A further series of updates to the provisional FIA Driver rankings for 2022 have been published reflecting changes made after drivers submitted appeals to their proposed rankings and, evidently, in some cases, where other evidence was submitted to the panel.
An initial categorisation is based on the driver’s age and career record, which may be adjusted in subsequent seasons according to the recorded race pace and results of the series that are using the categorisation system.
Only one appeal against an earlier ranking change appear to have been successful thus far with Luca Stolz remaining as a Gold-ranked driver rather than Platinum.
Several notable names see ranking changes that will affect there and team pans for 2022 including 2021 WEC drivers Scott Andrews and Andrew Watson, both of whom move to Gold from Silver.
A significant number of drivers move from Platinum from Gold – notably including Joey Hand, Jan Magnussen, Darren Turner, Lucas Luhr, Pedro Lamy and Nic Minassian.
A similar batch of notables go from Gold to Silver including Bas Leinders, Manu Collard, Marc Goossens, Gunnar Jeannette, Bernd Schneider, Michele Rugolo and Michael Cooper.
Notable amongst a large number of drivers downgraded from Silver to Bronze are two-time IMSA GTD class Champion Christina Nielsen, Tim Harvey, Nice Bailly, Tony Ave and Kristian Poulsen.
Summary of changes – Additional changes since our earlier story are in Capitals
First Ranking at Silver
Josh Pierson
Bronze to Silver (Drivers of particular note to DSC in bold)
Garrett Adams
Ali Adam
Luca Arnold
TOM ASHTON
Paul August
Ethan Bernard
Luca Bosco Mauro
Stefan Bostandjiev
Rick Bouthoorn
Franck Chappard
Etienne Cheli
Umberto D’Amato
Mathieu de Barbuat
Ricardo di Persia
Antoine Doquin
LION DÜKER
Gregory Faessel Curson
Alexander Filsinger
Steriyan Folev
Finn Gehrsitz
Vincent Gisy
Alexandre Gladstein
VIACHESLAV GUTAK
Alexander Hartvig
Martin Hippe
Dominic Jung
Darren Kelly
Tim Kohmann
Moritz Kranz
Manuel Lauck
Francesco Lopez
Marc Lopez Gutierrez
Nicolas Markiewicz
Ayrton Marquet
Rino Mastronardi
Nicolas Maulini
Lukas Mayer
PAUL MEIJER
Dylan Nerguti
Alban Nerguti
Gray Newell
Cedric Oltramare
Salman Owega
Matia Pasini
Matej Pavlíček
Rory Penttinen
Sandro Perissoutti
Louis Perrot
Leo Pichler
Mikaeel Pitamber
Dennis Richter
JACOB RIEGEL
Hugo Roch
Adrian Sarkis
TYLER SHARINN
Thanathip Tanalapanan
Rory Van der steur
Filip Vava
NATHANIEL VINCENT
Michael von Zabiensky
Stefan von Zabiensky
Rob Wheldon
Silver to Gold
SCOTT ANDREWS
Oliver Askew
Wayne Boyd
Oliver Caldwell
Eddie Cheever III
Austin Cindric
Franco Colapinto
Ugo de Wilde
David Droux
Phillip Ellis
YANN ERLACHER
ADAM ETEKI
Jaxon Evans
Ricardo Feller
Felipe Laser
Santino Ferrucci
Alex Fontana
Tommy Foster
Rahel Frey
Tom Gamble
Marcos Gomes
Garett Grist
Ayhancan Guven
Valentin Hasse-Clot
Dennis Hauger
Jan Heylen
Trent Hindman
Laurents Hörr
Arthur Leclerc
DINO LUNARDI
Dennis Marschall
Charles Milesi
Colin Noble
Patricio O’Ward
Alex Palou
Dylan Pereira
Alexander Peroni
Jim Pla
James Pull
ARTHUR ROUGIER
Alessio Rovera
Fabio Scherer
JOSH SKELTON
Aaron Telitz
Ryuichiro Tomita
Richard Verschoor
ANDREW WATSON
Charles Weerts
Jeff Westphal
Yifei Ye
Gold to Platinum
Ben Barnicoat
Alberto Costa Balboa
Antonio Fuoco
Jules Gounon
Marco Mapelli
Luca Stolz REMAINS GOLD ON LATEST LIST
Dries Vanthoor
Platinum to Gold
Andrea Bertolini
TOM CORONEL
LUCA FILIPPI
Jeff Gordon
JOEY HAND
PEDRO LAMY
LUCAS LUHR
JAN MAGNUSSEN
NIC MINASSIAN
ORIOL SERVIA
DARREN TURNER
Gold to Silver
Craig Baird
Anthony Beltoise
EMMANUEL COLLARD
MICHAEL COOPER
JIMMY ERIKKSON
MARC GOOSSENS
Eric Helary
GUNNAR JEANNETTE
JJ Lehto
BAS LEINDERS
Berndt Mäylander
Morgan Moullin-Traffort
Matt Neal
Olivier Panis
Christian Pescatori
STEFAN ROSINA
MICHELE RUGOLO
CLEMENS SCHMID
BERND SCHNEIDER
Vincenzo Sospiri
Nobuteru Taniguchi
Alex Zanardi
Silver to Bronze
DIRK ADORF
ZAHIR ALI
Diego Alessi
Max Angelelli
TONY AVE
NIGEL BAILLY
Terry Borcheller
JOSH CAYGILL
GEOFF EMERY
Frey Fidani
HEIKO HAMMEL
TIM HARVEY
Naoki Hattori
SHINYO HOSOKAWA
Patrick Huisman
Tim Joosen
TONIS KASEMETS
DRAKE KEMPER
TAKUMI KOROIWA
Jochen Krumbach
NATHAN KUMAR
YU LAM
KEVIN MADSEN
VADIKM MESHCHERIAKOV
Donald Molenaar
JULIEN NEVEU
CHRISTINA NIELSEN
Tasmin Jay Pepper
MIKAEEL PITAMBER
KRISTIAN POULSEN
Naoryu Sakamoto
LEONARDO SANCHEZ SECUNDINO
ALAN SIMONI
SETH THOMAS
Massimiliano Tresoldi
Eric van de Poele
Sven Van Laere
ALEX WATERS
