Driver Rankings: Which surprise name did we rank P1 for Hungary?
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Who won the Hungarian GP and did that change the driver rankings?
The race is on, and Lando Norris became the fifth different winner this season with a surprise win in Hungary. But was it enough to earn him the top spot in my rankings as well? I'm Ed Straw, and join me to discuss how I rank the drivers' performances after the Hungarian Grand Prix. It's Valha and G. Val, welcome. You are going to be a worthy foe, I think, because like me, you are a man of rankings, only two-wheeled rankings.
Yeah, and I've already, having looked at the comments that you've received, I've already felt a lot of kinship, because you are also getting yelled at for putting a French guy too high, which happens to me basically every single week. Although I do think my French guy is generally more accomplished than your French guy, so... And... I'm not sure I would have put this particular French guy first this weekend, but we'll get to that.
Well, I'm sure you're familiar with the experience of when you have to complete your rankings. You sort of get to a point where you just have to send them, don't you? You move them around and try and do the reasoning. And there's a point where you have to lock in. And this was another one of those ones I wasn't entirely satisfied with, but sometimes weekends aren't super clean. Well, let's actually run down the rankings from 22nd to 1st. 22nd, Oli Behrmann. 21st, Carlos Sainz. 20th, Franco Colapinto. 19th, Gabriel Bortoletto. 18th, Lewis Hamilton. 17th, Sergio Perez. 16th, Lance Stroll. 15th, Alex Albon. 14th, George Russell. 13th, Isaac Hajar. 12th, Charles Leclerc. 11th, Kimi Antonelli. 10th, Valtteri Bottas.
Ninth, Arvid Lindblad. Eighth, Liam Lawson. Seventh, Esteban Ocon. Sixth, Fernando Alonso. Fifth, Oscar Piastri. Fourth, Max Verstappen. Third, Lando Norris. Second, Niko Hülkenberg. First, Pierre Gasly. Right, Val. Let the interrogation begin. And of course, it's not just you, but it's also the Race Members Club. If you'd like to join the Race Members Club to join in the rankings fun and the questioning fun and get all the other bonus stuff, head to patreon.com and search for the race or hit the link in the episode description. So where are we starting, Val?
Let's start with the Alpine elephant in the room. Not actually so many comments for a Pierre Gasly placement in number one, but when I opened it, I was like, oh, this is going to be curious. It's going to be interesting because it wasn't a bad weekend, but it felt like a relatively... par for the course slight underperformance one. So Thomas Beagley says, maybe just me, but I don't consider Gasly's performance in the Grand Prix worthy of the number one spot in the rankings. I'd argue his performance was mediocre at best. That's a little harsh, I'd say, but okay. As he achieved the minimum that should be expected of a driver currently in the sixth, seventh fastest car in the grid. uh, number one priority for a driver in any race weekend is to out-qualify his teammate, which in fairness he did do, but ultimately he finished where he started and didn't out-drive his machinery to maintain his position.
Hülkenberg, Norris, Piastri, Verstappen, and Alonso all had stronger performances, in my opinion. And Zephyr, who comments a lot on the, on the MotoGP ranking, rankings too, seems to have quite an analytical mind, says, Ed, enlightening as always, I would have never said that, but I would have wanted a deeper, uh, a burial of a teammate to help put Gasly P1. I guess maybe that's just me admitting I don't rate Colopinto in quality yet. Help me understand.
Colopinto is still a quick driver. He was a clear step ahead of him. I think Gasly was one of those ones. He wasn't that large on the radar in terms of number one rankings, but there were a lot of people this weekend, and partly that's just the nature of the Hungaroring as a track, who had little errors and blemishes that held them back. Yeah, I guess he didn't out-drive the car, but you can't out-drive cars. It was the seventh fastest car by some margin, by which I mean it wasn't sort of up there with Racing Bulls and Audi.
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