Why? Because you need to see the value of pilots also where the single seater is not competitive. And because the first you have to defeat in Formula 1 is your teammate!
Rating or tires change – we will award tires according to the pilots’ performance in every Grand Prix. The best performance will be awarded with supersoft tires and the worst with rain tires, meaning that a rating of 6 is the maximum and 1 is the minimum. We will not take into account the performance of the car or other things that are not under the direct control of the pilots.
(+) Pilot of the race: Sebastian Vettel
(-) Taxi driver: Pastor Maldonado.
Race show: 4 out of 10.
Red Bull: Vettel rating 6 (15, 4) – Ricciardo rating 6 (3, 3)
Sebastian Vettel ran a very good race, managing to climb 11 places, and proved that he is fully motivated to win. For his first official podium of the season, Daniel Ricciardo gets the F1 Manager point for the team fight for also defeating Vettel in the sessions 1 and 2 of the qualifications.
Spain 0 – 1
General 1 – 4
Mercedes: Rosberg rating 5 (2, 2) – Hamilton rating 6 (1, 1)
Nico is up there, but not at the top, and he will not receive the maximum ranking no matter how close he is to his teammate; he will only receive it once he defeats him. Hamilton could not do more this season, therefore A+.
Spain 0 – 1
General 1 – 4
Ferrari: Alonso rating 5 (7, 6) – Raikkonen rating 5 (6, 7)
Fernando was clearly favored by his team in terms of strategy, but Raikkonen – and we admit that this comes as a surprise to us – was faster during qualifications, and out point for the Spanish race goes to him. However, this is not Ferrari’s biggest problem, but the 1.7 seconds per lap behind the Mercedes team, and the fact they were surpassed by one lap by them in the race.
Spain 0 – 1
General 4 – 1
McLaren: Button rating 5 (8, 11) – Magnussen rating 4 (14, 12 )
Mr. Eric Boullier said they would make a splash in Spain with the innovations they will put on the car, and that at one point in 2014 they will even fight for victory. If he wouldn’t be French, we would’ve said he has a fine sense of humor.
Spain 1 – 0
General 4 – 1
Lotus: Grosjean rating 6 (5, 8) – Maldonado rating 3 (22, 15)
The first points of the season for Grosjean and the Lotus team were again obtained when the single seater was experiencing problems. Romain’s display showed either six or five cylinders working. There is nothing left to say about Maldonado, and are wondering how long his sponsor will bear with him. Until a more apt Venezuelan emerges?
Spain 1 – 0
General 5 – 0
Force India: Hulkenberg rating 5 (10, 10) – Perez rating 6 (11, 9)
We noticed how Sergio smoothly outran Nico, so the Mexican receives the second F1 Manager point of the season and the highest ranking.
Spain 0 – 1
General 3 – 2
Sauber: Sutil rating 5 (16, 17) – Gutierrez rating 6 (13, 16 )
Surprisingly, Gutierrez leads in front of Adrian Sutil in our rankings.
Spain 1 – 0
General 2 – 2
Williams: Massa rating 4 (6, 15) – Bottas rating 6 (7, 7)
Felipe again fails when it is most important, something that cannot be said about the talented Valtteri. Therefore, the Finn receives our point and the highest ranking.
Spain 0 – 1
General 4 – 1
Toro Rosso: Kvyat rating 5 (12, 14) – Vergne rating 4 (21, 22)
After the results of the last races, it seems that the Toro Rosso team has decided to be just mediocre, and the Russian took the lead in the F1 Manager standings.
Spain 1 – 0
General 3 – 2
Marussia: Bianchi rating 6 (18, 18) – Chilton rating 6 (17, 19)
Chilton was faster during qualifications than Bianchi, and finished the 24th consecutive race in Formula 1 since his debut. The fact that he lost his starting position to his teammate, Jules, makes him lose in our rankings as well.
Spain 1 – 0
General 3 – 2
Caterham: Kobayashi rating 5 (18, 17) – Ericcson rating 5 (20, 20)
When Kamui abandoned, he was in front of his teammate, Ericcson, and even if the latter was faster that the Japanese during qualifications by half a tenth, the point goes to Kobayashi.
Spain 1 – 0
General 4 – 0
Your Hammy vs Nico and Alonso vs Kimi reasoning is garbage. You put Nico behind Hammy when clearly he’s not and you put Kimi equal to Alonso when he’ couldn’t keep him behind him; you conveniently forget that Alonso pitted first because his tires were worst. Your bias is readily apparent.
Oh dear, dear. Hamilton beat Nico qualy and race, why should Nico receive the point?
I didn’t say that, did I? Why should Hammy receive the point when they were clearly equal? Regardless, it’s pretty easy to win when you have the winning car, is it not?
But isn’t Nico in the winning car too? Obviously if you come 2nd in an equally winning car pretty much says it all about the rating.
You’re forgetting Nico has not beaten Lewis yet. Nico won Australia and lead the WDC due to his team mate’s DNF.
No, I’m not forgetting that, but I was thinking only of Barcelona. Obviously I should have made that clear.
Clearly Louis is winning vs Nico.
However, also clearly, FA is winning vs Kimi.
Point taken vis a vis ‘are we discussing Spain’.
But in reality, we establish our opinion based upon all the races so far.
We can factor in ‘a bit of bad, or good luck’.
So can we rate Perez high than Hulk?…..
…. er……… no!
🙂