Mick Schumacher (P18): 6.5/10
While his Haas team mate continues to attract the wrong sort of attention, Mick Schumacher is just going about his business. It's characteristic of how he's approached previous series in which he's raced: a quiet, head-down spell while he learns the ropes, before successfully applying that knowledge further down the line. For now though it was a quiet, uneventful weekend for Mick in Spain - and there's a lot to be said for 'quiet' and 'uneventful'. Unfortunately the VF-21 simply has no pace to it, and so Schumacher was stuck in the bottom three all weekend, but he was easily quicker than Nikita Mazepin throughout, and got the early jump on George Russell and Yuki Tsunoda on Sunday. However tyre wear in the second half of the race and having to make way for the race leaders meant he still ended up two laps down at the chequered flag, despite having put in a perfectly proficient performance with no mishaps and going as fast as the car would allow. "It could have been better, but we knew it was going to be a tough race for us," he said afterwards. "Nonetheless we can be happy with most of what we achieved."
Fernando Alonso (P17): 7/10
Don't be misled by the final classified result, this was actually a much better and stronger weekend for Fernando Alonso and Alpine as a whole than 17th place would suggest. Both he and his team mate Esteban Ocon were in the top five in Friday afternoon's practice session, and the pair duly went on to make it through to the final round of qualifying to secure top ten starting grid positions for the race. Alonso comfortably maintained tenth over the opening laps but then got jumped by Lance Stroll at the restart following a safety car for Yuki Tsunoda's retirement. He found himself trailing the Aston Martin for most of the mid-section of the Grand Prix before finally getting his revenge and his position back on lap 39. Briefly up to ninth when cars ahead of him started making second stops, Alonso tried to go the distance on the mediums he'd picked up on lap 21. Unfortunately it was simply too far and with six laps to go he haemorrhaged five positions in a single lap before bowing to the inevitable and pitting for a set of softs to see him to the finish, now firmly out of the points. He deserved considerably better, but stayed positive having enjoyed the on-track racing.
