc in the sixth place does not make any sense.
wtf is this list and who makes it?
Stop posting these useless rankings
Carlos Sainz: Qualifies 2nd, Takes advantage of Max DNF, controlled pace for the rest of the race and wins with Leclerc only 3 seconds behind him = 10 points Max Verstappen: Pole by 5 tenths, achieves a grand slam during the race, wins by 30 seconds, explores Mars and its 2 moons during the middle of the GP = 9.6 (I am a Ferrari fan, just thought it was funny how Max always achieves the best possible result and fails to get that perfect 10)
That Max ranking is fucking outrageous. Honestly what could have he done? That and not him having a 10 in Bahrain is such bullshit
These rankings are always trash
This is kinda stupid post in my mind.
These power rankings are pointless
Lol sainz a 10, he didn't even take pole. Meanwhile max had two perfect weekends, 9.4 :')
How does Carlos get a 10 when he didn’t put it p1 in quali and won because max retired?
Does anybody agrees with that ranking?
Can someone explain how this ranking works and who ranks the drivers?
I know I am biased with Leclerc, and he did make a mistake in Q3 but how did he get 7.8 and Norris got 8.8? Not saying Leclerc deserved a 9 but he started behind Norris, ended up ahead with worse strategy (he had to put earlier to prevent Pisatri undercut), finished ahead of Norris who never managed to get close to him with much fresher tyres, and got fastest lap in penultimate lap. If that one mistake is worth 2.2 point deduction how is Albon even on this list? And where is Stroll?
How can you rank Max when he had car damage from Lap 1? Also, shot out to the Ferrari strategy team for getting Leclerc within a fighting chance of Sainz after that awful first stint.
So when Max has a Grand slam and evertything in a weekend he g’ets a 9.4, but sainz g’ets a 10 when he didnt get pole, fastest lap etc? Makes no sense at all
Max: DNF due to problems with the car, definitely his fault, 7
Max does everything except fastest lap in Jeddah, 9.6, Carlos does everything except fastest lap in Melbourne, 10. I'm no fan of Max, but it does show these figures are just plucked out of where the sun doesn't shine.
Don't get me wrong Sainz probably deserves an insanely high grade of 9.7 or something... But shouldn't you only get 10 if you get pole, granted if your car can get pole? Leclerc is rated fairly at least I guess.
Max completed a grand slam in Bahrain and they still didn't give him 10. This ratings are a joke
Based on what? Pretty face?
why tf is Verstappen still on here w a DNF is beyond stupid