F1 Racing asked 77 people to help produce a list of the top 100 F1 drivers.
Many of them are journalists, although there were 16 former drivers (5 WDCs)
and a few team principles. 43 are British.
Each of the judges was asked to nominate their top 25 in order and the final
list was made by awarding 25 points for being ranked first, 24 for second,
etc., down to one point for ranking 25th.
I imagine that most judges would have quite similar top 20s so those ranked
outside the top 30 are only there because a handful of judges ranked them
at all. For example, only one judge put Ralf in his top 25 (22nd best of all
time!), so those four points got Ralf into joint 84th. Only the top 30 has
much meaning, and only if you think that the "judges" know anything about F1
anyway - I can accept James Allen (without agreeing with him), but Jim Rosenthal!
1 Senna 1768 points 91.8% (of theoretical max. - 77 x 25)
2 Fangio 1720 89.4%
3 MS 1689 87.7%
4 Clark 1620 84.2%
5 Prost 1498 77.8%
6 Stewart 1445 75.1%
7 Lauda 1180 61.3%
8 Moss 1158 60.2%
9 Piquet 926 48.1%
10 Ascari 925 48.1%
11 Häkkinen 885 46.0%
12 Brabham 867
13 G Villeneuve 860
14 Mansell 849
15 Fittipaldi 817
16 Rindt 719
17 Andretti 618
18 G Hill 579
19 Peterson 490
20 Surtees 437
21 Hunt 395 20.5%
22 Jones 292
23 Rosberg 252
24 Scheckter 244
25 Gurney 231
26 Reutemann 218
27 Brooks 194
28 Ickx 183
29 D Hill 161
30 Farina 145
31 Hawthorn 129 6.7%
32 Räikkönen 116
33 Amon 109
34 Cevert 87
Alonso 87
36 J Villeneuve 84
37 P Hill 79
38 Montoya 57
39 Hulme 52
40 Bellof 51
41 Pironi 47 2.4%
42 P Rodriguez 46
43 Collins 44
44 Berger 40
45 Gonzalez 39
46 Pryce 35
47 Patrese 33
48 Alesi 30
Barrichello 30
50 McLaren 29
51 Laffite 27 1.4%
de Angelis 27
53 Coulthard 26
54 Behra 24
Alboreto 24
56 Regazzoni 22
57 Depailler 20
58 Arnoux 14
59 Watson 13
Irvine 13
61 Siffert 12 0.6%
Hobbs 12
Servoz-Gavin 12
64 Courage 11
Beltoise 11
Fisichella 11
67 Trulli 10
68 Nilsson 9
Jarier 9
70 Webber 8
71 Scott-Brown 7 0.4%
Ginther 7
Bandini 7
Frentzen 7
75 von Trips 6
Gethin 6
Brise 6
Pace 6
Panis 6
80 Revson 5
Hailwood 5
Nannini 5
Herbert 5
84 Trintignant 4 0.2%
Gardner 4
Tambay 4
R Schumacher 4
88 Lewis-Evans 3
R Rodriguez 3
Mass 3
Jabouille 3
Boutsen 3
93 D Walker 2 0.1%
Baghetti 2
Brundle 2
Button 2
97 Schell 1
Kling 1
Parkes 1
Lombardi 1
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Brian Lawrence
[email protected]
Wantage, Oxfordshire, UK
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