Oscar Piastri holds a comfortable lead at the top of RacingNews365's driver ratings, with Max Verstappen narrowly ahead of Lando Norris.
In the 2025 standings, Piastri leads team-mate Norris by just nine points with 10 races to go in the fight to become McLaren's first drivers' champion since Lewis Hamilton in 2008.
Verstappen finds himself in third place, 97 points behind Piastri after a difficult first half of the season for Red Bull - but in our driver ratings, the Dutchman is narrowly ahead of Norris.
After every race, the RacingNews365 team rates each driver on a 1-10 basis, with this score then divided up to create a season average.
Piastri tops the ratings on an average score of 8.2, 0.5 marks ahead of Verstappen in second place.
The Red Bull driver is 0.1 marks ahead of Norris, who had a troubled start to the season with qualifying mistakes and crashes, as well as a collision with Piastri in Canada.
Since then, Norris has won three of four races to reduce Piastri's lead to single points.
From the 14 races thus far, there are a total of 280 scores to be handed out, and just six of these have scored a perfect 10.
These have been for Piastri in Bahrain and Spain, Verstappen in Japan, Norris in Monaco and Austria, whilst the only non-race winning 10 comes for George Russell's second place in Bahrain, whilst battling systems failures on his Mercedes.
You can check out placings 21-11 in the driver ratings here!
RacingNews365's 2025 F1 driver ratings - 10-1
| Position | Driver | Average | Highest score |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1st | Oscar Piastri | 8.2 | 10 - Bahrain, Spain |
| 2nd | Max Verstappen | 7.7 | 10 - Japan |
| 3rd | Lando Norris | 7.6 | 10 - Monaco, Austria |
| 4th | George Russell | 7.4 | 10 - Bahrain |
| 5th | Charles Leclerc | 7.3 | 9.5 - Austria |
| 6th | Alex Albon | 7.2 | 9 - Australia, China, Miami, Imola |
| 7th | Isack Hadjar | 6.6 | 8.5 - Japan, Monaco |
| 8th | Fernando Alonso | 6.4 | 9 - Hungary |
| 9th | Kimi Antonelli | 6.1 | 9 - Japan |
| 10th | Nico Hulkenberg | 6.1 | 8 - Spain, Canada, Britain |
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