Kimi Raikkonen (P10, 1 pt): 7/10
It's always hard to tell what Kimi Raikkonen is thinking or feeling at the best of times, but right now it's hard to see any signs of a raging fire or passion for racing. It feels more like he's used to going for a Sunday afternoon drive and doesn't see any reason to pack it in just yet, especially not when he can match anything his younger Alfa Romeo team mate can do. So Antonio Giovinazzi earns the team's first championship point of 2021 last time out in Monaco? Okay, Kimi can do that too, just watch and see. Leading up to the race Raikkonen had been content to circulate just outside the top ten throughout qualifying and duly lined up for the start of the race in 14th, but despite his six place advantage over Giovinazzi on the grid he did commensurately less with it, falling behind after the first round of pit stops and not getting ahead again until Giovinazzi made a second stop during the safety car period for Lance Stroll's accident. After that the pair ran in formation all the way to the finish, but the Iceman seemed a little tepid and even a little bored with how things had gone despite picking up the point after Max Verstappen's retirement and Lewis Hamilton's run-off.
Daniel Ricciardo (P9, 2 pts): 6.5/10
The good news is that this was a significantly better weekend for Daniel Ricciardo than Monaco. But beyond that, the underlying problems the Australian appears to be having with his transition to the McLaren are still holding him back. He was in the top five and significantly faster than Lando Norris in FP1 but that didn't last and he had fallen behind again on Friday afternoon and in final practice. In qualifying he missed the cut after crashing at the end of the second round, and took the start of the race in 13th which he held on to in the opening laps. That's more than can be said for Norris who had dropped three spots leaving the two squabbling over track position. Norris won that argument, but after the first round of pit stops Ricciardo was able to get the better of Fernando Alonso to put him right behind Valtteri Bottas. He had to wait until the end of the safety car period on lap 36 to get the better of the Mercedes, only for Carlos Sainz to get the jump on him at the same time. From there Ricciardo ended up trailing the Ferrari all the way to the finish after surviving contact with Antonio Giovinazzi at the final restart,
