There have been loads of contenders for ‘greatest performer’ from an exhilarating British Grand Prix weekend by which drivers confronted an actual mixture of climate situations.
However who’s in the end come out on high in Edd Straw’s Components 1 driver rankings this week? Discover out under:
How do the rankings work? The 20 drivers will likely be ranked so as of efficiency from greatest to worst on every grand prix weekend. This will likely be based mostly on the complete vary of standards, starting from tempo and racecraft to consistency and whether or not they made key errors. How shut every driver bought to delivering on the utmost efficiency potential of the automotive will likely be an important consideration.
It’s essential to notice each that this displays efficiency throughout your complete weekend, cognisant of the truth that qualifying is successfully ‘lap 0’ of the race and key to laying the foundations to the race, and that it isn’t a rating of the all-round qualities of every driver. It’s merely about how they carried out on a given weekend. Due to this fact, the rating will fluctuate considerably from weekend to weekend.
And with every of the ten automobiles basically having totally different efficiency potential and ‘luck’ (ie components exterior of a driver’s management) contributing to the best way the weekend performs out, this rating may also differ considerably from the general outcomes.
Began: 2nd Completed: 1st
Hamilton’s first win in two-and-a-half years was brilliantly executed, notably by way of his tempo when the rain first got here and the excellent use of the softs within the remaining stint that saved him out of vary of Max Verstappen.
His qualifying tempo was high-quality, however might have been somewhat higher, however that’s a comparatively minor criticism of a robust weekend.
Verdict: Excellent at key moments within the race.
Began: ninth Completed: ninth
Albon did an excellent job within the Williams, making it to Q3 after which surviving a fraught first lap on which he sustained minor injury after clipping the again of Fernando Alonso’s automotive when the Aston Martin driver checked up as Nico Hulkenberg rejoined the observe at Flip 3.
That, mixed with time misplaced in his first pitstop, made life troublesome, however Albon drove a robust race to bag beneficial factors, profiting from being on the mediums within the remaining stint to move Tsunoda for ninth.
Verdict: Obtained probably the most out of the Williams.
Began: sixth Completed: sixth
On mighty type within the upgraded Haas, and maybe might have certified even greater than sixth given his Q3 lap wasn’t completely executed.
The primary lap was fraught, with wheelspin off the road then a quick journey to the runoff at Village, leaving Hulkenberg ninth.
However his characteristically glorious tempo on slicks within the damp allowed him to move Lance Stroll. Charles Leclerc’s strategic catastrophe and George Russell’s retirement meant he completed sixth.
Verdict: Class of the midfield.
Began: 1st Completed: DNF
Russell did a lot proper at Silverstone, each by way of nailing Q3 to beat his team-mate to pole place and main comfortably for the primary 17 laps.
However when the rain first got here, he struggled greater than Hamilton and misplaced the lead earlier than being shuffled behind the faster McLarens.
He was fourth and nonetheless hopeful of creating positive factors when he hit water system issues that ultimately pressured him again to the Mercedes storage and into retirement.
Verdict: Tempo when rain first hit the one small destructive.
Began: 4th Completed: 2nd
Verstappen did an outstanding job to salvage fourth on the grid regardless of ground injury sustained in Q1, though that he was in that place within the first place was all the way down to him being too attacking within the rain at Copse and operating by the gravel.
He additionally drove a superb race and, with a number of extra laps, might need been in a position to problem Hamilton.
Whereas that doesn’t completely make up for the qualifying error, apart from that he was excellent.
Verdict: Q1 off damages his rating.
Began: third Completed: third
There was an excellent deal that was good about Norris’s weekend, however there have been a number of tough edges.
He ought to have certified higher, doubtlessly even on pole, and overshot his pitbox on the second cease, costing himself just below two seconds.
However by and enormous, he was fast, raced properly and may properly have received however for being not noted a lap too lengthy after which placing on softs – a choice he had a component in.
Verdict: Small imperfections proved pricey.
Began: seventh Completed: fifth
Sainz ought to have accomplished somewhat bit higher in qualifying, as he admitted, however within the race he did a great job of closing again up on the leaders when the rain got here.
However the tempo of the Ferrari meant he was all the time in a no-man’s land between the midfield pack and the frontrunners, doing a great job to remain there all race and sacrificing some race time to pit for softs and seize the quickest lap bonus level late on.
Verdict: Restricted the injury successfully.
Began: fifth Completed: 4th
This was one other weekend on which Piastri’s end result didn’t replicate his efficiency. Whereas he was the slower McLaren in qualifying, he drove properly within the race and there have been occasions within the damp the place he was clearly somewhat faster than Norris.
However the crew telling him to remain out reasonably than double-stacking for the primary cease for inters did irreparable injury to his race.
Verdict: Technique eradicated victory risk.
Began: thirteenth Completed: tenth
With RB operating a compromise package deal that included round half of the Spanish GP improve because of issues encountered with attaining a great through-corner stability, Tsunoda drove a great race.
He did an honest job on slicks within the damp and delivered a race drive that yielded a degree regardless of being lumbered with softs within the remaining stint, as he didn’t have a medium set left.
Verdict: Nabbed a degree the automotive didn’t deserve.
Began: tenth Completed: eighth
Because the Aston Martin got here alive at Silverstone, so too did Alonso. Sadly, having flown as much as that time, he ended up behind the team-mate because of site visitors ruining his fresh-tyre lap in Q3.
He bought again forward of Stroll within the first stint of the race when the rain got here, though misplaced greater than 10 seconds to his team-mate because of deciding to remain out when he was known as in for inters, which ensured he completed behind.
Verdict: Again on type.
Began: eighth Completed: seventh
Stroll discovered the Aston Martin somewhat simpler to drive at Silverstone however lacked Alonso’s fringe of tempo.
His qualifying margin of 0.332s over Alonso was distorted by the very fact he bought in a correct fresh-tyre lap whereas his team-mate didn’t, but it surely’s price noting he outpaced Alonso on their used-tyre banker runs as properly.
He had a great run to seventh, and whereas he had a more durable time on slicks when the rain got here and fell behind Hulkenberg and Alonso he did end forward of the latter because of gaining important time by pitting for intermediates a lap earlier.
Verdict: A well-executed weekend.
Began: twelfth Completed: eleventh
Sargeant revelled in having parity with Albon this weekend and was punchy in regards to the high quality of his performances.
And rightly so, given this was one in every of his strongest weekends in F1. He bought forward of Albon on the primary lap, however was repassed at Vale then adopted his team-mate by the primary stint.
Dropping time in a double-stack pitstop meant he fell again and that value him the possibility to battle Tsunoda for the ultimate level.
Verdict: Encouraging, however nonetheless off Albon’s stage.
Began: eleventh Completed: 14th
Given Leclerc ran the Spain-spec ground/bodywork all through Friday, whereas his team-mate ran the previous spec each used from Saturday onwards, it was no shock he was much less snug with the automotive come qualifying.
Because of this, he missed Q3 because of struggling to maintain the front-left tyre alive and battling understeer.
After passing Stroll for seventh within the first stint, he grew to become the one driver with one thing to lose to change to intermediates early, which was a ruinous determination for his race.
Verdict: Not at his greatest, however there have been extenuating circumstances.
Began: seventeenth Completed: twelfth
Magnussen’s weekend didn’t actually get off the bottom till the race. That was partly all the way down to the very fact he sat out FP1 for Ollie Bearman, however his tempo was nothing particular even earlier than his off on slicks within the damp at Copse in Q1.
A great first stint and robust tempo on slicks within the moist bought him as much as eleventh, however graining on the softs in his remaining stint meant he fell away and was handed by Sargeant.
Verdict: Two-thirds of the race was sturdy, the remainder of the weekend much less so.
Began: 14th Completed: 18th
There was a uncommon Q2 look for Zhou, outpacing team-mate Valtteri Bottas because of bettering on slicks in tough situations, which set him up for an honest race.
However beginning on softs made life troublesome as after holding 14th early on, he then light as soon as the tyre deg set in. That led to an early gamble on inters that backfired, condemning him to final place.
Verdict: Technique undid an honest weekend.
Began: fifteenth Completed: thirteenth
Ricciardo’s Q2 was compromised by the standard site visitors jams, though he all the time appeared to be at a slender drawback to his team-mate.
That pattern continued in what was an nameless race buried within the midfield for Ricciardo, who summed up his emotions when he stated “hopefully there’s an enormous gap in my automotive that I haven’t but seen and that’s the explanation we have been gradual” after struggling within the race.
Verdict: A nothing weekend.
Began: sixteenth Completed: fifteenth
Bottas most likely ought to have made it into Q2, however was unable to enhance on his remaining lap simply because the observe situations bought higher once more.
He made a great begin, however was frolicked to dry at Flip 4 and shuffled again, which assured a protracted, arduous afternoon – successfully ending final of those that didn’t make the error of taking inters early (even ending behind a kind of who did).
Verdict: A strong weekend in a poor automotive.
Began: 18th Completed: sixteenth
Ocon summed up his personal weekend properly, saying: “Every thing that might have gone mistaken went mistaken; we took each mistaken determination from earlier than the race, to on the grid, to through the race. Each name on data was mistaken.”
Chief amongst these errors was the confusion on the finish of Q1 that possible value him a spot in Q2, the doomed selection to begin on softs and the ensuing dangerous early swap to intermediates.
On high of that, the Alpine by no means confirmed the top-10 tempo it exhibited within the earlier run of races.
Verdict: Given little likelihood to impress.
Began: twentieth (pits) Completed: seventeenth
Qualifying once more ruined Perez’s weekend, though this time it was an error on his outlap in tough situations that resulted in him being beached within the Copse gravel.
Chucking energy unit parts on the automotive to keep away from future penalties was an apparent transfer, as was the dangerous early swap to intermediates – engineer Hugh Hen stated post-race it was “price taking a shot” – that eradicated any likelihood of a great restoration.
Verdict: An inexcusable Q1 blunder ruined his weekend.
Began: nineteenth Completed: DNF
Qualifying was an irrelevance for Gasly given he was condemned to beginning on the again because of an influence unit change, however parking within the gravel within the moist in FP3 didn’t assist his trigger.
Not that it mattered, with a gearbox drawback which means he peeled into the pits to retire on the finish of the formation lap.
Given he sat out FP1, wasn’t critically attacking qualifying and didn’t race, there’s little significant to fee him on.
Verdict: A futile weekend.