Formula 1: Driver Power Rankings after 2018 Emirates Spanish Grand Prix
By Asher Fair
Where do the 20 Formula 1 drivers stack up against one another following Lewis Hamilton’s victory in the Emirates Spanish Grand Prix?
After winning for the first time through four races of the 2018 Formula 1 season in the Azerbaijan Grand Prix two weeks ago in an unconvincing fashion, thus prompting many people to consider his win a fluke, Mercedes-AMG Petronas Motorsport’s Lewis Hamilton proved his doubters wrong with the most dominant performance of any driver so far this season.
Hamilton put on this dominant performance in the Emirates Spanish Grand Prix 16-turn, 2.892-mile (4.655-kilometer) Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya in Montmeló, Barcelona, Spain. He held off his teammate Valtteri Bottas by 20.593 seconds to take the win, which was his second overall victory of the season and his second in a row.
Hamilton and Scuderia Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel are the only two drivers with more than one victory so far this season. Vettel won the season’s first two races in Australia and Bahrain before Aston Martin Red Bull Racing’s Daniel Ricciardo, the only other driver who has won a race so far this season, won in China prior to Hamilton’s victories in Azerbaijan and now Spain.
How did the action from the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya affect the Formula 1 Driver Power Rankings? Here are the formulated Formula 1 Driver Power Rankings and the non-formulated Formula 1 Driver Power Rankings after the 2018 Spanish Grand Prix.
To see how the formulated Formula 1 Driver Power Rankings are calculated, click here.