F1 drivers react to their F1 23 ratings

EA made Formula 1 drivers guess their ratings before revealing them

It’s the highlight ahead of every annual sports game release: rating reveals. While driver ratings in F1 23 don’t quite have the same importance as the stats of soccer and football players in FIFA and Madden NFL, they are still a reason for heated debate among fans – and, evidently, the athletes themselves. Many F1 drivers are huge fans of video games, so seeing their abilities rated in this medium is definitely a highlight as well as a point of pride for them.

EA and Codemasters made the world’s greatest racing drivers guess their teammates' ratings and then revealed the actual numbers to them to catch their reactions and let hilarity ensue.

In F1 23, a driver’s overall rating depends on four different skill classes: experience, racecraft, awareness, and pace. Here’s what all of them mean according to the developers:

• Experience (EXP): This is based on the number of race starts a driver has over the course of their career.
• Racecraft (RAC): The driver’s ability to work their way through the pack and finish in a higher position than where they started.
• Awareness (AWA): The less time spent in the Steward’s room will help drivers here. Real-world punishments will impact the score in this category.
• Pace (PAC): Benefits those who get closest to the fastest qualifying and race lap times. A driver beating their teammate is also taken into consideration.
• Rating (RTG): The combination of the previous four ratings. This overall rating will go up and down throughout the season based on performance.

For the initial ratings, the studio compiled data from the current season’s races up to the Miami Grand Prix and consulted F1 commentators Alex Jacques and Anthony Davidson to get another source of input. Codemasters also updated its algorithm to put more of a focus on recent form than a driver’s legacy performance.

Athletes like Max Verstappen, Lando Norris, and George Russell were pretty scientific about their numbers thanks to their experience with Codemasters’ system and actually got pretty close with their guesses. Haas drivers Nico Hülkenberg and Kevin Magnussen went a different route, being very generous with their estimations of each other – perhaps to maintain a sense of harmony in the team.

You can check out the video on YouTube or get a first taste via the Tweet below:

All F1 23 driver ratings

Driver	Experience	Racecraft	Awareness	Pace	Overall Rating
Max Verstappen	84	97	85	95	94
Lewis Hamilton	97	94	94	90	92
Fernando Alonso	99	91	78	93	92
Charles Leclerc	77	92	85	90	89
Sergio Perez	91	93	86	87	89
Lando Norris	76	91	79	91	89
Carlos Sainz Jr.	84	92	81	87	88
George Russell	76	87	83	91	88
Valtteri Bottas	88	86	97	86	87
Esteban Ocon	77	92	76	86	86
Pierre Gasly	78	89	76	85	85
Lance Stroll	79	91	78	81	84
Alexander Albon	75	81	78	86	83
Yuki Tsunoda	69	79	75	87	83
Kevin Magnussen	81	79	85	82	81
Nico Hülkenberg	86	79	81	80	80
Zhou Guanyu	63	78	74	81	78
Oscar Piastri	74	73	79	77	74
Logan Sargeant	48	84	75	67	71
Nyck de Vries	50	84	75	67	71

Note that some of these numbers are different from those in the video above, since they were recorded before the final estimations were made.