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Mid-season driver rankings by Autosport
Basically, because I'm a sad and statistically minded human being with enough free time to do this, I have Autosport's driver ratings for each driver across all 11 races so far for the 2014 season. By adding together all 11 ratings for each driver, and dividing by 11, I have got the mean average rating per weekend for each driver (rounded up where necessary, 11ths are recurring decimals)
This shows just how the driver performs on average, out of 10, per weekend, and by getting this result for all 22 drivers, I can compile Autosport's "official" driver rankings for the 2014 mid-season!
Of course, Autosport hand out a "star performer" award each race weekend, and this is shown using a * symbol. This decides who's been best in a tie break, as you will see. And, of course, I want to hear your views!
2014 Mid-season driver rankings (by Autosport!)
1= Ricciardo 8.73*
1= Hamilton 8.73*
3 Alonso 8.45**
4 Rosberg 8.27*
5 Bottas 7.64*
6 Button 7.36
7 Vettel 7.27*
8= Hulkenberg 7.18
8= Kvyat 7.18
10 Bianchi 7.09
11 Magnussen 7.00*
12= Vergne 7.00
12= Massa 7.00
14= Grosjean 6.82
14= Kobayashi 6.82
16 Perez 6.45
17 Raikkonen 6.09
18 Sutil 5.91
19 Ericsson 5.82
20 Maldonado 5.45
21 Chilton 5.36
22 Gutierrez 5.27
My personal key:
8-9 You’re driving fantastically each weekend. WDC potential.
7-8 Dependable, very solid, if sometimes unspectacular
6-7 Not bad, some good races, some bad
5-6 Not quite sure why you’re in F1
So there you go. Ricciardo and Hamilton have been the joint best driver so far in the 2014 season if you believe Autosport. Jenson Button has outdriven Sebastian Vettel, and I have no idea why Saubers line-up are still in Formula 1.
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