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F1i's Driver Ratings for the 2019 Monaco GP

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Charles Leclerc (Retired, L16): 6.5/10
What a roller coaster homecoming it proved to be for Charles Leclerc. He started off well on Thursday by beating his team mate in FP1, but fell half a second behind Sebastian Vettel in the afternoon. He was fastest of anyone in FP3 after Vettel crashed out, but then came the disastrous qualifying session in which Ferrari got their tactics completely wrong and Leclerc found himself eliminated at the end of Q1 through no fault of his own. Starting from 15th at a circuit uniquely resistant to overtaking, Leclerc felt he had to go to extremes to make any impression at all on the race. It worked well when he dispatched Kimi Raikkonen at the start and Romain Grosjean at Rascasse, but an attempt to pass Nico Hulkenberg ended in disaster and retirement soon after. Should he have been more patient? Probably, but then it's doubtful he would have got anywhere if he had been more cautious. Either way, you'd have to have a heart of stone not to feel for the guy.

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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.