Australian GP Driver Ratings
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Hello everybody and welcome back to the B1 Podcast with Matt and Tommy. Driver Ratings is officially back. I know you've all been just absolutely chomping at the bit to come and disagree with us with whatever we grade every single 22 of the Formula 1 drivers out of 10. Tommy, how excited are you that this series is back and I think it might well be more difficult than ever. I think it's the most difficult one I've ever done. We'll learn a bit more as we go throughout the season, like everyone is going to in these regulations. But yes, it's certainly going to be difficult, but that also means disagreements and differing opinions, which is what makes this series fun. And a lot of variables as well.
At this point, it is hard to know what all of the drivers have gone through. What's a driver? What's a battery? What's harvesting? So take the ratings, as always, with a pinch of salt, and we'll get into the news, shall we? So let's begin with a different driver to normal. Of course, we have 22. And we're going to start with Sergio Perez. Qualified 18th, finished 16th. my grade for Sergio Perez is a 6 out of 10. I think it perfectly reflects a better than straight down the middle performance this weekend. He outqualified Bottas, albeit, here we go, variable number one of 3,000 is that Bottas had some problems in qualifying with shock, the battery, which cost him a lot of time. But still, I have to say, Perez finished the race in a Cadillac.
He battled Liam Lawson. I saw some great quotes already between Lawson and Perez. Absolutely phenomenal. Back and forth already. Lawson basically saying, I don't know why we're fighting. Like, it's for the world championship when it's for 16th. And Perez was like, well, I just kind of wanted to fight. So... I'm kind of more with Perez on this one in the fact that it's a race and if they're fighting for a position then fight for position so yeah I mean look you can't really do much more with Cadillac right now but a 6 out of 10 I feel quite comfortable with so that's what I'm going for I have gone for a 6 out of 10 as well for Sergio Perez. I completely agree with you. You have to go for more than straight down the middle for Sergio Perez because the fact that he's had a good qualifying, he's finished the race, the fact that he's battling anyone in a car like that, albeit the fact that Lawson obviously had the problem at the start, which is why he was further back, but the fact that he's able to be racing other cars, he's got it to the finish.
I think a 6 out of 10 is definitely what it should be. We need more Perez Lawson head-to-head. That's all I'll say. I need it every single race weekend because it is so, so good. I think Lawson also said something about the fact that Perez isn't over it, which I think is just crazy. Okay, the beef continues. The fans gave Perez a 5 out of 10. Valtteri Bottas, qualified 19th, did not finish. I've gone for a 5 out of 10 for Valtteri Bottas. I feel like Cadillac could be getting a lot of 5s because they're on their own, essentially. It's a new car. They're learning a lot. It feels like the car is falling apart a lot of the time. Both of them had their mirrors fall off in practice. bits falling off here and there.
I was going to joke that they don't need them because there's no one behind them, but I guess when they're being lapped. Yeah, true. They need it for the blue flags. But yeah, Bottas, it's hard to give him, you can't give him any worse because the car's not there at the moment. He had problems in qualifying, obviously broke down in the race as well. He did indeed. I've gone for a 5 out of 10 for Bottas as well. Again, plagued with problems qualifying, as I mentioned, on the Perez grade. He experienced basically derating. I guess super clipping is bad. So if it's like a... I'm not even going to try and come up with a different word for it. God, here we go. But for Bottas, yeah, it's very hard to grade. Of course, he DNF'd as well.
But I'm going to go for a 5 because I don't feel like I should give him any lower than that just purely because he was...
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