Sergio Perez (P10, 1 pt): 7.5/10
There's no doubt that Sergio Perez was unlucky this week, but he probably should have done better than tenth place on Sunday especially with his Racing Point team mate was standing on the podium. Unfortunately the breaks simply didn't go his way. He was solidly in the top ten throughout practice but still looked on the edge when it came to his chances of making it into the final top ten pole shoot-out round: in fact not only did he make it, he did so with honours setting the fourth fastest time in Q3 to give himself an excellent second row spot for the race. Although he lost out to Lando Norris at the start, he balanced that with a pass on Valtteri Bottas and maintained fourth for the opening stint. Unfortunately the timing of the safety car worked against him: Norris slowing up in pit entry ahead of him cost him several positions, and afterwards he clashed with Max Verstappen which left him with damage to the RP20 that saw him struggling to get back into the points by the time the chequered flag came out.
Daniil Kvyat (P9, 2 pts): 7/10
Inevitably, Daniil Kvyat's race was comprehensively outshone by the success of his AlphaTauri team mate Pierre Gasly. The Russian actually started the weekend faster than Gasly in FP1, but thereafter it was the Frenchman who had the upper hand and succeeded in making it through to the final round of qualifying while Kvyat was left on the other side of the cut line. The advantage was that it meant he had a free choice of tyres on which to start the race: while Gasly was on the soft tyres, Kvyat chose the hard. It could have given him a crucial strategic advantage, but the early timing of the safety car and ensuing pit stops negated any possible gains and forced Kvyat into a premature change to the medium compound: "Everything that could have gone wrong with the strategy, unfortunately did," he said afterwards. He made the most of the situation and was soon back in the points after dispatching Nicholas Latifi and Kimi Raikkonen and gaining from the misfortunes of Antonio Giovinazzi and Max Verstappen.
