Antonio Giovinazzi (P14): 6.5/10
While the spotlight was on his team mate this weekend, Antonio Giovinazzi was still under pressure to pull out something remarkable to persuade Alfa Romeo to retain his services in 2022 - if the decision hasn't already been made, that is. He started with a splash - P8 and P9 on Friday - and had been hoping to make it through to the final round of qualifying before suffering from a wheelnut issue in Q2. Fortunately the red flags triggered by the two Williams cars assisted him into Q3 and on to a decent seventh place on the grid, his best starting position since Austria in 2019. A chance of points loomed, but unfortunately a clash with Fernando Alonso at the start of Sunday's race lost him three places and dropped him to tenth. To make matters worse he suffered a puncture and had to make an extra pit stop shortly after his first, consigning him to the back save for the two Haas cars. After that he tucked in behind Sebastian Vettel for a spell before passing the Aston Martin on lap 43 and then shadowing Nicholas Latifi, but waning tyres meant Vettel was back in front again on lap 62 and it was only George Russell's late retirement that popped Giovinazzi back into a frankly disappointing 14th.
Sebastian Vettel (P13): 6/10
After showing definite signs of improvement in recent outings, this was not a great weekend for Sebastian Vettel or indeed for the Aston Martin team as a whole which simply looked off colour in Zandvoort. An engine issue left Vettel sidelined for most of FP1 and while he shrugged this off with P10 and P8 in the ensuing practice sessions he was one of those caught out in the first round of qualifying after getting caught up by an internal Haas dispute at exactly the wrong time. Given the nature of the Zandvoort circuit, it was always going to be difficult if not impossible to come back from that in the race. After an early spin and a pit stop 11 laps in, Vettel found himself at back sandwiched between Nikita Mazepin and Mick Schumacher. He got round the Russian on lap 23 and then spent time running behind Robert Kubica, Lance Stroll and Nicholas Latifi before he made his second stop of the day. That gave him fresh tyres to pick off Kubica on lap 54, Latifi on lap 58 and Antonio Giovinazzi on lap 61 and go on to finish right behind his team mate.
