British Grand Prix driver ratings

6 NICO ROSBERG
Mercedes F1 W07

Start: 2nd
Finish: 3rd
Strategy: 2 stops (wet/intermediate/medium)

Rating: 7

Rosberg felt the loss of Friday's second practice session to a water leak did not affect his Saturday form, where he was clearly second best to Hamilton - particularly through the second sector of the lap.

His race pace was solid, but getting outfoxed by Verstappen in the damp was costly, and a bit weak given the superior car at the championship leader's disposal. Otherwise he drove well.

44 LEWIS HAMILTON
Mercedes F1 W07

Start: 1st
Finish: 1st
Strategy: 2 stops (wet/intermediate/medium)

Rating: 10

This was Hamilton at his commanding best. He took pole "the hard way" after losing his first Q3 lap to a track limits offence, but got it done eventually with a lap only 0.044 seconds slower than his Q2 best, well clear of Rosberg.

He stormed clear after the early safety car period and just managed the gap. A brief off at Abbey cost him nothing, such was his superiority.

5 SEBASTIAN VETTEL
Ferrari SF16-H

Start: 11th
Finish: 9th
Strategy: 2 stops (wet/intermediate/medium)

Rating: 4

Vettel was hampered by yet another gearbox-related grid penalty, but he loses points for a messy performance in Q3 that left him only fractionally faster than Bottas's Williams.

He loses even more for an underwhelming race, including a spin and a time penalty for forcing Massa off the track. A Ferrari should not finish behind a Toro Rosso and two Force Indias.

7 KIMI RAIKKONEN
Ferrari SF16-H

Start: 5th
Finish: 5th
Strategy: 2 stops (wet/intermediate/medium)

Rating: 7

Raikkonen was the higher-placed Ferrari driver in qualifying, but with a lap slower than Vettel managed in Q2.

Though his race result was decent, he made things harder for himself than they needed to be. Having looked a bit uninspiring in battle recently, it was at least good to see him hunt down and pass Perez with a decisive move at Stowe.

19 FELIPE MASSA
Williams-Mercedes FW38

Start: 12th
Finish: 11th
Strategy: 3 stops (wet/intermediate/medium/soft)

Rating: 5

Massa was unhappy with his qualifying performance, complaining about overheating rear tyres and oversteer. The team couldn't point to an obvious technical explanation, so he has to take the bulk of blame for underperforming.

He struggled in the race too. The Brazilian was slow on the intermediates and chewed through his first set of slicks. Having to pit again cost him a potential lower points finish.

77 VALTTERI BOTTAS
Williams-Mercedes FW38

Start: 6th
Finish: 14th
Strategy: 2 stops (wet/intermediate/medium)

Rating: 5

The Williams was the fourth quickest car at Silverstone, so Bottas being seventh on Saturday represented par for the course.

He loses marks for a terrible race. While it's true he lost ground because his first pitstop came before the virtual safety car, Bottas also got outmanoeuvred in battle, lacked pace, and admitted to making too many costly errors.

3 DANIEL RICCIARDO
Red Bull-Renault RB12

Start: 4th
Finish: 4th
Strategy: 2 stops (wet/intermediate/medium)

Rating: 6

Ricciardo was annoyed to lose his perfect qualifying record against Verstappen, feeling he gave away time in the slow corners. Pitting during the virtual safety car early on dropped him behind Perez, but he recovered the place later, once onto slicks.

The eventual gap to Verstappen was large and only partly down to the VSC. The rest was due to an underwhelming stint on intermediates.

33 MAX VERSTAPPEN
Red Bull-Renault RB12

Start: 3rd
Finish: 2nd
Strategy: 2 stops (wet/intermediate/medium)

Rating: 10

Verstappen admits he's raised his game to take on Ricciardo in qualifying, and finally beat him here - by three tenths and having been faster in all sectors. A fine effort.

His race was excellent too. Verstappen timed his first pitstop well, overtook Rosberg in the damp, and showed outstanding racecraft to keep him behind for so long in the dry. This was arguably his best race yet in F1.

11 SERGIO PEREZ
Force India-Mercedes VJM09

Start: 10th
Finish: 6th
Strategy: 2 stops (wet/intermediate/medium)

Rating: 6

Silverstone's higher-downforce demands made things tougher for Force India here, and Perez missed Q3 by just over a tenth.

His race was solid. Perfect pitstop timing vaulted him into the top four, but the superior speed of Red Bull and Ferrari eventually told. By the end he was struggling after damaging his tyres with an earlier off at Abbey, so only just held off Hulkenberg.

27 NICO HULKENBERG
Force India-Mercedes VJM09

Start: 8th
Finish: 7th
Strategy: 2 stops (wet/intermediate/medium)

Rating: 7

Hulkenberg squeaked into Q3 on the same tenth as Alonso and Sainz and would have qualified a place higher without a track limits penalty.

He lost a chunk of time to the virtual safety car after his first stop, then a load more trapped behind Massa's Williams on intermediates, but a strong final stint chasing Raikkonen virtually eliminated his 26s deficit to Perez.

20 KEVIN MAGNUSSEN
Renault RS16

Start: 16th
Finish: Retired
Strategy: (wet/intermediate/medium/soft/retired)

Rating: 6

Magnussen only made Q2 thanks to Button's rear wing woe, but he couldn't really have done more with the Renault on Saturday.

He was hurt a bit by the timing of his first pitstop and the virtual safety car, but struggled on slicks, chewing through his first set and having to make an extra stop. The Dane eventually retired with a gearbox problem.

30 JOLYON PALMER
Renault RS16

Start: 18th
Finish: Retired
Strategy: (wet/intermediate/medium/retired)

Rating: 6

Palmer was puzzled to be so slow on his final set of tyres in Q1, having been quicker than Magnussen after their second runs. He put that down to insufficient warm-up.

While he matched Magnussen's pace in the wet, Palmer's race unravelled with a penalty for unsafe release at his second stop, plunging him into blue flag hell until the gearbox started misbehaving.

26 DANIIL KVYAT
Toro Rosso-Ferrari STR11

Start: 15th
Finish: 10th
Strategy: 2 stops (wet/intermediate/medium)

Rating: 6

Kvyat wasn't best pleased with Magnussen's slow-poke Q2 run, which he felt blocked his chance to join team-mate Sainz in Q3, but the best he could have done on that lap was beat Massa's Williams to 12th.

He drove a decent race to track Vettel, but wasn't quite at Sainz's level in either condition and couldn't quite get close enough to steal an extra point from Ferrari.

55 CARLOS SAINZ JR
Toro Rosso-Ferrari STR11

Start: 7th
Finish: 8th
Strategy: 2 stops (wet/intermediate/medium)

Rating: 7

Sainz's Q2 lap was superb, in a car that works well through Silverstone's high-speed sweeps. He was less impressive in Q3, but kept it on the track at least, so started ahead of Hulkenberg and Alonso.

He started the race well and was in the hunt for the top six until spinning 360 degrees at Abbey, which dropped him back behind Raikkonen and Hulkenberg too.

9 MARCUS ERICSSON
Sauber-Ferrari C35

Start: Pits
Finish: Retired
Strategy: (wet/intermediate/retired)

Rating: N/A

A big shunt at Stowe in final practice trashed his car and forced him to miss qualifying, but Ericsson was slower than Nasr through practice so would potentially have ended up last on the grid anyway.

He started from pitlane in a rebuilt car, but the engine began misfiring and an electrical systems reset made no difference so he retired. There were too many problems to give him fair rating.

12 FELIPE NASR
Sauber-Ferrari C35

Start: 21st
Finish: 15th
Strategy: 2 stops (wet/intermediate/medium)

Rating: 8

Nasr was surprised to end up well behind Renault and Manor in qualifying, after outpacing them in practice, but struggled with "incredibly high" oversteer on his second set of tyres in Q1, which he felt exaggerated the gap.

He drove another strong race though - pitting at the right time, going quickly enough to stay clear of the Haas drivers, and fighting spiritedly with Bottas's Williams.

14 FERNANDO ALONSO
McLaren-Honda MP4-31

Start: 9th
Finish: 13th
Strategy: 3 stops (wet/intermediate/medium/medium)

Rating: 7

Alonso was "on it" this weekend, according to McLaren racing director Eric Boullier, and would have qualified right behind Bottas's Williams without a track limits penalty in Q3.

He was competitive in the wet conditions, but lost ground at his pitstops. Despite that, he kept clinging to the fight for points until a big off at Abbey, which meant he finished the weekend trailing his team-mate.

22 JENSON BUTTON
McLaren-Honda MP4-31

Start: 17th
Finish: 12th
Strategy: 2 stops (wet/intermediate/medium)

Rating: 6

Button wasn't at Alonso's level here, even before one of his rear wing endplates came loose in qualifying and consigned him to an early bath after Q1.

The race was the usual solid, consistent job you'd expect from Button. He was bottled up behind Bottas on intermediates, but got ahead when the Williams went off the road on slicks. His pace thereafter was a match for Alonso's.

88 RIO HARYANTO
Manor-Mercedes MRT-05

Start: 19th
Finish: Retired
Strategy: (wet/intermediate/medium/retired)

Rating: 6

Haryanto did a good job to outqualify Wehrlein (by 0.053s), on a circuit that doesn't play to Manor's strengths, after getting hammered by his team-mate in Austria. He was quicker over every run in Q1, which was a strong effort.

He showed flashes of decent race pace, but was inconsistent until he flew off the road at Abbey in the damp and beached himself in the gravel.

94 PASCAL WEHRLEIN
Manor-Mercedes MRT-05

Start: 20th
Finish: Retired
Strategy: (wet/intermediate/retired)

Rating: 4

After the highs of Wehrlein's brilliant Red Bull Ring weekend, Silverstone was a real disappointment. He couldn't get the Pirelli tyres working as well here as he did in Austria, despite several set-up experiments, and ended up fractionally slower than his team-mate in qualifying.

He was the first driver to find the Abbey gravel after going off on his second lap on intermediates and did not re-emerge.

8 ROMAIN GROSJEAN
Haas-Ferrari VF-16

Start: 13th
Finish: Retired
Strategy: (wet/intermediate/medium/retired)

Rating: 6

There wasn't much to choose between the two Haas drivers in Q1, but Grosjean had the edge in Q2. He was fractions away from beating Massa's Williams to 12th, but lost time at Stowe.

Grosjean's race was undone by unfortunate timing of his first stop and a transmission failure that put him out, but his pace on intermediates in-between was also disappointing.

21 ESTEBAN GUTIERREZ
Haas-Ferrari VF-16

Start: 14th
Finish: 16th
Strategy: 2 stops (wet/intermediate/medium)

Rating: 5

Gutierrez wasn't particularly satisfied with his qualifying performance, struggling a bit more than his team-mate with the rear instability induced by Silverstone's prevailing winds.

He lost 10s to a jack problem at Haas's stacked first pitstops, which dropped him to the back. Gutierrez was slightly quicker than Grosjean on intermediates, but his comparative pace to Renault and Sauber on slicks wasn't great.