POWER RANKED: All 20 drivers on the grid as Formula One returns from its summer break

Nikita Mazepin started life at Haas by releasing a statement apologizing for inappropriately touching a woman in a car but deleted the apology just nine days later, drawing criticism from the F1 community.

Trying to put his off-track issues aside, he started the season by spinning frequently, earning him the nickname Maze-spin, but appears to have made progress in his learning of the car.

With Haas admitting it is focusing on 2022, Mazepin's talents remain largely untested with him regularly taking last place at races.

Mick Schumacher, son of Michael, may have hoped his debut season in Formula One would have been a bit more enjoyable.

His team, Haas, has admitted its focus is on the following season and the performances show it. Both Haas cars regularly take up the last two spots.

For a car so much weaker than the rest, it is hard to evaluate the drivers' performances but to Schumacher's credit, he has consistently beaten his teammate Nikita Mazepin.

Being consistently outperformed by your teammate is never a good look, but it is the one Nicholas Latifi has had to settle for this season, losing out to teammate George Russell in almost every race.

On just one occasion he has finished higher than 14th and that came in the last race before the summer break when he crossed the line in seventh place, earning him his first ever career points.

Like teammate Kimi Räikkönen, Antonio Giovinazzi has had to fight for scraps this season and just once has he ended in the points.

At 27, the Italian is not one of the youngest on the track but he has only been racing in the sport for three years.

He has made improvement year-on-year but will be wanting a strong second half of the 2021 season to really show he deserves a spot on the grid.

The 2007 world champion is known for his expression-less style, but he has had to settle for life far away from where he has made his name this season.

The Alfa Romeo car has not been a quick one but Kimi Räikkönen has pushed it to bordering on points consistently through the season.

On two occasions, he has finished in 10th giving him two points for the current campaign.

It is rare to see McLaren's Daniel Ricciardo without a smile on his face, but he has been given few opportunities this season to flash his pearly whites.

A starring role in Netflix's Drive to Survive has made the Australian one of, if not the, most popular member of the grid and his happy-go-lucky style to life has made him a fan favorite.

Not happy being moved into Max Verstappen's shadow, he left Red Bull in 2019 to join a new project at Renault. While he may not have stayed at the team as long as the Renault bosses may have envisioned he did achieve what he set out to do and earned the team its first podium since 2011.

Wanting another step up, the 32-year-old joined a rising McLaren, but he has struggled to get used to his new car and a fifth-placed finish is the best he has managed this season.

Lance Stroll, son of team owner Lawrence, has been given the difficult task of trying to prove he deserves his place in the sport for his ability and not just because of who his dad is.

In the 2020 season, strong performances went a long way to prove that.

In 2021, however, life has been much more difficult. The Aston Martin car has struggled under new regulations and does not have the same speed of its Racing Point predecessor.

Stroll has finished in the points on just five occasions this campaign and may be hoping the season is over sooner rather than later if that form continues.

Yuki Tsunoda rose through the junior ranks at a rapid rate, but has found life tough at the pinnacle of the sport.

He has become more famous for his expletive-laden radio outbursts rather than his actual racing and is languishing in the lower half of the standings.

He told Planet F1 this week that the sport did not match his expectations so far but he finished sixth at the Hungarian Grand Prix, the highest of his career so far, and he will hope it is a positive sign for the future.

One of the many drivers to have swapped teams this season is four-time world champion Sebastian Vettel. He left a difficult life at Ferrari to become the number one driver at Aston Martin.

In his debut season with the team formerly called Racing Point, the German has struggled. It took until the fifth race of the season, at Monaco, for Vettel to score points. The following weekend he earned himself a podium finish in Azerbaijan.

That was a brief glimmer of light for Vettel who is four races into a non-scoring streak.

His bad luck and misfortune was highlighted in Hungary when he finished in second only to be disqualified for not having enough fuel in his car.

Ranking the man currently in fourth in the drivers standings as low as 11th may seem a little harsh, but given he has one of the two best cars on the grid, Bottas is having a fairly unremarkable season.

He has yet to win a race and has only managed one second place — at the Austrian Grand Prix.

For a man whose future with his team is in doubt, there has been little to change his boss Toto Wolff's mind.

Bottas has driven for Mercedes since 2017 but has never really posed any threat to Lewis Hamilton's title aspirations. Wolff must now decide whether to stick with Bottas or twist and go for the more attack-minded, younger George Russell.

George Russell's performances in qualifying have earned him the nickname Mr Saturday, as evidenced by his stunning 2nd position on the grid at the Belgian Grand Prix.

At the Hungarian Grand Prix, the last before F1's summer break, Russell finally converted a strong starting position into points, the first Williams has earned since 2019.

At 23, Russell is one of the younger members of the grid but he is one of the most talked about. Performing better than your car can is realistically expected to is always a good way to get noticed and the Brit has done that this season.

Another product of the Mercedes young driver programme, Williams is widely speculated to be taking Valtteri Bottas' seat at Mercedes next season.

If you offered Esteban Ocon a career first race win, he would have bitten your hand off but he may not have been so keen on 14 combined points in the other races.

On just two occasions has the Frenchman finished above eighth, but in the last outing he became the 111th driver to win a race with victory at the Hungarian Grand Prix.

The 24-year-old is into his second season with Alpine (renamed from Renault this season) and the victory allowed him to leapfrog teammate Alonso into 10th place in the driver standings.

He will be hoping he can find a level of consistency that sees him stay there.

Having been unceremoniously dumped by Red Bull in 2019, Frenchman Pierre Gasly has found a home at Alpha Tauri.

No longer a junior team of Red Bull but instead a sister one, Alpha Tauri has given Gasly the confidence and the car to push him to his best. Following a season where he won his first ever Grand Prix in 2020, Gasly has been a consistent midfield runner this campaign.

At 25 years old, his future in the sport is bright and if he can continue his consistent form into the second half of the season, there may be other teams looking to hire his services.

The Red Bull second seat has become somewhat of a poison chalice since Daniel Ricciardo left it in 2019. Pierre Gasly and Alex Albon have both tried their hands at it with varying degrees of failure.

Gasly lasted less than a season, Albon managed a season and a bit but both were moved on eventually. When Christian Horner picked the experienced Sergio Perez, a moment shown on the latest season of Netflix's Drive to Survive, the team hoped the Mexican would finally provide a worthy partner to Max Verstappen.

To Checo's credit, he has been impressive.

Consistent fourth and fifth place finishes as well as two podium places including a win at Azerbaijan has meant Red Bull is in a fight with Mercedes for the Constructors' Championship.

However, Perez went into the summer break on the back of a 16th-placed finish followed by a DNF in Hungary.

Perez, and Red Bull, will be hoping he starts strongly as the season resumes.

When two-time world champion Fernando Alonso takes to the track this weekend, he will move level with Rubens Barrichello as the driver with the second highest number of Grand Prix entered.

In a career spanning back to 2001, Alonso has won 32 races and two world championships — in 2005 and 2006.

At the end of the 2018 season, Alonso announced his retirement, but there were a few surprised faces to see the Spaniard return this season for Alpine.

It may have taken a little while to shake off any ring rust from his two-year break from the sport, but his performance at the Hungarian Grand Prix proved what an excellent driver he still is.

With teammate Esteban Ocon in a shock lead, Alonso defended a charging Lewis Hamilton with all the skill and experience that his lengthy career has given him.

He is just outside the top half of the driver standings — a single point behind Ocon — and has been rewarded for his form with an extension to his contract.

Charles Leclerc is the face of Ferrari.

Born in Monaco, he replaced Kimi Räikkönen in the Ferrari seat in 2019 and a sign of his team's faith in him came when they were faced with a choice of having him or four-time world champion Sebastian Vettel as their number one driver.

Ferrari plumped for Leclerc, and it is clear to see why. He has entered 70 Grands Prix and won two of them, but the victory number would surely have been higher had he raced for Ferrari in any other era.

Like Max Verstappen, Leclerc has not always had a car to match his talent, but a sign of his ability is how much he has managed to squeeze out of it.

This season, he has experienced the highs of back-to-back poles but the lows of a DNS in his home race of Monaco and a DNF last time out in Hungary.

The 23-year-old sits in seventh place in the driver standings, three points behind his teammate Sainz, but a second-place finish at Silverstone showed a glimpse of what he could go on to achieve.

Moving teams is never easy but it is made all the more challenging when you move to the most popular and historic team on the track.

Ferrari first raced in F1 in 1950 and every driver who pulls on the famous red jumpsuit is subjected to intense pressure from the millions of fans who are known as the Tifosi.

One man who has not struggled to step up is Carlos Sainz. Having formed the grid's biggest bromance with Lando Norris at McLaren, the Spaniard swapped orange for red this campaign.

Not only was he filling a seat of a Ferrari but also one that had just be vacated by a four-time world champion — Sebastian Vettel.

Sainz has not shirked at the challenge.

The high point of his season was a second-place finish at Monaco, earning him the third podium of his career and he added another one to the tally in Hungary.

In the last four races, Sainz has finished no lower than sixth, and has helped move Ferrari up into joint-third in the Constructors' Championship alongside McLaren.

Lando Norris is a rising star in F1.

During the COVID pandemic, he grew a large following on Twitch where he streams himself playing the F1 2020 video game, but it is not only in the virtual world that he is excelling.

Norris is into his third season with McLaren and is no longer the baby-faced rookie. On only one occasion this season has he finished below fifth place and that consistency sees him sit in third place in the driver standings

With Norris at the helm, McLaren has pushed on from a midfield team and while it may not yet be considered in the same bracket as Red Bull and Mercedes, the team is starting to move away from the likes of Alpine and Aston Martin in the mid-field.

It also speaks highly of Norris' improvement that he is comfortably beating teammate and F1 veteran Daniel Ricciardo this season.

If there is one man who can challenge Lewis Hamilton's supremacy, it's Red Bull's Max Verstappen.

The son of another F1 driver, Jos, Verstappen announced himself as a serious talent when he won his first race in a Red Bull seat, the 2016 Spanish Grand Prix.

Since that day, the Dutchman has been heralded as a generational talent but he has had to put up with a rear view of the two Mercedes cars ahead of him.

Despite being the sixth youngest driver on the grid, Verstappen has entered 130 Grands Prix, a number that can only be beaten by three other drivers, yet the 2021 season is the first time it seems the Dutchman has a car that can match his ability.

That is demonstrated by the fact that a third of Verstappen's career wins have come this season and he raced into a sizeable lead at the top of the drivers standings before two disastrous weekends going into the summer break allowed Hamilton to overtake him.

As the season heads into the final stretch, Verstappen will no doubt be hungry to show he deserves a seat at the top table.

Mercedes' Lewis Hamilton is the biggest name in the sport. A seven-time world champion, he has dominated the grid for the best part of seven years and since 2014, just one championship has not been won by the Brit.

A product of the McLaren young driver programme, Hamilton won his first championship in 2008 at the age of 23 and since making the switch to Mercedes in 2013, he has added another six trophies to his cabinet.

At 36, Hamilton is the third oldest driver on the grid, but he has showed few signs of slowing down.

In 2021, he is facing the biggest threat to his crown in years in Red Bull's Max Verstappen but two strong performances before the summer break saw Hamilton return to the top of the standings going into the second half of the campaign.