Verstappen gets unanimous 10/10 in F1’s Sepang Power Rankings
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GPBeat reports that Formula 1’s judges unanimously gave Verstappen 10/10 for his Sepang weekend, which ended with his first win of 2026. The Power Rankings assess the whole weekend, not only the race result.
Formula 1 published its Power Rankings for the Bahrain Grand Prix in Malaysia on 6 October. Max Verstappen received a unanimous 10/10 for the weekend in which he claimed his first win of 2026 at Sepang on 4 October.
The panel linked the top score to Verstappen’s use of recent updates, pole position and performance in mixed conditions. Kimi Antonelli and George Russell passed him on the run to Turn 1, but Verstappen fought back to the lead and finished 2.307 seconds clear of Antonelli.
The Power Rankings assess the full weekend, not just the race classification: five judges score each driver with machinery taken out of the equation, average their marks into a race score and tally the scores on the season leaderboard. Oscar Piastri finished sixth in the race but was named among the drivers just outside the Power Rankings’ top ten.
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