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F1i's Driver Ratings for the 2023 Singapore GP

Lance Stroll (Did not start): 5/10
Has Fernando Alonso managed to break another team mate? It's hard not to think that the Aston Martin's chassis wasn't the only thing to come out of Singapore in pieces. Judging from practice where he was P14 in both the second and third sessions, Lance Stroll knew he was under pressure to make the first cut in qualifying: and as a consequence he pushed too hard and ended up in a brutal impact with the barrier that forced the team to to withdraw him from the race. Stroll's certainly been in the wars this year and it's starting to look like he's not having much fun anymore. He might have the safest seat in F1 for as long as he wants it, but how much longer will that prove to be?

Yuki Tsunoda (Puncture, Lap 1): 5.5/10
Not long ago things were looking sunny for Yuki Tsunoda compared with his first team mate of the year Nyck de Vries. But suddenly there are worrying dark skies overhead for the Japanese star, and he's been put in the shade by the arrival of Liam Lawson who has ended up outperforming him in all three of their races together. Singapore could have put Tsunoda back on track, and he was quicker than Lawson in two of the three practice sessions before topping the red-flagged first round of qualifying. Unfortunately he hit traffic in Q2 and then made a mistake on his second run that left him without a time. And then when the race started he clashed with Sergio Perez, and the damage was serious enough to bring him to a rapid halt. A disappointing and exasperating experience for Yuki.

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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.

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