George Russell (SP8, P6, 9 pts): 7/10
There's been lots of comments about how George Russell was comprehensively bossed by his team mate Lewis Hamilton this week, but that's not fair: Mercedes admitted that they had split their downforce strategy at Spa, putting Hamilton on a low wing setting while giving Russell what they themselves called a 'barn door'. Once that was done on Friday, parc ferme rules meant Russell was committed, and the team soon found that it had been the wrong way to go. So while Hamilton was enjoying himself near the front, Russell was struggling to make it into the top ten on the grid for both the Sprint and Sunday's race. He clung on to the final points position in the former with some good passes: "Finally something positive ... I got my mojo back!" he beamed. Then in the Grand Prix he suffered a poor start on mediums dropping him three spots, before pit stops for those ahead of him on softs saw him make positive progress to sixth. A second stop put him on softs for a trouble-free final stint running behind Fernando Alonso, not under any threat from Lando Norris behind.
Fernando Alonso (SP DNF lap 3, P5, 10 pts): 6.5/10
When even Fernando Alonso is struggling to be noticed at a race weekend, you know that the car has gone well off the boil and that Aston Martin need to get back to the development drawing board. But Alonso himself is always doing his utmost regardless, and in Friday's qualifying session he was a full second quicker than team mate Lance Stroll in Q3 (although changeable conditions during the session mean that direct comparisons aren't always helpful). On Saturday, Stroll's decision to dare run slicks in the second round of the Showdown resulted in a red flag curtailment before Alonso could put in a flying lap, leaving him 15th on the grid for the Sprint. This time it was the Spaniard's turn to spin out after straying onto the wet kerb - definitely not the way he would have wanted to mark his 42nd birthday. Sunday was more successful, albeit low-key: he ran the first two stints on mediums before switching to softs on lap 29 for give himself a chance of picking up positions late in the day, but by then he was firmly lodged between the two Mercedes cars on a calm and quiet run to a decent fifth place.
