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F1i's Driver Ratings for the 2023 Italian GP

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Yuki Tsunoda (Did not start): 6/10
How so you come up with a rating for a driver who didn't even make it to the starting grid? Fortunately our scores range over the whole weekend, not just Sunday, so we can give the AlphaTauri driver credit for being P8 in FP1 and for beating his stand-in team mate Liam Lawson again in FP2. Lawson was a thousandth quicker in final practice and the pair were still very close in qualifying, and to be honest we'd expect Tsunoda to be further ahead of the new boy at this stage. The race was his chance to put the newbie back in his box and reaffirm his own credentials as team leader, which is why the DNS is so painful.

Esteban Ocon (Retired, Lap 40): 5.5/10
Despite things briefly perking up for Alpine last time out in Zandvoort, this week demonstrated that firing your senior management team before the summer break is not in fact a panacea that will cure all that ails you, because this was a terrible weekend for the team. Both Esteban Ocon and Pierre Gasly failed to make it beyond the first round of qualifying, and while an impressive 24-lap first stint on medium tyres saw Ocon peak in tenth he was soon labouring at the back alongside the likes of Gasly, Kevin Magnussen and Lance Stroll. It was simply the truth of Alpine's situation at Monza. In many ways it was a mercy killing when a steering issue forced the team to retire the car on lap 40.

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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.