Gary Anderson saying Stake have a stronger lineup than Red Bull is a very bizarre take

Get Gary on a video to explain his ranking and answer questions such as: what was he smoking when he did it, what planet is he operating on, does he know which drivers are on which team

Gary Anderson with some outlandish takes, especially putting rb as 2nd worst. Comparing them to a lot of the other rear runners its unthinkable to me that even when checo is underperforming, the lineup could possibly be worse than stake, alpha tauri or haas.

Given how good Max was, the only way RB can be ranked second worse is if you consider Perez to be the absolute worst driver on the grid. Sure he was bad last year, but it's clearly not the case.

"The jury is still out on whether [Stroll] can make the step forward that Aston Martin really needs." This will be his EIGHTH season in Formula 1.

I can live with Red Bull not being the best driver duo, but rating it the worst?!?

Gary Anderson with some hot takes lol

'Nobody is writing of stroll yet' - Well after SEVEN years in F1 where he underperformed year after year compared to his teammates who regularly score more than double the points. He has never shown any consistency nor potential.

2:25 error here. Albon dragged the team to 7th not 8th

I like the guy a lot, but George disappointed me last year, too many high-profile errors for a driver of his perception. I think Merc and Ferrari should be swapped, but other than that, pretty accurate. I expected Alpine to be a bit closer to Red Bull than that. Ocon and Gasly with the right machinery, potential to be really, really good, both are so dependable.

Is Gary angry?

The British media choosing the all Brit line up as the best on the grid. Wow I am shocked at this completely unexpected result 😂

I actually cannot believe that Anderson put RB in second last place. Both are proven Race winners, one a proven WC (arguably the most dominant ever). How can Mclaren even compare to that, when Norris lacks even a Race win??

Results when you remove Gary Anderson doesn’t change the order too drastically but it does look better IMO 1st Mercedes 172 2nd Ferrari 149 3rd McLaren 130 4th Red Bull 109 5th Alpine 70 5th Aston Martin 70 6th Alpha tauri 46 7th Williams 24 8th Haas 22 9th Stake 16

As a die hard F1 fan since the 1998, I must say the British bias in media coverage has never been worse. I look forward to Lewis retiring, not because he isn't a great (I believe he is one of the very best and his personal story is truly inspirational), but I pray his retirement will bring greater balance to F1 analysis and coverage. Some bias is human nature, but it became bad after about 2017 (post Rosberg WDC) and the afterburners were really turned on after 2021. It's become ridiculous now.

I don't understand how anyone could rank Mercedes as the top driver pairing given their propensity to drive straight into each other.

This lineup is shocking 🤡

What a surprise, the team with 2 British drivers is ranked #1, the bias runs deep

Sorry, but there's no way in hell I'm calling them Stake and not Sauber 😂

What a shocking result, said to myself - Merc on top before even clicking the video.

Max Won the Constructors Championship on his own………. Let that sink in

This year is going to be interesting with all the drivers contracts ending

I think Ferrari is best now. Good balance across both cars and Sainz keeps getting better

verstappen alone takes the redbull lineup into the top 4 by himself some shocking takes here...

I Think ferrari lineup should be 1st because if both drivers are fighting each other then it is bad for both but in case of ferrari the balance is quite good

Gary, are you okay?

Merc has MAYBE the 4th best line up. Ferrari, McLaren, RedBull (Max) all clearly have better driver line ups. 5 years of this George hype and he has very little to show for it. There are easily 10 better drivers on the grid than him but all the British pundits keep trying to cram "George is a future world champion" into every sentence possible.

I'll have some of whatever garys smoking

I knew they'd put mercedes first before i even watched it. These boys are so far up Lewis's a..e its scary.

British Media group vote British drivers best ... Shock...

So all the people on the panel are British (I'm guessing), & they voted the team with the 2 brits in it as best on the grid? I'm shocked.

Russell and Hamilton have clashed so many times on track this season... what is the race smoking putting them on top

However bad Stroll and Perez are, and they are very much two of the worst drivers on the grid, Alonso's and Verstappen's brilliance more than makes up for it. To rank them so low is honestly baffling.

I wonder how many panelist are from UK and their bias towards HAM and RUS… coupled with being blind that Red Bull has won Driver 1st and 2nd place championship and Constructor… basing point allocation in solely speculation. Totally biased IMO.

The ranking from Gary Anderson only make sense if your ranking is based on the balance of strength between the two teammates. There is no question that Red Bull has the least balanced driver pairing on the grid. Not saying I agree. Just trying to come up with an explanation.

British channel: "The all British lineup is the best".. who could have possibly guessed.

Piastri has great potential, and McLaren has a very good lineup, but I think putting them 1st is rather overselling his current ability. I don’t think he’s currently as good as Sainz, and there’s no way Norris is as good as Leclerc, so to me they are a clear 3rd.

Putting Merc at #1 is purely driven by bias.

Putting Alonso & Stroll below Gasly & Ocon is nonsense. Alonso is the 2nd best driver on the grid while neither Ocon or Gasly are top 9

Little biased saying Carlos cannot match Charles when he has a car that is to his liking, I’d say that about any driver. Charles consistently cracks under pressure and Sainz is consistently the smarter driver.

You know we're in peak parasocial DTS era of F1 when despite Gary Anderson showcasing he's the only one who understands the sport, everyone jumps on him because they don't get it. lol

The quintessential British F1 journalist ranking

I’m sorry, but the credibility of your whole publication is tarnished when one of your most frequent collaborators, a person who appears in a good amount of your videos as some sort of credible technical expert with insider F1 knowledge, who often gives the final say on your “verdicts” or expectations and predictions, comes out with opinions as uninformed and baseless as Gary Anderson just has. For Red Bull to be the second worst driver lineup on the grid, that means any one of the seven above them could be dropped in the RB19 and have scored more points than Red Bull did last year. Thinking that Hulk and Magnussen, Bottas and Zhou, Tsunoda and Ricc could score more than Max alone is dubious at best, but Max and Perez? No fucking shot. So, it’s either one of two things: Gary knows that take is complete bullshit and threw it out there as a cheeky way to generate some interaction and clicks-kind of The Race’s MO at this point regardless-and you guys as a journalistic publication are okay with that. Or he genuinely believes this take, and you guys as a supposedly reputable and respected F1 publication repeatedly and consistently cite him as an expert source. Either way, it makes a mess of your guys’ credibility and I’ll definitely be more wary of “here’s what our technical expert has to say...” going forward

alternative title: ranking the 2023 driver line-ups from worst to best

Dumbest ranking theory/comments.. Biased commentators/People keep hyping Ferrari and Mercedes over Redbull is a joke at best. McLaren looks promising with a really good car so they can be up or down - either works fine. This is very first time I felt like British media bias showing up clearly in 'The Race' video, which is disappointing.

Naming Mercedes the best driver pairing is insane. Ferrari has the best pairing, followed by mclaren. Lewis and George are not cooperating now, if the car becomes better it will be a nightmare

I'm guessing GA was drunk when asked.

I’m a Lewis fan! Have been since he joined in 2007 but seriously how can Merc be top of the list. They’d be third or fourth for me. Red Bull is just Max on his own anyway so no need to put them behind Merc

I want what Gary Anderson is smoking

Nothing like British voting for British. Great job!

Rusell has serious deficiencies in regards to his race pace. Let's be honest, lewis most times looks a cut above him. I dont think he has the raw speed of leclerc or max. Reminds me of a button.

Tell me you have a British bias without telling me u have a British bias. 😂😂😂

Imagine british journalists voting for only double british lineup. Who could guesses it?

Lots of emphasis of Norris being mistake-prone but none on LeClercs constant mistakes? Or is the belief that it's just because he has to overdrive an underperforming Ferrari to compensate? I've lost confidence that George is the long-term superstar on the initial promise he showed.

Is that for real? Is a team composed of drivers that crashed between themselves last year the best lineup for next year? No bias present? ...

Me: How biased is this list The Race: Yes

Come on! Ferrari and Mclaren for sure have a better combined line-up then Mercedes. Typical British bias to put the team with two British drivers on top

Saying Red Bull have the second worst driver line up is just insane, is Gary on crack? No matter how crap you think Perez is he is not worse than Zhou and Bottas sure as hell isn't better than Verstappen so how can Red Bull be behind Stake? Even if their line up was Perez and Perez it would be around the Alpine level.

I think Gary was smoking crack when he did his list

Merc being over Ferrari is just crazy imo. Their #1 drivers are almost level and i think that Sainz is still a slightly better race driver than George rn, and also not as prone to choking under pressure

This aged well. Good luck Mercedes 😂🤡😂

The team that won 21 races has the fourth best driver lineup... Yeah, I'm going to go with you guys are smoking the good good because that's just crazy lol.

To sum up the vid: british journalists think british driver pairing is the best. The end

lol so you're telling me the washed up car merchant champion and osama bin russell are supposed to be the best driver line up currently in F1? this coming from the british "panel of experts" ranking the all british driver line up to be the best doesn't sound biased at all

A charitable view of Gary's takes is that he places a strong emphasis on the term "pairing" a la "the whole is greater than the sum of the individual parts", which I guess is somewhat of a noble approach. Its almost like he's asking the question what would a 1 driver team that represents a merger of both drivers' season look like. This favours the teams with a more balanced the line up even if they don't have the best results. I suspect this is his way of taking the performance of car out of the picture.

Two things : 1- Opinions in F1 are always emotional and short lived. 2- Oscar is well liked, and opinions of him are clouded. He's overhyped af, and his contribution and deficit to Norris is similar to Stroll's to Alonso.

If every car was equal I would give the nod to Charles and Carlos as the best pair on the grid. Charles has the outright raw pace and magic and Carlos is very sound and efficient when he has the car set up to his liking and I still give Carlos the slightest edge over Russell..

It’s incredible how much the media are blinded by LeCrashes Qually performances to mask his narrowness as a race driver. By all accounts if Sainz races Mexico and isn’t screwed over in Vegas he finishes the season with more pts. All whilst it’s clear he isn’t the favoured driver in the team. Sainz is a more complete driver than Charles.

Senna/Prost is still the best pair in F1.....

Ferrari should've won. Leclerc is the second-best driver on the grid right now, only behind Verstappen, and above Hamilton and Russell, and Sainz is significantly more consistent than Russell, even if he's lacking in raw speed when compared. Not to mention, although Hamilton and Russell are miles apart in consistency, they are the closest lineup on the grid in raw speed, and they could certainly crash and burn like Hamilton and Rosberg did

Shocked that the british channel with a british panel just voted the all british line-up with the former 7 time world champion as the best line-up on the grid. Truly shocking.

the race picks mercedes as the best… shocking 😂

The Race Team, I am hereby applying for the recently opened up position of Expert Analyst. I will send an additional cover letter and CV through the appropriate channels. Please extend my best wishes to Mr. Anderson. I hope he recovers well from his recent mental breakdown.

is gary okay

was surprised to see Mercedes on top seeing how much Russell actually screwed up last year. If anything Ferrari and McLaren should be better than Mercedes as their driver chemistry seems to be working better. No comment on Red Bull as Checo just couldn't match Max in most races and he's stuck there occasionally underperforming. The rest just seems alright I guess

1. Mercedes 2. Ferrari (they and Merc are switchable) 3. Red Bull 4. McLaren 5. Alpine 6. Aston (Stroll really weighs them down) 7. Alpha Tauri/whatever 8. Haas 9. Williams (Sargeant weighs team down) 10. Stake Kick Sauber

It's 2024. If you still have "lingering doubts" about Lando Norris then you need to find a new sport.

What did George's last season to be considered as a good driver? Being English maybe? 😂😂😂😂😂 The Rece is more like power rankings actually

1. Charles Leclerc / Carlos Sainz - These are two WORLD CLASS drivers currently in 2024 with Carlos Sainz giving Red Bull, a team with unequal machinery a challenge, and having won a race, and Charles Leclerc, who face it has not been on form recently to the extent of his teammate, but is undoubtedly a driver who in 2022 challenged Max Verstappen for the championship, the current or maybe even all time best driver in the world 2. Lewis Hamilton / George Russell - The only reason the Mercedes drivers list is behind the Ferrari drivers list in my opinion is purely due to the age of Lewis Hamilton. His current form suggests yes, he has PASSED it, and yes, this is current form, not 2023 form. Hamilton is undoubtedly not driving to the extent if Carlos Sainz and even Charles Leclerc. Russell is absolutely amongst the likes of Charles Leclerc but he is so mistake prone. Charles used to be, but he’s adapted arguably so much better than George, and George’s costly mistake lost him P7 in Australia just 3 weeks ago. He is not as good. But no, the Mercedes line up is still brilliant 3. Lando Norris / Oscar Piastri - What separates McLaren from the front on this list is purely just Oscar’s inexperience in Formula 1. Potentially by the end of 2024 or 2025, he could top McLaren on my personal list, but he is absolutely mistake prone. He thrown his position ahead of George away in Suzuka, and has a mistake in him, but this is 2024, not 2027, where certainty will arise us and Oscar WILL be the driver we’re looking for. Lando Norris - words speak for itself. He is pure class, but again, he has a mistake in him (Las Vegas 2023), but he hardly makes mistakes and he is still relatively inexperienced but once these two reach their prime, say 2026 or so, McLaren will have the best driver line-up 4. Max Verstappen / Sergio Perez - Perez in tier 4 is potentially misleading, but I’m not convinced. Whilst Max’s dominance has brought his driver line up to P4, Sergio Perez is serving Red Bull’s purpose as he should be in 2024. All Red Bull ask of him is to finish P2 every race, and obviously of Max to win it, and Sergio is serving the purpose, which is all that is asked of him. Yes, he has passed his prime, potentially at Racing Point in 2020, but Perez was above the average mark in his prime, but I’m not convinced Perez is above the 12th or 13th best driver on the grid, and is possibly not deserving of a Red Bull seat. Words speak for themselves for Max 5. Yuki Tsunoda / Daniel Ricciardo - Racing Bulls have a bright future ahead of them, and of course I’m talking about the driver who’s first name is Yuki and who’s last name is Tsunoda. Daniel Ricciardo is purely past it, meaning he is, and it pains me to say this, not worthy of a Formula One seat, so why have I ranked this line up as number 5? Because Racing Bulls have many prodigies, Iwasa, Lawson etc. and Yuki has finally met up and even exceeded standards of Formula One on his fourth year, and for the first time in his career, I can say Yuki is a genuine GREAT driver, and he will only ever improve. Yuki is effectively placing the 6th or 7th best car in points consecutively, but if he driven the car to it’s standards, he would finish 11th, 12th or 13th 6. Esteban Ocon / Pierre Gasly - Ranking two solid drivers 6th is harsh, as they are both worthy of the top half in the championship, If each driver were placed in the same car. However, this isn’t entirely about the drivers - Alpine have no bright spark ahead of them, and unfortunately, this driver lineup / rivalry doesn’t work for them. With Red Bull, having the best driver and a wingman is the purpose of a good constructor, as it enables no battles and for both drivers to serve their purpose. These two are battling out for positions they should be battling out for in separate machinery. And after all, I believe the 5 constructors ahead have at least 1 of the 2 pairing drivers that are better than both Pierre and Esteban (maybe not Yuki, which is why the battle for 5th and 6th on the constructors line up is close) 7. Fernando Alonso / Lance Stroll - There isn’t a lot of difference between this line up nor Racing Bulls’ lineup, as they both have one current dominant driver, but the dominance in driver lineup in Racing Bulls isn’t near to the dominance in Aston Martin, which begs the question, why is the Aston Martin driver line up 2 places beneath the Racing Bulls lineup, and one place beneath the Alpine? Purely because of Alonso’s age. Whilst Fernando doesn’t look remotely like his form is going to drop, it will! And it will by 2025. Yes, this list is associated with currently, but the 4th or 5th best car doesn’t mean a thing to Stroll, because he’s treating the car as if it were a back marker car, engaging in battles with the Haas and the Racing Bull, despite being far more superior. The reason the Aston Martin pairing ranks so low is because Alonso’s career is ending, and Stroll’s career isn’t worthy of existing. It’s this high because of purely still of how good Fernando currently is 8. Kevin Magnussen / Nico Hulkenberg - Now this is where the pairings start to get poor. These are two purely average drivers, with Magnussen potentially being quite a bad driver, although shows signs of serious potential from time to time, for example taking pole in Brazil, but P19 in the championship in 2023 is absolutely woeful in all honesty. In addition, Hulkenberg’s career isn’t going to progress any further. However, none of these drivers are bad to the extent of current Ricciardo and Stroll, so again, it’s relatively close to the Aston Martin lineup. 9. Alex Albon / Logan Sargeant - Albon is a good driver as of current, but do we know that? The answer is no. We know Albon was appalling or disappointing at best in the Red Bull, but that was 4 years ago. In terms of ability, I’d argue the ability of Albon’s is the most unknown on the grid, purely due to the inability of his teammate. We know Albon was relatively average when mingling in the Toro Rosso, and poor in the Red Bull, and since his seat at Williams, the incompetence of his teammates have made him look superior, but we really don’t know. However, I still think he’s good, and too good for his current machinery. However, he makes terrible mistakes, costing his teammate the participance in the 2024 Australian Grand Prix, but again, it’s not regular. Logan however, makes a mistake every other race, and I think Suzuka was the last straw - he really isn’t to the capabilities of an F1 Driver 10. Valterri Bottas / Guanyu Zhou - This team really is nothing. It’s not actually useless, but it seriously isn’t going anywhere, or at least, as of current, I don’t think it is. Valterri is on a downhill projection, and will continue being on a downhill projection, and Zhou is really at the point of his career where, just like Piastri is challenging a much better driver than Valterri (Lando) should be challenging and almost always BEATING or levelling his teammate, and he is still not to the standards of a mediocre driver of Bottas, who is as I say, mediocre, nothing more, nothing less. And Guanyu Zhou, who isn’t excelling in his current career, isn’t currently mediocre, and if he doesn’t improve (yes, he’s in a pitiful car) he will be known as a poor driver, who doesn’t give the F1 package anything to remember

imo Ferrari's lineup is better than Merc's

A bit harsh on Sainz I thought.

Bullshit. Rb nr 1 despitre Verstappens superiority. Perez was 2nd in the world chapionship...so utter crap

I don't understand why everyone is putting Mercedes so high... George wasn't near lewis in 23.. so on average. Surely ferrari and mclaren are ahead? Really baffled how George is being rated so highly after that last season...

Did you have a bad trip?

This Gary Anderson guy does seem to have some stupidly forced and outlandish views on driver line-ups and car designs. I question his observation even in the analysis of the SF-24, saying there's no innovation that he sees to take them to the top is far fetched. Does he not see the new side-pod? Does he not see the mechanical changes? Does he not see the longer chassis and shortened gearbox? What about the S-duct? What about the increased anti-stall/dive angles in the suspension? Maybe time to take the gin away from him.

all I am seeing is some serious British bias, the two Mercedes drivers have shown clear signs of cracks in their abilities through out last season yet are considered the best pair on the grid of this season. are the Race a full British panel?

The Race as a publication is turning into a Mickey Mouse show. Their experts? Daffy Duck and peppa pig

BRO IS NOT COOKING 🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️

So, you literally say you have a driver who's better than any other two drivers team, which should rank him by himself on top of the rest, but you rank him 4th? What were you smoking? Or did you mix the 2019 results?

You guys rated Alfa Romeo C43 the least competitive car in the season review video. Yet somehow all of you believed that the drivers had underperformed. If anything, they outperformed the limitations of their dreadful machinery and stayed 8th for as long as they could.

I really don't understand how anyone could rate RedBulls line up below McLarens. Verstappen is obviously the best driver on the grid right now so it comes down to who you think is better, Perez or Piastri. You can say Piastri has a higher ceiling or whatever and he's impressed on his rookie year, but as of right now, Perez is the far better driver, dispite his struggles. Piastri wouldn't have come 3rd, let alone 2nd if he were Max's teammate and Perez probably would have scored more for McLaren. I've been so impressed by Piastri s attitude and have no doubt he'll become a top driver, but Perez is so experienced and perhaps an underrated driver, but one rookie season who was still far off the pace of his teammate doesn't make him better.

Fire Gary Anderson

I came here for the Gary Anderson comments

My guess for 2024: 1) RBR 2) Merc 3) Ferrari 4) McLaren 5) Alpine 6) Aston Martin 7) Williams 8) Alpha Tauri 9) Sauber/Kick/Stake 10) Haas

It will be disappointing that British drivers weren't best in RACE poll

That panel is oblivious of Ocons abilities

1st. Mercedes 2nd. Ferrari 3rd. McLaren 4th. Red Bull 5th. Alpine 6th. Aston Martin 7th. Visa RB 8th. Haas 9th. Williams 10th. Stake

Someone needs to check in on Gary Anderson's well-being. What the HECK is he on about!?

Gary Anderson had some.... interesting(?) ideas here.

I am proudly British, but to put ‘past his best’ Hamilton and ‘error prone’ Russell top is nothing short of British bias!