Kevin Magnussen (P16): 5/10
Like his Haas team mate, Kevin Magnussen struggled all weekend and never really came alive at Spa - but he didn't have Mick Schumacher's excuse of technical troubles costing him track time. Instead it seemed that the VF-22 simply wasn't very good around the long and sweeping straights of Spa-Francorchamps this weekend. While Schumacher nipped into the second round of qualifying, Magnussen fell at the first hurdle and ended the session in 18th place on the timesheets. Fortunately for him the various grid penalties meant that he started Sunday's race from P12. He did well to maintain this midfield position over the course of the opening laps but then went into a decline, and the pit stop on lap 11 to swap worn mediums for a new set of hards left him at the back of the field. He slogged his way back to 14th by the time he made his second stop, which plunged him right to the back for a second time. He finished ahead of Schumacher and Nicholas Latifi but was lapped by the race leader on the penultimate lap to finish a pretty rotten day at the races for Haas as a whole.
Daniel Ricciardo (P15): 5.5/10
Just days after the announcement that Daniel Ricciardo would be leaving the McLaren team at the end of 2022 - with his future in F1 as a whole very much in doubt as a result - everyone was hoping that the Australian would be able to finish the season on a high with some strong performances. Unfortunately Spa proved to be more of the same struggles despite a promising Friday in which he finished in the top ten in both FP1 and FP2. Forced into an unwelcome rear wing change on Saturday morning, he missed out on making it into the final top ten pole shoot-out round in qualifying: he won't have been happy to have been out-performed by a Williams in particular, with Alex Albon just pipping him at the end of Q2. Even so that translated to P7 on the grid after all the penalties were taken into account. He got the initial jump on Albon at the start but lost it at the restart, and inevitably got run down by Max Verstappen and Charles Leclerc recovering from their penalised positions. He got stuck behind Albon again after the first pit stops, found it impossible to overtake on the straights, and dropped to P15 after the second stop which is where he stayed.
