Formula 1 Driver Power Rankings after 2018 Hungarian Grand Prix
By Asher Fair
The 2018 Formula 1 summer break is officially underway. How do the sport’s 20 drivers stack up against one another with nine races left on the schedule?
Mercedes-AMG Petronas Motorsport’s Lewis Hamilton earned his fifth victory of the 21-race 2018 Formula 1 season in the season’s 12th race, the Hungarian Grand Prix, at the Hungaroring. After he failed to win any of the first three races of the season, the four-time Formula 1 champion has now won five of the last nine races.
Hamilton’s win in the 70-lap race the 14-turn, 2.722-mile (4.381-kilometer) Hungaroring in Mogyoród, Hungary moved him to the lead of the wins category among all drivers this season. He and Scuderia Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel entered the race with four wins each.
Prior to the Hungarian Grand Prix, Hamilton had not sat alone atop this season’s win list all season even though he had been tied with Vettel at two, three and four victories. Vettel earned his first, second, third and fourth victories of the season before Hamilton did, but Hamilton managed to beat him to five victories.
Aside of Hamilton and Vettel, there are still only two drivers who have won at least one race this season. Those drivers are Aston Martin Red Bull Racing teammates Daniel Ricciardo, who has won two races so far in 2018, and Max Verstappen, who has won one race so far in 2018.
How did Hamilton’s fifth victory of the 2018 season after the Formula 1 Driver Power Rankings? Here are the formulated Formula 1 Driver Power Rankings and the non-formulated Formula 1 Driver Power Rankings following the action from the Hungaroring.
To see how the formulated Formula 1 Driver Power Rankings are calculated, click here.