20 Oct 2021 11:39 AM +00:00 UTC

F1 2021 Driver Ratings Update: Codemasters hammers a title contender

A new update for F1 2021 has bought big changes to the Driver Ratings within the game.

These can be implemented in your current save if you want to keep up with the changes, so there is no need to start a new My Team or Career Mode!

Title challenger gets downgrade
Gasly punished again
Full Driver Ratings

But, do you want to use these new ratings? Maybe not...

Title challenger gets downgrade

The logic behind the ratings changes is often hard to understand. Max Verstappen once again leads the Formula 1 World Drivers' Championship, but his rating has taken a hit.

His Pace has dropped by one point, and while his Experience has bumped up one too, his overall has dropped to a 92, two points behind Lewis Hamilton.

f12021 drivercard hamilton verstapen.jpg.adapt .crop16x9.1455w — TITANIC BATTLE: Max & Lewis are locked in a wild fight for the championship

TITANIC BATTLE: Max & Lewis are locked in a wild fight for the championship

Max has had four top-2 finishes in the last five races, and a pair of second-place finishes since the last update. While he was a little lucky with the weather in Russia there is no reason to feel that his pace has dropped off even slightly.

Gasly punished again

Pierre Gasly was harshly hit with a 5-second penalty and one point on his lisence in Turkey for being stuck in the middle at turn 1 and tagging Fernando Alonso. Even the Spaniard thought Gasly shouldn't have been penalised, but Codemasters has compounded that stewards decision with a downgrade for the Frenchman in F1 2021.

f12021 drivercard highres gasly october.jpg.adapt .1920w — WHAT WAS HE MEANT TO DO: Gasly's ratings hit is the biggest in this update

WHAT WAS HE MEANT TO DO: Gasly's ratings hit is the biggest in this update

Gasly has received a 12-point hit to his Awareness which seems excessive. That has dropped his Overall by 3 points.

Alonso, who had a far more flagrant penalty when he punted Mick Schumacher in the same race, has had his Awareness dropped by nine, and even with a Racecraft drop of three his rating has only decreased by two, to 89.

Full Driver Ratings

Driver	Experience	Racecraft	Awareness	Pace	Overall
Lewis Hamilton	93	94	85	98	94
Max Verstappen	71	94	87	97	92
Valtteri Bottas	77	91	92	92	91
Pierre Gasly	61	93	87	91	89
Fernando Alonso	99	90	86	89	89
Lando Norris	62	93	85	92	89
Daniel Ricciardo	82	95	92	86	89
Sebastian Vettel	92	92	87	88	89
Carlos Sainz	71	91	95	86	88
Charles Leclerc	64	91	88	90	88
Kimi Raikkonen	99	90	81	86	87
Sergio Perez	82	89	81	87	86
Esteban Ocon	62	94	85	79	83
Lance Stroll	64	91	79	83	83
George Russell	62	76	85	85	82
Antonio Giovinazzi	56	82	79	83	80
Mick Schumacher	52	65	86	85	79
Yuki Tsunoda	51	81	78	77	77
Nicholas Latifi	58	73	79	71	73
Nikita Mazepin	52	65	78	65	67

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