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F1i's Driver Ratings for the 2019 French GP

Carlos Sainz (P6, 8 pts): 8.5/10
The future is bright, the future is orange at McLaren which confirmed its growing renaissance this weekend. Carlos Sainz played a big part in the team's success at the French Grand Prix, even if he was shaded by his team mate for much of the weekend. Lando Norris proved quicker throughout practice and qualifying, but Sainz' greater experience meant he got the jump on the rookie off the line in the race itself. Understandably there was little that he could do about losing a place himself to Sebastian Vettel shortly afterwards, but that was the only minimal setback of the afternoon. After that, the Spanish driver made the race look easy and his sixth place finish never looked in doubt, while poor Lando once again bore the brunt of the team's technical misfortunes with his late hydraulic issues.

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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.