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F1i's Driver Ratings for the 2019 Italian GP

Pierre Gasly (P11): 7/10
Still smarting from his abrupt demotion from Red Bull over the summer break, Pierre Gasly continues to play catch up with his team mate at Toro Rosso. He was faster than Daniil Kvyat in FP2 but otherwise lagged behind the young Russian this weekend. His performance in qualifying was academic as he was set to start the race from near the back in any case after receiving the latest specification Honda power unit for the event. He lined up just behind Lando Norris and ahead of Sergio Perez and Max Verstappen, but while they all went on to score points on Sunday there proved to be no such success for Gasly. Admittedly some of the blame for that has to go to his scary near-miss with Lance Stroll who had gone off at Ascari on lap 6, which cost him two positions at the time. The end result left him on the outside looking in from 11th place; if he had been three seconds faster he would have jumped up to ninth ahead of Antonio Giovinazzi and Lando Norris. On such slender margins do race results - and driver careers - pivot.

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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.