Kevin Magnussen, Haas (P14): 6/10
As with his Haas team mate Nico Hulkenberg, this was not a great weekend for Kevin Magnussen. However, of the pair he had the better time of it in Spa despite qualifying behind Hulkenberg, with both drivers caught out and missing out on the cut in the tricky weather on Saturday. The team used split strategies in the race, bringing Hulkenberg in on lap 7 while leaving Magnussen out for a further ten laps on a one-stop strategy, which of the two options proved to be the more fruitful one on Sunday. The Dane did well to make it work, although it left him on worn tyres at the end that allowed Pierre Gasly to pass him with four laps to go.
Pierre Gasly, Alpine (P13): 6/10
The weekend just didn't come together for Pierre Gasly, who found the Alpine lacking speed throughout the weekend. He was also managing temperature problems on Sunday leaving him struggling to make any progress at all. He felt that the team had missed a trick by not considering a one-stop strategy for the race, but the fact that in the last four laps he made up a place on a car that did go that route suggests that perhaps it was at best a split decision. Ultimately, finishing in the hinterlands while Esteban Ocon clinched two points was not the sour note on which Gasly would have wanted to go into the summer break.
