We put eight drivers up against each other and ranked each in four categories. So which came out on top?

Seven-time world champion Lewis Hamilton has been collecting accolades left right and centre in 2020 – and he’ll need to clear room in his trophy cabinet for one more, as F1’s team principals have voted him their number one driver of the year in our poll. Lewis Hamilton won the plaudits of F1’s team bosses as he won a record-equalling seventh world championship – and he’s got the praise of his rivals, too, as the Mercedes driver topped our exclusive poll of his peers.

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I spent two weeks before the lockdown testing the best drivers 2020 has to offer. Now there was no way I was going to let all that data go to waste. So I did what anyone would do and roped in my golf-mad family to help me finalise my results.

We’ve put the latest efforts from Titleist, TaylorMade, Ping, Callaway, Cobra, Mizuno, Lynx and Wilson through their paces and rated them on looks and feel as well as crunching the data on distance and dispersion.

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Best drivers 2020: How it works

We score the each driver in each of the four categories and add the scores together. Sounds almost too easy, doesn’t it? So which came out on top? Well, you’ll have to watch the video to find out…

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