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F1i's Driver Ratings for the 2022 Canadian GP

Sergio Perez (Hydraulics, Lap 8): 5/10
After several weekends where he's appeared every bit a match if not better than his Red Bull team mate, Sergio Perez was strangely absent from this weekend. He finished Friday practice outside the top ten, and then crashed out in wet conditions in the second round of qualifying leaving him starting the race from 13th on the grid. And then the car packed up on him almost before he had found his feet and got up to speed on Sunday. After his dream win in Monaco just a few weeks ago, this was a thoroughly terrible outing for the Mexican.

Mick Schumacher (Hydraulics, Lap 19): 7/10
Having been publicly admonished by his Haas boss Guenther Steiner for trashing two race cars in the opening rounds of the season, and then for playing it too safe in Baku last time out, Mick Schumacher strove to find a better balance in Montreal - and found it in the wet conditions of qualifying, where he made it through to Q3 as part of the team's best-ever combined qualifying. He put himself P6 on the grid, his highest starting spot to date - not bad, especially as he had been nearer the bottom than the top in the practice sessions. But the drier conditions of the race saw him falling backwards at a rapid pace even before the car died on him just 19 laps into the afternoon.

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Andrew Lewin

Andrew first became a fan of Formula 1 during the time when Michael Schumacher and Damon Hill were stepping into the limelight after the era of Alain Prost, Nigel Mansell and Aryton Senna. He's been addicted ever since, and has been writing about the sport now for nearly a quarter of a century for a number of online news sites. He's also written professionally about GP2 (now Formula 2), GP3, IndyCar, World Rally Championship, MotoGP and NASCAR. In his other professional life, Andrew is a freelance writer, social media consultant, web developer/programmer, and digital specialist in the fields of accessibility, usability, IA, online communities and public sector procurement. He worked for many years in magazine production at Bauer Media, and for over a decade he was part of the digital media team at the UK government's communications department. Born and raised in Essex, Andrew currently lives and works in south-west London.

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