POWER RANKINGS: Which drivers impressed our judges in Qatar?
Find out who topped the Power Rankings table after the Qatar Grand Prix weekend.

Max Verstappen claimed his seventh victory of the season in the Qatar Grand Prix, meaning that he has closed in on championship leader Lando Norris in the process. But how did our Power Rankings list for the weekend shake out? Check out the latest scores and overall leaderboard below...
How it works
- Our five-judge panel assess each driver after every Grand Prix and score them out of 10 according to their performance across the weekend – taking machinery out of the equation
- Our experts’ scores are then averaged out to produce a race score – with those scores then tallied up across the season on our overall Power Rankings Leaderboard (at the bottom of the page)
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