Which Formula 1 driver made the most of the Emilia-Romagna Grand Prix weekend?
It’s time to give your verdict on which driver did the best with the equipment at their disposal over the last three days.
Review how each driver got on below and vote for who impressed you the most at Imola.
Driver performance summary
| Driver | Q stage | Q pos. | Q gap to team mate | GP grid pos. | GP pos. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Max Verstappen | Q3 | 1 | -0.530s | 1 | 1 |
| Sergio Perez | Q2 | 11 | +0.530s | 11 | 8 |
| Lewis Hamilton | Q3 | 8 | +0.270s | 8 | 6 |
| George Russell | Q3 | 6 | -0.270s | 6 | 7 |
| Charles Leclerc | Q3 | 4 | -0.263s | 3 | 3 |
| Carlos Sainz Jnr | Q3 | 5 | +0.263s | 4 | 5 |
| Lando Norris | Q3 | 3 | +0.017s | 2 | 2 |
| Oscar Piastri | Q3 | 2 | -0.017s | 5 | 4 |
| Lance Stroll | Q2 | 13 | -0.459s | 13 | 9 |
| Fernando Alonso | Q1 | 19 | +0.459s | 20 | 19 |
| Esteban Ocon | Q2 | 12 | -0.475s | 12 | 14 |
| Pierre Gasly | Q2 | 15 | +0.475s | 15 | 16 |
| Alexander Albon | Q2 | 14 | 14 | 20 | |
| Logan Sargeant | Q1 | 20 | 19 | 17 | |
| Daniel Ricciardo | Q3 | 9 | +0.209s | 9 | 13 |
| Yuki Tsunoda | Q3 | 7 | -0.209s | 7 | 10 |
| Valtteri Bottas | Q1 | 16 | -0.208s | 16 | 18 |
| Zhou Guanyu | Q1 | 17 | +0.208s | 17 | 15 |
| Kevin Magnussen | Q1 | 18 | +1.013s | 18 | 12 |
| Nico Hulkenberg | Q3 | 10 | -1.013s | 10 | 11 |
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Vote for your driver of the weekend
Which driver do you think did the best job throughout the race weekend?
Who got the most out of their car in qualifying and the race? Who put their team mate in the shade?
Cast your vote below and explain why you chose the driver you picked in the comments.
Who was the best driver of the 2024 Emilia-Romagna Grand Prix weekend?
- No opinion (1%)
- Kevin Magnussen (3%)
- Nico Hulkenberg (1%)
- Zhou Guanyu (0%)
- Valtteri Bottas (0%)
- Yuki Tsunoda (8%)
- Daniel Ricciardo (0%)
- Logan Sargeant (1%)
- Alexander Albon (0%)
- Pierre Gasly (0%)
- Esteban Ocon (0%)
- Fernando Alonso (0%)
- Lance Stroll (2%)
- Oscar Piastri (8%)
- Lando Norris (34%)
- Carlos Sainz Jnr (0%)
- Charles Leclerc (3%)
- George Russell (0%)
- Lewis Hamilton (0%)
- Sergio Perez (0%)
- Max Verstappen (38%)
Total Voters: 90
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Jere (@jerejj)
19th May 2024, 15:40
DOTW & DOTD: NOR, no one else stood out particularly.
F1statsfan (@f1statsfan)
19th May 2024, 15:44
No way – Norris qualified behind his teammate and was lucky Piastri got a 3 grid penalty.
Norris had the fastest car but failed on his first stint to stay close to Max with tiny errors every few laps – his laptimes were erratic that is driver error. On his 2nd stint he should have gotten closer earlier but over pushed the car again causing him to make tiny errors and less time that wasn’t needed.
notagrumpyfan
19th May 2024, 19:44
You should look beyond the top finishers (and even there you ignored the race winner).
Yuki and Nico stood out just as much, and at least they (and Max) beat their respective teammates on Saturday :P
Mayrton
20th May 2024, 16:59
Max stood out. Look at what Perez achieved with the same car. Stellar performance. Under-appreciated by sentiment which I can understand since 2014-2020 was no different. But at least in the latest dominance streak RedBull managed to only get ‘2 and a bit’ season of it whereas Mercedes bored us for 8 years straight.
F1statsfan (@f1statsfan)
19th May 2024, 15:41
Can only be Max getting pole and win in clearly the 2nd fastest car.
McLaren had the fastest car but Piastri/Norris failed on Saturday and Norris failed on Sunday.
An Sionnach
19th May 2024, 15:55
Clearly, yes. McLaren looks very strong now. If it was just the car they’d have started ahead of Max and stayed there. With such small margins, the best driver is even more valuable. While I won’t organise a whip-round for Max he deserves every penny he earns and then some! Top performance.
David
19th May 2024, 19:28
2nd fastest car? Look at Perez, he set the fastest lap of all the 1 stoppers.
It’s the fastest car just Max took too much out of the tyres early in his second stint which allowed Lando to gain on him.
notagrumpyfan
19th May 2024, 19:52
On Medium tyres!
The McLaren’s (and then the Ferrari’s) were the fastest 1 stoppers on Hard tyres.
Mayrton
20th May 2024, 17:00
I agree. And I even doubt whether that RB was the 2nd fastest car. I had all the looks of also Ferrari being ahead of them. On top of that, Perez couldn’t even get near a single Mercedes. DOTW has to be Max therefore.
Nulla Pax (@nullapax)
19th May 2024, 15:54
I’ve gone Tsunoda.
Every one seemed to work hard this weekend … even Lance did well today.
BasCB (@bascb)
19th May 2024, 17:22
Yeah, Tsunoda really showed great pace and race craft today, Stroll had a really solid weekend here too. Norris got my vote for pushing as well as he did in the end to make it tight and give us hope of more. Well done for both Max and Lando to race it out for that last 10 laps on ever worse tyres, I hope we get to see more of this close racing in the next few races.
Shame for the penalty for Piastri, would have been interesting to see whether he would have managed to push Verstappen in the first stint – he seemed to have a better grip on the mediums than Lando – would have given us more tense moments at the front early on.
Broke1984 (@broke1984)
19th May 2024, 16:07
Tsunoda for me. Except for his little tantrum at the beginning of the year he is driving well and is carrying the Faenza team well
Ben-Hur (@ben-hur)
19th May 2024, 16:27
This time Max had to earn it… and did!
Not particularly impressed by Lando’s or Oscar’s driving, with a few less mistakes Lando should have won
The Ferrari wall dropped the ball with Oscar’s undercut on Carlos, not sure how much they care about Carlos by now
Ronald (@mosquito)
19th May 2024, 16:50
Verstappen for me. Coming back from a very difficult start of the weekend. Clearly better than his teammate and keeping behind a faster Norris at the end.
MaddSusie (@maddsusie)
19th May 2024, 17:01
Has to be Verstappen. Not only has he managed to get the pole and win the race at Imola, he also raced in the Nurburgring 24 event on iRacing an won that race (with his team) as well.
Mayrton
20th May 2024, 17:02
Yes, that is indeed quite exceptional. He sure is the driver of the weekend if you look at all racing categories
Moi
19th May 2024, 17:15
Max. The driver made the difference today.
Nice to see from a championship perspective. RB must be worried about the WCC especially right about now.
Mayrton
20th May 2024, 17:03
I should hope they are. Things are really not smooth anymore and keeping Perez in that car during 2024 will turn out to be a big mistake
David BR (@david-br)
19th May 2024, 17:33
Verstappen, this weekend Red Bull looked behind on pace but he still managed to grab pole, just, and take the win. Well deserved. Would Norris have passed with two more laps? It would have been fascinating to see the attempt but to me it never really looked on that he’d catch Max.
Ben Rowe (@thegianthogweed)
19th May 2024, 19:33
tsunoda was impressive in qualifying, but there was one thing in the race that puts me off voting for him. After he pitted, he seemed to really struggle to pass sargeant. This weekend, I would say that this team had a big advantage over williams, and we should factor in the tyre offset. Tsunoda had just pitted and Sargeant was still on old tyres. Even with that huge advanatage for Tsunoda, he was stuck behind Sargeant for well over 5 laps, and Sargeant was pretty slow and didn’t even have DRS.
This to me ruined his race, and I think he should have got past far quicker then he maybe could have finished ahead of Stroll.
mars
19th May 2024, 19:44
Tsunoda.
dragoll (@dragoll)
20th May 2024, 1:04
No one has called out Oscar’s drive in the comments. I think he did a brilliant job in Qualy, I don’t think you can fault him personally for holding up Magnussen as he didn’t know he was coming up behind him, and in the race, he didn’t put a foot wrong. If he didn’t get the grid drop, I suspect we would be talking about how close Oscar came to winning his first GP behind Max.
Moshambles (@moshambles)
20th May 2024, 9:36
If you didn’t vote for Max, take a long cold look at yourself in the mirror