Max Verstappen won his sixth Mexico City Grand Prix on Sunday, holding off Lewis Hamilton following a late safety car restart. Third place was enough for Kimi Antonelli to become Formula 1's youngest world champion, with four grands prix still remaining. In his driver ratings for BBC Radio 5 Live, commentator Harry Benjamin assessed how the field performed across the weekend.

Benjamin gave Verstappen and Hamilton 9.5/10. Verstappen started fifth after a grid penalty, took advantage of a Ferrari squabble ahead and then withstood Hamilton through two restarts to claim his third win in four races. Hamilton took his first Ferrari pole and, according to Benjamin, had arguably his strongest weekend with the team. He was involved with Verstappen in both drivers running too deep at Turn Four on lap one, but recovered to push Verstappen all the way and set the fastest lap.

Antonelli received 9/10. Benjamin said the pressure on him was enormous and that he handled it superbly, managing an excellent first stint on the soft tyre and producing a decisive move on Charles Leclerc after the red flag before finishing on the podium.

Leclerc was rated 7/10. He showed plenty of speed after topping Friday practice and qualifying third, but Sunday's mistakes were costly. An off-track pass earned him a penalty, and a huge lock-up after the red flag dropped him off the podium when Ferrari had the pace to fight for victory. Lando Norris took 7.5/10: he was very quick at times, including topping final practice and Q2, but sixth on the grid left him with too much to do. His race pace was excellent and he finished right on Leclerc's gearbox, though losing places on the opening lap hurt his chances.

George Russell's 6/10 reflected a mixed weekend. He missed pole by just 0.009 seconds, and the lack of deployment at the start was not his fault, but spinning Isack Hadjar and picking up a 10-second penalty was a significant mistake on a day when much more was available.

Liam Lawson earned 8.5/10 for an excellent recovery from the pit lane after his qualifying disqualification for a technical breach. He had already shown top-10 pace on Saturday and fought all the way through to seventh after penalties were applied. Ryo Hirakawa also received 8.5/10 for an extremely impressive Formula 1 debut at very short notice: he started 18th, kept his head through all the interruptions and passed both Williams drivers late on before post-race penalties promoted him into the points. Hadjar was rated 8/10 after qualifying seventh and recovering to ninth once penalties were applied, despite his race being badly compromised when Russell spun him on lap one.

Gabriel Bortoleto was rated 7/10. He did not have the outright qualifying pace of Nico Hulkenberg but kept himself in contention during a chaotic race, stayed clean when several around him did not and was rewarded with eighth. Alex Albon's 6/10 came as Williams again fought towards the back; he led the team's challenge and finished 11th, his best result for 13 races, although much of that came through penalties elsewhere. Carlos Sainz was 5.5/10 after another frustrating weekend in a difficult run of form, finishing behind Albon and unable to turn a relatively chaotic race into the opportunity Williams needed.

Oscar Piastri received 5/10. There was some good recovery work after his shock Q2 exit and he fought his way to seventh on the road, but the collision that ended Arvid Lindblad's race was judged to be avoidable and the resulting 10-second penalty capped a weekend with too many errors. Lindblad was rated 8/10 despite the DNF: he qualified eighth, raced confidently in the points and had just got ahead of Piastri before the McLaren driver was judged responsible for the collision that sent him into the barriers.

Hulkenberg's 5.5/10 followed a good start to the weekend in which he reached Q3 and was firmly in the fight for points. Running into the back of Oliver Bearman after the restart undid that work and earned him a 10-second penalty. Bearman was rated 7/10 for a solid recovery after qualifying 14th; he looked capable of fighting for points after passing Bortoleto, and his retirement was through no fault of his own after Hulkenberg hit him at the restart.

Franco Colapinto's 6.5/10 represented a much better performance than his final 15th place suggests. He ran eighth on the road after a well-executed race, but failing to slow sufficiently for yellow flags cost him 10 seconds and the points he had earned. Sergio Perez was 6.5/10 after a spirited home race on his 300th Grand Prix start: he made up six places on the opening lap and ran as high as 13th before a slow pit stop and other issues knocked him backwards.

Pierre Gasly was rated 5.5/10. Qualifying ninth was excellent and he crossed the line in the points despite suffering power issues during the race, but failing to slow for double-waved yellow flags was a serious mistake and the resulting 30-second penalty dropped him to 17th.

Valtteri Bottas received 5.5/10. He started at the back because of power-unit penalties and had made up ground before his frightening accident. The crash was caused by a car failure rather than driver error, so Benjamin saw little reason for the DNF itself to hurt his score. Lance Stroll was 4.5/10 after qualifying on the back row and barely having a race to judge; a battery-related problem forced Aston Martin to retire the car after only five laps. Fernando Alonso's 5.5/10 came after another weekend ruined by reliability. An MGU-K problem compromised qualifying and then reappeared almost immediately in the race, forcing him out after five laps.

Sources: BBC Sport.