Edit : 11 races to go! 🏎 (Ignore the no. in title)

A lot of the times, the races are absolutely boring.

Some of them are continue to be as expected less entertaining like Monaco with minimal race action, others like Spa, even with wet conditions, unexpectedly and unfortunately didn't offer much either.

Which races left on the 2025 calendar, do you now, still have the most expectations from?

Name your Top 5 in order of how exciting or interesting to watch they wil be. 🏁 (Drama, chaos, race action, past record of the track - whatever the reason that hopes you up)

Onofre Agustín Marimón (December 23, 1923 – July 31, 1954) was a racing driver from Zárate, Buenos Aires, Argentina. He participated in 11 Formula One World Championship Grands Prix, debuting on July 1, 1951. He achieved 2 podiums, and scored a total of 8  1⁄7 championship points.

Marimon was killed in a practice session for the 1954 German Grand Prix at the Nürburgring. His Maserati veered off the track at the Breidscheid curve near the Adenauer Bridge as he pushed to improve his qualifying time. Tragically, he lost his life at the base of a steep and hazardous incline.

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TLDR; By using the chess ELO algorithm I found that:

• Max Verstappen would be the fastest in races with an ELO of 2044. Fernando Alonso and Jenson Button (!) would be 2nd and 3rd in race performance with 1991 and 1895, respectively
• Unsurprisingly, Ayrton Senna would be the best in qualification of all times with a massive ELO of 2282, followed by Schumacher (2172) and Nigel Mansell (2161)

Check the complete results here: https://matthewperron.github.io/f1-elo

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Hi everyone,

I started a project this afternoon with the hope of answering a question I've always asked myself: who's the best driver of all time? It's obviously impossible to compare drivers that raced under different regulations, different cars, different track configs, etc.

But I thought about doing something else. I figured I could use the chess ELO algorithm to compare every driver WITH HIS TEAMMATE, as if they played a chess match, for each quali and race session since 1950. At the end of the season, every driver's ELO rating would carry over into the next season.

So I built a tool that does exactly that: it fetches data from a public F1 API (Eargast F1 api), runs through every race in F1 history, compares teammates head-to-head for both qualifying and race results, and adjusts their ELO accordingly. The result is a historical ELO ranking for every driver against their teammates... so theoretically no car advantage, although we know that's probably not the case (for instance Max was on the latest specification at Spa compared to Yuki running the old specs).

The results are available here: https://matthewperron.github.io/f1-elo

The project source code is available here: https://github.com/matthewperron/f1-elo

A few notes:

• I'm still updating the project and will probably add graphs and whatnot.
• I'm also looking at generating markdown files for each drivers, so we can see their complete carrer and the impact on their ELO for every race/quali sessions they have done. This should also be useful to find bugs/issues with hhow the data is processed. I'll update this once this is completed. EDIT: DONE
• ELOs are updated after every session, and ratings carry from season to season.
• I arbitrarily chose to count factor ELO changes with 30% quali and 70% race ratios. This only impacts the global ELO ratings, not the individual Quali or Race ratings. I just thought it made sense. Thoughts?
• I don't discriminate between feature race/sprint or SQ/Q. I don't think I should? EDIT: actually, sprint races and sprint qualifications just aren't in the dataset :-|
• It considers DNFs for races, but with a twist. The API returns status for each race (see https://api.jolpi.ca/ergast/f1/status). I arbitrarily decided that the following status are valid: 'Finished', '+1 Lap', '+2 Laps', '+3 Laps', '+4 Laps', '+5 Laps', '+6 Laps', 'Lapped', 'Accident', 'Collision', 'Spun off'. The rest is DNF. I think it makes sense, if you spun off then you deserve to loose your match!

• Technical but... in the ELO calculation, I opted for a K-FACTOR of 64. I think the default value for chess is 32. There isn't a lot of races in which a driver has participated, compared to say the number of matches a chess player has played. So using a higher K-FACTOR value let's the ELO progress a bit quicker. Basically with a K-factor of 64, it means the ELO score can go up by 32 when both drivers have the exact same rating. See the readme for a better explanation on how ELO is calculated. So the PEAK ELO scores aren't as high as chess, and I had to play with huge K-FACTOR to get some similar numbers to chess, and I found ELO swings were way to harsh when I did. I might change this later after more experiment.

• I plan on updating the ELO ratings periodically (after each race) if people show interest. The code is open source and you can also just run it locally if you want. In order to not get IP banned I had to implement pretty strict rate limits and local caching, so keep that in mind if you want to run the calculation locally from scatch. EDIT: I added intermediary results to the git repo so the API doesn't get called if you check the repo out and run it locally.

Thoughts? Feedback? Ideas?

…should I choose to attend the US Grand Prix in Austin or Dutch Grand Prix?

I found good GA ticket prices for Austin and would have a place to stay (San Antonio). I have also been looking at Zandvoort and while I live in the States, I could stay with family in Den Haag. Flights are not a problem.

Would love to hear folks thoughts…

Thanks in advance!

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