Drivers’ championship
Position | Driver | Points |
1 | Nico Rosberg | 75 |
2 | Lewis Hamilton | 39 |
3 | Daniel Ricciardo | 36 |
4 | Sebastian Vettel | 33 |
5 | Kimi Raikkonen | 28 |
6 | Felipe Massa | 22 |
7 | Daniil Kvyat | 21 |
8 | Romain Grosjean | 18 |
9 | Max Verstappen | 13 |
10 | Valtteri Bottas | 7 |
11 | Nico Hulkenberg | 6 |
12 | Carlos Sainz Jnr | 4 |
13 | Stoffel Vandoorne | 1 |
14 | Kevin Magnussen | 0 |
15 | Sergio Perez | 0 |
16 | Jolyon Palmer | 0 |
17 | Marcus Ericsson | 0 |
18 | Felipe Nasr | 0 |
19 | Fernando Alonso | 0 |
20 | Jenson Button | 0 |
21 | Pascal Wehrlein | 0 |
22 | Rio Haryanto | 0 |
23 | Esteban Gutierrez | 0 |
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Bruno (@brunes)
17th April 2016, 8:59
Isn’t it hilarious that Stoffel Vandoorne has more points than JB and Alonso?
spoutnik (@spoutnik)
17th April 2016, 9:06
I wonder how many races will Vandoorne remain the highest ranked mcLaren driver …
Patrick (@paeschli)
17th April 2016, 9:28
This championship is looking really interesting. Can’t wait for the next race!
Todfod (@todfod)
17th April 2016, 9:59
Up until the start of this weekend, I didn’t think Lewis was really feeling the heat for the WDC battle. After this weekend though, I think he’s sweating a little. Sure he was hampered by tech problems throughout this weekend, but nontheless, Rosberg’s confidence is at an all time high, and he would really need 2 or 3 really solid race wins to get the mental edge back.
Strontium (@strontium)
17th April 2016, 14:07
I don’t think he will be. In 2014 in the middle of the season (after Spa I think) Rosberg had a very similar lead over Hamilton, but Hamilton quite comfortably had the lead closed within a few races.
It’s a long season, still 18 races to go, I think Hamilton will be quite cool for the next few at least :)
Mashiat (@mashiat)
17th April 2016, 10:11
Ricciardo to be the next Nick Heidfeld in 2007? Three 4th place finishes, and with clearly the third best car. Not quick enough to challenge the big boys consistently, but will still be a pain in the diffuser.
PorscheF1 (@xtwl)
17th April 2016, 10:30
Force India hasn’t really been that lucky, only scored 6 points in three races…
Solo (@solo)
12th June 2016, 10:24
Not very lucky but i think the lack pace too.
Nick (@npf1)
17th April 2016, 10:41
Williams must be scratching their heads. Talking about taking the fight to Ferrari, only to find themselves three races in with just over half the points of Red Bull. I’m not sure what’s going on with Bottas either, but he needs to find a way to get ahead of Massa during the season, 15 points behind at this stage in the championship is not where he needs to be.
Fun fact: after 3 races in 2015, Raikkonen was 21 points behind Vettel in the championship, this year it’s 5. Meanwhile Mercedes actually has 5 points less in the constructor’s than they did after 3 races last year, Ferrari 18 points less, Red Bull 44 more, and Williams has 19 less. Oh, and Sauber had scored 19 points by this time last year..
Patrick (@paeschli)
17th April 2016, 10:56
And yet the biggest laughing sock this year is Renault. Two average drivers and an awful car.
They could be on the podium with Red Bull, but apparently they think that owning a team wich can’t reach Q2 is better for their brand.
Jules Winfield (@jules-winfield)
17th April 2016, 11:40
To be fair to Renault, Lotus were in a hideous mess last year and it took ages for the sale to be finalised. It’s a bit early to be writing them off.
Nick (@npf1)
17th April 2016, 12:42
I was thinking about Renault’s previous return in 2002 and how that was a pretty bad season too, but looking at the results; 3 races in and Button actually finished 4th out of 13 finishers in Malaysia and 4th out of 9 finishers in Brazil. Clearly not as bad as this year has been so far.
Lotus were a hideous mess, but Renault could have prevented some mess by buying the team earlier, instead of giving off ‘intentions to buy’ and vague comments to the press all the time.
Strontium (@strontium)
17th April 2016, 14:09
@npf1 I think Renault were leaving it in order to drive the price down, and make Genii (or whoever did own it) more desperate.
Solo (@solo)
12th June 2016, 10:29
No it was probably until they manage to make Bernie accept giving them what they wanted. They had to go hard core if they were gonna crack him and so they were willing to even let the team die and remove themselves. Don’t bluff if you ain’t willing to go all the way type of thing.
x303 (@x303)
17th April 2016, 12:46
@paeschli Helmut Marko always complained of Renault’s work, even when they were winning. Even you are conviced that the guys at Viry are incompetent and all credit is due to Red Bull.
It makes sense to go for yourself and target to win something (I think they are targeting races in a few years time).
Patrick (@paeschli)
17th April 2016, 13:19
@x303
“Even you are conviced that the guys at Viry are incompetent and all credit is due to Red Bull.”
Nah, I just think it’s funny that now that Renault has made big gains with their engine, the car who gets podiums doesn’t have a Renault branded engine anymore.
Also, I should note that it’s only after they hired Mario Illien that things started to get better for Renault. Maybe they really are incompetent, I don’t know.
Solo (@solo)
12th June 2016, 10:35
I see nothing funny. their performance was expected to be low considering Enstone wasn’t building a 2016 car and wasn’t even improving the car they had and that car was built for a Merc engine.
On top of that the stuff was in a mess and that still needs sorting out.
They basically only had enough time to change last years car to fit a Renault and try to fix aero problems from the changes as to be more harmonious.
Nothing else really.
They normally would have a chance for some decent improvement threw the year but because we have rule changes in 2017 they probably won’t bother much as to focus on next year changes therefore i will keep my basket small about them threw all this year.
Cyber
17th April 2016, 14:35
What happened to Palmer today?
Both him and his father have been pretty loud, but the results on the track does not back it up me thinks.
Today Palmer came in dead last, even overtaken by the Manor rookie…
Todfod (@todfod)
17th April 2016, 18:47
@paeschli
As long as Mclaren are around they will always be the biggest laughing stock of the paddock. 2 WDCs in their line up and not a championship point among them. Mclaren Honda glory days!
Strontium (@strontium)
17th April 2016, 14:11
@npf1 they started 2014 with the Mercedes engine, decent chassis. But since then they’ve been nothing but disappointing. They’ve made hardly any gains, and slowly but surely they are sinking back into the midfield.
It’s especially disappointing as they’ve thrown so many points away with errors that could have been so easily avoided.
Kingshark (@kingshark)
17th April 2016, 10:48
Bottas is not exactly living up to the future-WDC expectation that were put on him back in 2014 when everyone was amazed that he was getting podiums with that excellent Williams car. At this point in his career, at the prime age of 26, he should be smashing an old and over-the-hill version of Massa.
Sumedh
17th April 2016, 13:24
Indeed.. He is following the Hulkenburg route now. Doubt if Ferrari or Mercedes are going to be interested in him.
Poor guy, who would have thought that being teammates with Massa would have been such a disaster for his reputation.
Park
17th April 2016, 14:16
I don’t think Massa is over the hill, looking at Kimi, JB, and of course FA, they are all dong a very good job. The quality of the grid is as high as ever, in my opinion.
Solo (@solo)
12th June 2016, 10:37
But is Massa old and tired or is he rejuvenated in Williams after some hard Ferrari years?
Alex (@arobbo)
17th April 2016, 13:07
I can see this season being similar to 2011 if Rosberg’s form continues. Speaking of the other drivers though, Ricciardo is driving his socks off in that Red Bull, Kimi is much closer to Seb this year which is a good thing, and Lewis just doesn’t seem be in his usual self at the moment.
Park
17th April 2016, 17:41
3 surprises:
Nico Rosberg 75
Lewis Hamilton 39
Massa 22 Bottas 7
Vandoorne 1 Alonso 0 Button 0