Midseason Report: Grading Sauber’s Esteban Gutierrez

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Published: August 13, 2013

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For Esteban Gutierrez, the rise through the ranks of the junior formulae to fully fledged Formula One driver has been a rapid ascent.

From GP3 champion in 2010 to third in the GP2 series in 2012 and Sauber’s reserve driver, the young Mexican has been thrown into the deep end as teammate to the experienced Nico Hulkenberg for his first full Grand Prix season.

While Hulkenberg has scored all of Sauber’s seven points this season, Gutierrez has been learning the ropes and finding his feet. So I’m going to grade him on his Saturday and Sunday performances and give him a mark out of 10 for each.

 

Australia: Q18 / 13th

A tough baptism for Gutierrez as Albert Park is not the easiest of circuits if you haven’t driven it before. His goal for the opening race was to make it to the chequered flag, and to do that ahead of a Williams was a solid achievement as noted on his team's press release.

"My main goal was to finish the race, and to achieve that is really enjoyable. I want to thank the whole team, because yesterday in qualifying we had a good chance and today we were able to recover some of what we lost yesterday.

Score: 7/10

 

Malaysia:  Q14 / 12th

An improvement on Australia both in terms of qualifying and the race. What’s more, Gutierrez was fastest of all through the speed trap, his Sauber clocked at 191.42 mph.

Score 7/10



 

China: Q17 / DNF

China marked his first big rookie mistake of the season in what can only be described as a rush of blood to the head. The Mexican made a decent start in gaining a couple of places but carried too much speed into his braking point before the main straight and crashed into Adrian Sutil’s Force India. Quoted on his team's post race press release, Gutierrez owned up to his mistake:

I was br...
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