Val Khorounzhiy

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463 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 28 Jul

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The Race F1 Podcast · Driver Rankings: Which surprise name did we rank P1 for Hungary? · 28 Jul 2026 podcast

Reflects a pretty mess season for Leclerc, as I think we've all felt.

And Piastri is also right there, three points behind Leclerc, which does surprise me a little bit because this season by Piastri kind of has felt a little better than Leclerc's, I guess.

And at the other end of the table, have two drivers on one point just, and it's Valtteri Bottas finally off the board now.

He's drawn level with Lance Stroll by placing 10th this weekend.

So that's 10th on one point.

Just one question I want to ask you, though, which is not related to those guys.

Isaac Hadjar is on nine points and what is it, 19th place in the rankings?

I have not felt like he's having the 19th best season in F1.

It is the confidence thing, isn't it?

The confidence interval of where the upper bound of the car's performance is, is that because of the way Max is, I mean, if you were to transpose Max to every single team, I'm sure we would have a much clearer picture of every single car's performance.

And probably a lot of cars would be made to look better than they are being to make look now.

But you can't say that with any sort of degree of confidence that is satisfactory to you for these rankings.

The Race F1 Podcast · Belgian GP: Antonelli heaps more misery on struggling Russell · 19 Jul 2026 podcast

Yeah, and in that first stint, I think a lot of us were wondering before any of the virtual safety car interruptions whether, I mean, that gap that Antonelli had been establishing over Verstappen was representative of what his Mercedes can actually do this weekend.

And I think all of us felt that probably not.

Probably they can go quicker if they need to.

And the second stint, they needed to go quicker.

I mean, I don't know if they went...

like if they turned anything up relative to the first stint, but certainly it never looked in a massive amount of doubt.

I mean, if anything, early laps, you look at how he's gaining and you think, well, is this actually enough?

But it quickly turned out that, yes, yes, it is enough that, you know, gradually he didn't need to get the whole chunk of lap time at once.

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