Guenther Steiner Ranks the 2026 F1 Drivers!

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**Guenther Steiner** (1:41)
Hello, Vankahs.

**Matt** (1:42)
What's up, Vankahs?

**Brian** (1:44)
Greetings, Vankahs. It's the summer break. Guenther, are you enjoying your summer break or are you working? Because some of us have to work.

**Guenther Steiner** (1:55)
As you well know, some of us have to work. It's not like you guys, you know, it's going to have the whole summer off, you know. I have to work here.
Yeah.

**Brian** (2:03)
That's right. Well, we're putting you to work today because we are returning to the fan favorite episode. It's the mid-season break. We've got 11 races under our belt. And it's time to grade these drivers. It's time to put them into their tiers. You know how this goes. S, A, B, C, D. You're a school teacher. This is Vankah Hours and you are the authority. So we're going to go through all of these guys and you are going to rank them in their different tiers with D being the lowest and S being the highest. That's reserved for the god tiers. If Yuki Sonoda was still in the sport, obviously, he would be there. But unfortunately, he's not. So we'll see if anyone even gets there.
But before we get into all that, make sure that you are subscribed wherever you are listening, make sure you are subscribed on YouTube, Spotify, wherever it is, or you can also do us a favor and you can hype this video. If you're watching on YouTube, this is a new feature. Hype us baby. Let's get this episode running all the way up. But enough of my dilly dallying. Let's get to it. Cue the music.
And we're back. Guenther, before we get into a driver, I'm curious, if you had to give this season so far a grade, where would you put it?

**Guenther Steiner** (3:49)
Where would I put it?
All over the place, I would put it. Some very good, some very not so good. So if you take the average, I would put it B, a B, yeah.

**Brian** (4:05)
A B tier.

**Guenther Steiner** (4:06)
Yeah, a B.

**Brian** (4:07)
A B tier, we'll see if we can get it a little bit higher. We'll see if this thing can get a little bit more interesting.
But let's start. We're going to do this a little bit differently. We're going to go team by team, and then we will do both drivers next to each other. So we're just going to go from the bottom to the top. We're going to start with the last place team, which is Cadillac. Let's start with one, Sergio Perez.

**Matt** (4:37)
So he's definitely been surprisingly out-qualifying Botta, so he thought was the Quali King.

**Brian** (4:47)
Yeah, what's the Quali breakdown?

**Matt** (4:49)
6-5, Perez.

**Brian** (4:52)
And then the sprints, 3-1, so overall 9-6 in Perez favor. And in the race, while they've not been finishing in the points, either of them, because they both have zero, Perez has finished ahead of Botta in second to last, 7-3.
So of the two of them, he seems to be having a better, better time. But what are your impressions, Guenther?