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My list:
1) Max Verstappen - Peerless, totally dominated hardly put a foot wrong.
2) Lando Norris - Excelled in the updated McLaren.
3) Fernando Alonso - Made the most of the improved Aston and showed he's still one of the best.
4) Oscar Piastri - A great first season.
5) Charles Leclerc - Marginally the quicker Ferrari driver but still also the most prone to a mistake.
6) Carlos Sainz - Not much to choose between the Ferrari drivers and Sainz grabbed the only non-RedBull win of the year.
7) Alexander Albon - The Williams was clearly a better car this season and Albon took advantage of that.
8) Lewis Hamilton - Couldn't drag the Mercedes to the top step of the podium and some uncharacteristic mistakes in wheel to wheel combat. Came out on top in the team though.
9) Pierre Gasly - Looked to be the better of the Alpine drivers but also seemed to get screwed over by the team more often than his teammate.
10) George Russell - Some good days, some bad. A less consistent season from Russell and not as close to Hamilton as he'd have liked.
11) Yuki Tsunoda - Comfortably saw off De Vries and came out on top against Ricciardo. A much better season than I expected from Tsunoda.
12) Esteban Ocon - Got a podium in Monaco but other than that I can only remember clumsy driving and generally being unpopular.
13) Sergio Perez - Started well then had an absolute horror show. Seems weird saying that about the guy that finished 2nd but he got less than half the points of Max in the same car.
14) Nico Hulkenberg - Generally qualified well then went backwards as the car ate its tyres.
15) Lance Stroll - Had a promising start to the season but then showed he's nothing special after that. Comprehensively beaten by his teammate.
16) Valtteri Bottas - The better of the two Alfa drivers but largely a season to forget.
17) Zhou Guanyu - Beaten by his teammate - can't think of any real highlights or howlers.
18) Kevin Magnussen - Largely a season to forget for Kevin, same problems as his teammate with the tyres but usually started further back.
19) Daniel Ricciardo - disappointing comeback. He really needed to bury Tsunoda and didn't. Not helped of course by binning the car and injuring himself.
20) Logan Sargeant - Low expectations and struggled to meet them. Looked out of his depth for large parts of the season.
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