Driver rating - pace

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@Meza994 wrote:

@LiavealI think we are at the point that we can leave the glorification of Hamilton and Verstappen behind, especially for this season..

Realistic pace ratings (qualifying/race) matching the recent results under consideration of consistency would be

Hamilton 96/96
Russel 97/94
Verstappen 97/96
Perez 92/92
Leclerc 98/96
Sainz 94/92
Norris 96/93
Ricciardo 89/90
Alonso 93/92
Ocon 91/90
Gasly 91/89
Tsunoda 89/88 (bad consistency)
Vettel 89/91
Stroll 86/89
Albon 90/90
Latifi 74/80
Bottas 93/89
Zhou 82/82 (bad consistency)
Schumacher 86/86 (bad consistency)
Magnussen 89/88

Perez is doing great this season and performs more consistent on his level compared to Verstappen.
Russel will likely outpace Hamilton in future races in qualifying too but Hamiltons race pace and racecraft will probably bring him in front in the races (if bad luck doesnt deny him)
Leclerc is performing amazingly and was known from the start to be absolute class in qualifying and has upped his race pace this season.
Ricciardo with a bit worse consistency matching reallife
Alonso and Ocon are very close this season
Tsunoda can be very close to Gasly too but is too inconsistent
Vettel Stroll maybe a bit more gap in qualifying but Strolls DNF in Australia quali makes it seem worse
Latifi/Albon is pretty much the current average gap
Zhous inconsistency leads to bigger gaps and same with Schumacher

But yes stat boosts are making this even worse even when they would exceed 100, last year it would be Russel 90 (85+5) and Hamilton 113 (98+15) pace after half a season.. 23 pace equals 0.92s so yeah completely wrong and stat boosts were a neat idea but completely going the wrong direction

Schumacher 97/97

Senna- 99/96

Prost- 93/95 (Prost gains with awareness and racecraft)

Rosberg- 96/93

Button- 90/94

Coulthard- 89/92

Massa- 95/91

Villeneuve- 93/92 (I dont rate Villeneuve Jr. really high, Williams OP)

Webber- 91/93

Hulkenberg- 92/89

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Very interesting topic and I also agree with the most of the stats here.

Having saying that an in game editor like suggested would really help the player to apply the own fine tuning (no more Bottas 2020 overpower etc.).

Regards,

Nuv