Liam's first race was the worst you could imagine for a rookie who comes in 10 races into the season. The fact he delivered and brought it home is a testament to his ability
a B- is a bit low isn't it? i'm not too familiar with the letter grading but the guy scored a point in singapore. his third race. in singapore. and finishing the dutch gp with only a wet FP3 to practice and still finishing ahead of yuki is also nothing to sneeze at.
If by alot of the time you mean Quali. he has zero race pace, hes consistently 3-5 tenths a lap off in race pace. He needs to sort it out, but his approach and maturiaty are all good sighns e can get it done
@@ReasonableSwampMonster Its his first season where hes had a clear 2nd fastest car in more races than anyone. Hes done the same amount of races as Charles did when he dominated Bahrain 2019 and when Max won in spain 2016. He does need to sort it out. The only drivers with that sort of deficit are stroll and Sargent. And when you are doing 20+ races in a season, being a rookie is no longer a valid excuse. He really should have brought the gap down to Lando and had much better pace in comparision the other drivers in the top teams, but that hasnt been the case. He does need to sort it out, because how close the top 4 (behind RB) have been, being that far off in race pace is the difference between P3 and p10 (when the window licker has one of his 3 good weekends a year) Take away the tracks where mclaren were particularly strong this year (silverstone Suzuka and Quatar( which also had manadatory pitstops that helped oscar massivly) then he really hasnt been that impressive. For the first 10 races of their rookie seasons, in which they all had cars that were 7th to 9th best depending on the track, Oscar had less than half the points of Charles, Max and Carlos. Everyone is comparing him to Max and Charles as if they had remotley comparable cars in their rookie seaosns, but when they are actually compared it all falls a bit flat
He is a rookie and Lando is a top 5 driver on the grid do you think he will beat him in his first season?? He has not been that good in the first half of the season but since Silverstone he has been on it and keeping up with Lando at least in quali. Yes he is slower in races but thats very much due to his tyre management not being that good. BUT a lot of rookies struggle with this so if he can sourt it out in the next 2 seasons he can be a really good opponent to Lando
@@KifuqwertyIn addition he was a rookie in an ever changing car, the first 10 weeks, it was 7th -10th fastest, then it came alive only on certain tracks. 2 podiums, 2 fastest laps and a sprint win for a rookie is very impressive.
A lot of people have lost faith in Leclerc. But I haven’t. The guy is a sensational driver, I hope he gets the machinery in his career to become world champion.
I hope he gets another chance to fight for a championship. One that lasts longer than half a season. However at the moment he reminds me a lot of a former Ferrari driver who also was heralded as future promise. Ultimately that promise was left somewhat unfulfilled with Jean Alesi..
I want to give a shoutout to the best rookie of the year, racing beyond his years, impeccable racecraft, amazing speed and no crashes of course I'm talking about Alonso (Piastri did pretty good too I guess?)
@@never1163I hope Bearman gets the shot at Haas in 2025 alongside Hulkenberg, he looks like he gets on well with the team and with that kind of talent he can make it even at notoriously hard for rookies Haas
Everyone overlooks just how well Kmag consistently put up propper fights pretty much every single race even though it usually ended up being pointless in the end because of how that shitbox of a car chewed through tires like there was no tomorrow. He wasn't great in quali, but he absolutely outperformed Hulk in the races. He was much better than people give him credit for.
Alonso deserves more. Idk what he had to do to get that. Surely he made (pretty few) mistakes, but he made them where it mattered the less. Other than that, absolutely masterful work.
I never get this narrative of "Yuki being error prone". He did have a costly mistake in Mexico and a couple occassions where he had smaller mistakes (e.g. Brazil where he lost a position as he almost lost it), but has he had significantly more mistakes than other drivers? I don't think so. I think Yuki's image of being very error prone in previous years, and his radio blow ups, is creating a wrong impression of what is actually happening. If anything, I think Yuki has been one of the most consistent driver, and I do not think there was literally a single race where Yuki wasn't battling for points when the car had the pace. There were plenty of other good drivers who had big shunts and mistakes throughout the year, be it Lando, George, Lewis, Checo, Alonso, Albon, Oscar, Pierre, Esteban... list goes on. And for some reason, Yuki's reputation seems to get punished the most.
It comes from his first two seasons. He had a really bad Rookie season and underperformed in a strong car. He crashed a lot and had costly mistakes. He also crashed out Pierre in Silverstone 2022 and indirectly destroyed Verstappens Race… He improved this year and only looked rather weak against Liam
There were also multiple qualifyings where he screwed up the warm lap or the push lap itself but yeah, the amount of mistakes he does isn't unusual for a young midfield driver.
I think it's also partially that until recently he wasn't the big mover in his team, and AT was rarely relevant, so the only times you saw him was when things went wrong.
I find gasly to be just way easier to root for than ocon. Ocon seems like a guy who would stab you in the back for half a point, then smile and ask what he did wrong.
Max broke every record that requires skill and consistency. In Miami he beat Checo with no safety cars from P9, it was such a bad beating that Checo really has not recovered.
Yeah people saying its just the car completely overlook how consistent he is. Not a single lost point because of his own fault all year not a single crash even Schumacher and Hamilton in their most dominant years weren't able to be that mistake proof and consistent. Max is a machine
@@Maggi4932 I would argue 2020 was that year for Hamilton. Bottas kept up until the silverstone blowout but from then on he got walked. Pretty sure he had enough points to win both the drivers and constructors on his own with only 16 races and missing one.
@@liveandletdie138 Crazy thing about 2020 was that Verstappen almost finished ahead of Bottas in the championship... with four more retirements. He only had one race he finished where he wasn't on the podium.
I think it was Crofty or Kravitz that mentioned he asked Max what his schedule was going to be like after Brazil and Max said he was going back to Milton Keynes to go to the simulator... He asked "why?" since Max wasn't fighting for ANYTHING at that point and his answer was "I would kick myself if the only reason I miss a win was lack of practice". So yeah... Talk about the car all you want, only a handful of drivers have that mentality. This is the sole reason not only Checo but most of the field, past, present or future, cannot hold a candle to drivers like Max. This is the reason Nico retired too, after he realized what it took to win a championship against Sir Lewis (who's basically the same when it comes to work ethic) he had the realization he's not doing it anymore so it was pointless to go on.
He even has a sim setup in his private jet. The man wins a race in F1, hops in his sim on the way home, hops in his sim at home and streams to fans while also being a pretty decent family man, hops in the sim at the factory, hops in the sim in his jet on the way to the next race, then wins the next race. Machine doesn't even begin to describe his otherworldly work ethic. I don't think a lot of us have ever seen this combination of unrelenting hard work and supernatural talent in our lifetimes. Max deserves his wins, easily.
It's interesting that you brought up Hamilton, since he's pretty open about how while he thinks the sim is important for developing the car, he finds it uncomfortable and doesn't think it helps his driving. Something about him as a driver relying a lot more on seat feedback to drive, so he feels awkward and blind when he get into a simulator (which lacks that feedback), despite how realistic the car's characteristics are. That kind of lines up with how uncomfortable Lewis was with the Mercedes' seating position this year and how it affected his ability to feel the rear of the car, and is maybe more the reason that Verstappen has taken to these cars that you would otherwise have assumed don't match his style (Even the most pointy 2022 and 2023 car is far more understeery than 2014-2021 cars were), if he spends so much time in simulators that he's better than many at driving with less feedback.
True. Lanzhu Zhong, Ayumu Uehara, Shioriko Mifune (Ayumu's great friend), Setsuna Yuki, Ai Miyashita, Karin Asaka, Yuu Takasaki, Eli Ayase, and Max Verstappen all also deserved an A+.
You should’ve at least given some mention to Kalle Rovenperä, who at the unprecedentedly young age of 23 is a 2x (consecutive) WDC in WRC and who absolutely dominated the season.
3 wins this season, thats the same as Evans And Ogier. Admittedly, it did feel like if Seb was an actual title threat, Kalle could've pushed for the win at Monaco or Kenya, but it was far from dominating.
Josh, I've been watching your videos for a while, and I want to say, you have such a good cadence with how you speak, and you have a great way of expressing your views on the sport and everything related to other motorsports and drivers outside F1. Your editing is immaculate, and you always keep me coming back to your channel. I love your videos, and I appreciate the time you take to make them. Cheers!
The Mag / Zho section is an utter mess , tho. Almost doesn't make any sense. "...had just fired a driver 12 months ago, only to end up with results not that much different from now" 😂 Like whaat? 😆
I didn’t expect to see Jett Lawrence in this video. To see two of my favorite Motorsports completely dominated by two people this year was not the most enjoyable experience. But you know I’ll watch them again next season anyways
Leclerc imo was 2-3 best driver this year, and without ferrari being ferrari he would've been fighting for p2-p3 in the championship. Lando was not so good. He had a good year, but he bottled quali so many times when their car was fastest-2nd fastest (in quali obv) that he went to the school of sergio perez dotd at the end of the season. Piastri had a good season, but really needs to work on his tire management and race pace. Russell, well. He had a mistake filled season with some high notes. personally, i wouldn't put him any higher than a B+, otherwise it's just car tax.
i want to add some more detailed context to the Tsunoda placement, since Josh is missing (or potentially, ignoring) some rather important notes. "if Daniel was his teammate for the whole calendar year, i dont know if Yuki would be ahead of him in the standings" is the main, very weird point made. coming into Hungary, Yuki had 2 points finishes. in their time as teammates (not including his points gained with Lawson), he gained 15 more. the reason this point is confusing is because Yuki's pace to Daniel has been pretty on level, occasionally slightly faster or slightly slower depending on the track and how the team handle their cars. in a car that for half the season was definitively 6th fastest or worse, Yuki's runs of p11 - P10 were, quite literally, what the car had in it. every car in front of him was a clear league above what AT could manage. i dont see Daniel taking any more than 2-6 extra points even with good luck (something AT have been horrednous at helping with this year) if he were to be running the full season, and that cannot compensate for the points gap they currently hold. the other main, confusing point is the comment on mistakes. Yuki's european run of races has been noticebly weak (in fact, it almost always has been, for some reason) but to chock it to mistakes when its not very difficult to look into a lot of these lower end finishes and find he would've faired better if not for Alphatauri certified strategies that even Franz himself has criticised, and clashes with other drivers out of his control, is a little odd from Josh, who's normally one of the better figures in this community for pointing out how much of a hand a drivers been given. if im to look at it objectively, outside of a couple smaller, insignificant mistakes he's made throughout the season, his only big error is in Mexico, where he was absolutely in the wrong, and faced harsh consequences in running P12 in what would've been an amazing points finish. that being said, these points head to Daniel's corner as well, he's had some poor luck out of the few races he's attended, and while i personally believe he's had the better end of the strategies, i also can say he's had his own share of strange requests and decisions from the garage. while Yuki won their H2H, and likely would have won it with bad luck removed, i think B+ to Daniel's B is the accurate rating for the pairing.
yeah, I don't know why Josh said the mistakes was back, when most of it was because AT strategy sucks, like literally even in Abu dhabi they let him hang dry on a one-stopper, it's amazing that Yuki can come back into the points and fending off hamilton after that. and mainly Mexico is when Old Yuki came to the surface.
Daniel had the worst luck of pretty much any driver this year. Crashed into by Zhou in Hungary at T1, track limits at Spa, broken hand at Zandvoort, brake duct damage at Austin, a tyre landing on his rear wing in Brazil for fuck's sake, and a tearoff in his brakes in Abu Dhabi - he and Oscar have certainly proven the Australian curse exists. But for Tsunoda, Mexico just sticks in my mind. Melting down to a full-blown tantrum behind the wheel, crashing into another driver THREE TIMES, and then having the audacity to accuse the FIA of favouritism because they didn't penalise the other driver (who did nothing wrong!) is just...holy fuck, we're three years in, how is this still happening?
The guy got a 10 win streak(the record) and a ongoing 7(good enough to match the nr3 all time) winstreak in the same season only Schumi managed that before him.
Would love to see drugavich have a crack at f1. AM should definitely get a loan deal out there for some real time experience with sauber or Williams providing how well Zhou and Sargent do as I see them seats being most available compared to others
even though during the season i've been very harsh to checo, if you look at the season max had, anyone would look like an amateur next to him. And i just looked at the results of the teammates of the other recent dominant champions (Schumacher 2002, Vettel 2013, Hamilton 2020, those being the most dominant seasons for each driver) Except for lewis (rona season and merc being absolutly dominant) all of them made almost double the points of their teammates, yet noone questioned them or wanted them to be sacked at the time. Yes checo looked weak in comparison, but if you have to compete against someone who has a season only achievable on a playstation, a season where almost all but 2 records (winning the championship with 6 races to go, finishing every race on the podium, both by Schumacher in 2002) have been broken, how can you not completely break and question your ability?
That RB19 is the most dominant car ever, the reliability is insane. On the contrary VER is the most dominant driver within a season ever, for the same reason, reliability to win.
No, it' was NOT the most dominant car ever. Not even close. The RB was almost mediocre in Qualy. The "most dominant" cars have obliterated the field even while running in "safe mode" (such as the Merc in 2014). People are obsessed with ending every other sentence with "ever" 🤦
Love the mention of Jett Lawerence as those dude absolutely dominated and worth a video in itself as ESPN called him “ the Justin Bieber of motocross “
You know what, I could complain for hours about verstappen, but none of that matters, his success this year was well earned and truly outstanding. Couldn't agree more with him getting driver of the year.
A- generous for Lando. He made a lot of qualifying mistakes in the second half of the year that cost him crucial grid positions and gave his teammate a look in. Yes, he was also frequently very very good, particularly on race pace and consistency. B+ for mine.
I think those mistakes are the only reason he’s A- and not A+. It was only 4 quali mistakes over the whole season, it’s just that 3 happened in a short period of time that made it look worse. I mean who else had a 4 podium streak? His race pace was exceptional in the second half of the season. He was the 2nd highest scorer besides Max in the second half of the season
@@wintertimealldatime I mean the Mclaren was the 2nd and sometimes faster quali car and yet every time they had a chance for pole he bottled it. It's actually concerning. At the end of the season he went to the Checo school of DOTD's with bottling quali and then car tax. At the end of the season Lance Stroll impressed me more. Also i think leclerc might have had a podium streak if ferrari wasn't ferrari. I don't think Lando deserves to be ranked higher than Charles considering the fact that CL could've been fighting for P2/P3 without the unluck.
As we’re talking about top drivers across all of motorsports, shout out also to Kalle Rovanperä by the way, for winning back-to-back WRC titles at the age of only 23. I’d say that’s pretty stand-out for me!
Well done, 95% right. 2 things. You're not biased about Liam Lawson, I too think he needs a seat....quickly. Norris did as expected, & warranted your A-. Piastry went well beyond expectations, so I think your B+ is a little harsh considering Oscar got a win & Lando didn't.
The timing is incredible. I actually watched your 2023 season predictions a couple of hours ago, and now you release a new video. Let's just say I'm excited for your reaction to your own predictions to this year.
Lewis & fernando finishing 3rd & 4th prove the excellent season both had. On average neither merc nor aston would be the 2nd(McLaren) or even 3rd (ferrari) quickest car. But both of them were fucking consistent
C+ seems generous for Perez. Sure, Max has been perfect and maybe the Top 4 teams are a bit closer than we realize if you omit Max, but I still think 2 wins / 9 podiums is pretty low considering there were A LOT of races and no mechanical failures. At best, I'd give C- for the W's.
I feel like Ferrari drivers arent getting really underrated due to how much the team messes up as well as both performing well, making neither of them appear like superheroes who are anhillating their teammates.
Leclerc would've been fighting for p2-3 in the championship without the unluck and ferrari. I saw someone add it up, Leclerc lost somewhere around 100 points, sainz lost around 40. It's hard to compare their bad luck when Sai dns from p11 and Lec dns from p2. Sai also got his 10 place grid penalty on a weekend where he was massively off the pace, compared to Lec in Saudi who probably could have held on to a podium or p4
Not only did Jett Lawrence have a perfect season, he did so as a 19 year-old rookie. Kid has _superhuman_ talent on a bike. He looks absolutely effortless while being the fastest guy on the track.
Jett Lawrence absolutely deserves Racer of the Year. For those who don't follow Motocross there are actually 2 seasons in America, the first half is Supercross and the second half is Motocross. Jett won the 250 Supercross title (think of it as Formula 2 for dirt bikes) and then went on to the Premiere class mid year. He proceeded to dominate 22 races straight and this is against some of the best Motocross riders in the world. The thing about Motocross though is that the equipment advantage isn't that severe so skill level matters more and even if it mattered as much as it did in Formula cars it doesn't matter cause Jett's teammate was Chase Sexton, the current reigning Supercross champion, and Jett beat him every single time. Thats like Max beating Leclerc or Lando over and over again while both being on a Redbull. And I say this as someone who was actively cheering against Jett this season cause I didn't want ALL the racing I follow to be complete dominations.
Jett's 22-0 was absolutely a treat to see, even when challenged both by Sexton and Roczen he would find another gear. Even more impressive is the maturity and composture, never went full send, just managing the race and winning by 10 secs
@@purwantiallan5089 What!? Rroczen yeah maybe. Sexton is your 450sx champion, was close enough to Tomac so name someone better please?... Then Jett? Dude went 22-0, kicked sexton both on motocross all sumer long and smx aswell. Then who else? Plessinger? Webb? Anderson? Barcia? Tomac maybe, but would not bet against being up there, need to see how he recovered from the aquilles tendon injury
I think you overcompensated on your bias a bit for Lawson. There's more nuance but on paper the guy is 4-1 on Tsunoda, after penalties were applied he was AHEAD of Tsunoda in Zandvoort. In his FIRST race in arguably the worst conditions a rookie could ask for. Italy was mechanical so can't really judge, Singapore speaks for itself (Yes Perez and Tsunoda crashed early but it was a racing incident) and Japan featured a solid fight between them and Liam still brought it home ahead of the guy racing his THIRD season. Qatar was a dud and Yuki finished two places ahead of him in 15th. I think a B+ would be fairer, it's hard to tell where the AT car was relative to the others but Liam certainly got more out of the car than anyone else up to that point. The man also finished 20th in a 22 person championship only doing five races. 21st (Sargeant) had an entire season.
A- IMO, for a rookie that was quite an impressive performance, and look at the car. I could have imagined had he got a better one, he would have done more.
I strongly believe McLaren will be up there battling with Red Bull. Their drivers AND pit crew have really shown signs of growth this season, and with Perez's questionable driving (that somehow landed him 2nd place total), the battles will be close next season. Can't wait to see if I'm right or not.
Max has been absolutely something else this year. Relentless, flawless, careful, mostly cool and level headed and man absolute mastery of racecraft. This will be one of THE GOATED seasons for a world champion.
How is it that Carlos can outperform Charles most of the season, show clearly superior racecraft (like beating him in their only real wheel-to-wheel battle of the season at Monza), and be the ONLY non-red bull race winner of the season, and STILL get a lower grade than Charles? Carlos is seriously the most underrated driver on the grid
So Josh, when is your 2023 Formula 1 Predictions review coming out? I look forward to seeing you criticize your optimism. Seriously, it's cool to see the man behind the voice.
To be honest even if i am not a max verstappen fan (being a ferrari fan hurts) He deserves the driver of the year award because he didnt do a single mistake especially on race day.
@@martinusv7433 it really doesnt matter he won almost every race except singapore after that. I ve never seen such a domination from a driver's perspective even hamilton lost races from bottas even seb vettel or max verstappen. (there is no doubt he had the best car but his teammate couldn't even outqualify an alpine in some cases)
It's funny to see how Lance is becoming our era's Andrea de Cesaris (who got 5 podiums in 14 years in the sport). Every year we say that Lance has to step up, and that [insert any outstanding race here] shows that he may achieve some sort of extra level. He never will, and he will be on the paddock for the next 10 years.
Sasly disappointed by Zhou this season. Last year he was doing bits in that Alfa Romeo & had closed the gap to Bottas to be almost on par with him in quali & race pace. This year though, all of that has just gone out the window. I really hope he can pull it back together again for 2024, because if not, he's very likely going to have Theo Pourchaire do to his F1 seat what Zhou did to Antonio Giovinazzi's seat.
Pretty much spot on ratings, just shocked with Sainz B, like cmon the guy was the only non RB winner and only came behind Leclerc in the very last race...
I mean honestly, Sainz's win is a nice stat, but let's not pretend he was fighting for it against RB like Leclerc was in Vegas (damn you safety car). When the car suited him, lec was within a tenth of him (faster or slower), but when the car suited lec he was massively behind. Lec went 7-0 in quali at the end, and he was massively faster in Baku, LV and AD, to an embarrassing degree. By no means does he deserve to be ranked higher than lec, but i'd give him a B+ and leclerc an A. I'm very suprised Norris was rated so high after he bottled the end of the season so badly.
Honestly, it seemed like the "upgrades" for Stroll ruined his confidence and his performances. Stroll immediately started bouncing back once AM brought the old spec back.
Very harsh to say Ricciardo would've beaten Yuki. Ricciardo had one good performance, Yuki had several and was absolutely stellar at the beginning of the year when the car was awful (he finished 11th like 4 times). Mexico aside, he's generally taken his chances for points when he's had them extremely well too. Ricciardo can do that, but consistently? Debatable.
Yeah I don't really see where people get the idea that Ricciardo is or would have been better than Yuki. Mexico was like the only race where Yuki got outperformed.
"1 good performance" he stepped into a car he'd never driven before in Hungary and immediately beat Tsunoda, beat him in Spa Sprint, suffered damage in Austin, beat Tsunoda comfortably in Mexico, was stupidly unlucky in Brazil and was faster, faster than Tsunoda in Vegas, and faster on race pace than Tsunoda in Abu Dhabi.
I fully agree. There has been too few races and he has already been really just one race where he showed very good performance, and that was in a race where the car clearly had a lot of race as seen with Yuki also making very good progress until he screwed it up with his contact with Piastri. (remember this is the race that Yuki knew he was going to have to start from the back of the grid due to PU change) There has been very few races that were really comparable (because either driver had some kind of big issue), and it's quite pointless to compare a race like Vegas where both literally had zero pace. So at best, right now, the two drivers are performing at similar level if you factor in all the different factors, and ultimately it is way too small of a sample size to draw any kind of conclusion.
@@walover165 Here we go again, Danny fans just coming up with every single excuse they can come up with to make it look like Danny was the superior driver to Yuki. "faster on race pace than Tsunoda in Abu Dhabi" - Are you fricking serious? You are trying to say Danny was the better driver in the race because he had "faster pace"? Where was he in qualifying where we see the true raw pace? Do you realize the two drivers were on entirely different strategies? Why can't you all just accept the fact that there has been too few races where both drivers had a truly comparable race, and at best the results so far show that they are at best on par if not Yuki was slightly ahead. Just fed of hearing so many excuses for Daniel, rarely ever giving context of what is happening on Yuki's side of the garage, and just obsessing about him being better than Yuki.
21:52 AHHHH he did his best it was a solid A he performed what he could everytime he had a chance for a podium he did it he was supper consistent, only in Texas and mexico he wasnt
Charles has the ability to become world champion. In a few years Oscar as well. It's the dominance of RedBull and the lack of own machinery which especially holds Charles back
I was hoping Perez would finally break the curse of the Red Bull #2 driver, but alas. I swear, that seat is like the monkey's paw that grants your wishes but ruins your life in the process.
The thing is you say that they fired a driver at Haas but are in the same place, but obviously they have much lower repair bills this year. It wasn't just pace with Mick, the amount he cost the team with crashes was defo not missed. Also, I think you were letting a little Antipodean bias creep in with the whole Ricciardo/Tsunoda thing. They raced seven races together and Yuki got much better results overall. If they had been together the whole year I am not convinced Ric would have been any better. His star was well and truly tarnished with his time at McLaren and I am really not convinced he can work miracles in a bad car. In their seven races as team mates, Yuki scored four points paying positions, Dan scored one. On his day, Yuki far out performed that shit heap of a car.
@@Enzo-ip3on I like Ric I really do, but he did not really do anything that made me feel he was the better option to replace Nyck, return after Lawson or god forbid replace Checo. I really think the old Danny Ric is gone. He might have odd flashes of those glory days but I think overall if he does not get on with the car, he ain't gonna be performing. McLaren is the perfect example. As for Yuki, considering the car they gave him this year, I think he has done well.
Thanks for not just straight up saying that Logan was bad this year. I couldn't stand the fact that everyone has been slandering him since race 1 about how slow he is. Sure, he got demolished by Albon and some showings weren't too great, but people always tend to value the negatives way more than the positives. Saudi Arabia for example, only his second race and he was fast enough in Quali to actually outqualify Alex. It was just the white lines on pit entry that screwed him over, and while that's a mistake that's... extremely stupid to say the least, barely anyone knew what exactly was meant with the reason behind his laptime deletion until it was too late. And generally over the last few races, he got closer. Still a good amount off, but he's getting there. Logan has never been a Leclerc, a Russell, a Norris or a Piastri. He's more comparable to someone like Tsunoda I'd say. Tsunoda was also pretty good in Bahrain 2021, then just started to fall off massively. People were doubting him, wanting him gone, but he stayed (which is a miracle considering he's in the same team that sacked Nyck in 10 races lmao) and got time to develop himself. And now in 2023 when he was supposed to lead Alpha Tauri, he was there and he delivered, making himself a lot more popular with the majority of the people watching the sport. Drivers like that also exist. They are more generic drivers instead of straight up generational talents. They just need time to grow. They can't just jump into an F1 car and drive that thing as if it's their second nature. And some people need a bit less, some a bit more time. And that time, lately, is not really being given to rookies as the sport, and especially the fanbase, gets way harsher with their treatment of new, upcoming drivers, especially when there are so many new prospects that fall into that Talent category. Someone like Mick got not enough time imo, as his 2021 season was forgettable with that soapbox of a car and a teammate with the reputation of being the worlds best mobile roadblock, and while 2022 was better, it wasn't enough yet. Someone like Latifi got way more time than needed, and while there were glimpses of good performance, he was massively inconsistent. I'm not saying Logan has what it takes to be the next Max Verstappen here, but he surely has the potential to be a future team leader if he gets his stuff together.
this is actually huge, I started the year expecting MUCH worse. another big thing to take into account is that even by rookie standards he was brought into F1 a year too soon, Williams even admitted that. I think a second year would be good for him but I just don't think he'll get it unfortunately.
@@striaid Yeah, that's also another reason. Logan would've probably benefitted from another year in F2, with a few extra FP1 outings this year on top of that, but sadly Latifi just wasn't good enough and there was no driver ready yet to step up, unlike now. Although I still believe Logan does get that second season, JV has been sounding really positive about Logan and his development really throughout the entire season, and with the way he's been running the team I highly doubt that he's going to ignore everything he's said over the past few weeks/months about Logan and replace him for 2024 already.
@@tayuno Honestly, his F3 season campaign was very dominant and his F2 first season was quite impressive for a rookie so I couldn't see any point in keeping his talent just to win the F2 title (see what happened to Pourchaire if you want a mirror) or got more time to develop in an overall inferior and not quite close to be as competitive field as F1. Sure, he would have been matured later on but it was better this way - doesn't matter what memes said about him, I still believe he is a good F1 driver. Sure, he made a couple of silly mistakes and sure he crashed but that doesn't make him unworthy for staying - in the last couple of races, he showed he has an ability to keep up with his teammate, and that's still a positive sign. Still, fun fact, Max has never won any junior nor feeder series championship title before joining Toro Rosso in 2015. So, make it as you will, but he will only get better.
@@kohikappu Yeah, exactly. People just often tend to forget that people are never already at their peak from Race 1 - it always takes time. That's also why I compared him to Tsunoda, who wasn't as dominant in F3, but was really impressive during his one year in F2, finishing P3 as a Rookie, 15 points only behind Mick who obviously won that year. The competition maybe wasn't as extremely strong that year as in some other years, but it was nontheless a good sign, but then again the step up to F1 was a harsh one. What spoke in favour of Yuki that year, which wasn't applyable to Logan this year, was that the Alpha Tauri was a genuine fast car that year, unlike the Williams. I mean, Gasly got 9 finishes in the Top 6 and even a Podium, while Yuki only got two, one in Hungary and his P4 in Abu Dhabi. Pierre did to Yuki basically the same thing Alex did to Logan, but as we can see now, after years of maturing and getting to grips, that driver who got extremely outperformed is no more, and instead is well established, and that's what I'm hoping for in Logan as well now in his future, because as I've said - He clearly has the potential to be a very decent driver and regular points scorer.
This isn't me finding an excuse to be downer on Verstappen, more playing Devil's Advocate. There will be some who will say, the ultimate way to prove a driver's greatness is to win races and titles in multiple teams. Michael Schumacher, Lewis Hamilton, Alain Prost, Niki Lauda and Nelson Piquet all won titles for more than one team in their careers and with Verstappen having achieved the maximum he can do at Red Bull, he could probably seek a new challenge by trying to get another team to title success, to work with them to reach the top
@@SiVlog1989 Yes, but I'm specifically pointing out their reliability issues, lol. This is similar to when Mugen engine is basically Honda's child company.
This season was far from boring. Maybe instead of complaining so much, one should have simply watched the sport. We saw some amazing feats, records set & accomplishments from many drivers this season. 😪😒
I know it's mostly a Twitter thing to trash Max for having a great car, but Checo proved it's not easy to be consistent in a car that strong, and Max truly deserves Driver of the Year. That's not hard to agree with. Now let's see what everyone else gets. (Proud that Dan wasn't obliterated either. He wasn't amazing, but he showed his true potential again multiple times, and against Yuki, who had an amazing year, and had 3/4 of the season over Dan before Dan was properly back, yeah a B is fine, it's a fair rating. Even as a Ricciardo fan, I agree he needs to prove he still has it next year, which I do believe he has, and McLaren was just not a healthy relationship.
The issue isn't just the Perez performance is lacking to Verstappen its also lacking to a lot of other drivers on the grid. Perez nearly lost 2nd in the drivers championship in a car that's won 21 out of 22 races. The gap between Perez and Hamilton ended up being 51 whereas the gap between Hamilton and Russell was 54. Hamilton has a smaller gap to Perez than his own teammate in the same car. The gap between Perez and Verstappen was 290 points. The size of that has nothing to do with Max's performance. If Max's winning Perez should be coming second especially in a car this dominant. The fact that most of the time he was finishing behind slower cars reflects very poorly on him as a driver not just because he cannot race Max but he can't even put the car where it's supposed to be.
@@kityhawk2000was just about to say this, the fact that Pérez was so bad that he was basically in a fight for p2 with Hamilton who's driving the goddamn w14 which for most of the season has been the 3rd or 4th quickest car says a lot
If IndyCar wasn't a spec series then Palou probably would've dominated as much as Max did. Ganassi is a big team with lots of money and Palou is no doubt their best driver. Only driver I could see keeping up with him is Josef Newgarden with how he absolutely dominated (aka swept) the ovals this season.
I assume this is going in championship order? There’s an error with Leclercs placement. He should be after sainz and Norris, he jumped to 5th, equal with Alonso on points in Abu Dhabi
Argggggg.... Josh I've asked this before & still asking now... I love your content but please, please, PLEASE can you say your grades in the script as well as just putting them on the screen? I'm sure I can't be the only one who watches TH-cam while doing other stuff, be it cooking, working on a computer or whatever.... repeatedly missing your grades because I've looked away from the screen for the wrong 2 seconds is just incredibly frustrating!! Keep up the fantastic work otherwise!
Put it like this: if the FIA decided Max needs to be nerfed and halved his points, he would still be the champion. If that's not an A+, I don't know what is.
Max is a top driver with a top team with a top car. Of COURSE he's dominant. If F1 had it so the cars could have similar power output and performance, maybe the racing might be better. Also, off topic, but it's about time the Mustangs became competitive in Supercars. Shame it took all year, but it was about time.
We're going to get Antonelli and Miyata going at each other's throats for F2 in 2024...in a car which Miyata has driven a distant cousin of. And oh yes, Guenther maybe realised Mick wasn't the problem...
Liam's first race was the worst you could imagine for a rookie who comes in 10 races into the season. The fact he delivered and brought it home is a testament to his ability
a B- is a bit low isn't it? i'm not too familiar with the letter grading but the guy scored a point in singapore. his third race. in singapore.
and finishing the dutch gp with only a wet FP3 to practice and still finishing ahead of yuki is also nothing to sneeze at.
@@lethalnl totally agree. I'd even give him an A+. Not only did he do a handful of races, he outscored 2 drivers ending up p20.
@@lethalnl He OUTQUALIFIED Verstappen at Singapore. Yes RB screwed the setup but even so that was a brilliant moment.
The guy has a YT channel now!
Really interested to see how piastri does in the future. He's very good at keeping a cool head and is able to keep up with Norris a lot of the time.
If by alot of the time you mean Quali. he has zero race pace, hes consistently 3-5 tenths a lap off in race pace. He needs to sort it out, but his approach and maturiaty are all good sighns e can get it done
@@dylanburston7453it’s his first season and he’s finishing top quartile, “he needs to sort it out” is a bit harsh
@@ReasonableSwampMonster Its his first season where hes had a clear 2nd fastest car in more races than anyone. Hes done the same amount of races as Charles did when he dominated Bahrain 2019 and when Max won in spain 2016.
He does need to sort it out. The only drivers with that sort of deficit are stroll and Sargent. And when you are doing 20+ races in a season, being a rookie is no longer a valid excuse. He really should have brought the gap down to Lando and had much better pace in comparision the other drivers in the top teams, but that hasnt been the case.
He does need to sort it out, because how close the top 4 (behind RB) have been, being that far off in race pace is the difference between P3 and p10 (when the window licker has one of his 3 good weekends a year)
Take away the tracks where mclaren were particularly strong this year (silverstone Suzuka and Quatar( which also had manadatory pitstops that helped oscar massivly) then he really hasnt been that impressive.
For the first 10 races of their rookie seasons, in which they all had cars that were 7th to 9th best depending on the track, Oscar had less than half the points of Charles, Max and Carlos. Everyone is comparing him to Max and Charles as if they had remotley comparable cars in their rookie seaosns, but when they are actually compared it all falls a bit flat
He is a rookie and Lando is a top 5 driver on the grid do you think he will beat him in his first season?? He has not been that good in the first half of the season but since Silverstone he has been on it and keeping up with Lando at least in quali. Yes he is slower in races but thats very much due to his tyre management not being that good. BUT a lot of rookies struggle with this so if he can sourt it out in the next 2 seasons he can be a really good opponent to Lando
@@KifuqwertyIn addition he was a rookie in an ever changing car, the first 10 weeks, it was 7th -10th fastest, then it came alive only on certain tracks. 2 podiums, 2 fastest laps and a sprint win for a rookie is very impressive.
Stroll finished the season well and earned that C+ because it was looking like a solid D up until the last 5 races
Might be some recency bias. His season was quite underwhelming.
He warned a D instead of an F. Alonso got 8 podiums and Lance got 0. That’s not a C+
Solid D 😏
@@johnnychimpo7539 I'd say a solid third of the grid won't get a podium with Alonso as teammate, even without considering Lance's poor luck.
@@dirty_macyou misspelled "shit driver"
A lot of people have lost faith in Leclerc.
But I haven’t.
The guy is a sensational driver, I hope he gets the machinery in his career to become world champion.
Never lost faith in him. But Ferrari are never going to give him the chance he deserves
Leclerc? no, Ferrari? yes.
I hope he gets another chance to fight for a championship. One that lasts longer than half a season.
However at the moment he reminds me a lot of a former Ferrari driver who also was heralded as future promise. Ultimately that promise was left somewhat unfulfilled with Jean Alesi..
Ferrari could have a second a lap faster car and they’d still find a way to fuck it up
From what I've seen people still back him (including me) its just a question of whether Ferrari can get their act together
I want to give a shoutout to the best rookie of the year,
racing beyond his years, impeccable racecraft, amazing speed and no crashes
of course I'm talking about
Alonso
(Piastri did pretty good too I guess?)
As soon I’m as I saw the word rookie I new it was going to be an Alonso joke
The rookie is really good. Watch out for him next year, winning his first race
Alonso ? Also Competed at the 1982 Las Vegas GP (Conor Moore universe)
@@joribremer52601982 Vegas GP? Thats 41 years ago man.
@@Blueflag04Alonso in 2024 may gonna rack up 7 wins.
C for KMag might even be a compliment, Hulk dominated him in quali much more than expected
Kmag shouldnt even be on the grid, but günther is way too incompetent
@@never1163I hope Bearman gets the shot at Haas in 2025 alongside Hulkenberg, he looks like he gets on well with the team and with that kind of talent he can make it even at notoriously hard for rookies Haas
@@cyancut21no amount of talent will help dragging that tractor. I say this as a bitter Haas fan lol.
Everyone overlooks just how well Kmag consistently put up propper fights pretty much every single race even though it usually ended up being pointless in the end because of how that shitbox of a car chewed through tires like there was no tomorrow. He wasn't great in quali, but he absolutely outperformed Hulk in the races. He was much better than people give him credit for.
@@never1163 Hulk and Kmag both should've been axed for good a long long time ago
A+ might even be a little low for Max. That’s how insane he was this year
Alonso deserves more. Idk what he had to do to get that. Surely he made (pretty few) mistakes, but he made them where it mattered the less. Other than that, absolutely masterful work.
hamilton did way more costly mistakes than alonso wtf
I never get this narrative of "Yuki being error prone". He did have a costly mistake in Mexico and a couple occassions where he had smaller mistakes (e.g. Brazil where he lost a position as he almost lost it), but has he had significantly more mistakes than other drivers? I don't think so. I think Yuki's image of being very error prone in previous years, and his radio blow ups, is creating a wrong impression of what is actually happening. If anything, I think Yuki has been one of the most consistent driver, and I do not think there was literally a single race where Yuki wasn't battling for points when the car had the pace.
There were plenty of other good drivers who had big shunts and mistakes throughout the year, be it Lando, George, Lewis, Checo, Alonso, Albon, Oscar, Pierre, Esteban... list goes on. And for some reason, Yuki's reputation seems to get punished the most.
It comes from his first two seasons. He had a really bad Rookie season and underperformed in a strong car. He crashed a lot and had costly mistakes. He also crashed out Pierre in Silverstone 2022 and indirectly destroyed Verstappens Race… He improved this year and only looked rather weak against Liam
There were also multiple qualifyings where he screwed up the warm lap or the push lap itself but yeah, the amount of mistakes he does isn't unusual for a young midfield driver.
I think it's also partially that until recently he wasn't the big mover in his team, and AT was rarely relevant, so the only times you saw him was when things went wrong.
I find gasly to be just way easier to root for than ocon. Ocon seems like a guy who would stab you in the back for half a point, then smile and ask what he did wrong.
😂
same, if i have to root for a french driver, gasly gets my support 100%.
Well, he has a history of that. There's a reason gasly stopped being friends with him in their early teens.
Max broke every record that requires skill and consistency. In Miami he beat Checo with no safety cars from P9, it was such a bad beating that Checo really has not recovered.
Yeah people saying its just the car completely overlook how consistent he is. Not a single lost point because of his own fault all year not a single crash even Schumacher and Hamilton in their most dominant years weren't able to be that mistake proof and consistent. Max is a machine
@@Maggi4932 I would argue 2020 was that year for Hamilton. Bottas kept up until the silverstone blowout but from then on he got walked. Pretty sure he had enough points to win both the drivers and constructors on his own with only 16 races and missing one.
@@Maggi4932Did schumi make any mistakes in 2002? Im not old enough to have watched those races
@@Controldo not necessarily since he finished every single race but he just wasnt in form to fight for the win quite a few times
@@liveandletdie138 Crazy thing about 2020 was that Verstappen almost finished ahead of Bottas in the championship... with four more retirements. He only had one race he finished where he wasn't on the podium.
I think it was Crofty or Kravitz that mentioned he asked Max what his schedule was going to be like after Brazil and Max said he was going back to Milton Keynes to go to the simulator... He asked "why?" since Max wasn't fighting for ANYTHING at that point and his answer was "I would kick myself if the only reason I miss a win was lack of practice". So yeah... Talk about the car all you want, only a handful of drivers have that mentality. This is the sole reason not only Checo but most of the field, past, present or future, cannot hold a candle to drivers like Max. This is the reason Nico retired too, after he realized what it took to win a championship against Sir Lewis (who's basically the same when it comes to work ethic) he had the realization he's not doing it anymore so it was pointless to go on.
He even has a sim setup in his private jet. The man wins a race in F1, hops in his sim on the way home, hops in his sim at home and streams to fans while also being a pretty decent family man, hops in the sim at the factory, hops in the sim in his jet on the way to the next race, then wins the next race. Machine doesn't even begin to describe his otherworldly work ethic. I don't think a lot of us have ever seen this combination of unrelenting hard work and supernatural talent in our lifetimes. Max deserves his wins, easily.
It's interesting that you brought up Hamilton, since he's pretty open about how while he thinks the sim is important for developing the car, he finds it uncomfortable and doesn't think it helps his driving. Something about him as a driver relying a lot more on seat feedback to drive, so he feels awkward and blind when he get into a simulator (which lacks that feedback), despite how realistic the car's characteristics are.
That kind of lines up with how uncomfortable Lewis was with the Mercedes' seating position this year and how it affected his ability to feel the rear of the car, and is maybe more the reason that Verstappen has taken to these cars that you would otherwise have assumed don't match his style (Even the most pointy 2022 and 2023 car is far more understeery than 2014-2021 cars were), if he spends so much time in simulators that he's better than many at driving with less feedback.
Alonso was the best rookie this season! For sure he deserves an A+ Rating
Ayy didn't expect to see you here Dirk. Love your videos, been watching you since 10k😁.
True. Lanzhu Zhong, Ayumu Uehara, Shioriko Mifune (Ayumu's great friend), Setsuna Yuki, Ai Miyashita, Karin Asaka, Yuu Takasaki, Eli Ayase, and Max Verstappen all also deserved an A+.
You’re so naive. Do you even know the meaning of rookie
You should’ve at least given some mention to Kalle Rovenperä, who at the unprecedentedly young age of 23 is a 2x (consecutive) WDC in WRC and who absolutely dominated the season.
3 wins this season, thats the same as Evans And Ogier. Admittedly, it did feel like if Seb was an actual title threat, Kalle could've pushed for the win at Monaco or Kenya, but it was far from dominating.
Watching Verstappen race this year was like watching Ronhaar when he turns on his cheats, definitely an all-time driver.
Same goes when me using cheats on Gran Turismo 4.😅
Max aka 2021 fake champion
@@Jones3590oh get over it.
A special mention for Scott Dixon, who has now won at least one race in nineteen consecutive seasons.
😂
And also Francesco Bagnaia. Won back to back title since Marquez in 2018-19
I was gonna say SVG because like... to win in his first race in NASCAR was like... amazing given the level of talent on that lineup
2004 and 2002 were the only years he didn’t win a race.
And Kalle Rovenperä, man wrapped up his second WRC title on the bounce this year.
Josh, I've been watching your videos for a while, and I want to say, you have such a good cadence with how you speak, and you have a great way of expressing your views on the sport and everything related to other motorsports and drivers outside F1. Your editing is immaculate, and you always keep me coming back to your channel. I love your videos, and I appreciate the time you take to make them. Cheers!
His vocal fry is infuriating.
Did anyone actually understand what he said about Zhou? Smth about death threats and lips? 🤔🤔
Your transitions from driver to driver are flawless
I am floored how well he has done this
The Mag / Zho section is an utter mess , tho. Almost doesn't make any sense.
"...had just fired a driver 12 months ago, only to end up with results not that much different from now" 😂 Like whaat? 😆
I didn’t expect to see Jett Lawrence in this video. To see two of my favorite Motorsports completely dominated by two people this year was not the most enjoyable experience. But you know I’ll watch them again next season anyways
22/22 is insane
I'm excited to see Tomac vs Jett next year
@@sviniciusbragaihink 2024 with both Lawrence brothers, chase on KTM and Eli on Yamaha
Ngl I kinda stopped watching the season when it became clear nobody (even chase sexton) could really compete.
think it was bit harsh on yuki.... his team always messed up his race and yet he still performed well this year
Pastry A- at least. I suspect Lando and him will be very close next year. One lap pace is already there.
Russel and Leclerc also a bit low I think.
He really feels like a new Iceman. I see greatness in his future, just hope it doesn't cause too much friction at McLaren
@@caesar98 yeah.. if he will be really on Lando's level, it will be tricky. McLaren sees Lando as clear no1 and I don't think that's changing.
Leclerc imo was 2-3 best driver this year, and without ferrari being ferrari he would've been fighting for p2-p3 in the championship. Lando was not so good. He had a good year, but he bottled quali so many times when their car was fastest-2nd fastest (in quali obv) that he went to the school of sergio perez dotd at the end of the season. Piastri had a good season, but really needs to work on his tire management and race pace. Russell, well. He had a mistake filled season with some high notes. personally, i wouldn't put him any higher than a B+, otherwise it's just car tax.
How is Piastri b+ just as Gasly and Ocon? Sorry Piastris performance was sooo much better than theirs and then he is a rookie on top of that.
i want to add some more detailed context to the Tsunoda placement, since Josh is missing (or potentially, ignoring) some rather important notes.
"if Daniel was his teammate for the whole calendar year, i dont know if Yuki would be ahead of him in the standings" is the main, very weird point made. coming into Hungary, Yuki had 2 points finishes. in their time as teammates (not including his points gained with Lawson), he gained 15 more. the reason this point is confusing is because Yuki's pace to Daniel has been pretty on level, occasionally slightly faster or slightly slower depending on the track and how the team handle their cars. in a car that for half the season was definitively 6th fastest or worse, Yuki's runs of p11 - P10 were, quite literally, what the car had in it. every car in front of him was a clear league above what AT could manage. i dont see Daniel taking any more than 2-6 extra points even with good luck (something AT have been horrednous at helping with this year) if he were to be running the full season, and that cannot compensate for the points gap they currently hold.
the other main, confusing point is the comment on mistakes. Yuki's european run of races has been noticebly weak (in fact, it almost always has been, for some reason) but to chock it to mistakes when its not very difficult to look into a lot of these lower end finishes and find he would've faired better if not for Alphatauri certified strategies that even Franz himself has criticised, and clashes with other drivers out of his control, is a little odd from Josh, who's normally one of the better figures in this community for pointing out how much of a hand a drivers been given. if im to look at it objectively, outside of a couple smaller, insignificant mistakes he's made throughout the season, his only big error is in Mexico, where he was absolutely in the wrong, and faced harsh consequences in running P12 in what would've been an amazing points finish.
that being said, these points head to Daniel's corner as well, he's had some poor luck out of the few races he's attended, and while i personally believe he's had the better end of the strategies, i also can say he's had his own share of strange requests and decisions from the garage. while Yuki won their H2H, and likely would have won it with bad luck removed, i think B+ to Daniel's B is the accurate rating for the pairing.
Yeah I ain't reading all that
yeah, I don't know why Josh said the mistakes was back, when most of it was because AT strategy sucks, like literally even in Abu dhabi they let him hang dry on a one-stopper, it's amazing that Yuki can come back into the points and fending off hamilton after that.
and mainly Mexico is when Old Yuki came to the surface.
Agreed, also its so strange how yuki can make a mistake and be called error prone when other drivers can do way worse and it gets ignored.
Daniel had the worst luck of pretty much any driver this year. Crashed into by Zhou in Hungary at T1, track limits at Spa, broken hand at Zandvoort, brake duct damage at Austin, a tyre landing on his rear wing in Brazil for fuck's sake, and a tearoff in his brakes in Abu Dhabi - he and Oscar have certainly proven the Australian curse exists.
But for Tsunoda, Mexico just sticks in my mind. Melting down to a full-blown tantrum behind the wheel, crashing into another driver THREE TIMES, and then having the audacity to accuse the FIA of favouritism because they didn't penalise the other driver (who did nothing wrong!) is just...holy fuck, we're three years in, how is this still happening?
Ricciardo/Tsunoda and Yume Nijino/Laura Sakuraba both should've been given B at best.
I agree with Max of A+ because... car or not... that was supreme driving
The guy got a 10 win streak(the record) and a ongoing 7(good enough to match the nr3 all time) winstreak in the same season only Schumi managed that before him.
Would love to see drugavich have a crack at f1. AM should definitely get a loan deal out there for some real time experience with sauber or Williams providing how well Zhou and Sargent do as I see them seats being most available compared to others
even though during the season i've been very harsh to checo, if you look at the season max had, anyone would look like an amateur next to him. And i just looked at the results of the teammates of the other recent dominant champions (Schumacher 2002, Vettel 2013, Hamilton 2020, those being the most dominant seasons for each driver) Except for lewis (rona season and merc being absolutly dominant) all of them made almost double the points of their teammates, yet noone questioned them or wanted them to be sacked at the time. Yes checo looked weak in comparison, but if you have to compete against someone who has a season only achievable on a playstation, a season where almost all but 2 records (winning the championship with 6 races to go, finishing every race on the podium, both by Schumacher in 2002) have been broken, how can you not completely break and question your ability?
That RB19 is the most dominant car ever, the reliability is insane. On the contrary VER is the most dominant driver within a season ever, for the same reason, reliability to win.
No, it' was NOT the most dominant car ever. Not even close. The RB was almost mediocre in Qualy. The "most dominant" cars have obliterated the field even while running in "safe mode" (such as the Merc in 2014).
People are obsessed with ending every other sentence with "ever" 🤦
I wouldn't say dominant car. The most reliable? Yes. Fast? Yes. Dominant? Not exactly.
@@martinusv7433 Oh you’re one of those f1 fans. Cool.
@@kohikappu either way, I was just complimenting the car and the driver. But thanks for letting me know, I’ll look more into it.
Love the mention of Jett Lawerence as those dude absolutely dominated and worth a video in itself as ESPN called him “ the Justin Bieber of motocross “
You know what, I could complain for hours about verstappen, but none of that matters, his success this year was well earned and truly outstanding. Couldn't agree more with him getting driver of the year.
Verstappen gonna be DRIVER OF THE YEAR until 2030.
complain about what?
@@purwantiallan5089 in that form with that team behind him, yeah, I can believe it
Hulkenberg deserved so much more this year. His qualifying performances showed he had it
A- generous for Lando. He made a lot of qualifying mistakes in the second half of the year that cost him crucial grid positions and gave his teammate a look in.
Yes, he was also frequently very very good, particularly on race pace and consistency. B+ for mine.
I think those mistakes are the only reason he’s A- and not A+. It was only 4 quali mistakes over the whole season, it’s just that 3 happened in a short period of time that made it look worse. I mean who else had a 4 podium streak? His race pace was exceptional in the second half of the season. He was the 2nd highest scorer besides Max in the second half of the season
@@wintertimealldatime I mean the Mclaren was the 2nd and sometimes faster quali car and yet every time they had a chance for pole he bottled it. It's actually concerning. At the end of the season he went to the Checo school of DOTD's with bottling quali and then car tax. At the end of the season Lance Stroll impressed me more. Also i think leclerc might have had a podium streak if ferrari wasn't ferrari. I don't think Lando deserves to be ranked higher than Charles considering the fact that CL could've been fighting for P2/P3 without the unluck.
As we’re talking about top drivers across all of motorsports, shout out also to Kalle Rovanperä by the way, for winning back-to-back WRC titles at the age of only 23. I’d say that’s pretty stand-out for me!
Well done, 95% right. 2 things. You're not biased about Liam Lawson, I too think he needs a seat....quickly. Norris did as expected, & warranted your A-. Piastry went well beyond expectations, so I think your B+ is a little harsh considering Oscar got a win & Lando didn't.
You're an absolute legend, Josh. You are the Martin Brundle of F1 youtubers, always agree with you, coz its always right!
The timing is incredible. I actually watched your 2023 season predictions a couple of hours ago, and now you release a new video. Let's just say I'm excited for your reaction to your own predictions to this year.
That transition to the sponsor was smooth
Max literally played F1 23 Career Mode on 20% difficulty and an F2 teammate while his car was maxed out at the beginning of the campaign.
Sargent is the only driver this year to sit for the full season and finish outside the 21 out of 20 positions.
24:41 "tendency to tango with other drivers" shows the clip where it 100% wasnt Max Fault 💀
Lewis & fernando finishing 3rd & 4th prove the excellent season both had.
On average neither merc nor aston would be the 2nd(McLaren) or even 3rd (ferrari) quickest car. But both of them were fucking consistent
C+ seems generous for Perez. Sure, Max has been perfect and maybe the Top 4 teams are a bit closer than we realize if you omit Max, but I still think 2 wins / 9 podiums is pretty low considering there were A LOT of races and no mechanical failures. At best, I'd give C- for the W's.
That SurfShark ad transition was so good I was almost tempted not to skip it
I know right! So smooth! ‘you have got the security of Lance Stroll’s race seat’ was gold too 😂
I feel like Ferrari drivers arent getting really underrated due to how much the team messes up as well as both performing well, making neither of them appear like superheroes who are anhillating their teammates.
Leclerc would've been fighting for p2-3 in the championship without the unluck and ferrari. I saw someone add it up, Leclerc lost somewhere around 100 points, sainz lost around 40. It's hard to compare their bad luck when Sai dns from p11 and Lec dns from p2. Sai also got his 10 place grid penalty on a weekend where he was massively off the pace, compared to Lec in Saudi who probably could have held on to a podium or p4
Not only did Jett Lawrence have a perfect season, he did so as a 19 year-old rookie. Kid has _superhuman_ talent on a bike. He looks absolutely effortless while being the fastest guy on the track.
Jett Lawrence absolutely deserves Racer of the Year. For those who don't follow Motocross there are actually 2 seasons in America, the first half is Supercross and the second half is Motocross. Jett won the 250 Supercross title (think of it as Formula 2 for dirt bikes) and then went on to the Premiere class mid year. He proceeded to dominate 22 races straight and this is against some of the best Motocross riders in the world. The thing about Motocross though is that the equipment advantage isn't that severe so skill level matters more and even if it mattered as much as it did in Formula cars it doesn't matter cause Jett's teammate was Chase Sexton, the current reigning Supercross champion, and Jett beat him every single time. Thats like Max beating Leclerc or Lando over and over again while both being on a Redbull.
And I say this as someone who was actively cheering against Jett this season cause I didn't want ALL the racing I follow to be complete dominations.
That’s insane
Jett's 22-0 was absolutely a treat to see, even when challenged both by Sexton and Roczen he would find another gear.
Even more impressive is the maturity and composture, never went full send, just managing the race and winning by 10 secs
@@macedhxLawrence, Sexton, and Roczen all equally deserved an S rider rating. Not A+ anymore.
@@purwantiallan5089 What!?
Rroczen yeah maybe.
Sexton is your 450sx champion, was close enough to Tomac so name someone better please?...
Then Jett? Dude went 22-0, kicked sexton both on motocross all sumer long and smx aswell.
Then who else? Plessinger? Webb? Anderson? Barcia? Tomac maybe, but would not bet against being up there, need to see how he recovered from the aquilles tendon injury
I wonder how he would stack up against Herlings.
I think you overcompensated on your bias a bit for Lawson.
There's more nuance but on paper the guy is 4-1 on Tsunoda, after penalties were applied he was AHEAD of Tsunoda in Zandvoort. In his FIRST race in arguably the worst conditions a rookie could ask for.
Italy was mechanical so can't really judge, Singapore speaks for itself (Yes Perez and Tsunoda crashed early but it was a racing incident) and Japan featured a solid fight between them and Liam still brought it home ahead of the guy racing his THIRD season. Qatar was a dud and Yuki finished two places ahead of him in 15th.
I think a B+ would be fairer, it's hard to tell where the AT car was relative to the others but Liam certainly got more out of the car than anyone else up to that point. The man also finished 20th in a 22 person championship only doing five races. 21st (Sargeant) had an entire season.
A- IMO, for a rookie that was quite an impressive performance, and look at the car.
I could have imagined had he got a better one, he would have done more.
I strongly believe McLaren will be up there battling with Red Bull. Their drivers AND pit crew have really shown signs of growth this season, and with Perez's questionable driving (that somehow landed him 2nd place total), the battles will be close next season. Can't wait to see if I'm right or not.
Max has been absolutely something else this year. Relentless, flawless, careful, mostly cool and level headed and man absolute mastery of racecraft. This will be one of THE GOATED seasons for a world champion.
Never thought I'd see one of my favorite dirt bike riders on the channel with Jett Lawrence.
Dunno what season everyone else was watching. That was a great year. All you needed to do was watch literally the entire field other than max.
How is it that Carlos can outperform Charles most of the season, show clearly superior racecraft (like beating him in their only real wheel-to-wheel battle of the season at Monza), and be the ONLY non-red bull race winner of the season, and STILL get a lower grade than Charles? Carlos is seriously the most underrated driver on the grid
You didn’t watch the season or what?
Its nice to see you mention Jett. Fan of you before, even bigger fan now.
Really cool that you preciatet both alpine drivers i think this year alpine was invisible but the drivers really overperformed
So Josh, when is your 2023 Formula 1 Predictions review coming out? I look forward to seeing you criticize your optimism. Seriously, it's cool to see the man behind the voice.
Fun stat: if Max was the only Red Bull driver, he would've won 21 races instead of 19.
wow, mate, that was a smoooooth transition for the AD.. porps! love ya content mate! cheers!
The surfshark segway was, once again, on point
To be honest even if i am not a max verstappen fan (being a ferrari fan hurts) He deserves the driver of the year award because he didnt do a single mistake especially on race day.
But he was beaten in Baku, fair and square. Not only in the race, but even more blatantly in the sprint as well.
@@martinusv7433 it really doesnt matter he won almost every race except singapore after that. I ve never seen such a domination from a driver's perspective even hamilton lost races from bottas even seb vettel or max verstappen. (there is no doubt he had the best car but his teammate couldn't even outqualify an alpine in some cases)
How is raffaele Marciello not even mentioned for driver of the year ? He was flawless once again . Kalle and Preining also deserve a shout
And also Pedro Acosta from moto2
Raffaele is such a machine!
It's funny to see how Lance is becoming our era's Andrea de Cesaris (who got 5 podiums in 14 years in the sport). Every year we say that Lance has to step up, and that [insert any outstanding race here] shows that he may achieve some sort of extra level.
He never will, and he will be on the paddock for the next 10 years.
Always a good day when Josh Revell uploads
Sasly disappointed by Zhou this season. Last year he was doing bits in that Alfa Romeo & had closed the gap to Bottas to be almost on par with him in quali & race pace. This year though, all of that has just gone out the window. I really hope he can pull it back together again for 2024, because if not, he's very likely going to have Theo Pourchaire do to his F1 seat what Zhou did to Antonio Giovinazzi's seat.
Pretty much spot on ratings, just shocked with Sainz B, like cmon the guy was the only non RB winner and only came behind Leclerc in the very last race...
I mean honestly, Sainz's win is a nice stat, but let's not pretend he was fighting for it against RB like Leclerc was in Vegas (damn you safety car). When the car suited him, lec was within a tenth of him (faster or slower), but when the car suited lec he was massively behind. Lec went 7-0 in quali at the end, and he was massively faster in Baku, LV and AD, to an embarrassing degree. By no means does he deserve to be ranked higher than lec, but i'd give him a B+ and leclerc an A. I'm very suprised Norris was rated so high after he bottled the end of the season so badly.
He deserved A-, but I would give Leclerc A despite whatever the shit was going on with his car.
LOL the Simpsons Disco Stu clip as it relates to Checo.... perfect. I WANT TO BELIEVE
I'm a motocross fan and Jett Lawrence's domination is generational, on par with the all time greats.
it's gonna be Miyata V Kimi for the f2 title and I'm all for it (if Miyata gets a decent package)
Honestly, it seemed like the "upgrades" for Stroll ruined his confidence and his performances. Stroll immediately started bouncing back once AM brought the old spec back.
Yep, this. Maybe those upgrades were made to suit Alonso's car better than him.
@kohikappu nope the "upgrades" didn't even suit Alonso. They were in all honesty, downgrades
@@066kshitizvsingh4 Lol, I guess so.
Very harsh to say Ricciardo would've beaten Yuki. Ricciardo had one good performance, Yuki had several and was absolutely stellar at the beginning of the year when the car was awful (he finished 11th like 4 times). Mexico aside, he's generally taken his chances for points when he's had them extremely well too. Ricciardo can do that, but consistently? Debatable.
Yeah I don't really see where people get the idea that Ricciardo is or would have been better than Yuki. Mexico was like the only race where Yuki got outperformed.
Came here to say this, Daniel had literally 1 good race
"1 good performance" he stepped into a car he'd never driven before in Hungary and immediately beat Tsunoda, beat him in Spa Sprint, suffered damage in Austin, beat Tsunoda comfortably in Mexico, was stupidly unlucky in Brazil and was faster, faster than Tsunoda in Vegas, and faster on race pace than Tsunoda in Abu Dhabi.
I fully agree. There has been too few races and he has already been really just one race where he showed very good performance, and that was in a race where the car clearly had a lot of race as seen with Yuki also making very good progress until he screwed it up with his contact with Piastri. (remember this is the race that Yuki knew he was going to have to start from the back of the grid due to PU change)
There has been very few races that were really comparable (because either driver had some kind of big issue), and it's quite pointless to compare a race like Vegas where both literally had zero pace.
So at best, right now, the two drivers are performing at similar level if you factor in all the different factors, and ultimately it is way too small of a sample size to draw any kind of conclusion.
@@walover165 Here we go again, Danny fans just coming up with every single excuse they can come up with to make it look like Danny was the superior driver to Yuki.
"faster on race pace than Tsunoda in Abu Dhabi" - Are you fricking serious? You are trying to say Danny was the better driver in the race because he had "faster pace"? Where was he in qualifying where we see the true raw pace? Do you realize the two drivers were on entirely different strategies?
Why can't you all just accept the fact that there has been too few races where both drivers had a truly comparable race, and at best the results so far show that they are at best on par if not Yuki was slightly ahead. Just fed of hearing so many excuses for Daniel, rarely ever giving context of what is happening on Yuki's side of the garage, and just obsessing about him being better than Yuki.
21:52 AHHHH he did his best it was a solid A he performed what he could everytime he had a chance for a podium he did it he was supper consistent, only in Texas and mexico he wasnt
Charles has the ability to become world champion. In a few years Oscar as well. It's the dominance of RedBull and the lack of own machinery which especially holds Charles back
I was hoping Perez would finally break the curse of the Red Bull #2 driver, but alas. I swear, that seat is like the monkey's paw that grants your wishes but ruins your life in the process.
I'd like to see a Race Gradings video honestly
Replacing Logan with schu would be going from bad to worse! Shcumi crashes more than Logan
Can't wait for josh revell to react to pre season predictions
The thing is you say that they fired a driver at Haas but are in the same place, but obviously they have much lower repair bills this year.
It wasn't just pace with Mick, the amount he cost the team with crashes was defo not missed.
Also, I think you were letting a little Antipodean bias creep in with the whole Ricciardo/Tsunoda thing. They raced seven races together and Yuki got much better results overall. If they had been together the whole year I am not convinced Ric would have been any better. His star was well and truly tarnished with his time at McLaren and I am really not convinced he can work miracles in a bad car. In their seven races as team mates, Yuki scored four points paying positions, Dan scored one.
On his day, Yuki far out performed that shit heap of a car.
completely agree on your comments about yuki, idk why so many ppl just dont rate him at all
@@Enzo-ip3on I like Ric I really do, but he did not really do anything that made me feel he was the better option to replace Nyck, return after Lawson or god forbid replace Checo. I really think the old Danny Ric is gone. He might have odd flashes of those glory days but I think overall if he does not get on with the car, he ain't gonna be performing. McLaren is the perfect example. As for Yuki, considering the car they gave him this year, I think he has done well.
Haas literally scored the same number of points in total in 2023 that Mick alone had for all of 2022. No excuses, Haas is a trash organisation.
@@walover165 That's never been in doubt. He might be comedy gold on DTS, but they need a better team principal than Gunther.
@@caphowdy666 I don't even think he's conedy gold in DTS. The way he proudly showed himself treating Schumacher last year was very uncomfortable.
Thanks for not just straight up saying that Logan was bad this year. I couldn't stand the fact that everyone has been slandering him since race 1 about how slow he is.
Sure, he got demolished by Albon and some showings weren't too great, but people always tend to value the negatives way more than the positives.
Saudi Arabia for example, only his second race and he was fast enough in Quali to actually outqualify Alex. It was just the white lines on pit entry that screwed him over, and while that's a mistake that's... extremely stupid to say the least, barely anyone knew what exactly was meant with the reason behind his laptime deletion until it was too late. And generally over the last few races, he got closer. Still a good amount off, but he's getting there.
Logan has never been a Leclerc, a Russell, a Norris or a Piastri. He's more comparable to someone like Tsunoda I'd say. Tsunoda was also pretty good in Bahrain 2021, then just started to fall off massively. People were doubting him, wanting him gone, but he stayed (which is a miracle considering he's in the same team that sacked Nyck in 10 races lmao) and got time to develop himself. And now in 2023 when he was supposed to lead Alpha Tauri, he was there and he delivered, making himself a lot more popular with the majority of the people watching the sport.
Drivers like that also exist. They are more generic drivers instead of straight up generational talents.
They just need time to grow. They can't just jump into an F1 car and drive that thing as if it's their second nature. And some people need a bit less, some a bit more time.
And that time, lately, is not really being given to rookies as the sport, and especially the fanbase, gets way harsher with their treatment of new, upcoming drivers, especially when there are so many new prospects that fall into that Talent category.
Someone like Mick got not enough time imo, as his 2021 season was forgettable with that soapbox of a car and a teammate with the reputation of being the worlds best mobile roadblock, and while 2022 was better, it wasn't enough yet.
Someone like Latifi got way more time than needed, and while there were glimpses of good performance, he was massively inconsistent.
I'm not saying Logan has what it takes to be the next Max Verstappen here, but he surely has the potential to be a future team leader if he gets his stuff together.
this is actually huge, I started the year expecting MUCH worse. another big thing to take into account is that even by rookie standards he was brought into F1 a year too soon, Williams even admitted that. I think a second year would be good for him but I just don't think he'll get it unfortunately.
@@striaid Yeah, that's also another reason. Logan would've probably benefitted from another year in F2, with a few extra FP1 outings this year on top of that, but sadly Latifi just wasn't good enough and there was no driver ready yet to step up, unlike now. Although I still believe Logan does get that second season, JV has been sounding really positive about Logan and his development really throughout the entire season, and with the way he's been running the team I highly doubt that he's going to ignore everything he's said over the past few weeks/months about Logan and replace him for 2024 already.
@@tayuno Honestly, his F3 season campaign was very dominant and his F2 first season was quite impressive for a rookie so I couldn't see any point in keeping his talent just to win the F2 title (see what happened to Pourchaire if you want a mirror) or got more time to develop in an overall inferior and not quite close to be as competitive field as F1. Sure, he would have been matured later on but it was better this way - doesn't matter what memes said about him, I still believe he is a good F1 driver. Sure, he made a couple of silly mistakes and sure he crashed but that doesn't make him unworthy for staying - in the last couple of races, he showed he has an ability to keep up with his teammate, and that's still a positive sign. Still, fun fact, Max has never won any junior nor feeder series championship title before joining Toro Rosso in 2015. So, make it as you will, but he will only get better.
@@kohikappu Yeah, exactly. People just often tend to forget that people are never already at their peak from Race 1 - it always takes time. That's also why I compared him to Tsunoda, who wasn't as dominant in F3, but was really impressive during his one year in F2, finishing P3 as a Rookie, 15 points only behind Mick who obviously won that year. The competition maybe wasn't as extremely strong that year as in some other years, but it was nontheless a good sign, but then again the step up to F1 was a harsh one. What spoke in favour of Yuki that year, which wasn't applyable to Logan this year, was that the Alpha Tauri was a genuine fast car that year, unlike the Williams. I mean, Gasly got 9 finishes in the Top 6 and even a Podium, while Yuki only got two, one in Hungary and his P4 in Abu Dhabi. Pierre did to Yuki basically the same thing Alex did to Logan, but as we can see now, after years of maturing and getting to grips, that driver who got extremely outperformed is no more, and instead is well established, and that's what I'm hoping for in Logan as well now in his future, because as I've said - He clearly has the potential to be a very decent driver and regular points scorer.
This isn't me finding an excuse to be downer on Verstappen, more playing Devil's Advocate. There will be some who will say, the ultimate way to prove a driver's greatness is to win races and titles in multiple teams. Michael Schumacher, Lewis Hamilton, Alain Prost, Niki Lauda and Nelson Piquet all won titles for more than one team in their careers and with Verstappen having achieved the maximum he can do at Red Bull, he could probably seek a new challenge by trying to get another team to title success, to work with them to reach the top
He will seek the new challenge once the new regulation rolls-in; remember, Ford = Cosworth.
@@kohikappu well in this case, it's not Ford=Cosworth, instead it's Ford=Red Bull Powertrains by Ford. Ford sold Cosworth in 2004
@@SiVlog1989 Yes, but I'm specifically pointing out their reliability issues, lol. This is similar to when Mugen engine is basically Honda's child company.
Well written Josh! One of the best YTers in the business.
Pastry didn’t race last year, that’s very important
You should do one, but of the team principles and the team overall, true that there no that much info, but some overall of the season.
This season was far from boring. Maybe instead of complaining so much, one should have simply watched the sport. We saw some amazing feats, records set & accomplishments from many drivers this season. 😪😒
bro ur transitions are fire
If Tsunoda is a B+, surely Piastri should get an A?
What smooth transition to a add 😂😂
see Yuki season this year lol he cooked the badger
I know it's mostly a Twitter thing to trash Max for having a great car, but Checo proved it's not easy to be consistent in a car that strong, and Max truly deserves Driver of the Year. That's not hard to agree with. Now let's see what everyone else gets.
(Proud that Dan wasn't obliterated either. He wasn't amazing, but he showed his true potential again multiple times, and against Yuki, who had an amazing year, and had 3/4 of the season over Dan before Dan was properly back, yeah a B is fine, it's a fair rating. Even as a Ricciardo fan, I agree he needs to prove he still has it next year, which I do believe he has, and McLaren was just not a healthy relationship.
The issue isn't just the Perez performance is lacking to Verstappen its also lacking to a lot of other drivers on the grid. Perez nearly lost 2nd in the drivers championship in a car that's won 21 out of 22 races. The gap between Perez and Hamilton ended up being 51 whereas the gap between Hamilton and Russell was 54. Hamilton has a smaller gap to Perez than his own teammate in the same car. The gap between Perez and Verstappen was 290 points. The size of that has nothing to do with Max's performance. If Max's winning Perez should be coming second especially in a car this dominant. The fact that most of the time he was finishing behind slower cars reflects very poorly on him as a driver not just because he cannot race Max but he can't even put the car where it's supposed to be.
@@kityhawk2000was just about to say this, the fact that Pérez was so bad that he was basically in a fight for p2 with Hamilton who's driving the goddamn w14 which for most of the season has been the 3rd or 4th quickest car says a lot
a great driver in a champion winning car can become a champion. a legend breaks records in a champion winning car.
He was too harsh on Checo and Yuki.
Pfft, Lewis wasn't an A- rating. A solid B+ though.
If IndyCar wasn't a spec series then Palou probably would've dominated as much as Max did. Ganassi is a big team with lots of money and Palou is no doubt their best driver. Only driver I could see keeping up with him is Josef Newgarden with how he absolutely dominated (aka swept) the ovals this season.
Alonso A- is a crime
I assume this is going in championship order? There’s an error with Leclercs placement. He should be after sainz and Norris, he jumped to 5th, equal with Alonso on points in Abu Dhabi
He said Leclerc only had 5 podiums this year too so I’m assuming he recorded this before Abu Dhabi
@@NewscasterNews4yeah also the placement of the alpine drivers is a bit too much
Argggggg.... Josh I've asked this before & still asking now... I love your content but please, please, PLEASE can you say your grades in the script as well as just putting them on the screen?
I'm sure I can't be the only one who watches TH-cam while doing other stuff, be it cooking, working on a computer or whatever.... repeatedly missing your grades because I've looked away from the screen for the wrong 2 seconds is just incredibly frustrating!!
Keep up the fantastic work otherwise!
The 82 French GP was just one example of many that Alain Prost hated having teammates he actually had to compete with.
Prost over Ocon any day of the week.
Ocon is Prost without the proper talent
Put it like this: if the FIA decided Max needs to be nerfed and halved his points, he would still be the champion. If that's not an A+, I don't know what is.
Me, having already forgotten DeVries was an F1 driver this season
Max is a top driver with a top team with a top car. Of COURSE he's dominant.
If F1 had it so the cars could have similar power output and performance, maybe the racing might be better.
Also, off topic, but it's about time the Mustangs became competitive in Supercars. Shame it took all year, but it was about time.
Piastri getting a B+ is absolute clown work
We're going to get Antonelli and Miyata going at each other's throats for F2 in 2024...in a car which Miyata has driven a distant cousin of.
And oh yes, Guenther maybe realised Mick wasn't the problem...
20:06 nahhhh sainz ins a B+ the disrespect 😭 (still luv your content)
Honestly, a B for Sainz this season feels wrong, he has shown lots of pace against Leclerc and made little mistakes.
Lewis rates the same as Alonso this season I don't think so
Alright that was a clean sponsor Segway. I won't skip it this time