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Formula 1 Power Rankings after 2019 German Grand Prix

By Asher Fair

HOCKENHEIM, GERMANY - JULY 28: Lewis Hamilton of Great Britain driving the (44) Mercedes AMG Petronas F1 Team Mercedes W10 leads Valtteri Bottas driving the (77) Mercedes AMG Petronas F1 Team Mercedes W10 at the start after the safety car pulled in during the F1 Grand Prix of Germany at Hockenheimring on July 28, 2019 in Hockenheim, Germany. (Photo by Charles Coates/Getty Images)
HOCKENHEIM, GERMANY - JULY 28: Lewis Hamilton of Great Britain driving the (44) Mercedes AMG Petronas F1 Team Mercedes W10 leads Valtteri Bottas driving the (77) Mercedes AMG Petronas F1 Team Mercedes W10 at the start after the safety car pulled in during the F1 Grand Prix of Germany at Hockenheimring on July 28, 2019 in Hockenheim, Germany. (Photo by Charles Coates/Getty Images) /
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HOCKENHEIM, GERMANY – JULY 28: Top three finishers Max Verstappen of Netherlands and Red Bull Racing, Sebastian Vettel of Germany and Ferrari, and Daniil Kvyat of Russia and Scuderia Toro Rosso (Photo by Dan Mullan/Getty Images)
HOCKENHEIM, GERMANY – JULY 28: Top three finishers Max Verstappen of Netherlands and Red Bull Racing, Sebastian Vettel of Germany and Ferrari, and Daniil Kvyat of Russia and Scuderia Toro Rosso (Photo by Dan Mullan/Getty Images) /

Following a German Grand Prix that was a Formula 1 race for the ages, how do the 20 drivers stack up against one another in the Formula 1 Driver Power Rankings?

The 21-race 2019 Formula 1 season’s 11th race, the German Grand Prix, at the Hockenheimring produced a level of drama that fans have grown not to expect anything close to in a Formula 1 race.

In a series with six competitive cars, only two of these cars finished in the top 10 in this dramatic, although one was later promoted to ninth place as a result of two post-race 30-second time penalties to two of the top eight finishers that dropped them both outside of the top 11.

At the end of this race, however, Aston Martin Red Bull Racing’s Max Verstappen was the class of the field in both the wet and the dry conditions, winning the race by a comfortable margin even after safety cars stripped him of several massive leads and even after he spun out just before the halfway point of the race.

Verstappen’s victory in this rain-shortened 64-lap race around the 16-turn, 2.842-mile (4.574-kilometer) Hockenheimring road course in Am Motodrom, Hockenheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany was his and Red Bull Racing’s second victory of the season. He also won the Austrian Grand Prix at the Red Bull Ring at the end of June.

Verstappen is still the only non-Mercedes-AMG Petronas Motorsport driver to win a race this season, and Red Bull Racing are still the only team other than Mercedes to win a race this season. Lewis Hamilton has won seven races for Mercedes so far this year while Valtteri Bottas has won two.

How did the craziness of the German Grand Prix shake up the Formula 1 Power Rankings? Here are the formulated Formula 1 Driver Power Rankings, the non-formulated Formula 1 Driver Power Rankings, the formulated Formula 1 Team Power Rankings and the non-formulated Formula 1 Team Power Rankings following a race for the ages.

Let’s get started with the formulated Formula 1 Driver Power Rankings. To see how these power rankings are calculated, click here.

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