Mazepin's season was great, too. Zero Crashes, no teammate shenanigans and he avoided any controversy.

Zhou should’ve been ahead of Yuki, less mistakes, good rookie season like Yuki, Yuki crashed more this season.

Zhou deserves better. All those DNF's and he had highlights. At Baku he was properly fast before the engine went poof again and the way he controled that tankslapper in Monaco was genuinely epic

Latifi in 20th. I did not see this coming

Finally a F1 format that starts with Latifi.

Zhou's ranking here is only associated with his points. If you look closely into his season. His team strategy is no better than Leclerc's. his car in later half season is less competitive. And even with all the odds against him. He is able to follow Bottas closely and perform steadily in mid field.And he sometimes out qualified Bottas in Saturday and Sunday.Not to mention he somehow made the fastest lap in Japan, and that miracle spin save in Monaco. I believe he deserves a higher ranking here. Maybe next year when all other rookies enter the game, we can have a better comparison then.

No matter your opinion of Max, hard to deny his season was absolute dominant

I'm genuinely curious to hear what the higher high of Lewis were vs Russel. I was also a bit puzzled by Zhou's ranking especially cause the argumentation was so positive. And love seeing Lando this high up, he truly made the best of the car.

I think many people dont realise how good Lando performed in 2022 because he was almost always better than the rest but didnt have the car to fight with the top 3 teams. We almost never actually saw him on camera during races

Something that impressed me this season was the every full time driver on the grid both scored points and got into Q3 at some point, I mean, when was the last time that happened?!

Idk how you have Zhou at 17th, behind Tsunoda and arguably Gasly aswell. Bottas is a proven solid driver & Zhou did amazing after getting more comfortable in the car after the half season mark

"Performance level relative to machinery". It's there, guys. Good drivers with good cars does not automatically put them higher in the rankings especially if they did not perform well to their potential.

You got Latifi right, that's about it.

I agree with most of it, but Alonso could be even more close to the top, he got much more of the car that was really in it, and was the driver with most overtakings over the year.

This is more like a rank based on team and driver performances rather than purely on driver performance. Zhou had at least a dozen points taken from him due to reliability and he’s ranked lower than both AT drivers who didn’t even outperform their car one bit. Vettel was challenging the faster Mclarens and Alpines in a tractor in some occasions on the 1st half and almost every race on the 2nd half and at least 30 points were thrown away due to AM’s terrible strategies.

Honestly I would have swapped Zhou and Stroll, Zhou never really set a foot wrong, and Stroll had quite a few Daddy's Crash moments.

well, you got first and last correct. The other 18 tho, very questionable...

I'd have Russel above Hamilton, think I'd have had Sainz higher too based on his good judgement calls but not sure if I'd have put him above the Mercs. Also maybe Alonso higher than Hamilton? It's pretty tough without all the data. Max definitely at the top though, I think Norris is a good call as he trounced his team mate in a middling car and always seemed to be in positions that seemed a bit high for the performance. Agree with Le Clerc, turn of speed is almost unparalleled but he isn't a strategist like Sainz and makes errors under pressure.

Alonso in 6th is a yoke! A YOKE!

Great list. Only thing I would change is putting Russel in front of Hamilton, because it was the reality. Hamiltons gap in points reflects mistakes and not bad luck as 2 of the DNFs were self inflicted. Plus Russel was faster in the first part of the season and pn the same level in the second part. So overall, objectively speaking, Russel was the better driver this year.

I would definitely give Alonso a top 5 spot. If not for horrible Alpine reliability, Alonso would have scored massive points and he was genuinely better than Ocon throughout the season. Also I believe George was the better performing Mercedes driver this season. If not for his consistency in the first half, there was no way Mercedes would have been in the fight for P2 towards the end. He had frustratingly amazing consistency in the first half (coming from an RB fan)! My top 6 would look something like this : 1. Max 2. Lando 3. Leclerc 4. George 5. Alonso 6. Lewis

I agree with most of the ranking. But I'd put Zhou higher and Gasly lower.

Perez and magnussen deserve higher positions on this ranking

So Carlos had “unique demands” in the Ferrari but Checo underperformed flat out? This list could’ve been done better imo. By that logic, if Perez won the championship, he maybe would’ve been placed 5th on your list 😂

I would have put Zhou way higher than that..

Excessive British biased

I’m calling it, I respect and enjoy the content you guys put out, but you underrated Zhou. Should be at least 4 places higher. He never crashed the car on his own, ONCE. He had the measure of his vastly more experienced teammate in quali and race for several races from Baku onward. Like Alonso, he also had rotten luck, from being crashed out in the Imola sprint and his car failing multiple times. Highly likely he would have added to his points tally. Looking forward to see where his career goes from here. 🇨🇳

Lets all pray Mcclaren can get a fast car for next year. Next year will be phenomenal if we can see lando fighting up front

How is Vettel not in your Top 10? Some of his Performances were unreal, and he actually had a somewhat competent teammate unlike Albon, and he was so close to finishing P11-P10 in the standings with a car that was not supposed to be in that position, and that is with Disaster Strategy Calls and Slow Pitstops

I'm more a fan of Lewis than George but biases aside I would say that for George's first proper season with Mercedes, next to a 7-time world champion, outscoring him on merit, getting Mercedes' only win of the season on merit, and considering each driver's standing relative to their 2021 season...I'd have to say George overall wins. I want to see Lewis comeback in 2023 and challenge, nay win, his 8th title but just assessing the 2022 season I have to say George did a great job. He certainly proved he was the better choice over Bottas.

Lando indeed was amazing, the performer cameras didn't let you see perform in 2022.

Imagine - taking the only pole of your team in a season - taking the only win of your team in a season - beating your team mate in points - still being ranked worse 😂😂

Ham above Rus? Rus suffered more DNFs. Ham made more mistakes. Despite all of these, Rus got a pole and a win and beat Ham in points. Ham's second half of the season form couldn't beat Rus's first half of the season form. If you consider the peak performance, Rus got a pole and a win. If you consider the consistency, Rus beat Ham in points even after suffering more DNFs. And this is Rus's first season with Merc. I think Rus should be P2 or P3. I'm sorry. After I've posted this, I check the number of Rus's number of DNFs. I was wrong. But I still have to say, in this season Rus outperformed Ham clearly. Let's wait and see another season who will be the better driver.

I think 19th for Schumacher is a bit harsh since he was much closer to his teammate then the likes of Ricciardo and Zhou. And Haas got much slower towards the end of the season when he was as fast and faster than Kmag

Russell in rookie season with Mercedes he should be ahead of Hamilton...

George lost 7 points in the second half of the season, how is he not higher then hamilton

im excited to see how zhou does over the years

TheRace getting back at Checo after he critisized them after singapore. Reason to put him in 9th was him not getting 2nd spot but no credit to him helping with first constructors. Sainz crashed way more times and made way more errors than checo but he got higher.

I would've put Checo a little higher. Red Bull gave him a different floor than Max during a long period of the season and his strategy always seemed a little off other than Monaco.

Lando Norris as 2? Kind of crazy.

Good ranking. Only difference for me is hamilton(6)

I would put Russell in front of Hamilton. Remember that this was Russell's FIRST season at Mercedes and he was immidiately on the pace beating Hamilton quite consistently. He won a race, Lewis did not. Overall Russell was more impressive then Hamilton in 2022.

There is a point to be made that Norris managed to take so much out of a uncompetitive car. However considering how badly things went for his team mate the gap is deceptive everything went wrong for Riccardo.

Russell's performance this year as a whole was very impressive, I give him the edge over Hamilton.

Lewis as high as 4th? PFFFFFT!!!!! This year proved he's the average driver we all knew he was without the best car on the grid

LMAO PEREZ 9th? The bias shows HARD

perez at 9th is absolutely absurd.

Bottas always started well and diminished / didn’t improve.

GOD DANMIT MY FAVOURITE DRIVER SHOULD BE HIGHER!!!!

Theres no way any people think hamilton was better than russel anytime this year thats nonsense

Puttin Hamilton above Russel is a joke. Outperformed Hamilton in his first season with a big car.

Seb deserve a better ranking somewhere near Alonso.

Russel being below Hamilton is a joke 😂.

K-mag should rank a little higher in my opinion

Putting Lewis in front of his teammate when he lost to him by 2 places and 35 points is a joke at best.

How you placed Lewis above Russel is beyond me.

In my opinion, Zhou should be ahead of Stroll, besides that some minor changes, like swapping Albon and Perez and Russell and Hamilton.

You gave rather good compliments to Zhou, with his only drawback of being not being flashy enough. Outqualifying his teammate consistently by the end of the season, him being a rookie, and taking reliability into consideration should rate Zhou much much higher.

Swap Vettel's place with Ocon's and we got something more accurate

Norris at 2nd? I subscribed to this channel because of the SuperGT content. Nowadays, their technical analysis has really been a joke. Unsub.

Zhou shouldn't be that far down

Russell #2 for me, certainlly ahead of Lewis as it was his first seasson in a top team against a more experienced driver. 😜

3:49 Stroll‘s sixth place at Suzuka? You might want to get that right…he finished 12th

Glad to see Lando get his due

This channel has become such a joke! especially this season the british bias has been absolutely ridiculous and that shows in the list. I mean putting lando 2nd and guys like Vettel or Perez somewhere around 10th? You can't be serious.

Can't believe Russell was placed below Hamilton. First season in the car up against Lewis Hamilton and he manages to beat him and score the only win for the team. Made some brilliant strategic decisions as well.

You said you are ranking based on how they performed relative to the cars and yet you put the good cars with good drivers higher. Alonso should be higher on the list, so should Seb and Checo. And Russell should be higher than Hamilton. The only rankings in this list that make sense are Max at no.1 and Latifi at no. 20.

I’d swap the mercs, may this be a Russell fan from his days at Williams, but I think his show of strive at the start of the season out competing Lewis and still maintaining that overall competitive edge over his teammate. This may just be bias however 😅😂

Glad to see it's not just the F1 commentators, and the F1 power rankings crew have an absolute obsession over lando Norris.

I agree that HAM and RUS were close, but I would place RUS ahead of HAM based on this season as a whole. Yes, in the last quarter of the season HAM probably had higher peaks in general. But for me he was clearly struggling to keep up with RUS in the first half, possibly even the first 3/4 of the season, and that put him behind overall.

No way hamilton season was better than russel driving for Mercedes for the first year

Some mental gymnastics there to rank lewis higher than George, GR only non RB / Ferrari to win a race

If we're going rank drivers off the mistakes, general pace, and consistency throughout the season, then both Russell and Alonso should be ranked ahead of Hamilton who had a ton of on track incidents and mistakes, even taking into account a strong second half.

I’d argue Russell deserves the number 3 spot - not only did he drag Mercedes demonstrably worse than the RB/Ferrari into places higher than it had any right to be, beat Hamilton in his first season at a new team and got his maiden win with a storming drive in Brazil, but his consistency was unparalleled: Russell only finished lower than 5th three times the whole season - the DNF in Silverstone, 14th in Singapore and 8th in Japan. That's a 5th place or better finishing rate of 86% alongside a podium rate of 36%. Even more impressive than the top 5 streak between Bahrain and Monaco is that had it not been for that DNF in Silverstone, that streak would have extended until Singapore - 17 races in a row. The man's consistency is insane.

Perz below Sainz?

Zhou should have been in the top 9, he drove like a consummate veteran in his first season. He took all the points available to him & rescued a P11-13 from the fire more than q few times. Name a rookie who did better than him in their first season in the last 10yrs ...

How can u guys put Hamilton higher then Russel? Russel was all year long consisten also with the hopping W13 and never cryied that much like Hamilton. He even won a race and it was his 1st Year at Merc. I cant stand all those Hamilton fans anymore. And Lando on 2, Fernando on 6 is another talk we should have. Leclerc derserved P2, if he´s not getting Ferrarid he even could´ve competed with Max What a Ranking. Sorry guys but you missed out

Vettel and Pérez deserve a higher ranking

terrible break down, you obviously just looked at the results and didn't pay much attention to issues out of drivers control

Russell being in the top 5 in 19/22 of the races seems like a factor u have not even thought about.

British media incoming

Very British take...

Hamilton haters trying to prove Russel is the better driver with 0 fucking proof (except only 3 races) Azerbeijan(he had lower rear height therefore more bouncing), Saudi(setup), Imola(drs train)

No way you place Checo 9th. This has been his best season ever and don't forget what he did for the team to achieve both championships

I would put Russell ahead of Hamilton because the consistency as well as the first half of the season along with a pole and race win has to be valued. Verstappen at No.1 isn't really debatable from my point of view but there may be an argument for putting Leclerc over Lando for No.2. Overall I'm fine with the list though.

I stopped taking this video seriously once you ranked Tsunuda and Stroll, seriously, above Schumacher, Zhou and Ricciardo. Also, why are you rating Hamilton above Russel when George beat him in the same machine by 35 points? Take a reality check mate.

Norris in second place?! lmao give me some of whatever you're smoking. "If there was a driver who was going to deliver a brilliant drive to seventh place it was going to be Norris". No it wasn't. Most of the times the brilliant drives came from Alonso who would then be let down by Alpine. I can't fathom the delusion of putting Norris in second place. He has done nothing except beating a Ricciardo who was literally driving slower than most grandma's at some points of the season. Ricciardo was sometimes as slow as the Williams and the Haas pairing. "Demolishing" that version of Ricciardo is barely an achievement.

Best ranking and analysis I've seen so far. Agree with the substantive comments. Nice analysis. I agree with other comments that Zhou could be argued to be a little higher.

Not to sure abt Norris being 2nd and Russel should def be higher than lewis

George should be above Lewis. Russell was consistent the entire year. The streak of top 5 finishes kept Mercedes in the Constructors vs Ferrari.

People forget that were we see the best perfomances isn't at the front, you have less competition, only one or two other drivers per race, the worse your car is should climb you up the order

VER, MSC, and LAT are right. Maybe RIC too. NOR is overrated at 2nd and is probably 5th/6th at best. 9th for PER seems to be affected by recency bias.

The only rankings I have significant disagreement with are Hamilton and Norris. You’re giving Hamilton too much credit for a late season resurgence. He was demoralized and unmotivated at the beginning of the season and Russell handed him his lunch over and over again until the summer break. He rallied in the latter half of the year, but too little too late to deserve to be ranked above his team mate, and their points results, and race victory tallies, speak to the better driver over the course of the season. And while Norris had a good season and consistently delivered best-of-the-rest performances, he rarely had to cope with the pressures that Sainz, Leclerc, Hamilton or Russell endured this year. He benefited from a team mate famously out of sorts with the McLaren package which flattered Lando’s own performances and rarely found himself in a highly competitive midfield battle due to the poor reliability of Alonso’s Alpine and the performance deficit most of the other mid-tier teams struggled with. As a result, we don’t know how he’ll perform under significant and sustained pressure if he’s ever given a car that is capable of consistently competing at the sharp end of the field. Until then, he can’t be said to have earned a second place ranking, particularly one above actual race winners this year.

Lando Norris #2? Cmon now. You gotta stop that British bias.

Perez's season was way better than Ocon, Alonso, Russell, Hamilton and Sainz's. I gotta give credit to George for consistency, but Perez's season was up there given the direction that RedBull developed the car towards Verstappen's liking

Russell outscored Hamilton by 35 points! Not sure what Hamilton did to be the better performer?

Mick rated lower than Ricciardo, and Stroll has got to be the best joke you came up with. Honestly just shows that you pay attention to points more than what actually happens throughout the season

I respect that the list is subjective, but guys, you are overly one-sided with Hamilton.

Yuki ahead of Zhou is CRIMINAL, he was absolute rubbish this season

Lando did so well