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F1i's Driver Ratings for the 2019 French GP

Pierre Gasly (P10, 1 pt): 6/10
Unfortunately it seems that Pierre Gasly's star is on the wane again, and there was little in the way of a boost for him at his home Grand Prix this weekend where he was around four tenths slower than his Red Bull team mate on Friday. On the bright side he did make it all the way into Q3 in qualifying, albeit at the cost of having to start the race itself on soft compound tyres, making him one of only two drivers on the grid to do so. He did the best he could with the cards he had been dealt, and made the tyres last an impressive 17 laps running up in eighth. However the inevitable pit stop bounced him all the way back down to 15th from which he laboured to recover for the rest of the day. He crossed the line in 11th place, seemingly missing out on the points, but was promoted one place when Daniel Ricciardo was subsequently penalised. Even so, scraping a single point while Verstappen spent the whole time up in fourth is not likely to be a good look for Gasly when Helmut Marko is reviewing the accounts on Monday.

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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.