He may have finished second in the championship, but Sebastian Vettel showed sufficient weaknesses to slip to fourth in our rankings.
4. Sebastian Vettel
Championship position: 2nd (317 points)
There was some debate among the ESPN editorial team about putting Sebastian Vettel fourth on this list. He delivered the most Ferrari victories in a single season since 2010 and in the process gave Lewis Hamilton a run for his money in the title race, eventually finishing second. Yet there were mistakes -- at least one of which was unforgivable -- that we felt the three drivers above him in our rankings, Max Verstappen, Fernando Alonso and Lewis Hamilton (but not necessarily in that order!