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F1i's Ultimate Driver Ratings for 2019

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P20 Robert Kubica, Williams: 5.17/10 (108.5 in total)
There's no surprise who comes bottom in our 2019 season ranking of drivers. Robert Kubica has been rated last after pretty much every race, no matter how much we've been cheering him on to succeed each weekend. Of course the whole Williams FW42 package was a complete turkey from the start and left him completely uncompetitive on the track, but that's no excuse for just how far off Bobby K has been from his team mate's pace in practice and qualifying sessions - sometimes by over a second a lap. Not having the special adaptations on his steering wheel to make it easier for him to drive with his injured right arm until late in the day certainly didn't help. But there's only so much allowance you can give before concluding that - much as we had hoped otherwise - Kubica's return to F1 just didn't come together as we all wanted to see, and that his departure from the sport is sad but unavoidable.

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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.

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