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F1i's Driver Ratings for the 2019 German GP

Carlos Sainz (P5, 10 pts): 8.5/10
It hadn't looked like it was going to be a good German Grand Prix for McLaren. With his team mate struggling throughout the weekend, Carlos Sainz easily had the upper hand over Lando Norris throughout practice and duly delivered when it came to qualifying, making it through to Q3 and secureing seventh place on the grid. However it looked as though all that solid build-up had been squandered when he ran off the track on lap 17. He was incredibly lucky to be able to extract the MCL34 from the gravel track and resume, albeit now running behind Norris and well outside the points. Sainz kept his head and resisted an early switch to slick tyres, waiting instead until lap 46 before finally taking on a new set of the soft compound for the final stint. "In general we made the right decisions at the right time," he said later, and the heads-up race management combined with solid race craft from Sainz himself manifested a well-deserved fifth place finish at the line.

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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.