Welcome back to The Gurgler’s F1 Season G-Power Rankings – our way of using various F1 based stats for 2022 to determine the most recent race and the season’s best drivers so far. Our 2022 British Grand Prix Ratings is a unique collection of stats that try and find a different way to determine the best drivers.
The Power Rankings goes a little bit deeper than just points scored on the Sunday. We take on board Free Practice, Qualifying, performance in relation to team mate, fastest lap, and a few more stats that are attempting to highlight a driver outperforming the car.
A full explanation on what is included and the points awarded is below the visuals.
The 2022 British Grand Prix Ratings is more than just a score for driver of the day, we have other F1 based points of interest in easy to consume visuals to tell the story of the season so far.
READ MORE – 2022 British Grand Prix Lap by Lap Summary and Highlights
2022 F1 Season Power Rankings – Race 10 2022 British Grand Prix Ratings
Here is the breakdown of the best and blurst driver from the most recent race at Baku.
Our ratings points gives the driver of the race to Carlos Sainz again, and while he got lucky, he still finished first and from pole.
Good weekend for 2/3 of the British drivers, with Lando Norris and Lewis Hamilton in the top three places this week.
Nicholas Latifi is up nice and high after making Q3 this weekend and shutting us up for a bit.
2022 F1 Season Power Rankings Progress – Martini Medal Driver of the Year
Here are the current overall standings for our Driver of the Year winner – the Martini Medal. Named in honour of one of F1’s most unsung heroes – Pierluigi Martini of Minardi fame.
We have the overall scores as they stand, plus a visual which shows the flow of each driver’s position throughout the season.
Max Verstappen keeps his lead at the top but the big moement is from the second drivers of the big two teams. Carlos Sainz through his win and pole, and Sergio Perez just getting the job done as he usually does.
Lewis Hamilton continues his progress after a few good races in a row and jumps ahead of both Alpine drivers for now, but is still behind his current and previous team mates.
2022 F1 Season Power Rankings – Other Interesting Stats
DRIVER 2022 H2H RECORD
A couple of drivers staring down the barrel of a 2022 season spanking.
Alex Albon keeps the outright lead for H2H, despite being outqualified and crashing out on lap one.
The Alpines are very closely matched.
QUALIFYING
Here our qualifying analysis covers the average grid position as well as the gap to pole.
For the gap to pole the % from pole is relative to the fastest lap in whichever qualifying session was the final one for each driver.
Max Verstappen now has the best grid position average, and the best % from Pole Position.
Our second qualifying visual shows quite a gap opening up to the midfield which is as tightly packed as ever. George Russell is in there but just hidden by how tight the pack is.
Despite a good season Alex Albon now remains as the only full time driver not to make a Q3 session.
Finally we have qualifying results split into the type of track – Modern, Street and Classic.
It all shows that Leclerc is the king of qualifying on modern tracks and street circuits, but Max has the advantage on classic circuits.
FIRST LAP POSITION GAINS
Here is the summary and details for first lap movement for the 2022 season so far.
Some drivers are punished for first lap shenanigans, but maybe they should behave themselves.
Max Verstappen is now the only full time driver yet to lose a place on the first lap after Alex Albon, Esteban Ocon were involved in crashes at the first start.
Carlos Sainz is the only driver to not gain a spot on the first lap at any grand prix this season, and lost a place on the first start, which is where we are calculating this from. Valtteri Bottas got his first positive lap one experience of the season at the British Grand Prix.
FREE PRACTICE
Not enough for you?
Here have some Free Practice stats, to see is building their weekend best so far.
2022 F1 Season Power Rankings – Points Explanation
Here’s how the points work this season. Essentially the perfect race (Win from Pole, Fastest Lap, thrash team mate, best in race etc) should amount to the perfect 100 points.
FIRST LAP GAINS +0.5pts per position gained -0.5pts per position lost.
CHAMPIONSHIP POINTS – 25pts to 1pt as per World Championship – Sprint Race Points added.
BEAT TEAM MATE (RACE) – 10pts (if both finish or other driver got self inflicted DNF)
FASTEST LAP – 5pts – 1pt for top five drivers.
GRID POSITION TO RACE POSITION – formula +/- relative finish to grid
BEST OF THE REST (RACE) – 5pts to 1pt – top five non Mercedes-Red Bull drivers
QUALIFYING – 20pts to 1pt – Grid Position 1 to 20.
BEAT TEAM MATE (QUALIFYING) – 5pts
BEST OF THE REST (QUALIFYING) – 5pts to 1pt – top five non Mercedes-Red Bull drivers
GREAT/GRAPE – 5pts Great 2pts Honourable Mention -2Pts Dishonourable Mention -5Pts Grape
BEAT TEAM MATE (QUALIFYING) Time Gap – Formula for % beaten team mate by
BEAT TEAM MATE (QUALIFYING) Position – 0.5 Pts for every position team mate is beaten by. 0 points for second car.
FREE PRACTICE HERO – 10Pts to 1Pt – Average Position across all three practice sessions.
WIN FROM POLE – Bonus 5 Points
WIN FROM POLE WITH FASTEST LAP – Bonus 10 Points
SPRINT RACE – Points awarded as per F1 points from 8 to 1.
SPRINT RACE RACE GAIN – Net position from Qualifying divided by two.
