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F1i's Driver Ratings for the 2024 Dutch GP

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Zhou Guanyu, Sauber (P20): 3.5/10
We're happy to make it clear that a large part of the responsibility for Zhou Guanyu's low mark rests with Sauber which once again gave him nothing to work with at Zandvoort. The C44 is an absolute dog and depressingly little work seems to be going on at Hinwil to do anything about it. It's actually getting very hard to see the team scoring a point before the end of the season. Of the two drivers in the line-up, Zhou seems particularly crushed by the situation and out of his depth. We really feel for him. He's not the worst driver out there by any means despite the rating, but we can only mark on the on-track performance in front of us, and sadly in Zandvoort it was absolutely abject.

Valtteri Bottas, Sauber (P19): 4/10
Like his team mate, Valtteri Bottas has been absolutely dropped in it by how appalling the car handed to him by Sauber is proving to be this season. With the team obsessed by its 2026 transformation into Audi it seems no one at Hinwil is even bothering to look at what can be done with the C44 anymore. It's wrecking both team morale and driver careers. At least Bottas has his considerable experience to fall back on and to allow him to get by, which is why he's managing to perform better that Zhou Guanyu. As a result he deserves a slightly better rating, but this was as poor a performance from Sauber as a whole as we've seen all season, and that's saying something. Forget scoring points, they're lucky not to be below zero at this point.

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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.