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F1i's Driver Ratings for the 2019 Hungarian GP

Sebastian Vettel (P3, 15 pts): 8.5/10
On the one hand it was a strong weekend for Sebastian Vettel. He started off the weekend third fastest in FP1 and just 0.001s off Max Verstappen's pace, and was back in the same position again on Saturday morning. But when it came to qualifying he wasn't quite able to sustain that form all the way through to Q3 and he ended up fifth fastest, having been once again out-qualified by his young team mate Charles Leclerc. It gave the Monegasque the better grid position, and at the start of the race Vettel was unable to get the jump on Leclerc and had to settle in for the long haul instead. After trailing behind Leclerc for 25 laps he was finally up to third place by opting for a superlong first stint on the mediums. Once he did make his overdue stop and switched to soft tyres for the finish, it gave him the speed differential in the final laps that he needed to catch and pass his team mate and finish on the podium. Yet despite that success, the margin by which he trailed Lewis Hamilton will be rather disconcerting for him going into the summer break.

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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.