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

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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.

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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

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