Autosport Magazine's Top 50 Drivers for 2021

[mikeamerica84]

Something to talk about during the off season....

https://www.autosport.com/topic/top-50-drivers-of-2021/2297/news/

1  Lewis Hamilton
2  Max Verstappen
3  Lando Norris
4  Sebastien Ogier
5  Alex Palou
6  Charles Leclerc
7  Carlos Sainz, Jr.
8  Kyle Larson
9  Nyck de Vries
10 Pierre Gasly
11 Mitch Evans
12 George Russell
13 Elfyn Evans
14 Colton Herta
15 Jake Dennis
16 Shane van Gisbergen
17 Antonio Felix da Costa
18 Josef Newgarden
19 Pato O'Ward
20 Alessandro Pier Guidi
21 Valtteri Bottas
22 Kevin Estre
23 Oscar Piastri
24 Fernando Alonso
25 Sergio Perez
26 Kamui Kobayashi
27 Martin Truex, Jr.
28 Tomoko Nojiri
29 Scott Dixon
30 Daniel Riccardo
31 Kalle RovanPera
32 Sebastien Buemi
33 Esteban Ocon
34 Liam Lawson
35 Filipe Albuquerque
36 Thierry Neuville
37 Felipe Nasr
38 Edoardo Mortara
39 Sebastian Vettel
40 Nirei Fukuzumi
41 Dennis Hauger
42 Will Power
43 Ash Sutton
44 Robin Frijns
45 Yann Ehrlacher
46 Yifei Ye
47 Johan Kristoffersson
48 Dries Vanthoor
49 Kelvin van der Linde
50 Guanyu Zhou

[Sonic]

Would be interesting to know their criteria before commenting. A few names for sure deserve to be there. And some deserve to be higher... and some lower.

All just depends on what you find of value in a driver.

For myself, an obvious one is that at a minimum, p1 and p2 should be swapped. Having done 3 less races and still doubled the laps led of EVERY other driver in F1 does not put you below any of the other F1 competitors.

Oscar should be much higher than 23.

Lando did a great job but I think p3 is too high.

Giz @ 16, not a bad effort for driving in a small domestic series.

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also quite a few names in there that I'm not familiar with and would have to see who they are and their 'claim to fame'

[mikeamerica84]

Oh, much subjectiveness, Sonic.  F1 drivers are weighed very heavily on this list. 

I will give them credit for creating a list, though.  There are a lot of disciplines to take into account when doing it.  It is interesting to review, though.

[Trevor]

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