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F1i's Driver Ratings for the 2019 French GP

Kimi Raikkonen (P7, 6 pts): 8/10
There's been a few dreadful Grand Prix weekends for Alfa Romeo recently, with Kimi Raikkonen looking pretty hacked off at times. But you can't keep the Iceman down for long before he finds a way to bounce back. He was consistently faster than his team mate during practice, although when it came to qualifying it was Antonio Giovinazzi who cracked Q3 while Raikkonen had to settle for 12th place. But this proved a canny call, since he could choose which tyres to start the race on while the Italian was stuck on softs. The hard compound proved the superior selection and Kimi put in a sterling performance to reach sixth place before finally pitting on lap 31 and dropping back to 11th, after which he recovered a couple of positions. Hydraulic problems for Lando Norris and a penalty for Daniel Ricciardo after the race gave him a two-place boost in the final classifications to equal his best result since joining the team over the winter.

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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.