Driver Ratings Update

The update is long overdue. Performance is very poor. Hopefully, we'll get the update in the next patch. We'll probably get a new one on Monday.

The AI is very weak in free practice; they're very slow, almost a second behind me. The training programs are very easy to complete. In the running program, I can beat the requested time in more than 2 seconds.

Is there any news or expectation to update de BoP/force of teams?

We saw that the actual grid is far from the start of the season. Like, Sauber is not the worst anymore, Red Bull is not the second... So would be nice to have it updated.

Is there any hope or date to an update for the team forces, specially in offline modes like career and My team??

I hope we have the performance patch next week or the week after.

This change will lead to unrealistic results in F2.

Bortoleto, as the 2024 F2 champion, should be the best of the rookies (at least 78). And Colapinto the weakest of the rookies. 

Verstappen could have stayed at 95, but Red Bull needs to be weakened because Max is giving something EXTRA!

The teams need to change!

This is miles better Only driver they forgot was colapinto who is 76 or 77  rating still 

Well.. they're changed and a little worse. So great. 

1. Max Verstappen - 93 (-2) - Understandable for car balancing but it feels like the problem is more in the car than the driver. 
2. George Russell - 91 (+1) - He's had a good season and it makes sense for a small improvement. 
3. Lando Norris - 91 (=) - Probably fair.  He's had a normal season without really kicking on and taking it by the horns but he's also not been too lousy.
4. Oscar Piastri - 91 (+4) - He's leading the championship and it makes perfect sense to be on his teammates level. 
5. Lewis Hamilton - 90 (+1) - Don't understand this at all. Other than one sprint race victory, he's been an internet joke and miles behind not just his teammate but all of the other frontrunners. You look at timing boards and he's the pit-stop window that the actually competitive cars are hoping to get out in front of. 
6. Charles Leclerc - 90 (-1) - While he's not had his best season in the scarlet colours, he has put his teammate back in his shoebox, got some good results and... got derated.   Why does it feel like they've never liked him? 
7. Fernando Alonso - 88 (=) - If it's a results business, ol' Nando is lucky for the last few races as he was looking woeful at the start.  The car isn't there but he's not really looked a player for the most part. 
8. Carlos Sainz - 86 (-4) - Understandable. Albon isn't exactly generational and Sainz is looking like a rookie next to him. Obviously it'll get better but it's reflective of the poor season so far. 
9. Pierre Gasly - 85 (-1) - Has completely dominated both his teammates... and therefore obviously deserves a nerf.   Then again, Franco is absolute garbage so maybe it makes sense as Pierre should be lapping him every race. 
10. Alexander Albon - 85 (+2) - He's had a very decent so far and quietened those that said he'd be found out now that he's not teammates with the likes of Franslow Cola-spin-to-the-wall, Nearly-Moving-Nicholas and Low-Confidence-Logan. 
11. Nico Hülkenberg - 85 (+1) - He got a podium, he gets another point. Makes sense. 
12. Esteban Ocon - 83 (-2) - Ocon's had a good season.  Nerf him immediately. 
13. Yuki Tsunoda - 77 (-5) - Hard to argue this.  Although it feels primarily the car issue as he wasn't bad at racing bulls but it should make people happy he'll be less competitive in their games.
14. Lance Stroll - 77 (-1) - Ironically it's looked like the first season where he could be bothered for a while and they've dropped him ratings. 
15. Kimi Antonelli - 77 (+5) -  I think it's fair.  He'll slowly improve incrementally throughout the ratings. 
16. Isack Hadjar - 77 (+9) - He's probably been the standout of the rookies relating to expectation.  I probably wouldn't have shot him to the moon like this, but still it's fine-ish.
17. Oliver Bearman - 75 (+1) - I've found him to either be really good or really rubbish.  Like sometimes, especially in Quali he's pulled out some decent performances.  Other times, he's anonymous or doing something average. 
18. Gabriel Bortoleto - 74 (=) - I think he's done okay without really having the results to showcase that. Still feels a little harsh to be below Isack and Ollie but he's alot of points behind his teammate so it's  a hard argument to sell. 
19. Liam Lawson - 72 (-8) - I probably wouldn't have driven him into the ground so much, but he was far too highly rated in the first place.  
20. Jack Doohan - 67 (-6) - Hard to argue.  You miss half the season and you miss half your rating.   He's probably lucky to still be in the Alpine seat as no matter how hard Franco leaves both metaphorical and literal skid-marks on the season, he's still allowed to retain the seat. 

I'm sure people will say they're better but I just feel it was a long wait for something that doesn't reflect accurately enough. 

1. Max Verstappen - 93 (-2)
2. George Russell - 91 (+1)
3. Lando Norris - 91 (=)
4. Oscar Piastri - 91 (+4)
5. Lewis Hamilton - 90 (+1)
6. Charles Leclerc - 90 (-1)
7. Fernando Alonso - 88 (=)
8. Carlos Sainz - 86 (-4)
9. Pierre Gasly - 85 (-1)
10. Alexander Albon - 85 (+2)
11. Nico Hülkenberg - 85 (+1)
12. Esteban Ocon - 83 (-2)
13. Yuki Tsunoda - 77 (-5)
14. Lance Stroll - 77 (-1)
15. Kimi Antonelli - 77 (+5)
16. Isack Hadjar - 77 (+9)
17. Oliver Bearman - 75 (+1)
18. Gabriel Bortoleto - 74 (=)
19. Liam Lawson - 72 (-8)
20. Jack Doohan - 67 (-6)

It looks like we'll have a driver ratings update tomorrow. It remains to be seen if there are any differences. 

I agree that the ratings are wrong for certain drivers but, regarding Yuki, he started off the season quite well and then he's absolute toilet at Red Bull.   However, does that make him a bad driver now?

Like, if you took him out of Red Bull in real-life and into, say, the Aston (or even back to VCARB) then would he be as bad?   I don't think so.    So, while he shouldn't be winning races, it's not especially because he's a bad driver.   So he doesn't particularly need dropping too much himself. 

So is it the Red Bull?    Well, if you nerf the Red Bull so Yuki does terribly in that car then Max also won't be winning races anymore, which doesn't reflect reality.    So you could bump Max's rating up to counteract the Red Bull deficit... but what if he moves to another team?   A Super-Max would win every race as his stats have been balanced against the Red Bull and you stick him in a McLaren and he's lapping the field.  And he's good, but he's not that good. 

There's probably a fine-tuning balance that needs doing.   It's probably not as simple as having all drivers have a particular performance in each car.   There's like 50 drivers and 13 cars. (the MyTeam, APXGP and Konnersport cars additionally to the real-life 10) and (15 if you count the three MyTeam starting levels as its own car performance).    That's already like 700 different permutations of driver-car relatability and ideally you want to minimise variables in things. 

I'm probably overthinking it.   The driver update should come out soon enough and the car performance a few weeks after that, i'd say. 

The first F1 24 ratings update arrived on July 25, so we should have an update later this month.