We rate the drivers after the Brazilian GP

Red Bull-Renault RB9
Start: 1st
Finish: 1st
Strategy: 2 stops (medium/medium/hard)
Rating: 10

Vettel demonstrated his wet-weather prowess in qualifying, nailing not one but two laps quick enough to give him pole by six tenths of a second. Only in Malaysia and India was his qualifying advantage greater.

Although his getaway was so-so, he wasted no time in taking the lead from Rosberg, doing so without the help of the DRS at the end of lap one. As usual, controlled the race perfectly from there to nail his ninth victory in a row.

Red Bull-Renault RB9
Start: 4th
Finish: 2nd
Strategy: 2 stops (medium/medium/hard)
Rating: 8

Qualifying was disappointing as Webber was unable to get the best out of the intermediate rubber during Q3. This was costly, because after losing a place to Hamilton off the start, he comfortably picked off both Mercedes and Alonso by lap 13 but was, by then, 10 seconds off Vettel.

Yes, the German was cruising, but Webber showed signs of the pace needed at least to make a fight of it. One of his best races of 2013.

Ferrari F138
Start: 3rd
Finish: 3rd
Strategy: 2 stops (medium/hard/medium)
Rating: 9

The wet weather in qualifying was good news for Alonso, but a mistake at the Descida do Lago on his fastest lap cost him, by his own admission, around 0.8s and a place on the front row. His race performance is hard to fault, as he got up to second after passing Rosberg early on but was powerless to stop Webber (twice) overtaking him for the place.

All things considered, the final gap of 19 seconds to Vettel suggests Alonso did what he could.

Ferrari F138
Start: 9th
Finish: 7th
Strategy: 2 stops (medium/medium/hard)
Rating: 6

Massa came into the weekend desperate for his final start for Ferrari to end on the podium, and he knew he could count on Alonso's help to achieve it.

Qualifying was poor as he struggled in the wet conditions, but in the race he was set for fourth place - and presumably third once Alonso let him past - when he was hit with a drive-through. Massa was unimpressed, but given the team had warned him, it was an avoidable penalty.

McLaren-Mercedes MP4-28
Start: 14th
Finish: 4th
Strategy: 2 stops (hard/medium/medium)
Rating: 9

Button showed good pace at times in qualifying, but struggled to get the intermediates to offer the grip he needed on a slightly damper track. He did at least almost match Perez's pace.

Once the race was underway the 2009 world champion drove superbly. His pace was consistently good, he made passes when he needed and thanks to Massa's penalty ended up a season-best fourth. While qualifying was underwhelming, his race performance was a classic, beautifully measured Button drive.

McLaren-Mercedes MP4-28
Start: 19th
Finish: 6th
Strategy: 2 stops (medium/medium/hard)
Rating: 7

Shaded Button during a Q2 session in which both struggled on intermediate rubber, but a needless crash after running wide exiting Turn 5 damaged his gearbox and earned him a five-place grid penalty when it was changed pre-race.

Made very rapid progress during the first stint and it took him only 13 laps to climb into the points. Finished only seven seconds behind Button, making you wonder what would have been possible without the Saturday shunt.

Lotus-Renault E21
Start: 11th
Finish: 14th
Strategy: 2 stops (medium/medium/hard)
Rating: 5

Kovalainen was solid if unspectacular in the rain-hit qualifying, but was a little disappointed not to make it into Q3. His race was defined by what was, by his own admission, a bad start and the struggles of the Lotus to build tyre temperature in the dry conditions.

Dropped to 17th by the end of lap two and made little progress in recovery, finishing well off the points-finish he expected coming into the race. A step backwards from Austin.

Lotus-Renault E21
Start: 6th
Finish: DNF
Strategy: retired (medium)
Rating: 6

There is little material to judge Grosjean on from this weekend. His qualifying result was disappointing, partly as a consequence of Lotus perhaps gambling fractionally early on a switch to intermediates, but his lap still could have been better.

In the race, he dropped to eighth at the start and seemed to be struggling a little for pace thanks to tyre temperatures when his Renault engine lunched itself near the end of his second lap.

Mercedes F1 W04
Start: 2nd
Finish: 5th
Strategy: 2 stops (medium/hard/medium)
Rating: 7

Practice suggested Rosberg had the pace to challenge Vettel in the wet, but although he probably should have been a little quicker in qualifying, it would have been a big ask to make up the 0.6s deficit to the Red Bull driver.

After leading from the start, he was powerless to keep Vettel at bay and dropped to sixth while battling rear-tyre degradation. But drove an intelligent and conservative, if unspectacular, race from there to secure second in the championship for Mercedes.

Mercedes F1 W04
Start: 5th
Finish: 9th
Strategy: 2 stops (medium/hard/hard)
Rating: 6

Was frank about his struggles to get on top of the Mercedes in wet conditions this season and always looked second best to Rosberg. But Hamilton came into his own in the race and after passing his struggling team-mate early on was shaping up for fourth place.

Until, that is, he drifted over on Bottas's Williams. While the penalty was perhaps harsh for an honest and small error, Hamilton was at fault for the completely needless collision.

Sauber-Ferrari C32
Start: 10th
Finish: 8th
Strategy: 2 stops (medium/medium/hard
Rating: 7

On a difficult weekend for Sauber, Hulkenberg wasn't able to repeat the heroics of some of his recent outings. But considering the understeer problem he battled for much of the weekend, he did a good job to make Q3 and pick up four points.

Certainly didn't have the pace to beat any of the cars ahead of him and kept Ricciardo at arm's length, which adds up to a decent weekend's work even though qualifying was a little disappointing.

Sauber-Ferrari C32
Start: 17th
Finish: 12th
Strategy: 2 stops (hard/medium/medium)
Rating: 7

Not for the first time he showed a very handy turn of pace in wet conditions - at least he did until it really mattered as he failed to post a quick enough lap to escape Q1, either in the first half of the session when the conditions allowed or late on when Vergne was able to do so.

That qualifying failure was doubly painful given that, without it, he certainly had the race pace to have scored points.

Force India-Mercedes VJM06
Start: 12th
Finish: 11th
Strategy: 2 stops (medium/medium/hard)
Rating: 7

What's very likely to be di Resta's final outing for Force India was a good one, although a poor start probably cost him a point.

Slipped to 17th off the line and while he was able to make his way through the lower midfield, he couldn't quite get ahead of Ricciardo in the closing stages. Deserves credit for the progress he made after that bad start, although with a stronger getaway he could have had a very different race.

Force India-Mercedes VJM06
Start: 15th
Finish: 13th
Strategy: 3 stops (medium/medium/hard/medium)
Rating: 6

A difficult weekend for Sutil, who was unable to put in a strong lap early in Q2 and then had a later attempt to improve stymied by Perez's crash.

In the race, tyre wear was a big problem and he ended up having to make three stops, which effectively eliminated him from contention for the final point. Did recover some ground late on, but was 10 seconds off the pack disputing 10th place at the finish.

Williams-Renault FW35
Start: 16th
Finish: 16th
Strategy: 2 stops (medium/medium/hard)
Rating: 5

It was no great surprise to see Maldonado's Williams career ending in a whimper. After failing to pull a good enough lap out of the bag in the best conditions of Q1, he was knocked out in the first segment of qualifying.

In the race, there wasn't much hope of points and Maldonado has to take the lion's share of responsibility for the clash with Vergne that led to him spinning as he chopped across the front of the Toro Rosso.

Williams-Renault FW35
Start: 13th
Finish: DNF
Strategy: retired (medium/hard/medium)
Rating: 8

After the heroics of Austin, Bottas's weekend seemed a little disappointing, but the reality is the Williams wasn't quite as well suited to Interlagos. His qualifying effort was fine given the conditions, but in the race he battled hard to stay in touch with the points fight after running 10th early on, but never had a chance of scoring.

Eliminated after Hamilton drifted into him on the straight, which earned the Mercedes man a penalty.

Toro Rosso-Ferrari STR8
Start: 8th
Finish: 15th
Strategy: 3 stops (medium/hard/medium/hard)
Rating: 7

Vergne usually goes well in the wet, but came perilously close to being eliminated in Q1 until he saved himself with a good effort late on in tricky conditions. Went on to qualifying well, just behind Ricciardo.

Things took a turn for the worse at the start as Vergne plummeted to 12th and then, a lap later, 14th. That set the tone for a disappointing race, but there was little he could have done to avoid the Senna S clash with Maldonado.

Toro Rosso-Ferrari STR8
Start: 7th
Finish: 10th
Strategy: 2 stops (medium/hard/hard)
Rating: 9

Ricciardo is famed for his qualifying specials, but at Interlagos it was his performance on Sunday that really shone. The Toro Rosso was again a tricky car in race conditions, but after running as high as eighth early on, Ricciardo faced a tough rearguard action to hang on to 10th.

He did so very well, keeping di Resta and Gutierrez at bay to nick a final point that he never seemed to have a firm grasp on.

Caterham-Renault CT03
Start: 18th
Finish: DNF
Strategy: retired (medium/hard)
Rating: 6

Did a better job than his team-mate in wet qualifying, and did what he needed in the race to keep the Marussias behind him until he was forced to retire with a suspension problem.

That said, he was passed by van der Garde early on and was destined to finish behind the Dutchman had his team-mate's penalty and his own retirement not intervened. A solid but unspectacular end to the season for Pic, whose F1 future is in serious doubt.

Caterham-Renault CT03
Start: 20th
Finish: 18th
Strategy: 2 stops (medium/medium/hard)
Rating: 7

The qualifying result was disappointing, half a second off Pic, although he did at least keep the Marussias behind which, with 10th in the constructors' championship at stake, was his main brief.

Got ahead of Pic early on in the race and would have been able to beat both his team-mate and the Marussias but for a penalty for ignoring blue flags, partly thanks to a lack of warning from the pitwall. Overall, a decent end to the season for the Dutchman.

Marussia-Cosworth MR-02
Start: 21st
Finish: 17th
Strategy: 2 stops (medium/hard/hard)
Rating: 6

Potentially could have split the Caterhams, or even beaten them both, in qualifying but for a mistake that cost around half a second in the final sector on his best lap. Made a good start to get into the lead of the Caterham/Marussia battle, but it wasn't long before van der Garde overtook him while he struggled with the tyres.

His race pace was fine, although beating the one remaining Caterham of van der Garde was down to the Dutchman's penalty.

Marussia-Cosworth MR-02
Start: 22nd
Finish: 19th
Strategy: 3 stops (medium/medium/hard/medium)
Rating: 5

Wasn't on Bianchi's level at Interlagos, although the eventual gap to his team-mate (55 seconds) was exaggerated by the fact that Chilton had to make an extra pitstop because of a tyre vibration.

Brought the car home a distant last, which while a little disappointing did earn him the record for number of race finishes for a rookie. A slightly underwhelming end to a season in which Chilton did better than those who have taken against him on principle are willing to recognise.