Lance Stroll (P14): 5.5/10
With his team mate Fernando Alonso having another poor weekend in Monaco, there was a chance for Lance Stroll to shine and at least pick up a point or two for Aston Martin. Both Astons were in the top ten in Friday practice, but Alonso's qualifying misfire left Stroll as the team's top prospect on the grid. A good restart on the mediums put him up to 11th place, which he maintained for the first 47 laps. He finally came in for his mandatory pit stop, holding track position thanks to some selfless help from Alonso backing up the friend to make a 'hole' for him to come back into. Unfortunately that's where it all went wrong, with Stroll sliding wide at the chicane and bursting his rear tyre against the barrier forcing him to make a second stop. He redeemed himself with late passes on Zhou Guanyu and Logan Sargeant on his final set of softs, and the way things turned out it was clear that he was never going to finish in the points anyway.
Valtteri Bottas (P13): 5/10
Monaco just wasn't a happy hunting ground for Sauber this week, as evidenced by Valtteri Bottas and his team mate Zhou Guanyu ending both FP2 and FP3 as the slowest of all 20 cars. It proved an accurate predictor for how they would fare in qualifying. Although he advanced two places on the grid thanks to the Haas cars being excluded, there was never any chance that he would be anywhere close to points on Sunday although he did impress with a nice pass on Logan Sargeant early in the race. An early pit stop on lap 15 dropped him to the back for a long middle stint, but he got the better of Zhou and Sargeant (for a second time) to finish in a reasonably respectable 13th place despite how badly the car was performing on the street circuit. It's not much, but it's something.
