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2016 Singapore Grand Prix - Driver ratings

F1i looks back at how the Singapore Grand Prix at the Marina Bay Circuit unfolded and gives each driver a mark out of ten

Nico Rosberg - 1st place, 25 points - 9/10

I’ve pointed out how few times Rosberg has had to excel to win this season, but he certainly did so this weekend. In qualifying the German was in excellent form, taking pole by over 0.6s and more impressively beating team-mate Lewis Hamilton by 0.7s. Controlled the race from the front and was simply “blindingly quick” to use Toto Wolff’s words, before the excitement of the closing laps. Perfectly judged when to push and how much tyre performance to keep in reserve, and laps 57 and 58 - when he upped his pace to prevent Daniel Ricciardo gaining more than a total of 0.6s - were the crucial ones which just kept the Red Bull at bay.

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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.

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