17/08/2025 16:35
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
