In this essay, I will be explaining my real gripe with driver rankings: how in the actual fuck does the media manage to rank Nicky P20 and Ricciardo P19 in all of them? Now, this may be one of my most controversial takes yet, but just hear me out okay. Nicky managed the same number of Q3 appearances as his teammate, Ricciardo nowhere near. (We won't talk about Nicky's Q2 appearances because that doesn't fit my agenda, but to be fair, Ricciardo was behind his teammate there too). (Ricciardo also had a bigger quali gap to his teammate). Nicky managed to get 50% of the total points for the season that his teammate managed to get (Nyck De Vries did too, but hell just throw him in the rankings over Daniel as well); Daniel was NOWHERE near contributing to McLaren points the way Nicky contributed to Williams points. I know, I know, Nicky has a reputation for causing accidents and hitting walls and whatnot - but I feel like he improved in that area somewhat. You know who didn't? Daniel Ricciardo. Yuki, Carlos, KMag and friends would love to chat with anyone who begs to differ. Throw F1 journalists in jail because they have committed a crime against Nicholas Latifi. I will be his judge in the slander case; we are getting all of these rankings corrected.
