[Jody Barton]

The driver ratings are usually bollocks. For a period of time in Sochi Russell was racing other cars in that hunk of junk Williams. The breaks failed apparently because they'd fitted the wrong cooling option to their cars, painfully amateurish. As to Lewis... well, that qualifying lap was electric. Both Vettel and Leclerc made errors on their laps,vbut Lewis' was damn near perfect, and clearly had to be to split the Ferrari's again. He then drove an exceptional race, and out drove his car lap after lap, it was a sterling effort from him, so a 9 out of 10 would normally be fine, except others who didn't drive as well as him scored better. C'est la vie.

Either way the race is over and Lewis leaves Russia with a win, a fastest lap, and a new lap record to boot on 23 lap old Soft tyres, which Leclerc couldn't match on newer Softs. It is what it is and I doubt very much whether anyone should lose any sleep over Sky's driver ratings.