2022 FULL Season F1 Driver Rankings (20-1)

We look back at our FULL ABCDEF1 driver rankings from the entire season. Has anyone moved up or down since our mid-season review?
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[@wood2111]

no (sorry hehe)

[@nert-13]

Where is the graphic of points linked?

[@pooledogg775]

We're going to grade the drivers from 1 to Latifi.

[@blakebarone1809]

Well buddy, we won’t be here very long cause he’s the best.

[@joeshap2003]

That was a great way to start :) Classic!

[@selder_7]

Norris I think here suffered from previous success. You just expect more of him that him being best of the rest in a race doesn’t end up with as high a rating, even though that was outperforming the car most of the time. Does seem odd Perez was so high but he didn’t do much wrong other than not matching Verstappen, which isn’t an unreasonable thing of any driver these days.

[@justinpharand8454]

Lewis in 3rd seems like a big stretch. No wins, no poles and outperformed by his teammate in the points.

[@bram5825]

I agree. Hamilton needs to be 4th or 5th

[@nakki123]

Yeah i think this was the worst season for Lewis. At the start of the season he looked like he didnt want to be there.

[@JohnFromAccounting]

@@nakki123 He was worse in 2011.

[@JustSomeGuyWithNoMaidens]

Spent half a season fixing that horrid car, and then in the second half thoroughly outperformed George. It's fair.

[@wildwilco]

@@JustSomeGuyWithNoMaidens Barely* is the correct word there.

[@areebsiddiqui758]

Norris should have been so much higher. Consistently finishing 6th-8th pretty much every race, best of the rest and the only midfield driver with a podium. If any other driver had the season Norris did in a sub par Mclaren we'd be hyping it up to no extent.

[@tijgertjekonijnwordopgegeten]

But who should have moved down? Maybe Perez, but other than that it is hard to argue that he was better than Alonso, Russell, Hamilton, Leclerc and Verstappen.

[@areebsiddiqui758]

@@tijgertjekonijnwordopgegeten I'd have put Norris third and probably close to Leclerc. Hamilton was very poor at the start of the season and got beat on points by his teammate. Russell was involved in too many crashes and Lewis had the beating of him basically from Canada onwards when he stopped running experimental floors. Alonso was unlucky with reliability but I'd still say Lando had a better year than him. Ocon wasn't far off Fernando and was beating him on merit a fair few times, Alpine was way better than the Mclaren.

[@tijgertjekonijnwordopgegeten]

@@areebsiddiqui758 Maybe I missed something but to me Norris' performances were not that exceptional. He got one podium but other than that he was just good but not exceptional. I don't think that he would have beaten any of the guys I mentioned if they were teammates. But again maybe I just missed something.

[@Alex_Martin_]

@@tijgertjekonijnwordopgegeten everyone besides Max. This is one of the few lists I've seen where Lando isn't 2nd.

[@jojow8513]

@@tijgertjekonijnwordopgegeten Only car outside the top3 teams to get a podium, was single-handedly fighting Alpine all season and came very close to beating them, COTA overtook 6 cars in 13 laps in a damaged car to recover through the field to finish 6th (everyone was too busy bleating on about Alonso & Vettel to notice Lando actually did that), brilliant 4th in Singapore where his excellent defending forced Max into a mistake, 6th & fastest lap in Abu Dhabi (beat Russell to that fastest lap on merit, they both went for it the same lap), 6th in Monaco & Silverstone which would both have been 5th if McLaren hadn't screwed up his pitstop strategies, 8th in Barcelona while suffering from chronic tonsillitis, several amazing qualifying performances including several second row starts - one in Brazil when he was suffering from food poisoning, Hungary finished an entire pitstop clear of the rest of the midfield despite being on hard tyres for the last half of the race and was the only non-top3 car not to be lapped. He put in some excellent performances this year that flew completely under the radar. All while carrying the team on his shoulders all year because his teammate was such a sack of potatoes.

[@lucascorea3215]

Lando being 7th in the rankings is criminal. The man was pulling everything possible out of that car practically every weekend. Only had one clear error (leclerc Brazil incident) all season and also put in some great quali performances like in Brazil and Hungary as well as being the only midfield driver to get a podium.

[@bapple7844]

you gotta watch the whole video bruv 3rd-7th were separated by 2 points

[@jrdahl711]

I think it would be fun to have you three rank the drivers ahead of digging into the actual grades. It would give a fun perspective of how you perceived their season went to what the grades reflect. Also including their position in the drivers championship might be nice as a comparison to their grades.

[@2hot2fresh]

absolutely great idea

[@fin-ed6oj]

Norris is so underrated!! Was much better than 7th... How has he finished below Perez???

[@sergioarista6818]

Jajajaja

[@turbo6890]

Last wtf1 podcast on KZbin

[@juanignacioordoqui7539]

Hamilton and Checo are too high. Lewis had some awful races (Spa, Monaco, Singapore, Jeddah, Imola) and Checo is great but not that great. Alonso and Norris were the best after Max, Leclerq and Russell.

[@tyarn6811]

He got extremely unlucky, Hamilton got unlucky this season with sc, set ups so how can he possibly be under Russel

[@roshankr8692]

Agreed

[@ryansth16]

I actually think hamilton is too low. When i actually look at the data I couldnt find a single race where you can clearly say russel beat ham on race pace in clean air. Hamilton was almost always a tenth or two faster all year on race pace largely due to having the lowest tyre deg in f1 most of the year (thanks in large part to the merc but still). Ham also had significantly more overtakes, less racing incidents that he could have done anything about. The only area russel was ever clearly beating ham in was quali early on in the year. And while russel remained more competitive in quali than race pace ham beating Mr saturday 13-9 overall certainly isnt terrible esp with the setup stuff. Really was just bad luck that caused ham to get stuck in drs trains in tracks where almost no one could overtake in drs trains let alone in the early merc with pathetic straight-line speed.

[@ryansth16]

Jeddah hamilton beat russel in p1 p2 p3 had a miffed quali setup in 1 session and had better race pace than russel as well when he was in clean air. If the late safety car didnt block the pit entry ham would have finished right behind russel despire being so far behind in the grid and unlucky with the earlier safety car. Singapore ham had incredible pace much faster than sainz just had one incident that punished him. The other tracks you mention nobody was going to be overtaking in that merc on those tracks in drs trains which is why it's generally bad luck being stuck and not anything else. Imola ocons unsafe release in the pits probably cost ham at least 4 places. In monaco ocon got a penalty for holding up hamilton and giving him damage in a critical stage. If you actually try to isolate driver performance, while russel had a really great year hamilton was clearly better almost all year long especially once the porpoising settled down a little

[@roshankr8692]

@@ryansth16 Hamilton and Russell have very similar driving styles: analytical and efficient. They are both equally talented imo. The advantage with Hamilton is his years of experience. So for Russell to come in his first year at Mercedes and beat Hamilton is quite impressive unlike sainz beating similarly aged leclerc in his first year which was certainly down to bad luck.

[@itisjustLucas]

Stroll is weird….. because I’m sure the talent is there… not sure where but it is there somewhere

[@brickisland6353]

Stroll is pretty fast, but in traffic he's not very good. He's got zero spacial awareness.

[@spiriitz8646]

@@brickisland6353bruh… even I am fast without traffic 😂

[@brickisland6353]

@@spiriitz8646 probably not in an F1 car though.

[@jojow8513]

i actually think Stroll gets a bit underrated because he's Stroll. He for sure had some dodgy moments this year but he also put in some really solid performances. The fans especially always just give him bad grades because of who he is.

[@awesomefacematt]

I don’t understand Matt’s hate of Aston. They were right with the Alpines and Mclarens at the end after being a backmarker at the beginning. That’s a crazy development. Won’t be surprised if Nando is getting better results than Lando next year

[@cambyses1529]

yeah, they have the bet long term potential of all the "midfield" teams IMO.

[@areebsiddiqui758]

Their new wind tunnel won't come in until 2024 and even the factory will only be operational by the middle of next season so it won't have any impact on their 2023 car. Aston's strategy department needs a revamp too considering how much they screwed over Vettel this season. AM will not be a competitive team until at least 2025. Alonso will be 44 by then.

[@ArielGonzalez1]

@@areebsiddiqui758 and yet, they got up to date in less than half of the season...

[@areebsiddiqui758]

@@ArielGonzalez1 With the amount of money Lawrence Stroll has thrown at that team and the fact that they completely wrote of 2021 to focus on 22, they shouldn't have come up with such a rubbish car in the first place.

[@fairsaa7975]

@@ArielGonzalez1 Yeah, all they need to do is steal designs from the RB18 and they'll be golden!

[@nomar5spaulding]

I'm a new fan to F1, but I've been really casually following many of the drivers for a few years now getting slowly more interested. This season, Alonso was such an outrageously fierce and skillful competitor, despite his many DNFs, huge crashes, etc, that my opinion of him went from me thinking something like, "Fernando Alonso is a former all time great, but he's coming down towards the end of his career and talking off," to thinking, "Fernando Alonso is an all time great, and he's still battling anyone around him on a level that simply says give him half the car he needs and he push for a title with a real chance at making it happen." He's just an unstoppable competitor. He's incredible in the literal sense of the word.

[@povertyvoyager]

Spot on, fernando is a driver perpetually hampered by his reliability and machinery limitations. The way in which he extracts spectacular results relative to the cars he drives is astonishing and there are only a couple other drivers on the grid, that are able to do something similar.

[@victormurcia1490]

completely agree, might sound like a stretch but in this season he was 2nd best overall, verdtappen was unbeatable but i bet you if he was in the red bull or ferrari he would have been in 2nd and much closer to verstappen

[@rspbgaming8147]

We didn't know we were living in the good times until it was gone...

[@BigMeech99]

Such a shame :/

[@rosek7114]

Perez doesn't deserve to be above Norris. Norris obliterated his teammate, Perez was obliterated by his teammate.

[@danbruh33]

Yes they should improve the grading system

[@christianorsa]

Two things are almost certain these days: Latifi is (well, was) last and Max is first lol

[@jamesnichols5163]

A chart of how many of each grade each driver got could be helpful, allowing you to visualise the consistency of each driver

[@raptorsaurus6376]

Lewis shouldn't even be close to 3rd. If we're judging based off expectations like they kept mentioning then he belongs more in 6th or 7th. Should be: 1. Verstappen 2. Leclerc 3. Russell 4. Lando 5. Alonso 6. Hamilton 7. Perez 8. Sainz 9. Ocon 10. Bottas

[@Kehlalam]

Go and look at the most exciting races of the season and check Hamilton's performance in them.

[@suckieduckie]

Switch Sainz and Perez and maybe Vettel over Bottas and I agree. Also Ocon really wasn't a team player all year so not quite sure about him as well.

[@ras_732]

@@suckieduckie Regardless, Ocon still delivered consistent Top 10 results.

[@suckieduckie]

@@ras_732 True but he also had a top 10 car and screwed over Alonso a couple of times.

[@slaphands7703]

Agreed except I’d switch Lando and Alonso.

[@Domagoj_playz]

Leclerc getting 2nd despite making 2 mistakes per week Hamilton getting 3rd despite him losing to Russell in the second half of the season (the part of the season without the experimental setups) Beautiful

[@arjun3566]

Norris deserves to be higher

[@TheZimbeatz]

How many races did he win again ? How many podiums ? Overhyped and average

[@tamryn2967]

@@TheZimbeatz He’s in the 5th fastest car how is he supposed to win a race ?? So you’re saying Lewis doesn’t deserve to be 3rd coz he didn’t win a race this season?

[@jamesbarrell8921]

@@TheZimbeatz how many wins for Hamilton?

[@soundscape26]

@@TheZimbeatz Since you ask, the only podium outside the top 3 teams.

[@AZBCDEE]

@@jamesbarrell8921 more podiums than Russell at least. One win doesn’t matter when Russell was schooled in qualifying despite being prioritised by the team

[@Sem5626]

that ending is absolute gold, couldn't stop laughing

[@aaronedwards4953]

Thanks for the rundown! Maybe consider doing the grade points differently? Example: A*=10, A=6, B=3, C=1, D=-2, E= -6, F=-10. I think that may help avoid some ties.

[@Daniel-gx3gd]

it´s been an amazing season. thanks for your podcasts and ibr guys 😊

[@tamryn2967]

Perez way too high. No way hes tied with Alonso and Russell and was not better than Norris

[@TheZimbeatz]

WAY better than Norris ..Are you high ?

[@kanolightracer5]

@@TheZimbeatzNorris is so overrated, he loves understeer, even he denies it, but all races the car understeers, he's way faster, but when it oversteers, he struggles against Daniel too.

[@soundscape26]

Having George and Checo tied is borderline obscene.

[@LoogiBalloogi]

Perez deserves way better. Max treats him like garbage, even though Perez massively helped Max win the WDC, in both 2021 & 2022. I'm glad that (at least from what I can tell) Red Bull actually really like Perez.

[@diegopuijk9803]

@@TheZimbeatzput Norris and Perez in the same car and Norris would beat Checo easily

[@tamryn2967]

Norris deserves to be higher. France Lando out qualified Alonso and Russell when the Alpine and Merc was faster. Alonso finishes higher so gets a A and Lando gets a B Hungary Lando qualifies 4th and Ocon out qualified Alonso. Lando finishes P7 the best he could in the car 22 seconds ahead of the midfield, was the only driver to make the hard tyres work and was even lapping faster than a Charles on them at one point. Gets a B and then Alonso gets the same grade and is lower than what Alonso got in France.

[@Beeevash]

McLaren was good in qualifying anyway

[@tijgertjekonijnwordopgegeten]

But Alonso also did some other crazy things during the season that deserve higher grades than norris.

[@samsea0489]

@@Beeevash so where was Riciarrdo

[@Beeevash]

@@samsea0489 Ricciardo is not adaptable and can only drive one type of car with lots of front grip and loose rear. He is a great driver but i am not going to hold his deficiency in adaptability against him. Let me give you another example Russell destroyed giga Kubica in 2019. But that doesn't mean kubic suddenly become a mid driver.kubics was driving with only one functional hand. And i am not going to hold his disability against him. On the contrary i hold kubica in an elite group of drivers like max, Fernando, kobiyashi, senna, Michael, kimi etc.

[@jojow8513]

@@tijgertjekonijnwordopgegeten Except he really didn't. Norris had some incredible drives that flew completely under the radar. More than Alonso did. Alonso's just got shouted about by the commentary team every time so people noticed them.

[@rspbgaming8147]

A 2 hour podcast? Yes please!

[@thisisme4285]

@WTF1 how come Tommy is not wearing his Alpine Merch?

[@adolfkamuzora9044]

The 'sneaky' assassin Lando Noriss managed a pole position in the 2021 season - Sochi Autodrom

[@davida.8942]

Dont understand why you put hamilton p3... his season was not good and i would've put him behind norris. Norris had a superiour season with that car, and also perez and russel performed better imo. However, great podcast as ever :)

[@suckieduckie]

Russell and Norris sure, but Perez? How was Perez any better than Lewis?

[@davida.8942]

@@suckieduckie Imo he head more outstanding performances than Lewis but idk, maybe they're equal.... however i don't get wtf1 ranking...

[@suckieduckie]

@@davida.8942 I'm going to assume that Mercedes isn't lying about Lewis taking experimental setups in the early season. If that's the case he should be ranked above Perez. Other than that I agree that they both had a relatively lackluster season.

[@davida.8942]

@@suckieduckie I agree, and I think in the last few races Lewis drove better... but yeah, the season was shit for Merc and shit for Perez. After Canada he lost some speed and momentum somehow... maybe the developement of the car didn't help him... But the first few rounds were really good for Perez, he drove not much slower than Verstappen. Maybe next year he can find some speed and performance from the car and keep up with Verstappen, idk. We'll see :)

[@kimi88cz]

How was Russell not F in British GP?

[@syndicategaming1668]

Probably because it was a small mistake with a huge outcome

[@ras_732]

@@syndicategaming1668 If I recall, It's the fact that he got out of his car to check on Zhou chalked up a unforced DNF, because his car was towed and a towed car means the car cannot be raced.

[@syndicategaming1668]

@@ras_732 his car was done. Way too much damage to even try and repair it

[@avina95]

@rockbobomb he got out to flip him off like he did to Bottas in 2021, but he didn’t because he say how bad it was with Zhou

[@SniperTeamTango]

​@@avina95bro wut

[@pwrthrst400]

A two hour WTF1 podcast? Don’t mind if I do.

[@DCHasso]

I'd love to see some sort of list that involves how many of each component each driver used throughout the season, cause some were a bit nuts

[@TheZimbeatz]

The British hype.. Russel "occasional bump" - He's been involved in 5 incidents - That's Pastor Maldarnado and Max ( first 3 years) like crash stats

[@soundscape26]

Seriously? Even after all that crash fest he managed to only have 1 DNF. Maldonado level no doubt.

[@areebsiddiqui758]

If this was based on British hyped then Norris wouldn't be so far down the list. I'm not British and he was top 3 drivers this season. But sure, keep crying about British bias every time someone says anything you disagree with.

[@7BD273]

and in several of those the other driver shared some of the blame. in Austria even Helmut Marko said Perez shouldn't have tried that overtake, in Austin Sainz was driving like he didn't have 18 other cars behind him. other than that, most drivers had one or two incidents, it's just how the game goes. But Russell had the performance too, and was closely matched with a 7 time world champ

[@TheZimbeatz]

@@areebsiddiqui758 I'm British but Norris has achieved NOTHING in f1 and is being propped up as the next Senna. All he's ever done was throw away a definite win and getting mugged off everytime in wheel to wheel combat. Even a struggling Riccardo won a race in that Mclaren

[@konstantinplinke2093]

Russel is in his first season with Mercedes and is driving against Hamilton. I am austrian so no british hype coming from me. Just saying he outscored him in wins, poles and points which I did not think was possible.

[@domroper6333]

Matty with a 'Tractor boy' quote! Hahaha

[@joeb1125]

Hamilton 3! Certainly you jest! He needed to get a job at a bodega with the amount of whining and crying witnessed this year. He proved he is a one trick pony, he is driver #1 for his team and gets all the gizmos while the #2 gets the scraps. Please be more honest he should be at 9 at best!

[@Kehlalam]

Yet here here you are doing the same thing on the internet for free, might as well wear a white cloth with holes for eyes.

[@ShellifyYT]

For me Mick should have been at least higher than ricciardo. You talked about Bahrein he finished 11th or 12th i think after got spun in the first round by ocon. Before Silverstone he could have scored easy points in canada but the engine said no and often haas was just giving him a bad strategie like in japan when everyone was on inters and he still had to drive on full wets. About the Crashes you were talking about Katy. There were just 2 in saudi and monaco. After that he didn't crashed his car. So I don't really get your point yes it wasn't the best season. But in the end he consitently was faster than kevin and outperformed him in the race by 13-8.

[@KeyzKieran]

100% this. And the two crashes he had was so unlucky. Monaco crash was because he dipped his rear in the wet and off he went. Saudi crash he went over the curb a bit too much and spun. Alonso almost did the exact same thing a few laps later but had to quickly readjust his car or he would of done the same. There is a reason why the drivers are saying Mick is a really good driver and rating him highly and the fact that he is still only 23, of course he wont be the next Verstappen but he has a high ceiling and Mercedes sees that

[@lucascorea3215]

I think Leclerc will eventually clean up the mistakes and the reason for this “massive” gap in poise and consistency between him and verstappen is all down to experience. Yes they’re the same age but when Verstappen won his first F1 race, Leclerc was still in Formula 3. Verstappen has loads more experience with facing the pressure of fighting for race wins and fighting for a championship. Give Leclerc a couple more years of fighting for race wins and I could see him being as good if not better than max.

[@jojow8513]

I agree. Max used to make a lot of mistakes but has cleaned it up a lot the last 2-3 years. Leclerc will do the same, he's already much better on that front than he used to be.

[@ogreman2229]

George beats Lewis head to head and gets the teams only win but Lewis grades higher? No way. Reputation carried Lewis.

[@ryanmartinez516]

Current take on Ham v Rus is similar to Lec v Sai in 2021 where the incumbent driver who’s used to fighting for wins, and isn’t, doesn’t have that motivation like a newbie at a top team. Rus seems like he’s more likely to carry this form into 23 and keep the fight going compared to sainz, but this isn’t to take away from either of the two having solid seasons.

[@Marcushalberstram749]

Perez way too high for someone that was 0.5 off his teammate for half a season. He was closer to sainz/ocon level than he was to Norris/alonso

[@armadillolover99]

Moments like Katy laughing at that whole “both Haas drivers had 7 Ds” thing always reminds me of Matt’s “Katy we know you sleep with the stewards” and Jess saying “I liked his spunk”

[@Ic3Drop]

Hamilton in P3 even in front of Russel? Even tough Russel was his first year at Mercedes and has beaten him fair and square? I don’t get why you would ever put him in 3th? I smell some fanboy bias ;). All in all great Vid guys. Keep it up!

[@bizarrebunny5579]

Probably bc he was the team’s Guinea pig first half of the season testing all the new parts and ideas Merc had and then when they both got the same cars second half of the season Lewis was comfortably stronger. If luck of last minute safety cars (bro is cursed) had gone different ways he could have easily won Silverstone and Netherlands

[@Ic3Drop]

@@bizarrebunny5579 he has chosen to be the first one to try out new things himself. It could have worked out if he was lucky or did better feedback. So I don’t feel this is a plus for Lewis. In the mid season Lewis seemed back on track I agree but in the last few races Russel was on top again. So all in all you can’t say Lewis had driven better than Russel. Russel took Pole and Sprint Win and Race Win for Mercedes in his first year for Mercedes. What else can you expect. He beat his teammate fair and due to his own skill.

[@Kehlalam]

@@Ic3Drop He crashed to keep p3 and needed crashtappen in the race.

[@Deevy8_]

Russell is obviously above Hamilton, but wtf1 is not ready for the backlash

[@Jamic9]

Lewis was clearly the better driver this year. He was the team’s guinea pig and also had a lot of bad luck.

[@Jamic9]

@CrispinBell Lewis took one for the team this year by carrying a lot of experimental set-up's. And as I said, also had a lot more bad luck than his team mate. Just go over the details of each race and you will clearly see this to be the case. I'm surprised that after taking all this into account, Lewis ended up so close to Russell on points at the end of the season.

[@tyarn6811]

Shut up

[@tyarn6811]

@@Jamic9I agree

[@rodsitamara]

looking back at the season they were extremely close even with lewis getting experimental set ups. telling

[@jamithon4227]

Don’t forget Stroll’s Australian incident with Latifi.

[@sarahbennett882]

Norris below Perez? No. Pérez doesn’t deserve to be that high

[@jojow8513]

Perez & Alonso are both overrated here.

[@cesarsilva8133]

I am by no means a Schumacher fan, but I wonder if he takes a year to get settled, was it fair to judge him when his second year had so many changes? Don’t think he deserves a seat for next year, but perhaps this should be considered for the future. Just a thought.

[@nert-13]

@WTF1 Where is the graphic linked?

[@the-chow-hall]

Wow this one was long enough to split at work, on the drive home, and then again cooking dinner between podcast and KZbin lol

[@15DEAN1995]

Thinking about it mick wrecked a few cars but he was on his own for the most part (the exception being imola) when it happened. When lance had an incident it was almost always directly dangerous to someone else.

[@jojow8513]

Lance actually had less incidents that ruined other people's races than Russell did this year. Yet somehow Russell is 3rd. Let that sink in.

[@tsjawesome6289]

IMO: 1.Verstappen 2.Leclerc 3.Russell 4.Norris 5.Alonso 6.Hamilton 7.Perez 8.Ocon 9.Sainz 10.Bottas 11.Vettel 12.Magnussen 13.Albon 14.Stroll 15.Zhou 16.Gasly 17.Ricciardo 18.Tsunoda 19.Schumacher 20.Latifi

[@tahaabdullah4278]

How the hell is Hamilton even in the top 5? Russell, Alonso, Perez, and even Norris outperformed keeping machinery in mind

[@christopheribeiro4325]

Already missing this magical trio

[@TheGoudaGoblin]

You can’t just put checo above lando and keep talking with a straight face. I mean I don’t have a super strong opinion for this list but they’re far enough off of what I would consider reasonable that I’m not sure this is a place I wanna be getting any kind of analysis lol

[@ediltonspencer6974]

I think Vettel made a big mistake retiring now. The Aston Martin car was great at the end of the season fighting the Mclarens and Alpines. With some extra work put on this winter, it can become a genuine Midfield car this season. Alonso will show if I am right or wrong

[@soundscape26]

Aston Martin is also heavy on the marketing so... better wait.

[@Robin-fn3tw]

I personally wouldve swapped zhou and gasly, since it was zhou's rookie year. And im really not sure how hamilton got 3rd to be honest, especially since i agree on all the things said about george beating lewis.

[@MadR6]

Awesome, I love these rankings!

[@itisjustLucas]

Katty at the end 😂😂😂

[@damsel5755]

Lando should be a lot higher, I’d put him behind Max and Charles. Fernando miles ahead of Checo and a tad in front of Lewis and George. The Merc boys were pretty level on balance I think, I’d put George in front because taking it to Lewis like that is impressive.

[@Le_equitabliste]

Fernando is way overrated

[@agent6599]

Nah Fernando shouldn’t be in front of Lewis and George. Yeah he did have a lot of bad luck but even if you consider that it’s not like he blew Ocon out of the water or anything

[@lachlanokeefe8020]

@@agent6599 maybe Ocon is better than George 👀

[@leostreat3573]

What this guy said.

[@leostreat3573]

@@Le_equitabliste why ? Please explain?

[@bapple7844]

Katy was spot on about LeClerc's driving style as pushing the limits. He's just so good that he rarely makes these mistakes. And its not that he's sooooooo far at the limit, its just that so many drivers are well within their limits so as to not crash

[@samhill-morriss5400]

How have you put lando that low

[@Hugo_64]

Norris only 7th 😳

[@danbruh33]

Yea he deserves to be higher

[@kanolightracer5]

no

[@soundscape26]

Top 5 easily.

[@davey2487]

Latifi is Mr. Consistent himself.

[@calebhernandez4233]

more consistent that max for sure. i mean im pretty sure latifi finished last more times than max finished first

[@daniellobo2290]

Love this channel

[@raymaponga458]

The only other drivers to beat Hamilton are world champions. I know the setups situation with Lewis but man you have to acknowledge George's performance. Absolutely stonking

[@overtimenh5824]

I think Gasly's point about the penalty points is they were implemented for dangerous driving but most of his are not from doing anything even remotely dangerous.

[@overtimenh5824]

But also I am new to f1 so might just not understand the rules about penalty points.

[@hifriend7581]

Really glad Leclerc got second in the Championship(and this list) not third. He's a championship contender, losing out to a meh driver even if its mostly the teams fault would crush his confidence which he needs a lot of in 2023. Racing against Max AND Lewis next year is another ball game.

[@konstantinplinke2093]

Did you call Verstappen a meh driver or do I misread it because even without the problems Leclerc had, Max had such a high average of points when he finished that it would have had no difference in the end

[@SkiRacingOz]

@@konstantinplinke2093 no he was talking about Perez

[@hifriend7581]

@@konstantinplinke2093 misread

[@oliverbuckley6083]

This stream was so much fun to watch, I pity how much work the editor had to do

[@jamithon4227]

1. Max 2. Alonso 3. Norris 4. Leclerc 5. Russell 6. Hamilton 7. Perez 8. Ocon 9. Sainz 10. Albon 11. Vettel 12. Magnussen 13. Bottas 14. Zhou 15. Gasly 16. Tsunoda 17. Stroll (can’t forgive those egregious errors) 18. Riccardo 19. Mick 20. Latifi Also, Ocon isn’t Mr underrated. He has been that for two years at least and has been mentioned almost every race as underrated. Albon is Mr underrated.

[@HK-tj1kr]

Perez tied with Alonso and Russell and ahead of Norris? Ricciardo above Schumacher? damn these are really bad

[@kalumkalaria2368]

My list (only based on 2022 performance) Verstappen LeClerc Hamilton Russell Norris Alonso Perez Sainz Ocon Bottas Vettel Albon Magnussen Gasly Zhou Tsunoda Stroll Ricciardo Schumacher Latifi

[@MeRacko]

You can't compare hamilton 1st lap crash in spa with leclerk chrash from the lead in frace

[@samueljamouneau]

I love how Matt has to eat his words about alonso was writing the goat off when he returned to f1 but has continued to over deliver

[@Painlesscoward]

1:51:57 He said it people, he's finally said it.

[@chrisbeijer2778]

Hamilton 3rd? Wtf! How? He crashed multiple times, even got Max blamed (as always) while actively turning in on him and leaving no space! And Norris on 7? Ridiculous!

[@blaise2833]

''Got Max blamed'' well because he was at fault for the incident

[@sallybally344]

Max "NOOO" Norris Lewis Russell Sainz Alonso Ocon Perez Magnessun Vettel Bottas Albon Zhou Stroll Gasly Tsunoda Schumacher Riccardo Latifi

[@wolfgamingnetwork3542]

Ok now time to wait a month till real racing begins

[@dwayneboyko1403]

Pierre Gasly ahead of Magnussen is ASTONISHING Magnussen more points in an underfunded car and Magnussen with a pole. HOW!!!

[@trevorcoleman9125]

Katie is a legend.

[@Storm_CW]

Would be interesting to see how the rankings play out if there was a points "weighting" for the grades. 0 - F - absolutely dreadful 1 - E - bad performance 2 - D - unremarkable performance 3 - C - decent performance 5 - B - great performance 8 - A - incredible performance 13 - A* - absolutely flawless

[@samueljamouneau]

Max is just great he’ss been amazing for ages constantly on another level if he’s best car or not he’s there

[@vendetta697]

VERSTAPPEN Leclerc Russell Perez Hamilton Norris Alonso Sainz Ocon Vettel Bottas Albon Magnussen Gasly Zhou Tsunoda Stroll Ricciardo Schumacher Latifi

[@df8340]

Watch Spain from Micks POV it’s Hams fault he plowed into him

[@thelittleowl1]

Hamilton above Russell?!

[@TheZimbeatz]

Easily. After the Merc experimentation. Russel was nowhere near Lewis except that one win. Lewis has been faster on average race pace every race as well.

[@thelittleowl1]

@@TheZimbeatz nowhere near? we clearly didnt watch the same races. he was always very close or ahead of Lewis's pace. his good qualifying always gave him a good race position.

[@thelittleowl1]

@crispinbell9910 i reckon norris should be at least tied with perez. considering how bad that mclaren was, he had a brilliant season.

[@Jamic9]

Lewis was clearly the better driver this year. He was the teams Guinea pig and also had a lot of bad luck. It really is testament to Lewis’s driving skill, that he even managed to end up so close to Russell in the points.

[@thelittleowl1]

@@Jamic9 russell got used to the car quicker and his results dont lie. plus this is russells first season in even a remotely competitive car and he was superb. exceeded my expectations for sure.

[@IVI2sR4VE]

its the fact its russells first session in qualifying trim the delta is 0.037s and in sectors its 33/32, hats off to him for not only beating lewis but getting a win

[@Altiako]

I will, maybe, sound like a broken record BUT there's a few people that i wouldn't have put quite the same place. I'll start from the bottom. How did gasly end up 2 place up magnussen when we barely even heard of him the whole year ? So i'll put Mag p13, gasly p14 & zhou p15 I know everyone like vettel but Bottas had a better season overhaul so i thinks the standing matter here Bot p 10 & vet p11 Sergio had the most deficit to teamate of anyone but williams maybe. Norris p6 Sainz p7 Perez p8 I've heard your argument that fernando is hard to judge from having problem at 75% of the race but even so, that's generous to put him up there with the mercedes bois. Alonso p5 George should be higher than hamilton on result alone but too many avoidable incident with other drivers. At the end of the day, even if we consider this, i thinks they had the same season(hamilton had a few incident himself), that should be a tie for third. Hamilton & russel p3 So yeah, hope it was understandable. If not, honestly i don't care. Have a good one o/

[@cambyses1529]

Its a decent list, but I think you have also fallen into the same trap that WTF1 always seem to, of giving the drivers in the best cars the best grades. In terms of pure driver performance how can you say that Perez or Sainz actually outperformed Albon or Magnussen (or Vettel), really? Its just that when you have a great car and have a good weekend you can win the race, but if you have an average weekend you are still on the podium - whereas eg Albon could drive the best race of his career and still finish 12th in that Williams.

[@cesarsilva8133]

Gents, if I may offer a solution to one part of your dilema, provide an end of year grade based on contribution as a whole to the team for the year. This way, there is an added score which can contribute for consistently providing quality points, or not. Also may account for performance versus expectations. Maybe next year?

[@cesarsilva8133]

Sorry, I did not mean to leave you out Katy 😊

[@user-cu5gc4qz8p]

saved this until after Christmas break.... now I just feel sadness... EDIT: And then you put Landon behind Alonso, Perez, and Leclerc what the heck guys... =)

[@Saintwolvinn]

I don’t think making excuses for Charles is really a valid thing. I’m a Max fan and he would crash a lot in the past because he didn’t know the limits of his car and pushed them too far. You saw much less of that in 2021. As a driver, he just became more experienced. This is Charles’ first real chance at a title, and there’s a lot of pressure that also affects how well he may feel in the car. I don’t think the season says much about him as a driver, other than him just needing a bit more experience running at the top of the field. I think given more time and more opportunities in a championship winning car he could have a solid chance at winning.

[@danbruh33]

How is kmag p15

[@LandOfTheFallen]

One thing I didn’t appreciate was the fact that you were all basically saying that context is irrelevant in what happened this season between Hamilton and Russell. Little things like Hamilton’s DRS not opening in Austria matter. Let’s not forget that Hamilton finished ahead of Russell despite Russell getting pole. Context matters. Otherwise, solid list.

[@bjs7442]

Has Perez driven better than Lando? No way. Who would the top teams go for ? It wouldn't be Perez . What is the point of rating each drive after the race and then ignoring those rankings at year end. This is a driver ranking not car and driver ranking. Tom even said I would put Lando 3rd or 4th and he may be ahead of Russell then they agree on 7th? Especially when there were eight drivers in faster cars. It beggars belief. edit..... Sky sports have Lando 3rd and Sergio 8th behind Ocon and F1 power rankings Lando 3= andSergio 7th =.The Race Lando 2nd Sergio 9th . Tommo Lando 2nd Sergio 10th I dont expect them to be all the same and they have different opinions and I love WTF1 but they seem to be completely out on their own.

[@LimitPro1]

He sort of did better then Lando but he at least should be below Sainz performance wise.

[@ynzeschaap4240]

Rating him on race by race grades makes it so consistency doesnt really show up in the rankings, but this is not a notebook so make some bareable sentences maybe?

[@nicksurface3513]

British bias

[@bjs7442]

@@nicksurface3513 Well WTF1 are all British so it appears British bias is anti British who would have thought that!

[@anameyoucantremember]

@@LimitPro1 Sainz was utterly worse than Perez. The Ferrari was the faster car during the 1st half of the season and Sainz just binned it. He picked up some pace by the second half, but nowhere near where he should have been. He almost got beaten by the 2 Mercs (finished behind Russell and only 6 points ahead of Hamilton, and only because Ham retired in Abu Dhabi) who were absolutely off the pace bar 2 or 3 races. Sainz was easily the worse of the top 6.

[@gsipp00]

Tsunoda yeah not in a strong car but also nothing shown to put him higher.

[@kkrsnn5632]

Max, Charles, George, Lewis, Carlos, Checo, Alonso, Lando for me.

[@pabloruedaarzoz8065]

Which Season do you think was better, Alonso 2018 or Norris 2022? For us spaniards is a no brainer cause when he wasn't retiring the car, which was almost half of the races, he was scoring points and finishing like 7th or 8th most of the time, finished at 11th in the championship with 50 points, while Vandoorne ended up with 12 points, at number 16, with 3 retirements to Alonso's 8. All of this with like the 6th or 7th best car at the very best. But it seems you brits have Lando in a very high steem, no spaniard would put Lando top 3 on the year i feel like, but a lot of you do, even 2nd. Here in Spain we usually put him between 4th and 6th, as the 2nd or 3rd best brittish driver, often behind Alonso. For a while you all turned into Alonso fanboys, wich was quite funny, i thought we were the only ones bold enough to suggest Alonso being 3rd or 4th ahead of Russell. But i have to say, as a spaniard, hearing you talk about the 3rd best car as if it was the worst thing ever is just pure comedy. The fact that this was the worst car Hamilton ever had in F1 is just ridiculous, he is the luckiest driver ever

[@leomariano2735]

Norris and Russel should be higher, Hamilton and Perez should be lower

[@melodybipolar]

I agree Russell and Lewis should be the other way round

[@konstantinplinke2093]

Love the explanations and I agree with 18 of them but Magnussen should be higher because yes he had these bad weekends but in the end a bad weekend or a medium P11 weekend is basically 0 points and Magnussen put that car in the points on many locations and had a pole. He should be at least P13 and Russel is so underrated. He got in a new team against a 7 time champ regarded as on of the best and he was so much quicker at the start and had race win and a pole. He even beat Hamilton on points. He should get the respect he deserved this season and should be third. I know it is on grades and a average build throughout the season but still Russel P3 is something in my opinion which would be fair

[@konstantinplinke2093]

Russel was 35 points ahead of Hamilton. That alone shows how great he was. Also his first year in the car and he was quicker from the get go. Thinking back to Red Bull were Albon and Gasly did not work. Since then I appreciate a driver in a new car who is quicker than the first driver even more than I did a few years ago.

[@GamingQuest4510]

@@konstantinplinke2093 and Hamilton was test driver in the beginning of the season till canada, had extremely bad luck with safety car and basically beat him in qualification and raw pace. Russell only won in Brazil because Hamilton's car was damaged and he crashed on purpose in qualification Next year if we will see if he can beat him

[@Trifocal7777]

What was the final score between Hamilton and Russel in qualifying? You say that Russel was faster than Hamilton but I’m pretty sure Hamilton managed to beat him in qualifying on occasion. I know Russel is the better driver but Hamilton was able to match him sometimes.

[@suckieduckie]

@@konstantinplinke2093 I mean I'm not a big fan of the narratives that tend to protect lead drivers, but given Hamiltons pace at the end of the season it makes sense that he did crap setups for extra development in the early races for a better car later in the season.

[@lukasralys6096]

@@Trifocal7777 their quali differences when they had no issues is 0.035 throughout the whole season

[@arposkraft3616]

a sabbatical huh, so well see him and mika hakkinen back next year ;)

[@brickisland6353]

Alonso, Bottas and Zhou all had 6 DNF this season. And the majority of that was because of reliability.

[@mgers75]

Lando #7 tell me you guys need to take more time with your race grades next year.