And he can stay there as long as he wants, his daddy will never fire him. It has come to a point where it must be embarrassing to be the team leader. When you have enough experience to be in that position, you know a thing or two about racing, and clearly, as all of us can see, Lance is not winning material, and never will be. This is obvious to anyone, but the team leader has to just accept that Lance ain't going anywhere, no matter his performance. This is not a serious team, and i am downright flabbergasted Newey decided to sign with them.
@@FabledGentleman He's the only driver who treats being in F1 like an employee who just does the bare minimum in their 9-5. I think he would much prefer being in marketing or something but he doesn't want to make his dad upset.
@@FabledGentlemanSo Lawrence is holding his son against his will? Lance looks and acts like someone who’d rather be anywhere else but F1. If he wants to retire, Lawrence has to respect that
There were times this season when Stroll was faster than Alonso, so that's gotta be worth something. Zhou, on other hand, was pretty much invisible whole season until that race where he scored points.
Alonso scored more than Hulkenberg even after Miami when the Astons were no longer the clear 5th best team on the grid. He's criminally underrated still.
@@BrokeAndSquare Thanks for saying that! Enough of the fanboys saying a driver is getting more out of the car than the car can do. Whatever the faster driver in the team is getting out of the car is what the car is capable of. The rest is reflection on the slower driver in the team.
@@As-qz5lrNot even close. Leclerc beat him by 60 points. Verstappen, Leclerc, Norris and Russell all had better seasons based on their record vs their teammates
@@manavkumar6590 you have to remember the team stopped supporting him at the end of the season. Few questionable decisions and given preference to leclerc. Russell had full support on Mercedes side. It's very close but definitely Carlos done much better that season compare to what his team wanted from him.😉
@@MDE_never_dies Only Sargeant, Zhou and Stroll finished behind him... maybe he could swap with Stroll but I can't see him lower than that. Zhou was almost always last and Sargeant was fired.
Finally someone recognizing alonso who was best of the rest in points by a big margin even though their car got worse and worse while others got much better. Aston was only ahead of sauber at the end of the season
When I was kid we helped rescue a beached whale in Oregon. In Lance’s case I’d sit down next to him eating my sliced carrots & enjoy the view while he flailed around.
im glad norris gets the recognition he deserves - yes hes not at max's level especially in terms of wheel to wheel combat, but on pure pace hes one of the best up there. oscar, for all the plaudits he gets, is consistently 2 tenths behind norris in both qualifying and race trim. norris may have missed certain opportunities to win, but oscar was often not quick enough to even be in such a position
I don't think Bearmans placing is justified, sure he did well in Saudi, but he was still in a Ferrari, comparing his performance with Colapinto or even Lawson, I don't think he was better than either of them
He only did 3 of the most difficult races of the season, 2 at street tracks the one with the worst weather. He also only got one practice session when he drove for Ferrari (and that was shortened furthur because of zhou causing a red flag), and only finished behind good driers in good cars. He would have finished better, but took a while to find the confidence on the breaks to do divebombs, but once he did that he was great.
@@dylanburston7453yea Saudi was hard, but he also didnt really put in a great performance nor was he fast. Out in Q2 in a car that Charles put on P2. In the race he finished 25s behind LeClerc who was clearly just managing while Ollie was pushing to keep his position. Basically as far off his teammate as Logan or Checo have been.
As a McLaren fan since 95, seriously don't care, we have 2 good drivers, it was unfortunate that our 1st driver was asleep and late to realise RB and Mercedes were underperforming leaving McLaren and Ferrari to race for the title. When you expect to be fighting for top mid, you take a lot of precautions, but can't blame them, no one was expecting RB to fail delivering upgrades. Perez failures are just RB failures, it's one of those drivers that fits the "it's the car" narrative. Verstappen on the other hand, took the car to it's absolute limit, the only time we had that level of talent despite driving a garbage McLaren, is Kimi "Iceman" Raikkonen, had he stayed, easy 3 championship from 07 to 09.
I don't think anyone other than Max wouldve won that title in that car,.He;s proven that he isnt a flat track bull withy the best car but hes the best driver
Agreed. But I think Verstappen, Leclerc and Alonso could’ve won the title in that McLaren. I’ve seen people claim that even Sainz and Russell would have won the title or performed better than Norris in the McLaren which I find ridiculous; Norris was already matching Sainz as a rookie and Russell is just as error prone
F1 (the official site) rankings are more 'car' rankings than anything else. The mental gymnastics they seem to go through are sometimes quite baffling too to be honest. This was a much more common sense one And one I mostly agreed with. (which does help with thinking it's a better one, I know :-) )
Yuki deserves top ten recognition. Given the machinery he performed impressively. Same goes for Gasley. Both ahead of Hamilton's disappointing performance imo
Red Bull should have swapped Perez and Riccardo out after that run of good results. It would have been his chance (to prove he was a better candidate than Perez), and for Perez, he could have regrouped at RB. But, they should both know that RB in 2025 would be Tsunoda and Lawson.
You are all pretty blind with Sergio. He is being USED at RB. They resigned him for the $50 million he brings in sponsorship, and turned down his wick to ensure more *wind tunnel testing* time for 2025, all he brings in sponsorship covers what Red Bull lost in the WCC prize and some. Open your eyes. F1 needs to do away with punishing wind tunnel time for success.
@@PlenthAviation agreed, bad list. Norris should be above Charles. No one has overturned that many points deficit and he did what was possible given Max’s “tactics”. And Hamilton 13th? Ok, not his best year but surely better than several of the midfielders placed above him. Does Alonso get a high ranking for complaining and slamming his team on the radio? Why is Ollie and Ocon above Hamilton? Hulkenberg was good but Gasly was better. People need to let Tsunoda fandom go, unnecessarily hyping him up.
I don't know how fair it is to grade Zhou Guanyu given how bad the car was. Not sure how you get him higher on here but in a better car he might be a serviceable driver.
I would honestly rank Doohan higher than Stroll and Sargent, given that despite having only one race, he did less damage than Sargent and Stroll to the financial status, mental health, and reputation of his team.
Bottas way to high , Hamilton too low , Alonso and gasly above Hamilton is a joke . Piastri way too low as well and Verstappen at 1st is another joke . First half of the season saved Verstappen completely average performance whole year . Leclerc Norris and Piastri deserved the top 3 spots .
Thumbs up for actually making a realistic and comprehensive ranking for the drivers. I have always questioned what's the point of these when someone can be brilliant having the best race of their life but a car is a turd and at the end nobody would know because the result would be 12th or something around that line. But this one took most of that out of the equation and made it into a real ranking. Kudos to you guys as this must have been very hard.
Because he got the maximum out of the car nearly every weekend, and far more than zhou. Its Russel v Kubica 2, where the driver who got thrashed got the only points in a dogshit car, despite being convincingly beaten
@@dylanburston7453He achieved nothing. He got nothing out of the car. If Lance Stroll had the exact same performance in a Sauber not a single person would rank him anywhere near that high. 13th is laughable as is anyone seriously trying to defend Bottas being anywhere near the top 15.
@@Dazzmondo95maybe listen to the perfectly sound explanation that is provided in the video that adds context to why the standings look the way they do?
@@ogTryhard21The explanation was not sound. It was waffle before quickly moving on to the next ranking because there was no genuine logic behind Bottas ranking so high
This is the order… I don’t know how @therace got Alonzo above Hamilton, he didn’t even finished no where close to Hamilton in the title fight, Alonso had a horrible car but so did Hamilton at different points who had a better overall dive. … Am I mistaken but wasn’t Alonso knocked out of qualifying a lot more than Hamilton?
@ironiron6895 my point exactly! It’s such a glaring contradiction by @therace… what are they looking at? Even in the races Hamilton finished way more races in higher positions than Alonso. Listen I do like all the drivers I may follow one more than the other but I am lost to what they looking at. Hamilton had a bad car so did Russell yes he got more out of it. I would not say any different but there is no way Alonso can be as high as they said.
@@Haimere-J everyone thinks something different. There is nothing we can do. I enjoy this kind of content. Even if someone put stroll ahead of Verstappen i dont mind honestly.
Russell ahead of Sainz? Inheriting the lead of a race ( Russell, Austria ) vs racing right after an appendicectomy ( Sainz, Albert Park ) speaks volumes in itself.
You never know how much of a driver’s soeed remains after stint on slow car, so I was really happy to see Gasly still has some teeth when he’s in the right car
To incorporate VT's into the mix is criminal. VT's are there to try things in order to get the most out of the car in quali or raceday. It looks like Alpine turned up the PU to the max in the last three races. It gave a beautiful plume of smoke in Las Vegas and Interlagos showed the chassis is more than decent. Even at Sauber it looked like the engines were turned up for the last part of the season. No-one needs those ones anymore after season ending.
I have to say, I'm quite impressed with this list. I don't agree with all the placings, but I think every one was close. This being The Race driver rankings, I'll take it!
Even though I tend to agree with you, Leclerc has made many mistakes. Ferrari failures have cost him 40+ points, and Leclerc topped that with another 30+ points loss.
We want to know what is going to happen to RB line of drivers for 2025 and what it's going to happen to Franco Colapinto. Stroll just have a seat because is daddy is the owner of AMR.
Leclerc's stats are insane. No race crashes, top four in almost every single race his car was behaving,. I hope he sees hjs time while Hamilton is there to help.
Ricciardo was keeping up in the head to head with Tsunoda after the first few races but the car was no longer capable of scoring points by then. Most importantly, he wasn't going for destructors championship
@@manavkumar6590 True but apart from Perez, Stroll, Sargent, Zhou I can't think of many other drivers who were comprehensively outclassed by their team-mates as often as Piastri by Norris. Yet the others were rightly heavily criticised,
@@manavkumar6590 He wasn't as good as Leclerc but the 60 points can be put down to Baku, Brazil and missing Saudi. Other than that, he was really good.
Stroll seems to have no enthusiasm. He needs to work on that quickly. You can be a demotivated F1 driver. Not ever, but particularly in these days, when there are so many candidates and so few drivers. As far as I can see, the grid is probably the best it's been overall. If so, it makes the rookie performances of Lawson, Bearman and Colapinto, all the more impressive. At the moment, Stroll is a place holder.
He was generally behind Lando and has weakness in qualifying and long run pace. There’s no way he should be above Lando. He’s good but after 46 GPs he needs to be better.
Gasly is a solid driver that can show excellent results if he had the right car under him. He's not on Max, Charles, Lewis, and Alonso's level, but he's very much up there with Lando, Carlos, and George.
Nineteenth? Franco> DR (this season) and Lawson, everybody knows that.. everyone who disagrees could put those guys on the Williams and see how they perform
Not really, you could argue they are close but fernando had a dogpile of a car after the first third ofthe season often nowhere near being the head of the midfield, he did get everything he could out of it. If you add it up over a season alpine were the better car in almost as many occasions that aston was the better car because they have had the faster car for the last like 10 races.
@stathispapadopoulos7926 Piastri won 2 races while Gasly finished on the podium and qualified in the top 5 in the last 4 races so yeah, they should be ahead of Alonso
@@alessandro88-g9h Do you even understand what this ranking is about? If you want a ranking purely based on race results without considering the quality of each car, you might as well look at the actual point standings.
In the last 17 races this season, Perez scored 45 points. Gasly score 42 points in an Alpine …
AND he’s French! The white flag instinct is lower in this one….
The fact Stroll has had 8 seasons in F1 is beyond astonishing.
And he can stay there as long as he wants, his daddy will never fire him. It has come to a point where it must be embarrassing to be the team leader. When you have enough experience to be in that position, you know a thing or two about racing, and clearly, as all of us can see, Lance is not winning material, and never will be. This is obvious to anyone, but the team leader has to just accept that Lance ain't going anywhere, no matter his performance. This is not a serious team, and i am downright flabbergasted Newey decided to sign with them.
@@FabledGentleman He's the only driver who treats being in F1 like an employee who just does the bare minimum in their 9-5. I think he would much prefer being in marketing or something but he doesn't want to make his dad upset.
Newey wanted a challenge. Make Strolls teammate a WDC.
@@FabledGentlemanSo Lawrence is holding his son against his will? Lance looks and acts like someone who’d rather be anywhere else but F1. If he wants to retire, Lawrence has to respect that
@@alexpeak16 he's been bloody miserable this year. I can't see how he's enjoying it.
Stroll above Zhou is crazy
agree, even crazier is perez above them with better car but always start race near them
There were times this season when Stroll was faster than Alonso, so that's gotta be worth something. Zhou, on other hand, was pretty much invisible whole season until that race where he scored points.
No way! That sucks
@@rizkasyaukany8891 Perez should be bottom to make this a Redbull Sandwich
@@rizkasyaukany8891 What saved Perez from a lower position were his good first 5/6 races where he bagged 4 podiums
hulkenberg in 10th is fucking criminal he had a much better season than alonso and gasly
By far the best driver in the midfield
He did have some really stinking races in between. But so did Alonso and Gasly so i'm not sure.
@@Carlos-ln8fd Gasly was FAR better, Nico was great, but Gasly was the best
There's not much between the 3 tbh
Alonso scored more than Hulkenberg even after Miami when the Astons were no longer the clear 5th best team on the grid. He's criminally underrated still.
Absolutely agree, but just wanna say, that Nico, Pierre, Fernando and Max outperformed their cars..
They usually do.
I think Yuki and Charles extracted the maximum from their cars too....
@@vikrantverma1125 True ;)
No one outperforms their car. They just get 100% of what is possible
@@BrokeAndSquare Thanks for saying that! Enough of the fanboys saying a driver is getting more out of the car than the car can do. Whatever the faster driver in the team is getting out of the car is what the car is capable of. The rest is reflection on the slower driver in the team.
Lance 30th out of 24 drivers! 💯
With crashing 100 times in 1 race 😅
Sainz deserves to be above Russell
Russell did a lot in an inferior car in fairness
I think Sainz was top 3 level. Such a shame he will end up in Williams.
@@As-qz5lrNot even close. Leclerc beat him by 60 points. Verstappen, Leclerc, Norris and Russell all had better seasons based on their record vs their teammates
@@manavkumar6590 you have to remember the team stopped supporting him at the end of the season.
Few questionable decisions and given preference to leclerc.
Russell had full support on Mercedes side. It's very close but definitely Carlos done much better that season compare to what his team wanted from him.😉
Leclerc had 13 podiums and Sainz had 9
Checo is not last place is crazy 💀💀
Like Gasly and Albon were better at Red Bull 💀
He got 4 podiums, if not for that...
@@soundscape26 In the best car at the time, whilst his teammate won the race
@@soundscape26 His teammate got 9 wins and a Championship
@@MDE_never_dies Only Sargeant, Zhou and Stroll finished behind him... maybe he could swap with Stroll but I can't see him lower than that. Zhou was almost always last and Sargeant was fired.
Finally someone recognizing alonso who was best of the rest in points by a big margin even though their car got worse and worse while others got much better. Aston was only ahead of sauber at the end of the season
end of season more like aston = williams. start of season aston = mclaren. alonso & hulk in a class of their own, cant get a car for their talent fr
I'd swap Hulkenberg and Hamilton. Maybe even put Hulk above Gasly. Otherwise a pretty fair ranking
Alonso could have retired after the 4th race and still would have beaten $troll. Lance was ranked too highly
Too high? There was only Sargeant and Zhou behind him.
Your intelligence is also ranked too highly based off your comment
Stroll should be bottom, at least below Zhou... Who gets beached on a formation lap?
When I was kid we helped rescue a beached whale in Oregon. In Lance’s case I’d sit down next to him eating my sliced carrots & enjoy the view while he flailed around.
Think Hulkenburg should be higher. Was often the best of the rest.
Alonso above Hulk & Piastri is wild
Piastri had the fastest car same as Norris and didn't do well
Zhou behind lance and checo is crazy
glad to see race recognizing charles’s brilliant season, imo it was his best in f1 and criminally underrated
How can Bottas be above Ocon?
This is honestly one of the best videos i've seen regarding driver rankings. Kudos for being objective
I disagree. Rankings of Hulkenberg and Piastri aren't so fair
@malvinelpinnoy hulkenberg could have been a bit higher, i agree; but overall it's a decent ranking.
Damn. Even forgot Ricciardo was racing this season.
Now the best races ranked
15:32 Podiums are switched up between Leclerc and Sainz
It's hard to quantify but I actually think Doohan deserves credit for his sim work this year & how he contributed to Alpine's turnaround.
im glad norris gets the recognition he deserves - yes hes not at max's level especially in terms of wheel to wheel combat, but on pure pace hes one of the best up there. oscar, for all the plaudits he gets, is consistently 2 tenths behind norris in both qualifying and race trim. norris may have missed certain opportunities to win, but oscar was often not quick enough to even be in such a position
I don't think Bearmans placing is justified, sure he did well in Saudi, but he was still in a Ferrari, comparing his performance with Colapinto or even Lawson, I don't think he was better than either of them
He only did 3 of the most difficult races of the season, 2 at street tracks the one with the worst weather.
He also only got one practice session when he drove for Ferrari (and that was shortened furthur because of zhou causing a red flag), and only finished behind good driers in good cars. He would have finished better, but took a while to find the confidence on the breaks to do divebombs, but once he did that he was great.
Bearman's ranking is very hard to evaluate, the sample is just too small.
Agree, I'm not a fan of this trend of rating drivers higher due to their rookie status. Piastri *cough*
lawson lost every single quali to yuki, while bearman was even vs hulkenberg lol
@@dylanburston7453yea Saudi was hard, but he also didnt really put in a great performance nor was he fast. Out in Q2 in a car that Charles put on P2. In the race he finished 25s behind LeClerc who was clearly just managing while Ollie was pushing to keep his position.
Basically as far off his teammate as Logan or Checo have been.
McLaren would rank Perez higher because of how helpful he was to them
As a McLaren fan since 95, seriously don't care, we have 2 good drivers, it was unfortunate that our 1st driver was asleep and late to realise RB and Mercedes were underperforming leaving McLaren and Ferrari to race for the title. When you expect to be fighting for top mid, you take a lot of precautions, but can't blame them, no one was expecting RB to fail delivering upgrades. Perez failures are just RB failures, it's one of those drivers that fits the "it's the car" narrative. Verstappen on the other hand, took the car to it's absolute limit, the only time we had that level of talent despite driving a garbage McLaren, is Kimi "Iceman" Raikkonen, had he stayed, easy 3 championship from 07 to 09.
I don't think anyone other than Max wouldve won that title in that car,.He;s proven that he isnt a flat track bull withy the best car but hes the best driver
Agreed. But I think Verstappen, Leclerc and Alonso could’ve won the title in that McLaren. I’ve seen people claim that even Sainz and Russell would have won the title or performed better than Norris in the McLaren which I find ridiculous; Norris was already matching Sainz as a rookie and Russell is just as error prone
This sounds about right. Remember you all have to take your emotions out of this equation, can’t lower someone down because you don’t like them!
In my opinion a very fair assessment of the drivers in 2024. Well done!
Charles had 13 podiums this year, not Sainz 😂
I am predicting spicy rivalries and unbound internet toxicity for 2025.
How's George ahead of Carlos??
Carlos crashed a bit too much. George beat his teammate while Carlos didn't.
F1 (the official site) rankings are more 'car' rankings than anything else. The mental gymnastics they seem to go through are sometimes quite baffling too to be honest.
This was a much more common sense one And one I mostly agreed with. (which does help with thinking it's a better one, I know :-) )
Yuki deserves top ten recognition. Given the machinery he performed impressively. Same goes for Gasley. Both ahead of Hamilton's disappointing performance imo
Red Bull should have swapped Perez and Riccardo out after that run of good results. It would have been his chance (to prove he was a better candidate than Perez), and for Perez, he could have regrouped at RB. But, they should both know that RB in 2025 would be Tsunoda and Lawson.
You are all pretty blind with Sergio. He is being USED at RB. They resigned him for the $50 million he brings in sponsorship, and turned down his wick to ensure more *wind tunnel testing* time for 2025, all he brings in sponsorship covers what Red Bull lost in the WCC prize and some. Open your eyes. F1 needs to do away with punishing wind tunnel time for success.
1. Verstappen 🇳🇱
2. Leclerc 🇲🇨
3. Norris 🇬🇧
4. Russell 🇬🇧
5. Sainz 🇪🇸
6. Hulkenberg 🇩🇪
7. Alonso 🇪🇸
8. Piastri 🇦🇺
9. Gasly 🇫🇷
10. Tsunoda 🇯🇵
11. Bearman 🇬🇧
12. Ocon 🇫🇷
13. Hamilton 🇬🇧
14. Colapinto 🇦🇷
15. Albon 🇹🇭
16. Magnussen 🇩🇰
17. Lawson 🇳🇿
18. Bottas 🇫🇮
19. Riccardo 🇦🇺
20. Perez 🇲🇽
21. Zhou 🇨🇳
22. Stroll 🇨🇦
23. Sargeant 🇺🇸
I'm ok with this list
This list tells me you have no idea what you're talking about
@@PlenthAviation agreed, bad list. Norris should be above Charles. No one has overturned that many points deficit and he did what was possible given Max’s “tactics”. And Hamilton 13th? Ok, not his best year but surely better than several of the midfielders placed above him. Does Alonso get a high ranking for complaining and slamming his team on the radio? Why is Ollie and Ocon above Hamilton? Hulkenberg was good but Gasly was better. People need to let Tsunoda fandom go, unnecessarily hyping him up.
I don't know how fair it is to grade Zhou Guanyu given how bad the car was. Not sure how you get him higher on here but in a better car he might be a serviceable driver.
I don't understand how Bottas is higher than Zhou by that much and Zhou is behind both stroll and checo
YeH especially when Zhou is the only one to score points for Sauber all season
Fair assessment, that would be my top 5 as well
Hulkenberg should be higher imo
Valtteri and albin before Ocon is crazy
aston needs a 3rd driver lol just let stroll live in his own world while the other 2 actually compete
Interesting video and fair assesment of drivers' performance. Good job 👍🏼👍🏼
This is the meaningful rankings
I would honestly rank Doohan higher than Stroll and Sargent, given that despite having only one race, he did less damage than Sargent and Stroll to the financial status, mental health, and reputation of his team.
Bottas way to high , Hamilton too low , Alonso and gasly above Hamilton is a joke . Piastri way too low as well and Verstappen at 1st is another joke . First half of the season saved Verstappen completely average performance whole year . Leclerc Norris and Piastri deserved the top 3 spots .
Thumbs up for actually making a realistic and comprehensive ranking for the drivers. I have always questioned what's the point of these when someone can be brilliant having the best race of their life but a car is a turd and at the end nobody would know because the result would be 12th or something around that line. But this one took most of that out of the equation and made it into a real ranking. Kudos to you guys as this must have been very hard.
A driver who puts his fate in the hands of others backing off and stewards being lenient can never be first.
How the hell Bottas with 0 points is ranked 13th?
Because he got the maximum out of the car nearly every weekend, and far more than zhou.
Its Russel v Kubica 2, where the driver who got thrashed got the only points in a dogshit car, despite being convincingly beaten
Did you not hear the criteria at the start of the video?
@@dylanburston7453He achieved nothing. He got nothing out of the car. If Lance Stroll had the exact same performance in a Sauber not a single person would rank him anywhere near that high. 13th is laughable as is anyone seriously trying to defend Bottas being anywhere near the top 15.
@@Dazzmondo95maybe listen to the perfectly sound explanation that is provided in the video that adds context to why the standings look the way they do?
@@ogTryhard21The explanation was not sound. It was waffle before quickly moving on to the next ranking because there was no genuine logic behind Bottas ranking so high
there exists already an official points driver standing for this
How is Bottas higher than people who’ve scored multiple points
Because points, is not everything otherwise we would just use the final standings and be done with it
1. Verstappen. 2. Leclerc. 3. Norris. 4. Sainz. 5. Russell. 6. Piastri. 7. Hamilton. 8 Hulkenberg. 9. Gasly. 10. Tsunoda.
This is the order… I don’t know how @therace got Alonzo above Hamilton, he didn’t even finished no where close to Hamilton in the title fight, Alonso had a horrible car but so did Hamilton at different points who had a better overall dive. … Am I mistaken but wasn’t Alonso knocked out of qualifying a lot more than Hamilton?
lmao delusional
@@Haimere-J Mercedes = 4 wins (and one - two)
Aston Martin = zero podium
@ironiron6895 my point exactly! It’s such a glaring contradiction by @therace… what are they looking at?
Even in the races Hamilton finished way more races in higher positions than Alonso. Listen I do like all the drivers I may follow one more than the other but I am lost to what they looking at. Hamilton had a bad car so did Russell yes he got more out of it. I would not say any different but there is no way Alonso can be as high as they said.
@@Haimere-J everyone thinks something different. There is nothing we can do. I enjoy this kind of content. Even if someone put stroll ahead of Verstappen i dont mind honestly.
Russell ahead of Sainz? Inheriting the lead of a race ( Russell, Austria ) vs racing right after an appendicectomy ( Sainz, Albert Park ) speaks volumes in itself.
Turned this video off when I saw Zhou at 22.
You never know how much of a driver’s soeed remains after stint on slow car, so I was really happy to see Gasly still has some teeth when he’s in the right car
To incorporate VT's into the mix is criminal. VT's are there to try things in order to get the most out of the car in quali or raceday.
It looks like Alpine turned up the PU to the max in the last three races. It gave a beautiful plume of smoke in Las Vegas and Interlagos showed the chassis is more than decent.
Even at Sauber it looked like the engines were turned up for the last part of the season. No-one needs those ones anymore after season ending.
I have to say, I'm quite impressed with this list. I don't agree with all the placings, but I think every one was close. This being The Race driver rankings, I'll take it!
Charles Vs Max. Ferrari please make a good car, the world needs this clash
Alonso 6th and Hulkenberg 10th are utterly ridiculous rankings
Considering Ocon didn't get the end of the year upgrades, I don't think he should have been that low
Please do this for races also :)
Sargeant not last!! Best ranking ever he should run for president!!
Imo, Leclerc was best driver this season. No mistakes, brilliant executions and maximized every weekend or more than Max honestly.
Even though I tend to agree with you, Leclerc has made many mistakes. Ferrari failures have cost him 40+ points, and Leclerc topped that with another 30+ points loss.
@@Snaakie83 I can't remember many if any Leclerc mistakes in the races, just relatively smaller things like the qualifying in Abu Dhabi for instance.
What mistake did he make🤔 @@Snaakie83
@Snaakie83 Can point out the mistake, I honestly can't remember
Okay, im Not 100% sure but if Norris had a shunt in Abu Dhabi leaving him without points and Leclerc finishing 2nd would’ve gotten Leclerc 2nd in WDC?
We want to know what is going to happen to RB line of drivers for 2025 and what it's going to happen to Franco Colapinto.
Stroll just have a seat because is daddy is the owner of AMR.
This score has personal views more than facts, 2024 drivers championships has the fact, the order there is different to what this channel says
You can tell Scott wasn’t involved in the ordering since it’s accurate.
Leclerc's stats are insane. No race crashes, top four in almost every single race his car was behaving,. I hope he sees hjs time while Hamilton is there to help.
Max in first and Charles seccond is crazy
This comment section is Absolute cinema
Any list with Stroll ranked above 19th is void.
Hülkenberg top 6 driver in my opinion
10th for Hulkenberg? He had 73% of the points (removing Bearman) of Haas and outperformed Perez in Q1 appearances, Eddd what are you smoking?
The AM Master Plan: No one expects Lance Stroll!
Max evaded multiple race bans
Perez is Last
Perez is WAY too high. Should be 24th.
Perez is the worst top 4 team driver hands down. If he isn't dropped this season I'm buying stock in Kit-kat
Hulk only 10th is criminal, below gasly!??
remember when logan outqualified perez? 😞
Lando needs to start stringing wins.
Swap Pierre with Alonso, and you're good
Do you and Alonso want a room?
Ranking Ricciardo above Colapinto is craaaaazy imo
Not really
Ricciardo had good moments
I didn’t see Danny Ric destroying cars this year.
Ricciardo was keeping up in the head to head with Tsunoda after the first few races but the car was no longer capable of scoring points by then. Most importantly, he wasn't going for destructors championship
Can't agree with Alonzo's placing. That should have been where Gasly was placed.
The Perez fall off should be studied.
Zhou could be at least ahead of Stroll
I think this is mostly fair. Only issue is Piastri being so high. Got battered by his team mate who himself was far from perfect.
Norris had plenty of bad luck. His actual performances were usually quite good and he’s undoubtedly a top 4 driver at the moment
@@manavkumar6590 True but apart from Perez, Stroll, Sargent, Zhou I can't think of many other drivers who were comprehensively outclassed by their team-mates as often as Piastri by Norris. Yet the others were rightly heavily criticised,
@@As-qz5lr Sainz was beaten by 60 points. Yet people think he’s been one of the best drivers this season
@@manavkumar6590 He wasn't as good as Leclerc but the 60 points can be put down to Baku, Brazil and missing Saudi.
Other than that, he was really good.
This ranking have to be early April's Fools prank...
Only last and 1st make sense XD
Alonso & George ranked that high?????
Sainz needs to he ahead of George
Alonso 6th is mad this mad lives off his own hype and everyone buys it
Stroll seems to have no enthusiasm. He needs to work on that quickly. You can be a demotivated F1 driver. Not ever, but particularly in these days, when there are so many candidates and so few drivers. As far as I can see, the grid is probably the best it's been overall. If so, it makes the rookie performances of Lawson, Bearman and Colapinto, all the more impressive. At the moment, Stroll is a place holder.
Alonso outranking Hamilton over 2024… is crazy
I disagree.
1. Leclerc
2. Verstappen
3. Russell
4. Hamilton
5. Hülkenberg
6. Norris
7. Sainz
8. Piastri
9. Gasly
10. Alonso
11. Ocon
12. Colapinto
13. Bearman
14. Lawson
15. Albon
16. Tsunoda
17. Bottas
18. Magnussen
19. Ricciardo
20. Zhou
21. Perez
22. Stroll
23. Sergent
Lando above Oscar is crazy!
He was generally behind Lando and has weakness in qualifying and long run pace. There’s no way he should be above Lando. He’s good but after 46 GPs he needs to be better.
@@xenolith3053 Ah, okay
Gasly is a solid driver that can show excellent results if he had the right car under him. He's not on Max, Charles, Lewis, and Alonso's level, but he's very much up there with Lando, Carlos, and George.
His stint at Red Bull showed otherwise. He is not up there with lando and george calm down I bet you run his insta fan channels
Putting Charles and Lewis up there with Max is crazy. Putting Carlos with Lando and George is equally ridiculous
Nineteenth? Franco> DR (this season) and Lawson, everybody knows that.. everyone who disagrees could put those guys on the Williams and see how they perform
Alonso 6th? That’s too high, Gasly and Piastri should be ahead of him
Not really, you could argue they are close but fernando had a dogpile of a car after the first third ofthe season often nowhere near being the head of the midfield, he did get everything he could out of it. If you add it up over a season alpine were the better car in almost as many occasions that aston was the better car because they have had the faster car for the last like 10 races.
@@stathispapadopoulos7926just because Alonso can’t develop a car and makes it worse a the season goes on, doesn’t mean he’s better than other drivers.
@@paperplane-db8qfso the drivers have to build the car now too hahah be serious dude
@stathispapadopoulos7926 Piastri won 2 races while Gasly finished on the podium and qualified in the top 5 in the last 4 races so yeah, they should be ahead of Alonso
@@alessandro88-g9h Do you even understand what this ranking is about? If you want a ranking purely based on race results without considering the quality of each car, you might as well look at the actual point standings.