The second post-launch Driver Ratings update sees a record-breaking boost for one driver Refreshed after the summer break, the 2024 Driver and Constructor tables continue to surprise and delight Formula 1® fans across the world, with twists and turns aplenty in the recent races. We’ve taken a look back at the stories that developed, analysed individual performances, and updated the F1® 24 Driver Ratings for a second time. Ratings are given to each of the drivers at the start of the season based on their historical on-track performance. Throughout the year, the team at EA SPORTS crunches the numbers and consults with experts Anthony Davidson and Alex Jacques, to dynamically update the Ratings, keeping the game closely aligned with how the year is progressing. What are the Driver Ratings categories? Multiple factors make up each driver’s overall rating. These are broken down as follows: Experience (EXP): More races, more points, with a greater weighting to the number of races they’ve had in F1 and the finishing positions in those races. Racecraft (RAC): Racecraft denotes the driver's ability to work their way through the pack, with considerations given based on their ability to finish the race higher than where they started. Awareness (AWA): Awareness rewards drivers who avoid the stewards' room. Penalty severity has a greater impact on how Awareness is adjusted. Pace (PAC): Pace rewards the drivers who get closest to the fastest Race and Qualifying lap times as well as the difference to their teammates. Overall Rating (RTG): A combination of all driver stats that lays out each driver's ability within F1® 24, with Pace having a greater weighting. The ratings have an impact on how AI drivers perform in various modes. If you’ve already got a Career save on the go, you can choose whether or not to apply these changes by heading to your in-game mail. September Update - Hungary to Monza The last F1® 24’s ratings update included every race up to and including Britain. This latest update includes those from the Hungarian Grand Prix, through to the Italian Grand Prix in Monza - a total of four races. Despite the fewer number of races, there was plenty of excitement to be had, with yet another new race winner crowned. These displays of racing excellence have resulted in some of the biggest mid-season ratings changes in the history of the F1® game series. You can check out the full list of ratings changes here.

@LuckyNico92 The McLaren is the clearly best car though since Miami, which is obvious to everyone.. Red Bull is sometimes not even 2nd best car, like in Singapore where Ferrari was 2nd best but completely dropped it in Q3.. Monza 4th best car without discussionThey should just buff the McLaren ingame and then its more realistic but as they dont like differing between race pace and quali pace, tyre temps for AI and such we wont get realistic results anyway

Honestly I wish a future overhaul of the rating system...Racecraft (RAC) in the sense "based on their ability to finish the race higher than where they started" means nothing. A driver can be fast in Quali achieving a starting position higher than his car should do, and then necessarily lose positions in a race. And vice versa. Some comparisons between team mates do not look good. Sometimes it is not possible to use the numbers just taken as they are...Pace (PAC) should be divided into Race and Qualifying Pace. Think for example to Sergio Perez, often in trouble in Q but usually with better pace in R.This just to say a couple of stuff. I would also add a track related 'number' since both cars and drivers usually perform better in some tracks, this may also help to properly shuffle the field.I would love a more in-depth topic, if there was any intention to work on it...

Give the players the option to customise the driver stats to our own preference like you can in other sports games saves any arguments or bias stat increases for op drivers

@EA_Vendcera with all due respect, I don't really see how you can boost Riccardo when it appears that he is about to be dropped. They're not dropping him because of his amazing performances over the past 4 races...Also how does Alonso only lose 1 pace? He's been super OP in the game all year, I know some people want the car nerfed but I think dropping Alonso's rating by a good chunk is the better way to do it, as Stroll's performances seem reasonable.

Alonso should have been decrease more.also it is quite strange to still see Hülkenberg with lower pace than Magnussen. He beat Magnussen in the same way as Alonso with Stroll….

EA_Vendcera

Community Manager

10 months ago

F1® 24 DRIVER RATINGS UPDATE - HUNGARY TO MONZA

The second post-launch Driver Ratings update sees a record-breaking boost for one driver

Refreshed after the summer break, the 2024 Driver and Constructor tables continue to surprise and delight Formula 1® fans across the world, with twists and turns aplenty in the recent races. We’ve taken a look back at the stories that developed, analysed individual performances, and updated the F1® 24 Driver Ratings for a second time.

Ratings are given to each of the drivers at the start of the season based on their historical on-track performance. Throughout the year, the team at EA SPORTS crunches the numbers and consults with experts Anthony Davidson and Alex Jacques, to dynamically update the Ratings, keeping the game closely aligned with how the year is progressing.

What are the Driver Ratings categories?

Multiple factors make up each driver’s overall rating. These are broken down as follows:

Experience (EXP): More races, more points, with a greater weighting to the number of races they’ve had in F1 and the finishing positions in those races.

Racecraft (RAC): Racecraft denotes the driver's ability to work their way through the pack, with considerations given based on their ability to finish the race higher than where they started.

Awareness (AWA): Awareness rewards drivers who avoid the stewards' room. Penalty severity has a greater impact on how Awareness is adjusted.

Pace (PAC): Pace rewards the drivers who get closest to the fastest Race and Qualifying lap times as well as the difference to their teammates.

Overall Rating (RTG): A combination of all driver stats that lays out each driver's ability within F1® 24, with Pace having a greater weighting.

The ratings have an impact on how AI drivers perform in various modes. If you’ve already got a Career save on the go, you can choose whether or not to apply these changes by heading to your in-game mail.

September Update - Hungary to Monza

The last F1® 24’s ratings update included every race up to and including Britain. This latest update includes those from the Hungarian Grand Prix, through to the Italian Grand Prix in Monza - a total of four races.

Despite the fewer number of races, there was plenty of excitement to be had, with yet another new race winner crowned. These displays of racing excellence have resulted in some of the biggest mid-season ratings changes in the history of the F1® game series.

You can check out the full list of ratings changes here.

12 Replies

TheRagebeard
Hero+
10 months ago
@EA_Vendcera with all due respect, I don't really see how you can boost Riccardo when it appears that he is about to be dropped. They're not dropping him because of his amazing performances over the past 4 races...
Also how does Alonso only lose 1 pace? He's been super OP in the game all year, I know some people want the car nerfed but I think dropping Alonso's rating by a good chunk is the better way to do it, as Stroll's performances seem reasonable.
julian0439
10 months ago
Alonso should have been decrease more.
also it is quite strange to still see Hülkenberg with lower pace than Magnussen. He beat Magnussen in the same way as Alonso with Stroll….
LuckyNico92
Seasoned Ace
10 months ago
Hamilton is still too low on pace, should be at least 92 judging by his performance in the season (he won Silverstone AND Spa!), Verstappen has too high pace when you consider that he has 3 more than Norris but lost multiple times in a row to the young Brit in real life, therefore should be MUCH lower (88 bare maximum), and the rest is fine, I guess.
As long as neither Sargeant nor Ricciardo see the same fate as de Vries in the last game, it's all good.
AEF251
Seasoned Ace
10 months ago
I appreciate how hard these are to do and being subjective few will disagree with all of them. And then the difference in car performance also factors in.
I guess I’m alway surprised at how much these numbers matter to people, along with car performance. I just sort view them all as close enough approximations and roll with it.
Meza994
Seasoned Ace
10 months ago
@LuckyNico92 You do know that the car matters most for the driver performance? You would drop the rating of Verstappen simply because the Red Bull is bad to drive right now? I know you dont like him but making him worse than any other top team driver apart of Perez is ridiculous, even you must admit it😄
LuckyNico92
Seasoned Ace
10 months ago
@Meza994I have established in F1 Manager 24 that a bona fide driver like Verstappen can make the absolute worst car in the grid score a point or two, and that's fine with me.

But when your car is clearly better than anyone else and you're not winning several times in a row like last year, you don't deserve a super high pace rating. Verstappen in the best car plus with the highest pace rating is basically F1 2021 all over again, and you know how OP he was in said game.

If this was F1 23, where the Red Bull and Verstappen were far above everyone in real life, I would understand what you mean. But ever since Silverstone 2024, Verstappen hasn't won one time while McLaren storm their way to the front.
Heck, I would even dare to say that even Oscar Piastri needs to have more pace than Verstappen has. That man is a machine. ❤️
Meza994
Seasoned Ace
10 months ago
@LuckyNico92 The McLaren is the clearly best car though since Miami, which is obvious to everyone.. Red Bull is sometimes not even 2nd best car, like in Singapore where Ferrari was 2nd best but completely dropped it in Q3.. Monza 4th best car without discussion

They should just buff the McLaren ingame and then its more realistic but as they dont like differing between race pace and quali pace, tyre temps for AI and such we wont get realistic results anyway
Nuvolarix
Seasoned Ace
10 months ago
Honestly I wish a future overhaul of the rating system...
Racecraft (RAC) in the sense "based on their ability to finish the race higher than where they started" means nothing. A driver can be fast in Quali achieving a starting position higher than his car should do, and then necessarily lose positions in a race. And vice versa. Some comparisons between team mates do not look good. Sometimes it is not possible to use the numbers just taken as they are...

Pace (PAC) should be divided into Race and Qualifying Pace. Think for example to Sergio Perez, often in trouble in Q but usually with better pace in R.

This just to say a couple of stuff. I would also add a track related 'number' since both cars and drivers usually perform better in some tracks, this may also help to properly shuffle the field.

I would love a more in-depth topic, if there was any intention to work on it...
Liaveal
Rising Veteran
10 months ago
Terrible as expected.
Alonso didn't need nerfing, the Aston car does and Stroll actually should be around 80 pace.
Hamilton and Russell should both be above 90 pace while Norris should definitely be lower than them both as well as Leclerc.
Hulkenberg at 81 pace is just honestly unbelievable at this point. He's thoroughly thrashed Magnussen for two years now and still has lower pace?? He regularly qualifies in the top ten in a bad car and yet has lower pace + a slower car than the Alpine and RB drivers. Hulkenberg should easily have around 87 pace.
In terms of the pace stat it should definitely look more like :
94 - Verstappen
92 - Hamilton, Russell, Leclerc
91 - Alonso, Norris
89 - Sainz, Piastri
87 - Hulkenberg, Albon
86 - Bottas, Tsunoda
85 - Gasly, Ocon, Ricciardo
84 - Perez
82 - Magnussen, Stroll,
81 - Zhou
75 - Sargeant
JonnyGreen2018
Seasoned Traveler
10 months ago
Give the players the option to customise the driver stats to our own preference like you can in other sports games saves any arguments or bias stat increases for op drivers