Monaco GP Driver Rankings: Did we rank Verstappen correctly?
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The Athletic. The race is on, and after an eventful Monaco Grand Prix, it's time to rank the drivers. But who came top of the pile, and who is languishing near the bottom? I'm Edge Draw, and joining me to grill me on my driver rankings is Ben Anderson. Well, Ben, you're up this week for the second time we've done this particular podcast. Glenn Freeman last week. You're in as a rotating cast. I'm expecting you to be a tricky foe because you're unusual in that you are someone who has done driver rankings or driver ratings. There was a period of a few years when I was editor and editor-in-chief of Autosport when... You were doing the ratings in that. So you know exactly what I go through.
Yes, I guess I'm now poacher turned gamekeeper because I know exactly the kind of methodologies and the difficulties you grapple with.
How did the Monaco Grand Prix impact driver rankings?
And I've done it myself. Sometimes I sub for you on the races rankings and have done. So it could be that we switch roles at some point later on down the road in this show. But my role this time obviously is to champion the voice of our members club, the race members club, the people who've submitted these questions and are interrogating you. And if you want to be part of that and have the chance to grill Ed via me or one of my colleagues, then you need to join the race members club, check it out on Patreon and you'll gain question asking privileges.
Now, in terms of the rankings, we explained in the first episode the Canadian Grand Prix rankings chat, roughly the methodology. The one thing I will say is, remember, it's a full weekend ranking. I have a suspicion that might be of significance come the discussion we're about to have. But the only way we can start off is by giving a rundown of the top 22. 22nd, Gabriel Bortoletto. 21st, Lance Stroll. 20th, Valtteri Bottas. 19th, Nico Hülkenberg. 18th, Franco Colapinso. 17th, Oli Behrmann. 16th, Charles Leclerc. 15th, Sergio Perez. 14th, George Russell. 13th, Esteban Ocon. 12th, Arvid Lindblad. 11th, Lando Norris. 10th, Isaac Hadjar. 9th, Oscar Piastri. 8th, Carlos Sainz. 7th, Alex Alban. 6th, Fernando Alonso.
5th, Pierre Gasly. 4th, Lewis Hamilton. Third, Liam Lawson. Second, Max Verstappen. First, Kimi Antonelli. So, Ben, what instantly jumped out at you there?
Where do we want to start? Well, there's two places I want to start. One is with the overall methodology, because Monaco is a unique weekend in that probably by the end of Saturday qualifying, you feel like this is the easiest driver ranking you'll ever do. And it's basically a done deal because you're always expecting a processional race. And then... Monaco is Monaco and we suddenly have chaos unexpected and you're probably ripping up your rankings after the race. I want to start with the top three because I probably suspect you felt this was kind of a nailed on top three, but actually parts of this were considered quite controversial by our members, particularly the decision to put Max Verstappen number two, largely based on his qualifying performance, his Saturday performance, because he only did...
one lap in the race so chris parrot wants to know if kimmy antonelli doesn't have a p1 in the rankings caliber weekend does max get bumped to number one despite not completing a competitive lap on the sunday yeah he does he's second if the leader retires you move up to first and it doesn't change his weekend does it and he wasn't responsible for what happened on sunday No, true. I guess that would have melted minds even more, though, wouldn't it? Because to have somebody number one in the rankings who doesn't do a lap in the race, has that ever happened in rankings? That might have been the boldest call you've ever made.
The only one I can remember that was a bit like that was Robert Kubica when he was with Renault in 2010 at Suzuka. I gave him 10 points. And he retired really early in the race under the safety car. The wheel nut was coming off. He turned in one of the qualifying laps of the 21st century, I think, to put the car third. He had some damage in the floor as well.
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