Welcome to The Gurgler’s 2021 F1 Season G-Power Rankings – our way of using various F1 based stats to answer the question of really who is the best driver in F1 so far in 2021 and the most recent race stars and duds are here with our 2021 Russian Grand Prix Ratings.
We have already provided our thoughts on the race, along with a description of the race and more.
Read the 2021 Russian Grand Prix Race Review here.
But our 2021 F1 Season 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.
Our 2021 Russian Grand Prix Ratings is more than just a score, we have the race results, season progress, and so many F1 based points of interest in easy to consume visuals.
Enjoy.
2021 F1 Season Power Rankings – Race 15 2021 Russian Grand Prix Ratings
Here is the breakdown of the best and blurst driver from the most recent race.
You may be surprised not to see Landon Norris at the top, but that’s the way stats go sometimes. Like the race he deserved more but pitted a lap too late.
Lewis Hamilton takes advantage just like the race and gains some ground on MAx Verstappen for driver of the year, but he is still well behind.
Solid weekends from Sainz and Ricciardo again.
Charles Leclerc had one of his worst weekends.
2021 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 remains well out in front of our Driver of the Year standing, Lewis Hamilton caught him a little, but Max would have to drive pretty badly for the rest of the season not to win.
- Gasly jumps ahead of Leclerc, neither had a great weekend, at least Gasly outperformed his team mate.
- Ricciardo on current form could probably overtake Sergio Perez soon.
2021 F1 Season Power Rankings – Other Interesting Stats
In case everything we have offered up isn’t enough, here is the best of the visuals from the F1 season so far.
TEAM MATE H2H
Here are the H2H results for the season so far.
Note that for the race we only count it when both drivers finish, unless the retired driver’s retirement was self inflicted as judged by us.
- George Russell and Pierre Gasly maintain their 100% qualifying record over their team mates.
- Max Verstappen loses out to Perez in Qualifying by not participating.
QUALIFYING ANALYSIS
So who is the most consistent qualifier? The closest to pole position overall time-wise? What’s gap between the team mates?
Do certain cars or drivers excel on certain tracks.
All of that and more is answered below.
RACE – FIRST LAP NET PROGRESS
Who’s gaining or losing on the first lap? Well Kimi Raikkonen continues to be the first lap king, and given there was no actual race we have not assigned points for first lap gains.
FREE PRACTICE RESULTS
For no good reason in the Free Practice results. This week we added total laps covered in Free Practice.
2021 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 for top five – 5-4-3-2-1
