{"id":474304,"date":"2023-12-28T16:21:39","date_gmt":"2023-12-28T20:21:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=474304"},"modified":"2023-12-28T14:25:41","modified_gmt":"2023-12-28T18:25:41","slug":"f1-drivers-vote-max-verstappen-no-1-for-2023","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/f1-drivers-vote-max-verstappen-no-1-for-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"F1 drivers vote Max Verstappen No. 1 for 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Formula 1 has announced the results of the traditional drivers&#8217; vote, where competitors in the World Championship rank each other based on their performance throughout the season.<\/p>\n<p>This marks the sixth edition of the ranking, and there is no surprise at the top \u2013 the three-time world champion Max Verstappen claims the top spot according to his fellow drivers for the 2023 season.<\/p>\n<p>Completing the top 3 are Lewis Hamilton and Fernando Alonso. Hamilton&#8217;s second place, a seven-time world champion, might be considered surprising when looking solely at the results, as he hasn&#8217;t secured a victory this year, but he did manage to secure the third position in the overall standings.<\/p>\n<p>Alonso is the driver ranked third, showing the most progress during the season compared to 2022. The two-time world champion demonstrates at the age of 42 that he has not lost his ambition and can once again compete at the top of the rankings.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Formula 1 just revealed the top drivers of the season voted by all the 20 drivers of the grid<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udd1d Lando is ranked 4th and Oscar is 8th in the standings <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VYIijZyTDJ\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/VYIijZyTDJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 McLaren News | \ud83c\uddec\ud83c\udde7 \ud83c\udde6\ud83c\uddfa (@McLarenF1_News) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/McLarenF1_News\/status\/1740330995348341021?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">December 28, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The top three drivers in the standings have a total of 12 world titles: three for Max, seven for Lewis, and two for Fernando. Compared to last year, Max maintains his first position, Hamilton moves up one spot, and Alonso climbs three positions.<\/p>\n<p>McLaren&#8217;s Lando Norris is fourth, also moving up one position, followed by Ferrari&#8217;s Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz.<\/p>\n<p>Completing the top 10 are Alex Albon, Oscar Piastri, Pierre Gasly, and Sergio Perez.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Formula 1 has announced the results of the traditional drivers&#8217; vote, where competitors in the World Championship rank each other based on their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":474307,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17680,17288],"news_category":[16921],"gn_keywords":[17971,1081],"acf":{"announce":"No surprises for drivers' poll at the end of the season","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/474304"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=474304"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/474304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":474318,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/474304\/revisions\/474318"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/474307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474304"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=474304"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=474304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}