Sebastian Vettel (Disqualified subject to appeal): 8.5/10
We'll leave aside for the time being any discussion of the fuel irregularity that has left Sunday's results listed as provisional dependent on Aston Martin's outcome of an appeal against Sebastian Vettel's disqualification. After all, none of that is hardly the four-time world champion's fault. Vettel himself had a good weekend after a slightly lacklustre time on Friday which saw him outside the top ten in both sessions, as well as in final practice on Saturday morning. He rallied in qualifying and made it through to the final round, lining up in tenth place on the grid for Sunday's wet start. With chaos breaking out all around him, Vettel's cool-headed experience served him well and when he opened his eyes he was up in third place. That soon became second when Lewis Hamilton pitted from the lead, leaving Vettel with just Esteban Ocon to take care of in order to claim what would have been his first Grand Prix victory since the 2019 Singapore GP with Ferrari. But Ocon was simply too good and Vettel's many probing attacks failed to find an opening, leaving him in second at the line. It would be cruel if he were to now lose it - but as we know all too well, F1 really can be a very cruel mistress when it chooses..
Antonio Giovinazzi (P13): 5/10
It was a troubled weekend for Antonio Giovinazzi, who increasingly looks to be serving out his final races in Formula 1. It wasn't his fault that the Alfa Romeo suffered a technical issue on Friday morning that limited him to just five laps, and that lack of running time seemed to hang over him in FP2 and FP3. It's to his credit that he made the cut at the end of the first round of qualifying - beating Williams' George Russell into Q2 is no easy task these days. Seemingly with little to lose the Alfa Romeo team put him on slicks for the start of the wet race, but the events of turn 1 quickly demonstrated that it was far too soon for such a gamble. That all changed half an hour later in time for the restart and Giovinazzi found himself on the wrong tyres for the second time, joining the others (bar Hamilton) back on pit lane - where he picked up a speeding penalty that dropped him so far behind the rest that without further safety cars he was never able to recover. A weekend to forget for the Italian.
