Oscar Piastri holds a comfortable lead at the top of RacingNews365’s driver ratings, with Max Verstappen narrowly ahead of Lando Norris.<\/p>\n
In the 2025 standings, Piastri leads team-mate Norris by just nine points with 10 races to go in the fight to become McLaren’s first drivers’ champion since Lewis Hamilton in 2008.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Verstappen finds himself in third place, 97 points behind Piastri after a difficult first half of the season for Red Bull – but in our driver ratings, the Dutchman is narrowly ahead of Norris.<\/p>\n
After every race, the RacingNews365 team rates each driver on a 1-10 basis, with this score then divided up to create a season average.<\/p>\n
Piastri tops the ratings on an average score of 8.2, 0.5 marks ahead of Verstappen in second place.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Red Bull driver is 0.1 marks ahead of Norris, who had a troubled start to the season with qualifying mistakes and crashes, as well as a collision with Piastri in Canada.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Since then, Norris has won three of four races to reduce Piastri’s lead to single points.<\/p>\n
From the 14 races thus far, there are a total of 280 scores to be handed out, and just six of these have scored a perfect 10.\u00a0<\/p>\n
These have been for Piastri in Bahrain and Spain, Verstappen in Japan, Norris in Monaco and Austria, whilst the only non-race winning 10 comes for George Russell’s second place in Bahrain, whilst battling systems failures on his Mercedes.\u00a0<\/p>\n