2016 Grand Prix of Europe - Driver ratings

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Lewis Hamilton - 5th place, 10 points - 7/10

A strange weekend for Hamilton, who looked in excellent form on Friday. Fast out of the box, Hamilton had a comfortable margin after FP2 but failed to find that same rhythm on Saturday and made numerous errors in qualifying. Starting from 10th, the pace advantage he enjoyed in the Mercedes should have seen him carve through the field but Perez was tough to pass and then an incorrect setting left him down on power. With Mercedes unable to tell him how to fix it, Hamilton had dropped out of contention by the time he had rectified the problem. Showed he had the pace by setting the fastest lap at the time before settling for fifth.