Kevin Magnussen (S P13, GP P14): 5/10
Qualifying is proving Kevin Magnussen's Achilles Heel this year. His Haas team mate Nico Hulkenberg made it through to the top ten in the Sprint Showdown, but Magnussen was slowest in practice and missed the first cut in both qualifying and the Showdown. It left him starting on the back row for both races. A high number of early retirements saw him finish the Sprint in 13th but there had been little he was able to actively do. The same was broadly true on Sunday. The out-of-sync lap-limited stints saw him bouncing up and down - at one point he was up to eighth - but ultimately 14th was about as good as it was ever likely to be for him in Qatar. With Alfa Romeo having a good weekend, Haas have now dropped to ninth in the constructors championship as a result of their fruitless endeavours in Qatar..
Alex Albon (S P7, GP P13, 2 pts): 7.5/10
Alex Albon successfully pulled off his party trick of reaching the second round of qualifying on Friday, but underperformed in the Sprint Showdown and looked out of the running for a Sprint top ten, let alone points finish. But opting to start on the mediums meant the race came to him in the second half and he managed to swoop to eighth with late passes on Fernando Alonso and Pierre Gasly, and his points haul was doubled by a post-race penalty for Charles Leclerc. Unfortunately things never really came together in the same way in the Grand Prix - perhaps the fact that he joined his dehydrated team mate Logan Sargeant in the medical centre after the race was a factor.
