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Codemasters have revealed the driver ratings for F1 2021 ahead of the game's release next week with Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen leading the way.

The two championship rivals have the joint highest overall rating at 95. That's an increase from their final rating for F1 2020, which had Hamilton at 93 and Verstappen at 92.

Valtteri Bottas and Lando Norris slot in just behind the two with ratings of 92 and 91 respectively, while 2020 Italian Grand Prix winner Pierre Gasly and Daniel Ricciardo slide in at 90.

The Ferrari duo of Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz sit at 88 and 87 respectively, while Yuki Tsunoda is the top rated rookie at 82. Fellow rookies Mick Schumacher and Nikita Mazepin have ratings of 76 and 67 respectively.

The ratings were calculated using five-real world metrics:

Experience: Based on the number of races a driver has completed in their career
Racecraft: Based on positions lost or gained in a race compared to the average for a given grid slot
Awareness: Measure of the driver's ability to avoid incidents or penalties in a race
Pace: A measure of the driver's best lap times - closer they are to fastest lap in a race, the higher the score
Overall: takes into account all of the above and calculated with a weighted average

Check out the full ratings for each of the 20 F1 drivers below.

Driver	Overall	Experience	Racecraft	Awareness	Pace
Lewis Hamilton	95	92	94	89	98
Max Verstappen	95	69	96	96	97
Valtteri Bottas	92	75	89	99	92
Lando Norris	91	60	96	99	89
Daniel Ricciardo	90	80	94	91	88
Pierre Gasly	90	59	92	99	89
Sebastian Vettel	89	91	93	87	88
Fernando Alonso	89	99	89	94	86
Charles Leclerc	88	62	88	87	92
Sergio Perez	87	81	92	84	87
Kimi Raikkonen	87	99	91	84	86
Carlos Sainz	87	69	88	94	85
Esteban Ocon	86	60	93	98	79
George Russell	84	60	76	99	83
Lance Stroll	83	62	93	82	82
Yuki Tsunoda	82	46	88	78	86
Antonio Giovinazzi	79	54	82	82	80
Mick Schumacher	76	47	65	81	83
Nicholas Latifi	71	55	69	79	70
Nikita Mazepin	67	47	65	78	66

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