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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[selder_]

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.

[pooledogg]

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

[areebsiddiqui]

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.

[justinpharand]

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

[jrdahl]

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.

[lucascorea]

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.

[fin-edoj]

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

[nomarspaulding]

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.

[juanignacioordoqui]

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.

[tamryn]

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

[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

[itisjustLucas]

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

[raptorsaurus]

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

[rosek]

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

[aaronedwards]

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.

[tamryn]

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.

[christianorsa]

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

[jamesnichols]

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

[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

[rspbgaming]

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