Daniil Kvyat (P12): 7/10
It was a tough weekend for AlphaTauri. While Pierre Gasly was getting hit by all manner of technical problems, Daniil Kvyat was doing his best to keep the team's flag flying, but it was hard going for the Russian who seemed to have precious little to work with. Just 16th fastest in first practice on Friday and the slowest of those who chose to run in the wet afternoon conditions, he never looked to have any chance of breaking out of Q1 when it came to qualifying. But he put in a solid, robust performance in the race itself which saw him up to 13th place after the early first round of pit stops, although he'd actually wanted to come in even earlier at the end of the formation lap like the two Haas drivers. The team opted for an early second stop to move him from the soft to hard tyres but this didn't give him much to work with pace-wise, and once he levelled out in 12th place midway through the race he wasn't able to make any further progress although did successfully manage to protect himself from any late insurgents.
Charles Leclerc (P11): 6/10
No race in which a Ferrari fails to finish in the top ten can be considered to be a good one for the Scuderia, especially not when both cars had successfully managed to qualify on the third row of the grid hinting that the team might finally be on the verge of a renaissance. But right from the start Charles Leclerc was conspicuously off the pace on Sunday, the driver himself saying that the balance of the SF1000 was dramatically different to what he'd experienced on Friday and Saturday making it extremely hard to drive: "It just didn’t feel like the same car,' he grumbled afterwards. While he held on to a points-paying position for the opening third of the race, an early change to hard compound tyres on lap 22 left him marooned in the midfield where he succumbed to pressure from McLaren's Carlos Sainz and was lapped by Lewis Hamilton in a day frankly best forgotten.
