Best Driver: Worst Driver: Best Rookie: Best Team: Worst Team: Best Overtake: Funniest-moment: Most Surprising Result: Least Surprising Result: Special Mention to: Race Rating: /10
Best Driver: Fernando Alonso Worst Driver:Pastor Maldonado Best Rookie: Di Resta Best Team: McLaren Worst Team: Renault/Lotus What was going on with the strategy? Best Overtake: Erm... Funniest-moment: Vettel Most Surprising Result: Vettel DNF Least Surprising Result: Button (7 podiums in 8 races) Special Mention to: Button for his defence with no Kers, Hamilton. Race Rating: 5/10
•Best Driver: Alonso •Worst Driver: Maldonado •Best Rookie: Perez •Best Team: McLaren •Worst Team: Williams •Best Overtake: The battle between the HRTs •Funniest-moment: None really •Most Surprising Result: Vettel retires •Least Surprising Result: Buemi has a mechanical problem •Special Mention to: Rosberg (right up there in an inferior car), Button (despite having a sick car), Kovalainen (13th at one point) and Webber (DHL fastest lap award) •Race Rating: 8/10
Best Driver: Alonso Worst Driver: Maldonado Best Rookie: Perez Best Team: FI Worst Team: Toro Rosso Best Overtake: Alonso on Webber - the only non DRS pass Funniest-moment: Eddie on "George Mccartney" Most Surprising Result: Vettel retiring Least Surprising Result: Alonso out performing his car Special Mention to: Vettel's inferior car pole/Barrichello Race Rating: 3/10
Best Driver: Hamilton Worst Driver: Maldonado Best Rookie: Di Resta Best Team: Mclaren Worst Team: Renault-Lotus Best Overtake: Alonso on Button Funniest-moment: N/A Most Surprising Result: Vettel DNF Least Surprising Result: The poor commentating Special Mention to: Alonso Race Rating: 4/10
Best Driver: Fernando Alonso Worst Driver: Maldonado Best Rookie: Perez Best Team: Force India - both cars in the points Worst Team: Renault - slow cars, bad strategy Best Overtake: Button re-overtaking Webber, or Rosberg re-overtaking Schumacher Funniest-moment: ? Most Surprising Result: Vettel DNF. Least Surprising Result: Alonso outperforming his car, Button on the podium. Special Mention to: Button holding off the Red Bull when he was without KERS, and Rosberg having a good race. Race Rating: 3/10
Best Driver: Hamilton - absolutely faultless today, in my opinion one of his best drives Worst Driver: Pastor Maldonado - not getting out the way, twice Best Rookie: Paul di Resta - yet again scoring points and making the strategy work Best Team: Mclaren - apart from the KERS problem on Jenson's car, they've looked the best they have all season Worst Team: Renault - extremely disappointed with them in this race and their season overall Best Overtake: Alonso on Button and Webber on the exit of the first corner Funniest-moment: Vettel's luck running out Most Surprising Result: The track was still useless, and DRS didn't work as the driver who lost out on the first straight could retaliate on the second Least Surprising Result: Massa finishing 5th, and not improving on his season best Special Mention to: Alonso - great drive in an inferior car, held onto Hamilton really well, and ashowed Massa how its done Race Rating: 4/10
Best Driver: Lewis Hamilton Worst Driver: Pastor Maldonado Best Rookie: Paul Di Resta Best Team: McLaren - Could have been a 1-2 if not for KERS issue and bad start by Jenson. Worst Team: Williams... AGAIN Best Overtake: Rosberg on Schumacher Funniest-moment: None Most Surprising Result: Alonso 2nd Least Surprising Result: Hamilton 1st Special Mention to: Hamilton, Alonso, Button and McLaren Race Rating: 6/10
•Best Driver: Alonso •Worst Driver: Maldonado - what was he playing at?? •Best Rookie: DiResta •Best Team: McLaren - looked good all weekend •Worst Team: Renault. Poor performances, poor strategy and oh how they need Kubica... •Best Overtake: Alonso's double swoop from the start; Webber on Button on Webber; some good scraps between Buemi and Di Resta though the double DRS is a bit of a con •Funniest-moment: Hamilton and Alonso hugging each other; Button saying he might keep the tache •Most Surprising Result: Vettel •Least Surprising Result: Webber underperforming in the Red Bull despite his late challenge •Special Mention to: Alonso, the boy's done it again! Podium finish and challenging for 1st place in an inferior car •Race Rating: 6 /10
Best Driver: Fernando Alonso - he keeps Domenicali in his job Worst Driver: Maldonando - anyone who says otherwise needs to watch the race again Best Rookie: Perez - strong drive but ****ed by strategy and still is 11th Best Team: McLaren - quick pit stops, fastest car, double podium finish Worst Team: Ferrari - slow pit stops and would be nowhere without the magic of Alonso Best Overtake: Alonso on Webber, outside of turn 1 on first lap Funniest-moment: Expression on Horner's face after Vettel's DNF Most Surprising Result: Vettel's DNF Least Surprising Result: Massa finishing 6th Special Mention to: Alonso and Perez for outperforming cars Race Rating: 5/10
Best Driver: Glock/Hamilton/Alonso/Button Worst Driver: Maldonado/Massa Best Rookie: di Resta Best Team: McLaren Worst Team: Renault/HRT Best Overtake: Button repassing Webber: a very clever and calculated move. Funniest-moment: Most embarrassing: Eddie Jordan thanking "George" McCartney. Funniest: Vettel interview referring to EJ's "Willie". Most Surprising Result: Vettel's early exit. Least Surprising Result: Alonso beating his shambolic team-mate. Special Mention to: All children in need; Rosberg for showing who's boss; and George Harrison who - according to EJ - still lives on!). Race Rating: 7/10
Best Driver: Hamilton - not spectacular but mature Worst Driver: Maldonado - shocking Best Rookie: Perez Best Team: McLaren Worst Team: Red Bull Best Overtake: Enjoyed Buemi on di Resta Funniest-moment: Vettel's retirement. Schadenfreude, yeah! Most Surprising Result: Vettel's DNF Least Surprising Result: Alonso trounces Massa Special Mention to: Bad luck again, Buemi Race Rating: 8/10
Best driver: Hamilton Worst driver: Maldonado Best rookie: Di Resta Beest team: Mclaren Worst team: Toro Rosso Best overtake: Alonso on Button Funniest moment: "And Vettel's emailing his mum." Most Suprising result: Vettel DNF Least Suprising result: Buemi mechanical car failure again after a good start. Special mention to: Alonso Race rating: 6/10
Best Driver: Fernando Alonso Worst Driver: Maldonado Best Rookie: Di Resta Best Team: Mercedes Worst Team: Williams Best Overtake: Button on Webber Funniest Moment: Vettel and his laptop Most Surprising Moment: Vettel DNF Least Surprising Result: Senna Special Mention To: Force India Race Rating 5/10
Best Driver: Button, just, from Alonso. Keeping the DRS activated KERS assisted RBR at bay while trying to get his KERS working while adjusting his set-up to keep balance. a great drive. Worst Driver: Taxi for Maldonado, luckily for Massa, his accidents with Hamilton are his only season highlights Best Rookie: Perez Best Team: McLaren Worst Team: Renault Best Overtake:If the Webber/Button incident counts, Buttons part in it, I thought he'd lost the place, great defending. Funniest-moment: The shockingly bad attempts at impressions by MB & DC. Most Surprising Result: there wasn't an incident between Hamilton and Massa Least Surprising Result: Massa Special Mention to: Kobay, good drive from him, waited a while to see that. Alonso, a close 2nd in my DotD Race Rating: 5/10
Best driver - Hamilton. Not a great list to choose from but he always had the race under control from a very good Alonso and drove maturely. First time in a long time he's controlled a race that comfortably. Worst driver - Maldonando. Not fast, poor performance compared to Rubens's good drive to 12th and a complete idiot for trying to race lapping cars. Hand him the dunce cap and let him go. Like a few around him on the grid not good enough for f1. Best rookie - Di Resta. Another good performance from this extraordinarily mature driver. Best team - McLaren. Worst team - Renault. Going backwards but that is no surprise considering the lack of quality they have in the driving department. They have no hope in hell with a line up as average as that. Best overtake - Button taking the place back from Webber. Showing his supreme intelligence once more. Pace was dogged by loss of KERS for most of the race but that was a highlight for him and his fans. Funniest moment - DC's Jackie Stewart impression! Most surprising result - Vettel puncture and retire just seconds into the race! Least surprising result - Williams sadly...again. I've said it before and I'll say it again but this season is the culmination of incredibly poor management and one man has to take the majority of the blame - Adam Parr. Terribly out of his depth and only when they hit rock bottom is he doing something about it. Send him packing. Special mention to - Fernando Alonso. Once again a stark and eye raising gulf in performance between himself and Massa. One win he has had this season but like Button and Vettel, Fernando should be very proud with his driving this year. Race rating - 4/10. There was some decent moments of driving but all in all Abu Dhabi once again provided another dire and forgettable spectacle for the television viewer conveying nothing but a tacky artificial atmosphere, something we have come to get used to with many of these new tracks. Thank god this wasn't the final race for this season. The F1 season will get a deserved farewell in Brazil and I can't think of many better places to wrap the season up. Roll on Brazil!
Best Driver: Hamilton. Worst Driver: Maldonado, as usual. Best Rookie: Close call between Di Resta and Perez, but it has to go to Di Resta for making the wrong strategy work. Look how desperate Senna and Webber were to stay off those tyres! Best Team: McLaren by default. Ignoring Red Bull and Red Bull B, most teams were more or less where you would expect them to be based on recent performance. Worst Team: Red Bull, and I'm dismayed that it has taken this long for someone to say so. To not put either car on the podium is the biggest relative underperformance of the weekend. The tyre failure was most likely down to their tendency to run things extremely marginal, and if they're going to take the credit for getting it right they've got to be prepared to take the flak when it occasionally goes breasts up. Best Overtake: Has to go to Alonso at the start. There were a couple of decent looking ones at the end of the first DRS zone, but I can't remember them sticking. Funniest-moment: Alonso assuming that someone had hit Vettel. Particularly given who started 2nd. Most Surprising Result: Massa bringing the car home in perfect condition Least Surprising Result: Massa not on the podium Special Mention to: Force India. They would have been feeling the pressure heading into this race, and handled it very well. Oh, and Kovalainen for consistently challenging Williams F1 cars in his two year old milk float. Race Rating: 7/10
I think that's a good point about Red Bull. It has been suggested that "camber" was a factor in the puncture. They've been caught out before pushing it beyond Pirelli's safe limit and I think this may be the reason. And yeah, no car on the podium is a major fail for them.
The no RB on the podium is Webbers fault, he is just plain ****e as ive said many times before. Idc if its the tyres or not, it doesnt take a year to get used to them.
