Best drivers

[eternal mason]

I think if we tiered them on current form

Max on top

[chrome shale]

excluding max

[eternal mason]

then Sainz, Alonso, Norris and Leclerc

imo

Hamilton I have no idea because it could just be a temporary thing but if he's not performing for a few more races then his form has taken a dip

same for Perez but the other way round

maybe his new 'focus on myself not max' mentality has made him find his form again but it's too early to tell if he won't fall into the same pattern he had in 22 and 23

[chrome shale]

sergio perez started well last year but then fell off

[eternal mason]

yeah but last year he was talking about challenging max and whatnot

this year he seems to be talking about just focusing on himself

hopefully he will keep up the form

but it's too early to tell

[river raven]

The recency bias is actually insane

[dense island]

It's wild

[eternal mason]

depends on how you're looking at it

if you're talking about current form then all you can go on is the current season so far

[dense island]

Leclerc kept up with Sainz in Bahrain despite car issues (brake issues) which made him under and oversteer at random with no notice lol

and Australia was team orders

and Japan Leclerc was the better driver due his ability to catch up to Sainz with only 1 stop

the results may not reflect it, but leclerc has been the better driver

[eternal mason]

Australia was team orders because Sainz qualified higher

and Charles being the better driver at Japan is very debatable

Sainz qualified higher and the 1 stop was Ferrari trying an alternate strategy to make up ground

for a bad quali..

[dense island]

charles' car was set up differently

[eternal mason]

ferrari arent sabotaging charles

charles set up is based on his feedback

its not like his car setup isn't in his control

and using the setup argument, then you could say charles made up ground on only one stop because his car was set up differently and faced less tyre deg

[dense island]

not saying they were, his car was more setup for race not qualifying

thats why he qualified lower

[eternal mason]

which helped him in the race instead

making it easier for him to do a 1 stop strategy

[river raven]

ferrari didnt even want him to do the 1-stop

he pushed for it

they were gonna make him box

[eternal mason]

probably because his setup caused less tyre deg?

so he could continue at his pace for longer

anyways Carlos still beat him and beat him at Australia