2025 F1 British Grand Prix - Driver Ratings

A chaotic, rain-affected British Grand Prix at Silverstone ended with a home victory, a controversial penalty and the breaking of F1's longest podium drought. 

There were more ups and downs in Northamptonshire than in a game of Snakes and Ladders, but how did RacingNews365 rate each driver and their performance?

Below, as ever, we have rated all 20 drivers on their performances!

The top five

Oscar Piastri - 8.5

This might seem unusual given he earned himself a penalty which ultimately handed his team-mate the win, but Piastri was the better of the two McLaren drivers when it mattered. He got ahead by 0.015s in qualifying, and did well to hang on to Verstappen, harrying him into mistakes, and cleanly pulled away whilst Norris was held up. Should have known better in the incident, which has led to a 14-point swing in an increasingly close title fight. 

Lando Norris - 8

Certainly the better of the two McLarens on Friday, but slipped in the key moments of qualifying, with Piastri getting ahead for the first time in Q3. Could not hold onto either his team-mate or Verstappen, and only won because of Piastri's penalty, but you take them as they come. Won back-to-back races for the first time in his F1 career.

Nico Hulkenberg - 8 

Finally. The monkey has been shifted, and Hulkenberg has that podium at long last. An expert drive using all his experience in those treacherous conditions and was quite comfortably able to hold Lewis Hamilton off after they both passed Lance Stroll. Cannot score any higher owing to the fact that he was out-qualified by his team-mate, who endured a tricky weekend. 

Max Verstappen - 8 

An astonishing pole lap was one of the best Silverstone has ever seen, but it was an illusion given the trimmed-out rear-wing he was using. It was a huge gamble that would have paid off without rain, but he did well to keep it pointing straight just about, until the Stowe spin dropped him to 10th. Despite an "undriveable" car, rallied to finish P5. Summed up his season.

Pierre Gasly - 7.5

Gasly somehow wrestled that Alpine into the top 10 on the grid, and then drove a fine race to sixth, being passed by Max Verstappen in the closing stages and otherwise would have taken ffith. Held his own against the likes of Verstappen and Hamilton and did a fine job, but with a bit more risk, was a podium on the cards?

The bottom five

Ollie Bearman - 4.5 

Bearman was incredibly difficult to rate, given the highs and lows of his weekend. The incident in FP3 was careless, and the stewards rightly hammered him for his speed on approach to the pit-entry. But given that he knew he had a 10-place grid drop, he still qualified that Haas inside the top 10 with a car that has struggled in qualifying. Despite then getting thumped by Tsunoda and commiting the cardinal sin of hitting his team-mate, he still only finished 1.4s behind George Russell for an unlikely point. Messy, but fast at times.

Charles Leclerc - 4 

Out-qualified once again by Hamilton, albeit by a slender margin, but as boss Fred Vasseur put it, his race was over after pitting on the formation lap. Had a messy, error-strewn race to 14th, the last driver on the lead lap. 

Gabriel Bortoleto - 4 

Did out-qualify Hulkenberg, so earns some credit back for that, but a messy weekend overall for the F2 champion. FP3 crash he felt was wind-related, but no-one else did the same whilst the crash which ended the race was very easy to do given the tricky conditions when changing to slicks when the track was not ready. 

Yuki Tsunoda - 3.5 

The only driver to be lapped, Tsunoda, cut a disconsolate figure post-race. In fairness, he did well to avoid another Q1 exit and took 11th on the grid after Bearman's penalty, but went backwards in the race. Received a penalty for hitting Bearman and looked like a driver in need of getting away from F1 for the break.

Franco Colapinto - 3 

Given Alpine's struggles on Friday, it was perhaps no surprise to see he and Gasly struggling to escape Q1, but whereas Gasly did and stuck the car inside the top 10, Colapinto got on the kerb in the final sector, and spun himself further into Flavio Briatore's bad books. The image of Briatore's head in his hands about sums it up. Faultless for the gearbox failure, which meant he posted a DNS.