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F1i's Driver Ratings for the 2019 Japanese GP

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Max Verstappen (Retired, L14): 7.5/10
It was never really Max Verstappen's weekend, with a series of niggling power problems on the Red Bull preventing him from really getting any momentum going in Suzuka. While he never strayed far from the top of the timesheets in practice, he also found himself slipping further and further away from the Mercedes and Ferrari drivers. He also won't like the way that his rookie team mate matched his pace in the final round of qualifying, right down to the thousandth of a second. As for the race, there's not much to say - Charles Leclerc's wandering Ferrari took him out in turn 2 at the start, and while he limped on for another 14 laps it was clear that the RB15 was too badly wounded to make the effort worthwhile and so he ended up being the sole retirement of the afternoon. In the weekend of a raging typhoon, Max's Japanese Grand Prix ended up being more of a damp squib than a flood, albeit through little fault of his own.

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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.