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F1i's Driver Ratings for the 2019 Australian GP

Nico Hulkenberg (GER) Renault F1 Team RS19 at the start of the race.

Nico Hulkenberg (P7, 6 pts): 7.5/10

Nico Hulkenberg's biggest threat this year is the internal challenge presented by his new Renault team mate Daniel Ricciardo, who was inevitably the darling of the home fans attending the Australian Grand Prix. If any of this bothered the German driver then he wasn't showing it, going about with his usual quiet sense of purpose. Both drivers had missed out on Q3 in the previous day's qualifying session, but while Ricciardo was perhaps too much in a rush to make up for lost ground when the lights went out for the race, Hulkenberg quietly picked up three places which put him in a good position to work his way forward after the pit stops. He ultimately secures the factory team's first points of the season with a solid seventh place finish. With Ricciardo retiring after 28 laps, Hulkenberg can be content with the knowledge that first blood in this battle of the team mates has gone his way.

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Andrew Lewin

Andrew first became a fan of Formula 1 during the time when Michael Schumacher and Damon Hill were stepping into the limelight after the era of Alain Prost, Nigel Mansell and Aryton Senna. He's been addicted ever since, and has been writing about the sport now for nearly a quarter of a century for a number of online news sites. He's also written professionally about GP2 (now Formula 2), GP3, IndyCar, World Rally Championship, MotoGP and NASCAR. In his other professional life, Andrew is a freelance writer, social media consultant, web developer/programmer, and digital specialist in the fields of accessibility, usability, IA, online communities and public sector procurement. He worked for many years in magazine production at Bauer Media, and for over a decade he was part of the digital media team at the UK government's communications department. Born and raised in Essex, Andrew currently lives and works in south-west London.