Lando Norris (Technical, Lap 51, 2 pts): 7.5/10
Happy birthday, Lando! Here, please accept this virus (or food poisoning, or whatever it was) as a thoughtful gift. Sidelined and excused from media duties on Thursday, he gingerly returned to driving duty on Friday and did well enough to achieve fourth place in tricky, changeable conditions in qualifying. But he admitted he still wasn't well and if anything was feeling worse on Sunday for the race. He started well enough and benefitted from the misfortunes of those ahead to peak in third place despite clashing with Charles Leclerc, but he was soon bundled back down the order by Carlos Sainz, Lewis Hamilton and Sebastian Vettel. His initial contact with Leclerc meant he received a five-second penalty and dropped to 12th during his extended first pit stop. The second pit stop then saw him bottom out in 16th. You could feel the energy sapping out of him, and when he radioed in to the McLaren pit wall to tell them "I've got no power" it was hard to tell if he was referring to the car or himself. Either way, a double DNF for the team is a body blow for any hopes they might have had about beating Alpine in the constructors championship.
Yuki Tsunoda (P17): 5.5/10
A pretty nondescript weekend for Yuki Tsunoda: last but one in first practice, and the same again in qualifying where he missed the cut by over a second (although changeable weather conditions mean that has to be taken with a slight pinch of salt.) He had a very good sprint race and ended up in provisional 12th on the grid for the start of Sunday's Grand Prix. Unfortunately that was for nought as overnight changes to his AlphaTauri meant he was obliged to start from the pit lane instead. At least that kept him safe from some of the early mayhem on track, but after that he didn't have the pace to move forward and remained stuck between the two Williams drivers until the first round of pit stops. He was passed by the leaders on lap 40 and wasn't given the chance to unlap himself during a subsequent safety car (weren't we meant to have restart procedures sorted out by now?) and so he was trapped in P17 and finished dead last.
