These four drivers have all had impressive seasons in different ways. Peter Fox/Getty Images Credit in the bank Daniel Ricciardo scored his first podium since May 2018 at the Eifel Grand Prix. While Ferrari has fallen below expectations, Leclerc continues to excel - eighth, sixth and seventh might not look like much on paper, but given the place Ferrari is in right now, it's a remarkable run of form. Gasly's win at Monza is still fresh in the memory, but he barged past Alex Albon on route to sixth last time out. He has made mincemeat of teammate Esteban Ocon in this second half of the season, too. Ricciardo scored a popular, and much deserved, podium for Renault at the Eifel Grand Prix. These three are vying for the award for best driver of the rest this year. This year he has kept the bar at a super high level and is the only person close to matching Hamilton's consistency and intensity on a race-by-race basis. His incredible recent form will put him into uncharted territory once he claims another victory.Īs for Verstappen - right now if you were to bet on the driver to challenge whatever benchmark Hamilton finishes his career on, it would be the Dutchman. Unless you've been living under a rock, you'll have seen Hamilton is on the brink of becoming F1's most successful driver ever. This order might as well be engraved in stone at the top of every Power Rankings we do for the foreseeable future. Clive Mason - Formula 1/Formula 1 via Getty Images Max Verstappen Lewis Hamilton is on the verge of uncharted territory in F1. Instead it is an attempt to look at everything around each driver at the moment - performances, status, reputation, future prospects - and trying to make sense of who is rising and who is falling in the F1 pecking order. This is not a ranking of who is F1's best driver, nor how the championship would look in equal machinery. With six races left in F1's 2020 season, it just so happens that it is possible to split the grid into six distinct groups when sorting the Power Rankings ahead of the Portuguese Grand Prix.
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