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F1i's Driver Ratings for the 2022 Brazilian GP

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Daniel Ricciardo (Accident, Lap 1): 5/10
With just one more race to go before he parts company with McLaren, Daniel Ricciardo will have few fond memories of Brazil. Slowest of anyone in first practice, he missed the cut at the end of the second round of qualifying and ended up in 14th place on the timesheets. The bright spot of his weekend came in Saturday afternoon's sprint race in which an aggressive start helped propel him forward to 11th on the Grand Prix grid. Unfortunately his attempt to do the same on Sunday ended up with him running into the back of Kevin Magnussen, spinning the Haas and putting both cars out on the spot. We'll have to trust the stewards on this one since they have all the data, but to us it looked more like a first lap racing incident, and a three place grid drop for Abu Dhabi feels a little harsh.

Kevin Magnussen (Pole, Accident, Lap 1, 1 pt): 8/10
It was the very best of times for Kevin Magnussen on Friday, and the very worst on Sunday. You could argue that his maiden F1 career pole was down to a lot of luck, and luck certainly played a part in his achievement, but there was a high degree of skill in it as well. Judging the right moment to act, he made sure he was at the front of the queue to leave pit lane in the final round of qualifying and was duly rewarded with the best of the conditions. Moreover, he executed the best lap possible in the Haas. The pole was well deserved, but he always knew that he would be falling backwards on Saturday when the faster cars behind him reasserted their supremacy in better conditions. Eight on the Sunday grid was probably the best he could have achieved in the circumstances, but unfortunately his race only lasted half a lap so it's impossible to judge his Sunday performance.

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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.