BONUS: Edd Straw answers your F1 driver rankings questions!

The Race F1 Podcast

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4.6 • 942 Ratings

🗓️ 6 November 2024

⏱️ 23 minutes

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We're dropping a little bonus audio into your feed in between episodes of The Race F1 Podcast, as an example of the type of extra content that's available to those in The Race Members' Club on Patreon. Earlier this week, we asked members on Patreon to leave questions and comments about Edd Straw's Brazilian GP driver rankings, with the aim of giving people a better idea about the process Edd goes through in formulating them (and to hold him to account for all the things he got wrong, of course!). So here's 20 minutes or so of Edd working through questions, having deliberately chosen not to look at them in advance so you get his 'live' reaction to what was being put to him. If you like what you hear and would like more content like this, including our F1 Extra and Book Club bonus podcasts, ad-free versions of The Race's other shows, merchandise discounts and much more, head to Patreon.com/therace to join the ultimate community for motor racing fans: The Race Members' Club. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Okay, we're going to try something new here for the race members club on Patreon.
0:06.4	You've been asked for your questions, comments and conspiracy theories to put to me about my
0:11.3	Brazilian Grand Prix F1 driver ranking.
0:14.3	So I'm going to work through those quickly.
0:16.1	I've not looked at them, so I'm going to do it on the fly, which could work or could go
0:20.4	quite badly. The race was a couple of days ago now, so there's every to do it on the fly, which could work or could go quite badly.
0:21.0	The race was a couple of days ago now, so there's every chance I've forgotten everything I knew
0:24.7	and all the reasoning, but I'll give it my best shot.
0:27.6	So, first up, Chris Parrott.
0:30.3	Ed, in the current rankings format, what has been the largest discrepancy between ranking
0:33.9	position and finishing position that you have awarded?
0:36.6	Do you stand by that
0:37.5	ranking looking back on it? Outstanding that the first question I read requires me to remember
0:42.8	all my rankings of the last two years. That is a good question. I'm going to have to probably
0:46.8	look back a bit to go through that. I can think of a few cases. There are cases, obviously,
0:52.4	the most extreme ones will be where a driver is retired,
0:55.4	and they get ranked quite well because they were going to get a good result.
0:59.1	LeClerc in Bahrain last year springs to mind. I think he was third or fourth in my ranking,
1:03.9	but of course he didn't finish. Sergei Perez sometimes has some of those offsets in rankings as
1:09.8	well. Australia, I think this year maybe
1:12.5	was quite a big offset. He was probably, well, he's fifth on Australia and I think he was in
1:17.6	the mid-teens in my ranking. But I'll have a bit of a deeper look and I'll get back to you on
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