Max Verstappen has emerged as the most effective Method 1 driver from the 2025 season, in keeping with staff principals, drivers themselves, in addition to Motorsport, Autosport and their readers.
All present staff bosses and racers had been requested by F1 to submit their prime 10s, making use of the 25-18-15-12-10-8-6-4-2-1 factors system to create separate standings. No consultant from Pink Bull and Ferrari took half within the vote, with Lewis Hamilton, Nico Hulkenberg, Yuki Tsunoda and Lance Stroll additionally skipping it.
Motorsport’s sister publication Autosport and its F1 writers Stuart Codling and Jake Boxall-Legge established our personal rating, whereas Autosport readers’ race-by-race common rankings had been aggregated right into a prime 10.
In all 4 cases, Verstappen was positioned on the prime, however behind him it was fairly tight between Lando Norris, George Russell, Oscar Piastri and Charles Leclerc. The brand new world champion was barely extra profitable than Mercedes’ lead driver, his McLaren team-mate, and Ferrari’s prime performer.
These 5 had been broadly thought of as the most effective 5 drivers of the season, although staff principals ranked Leclerc decrease than Fernando Alonso and Carlos Sainz on common. The Spaniards had been a part of quite a few midfield contenders for the highest six, the place Hulkenberg featured twice too; Isack Hadjar was the one midfielder to be included in all prime 10s.
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Hamilton, Liam Lawson, Esteban Ocon, Stroll, Tsunoda and Gabriel Bortoleto didn’t function in any prime 10 – as did part-timers Jack Doohan and Franco Colapinto.
High 10 2025 F1 drivers
Making use of the present factors system when aggregating these 4 rankings, one can then take a look at a world prime 10 inclusive of staff bosses, drivers, journalists and followers alike.
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