In recent days, the ‘ranking’ of the drivers presented by the English magazine Autosport.com, which was based on the votes expressed by nine of the ten team principals of the Formula 1 teams, has generated a lot of discussion among Formula 1 fans. All the main managers of the teams in fact had taken part in this curious but interesting survey, with the exception of the number one of the Ferrari pit wall, Mattia Binotto. The reference point of the Prancing Horse, however, did eventually take part in a similar survey asked in an ‘official’ manner by the Formula 1 website, F1.com, which has drawn up the same ranking, but which at this point was complete by taking into consideration all the votes.
The interesting thing is that, at this point, assuming that all the other team principals have confirmed their respective votes – since it seems ‘certified’ by the points obtained in this particular classification by the various drivers – it is possible to try to understand what were the votes cast by Mattia Binotto himself. The ‘scoring’ system applied in both surveys in fact mirrors the traditional one used in Formula 1 since 2010, with 25 points for the first classified, 18 for the second, 15 for the third and so on. According to this reasoning, the Ferrari manager has chosen Max Verstappen as the best driver on the grid, as the Red Bull driver in fact ‘grows’ by 25 points from the the first ranking to the next (from 188 to 213). The second place in Mattia Binotto’s ranking is occupied by Lewis Hamilton, who earns 18 points, rising from 174 to 192.
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Behind the two great protagonists of the season that just ended, the Ferrari team principal has understandably positioned ‘his’ drivers: Carlos Sainz and Charles Leclerc. In this case, Mattia Binotto wanted to confirm the order which was defined on the track, with the #55 ahead of the #16. So it was the Spaniard who received the 15 points for third place, while the Monegasque climbs by 12 points, thus exceeding Fernando Alonso by a length. Again by cross-referencing the data of the two rankings, it can be assumed that the Ferrari manager placed Lando Norris in fifth place, Gasly in sixth and Alonso himself in seventh of his personal ranking. On the other hand, it is impossible to obtain the placings from the eighth position down. In fact, they all seem to have gone to drivers who finished out of the absolute top-10 and whose overall scores have therefore not been revealed.
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