British Grand Prix driver ratings

44 Lewis Hamilton
Mercedes F1 W08

Start: 1st
Finish: 1st
Strategy: 1 stop (super-soft/soft)

Rating: 10

At Silverstone Hamilton was as close to perfection as is possible, looking every bit the favourite throughout practice, taking pole position by a huge margin and then controlling the race.

Only occasionally did he let his true advantage show in the race, notably when he started pulling a second or more per lap on Kimi Raikkonen towards the end of the first stint. The crowd favourite was unstoppable.

77 Valtteri Bottas
Mercedes F1 W08

Start: 9th
Finish: 2nd
Strategy: 1 stop (soft/super-soft)

Rating: 8

Hamstrung by a five-place grid penalty for a gearbox change and the fact that he struggled for grip, but not balance, during Q3 and was only fourth fastest, Bottas faced an uphill task in the race.

But as the only frontrunner to start on softs, he executed his race well and came through to second with a little help from Raikkonen's misfortune.

3 Daniel Ricciardo
Red Bull-Renault RB13

Start: 19th
Finish: 5th
Strategy: 1 stop (super-soft/soft)

Rating: 9

Ricciardo did exactly what he needed to do by coming from last to take fifth from Hulkenberg on the penultimate lap, with some incisive passing along the way.

On the downside, by his own admission the decision to go around Grosjean at Luffield that led to him being pushed into the gravel and back to last "wasn't the smartest" and did compromise his race.

33 Max Verstappen
Red Bull-Renault RB13

Start: 4th
Finish: 4th
Strategy: 2 stops (super-soft/soft/super-soft)

Rating: 9

While frustrated that Red Bull didn't make good on its early promise of the Silverstone weekend, Verstappen was at his feisty best in the race, briefly threatening Raikkonen's second place before repassing Vettel with an opportunistic move.

He fought hard with Vettel in the first stint, but the Red Bull simply didn't have the pace to stay ahead over a race distance.

5 Sebastian Vettel
Ferrari SF70H

Start: 3rd
Finish: 7th
Strategy: 2 stops (super-soft/soft/super-soft)

Rating: 6

Silverstone has never been Vettel's happiest hunting ground, and even factoring in Ferrari's struggles he didn't get the best out of the car.

Without the late puncture, he would have finished behind Bottas, and given Raikkonen showed that finishing ahead of the second Mercedes driver would have been possible, this has to go down as probably Vettel's most lacklustre race of 2017.

7 Kimi Raikkonen
Ferrari SF70H

Start: 2nd
Finish: 3rd
Strategy: 2 stops (super-soft/soft/soft)

Rating: 9

On the basis that he outqualified his team-mate and would have finished second but for the tread of his front-left Pirelli separating from the carcass, this was a strong weekend from Raikkonen.

There were a few small areas to criticise, such as a so-so out-lap, but the fact is he would have got the best possible result of second both in the race and qualifying.

11 Sergio Perez
Force India-Mercedes VJM10

Start: 6th
Finish: 9th
Strategy: 1 stop (super-soft/soft)

Rating: 7

Perez didn't look at his most fluent throughout the British GP weekend, but he kept at it and managed to outqualify team-mate Ocon.

In the race, they were relatively evenly matched, with the battle between the pair decided in the opening seconds of the race as Ocon jumped ahead. Thereafter, he drove a decent race but there's a suspicion there was more pace to find in the car.

31 Esteban Ocon
Force India-Mercedes VJM10

Start: 7th
Finish: 8th
Strategy: 1 stop (super-soft/soft)

Rating: 8

Ocon looked to have a better feel for the Force India than Perez early in the weekend, but didn't manage to turn that into outqualifying his team-mate.

He made up for that by making a flying start to get ahead, saying he felt like he had four-wheel drive off the line, then keeping Perez behind him. Given Hulkenberg's pace, it's hard to see how Ocon could have finished higher.

18 Lance Stroll
Williams-Mercedes FW40

Start: 15th
Finish: 16th
Strategy: 2 stops (soft/super-soft/super-soft)

Rating: 5

Stroll was seven tenths slower than Massa in intermediate conditions as he was eliminated in Q1, but seeing as this was apparently his first time in the wet in an F1 car, that was forgivable.

While slower than Massa in the race, the gap was exaggerated dramatically by some unexplained bodywork damage that appeared in the second stint that wasn't caused by Stroll hitting anyone.

19 Felipe Massa
Williams-Mercedes FW40

Start: 14th
Finish: 10th
Strategy: 1 stop (soft/super-soft)

Rating: 7

How to judge Massa depends on whether or not you conclude he could or should have beaten the Force Indias, who he appeared to be quicker than in the closing stages.

A stronger qualifying would have made that easier, and indications are that the pace was in the car. Given Massa had three bites at Q2, this was perhaps the area that cost him the most.

2 Stoffel Vandoorne
McLaren-Honda MCL32

Start: 8th
Finish: 11th
Strategy: 1 stop (super-soft/soft)

Rating: 10

Vandoorne has taken a little time to adapt mentally to the challenges of an uncompetitive package and the high bar set by Alonso, but this was a breakthrough weekend for him.

Had he not had the slow pitstop and that cost him a place to Massa, he'd have had a fighting chance of holding the Williams driver off for 10th place.

14 Fernando Alonso
McLaren-Honda MCL32

Start: 20th
Finish: DNF
Strategy: retired (super-soft/soft/retired)

Rating: 8

Stymied by another stack of grid penalties, Alonso did his usual battling job.

Setting the fastest time in Q1 was the highlight - not that Alonso was that excited by it - and arguably what was so impressive about that was not the lap, or the gamble to take slicks, but the out-lap that got him round quickly enough, by the skin of his teeth, to post a time at all.

26 Daniil Kvyat
Toro Rosso-Renault STR12

Start: 12th
Finish: 15th
Strategy: 3 stops (super-soft/soft/soft/super-soft)

Rating: 4

Another frustrating event from Kvyat, who should be finding it easier to string together trouble-free weekends now he's in his fourth season.

While outqualifying Sainz was assisted by his team-mate's suspension problem, Kvyat's pace was not a problem. But running off at Becketts on the opening lap trying to get back past Sainz, then clattering him after correcting a moment while rejoining, definitely was.

55 Carlos Sainz Jr
Toro Rosso-Renault STR12

Start: 13th
Finish: DNF
Strategy: retired (super-soft/retired)

Rating: 7

Sainz's early demise, combined with the fact that a suspension problem didn't allow him to have a serious crack at Q2, makes it very difficult to draw any definitive conclusions about his performance.

But he did outpace team-mate Kvyat in Q1, and had passed his team-mate into Copse before being collected by him at Becketts. Inconclusive overall, but his pace looked to be decent enough.

8 Romain Grosjean
Haas-Ferrari VF-17

Start: 10th
Finish: 13th
Strategy: 2 stops (super-soft/soft/super-soft)

Rating: 6

Grosjean seemed a happier man having switched to Carbone Industrie brake material. He did well to make Q3, but even factoring in the fact his first run was compromised by Hamilton, his second run should have been better - it was a rear lock-up that cost him on that one.

His race pace was underwhelming, and contact with Ericsson led to a fruitless gamble on an extra stop.

20 Kevin Magnussen
Haas-Ferrari VF-17

Start: 16th
Finish: 12th
Strategy: 1 stop (soft/super-soft)

Rating: 6

Magnussen looked a little less confident in the Haas than team-mate Grosjean through much of the weekend, albeit with the caveat that he went into qualifying and the race using Brembo brakes rather than the Carbone Industrie ones on the sister car.

He showed better race pace and did finish ahead of his team-mate, although he wouldn't have done without Grosjean's extra stop.

27 Nico Hulkenberg
Renault RS17

Start: 5th
Finish: 6th
Strategy: 1 stop (super-soft/soft)

Rating: 10

Bolstered by a new floor, Hulkenberg had a stellar weekend at Silverstone, delivering Renault's best qualifying performance since returning as a works team and matching its best result with sixth.

He would very likely have kept Ricciardo at bay, but for the effectiveness of the MGU-H in harvesting ERS power being compromised by an exhaust leak. An outstanding performance.

30 Jolyon Palmer
Renault RS17

Start: 11th
Finish: DNF
Strategy: retired (super-soft/retired)

Rating: 5

While team-mate Hulkenberg grabbed the headlines, Palmer generally did an improved job at Silverstone. Without the upgraded Renault floor, reckoned to be worth about 0.15s and which the team only had one of, he was within a tenth of making Q3.

The downside is that the gap to Hulkenberg was still a massive 0.853s. A hydraulic failure put him out on the formation lap.

9 Marcus Ericsson
Sauber-Ferrari C36

Start: 18th
Finish: 14th
Strategy: 1 stop (soft/super-soft)

Rating: 7

Ericsson looked like he might have the legs of Wehrlein in the damp in Q1 before being pipped late in the session.

After surviving his early wheelbanging battle with his team-mate, Ericsson had a straightforward race. He probably couldn't have finished any higher given Sauber's limitations, and while on a very different strategy to his team-mate his race pace looked perfectly respectable.

94 Pascal Wehrlein
Sauber-Ferrari C36

Start: 17th
Finish: 17th
Strategy: 3 stops (soft/medium/soft/super-soft)

Rating: 7

Wehrlein had a messy race after shading Ericsson in qualifying. The decision to use the early safety car period to get onto mediums for one lap then back onto softs in an attempt to go to the end didn't come close to working and compromised his Sunday afternoon.

His pace on comparable tyres in the final 20 laps was very similar to Ericsson's.