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In my opinion, lecrerc fits into a special category called,
“best of the best/something to prove”
He had a couple of silly mistakes, and also, he needs to question ferrari strategy.
He needs to embrace the champion in him. He needs to be confident about his instinct and experience as a driver. Even carlos questioned ferrari strategy in monaco and he finished second.
did you not see last race when he told ferrari to continue on one stop. as for monaco what could he have done, the pit stop would have kept in first if it wasnt for a double stack, thats why it was stupid, they double stacked them, how would he know that sainz was pitting too. and also he has been calling shots recently.
@@KiwiAlchemista One race does not erase a whole season full of instances of insecurity and gullibility towards the team strategies. Did you not saw sainz firm posture on his convictions when it came to team strategies?
By the way, I did saw that Leclerc had an input in abu dahbi, good for him. Still, he's gonna need to "eat, breath and eat" of that attitude. Because next season is not gonna be just redbull, its gonna be mercedes aswell.. And they are coming full force.
@@rickyricardo2006 like I said I was giving one instance of you watch other races you would see that leclerc has an input in strategy, and what firm posture are you talking about sainz they asked him if he would like to box he said no they agreed, they didn’t order him to box. He didn’t go against anyone, even in silverstone, they agreed with him after he said he can’t be behind ten spaces, he didn’t go against anyone. And it is not their job to dictate strategies, and what gullibility, please explain with an example on that because I have no clue what you mean. Yes he should be more assertive but your making him like he’s some brainless idiot compared to sainz when they both are the same in making strategies.
@@KiwiAlchemista it’s obvious you see and hear what you want to hear. The “stop inventing guys” from sainz was epic. Thanks to that response from sainz, he was able to snatch a podium. Charles needs to let his “balls” loose and grab the bull by the horns!
@@rickyricardo2006 your saying i see and hear what you want to hear, your delirious your next point just contradicted what you just said. its obvious you see and hear what you want by listening to "stop inventing guys" as any sort of argument. He had fresher tires my guy, thats why he won (not a podium a win btw) because ferrari favoured him not because of any strategy from him, they asked him to pit, not the other way around. And again he was asked not ordered to give space. if they truly wanted him to do that they would have countered him immediately and told him twice but they immediately agreed and let him attack. Just because he has catchy catchphrases does not mean hes any better at strategizing than leclerc, and thats not a negative thing to sainz, drivers job is literally to drive, the strategy team has to get better. Regardless they both have called shots and hopefully will have a better year next year
20:33 It's pretty surprising to see how many reliability issues Alfa has been having. They didn't have so many last year, Kimi and especially Antonio weren't DNFing all that much. It used to be a slow and reliable car, now it's fast but DNF-prone, and that's a script that was flipped in only one season.
Yeah this Ferrari engine is way more unreliable than last year and this year Alfa did their own gear box
@@awesomefacematt Absolutely. It has really gone downhill in terms of reliability for them, and it's a shame cuz this is a good enough car for them to fight with Alpine and McLaren. Certainly have the drivers to do so as well, with Bottas and Guanyu both performing at above average pace and consistency
K-Mag gonna be going up a tier now
K-Mag for president!
Tbf this was recorded pre qualifying haha
@@Aldas001 this qualification exactly shows why leclerc is as good as sainz and not best of the best. He makes mistakes where sainz isn't equal the speed of Leclerc he got the balls to get In against the team when they are wrong. Why did he not pit to get other tires when it was obvious the wrong tire. To only being told at the end of the straight that he should box 🤣. The guys really not looking what's happening on track to frustrate him even more. He just isn't there (yet). For the rest think Verstappen should have his own tear the way latifi got his own.... a 10 scale tear list would make more sense.... max a 10, Hamilton 9. Alonso, Leclerc, sainz, norris and Perez 8. Russell and Ocon 7
@@atmoz_ Putting Russell 1 tier lower than Sainz is interesting, Sainz made many mistakes at the start of the season and George was more consistent. Now it's the other way around for whatever reason. I think they should probably be in the same tier.
I would put him in something to prove. He is the modern Maldonado: fast but crash prone
I think something that most people forget about Mick is that his crashes don't just cost money - they cost time and also car quality. In some of his crashes, he completely obliterated the car and Haas only had 2 weeks to repair it before the next race, completely stalling whatever development progress they had going for them and also putting them behind on the time-table, which I think has been a pretty big factor on the decline of Haas throughout the season. They've lost so much time reconstructing Mick's car, which is time that they could've used to develop new things for it, it's a shame tbh, we could've seen a much better Haas car throughout the season if Mick didn't crash it so much
Mick's consistency has been greatly hampered by the team and horrible strategy calls. In Bahrain and Spain they didn't change tires during a safety car. Both times he got passed by everyone who did. Zandvoort was unacceptably long pit stops (10 and 5 seconds). Japan was bad strategy hoping for a crash/safety car. He's had his share of mistakes but the team has screwed him just as much.
Mick shouldn’t be in Haas next year
@@janesuprise8669 Agreed - Mick has his share of fault, but Haas, as always, has been absolutely dysfunctional strategy-wise and doing some unexplicable things that really make you question if the drivers have that much fault for the team's poor performance.
@@janesuprise8669 That's true, but people tend to forget how small team Haas is. When you look at it from their perspective, I'd rather have 2 slightly slower but more consistent and less crash prone drivers like K-Mag than Mick that is often faster, but crashes way too often.
I think Mick showed a lot of times this season that he has what it takes to race in F1 and I think he deserves one more season to show what he can do, but I completely understand that Haas is not willing to put in the possible time and money that his crashes cost.
Preach!
Only thing I’d disagree with is that Alonso should be in the best of the best. The guy has outperformed the car on many many occasions this season. Just been ridiculously unlucky over the year
There’s no such thing as outperforming a car, some cars just take more skill to extract the maximum level of performance out of.
@@jamespoole3531 let's say he has mopped the floor with Ocon then..
Alonso has been unlucky ever since he joined ferrari back in the day.
@@dave7573 isn’t ocon ahead on the championship and he has also had bad luck alonso fans are ridiculous
He seems to attract bad reliability, he struggled with it at Ferrari, Mclaren and now Alpine. At this point I wonder if there is a driver aspect to it. I think there is a reason why Alonso retires so often and why Lewis retires so rarely compared to their teammates. Something about their driving style might be down to it.
Alonso is definetely a top tier. Dont care the car, he always delivers top level
4:32 that aged well didn't it
He wasn't racing them all he did was hold them up for a few corners. A bit like someone walking slow in-front of you on a sidewalk
I would change Alo on best of the best and Zhou on Quality midfield
I honestly think at the end of the season is better because you’ve got to watch them over the season then you can rent them for next season
In 2023 I might do it before the season to see how it ages
@@Aldas001 it will be a nice comparison to what the season finished off like
@@Aldas001 i think you should do an pre season and a post season
@@Aldas001 you will not forget, right:)
@@Aldas001 Do both! Pre seasons expectations vs post seasons reality, that could be a fun watch!
The few things to note here are
Lewis. Like damn, how has he challenged RB for wins and positions more than Ferrari this season? Really proves where he stands
Checo. I think he belongs in a category of his own like Leclerc. The issue for both of them is that while they have the pace and skill, they can't make their team their bunny. Checo couldn't get Max to lose 1 point in the sprint despite winning the championship. His issue is team priority.
Stroll. He's just complacent. I mean, if he just has no jeopardy, why will he improve? He will only relax and waste it. Man's got poles, podiums in midfield cars. Just needs to feel the need to improve
Lance is very funny to me he seem to drive well when the track is wet otherwise he just is a meh driver. I like this assessment of your too
Yes Checo does need to be in a class of his own. One down from George and co.
I think Charles is borderline champion. He lacks Max’s consistency and ability to whip the strategy team into shape as lead driver. He is just extremely fast and in full fighting contention. I obviously know Ferrari shouldn’t leave him in that position every race and they haven’t been equipping his car with an engine but instead a bomb but I feel Max has shown an absolute masterclass dominance this season and he has many other attributes as a driver that Charles has lacked in certain areas.
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Consistency yes, but Max doesn’t have to whip the strategy team into shape at Red Bull - part of why he’s been so dominant is because Hannah Schmitz handles that so well which allows Max to just focus on driving. Don’t see why it should be held against Leclerc to do that when his direct rival doesn’t have that responsibility
I can't imagine the mental toll of all the Ferrari incompetence week in and week out hasn't contributed to his occasional mistakes. Listening to the radio after qualifying is just a driver who is dejected. Everyone says that he needs to take matters into his own hands for strategy, but that shouldn't be his job, and all it accomplishes is him second guessing everything the team does.
@@NewscasterNews4 I mean, Max and even Checo have had very open criticism of strategies on the radio. There are always things to improve and Redbull, despite all its faults, is a team that is extremely cut throat. They will accept angry driver feedbacks and let it go for the sake of performance. If Charles rightfully did that to Ferrari, he'd be subject to massive backlash from Ferrari management and politics.
Schumacher and Hamilton as well have gotten heated with their strategic calls even though they weren't bad calls. You need to be able to dish out venom when the team is letting you down this way in championship battles.
Aldas, what's the exact reason why you put Russell behind Hamilton in a direct comparison? To me it doesn't make any sense. Russell is ahead of Hamilton in the Driver's Championship, each one of them had just 1 DNF during the season so you can't blame that on reliability issues. And they drive the same car. If Russell has 25 more points than Hamilton, then they should either be in the same group or Russell should be above Hamilton.
There should’ve been a category between Best of the Best and Midfield. A ‘really good but not quite there’ category for the likes of Sainz, Perez, Russell and Norris.
Agreed. Best of the best can only really be max. No one else was a champion, so people like leclerc are borderline champions. But then there are drivers like alonso, sainz, russell who weren’t borderline champions, but were still brilliant and better than quality midfield.
@@gemcockrell Exactly! No one really came as close as Max this year - he should've been at the top alone and the others slightly below.
@@INTJ91 yeah max should be in his own tier haha
If only there was a mandatory annual event where all F1 drivers are put in equal machinery to show how good they really are compare to each other
there was a race in 1984 everyone in merc road cars, senna won lauda close second
I'm agree with everything except in the best of the best you have to put fernando and george and to remove charles and lewis into the borderline champions, because they are not consistent during the season and they make some big mistakes even if their teams not helping them in strategies and reliability in the case of charles but i think they are not perfect this season, but george and fernando they are one of the best drivers this year, george for his consistency he had the 2nd best consistency this year behind max, and fernando made one of his best seasons in his career with 41 years old, he's only 5 points behind esteban with all his reliability problems, strategies mistakes by the team, the fia penaltys and esteban over agressive and dirty defenses, he lost 70 points with all this and he would be clearly ahead of his teammate and ahead of lando.
You want to move the most successful driver to borderline champion... wow
@@rosco3 In this tierlist we don't talk about who is the most succesful driver, here we talk about drivers performance in only this season, it's clear if we do a tierlist about the career and the statistics of the drivers on the grid lewis, seb, fernando and max they would be on the top 4, but here we talk about the performances this year and the best drivers this year and the most consistents were max, charles, george and lando, but fernando and lewis they show incredible pace this year especially fernando who was so fast in pratically all the grands prix this year and was the most unlucky driver this season even more than the 2 ferrari drivers, and lewis was unlucky sometimes this season but it was not like fernando's bad luck, and he made more mistakes this year than george and was less consistent than him, so in general george was better than lewis and even fernando was a little bit better than lewis this season considering that he's a 41 years old and coming back in f1 after 2 years out to f1, and he's able to be so so fast and to not make pratically any mistake and was so consistent if the reliability don't private him to finish the races.
@@flazone4486 Charles has to stay.Dominated Sainz, lost over 100 points because of Ferrari, nearly 50% pole rate.
Lewis was 35 points behind russel, on pretty down to his pure lack of race pace. He failed to make the most of the car alot, and made far too many mistakes. Chales and Max made less mistakes all season than Lewis did in singapore alone.Hes caused several accidents, and just generally been underwhelming
Max and Charles have shown they are head and shoulders above everyone else. Chalres has 4 less seasons in F1, and still has to iron out a couple of things, but it wont be long before he is as good if not better than Max.
Lando could also be considered among those 2 IMO, but its hard to judge with the car hes had
Russel is nearly there, but is making far to many silly mistakes. Silverstone, austria ad brazil quali, singapore etc
@@dylanburston7453 You're everywhere with these shit arguments that have no grounding in reality. But respect for your hustle man 🤣🤣🤣
@@Melon623 Ok lets go through it.
Charles points lost to Ferrari
25 in Spain
25 in Baku
12 in Monaco
12 in Silverstone
17 in hungary
Which is 91 points. Factor in every position lost to RB due to strategy, its easily over 100 points.
Lets go through all of Hamiltons mistakes this year. Im probably even missing some from the early part of the season
Austria- binned in q3
Spa- started a space programme
Singapore- Made several mistakes, including going into a wall and messing up the Vettel overtake.
Brazil- Partially responsible for an accident
Abu Dahbi- Cut a corner causing damage, and went off track half a dozen times.
George has just as many mistakes as Lewis
Charles has spinning in imola and France
Max has hitting debris in Silverstone, Spinning a couple of times in singapore and partially at fault for the brazil incedent
Lando has Miami and Punting charles at brazil
What im saying isnt a shit take. Its the cold hard truth
My tier list (first is better whitin the tier):
Max, Lewis, Alonso
Charles, Lando, Russel
Seb, Albono, Checo, Gasly, Carlos, Bottas, Ocon
Kmag, Zhou, Yuki
Danny, Lance, Mick, Latifi
Giving Latifi his own tier is like ranking Big Rigs among a bunch of racing games.
Both are clearly the best of their class
If ppl knew Latifi started karting at 13, ppls opinions would change
Since the Summer Break, we've seen Lewis return to form and join Max at the top (whereas LeClerc has clearly fallen off as the car has declined.)
Leclerc was on the podium 6 of the last 8 races. It was the middle of the season where he fell off.
@@stevenmcdonald i feel leclerc started doing better when he accepted max was untouchable this season... france was the show that he was overdoing it because he had to to catch up and it was slipping through his fingers, forcing the mistakes under huge pressure cuz of reliability issues and strategy blunders...
It so kind of Latifi to give up his seat for a young and upcoming driver. Such a great guy.
For me it’s Verstappen > Hamilton >> Leclerc >> and then Russell Norris and Alonso but I don’t know where to rank those 3 against each other. Russell was ahead until recently but now it’s less clear, he just can’t hold form for a full year
Best take I've seen.
How can u justify having Hamilton second when he got outscored by his teammate in his first year in the car who u have 4th-7th?
To be honest I think that George was since the beginning used to have a non-winning car, so just always fighting with more and more cars and maximizing his results, but more importantly LEWIS HAD A MUCH HEAVIER CAR UNTIL MID SEASON. As long as the car was bad, he, as the experienced driver, accepted to have the "test car" with more extreme configurations to understand the strange W13 and much more sensors (whose weight is considerable) than George. He was also very unlucky during the first races.
@@conormulcahy829 becoz george was lucky at the strt nd also lewis was more experimenting becoz of his experience nd after canada see the graph he is outqualifying george nd somethime outpacing too nd made less mistake then him
Alonso > hamilton imo
I think Gasly has something to prove, he was sooooo disappointing this season
To be fair, the Alpha Tauri car this year seemed to be significantly less competitive when compared to last seasons car
@lmaomoofeq I think it’s both. Gasly has made some shocking errors that he should not be making
Latifi tier 💀
Alas is growing right in front of our eyes
this list was pretty much spot on, but id argue that russell should definitely be in best of the best considering his consistency throughout the season and being on par with lewis the way he was in his first year at Mercedes. i'd also argue for zhou to be in quality midfield drivers as he's had such terrible luck but when the car & team have been working well and he hasn't been crashed into by anyone, he's had a phenomenal season considering its his rookie season. I'm definitely torn between best of the best and borderline champion for norris and alonso however. before alpine, i'd have no doubt putting alonso in best of the best because of his adaptability in different motorsport disciplines, and when he consistently wringed the neck of those mclaren hondas and placing them way higher than people expected. but ocon has been very close with alonso through much of 2022 but a lot of that is to blame for alonso's horrible luck with reliability with the alpine this season, so maybe borderline champion will do for him for now; we will see how he fares at aston martin. as for lando, I think he definitely has the potential to be best of the best but its so hard to gauge his skill by comparing to a teammate in a similar car since sainz left mclaren, since ricciardo hasn't been performing like he should be and mclaren hasn't delivered a competitive car for 2022, but he has shown to consistently get the best out of the mclaren since 2020 especially 2021 onwards. having oscar piastri alongside him (assuming piastri delivers) and mclaren hopefully delivering on the chassis/aero side at least as good as 2021 should give us a much better idea of which tier he actually belongs in, so I guess it's acceptable for him to be in borderline champion for now but would be very surprised if he doesn't graduate to best of the best given the right circumstances.
I would argue that Seb has been the 3rd best driver this season
You are surely kidding
what has he done thats so special he has been extremly mid for the last 3 years only on the level of bottas or k mag at best
@@brtomega1038 he's not near the Top 4 Drivers, but he's definitely clear of Bottas and K Mag
4:30 when did kmag and max had a moment on track? I can’t remember
Not putting Alonso at the top just doesn't feel right to me. The guy outperformed the machinery he was given everytime. Saying he might be able to beat Sainz, Russel or Norris is not a question to me. I don't think there is a driver in the grid capable of a performance such as the one he produced in Austin, that desire and ambition to go forward is unbeliabeable. I'm pretty sure that if he could have had a season not marked by realiability and the alpine team he would be best of the rest and if that if he was given the car to, he would be challenging Max for the tittle. Nice video anyway, just my thoughts on the legend himself🐐
I see Carlos Sainz as a better Valtteri Bottas. He’s not champion material (at least not yet) but he’s very dependable and has an amazing eye for the state of a race and the circuit around him
I think that stroll is too dangerous, he is fast sometimes but every time he causes incidents doing the same mistakes race after race and season after season
If I could add tiers I'd do like you said and make a Leclerc tier and also make a tier between solid midfield and borderline champions and have Checo and Seb in there
I agree that latifi is in a league of his own🤭 even though there have definitely been alot worse drivers in f1 down the years, I think vettel is placed to high and i also dont think bottas has performed that well for a big part of the season,The car has droped off but he was getting out qualified to often by his rookie teammate who I'm not convinced by and went missing in to many races for me,but generally I would agree with that chart
Leclerc needs an ability of race awareness strategy-wise of other drivers and teams that I’ve seen others do like Carlos (obv), George, Max, and sometimes Lewis. Even if Leclerc had a strategy team that’s competent, I think a champion needs to have that ability unless your car just supersedes the rest then it won’t matter.
I think Lewis is dependent on his team for that in the same way Leclerc is but he’s got experience under his belt that gives him an advantage.
Had to learn the hard way to trust the team because a few times like last year when he didn’t come in when asked and waited a few laps, it cost him a win. This year he came in when told to when he didn’t want to like Brazil whereas last year a few times he defied the order because he thought he knew what he was doing. It’s almost opposite: Leclerc has too much faith in his team while Lewis didn’t and made decisions on his own. But I’ve seen Lewis be clever sometimes. I see what he’s doing right now for example and fair game.
I appreciate the detail you put into sharing your thought processes. You justify your placements very well. A little bit of fanboy shows through for Charles and George. You describe their potential for their placement a lot more than others. And while I know you are a big Alonso fan, your words were similar to Lando about flashes of brilliance and given a better car etc. not on “potential”. The only change I would make is that I would put Charles in borderline champion still. Too many mistakes. Some are his, some are strategy/team. But he doesn’t speak up like Carlos does. Potential is there but he’s not best of the best quite yet. No doubt soon!
God list, i would only move stroll to latifi list, gasly to borderline champs and perez to quality midfield, bottas beat him last year and this year hes really uncompetitive
Love your work Aldas!
Goatifi is so humble
I'm pretty sure that Hamilton's "poor" early season performances were in part due to Merc testing all weird setups on his car to get as much data as possible. If Merc has a winning car next year he will smack the sh*t out of Russell
Easily. Hamilton and Verstappen are on another level to the rest of the grid. Hamilton just didn’t have the car to show it this year
@@ithinkimlucas1366 i think if Shaarl gets his head together and Ferr🅰️ri doesn't kill his championship challenge he's on that level. Maybe not on racecraft but his qualifying is out of this world
This season:
1. Verstappen (improved by not doing idiotic dive bombs and crashing into everyone this year)
2. Hamilton (has a bad car this year but has been incredible after Spa)
3. Alonso (insane driver, terrible in team choosing)
4. Russel (consistent but no real standout performances)
5. Perez (either winning or somewhere down in P5)
6. Leclerc (lacks the balls to talk back to Ferrari)
7. Sainz (pretty good season apart from some bad luck)
8. Vettel (something ignited in him since his retirement announcement)
9. Ocon (consistent but gets spanked by Alonso)
10. Magnussen (either standout performance or gets beaten by MSC)
11. Norris (downgrade from last year)
12. Albon (pretty good nothing special)
13. Gastly (downgrade from last year)
14. Bottas (insanely good in the beginning of the year but car blows up a lot)
15. Zhou (same as bottas but meh)
16. Tsunoda (still as bad as last year)
17. Ricciardo (atrocious)
18.Stroll (only here because of daddy)
19. Schumacher (crashes more than Maldonado)
20. Latifi (no further elaboration necessary)
I feel this is a little bit generous to Russell, but the rest I agree with 100%
@@hallamhal even after sprint race of today?
man rlly but norris in 11th💀below mag u can watch any race this year and see norris is clearly a future world champ
Verstappen and Hamilton are a tier above the rest imo
I think Fernando should be in the best of the best tier. The no.of magic performances he had in that car disregarding the DNFs and other mechanical reliability issues is unbelievable. He was in that level from the beginning of the season.
May be in qualifying he isn't up there with others ,especially Q3 run... But he makes up for that in races .. Brazil , Austin stands out for me (not considering DNF performances)
Seb has definitely had a better year this year, too bad he's retiring.
In my opinion Magnussen and Stroll are quick drivers, but both do way to many mistakes and through away so many points. If they would always drive like on their good days, they would be almost "Borderline Champions".
I think it's great to do it at the end of the season, once we have an idea of how the current drivers handled the year.
I agree in everything but mate, Lewis in this season doesn't deserve the 'best of the best' status
How is Perez in borderline champion category being almost 140points behind Verstappen at the same time Bottas being in midfield tier with performances matching Perez or even better during his time at Merc?
I'd put Russell alot closer to Leclerc than Leclerc is to Verstappen...
Leclerc, Russell, Norris, Perez-Sainz-Vettel, in that order for tier 2.
Max, Hamilton, Alonso. Max being the best for tier 1. 100% Alonso smoking kids if he had a car.
Love Vettel but he doesn't belong top-tier anymore.
Two new videos within 24 hours? You okay, bro?
Also, love your videos :)
putting max and lewis in the same catogory is a absolute joke, Max was clearly the best driver this season
Everybody sleeps on Ocon
I had been thinking of just such a list recently and I agree with the placing you have done. Well and sympathetically thought through. Why I was thinking about it was because I feel there are way too many guys in seats who are up for replacement as soon as an exciting talent is identified. I think the bottom 2 tiers could go and there wouldn’t be much of a miss. Why are they still there? That’s 6 potential exciting spots and it would help the show a lot. Bringing back Hulkenberg is not going to be an excitement. Piastri coming in will be.
Carlos with his maturity has the balls to question ferrari pitwall and Charles will need to reach that point else he wont be beating max/ham/rus anytime soon. Charles is too good & trusting to his own fault.
Actually a spot on tier list.
Maybe VB on a tier up
Latifi's so good he gets his own tier (tbh Ricciardo could be in the same tier as well lol)🐐tbf he hasn't crashed for quite some time now I think so that's a + but he's absolutely nowhere when he isn't crashing (and when he is).
Lance stroll has had his time in the something to prove category for years, he deserves to be in the Latifi category
19/20 the same. Only one is Alonso one tier higher. Leclerc definitely toughest to rank.
Find it a bit odd to put Sergio there but Bottas below him. Sergio's doing the exact same job for RB now that Bottas did for Merc last year, and I doubt Bottas has fallen off.
I think Nando is best of the best. I truly think he is if not the best the second best driver currently on the grid. You mentioned “moments of magic” but I think that it’s been nothing but magic when his car hasn’t burnt to a crisp or he’s gotten run into or things like that. Truly he’s the second unluckiest driver on the grid behind of course Sainz
You can add more tiers clicking on the ⚙️
Hamilton in the same Tier as Max?
7 time world champion bro.
@@jfr788 but this is about 2022
@@youngwasabi209 this is about the quality of driver. If Lewis had maxes car he’d be just as good. As we saw last year. Think before you speak
@@jfr788 and he is beaten by Russell
@@youngwasabi209 dude you do realize he was purposely testing out new arrangements in the car earlier on in the season. Since that’s stopped he’s consistently been better than Russell. Lewis is so far above every driver except max it’s not even a debate. You don’t just lose all your skill in one year.
Zhou in something to prove ☠️☠️☠️
If you have a separate category for Latifi, you need one for Verstappen as well
why not wait til the end of the season?
Leclerc is borderline champion imo
Right now I would almost agree fully on your list. However I would probably move Leclerc and Vettel down a tier. Right now I wouldn’t put them in the same bracket as the other drivers in those tiers.
Only one deserves to be best of the best and that's Fernando
If that is a rating just based on the current season, Hamilton is not clear of Russel. Hamilton was better in the second half of the season but George had him covered in the first half and the last few races are equally important as the first ones.
Obviously if this is a rating of the driver quality in more than just this season Lewis is the better driver (for now).
Russell had far better luck than Hamilton in first half. Every safety car got him ahead of Lewis. He's even had better luck in second half too, yet Lewis has managed to out-score him.
Nice video but it's ridiculous how you brittains always think lewis is so good
hoping Latifi goes to indycar. he may not be F1 material, but he's still has some talent and it can be shown in that series. look at Marcus Ericsson! from backmarker f1 driver to Indy 500 champ! Latifi would be able to show the kind of driver he is in Indycar
Ranked from left to right.
*Best of the best:* Verstappen, Hamilton.
*Borderline Champions:* Leclerc, Russel, Alonso, Vettel, and maybe Norris.
Then there should be a tier between 2 and 3 for drivers like Sainz and Perez. I feel they haven't proved they can be champions yet.
After Russell first win im happy to put him in the best of the best
Best of the Best - Lewis and Max
Borderline Champions - Leclerc, Russell and Norris
Best of the Rest - Alonso, Checo, Sainz and Seb
Quality Midfield - Ocon, Bottas, Albon and KMag
Decent - Zhou and Stroll
Something To Prove - Tsunoda, Ricciardo and Schumacher
Latifi - Latifi
Next Year Prediction -
Think Max, Charles, Lewis, Russell or Norris could win a championship if they’re given a good car.
As long as Carlos is more consistent and crashes less than the start of the year he is a borderline champion.
Checo needs to get closer to Max to be a borderline champion.
Alonso taking a big risk going to Aston but there will still be the magic performances even if he doesn’t get a good car.
Seb should’ve been in a better car, still quality.
Wet Stroll is the best driver ever.
Tsunoda will only improve more.
De Vries will beat Yuki and have a cracker.
Piastri gets smashed by Lando but does better than Danny Ric was, Lando is a great driver and very settled in the team and Piastri has potential but is less settled and has minimal F1 experience.
KMag smashes Hulk since he’s been out for a while.
Sargeant has a similar rookie season to Yuki.
Zhou could push on and prove to be a quality midfield driver.
I think your top tier should be renamed to Current Champion Material or Potential 2022 Champions. Best of the Best invokes a different list in my mind. Max, Lewis, Fernando, Seb are all drivers who have proved to be excellent in good and bad cars and delivered repeatedly over multiple seasons and it might be why they are actual Champions. Their top tier quality shows.
Latiffi was such a waste of a seat
Leclerc is way bellow than Max, very likely to do mistakes, has no fucking emotional control, i mean, he's not bad, i think he is a borderline champion for sure, he needs to prove that he can be the best of the best tho or just a fast dumb driver
Good video, but I just don’t think these tiers and their names work. There’s a few missing tiers in my opinion- or you could just do S, A, B, C, D, E, F and it would work out fine. For example, I really think Leclerc is worthy of an A, but Max is an S. Russell is probably a B for me at this point. I think his 2021 was better than his 2022
How was his 2021 better
@@bigboyhours6473 he outperformed his car in 21? Lesser mistakes last year than this. Even so, we're prolly more criticial now that hes in the spotlight.
But trueee, same thoughts, wish there were more tiers, esp between A-B and B-C.
To be brutally honest, I would move Leclerc to Borderline Champions, Seb to Quality Midfield, Mick to Latifi. Thoughts?
spot on
Alonso should be best of the best. Neither Merc driver should be ahead of eachother (so both same tier, i would drop lewis to 2nd tier tbh), Tsunoda for me was better than Gasly this season, but he should be in the same tier, Lando is way to high, I would drop him 2 ranks, he is very overrated, Brazil proved it, WTF was he thinking vs Charles...such an unsafe driver.
Schumacher is honestly not far above latifi. He’s had some bad luck, but my god have most of his performances been bad anyway
Damn russell did a top 5 almost the whole season and you say he needs to be more consistent also beating lewis easily on his first year at merc is a crazy achievement.
Also Alonso is undoubtedly top tier
Yeah putting Lewis higher than George is mental, I think if Sainz had the same performances as Lewis did he might even be in quality midfield driver. Lewis only got better in the last 5 races, all the others were sometimes abysmal performances.
The only change I'd do would be swapping Russel and Hamilton. Russell has been more consistent than Hamilton throughout the season, ans as we all know, a driver is only as good as his last race.
After Canada he just hasn't tho
Hamilton --> Borderline Champion IMO. Russel has objectively a better season. Obviously if we take the overall driving capabilities HAM is the GOAT. All the other positions I agree.
Very nice video! Thank you!
Placing Hamilton over Russel this season is delusional
Honestly, kinda on point apart from Perez which imo fits in the quality midfield section.
If the Alpine wasn't so unreliable we might see both Alpine drivers higher. Specially Fernando
This didnt age well after the Brazil Sprint.
@@bjs7442 now?
@@bjs7442 it aged well after the race. If the team focuses they can do even better. With that pace a podium might've been possible
@@96wtfomg You are correct. Not sure about the podium though being a possibility.
I would expect a lot more swearing from Gordon Ramsey's nephew but good job.
I think to say hamilton is up there with verstappen this season is a stretch. Do you think, if verstappen is in that merc, that he also would have had a winless season?
My point is, of course hamilton is an all time great. In all time rankings, it would be ridicolous to rank verstappen near hamilton.
However, he did have an all time great season. And just on this season, its a stretch to rank hamilton near verstappen.
It’s about their quality and status of their career at this moment, and Lewis’ still a top tier driver regardless of anything this season. And yeah I believe Max could be winless in a that very slow merc especially if a top tier driver (not checo) was driving the red bull, every race the merc was close to a victory, they were cleary lacking from the RB.
For me, Seb and Fernando are in best of the best category. They are both multiple world champions.
This is just based on 2022 though
i always think of mick the way the memes do, both he and nakita had crashes but his were always WAY bigger then nakita's cause he was going fast enough to warrant a big crash
Gotta say my driver rankings for 2022 would look very similar
Bottas and gasly clear of perez we have seen it the previous years this year's crazy good red bull has covered for his pace weaknesses he has been barely able to compete with his teamate
you cant possibly argue that leclerc is clear of alonso.
Very harsh on Lando. That McLaren has been the 5th fastest car all season and despite that he’s dragged the team kicking and screaming to a podium and multiple solid points finishes. Whilst Daniel has been very poor, I don’t think that should hide how poor the McLaren has been compared to the previous two years. Lando is the only reason they’re in with a shout for best of the rest. There’s nothing more as a driver, Lando could’ve done this season so he has to be in the top category. This is about driver ability alone and Lando is top class.
Latifi tier! Genius 😂
I feel bad for laughing. He is obviously a good driver, just not up to F1 standards.
Does Russell’s dream weekend at Interlagos maybe change perception of his season slightly for the better?
He's proven that the early season consistency wasn't a fluke. He deserves to be ranked alongside Lewis, if not ahead. He is the only Mercedes driver with a pole and a win this season, and he will finish ahead in the driver's championship as well. Best of the best for sure, probably just behind Max.
I agree with this list perfectly
Latifi does like Nutella tho
I think this tier list should have a "meh" tier, for drivers like Ocon, Gasly, Stroll, midfield drivers who aren't lacking performance to be put in "Something to prove" but aren't doing anything special or "of quality" during races. Forgettable races
A tier for filler drivers, you might say, who are just filling spaces for the 20-car grid
Hamilton ahead of alonso Russel and Norris 😂😂😂