Five races into the Formula One season and Oscar Piastri leads Lando Norris by 10 points with Max Verstappen a further two behind. It looks like a three-way fight between the two McLaren men and the defending champion in the Red Bull.
With that in mind, we sift through the data from the initial batch of races to decipher the best-performing driver of the three contenders, and also try to discover who has the best chance of winning the drivers’ title.
To do that we look at their performances over qualifying and races and also consider how that might play out if these current trends continue.