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Podcast: Reacting to the F2 driver ratings on the F1 2021 game

by Craig Woollard
written by Craig Woollard

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A feature on the official F1 2021 game enables you to sign drivers from last year’s Formula 2 grid to race in your team. To do this, Codemasters has ranked drivers in an odd way, and Formula Scout has its own take

The F1 2021 game’s new story mode ‘Breaking Point’ features Formula 2 in its tale, and each of the teams and drivers from last year’s dramatic season are also available to choose from to play as at your leisure or to sign for your own team in the career mode. Mick Schumacher, Yuki Tsunoda and Nikita Mazepin all graduated to the top tier in the real world, and their ratings reflect that, but some of the 2020 title contenders have been given ratings lower than many would have anticipated.

Formula Scout has gone about giving its own ratings, based on the end of the 2020 F2 season (albeit without driver changes). The ratings in F1 2021 have their overall score skewed heavily towards pace, and the team’s ratings also reflect that (albeit with a slightly different formula).

We’ve decided to rectify the low ratings that F2’s title challengers and race-winners have been given, and have also opted to analyse some of the choices made by Codemasters and EA Sports. The numbers below reflect an average of the ratings given by Craig Woollard, Alejandro Alonso Lopez, Bethonie Waring and Jordan Edwards.

In addition to the main story mode, the F2 cars and the drivers are available to play as in Grand Prix and Time Trial modes.

The current field will be introduced in an update towards the end of 2021, although those who graduated from FIA Formula 3 were given their own hypothetical ratings by Formula Scout last year.

Find the real game ratings below, and listen to our podcast explaining our own rating choices on Breaker, Google Podcasts, Overcast, Pocket Casts, RadioPublic, Castbox, Apple Podcasts and Spotify.

F2 drivers’ rankings in F1 2021

Name Team Experience Racecraft Awareness Pace Rating
Yuki Tsunoda AlphaTauri 46 88 78 86 82
Mick Schumacher Haas F1 47 65 81 83 76
Robert Shwartzman Prema 30 68 70 75 70
Nikita Mazepin Haas F1 47 65 78 66 67
Guanyu Zhou Virtuosi 33 65 66 72 67
Christian Lundgaard ART Grand Prix 30 59 70 74 67
Nobuharu Matsushita MP Motorsport 32 62 65 75 67
Dan Ticktum DAMS 30 58 65 75 66
Callum Ilott Virtuosi 33 61 64 74 66
Jack Aitken Campos Racing 36 59 67 71 66
Felipe Drugovich MP Motorsport 30 55 65 74 65
Luca Ghiotto Hitech GP 36 59 67 71 65
Marcus Armstrong ART Grand Prix 30 53 63 74 64
Jehan Daruvala Carlin 30 54 64 72 64
Giuliano Alesi HWA Racelab 33 54 64 72 64
Louis Deletraz Charouz 36 57 67 67 63
Pedro Piquet Charouz 30 50 65 73 63
Artem Markelov HWA Racelab 34 53 71 68 63
Guilherme Samaia Campos Racing 30 46 70 69 62
Sean Gelael DAMS 35 49 72 65 61
Marino Sato Trident 31 37 72 72 61
Roy Nissany Trident 33 42 64 66 58

Formula Scout’s F2 drivers’ rankings for F1 2021

Name Team Experience Racecraft Awareness Pace Rating
Yuki Tsunoda Carlin 41 64 72 83 77
Callum Ilott Virtuosi 42 66 70 83 77
Mick Schumacher Prema 46 65 73 80 75
Robert Shwartzman Prema 36 65 72 80 74
Dan Ticktum DAMS 39 63 66 78 72
Felipe Drugovich MP Motorsport 34 60 72 76 71
Christian Lundgaard ART Grand Prix 34 59 68 76 70
Jack Aitken Campos Racing 41 58 66 73 69
Jehan Daruvala Carlin 34 56 68 75 69
Nikita Mazepin Hitech GP 47 60 67 73 69
Guanyu Zhou Virtuosi 41 59 68 74 69
Luca Ghiotto Hitech GP 43 58 66 73 68
Marcus Armstrong ART Grand Prix 34 55 66 73 68
Louis Deletraz Charouz 42 58 72 72 68
Nobuharu Matsushita MP Motorsport 43 55 65 72 67
Artem Markelov HWA Racelab 43 56 73 70 67
Giuliano Alesi HWA Racelab 34 54 66 70 65
Pedro Piquet Charouz 33 49 68 68 64
Roy Nissany Trident 44 46 66 68 64
Sean Gelael DAMS 44 45 64 66 62
Marino Sato Trident 35 41 66 66 61
Guilherme Samaia Campos Racing 30 41 65 65 60