i don’t know how many of you have a personal database rating and ranking f1 drivers. i follow f1 since 1989 and have seen every race since 1994, but only now i am creating this database for myself, mostly to be consistent with who i think has done well relative to his car. when rating someone’s performance, qualifying has a certain weight, but it is mostly the race performance that is taken into account. I start from a 6,0 and good moves, constant fast lap times and strategic brilliance can make the grade up to 10,0. Errors or simply poor peformance (sometimes relative to the other team member) will get the grade down.
this season, as a reference, i’ve seen two memorable performances: lewis in china and jenson in canada have earned 10,0s. the list of fantastic performances (9,5) goes as follows: kobayashi in turkey, hamilton in spain, vettel at monaco, schumacher in canada, hamilton in germany, schumacher at spa, and vettel in monza.
worst performances: webber, heidfeld and karthikeyan in australia, maldonado in china, schumacher in turkey, massa in spain, karthikeyan in valencia, d’ambrosio in hungary, liuzzi in monza, alguersuari & petrov in singapore, d’ambrosio in korea and trulli in abu dhabi.
having given you my view and standards, here is my year’s ranking so far (75% mean, 10% last 3 races = tendency and 15% best three races = brilliance):
1. vettel 8,10
2. alonso 7,75
3. hamilton 7,44
4. button 7,43
5. kovalainen 7,34
6. buemi 6,81
7. perez 6,75
8. sutil 6,74
9. schumacher 6,73
10. alguersuari 6,70
11. di resta 6,70
12. kobayashi 6,57
13. glock 6,53
14. rosberg 6,53
15. ricciardo 6,49
16. webber 6,23
17. barrichello 5,93
18. petrov 5,88
19. maldonado 5,85
20. liuzzi 5,79
21. trulli 5,78
22. massa 5,70
23. senna 5,37
24. d’ambrosio 5,32
brazilians and italians towards the south of the ranking, i guess.
any thoughts?
