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2016 Malaysian Grand Prix - Driver ratings

Lewis Hamilton - DNF - 8.5/10

His words matched many watching on when he cried out “No! No!” as his power unit let go when comfortably leading with 16 laps remaining. While it is an incident which leaves the championship battle tantalisingly poised you had to feel for Hamilton, who had bounced back from his disappointment of Singapore to take pole by 0.4s over Rosberg and was looking set for a crucial victory with the race under control before the failure. Rosberg was eliminated as a threat at Turn 1, but after his recent problems with starting from pole, Hamilton had done all he needed to.

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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.