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F1i's Driver Ratings for the 2019 Austrian GP

Lewis Hamilton (P5, 10 pts): 7.5/10
No one gets an inexhaustible supply of good luck forever. Lewis Hamilton has had a charmed run so far in the 2019 season, but it had to come to an end sooner or later and it turned out to be this weekend in Spielberg. While he was fastest in first practice on Friday, for the rest of the time he was struggling to match the pace of Ferrari's Charles Leclerc. He looked to have pulled off a last minute front row start for the race in qualifying, only to have it taken away by the stewards for a clumsy incident in Q1 that impeded Kimi Raikkonen. A less polished start than usual to the race saw him briefly drop a spot to Lando Norris, and then he pushed his aforementioned luck a bit too far and damaged his front wing on the kerbs, necessitating a costly delay in the pits for a replacement. In the closing laps he could do nothing about Sebastian Vettel passing him on fresher, faster tyres and so he trailed home in a very unfamiliar fifth place. A one-off blip - or a warning sign that the tide is turning?

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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.