2020 Austrian Grand Prix - Driver ratings

Three drivers score top marks in the return of Motorsport.com's driver ratings, but one driver needing a big season to stay on the Formula 1 grid had a horror-show.

Alex Kalinauckas Jul 6, 2020, 11:24 AM

Upd: Jul 6, 2020, 1:51 PM

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Bottas executed a brilliant race performance to take the win but misses out on a perfect score because of his Q3 error. We must take him at his word that he was managing the gap to Hamilton before the first safety car, but the qualifying mistake meant he left “time on the table” and sparked a chain reaction of woe for Mercedes.

Leclerc admitted his slow start to the weekend was because he wasn’t driving at his best in Friday practice. He corrected this in qualifying, beating Sainz’s McLaren, which looks to be on the same pace level as the Ferrari. Didn’t make a mistake in the race, capping his performance with his daring pass on Perez to seal a near-unimaginable podium.

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Author Alex Kalinauckas

Alex Kalinauckas is Autosport's Grand Prix Editor, covering every Formula 1 race since the start of 2020. After completing a master's degree in journalism at Goldsmiths College University of London in 2014, he worked for a range of motorsport and technology publications while covering national racing as an Autosport freelancer.

A lifelong motorsport fan - no one in his family can explain quite how or why such a development first occurred - Alex joined the Autosport staff in April 2017 as the magazine’s Assistant Editor covering Formula 2 and GP3, before being made Formula E correspondent and Autosport.com’s Plus Editor in March 2018. He lives in north-east London and is constantly frustrated by the Central Line.