Esteban Ocon (SP9, P8, 4 pts): 7.5/10
Esteban Ocon might not have come away with a medal for the Sprint podium like his Alpine team mate Pierre Gasly, but he had a better time of it in the Grand Prix. That was despite qualifying three places behind his compatriot, both of them failing to make the cut at the end of Q2. Ocon did better in the Showdown and put himself ninth on the grid, but failed to make progress in the Sprint itself. It was a different story on Sunday: while Gasly struggled to make soft tyres last 23 laps, Ocon was in to trade his starter set on lap 6 for mediums, before switching back to the softs again on lap 25. That put him back out in 12th, and the fresh tyres allowed him to make successful assaults on Alex Albon, Yuki Tsunoda and Lance Stroll for eighth place, while Gasly's inferior one-stop strategy left him on the outside of the points looking on this time.
Lando Norris (SP6, P7, 9 pts): 7.5/10
Lando Norris loves being able to play in the rain where he gets to throw the car around like his old karting days, so you'd have thought that this would have been just his sort of weekend. Unfortunately McLaren's decision to run high downforce settings to suit their recent upgrade package worked against him, and he was never quite a match for his young rookie team mate Oscar Piastri in Spa. The pair were in the top three in the rain-hit practice session, but Norris went off into the gravel which affected the floor of the McLaren when it come to qualifying. He did better in the Showdown but was emphatically outshone by Piastri snatching a place on the front row. While the Aussie went on to secure a podium finish, Norris' decision to stay out until the second green flag lap of the race before pitting for intermediates cost him a spot in the overall results. Sunday was simply bizarre, Norris proving painfully slow and losing places at the start, before pitting for hard tyres (the only driver to do so) and plummeting to the back. A return to softs for a long final stint somehow put him back into seventh: not even Norris was quite sure how, but he'll certainly take it.
