Rating the 2021 Formula 1 Drivers
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Another year gone and a chance to grade these drivers on how they did this season. So...here we go...
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josh if we are being honest here, sainz deserves an A at least. to jump into such a difficult car and to beat Ferraris superstar on his first year. that's impeccable and he deserves more credit for what he did in 2021
definitely agreed. much overlooked like his p3 in abu dhabi
@@mcl7z559
Monaco Podium : Gifted by Leclerc DNS and Bottas DNF
Hungary Podium : Gifted by Bottas
Russia Podium : Gifted by lucky strategy
Abu Dhabi Podium : Gifted by Perez retiring
@@stellar6643 Found the Leclerc fan🤣
@@stellar6643 sainz called inters on his own lol it wasnt a set strategy but ok
@@ihatemath9261 Yeah he was saved by the rain like Bottas
Man, I did not expect Mazepin with an A+ here
What do you mean? Mazepin has been amazing this season, unbelievably consistent, with the phenomenal fastest lap at Spa being the obvious highlight😂
What is this, a fantano video?
consistency is key.
People give him too much shit, he grew a lot this season we’re it not for a shit car he could have done better
@@MikeJones-qn1gz ik but the gap between him and Mick
Checo and Bottas are pieces that just click together. Bottas Quali + Perez race craft would be something different
Max who?
That would just be the perfecct recipe for a championship contender
Valttergio Bottez could win 9 WDC, in a Haas
So you mean a Rubens Barrichello.
You mean George and Perez?
How is Gasly not at the very least an A-. Super consistent in quali over the course of the season and super reliable in the races. The only reason why he doesn't have more points this year is AT's questionable strategy choices and the cars reliability which is something that Gasly can't control. Stroll getting a B- is criminal too, he had a similar type of season to Gio and his biggest highlights of the year were Strolling everyone at Monaco and taking out Charles in the Bottas Bowl 2021
I don't know what to make of Gasly's season when his teammate lost to Lance Stroll but he did nearly beat Ricciardo so...
@J Q I think he deserves the B+ because he did nearly beat Ricciardo in that car but yeah... his season is difficult to gauge.
@J Q What a load of shit, the guy was continuously pushing right up the top in a team that's not expected to be anywhere near there. He got 110 points which yeah only got him 9th but shows that he consistently got points to go along with good qualis. He was regularly sitting between 4th and 6th and looking comfortable
@J Q yeah, the mediocre race pace that got him P4 on merit in multiple races this year
I honestly think Gasly's performances heavily relied on the package AT had. The car relied on the tracks that favoured it way too much, especially considering the fact that tracks that didn't suit Alpha Tauri turned it into the 7th best car at best, and those that suited it got it close to Ferrari's and Mclaren's in terms of race pace
@J Q true
Coming straight from Tommo rating drivers' season. Interesting to see the different opinions of rating performances 🤓
And Josh uploaded this literally an hour after Tommo’s, what a coincidence 😂
i mean if you put stroll 12th best and giovanazzi 19th best.......
@@hanskerstkrans2135 Gio Gio didn’t deserve 19th, but let’s not act like he did a good job
Literally same😂
@@Firebolt1729 UA-camrs within a niche often agree when to release certain videos. Maybe that happened here as well?
B+ for Gasly?? bro got 100+ points in an alphatauri...
@paper plane The AT was nowhere near the Ferrari over a full season and everyone could see that the AT was much better over one lap than over a stint. The Ferrari did not have this problem where the car just eats the tyres.
@@suckieduckie actually they were for Majority of the season. AT losing to Alpine was a fucking disaster.
@@Sportfuck Sure I can concede that. If Yuki performed anywhere near Gasly they would have beaten Alpine.
proberly the best alpha/toro rosso/minardi therse been tbh. yuki was slacking but also had some stand out drives
Mazepin improved over the year, He didnt spin a lot the last races.
Should've been the world champion 😔
But at cost of being slow, he had been losing like 0,5 sec to Mick every weekend.
@@luckykhighlights3893 not every week, not as much on average and his chassis was heavier afaik, Mick has been clear from Nikita most races, but they both have shown improvements and are closer to each other and to the pack, (Interlagos, Yas Marina...)
@@hugoporras3162 On which weekend he didnt? He was literally 1,5 sec off during wet qualifyings, which is actually embarrassing.
@@luckykhighlights3893 Interlagos, and Silverstone Nikita overtook Mick, several more races Mick was infront but nikita was close behind
Gasly and Sainz are A in my book. Hopefully we can get competitive cars next season because based on drivers alone we could have a McLaren/Ferrari/RB/Mercedes toss-up. That would be amazing.
If we base on drivers AM will snatch it next year but we all know it wont be equal.
@@super_street_racer5094 Aston Martin should have a strong car but I feel like they will f**k it up, I think sebs will grab a win and a top 10 in the wdc
Gasly had the worst teammate so he was lucky to be compared to him
@@Yahniboy yuki?
@@kylehocking420 yep yuki
Gasly imo deserved at least A-, he was phenomenal this year
How Gasly got the same grade as Ocon is beyond me...
@@julianlieb929 Ocon won a race though
It could either be the AT is a bad car or AT is a good car and Yuki was underperforming. Looking at Abu Dhabi, Ocon would be a regular podium winner with an AT.
@@0megalul309 ??????????????
Been watching F1 since 88... and yeah, this season was rather special. Those two (Ham and Ver) were a class apart. Genuinly enjoyed this season and its the first time I ever followed a season where I went: whoever wins it... I don't care, they deserve it.
All around the field there was some great performances. I really was surprised by Mick, thought he'd need more time and while I dislike Mazepin's attitude I expected him to be quicker. Then there's Sainz, Lando, Russel, Gasly,... Yup, it was a good year.
Twitter was and still is a hell hole. I wish people could keep their emotions a bit better in check. Criticize the FIA, Massi... but keep it respectful and definitely don't go after the drivers for that last lap.
Best comment here. Well said Sir
Couldn’t agree more👍
I love nearly everyone on the grid but maaaan, max and Lewis had like 5 to 7 seconds apart in a lot of the races while the closest contenders were 20 to 30 off :D they are just in a league of their own.
Did you not think that in 2007, 2010, 2012 ? Anyway as mentioned this championship shouldn't have got as far as Abu Dhabi and Lewis would have been a controversial winner himself.
Underrated comment.
Max, and Lewis will be remembered as Jacques and Schumi in my opinion because, there were controversial moments in both years and they had similar backgrounds coming into the championship... Schumi and Lewis already champions and looking to win another, Villi and Max being on the hunt for their maiden championship, also being the first for their countries... Damn, I got fed up of the politics in the season after Brazil and I just wanted it to end, but boy I was proved wrong, the best was yet to come... Thoroughly enjoyed the season... Kiitos Kimi, we will miss ya iceman 😢😢😢😢
Lmao, what a bad comparison. Jacques had a car that was 1-second faster on most tracks, Max vs Lewis is more like Alonso vs Schumacher.
@@hoya1178 So did Lewis
@@hoya1178
Lewis lost in the best car.
Lewis’ car was much better than the RB late in the season and tbh I’m not sure if it was even legal. They went from similar to Ham’s car just smoking every one with ease.
@@hoya1178 Very agreed. Even their concensus and attitude are matched. In 2005 MSC was 7-times WDC and the king with the upcoming 'brat' (positive meaning) who is hungry and a little bit opportunistic (but hey, who dares, wins..) ALO.
At that time I did not like ALO very much (it changed over the years) and did like MSC (and still do).
Now in 2021 it is litteraly the same. HAM (which I do not very like) in a superior car and the upcoming VER (honestly, I am biased as a dutchie) who toppled the 7-times WDC with an inferior car.
Before everyone moans RB16B > W12, that is NOT true. The best car wins the WCC....
You can see the future by this detail:
A once-in-gen racer is recognised by a season where the WDC and WCC are not the same car.
The superior car was always beaten by the extraordinary driver in an inferior car.
For the last 3 decades:
1994: WDC - MSC - Benetton Ford / WCC - Williams Renault
1999: WDC - HAK - McLaren Mercedes / WCC - Scuderia Ferrari
2008: WDC - HAM - McLaren Mercedes / WCC - Scuderia Ferrari
2021: WDC - VER - Red Bull Racing Honda / WCC - Mercedes AMG
Congrats to F1 Twitter for winning Manus of the Year!🏆
F1 Twitter is a joke
absolutely deserved
@@Firebolt1729 A yoke
Landslide winner, the vote wasn't even close I heard
@@francel0198 ITS A YOKE
it should be noted that part of the reason why Giovinazzi had underperformed was because his team wasn't able to execute a strategy well enough (cough cough, deliberately screw him up) - hell, when he was on the points, the team still found a way to bring him outside the top ten. maybe alfa deserve to be a back marker team. I hope the same won't happen with neither Bottas nor Zhou.
Bottas is their best driver and Zhou is bringing in a lot of money. Shouldn’t happen, but if it did it’ll be towards Bottas
Alfa are relying on bottas to do the heavy lifting and make the points, a big ask when you are gonna be p9 WCC at the best case scenario
Sainz A-!!! A surely. First year at Ferrari and proved his amazing consistency whilst at McLaren hence getting the Ferrari drive in the first place. Everyone has always forgotten about him yet he was more than a rival for Verstappen at Torro Rosso and was well ahead of Hulkenberg in the second half of the season at Renault. His results are great for his first season and truly deserves 5th. I would not be surprised if he wins a world championship one day and people will still say "Where did he come from?".
I think there were too many mistakes for an A tbh. Hungary and Saudi qualifying; Imola in the race as well.
Lewis should’ve gotten A- at best. He made like 5 big mistakes whole season. Yeah he was fantastic in the last 4 races but also with the fastest car for those 4 races.
I like how everyone is pointing out how grateful we should be for this season.. how can you not be?
This was a season for the ages.. the late 2000s and the mid 2010s when I started watching were insane as well (being a young Vettel fan was also great from 2010-2013), but after such a long time I just can't believe that this season is over.. what a great year
I don't know what it is about Checo, but from the moment I started following F1, I've loved him. I'm so glad he's been getting better results and the recognition he deserves the last couple of years
Only Max and Lewis in a Haas,20 minutes quali and 20 laps race
i'd pay to watch that !
Stars in a reasonable price car😂
@@planefreak3833 tonight on top gear
Richard Hammond drives a new Lamborghini
James and I go on a holiday camping trip
And the 2 WDC drivers battle it out in a reasonably priced car
C'mon...give the Haas some credit...It will be a lot quicker then a 20 min lap in quali... 17 minutes would be more accurate... :P
@Spike S Well it's Richard so... crashing is weirdly common
Manus Of The Year award giving me Topgear Awards vibes 😂
As it stand there in the video.
Can we please have a 2021 Prediction Reflection Video? It would be great to see!
He literally aced every prediction.
Josh is a time traveller confirmed
@@jango3221 All but one, Gasly didn't leave AT, but considering how controversial most of the predictions were (including the championship winner), I'd say one miss is excused.
@@yannickvaz694 Stroll victory...
@@TheEmolano oh yeah, I forgot about that
Perez’s form towards the end of the year was really strong and it was great to see after such a difficult mid-season period. The rating Josh gave him seems pretty fair.
Idk how he kinda dropped off mid season. Tyre changes in Silverstone?
Checo had a good season overall but a weird trajectory of "getting to grips with a car that's known to be tricky" followed by completely not getting the updates and tyre change to work for him, then Zandvoort onwards getting stronger again. That mid season dip was too big, but he didn't drown and fought back to his best. I found it frustrating the way the British F1 media decided Checo wasn't worthy of the red bull drive and therefore spent the whole season saying that (although they didn't drop the "meh, Checo's a pay driver" attitude for years and years of him dragging the odd podium out of a force India and usually beating his teammates).
@@tobiasz6613 yeah no clue where you got that idea about the British media, he was criticised when he was driving bad and praised when he was driving well, in Mexico they were almost rooting for him to win the GP…
@@myself0and0i Just my perception
I probably would have upped Perez from a B- to a B, if only for those A+ laps of defensive driving in Abu Dhabi
That was very very rough on Bottas man. He’s been very good this year, sometimes his racecraft is brought into question but usually thats when he is 3rd and 20 seconds behind the top 2 while also being 20 seconds ahead of P4. He won Mercedes the constructor’s championship and his drives in Turkey and Italy were unmatched! It will be awesome to see him in Alfa and he will be insanely quick.
Yeeeeah, a little too emotional for me but I agree with the rest of the video to a solid extent
Bottas had 11? podium, plenty of bad luck and so many grid drops because of the new engines and despite having 7 engines this season he still had problems with it in the last race.
Maybe Josh just "forgot" that because he dislikes Bottas but some of his results can be attributed to these 3 things. If he hand't had so many engine penalties then he could have helped Lewis more. And it is not like Perez was there every race. Perez had fewer race where he helped Max then races where Bottas helped Lewis but people just remember Perez' because hiss defence was so good, but it only happened twice which is not enough.
Max’s season is so underrated. How he managed to beat Lewis behind in the championship having a slower package for most of the second half of the season is beyond me. Lewis and Max both had magic years Max averaged 18 points a race while dnf’ing basically 20% of the season through no fault of his own. Pretty fucking incredible how good he was. For Lewis to get close shows they’re clearly the best 2 drivers on the grid and nobody is particularly close to them.
Well said
How is he underrated lol? Hamilton has been far more underrated this season,
@@dianamaioru497 because he had a top 5 season all time. Literally only score 1 or 2 when finishing and people put an aterisk on it because he got lucky in one round.
@@nilsdaniels1875 No one is underating Max he's getting all the plaudits he deserves and the people who are pointing out his luck are correct because by all rights he still wouldnt have won the season if Spa or Abu Dhabi were properly managed
@@odysseus1660 He was also unlucky. He had 2 more DNFs than lewis, and Hungary, which was practically a DNF as he was driving a wrecked car.
That's 3 DNF level events more than lewis had, and he STILL won the title. He's consistent as they come, which is something Lewis lacked this year. Major mistakes through the season cost Hamilton the championship, Masi didn't cost lewis the championship. His lockup in baku which was entirely his own fault, qualifying P7 and Monaco and somehow finishing P7 despite 2 cars ahead of him not finishing, Hungary was also a free win had he boxxed for slicks like every other driver on the track, instead he had to spend the entire race fighting back to eventually get P3 (Promoted to P2 after Vettel's bullshit disqualification), that's still 7 points loss you know?
Max however only ever finished in the top 2, except for Hungary. That kind of consistency across an entire season is why he is the champion.
Your channel has been the best discovery ive made on youtube, is like finding gold. Please never back down, keep it up, you have no idea how much i enjoy your content.
When Josh said he was a Checo fan, I yelled "YES!"
Because I too... am a Checo fan.
After reading Latifi's statement this morning, I definitely agree that F1 Twitter can absolutely go and do one.
Checo had a lot of moments where he let down the team but I consider his defense at Abu Dhabi to be the most impressive laps of driving all season.
Hope the comments are kinder to you, than they've been to me bro... 😅
If I had a platform and an opinion I would never read the comments.
you lack knowledge on almost every driver, obv every1 is mad, the rating on Italian Jesus was from someone from nursery.
@@0hvanny383 🤣🤣🤣
@@TommoMcCluskey What a coincidence that Josh uploaded less than an hour after your video lol
@@TommoMcCluskey Just imagine if you only said that in f1 twt
Checo should get the award for Most Valuable Teammate…
make it a real thing now.
Facts
+1
@Luca Goodoer how was he beneficial to his partner, Ocon? Enlighten me please
@Luca Goodoer Hungary is also the second most difficult track to overtake on
@@goodmorningkay Fernando held off Lewis for numerous laps in Hungary, defending long enough for Esteban to get his first F1 race win.
Josh really did Valtteri like that 😂😂
"that's racing" is my new "it is what it is"
also unsurprisingly, fantastic video josh. flows perfectly and never loses its own pace. Josh Revell: A+
Carlos is the definition of a silent warrior.
"Where the HELL did you come from???"
Why do people keep thinking the British like Lewis. They don't. Lewis is incredibly hated in the UK. Even if you look up the Lewis fans on Twitter or Facebook. Nearly all of them are not from the UK.
Not true I live in England. He has more fans here than people that root against him here but some do root against him. The vast majority support him. You can trust me on that
@@coreyrod Where abouts you from? Cause around me the scenes was unreal when Max won. No-one wanted Lewis to win.
A+ is a bit too nice to Lewis. He made more mistakes this year than any other year and only stood a chance in the championship due to Max's bad luck.
this ^^^
So true. It says something about his luck when his errors saw him gain 25 points on his rival. If he won the title it would have been unjust.
Agreed. His first half of the season was poor by his standards with silly mistakes in Imola & Baku and just an awful time in Monaco. I feel like Covid may have been to blame tbh, he looked so exhausted after some of the early races and he alluded to that too. But that said, his end of the year was virtually perfect. Brazil was one of his best performances ever.
"[Checo] is my favorite driver"
And now this is my favorite channel
Ikr 🇲🇽 ✨
I believe that the bottas slander was a little bit harsh.
You have to remember his team mate is Sir Lewis, mercedes are gonna give everything to him. Valtteri had mega drives in Monza, Dominated in Turkey and his form massively improved over the second half of the season since his Alfa contract was signed. He has fight in him, the consistency and racecraft could be better, but I do think he performed much better than checo overall this season.
He had more engine penalties than any other driver in the field as an experiment, and the engine in Abu Dhabi was an old one (9 races old I think)
But no, sh*tting on Valtteri seems to be the order of the day in F1 UA-cam. Gotta keep the Russell stans happy
Yeah Valtteri's biggest sin seems to be not being quite as good/consistent as HAM. He was definitely a better wingman overall than Checo (dude took out both RedBull's!) but that is to be expected. That's BOT's problem in a media context - he is what we think he is, and very rarely better or worse than that. I'm happy that RUS is going to Merc for, if nothing else, a HAM teammate with no set expectations.
@Toasted' Nugget_' checo eventually got used to the car and still wouldn't outperform VB.
You're rating checo above VB purely because of the occasional defensive stunt
@Toasted' Nugget_' Better *wingman*, as in BOT influenced the race between HAM and VER more than Checo did.
@Toasted' Nugget_' I guess I owe you a race-by-race breakdown as supporting evidence of their respective abilities to influence their teammate's race, huh?
Wait, you said "lmao". So we ARE slagging off the hip. Whew thank goodness.
Love the fact that even tho they've been separated Carlos and Lando both had 4 podiums this year to their teammates 1
Checos results don’t reflect how well he did this season 👏
His season has been a roller coaster. It was only from Turkey to Abu Dhabi (when he stopped using Verstappen’s set up) he was really good
facts
@Luca Goodoer and then he struggled for a few races after that until around Monza and results only starting to deliver around Istanbul
The ending to this video is some of your finest work! My thoughts exactly and so extremely well put 👏🏼
Sainz was easily the most underrated driver this year
Just no the amount of people that have said that proves he wasn’t
I'mma say it: Mazepin was the most underrated. Yeah, he's bad. But when you see how much his teammate overdrove the car, crashing out so often, I wonder if it was him being cautious rather that being really that slow.
I felt that Mick, at times, was pushing during races as if it was a quali lap. If Nikita was really taking it easy because he knows the car can't go anywhere, and Mick was pushing to "show dominance", that difference isn't that surprising anymore.
Nikita was pretty decent in F2, if at times a bit dangerous (not unlike VER/HAM), it just doesn't make sense to me how he can be this much behind Mick, there must be an explanation somewhere.
Sainz gets called underrated by so many people, that he can't be underrated anymore
I really wish the "that's racing" mentality was more widespread cause god is it true. Great vid
3 minutes ago, Let’s go. This is gonna be epic
Do you know why Hamilton and Verstappen were trying so hard to get the title this year? Because my boy Nando was just warming up, he's getting ready to rumble. This was his rookie year after all....
El plan
@@Anushka-qd3rs El 🅿️lan
I really wanted Lewis to win the championship this year because I don't see him winning anymore in his last few seasons. Not because he doesn't have the skill or the car but because I think he's struggling physically and these new rules will mean there will be another new champion for years to come.
17 races in 2020 begs to differ lol
@@michaelhiggins7072 he means Alonso
Russell got that Merc seat and I guess his fighting spirit to proove himself disapeared as he already achieved his goal
Same thing in reverse with Bottas, knew he'd lost the Mercedes seat so didn't really give too much of a crap at the latter end of the season.
Yes! That “Twitter award” is absolutely perfect!
sainz needs to be higher then leclerc surely ! first year in the team with the wonder Ferrari boy and he beat him ! and i think gasly also needs a bit higher like an A- or so
Sainz was higher in this video....
Watch the entire season again and you'll see recency bias ruined your judgement
Crazy how DTM, FE and F1 all managed to end the season in a clusterfuck
Max was better than Lewis over a whole season (both statistically and in terms of mistakes/consistency), therefore he should have a higher rating than Lewis.
LOL 33's a fraud
Lewis was better than max. The FIA helped him win. Max is a sore loser and a bad driver
@@ransomsdpLewis just couldn't cut it against Max this season. Statistics don't lie, which makes hilarious tears from fanbois like you all the more entertaining, lol.
I swear, every time I hear the “surf shark vpn” ad, I always think, “damn he’s really good at slipping that in there”. You’re a marketing savage Sir Josh
How come when anyone makes mistakes it affect their grades, but when lewis does it it's "racing".
Like yeah he's the best, but this was clearly not his best season and i don't understand why people are so afraid to admit that.
Agreed, there is an argument here that Lewis deserves and A minus and Lando and Carlos deserve the A. Or at the very least I think Lewis deserves and A along with Sainz.
@Wietse op de Weegh To be fair, I wouldn't say Lewis's lack of dominance was due to him. It was mostly due to bad team strategy. The amount of times he wanted to pit/asked his team for a specific set of tyres only for them to deny him and screw him overall was a lot and he still made up for most of that with his driving.
@@ellax325 I both agree and disagree with this. I do believe the Mercedes strategy team failed Lewis, but I also believe Lewis made a bunch of bad calls. Turkey springs to mind.
Max also had a lot of mistake in terms of diry racing
@@letsBrn i didn't even mention max what
Even though I agree with that Masi f*cked a lot of things up this year, let it be clear. Masi has NOTHING to do with the inconsistency of penalties. That is soley on the stewards, were Masi has NO control over. He just decides if it COULD be a penalty and thus under investigation. And yes I agree, there were occasions where there should be an investigation and there wasn't (or vice versa). But let it be clear, Masi is NOT the one at fault for inconsistent penalties.
The FIA themselves need to figure this out, they need to find a robust system that does not require a 3 hour long session to determine a 5 sec penalty. But let it be clear that inconsistent penalties are FIA and NOT Masi!
Russell's second half slump (if you can call it that) might have more to do with the fact that he was moving to Mercedes, so like every F1 team about to lose a driver, pretty sure Williams started to freeze him out to prevent leaking trade secrets when George moved.
Lando too has had a “second half slump”
Well seeing as Williams uses a Merc engine, are used to get Merc backed drivers into the championship and are at the rear of the grid most of the time, I doubt Merc really need any info from Williams. Plus, with the cars being totally new next year, and George not having any experience of that, what would he be able to take with him anyway.
Trade secrets from Williams? Really? :D
@@Rebasepoiss You'll never know which team might have found something big for next year: see 2009 and the Brawn GP story, in 2008 Honda engineers found the double diffuser loophole, even though they were a pretty terrible team that year. And in 2007, too.
@@Firebolt1729 not really his quali performances have been good and he has had a lot of bad luck
Rain at end in Sochi dropping him from P1 to P7
Got a engine penalty in Mexico
Got a puncture in Brazil after being hit by Sainz
Also got a puncture in Qatar after riding over those aggressive kerbs
Dropped from like P8 or 9 to 16th or 17th in Saudi after he pitted under SC before it was a Red Flag
He got a another slow puncture in Abu Dhabi
What I love about Josh's videos is I always know i'm gonna get some good laughs, but also some really good and insighftful information. Happy Holidays Josh!
Nah you crazy, Giovinazzi deserved better ranking. Alfa Romeo strategies make him look like an ass driver 💀💀
Kimi at B- is a tad high
I say this a lot but, youre videos are just my absolute favorite. The shade you throw and the incredible amount of knowledge you have makes your videos a "watch right when its released" kinda vibe
All the comments are already saying Sainz deserves an A and I'm gonna add to them because it's the truest thing I've ever seen.
Gastly deserver A- for his performance this year if you give A- to Lando.
Lando's teammate did better than Yuki Tsunoda this year. It's hard to scale how well Gasly did when Yuki was shocking.
@@saiyerugara9038 Then maybe wonder why an Alphatauri could compete most of the time with a Ferrari and a McLaren when on paper the last two cars are way better than the first one.
Also, the line-up on both team are looking much better than the Alphatauri one.
@@wiiistful7499 I actually think they should have finished 5th in the constructors yet finished 6th because their drivers left points on the table imo.
I have been waiting for this
I agree with almost everything, BUT Lewis' mistakes mean i would have given him an A not an A+ if the season ended before Brazil, he'd get an A- from me, but those last races were truly epic
Lewis was the best driver on the grid by a mile
Yep; max was aggresive but pretty flawless, the quali crash in SA was his only big mistake.
While lewis made pretty big mistakes in Imola, Baku, Silverstone, Hungary (iconic start though lol), even Abu Dhabi where he left the gate wide open for Max to divebomb him.
Amazing season overall from Lewis, but still had mistakes that cost him points while Max lost points only to crashes.
@@ShruteshKumar
You must be having a laugh, did you say Max was flawless, let us examine that shall we.
You all have been listening to the bias Sky Sports presenters as well as many ra-ci-st and jealous people in John Public for so long on how wonderful Max is, that no one stops to examine the facts !
Let's look at the facts shall we ???
1- Max drove Lewis off track at least 8 times this season, his driving style is designed to bully his opponents, play chicken and hope they are cowards enough to take evasive action in order that he Max will gain track position, he often gets ahead by making reckless moves, ensuing that his opponents will brake or move aside thus guarantee him the lead, true professional drivers with skills don't let this be a habit. Neither do they run off track as often as Max.
2 - Silverstone : Max turned in on Lewis even though he had acres of room to his left, Max has a dirty habit of diving down the inside of other drivers at turns forcing them off track as they try to avoid a collision, the bias media and Lewis haters call it aggressive racing, they say Max is a true driver because he goes for the gap yet those same hypocrites chastised Hamilton for doing the exact same, Lewis saw the gap in Silverstone, went for it, and greedy Max thought no way was he allowing Lewis to gain track position, so what did he do, turned his steering to the right, to squeeze Lewis even further and hope the champ backs out of the move, however, the e-vil he meant for Lewis backfired spectacularly.
Max and his supporters however are of the belief that other drivers have a responsibility to make room for Max when he does these kamikaze moves, but when the same is done to him, in this case Silverstone, Max have no obligation to yield or back out,
3 - Baku: Another poor decision, Max was told repeatedly to avoid certain chicanes as well as not push so hard as he's causing damage to his tires, Lewis was out of the running and he needed to bring the car home, he ignored the advice and shredded them thus leading to a Dnf, Perelli said in their report, the car was running low pressure tyres, the constant abuse they got from the curb played a vital role in their destruction.
4 - Monza: Tried to push his car in a position that would cause an accident and it actually happened, two cars didn't finish because of that incident
Max knew there was no room, but his recklessness would not allow him to use wisdom, instead, like a crah test dummy, tried to dive down the inside of the Mercedes, ran over raised chicanes which launched the car into the air on to the Mercedes.
5 - Jeddah: Tried too hard to beat Lewis who has better car control in qualifying, as a result, Max ended up in a wall.
6- On track Assistance: Had numerous drivers on track assisting him in his attempt to defeat Lewis, including Alonso, Vettel, Yuki, Gasly and Perez, all seems to be jealous of Hamiltons achievements and not want him crowned as the greatest driver that ever lived. Lewis was fighting alone, Bottas was little or no help.
7- FIA: Lewis had the FIA ruling against him all season, mostly by not applying the appropriate penalties to Max when he goes on his kamikaze drives. Lewis is also punished retrospectively while Max walks Scott free for various offences.
8- Car Control: Max has been running off track way more often than Lewis, whenever he goes wheel to wheel, he seems to have zero control of his car and often breaches track limit
9- Fastest Car: Max has had the fastest car up to Brazil, yet he failed to secure enough points to secure the title before Abu Dhabi, his decision making is atrocious, he seems to never learn.
10- Break checked Hamilton, Max deliberately tried to end Lewis's race on more than one occasions when he had more points, he is a dirty inferior driver, he knows his skills are below Lewis's, therefore will employ anyone and anything to get the edge, hence the use of reckless driving, teammates, other drivers the FIA and anyone who would assist him in his efforts to defeat Lewis.
Max knows he's inferior, no matter how much you people praise him, he has no illusion that Lewis is better, which is why if he knows he can beat Hamilton, he would have rejected the trophy and win on his own merits, but because he knows he can't, and this is a once in a lifetime opportunity, he took the tainted trophy as their might never be another corrupt situation where he's declared winner against Lewis.
11- Abu Dhabi: Lewis it seems is judged by a different standard than Max , this is not new, because Max's clan (including the FIA) have a long history of using one rule for themselves while judging Lewis's clan by another, they have no qualms in manipulating a situation to give themselves the advantage, then paint the victim as the culprit to justify their reprehensible behaviour, this is clearly seen in the final, where Media Houses, pundits, ex drivers, some in John public towed the narrative, "Max deserves the title", because he was the better driver.
If that was the case, why not give the championship of 2007 to Hamilton, as he was head and shoulders above everyone in his rookie season, why did this championship got decided on who people thought was the better driver instead of results ?
Max is no champion, he was also NOT THE BETTER DRIVER !!, it's a myth. His driving is being judged against his previous years, which by his low standard is a massive improvement, but when you compare him against Lewis who has had some phenomenal performances, he's falls short considerably!!!
@@kirkpatrick7475 I don't think ppl need to ask which driver u are supporting here rofl
@@kirkpatrick7475 I would love to have the cool aid you are drinking lol.
Sorry, but how are you going to give drivers an A+ when you said yourself they made mistakes? The definition of A+ is perfect.
I think Carlos and Pierre should be an A
Such a great video, man. I work with a number of UA-cam channels, and your writing, delivery, and use of pattern interrupts is SO good. Excited to see where you go from here!
Of course you and Tommo uploading your driver ratings so close to each other 😂
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You could have also brought up Michael Masi's questionable race calling from the 2021 Belgian Grand Prix(WHAT A FARCE).
What really got to me on that day was when they kept going to the crowd in the stands and saying ‘look at the crowd, aren’t they great, such high spirits’ well yes because they were in the sodding dry, turn the cameras on the miserable, sodden fuckers in bronze who have been stood in the rain for 10 hours. And yes it was a farce, but not the biggest farce of the season.
And to point out, none (as far as I am aware) received any kind of refund or compensation for lack of said said race!
From my understanding, because they completed so many laps behind the safety car, that warranted the event a RACE, thus giving the organisers reason not compensate.
That call probably came from the higher ups in F1 tbf
Carlos is a solid A+. With that Ferrari car and been the second driver in his first season getting the 5th position is big.
aannn yes grates with the d,c,b,a stuff xD, Hamilton playing mission impossible without a wingman... maybe on the later half of the season but not before... he was a good wing-man in the first half most of the times forcing Redbull to react.
I'd say that up to Spain. All other times he got on the podium with them, he kinda just got lucky Checo was having an off race
tbh you can't really say lewis was running without a wingman if checo was doing much worse than him at rb
12:56 Josh just went SAVAGE on Bottas
You are so good at what you do. The end
Great video, I'm so happy we are appreciating Carlos!!! Btw Checo is also my favorite driver!
Lewis deserved Abu Dhabi alone imo, seeing how there was clear dominance all weekend, but, minus all the dnfs and bad luck for either driver, Max was simply better and more deserving all season long
Edit: To further prove to the bias people who are inevitably going to be here: statistically Lewis is the G.O.A.T, but doesn't necessarily mean he's faster by any means; it was the duo of both Lewis and Mercedes that made them the best of all time, but don't count out that 2008 talent. Just pretty much since then, so 2009-2010-2011-2012 and 2013 he was beaten by his teammates a lot (like a 2021 Sainz-Leclerc situation: Lewis being Leclerc, and Jenson being Sainz; the parallels are there), and the only competition for the championship he's had was Massa, and, once again, Rosberg beat him in an equal car. Bottas isn't championship material, and Max was faster enough with Red Bull's obvious help. So he's not the fastest, just the most consistent with exceptional talent. The fastest drivers imo were Vettel, Alonso and Senna in their primes
“He was beaten by his teammates a lot” Have you and I been watching the same sport? Also using your logic, Vettel only had Alonso as competition, and Alonso only had Schumacher
@Luca Goodoer exactly
@Luca Goodoer Perfectly put.
Disagree
Both drivers had spells of bad luck across the season. The narrative that Max was ‘more’ unlucky across the duration of the season is just kinda meaningless
Both were deserving champions, and it’s just a shame that such a fantastic season ended the way that it did
To further prove to the bias people who are inevitably going to be here: statistically Lewis is the G.O.A.T, but doesn't necessarily mean he's faster by any means; it was the duo of both Lewis and Mercedes that made them the best of all time, but don't count out that 2008 talent. Just pretty much since then, so 2009-2010-2011-2012 and 2013 he was beaten by his teammates a lot, and the only competition for the championship he's had was Massa, and, once again, Rosberg beat him in an equal car. Bottas isn't championship material, and Max was faster enough with Red Bull's obvious help. So he's not the fastest, just the most consistent with exceptional talent. The fastest drivers imo were Vettel, Alonso and Senna in their primes
*sees sainz between verstappen and hamilton*
We finally know who josh truly loves
Mick Schumacher gets demoted from Prema to Haas
2:02 Bahahahah the echidna at The Cutting caught me off guard
Honestly, I would put Latifi above Gio this season
Agreed
Latifi definitely deserves to be above Tsunoda
Hmmmmm... I think a few people may be underrating Giovinazzi's season but yeah... there's a case for that no doubt!
He got mick perfect because exactly mid way though his second year he’s suddenly become amazing
Interesting video, but I don't agree on 2 parts :
- Charles had a fantastic season ruined by misfortune, not inconsistency
- Hamilton had his weakest season where he had to fight, marked by a lack of aggression and dumb mistakes
The Hamilton part is so true. Not saying I don’t agree with the Charles part, just wanted to point out that the Hamilton part is 100% correct. If max has an A+, Hamilton does not deserve to have an A+ as well. Hamilton made many big and stupid mistakes (which we are not used to see from him) which didn’t hurt him badly due to luck, and max being unlucky.
Why is it misfortune when some drivers put their car into a wall and when others do it its called inconsistency? . Some days he was awesome, somedays he was not awesome. That's the definition of inconsistency.
Charles made a few but critical crashes and also made more and more mistakes towarda the end of the year. He put his car between Checo and a wall in Saudi barely escaping another crash with Checo being the loser. In Abu Dhabi he almost lost the car which again put him down the order.
Sure his Qualifying drive in Baku and Race in Silverstone was otherworldly. But in Monaco, both Sainz and Verstappen had a good chance of grabbing the pole.
It is funny because Manus (Manas) in Hindi means Human or Man. So the award is actually Man of the year!!
"Ferrari arguably have the strongest lineup on grid if you talk to someone outside the british isles"
YUPPPP
10:05 I would've thought you're gonna say '........then monza happened'
B- is very harsh for Perez. His defending in the final race is enough for him to get a A-
No, A realistic mark for perez is c+
He lost badly to Bottas so I can't agree with you Uncle Sam.
No I would rate him a B- I think that’s fair
he had a LOT of shit races and a nearly imaculate calendar of shit qualifiers.
When he was good, he was the best, but most of the time he wasn't.
@@ibrahimfaruq6630 then bottas should be higher.
B- is acceptable for Kimi. It wasn't a vintage last season, but he had some outstanding drives. His Mexico weekend was one of the best performances of the season.
lewis fan making this vid
I've been looking forward to this
Every single decision by Masi and stewards can be alluded to the statement "That's racing". A whole seasons worth of decisions. Funny how everyone just remembers Abu Dhabi.
how did I not see this video when it came out ./?? fantastic job m8
Gasly B+??
Meh
More of a A-/ A to me
Same for Leclerc
@@nicolasdanton3567 i think Sainz, for how me managed to just jump into the car this year was an A-/A, but Leclerc was a B+/A
@Luca Goodoer Hmmmmm... I think Yuki being poor potentially made Gasly look better than he was.
I'll give Mazepin this: At some point he stopped spinning. That's improvement.
Michael likes your content josh keep it up!
You are here as well😂
@@Firebolt1729 you too 😂 I always have time for my fans ❤
Taytay, it's called a mayter racing driver rating viddeeyay, okay?
@@gurrrn1102 ye
Gasly only getting a B+?? 😭 Man deserves an A
Shamilton A+ lol
Charles Leclerc's biggest problem this year is having the habit of racing on the first lap as if he was high on angel dust!
That was honestly so fucking funny
I WAS WAITING FOR A VIDEO FROM YOU!! Finally depression cured.
I do like the ratings, but I don't see how you can give Hamilton the same rating as Verstappen, looking at the second half of the season yes, but Hamilton made too many mistakes in the first part of the season to warrant an A+
I was thinking the same. He strugles a lot to overtake slower cars and made rookie mistakes. If not was for the final races with that improved Mercedes he could not match Max, who was hurted by the two Mercs crashing into him
Agreed, Hamilton only closed into the championship by verstappens misfortunes
Because he's fucking rapid
@@Jofuish yeah, look how good he was in McLaren
Look at it this way, Max’s mistakes were of little consequence to the WDC. He was often DNFd without fault. Only Silverstone was a large swing, and that was mostly on Hamilton.
Lewis’ mistakes easily cost him the WDC. Baku alone would’ve nailed it a race early.
This guy really said "No one's perfect" when Checo's dad literally exists???
The fact that Bottas and Perez were even on the same grade is criminal - Bottas was next to worthless this year. Gasly with a B+???? Lando and Sainz below Lewis?!
God i was waiting for this video and you delivered. Awesome work man!!!
I love how whenever something happens, josh always says "But hey, its racing!"
or 'coulda, woulda, shoulda'
Just weird how he's criticizing Masi for having basically the same slogan
I wonder about his full comments on Hungaru and Silverstone. If he says the same thing about them then it shows his true nature.
@@GravellordNito except there's a difference when a racing youtuber uses this to stop himself (and try to stop his fans) from being a bitter fuck about what happened and when a goddamn race director lives by that mantra
@@beatroot13 it's a good mantra to live by either way
Always a good day when he takes the mickey out of drivers
Mostly Bottas