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Fans voted Max Verstappen the best Formula 1 driver of the season
Fans of the prestigious World Auto Racing Championship in the Formula 1 car class recognized Red Bull team driver Max Verstappen as the best driver of the season, the press service of the tournament reports.
The top three were completed by Lewis Hamilton in Mercedes and Carlos Sainz Jr. in McLaren.
Max Verstappen is a hereditary Dutch racing driver, the son of the famous former Formula 1 pilot Jos Verstappen. In the personal championship last season, he took third place, behind two Mercedes representatives - Hamilton and Valtteri Bottas.
Participants in the voting among fans registered in the official Fan Voice service rated each of the 20 pilots on a ten-point scale. At the same time, the organizers asked them to “exclude from the equation” the parameters of the cars they received.
As a result, the votes of fans of the “royal race” were distributed as follows:
POWER RANKINGS
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It is noted that the Russian driver of the Toro Rosso team, Daniil Kvyat, fell out of the top 10 fans in the summer, dropping to 14th place. At the equator of the championship he took 8th place .