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F1i's Driver Ratings for the 2023 Las Vegas GP

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Lando Norris (Accident, Lap 3): 4.5/10
After such a strong run of success over the summer, Lando Norris literally hit a bump in the road this weekend with one of his worst performances of the season. The McLaren just didn't seem to be enjoying the Vegas track layout of the cool night time conditions, but Norris himself still managed a decent P11 in both of the completed practice sessions. But then both McLarens collapsed with the worst qualifying team showing of the season, meaning both Norris and Oscar Piastri missed the first cut. We're not going to take points away for him for the accident early in the race, but it does mean there's nothing we can take into account from it to boost his overall rating.

Nico Hulkenberg (Power unit, Lap 46): 6/10
As so often this season, Nico Hulkenberg had flashes of form with seventh in FP2 and an impressive fifth in the first round of qualifying. Unfortunately he couldn't keep that going and he missed the cut at the end of Q2, leaving him lining up in 13th on the grid. He survived the initial cluster of collisions around him on the start and moved up to tenth, and then got the better of Lance Stroll as well. But then he ran wide at turn 1 at the restart and plummeted down the order where he was soon passed by Lewis Hamilton and Oscar Piastri. His pit stop left him stuck in a DRS train behind his Haas team mate Kevin Magnussen. The good news is that it meant he suffered little graining for once; but it was a moot point when the power suddenly cut-out on the VF-23 while in P15.

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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.