One of the most eagerly awaited publications of the year is the FIA’s Driver ranking list.
Much depends on this listing, the ability of teams to put together crews based on both available budget and driver ability/ performance.
And the ability of a driver to gain employment with some classes counting out drivers of too high, or in the case of LMP1, too low a ranking.
Those listed have two weeks from the point of issue to appeal the findings before a final list is published and many are sure to do so with a number of known proposed programmes directly impacted by the rankings issued in the provisional list linked Here >>
Major changes include
2016 FIA WEC Drivers
Rui Aguas – Silver to Gold
Ben Barker – Silver to Gold
Ryan Dalziel – Platinum to Gold
Antonio Giovanazzi – Gold to Platinum
Gustavo Menezes – Silver to Gold
Roman Rusinov – Silver to Gold
Richie Stanaway – Gold to Platinum
Nicki Thiim – Gold to Platinum
Lars Viljoen – Bronze to Silver
2016 ELMS Drivers
Tony Ave – Bronze to Silver
Rory Butcher – Silver to Gold
Matteo Carioli – Silver to Gold
Damien Faulkner – Gold to Silver
Ben Hanley – Silver to Gold
Philip Hanson – Bronze to Silver
Thomas Laurent – Bronze to Silver
Alex MacDowall – Silver to Gold
Marco Seefried – Silver to Gold
Terrence Woodward – Silver to Bronze
2016 IMSA Drivers
Max Angelelli – Gold to Silver
Fabio Babini – Platinum to Gold
Ryan Dalziel – Platinum to Gold
Damien Faulkner – Gold to Silver
Jan Heylen – Gold to Silver
Ben Keating – Silver to Bronze
Tim Pappas – Silver to Bronze
Andy Pilgrim – Silver to Bronze
Alex Riberas – Silver to Gold
Marco Seefried – Silver to Gold
Jeff Segal – Silver to Gold
2016 Blancpain GT Series Drivers
Fabio Babini – Platinum to Gold
Phil Keen – Silver to Gold
Marco Mapelli – Silver to Gold
Joe Osborne – Silver to Gold
Michele Rugolo – Silver to Gold
Clemens Schmid – Silver to Gold
Marco Seefried – Silver to Gold
Shane Van Gisbergen – Gold to Platinum
Other notable changes
Aleksey Basov – Bronze to Silver
Andrea Belicchi – Platinum to Gold
Christophe Bouchut – Platinum to Gold
Matt Brabham – Gold to Silver
Ivo Breukers – Silver to Bronze
Chris Dyson – Gold to Silver
Martin Fuentes – Silver to Bronze
John Gaw – Silver to Bronze
Chris Goodwin – Silver to Bronze
Warren Hughes – Gold to Silver
Duncan Huisman – Gold to Silver
Billy Johnson – Gold to Platinum (and will no longer be permitted to race in the Conti Challenge)
Stefan Johansson – Silver to Bronze
Jan Lammers – Silver to Bronze
Corey Lewis – Bronze to Silver
Michael Meadows – Silver to Gold
Michael Mills – Silver to Bronze
Tim Mullen – Gold to Silver
Tom Onslow-Cole – Silver to Gold
Olivier Panis – Platinum to Gold
Max Papis – Platinum to Gold
Anthony Reid – SIlver to Bronze
Mika Salo – Platinum to Gold
Andy Wallace – Gold to Silver
Karl Wendlinger – Platinum to Gold
Alex Zanardi – Platiunum to Gold
Adrian Zaugg – Gold to Silver
