Logan Sargeant (P16, Lap 57, Collision): 6/10
Logan Sargeant was a respectable 15th in first practice and just three tenths slower than his experienced Williams team mate Alex Albon in first practice, but then had to sit out the whole of FP2 when the car developed an electrical issue. It's just the sort of thing a rookie driver can do without on his first visit to Albert Park Circuit, and it's no surprise that he didn't make the cut in the first round of qualifying. Stuck near the back there was very little he could do in the race - the safety cars and red flags kept the field packed closely together throughout leaving him trapped in a long DRS train with little chance of making much progress as he struggled on the medium compound. Even so, he survived for 56 laps (which was 50 more than Albon managed) before getting engulfed in the penultimate restart chaos, meaning he lost out on lasting the distance for what would have been the third time in his first three F1 races.
Nyck de Vries (P15, Lap 57, Collision): 5.5/10
Nyck de Vries had a quiet time on Friday getting used to the Albert Park Circuit for the first time, and his efforts paid off in qualifying where he was the only one of the three rookie drivers to successfully make the cut at the end of the first round (albeit by less than a tenth). Unfortunately the race saw him drop to the back with damage to the front wing that gave him understeer and graining on the tyres. He ended up trailing behind Valtteri Bottas and Logan Sargeant for much of the race, and the penultimate restart then saw him taken out by contact with Sargeant: "I don't blame Logan, we all have the right to be wrong," he said afterwards. "In fact, I was never in the right place at the right time."
