Pretty amazing that the F1 Mettrics rating has not been linked in this post
https://f1metrics.wo...river-rankings/
AMuS, Autosport and the like have esentially the same value as anybody's opinion, whereas F1 Metrics is to my knowledge the only mathematical model of driver's performance, with the obvious advantages, like for instance, it is not biased in favour of the beloved driver, doesn't forget data and will always provide the same driver evaluation given the same input information. This is in my opinion a remarcable work on the topic and the only serious way to evaluate drivers, as the influence of the car is very difficult to quantify properly without some mathematical support
According to it:
1. Fernando Alonso 9,13
2. Lewis Hamilton 8,23
3. Daniel Ricciardo 7,97
4. Valteri Bottas 7,13
5. Jean-Eric Vergne 7,00
6. Jenson Button 6,99
7. Nico Rosberg 6,95
8. Kimi Räikkönen 6,92
9. Romain Grosjean 6,30
10. Nico Hulkenberg 6,23
11. Daniil Kvyat 6,18
12. Sebastian Vettel 6,16
13. Felipe Massa 5,93
14. Kamui Kobayashi 5,90
15. Marcus Ericsson 5,66
16. Pastor Maldonado 5,38
17. Sergio Perez 5,29
18. Kevin Magnussen 5,26
19. Adrian Sutil 4,46
20. Esteban Gutiérrez 3,97
It is remarkable that it suits relatively well to the common understanding of drivers' standings, with some remarkable deviations:
- General observers seem used to Alonso performing miracles in under-performing cars. Therefore, his standard race where he crushes his world-champion team mate and fights with far better cars is normally ratted with an "8", while should be rated closer to 9,5 - 10
- The better the car, the better the subjective ranking. This suits to almost all drivers at the wheel of the best cars, as the mathematical model rates them significantly lower than the journos.
- In the subjective analysis, Kimi takes the blame for the abnormally low rating of Alonso -->"If Alonso did nothing special, and still has three times as many points as him, surely Kimi can't drive at all". Same contagious infection as the one suffered by Massa, Grosjean et al. some years ago
- Vergne is rated similarly by journos and the model, but the relative standings to other drivers are significantly higher in the model. Maybe another worthy driver sacked by merciless RBRs "young corpse academy"?
- The model thinks that Sauber didn't had as bad a car as drivers
- Performance of "trouble-free" drivers at the wheel of dominant cars, basically worried about waiting until the rest of the field has changed tires to come to boxes and lap slower cars (well, this is a little exaggerated but Mercedes drivers normally only had to care for their team mate and that is the best that we've seen in the last five years) seems a little bit exaggerated in the typical "hail the champion"-oriented journo rating
Edited by FullWets, 10 December 2014 - 18:53.