Romain Grosjean (P12): 6.5/10
Romain Grosjean pipped Kevin Magnussen in first practice but in general the Haas pair were closely matched this weekend. It was the Dane who managed to squeeze through to the second round of qualifying by a couple of tenths, but Grosjean had the better start to the race. He avoided the messy first chicane incidents that befell Magnussen only to clash with Alex Albon on lap 2. He survived that encounter and was able to consolidate his 16th place over the course of the opening stint. He dropped to the back in the round of pit stops under the safety car, but continued to push hard for the rest of the afternoon and was able to get the better of Raikkonen and Albon in the second half of the race. While he was able to avoid any threat from George Russell behind him, he was nonetheless unable to do anything about dispatching Nicholas Latifi in the second Williams which remained an obstacle all the way to the chequered flag.
Nicholas Latifi (P11): 7/10
There was a certain amount of luck involved, but this was still surely Nicholas Latifi's best performance so far this season. It hadn't started all that well in first practice where his program left him slower than anyone - even behind Williams' development driver Roy Nissany - but he was a tenth faster than George Russell when the Briton returned to action in the afternoon. Even so, the pair ended up on the back row of the grid for the race - an unfortunate return to the team's 2019 form - and it looked like a long day at the races for Latifi. An early pit stop allowed him to benefit when the majority of the field pitted behind a safety car and he briefly topped out in a vertiginous seventh place. There was no chance of holding on to that elevated position of course, but the fact that he made it so difficult for other drivers to pass him for the rest of the afternoon was genuinely impressive, and he came within a second of picking up a championship point - which would have been a fitting way for the team to say farewell to Sir Frank and Claire Williams if it had happened.
