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F1i's Driver Ratings for the 2019 Belgian GP

Sebastian Vettel (P4, Fastest lap, 13 pts): 7.5/10
Sebastian Vettel said he was happy to be of service to the team on Sunday, but it must surely have bruised his ego to be told to move aside for his young team mate during the race. There's no question that the team orders made perfect sense in the circumstances and were eminently justified - and Vettel quickly complied without quibbling - but the fact that Vettel had already been singularly unable to keep pace with Charles Leclerc in FP2, FP3 or qualifying was telling. Mind you, no one else could match the Monegasque this weekend either, so maybe Vettel shouldn't feel so bad about it. However the tyre degradation issues that he experienced in the race are a genuine concern and point to a real problem that the four-time world champion is having with the SF90, one that not even the bonus point for fastest lap (after making a late second stop for fresh tyres) can completely disguise.

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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.