Hamilton, Verstappen, Russell, Vettel, Alonso: F1 2022 drivers ranked

The hype for the next Formula One season has begun.

The brand new cars for the upcoming championship are being shown to the world across the whole of February.

We’ve already seen the likes of Red Bull, Aston Martin and McLaren, with Mercedes and Ferrari still to come in the near future.

The new cars look amazing, and the return of Lewis Hamilton has got fans excited for another battle with Max Verstappen.

In the excitement of the 2022 season, we’ve made a tier list to rank every Formula One driver.

Verstappen and Hamilton are undisputedly in the ‘God Tier,’ with both of them dominating the front of the grid last season and most likely will again this time around.

Hamilton’s countrymen and starlets of the sport Lando Norris and George Russell are ranked just below in the ‘Great Driver’ category.

The Ferrari duo of Carlos Sainz and Charles Leclerc are also in the Great Driver category, alongside Daniel Ricciardo and Fernando Alonso.

Verstappen’s teammate Sergio Perez is down in Good Driver, but he has his moments of being a great teammate, like when he held up Hamilton for a couple of laps in the Abu Dhabi finale last season.

Valtteri Bottas is on the same level as Perez. The 32-year-old has now left Mercedes and joined Alfa Romeo, ending his five-year partnership with Hamilton, but now he can coach rookie Guanyu Zhou.

Alex Albon has a point to prove after taking a year out and the ex-Red Bull driver could find his old form with Williams.

Nikita Mazepin is in the Must Improve category, and rightly so. Also known as ‘Mazespin’, he span out a colossal 22 times during the 2021 season.

The first race of the championship begins on March 18 at the Bahrain Grand Prix.