Formula 1 Driver Power Rankings after 2018 Belgian Grand Prix
By Asher Fair
With 13 races on the 21-race 2018 Formula 1 schedule in the books, how do the sport’s 20 full-time drivers stack up against one another?
Scuderia Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel earned his fifth victory of the 21-race 2018 Formula 1 season in the season’s 13th race, the Belgian Grand Prix, at Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps, moving himself into a tie atop the wins list this season.
The 44-lap race around the 19-turn, 4.352-mile (7.004-kilometer) Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps road course in Stavelot, Belgium was the first race that Vettel entered trailing another driver in the wins category this season.
After winning the final race before the summer break, the Hungarian Grand Prix, at the end of July, Mercedes-AMG Petronas Motorsport’s Lewis Hamilton entered the Belgian Grand Prix with five victories in the season’s first 12 races.
This was the case after Vettel beat Hamilton, and everyone else for that matter, to his first, second, third and fourth victories of the season. But Vettel responded to Hamilton’s two consecutive victories in the German Grand Prix and the Hungarian Grand Prix by passing him for the lead on the first lap following the summer break and never looking back en route to a dominant performance in the Belgian Grand Prix.
How did Vettel’s dominant victory and the rest of the action in the Belgian Grand Prix 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 following the 13th race of the season.
To see how the formulated Formula 1 Driver Power Rankings are calculated, click here.