The race is on, and whatever your feeling is on the way the championship ended, it has been a remarkable, and at times controversial season full of brilliant driving performances. So we have picked our top 10 drivers of 2021. I'm Ed Strow and joining me to argue about the rankings,

are Mark Hughes, and special guest, Curran Chandock. Hello, Curie. I'll start with you.

Right now with the dust still sort of up in the air after Abadabee, there's a lot going on.

But looking at the wider picture, which is what this is all about, it has been an amazing season,

hasn't it? Yeah, absolutely extraordinary. You know, I think I've often said my favorite season

of F1 is 1997 for the drama, controversy, the racing, the number of teams in the fight. But this

one has got to be right up there. I mean, you can't get a more dramatic finish than what

we had. It was certainly

controversial and continues to be

so. But actually,

I think the individual races,

bearing of mind we had six more races than we had back in

97, were sensational. I can

only think of maybe two or three

sort of dull races this season really. So yeah, brilliant, brilliant year of F1.

Yeah, I'd agree with that. And you'd have to say, Mark Hughes, that because it's been such

a great season of races, we have seen these drivers really pushed to the maximum and challenged,

and it's been really interesting to

follow how the relative performance level of everyone has evolved yes and it's been remarkable how

the two title contenders they've lifted their own performances of the thought each other and

they've sort of lifted themselves clear of the field and even though they're in quite different cars from each other, the two title contenders,

they still were together beyond the rest of the field.

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