A little late, but anyways Best Driver: Worst Driver: Best Rookie(Grosjean,Pic,Ricciardo,Vergne): Best Team: Worst Team: Best (imaginary)Overtake: Funniest-moment: Most Surprising Result: Least Surprising Result: Special Mention to: Race Rating: /10 Best Commentator overall:
Best Driver: Massa Worst Driver: Schumacher Best Rookie(Grosjean,Pic,Ricciardo,Vergne): Vergne Best Team: Ferrari Worst Team: Williams Best Overtake: Everyone of them.. aka. None Funniest-moment: Nothing? Most Surprising Result: Senna beats Maldonado Least Surprising Result: Alonso gets a podium Special Mention to: Perez: If Maldonado didnt hit him, seeing his race pace he might have won. Race Rating: ​4/10 Best Commentator overall:
Best Driver: Webber Worst Driver: Maldanoado Best Rookie(Grosjean,Pic,Ricciardo,Vergne): Only Vergne actually made it to the end Special mention to Grosjean Best Team: Force India? (relatively) Worst Team: only HRT stand out. McLaren were bad but not all bad this weekend Best Overtake: Your kidding right Funniest-moment: ermmm Most Surprising Result: Force india's Least Surprising Result: Alonso - Podium Special Mention to: Force India, Webber, Rosberg and Alonso (Hamilton with a outside mention to) Race Rating: 4/10 Best Commentator overall: BBC obvs
Best Driver: Koveleinen good battle with better cars, a shame so many dropped out or it would look better Worst Driver: Maldonado Best Rookie(Grosjean,Pic,Ricciardo,Vergne): Best Team: RBR Worst Team: Lotus, I expected more Best Overtake: Koveleinen on Button (if it counts) Funniest-moment: The joke it's called a race Most Surprising Result: Massa Least Surprising Result: Schumacher Special Mention to: Webber and Hamilton Race Rating: 1/10 It's monaco, it's not a race. Best Commentator overall: Coulthard
Best Driver: J-E Vergne Worst Driver: Button Best Rookie(Grosjean,Pic,Ricciardo,Vergne): Vergne Best Team: Red Bull Worst Team: McLaren Best Overtake: You must be having a laugh. Funniest-moment: Most boring moment would be more fitting Most Surprising Result: Massa Least Surprising Result: Schmu retires Special Mention to: Heikki, Bruno and both Force Indias Race Rating: 2/10 Best Commentator overall: None because they kept pretending that the race had been 'thrilling' - my arse it was!
Best Driver: This one is hard, but overall Vettel and Alonso were the best Worst Driver: Button - what an awful drive. We saw these sort of performances from him a few times at Honda but I thought he'd improved a lot since then? Maybe the loss of rear grip from EBD ban is hurting him, or maybe the extra rear grip from the double diffuser and EBD made him look better than he really is. Best Rookie(Grosjean,Pic,Ricciardo,Vergne): Vergne Best Team: Red Bull Worst Team: HRT Best Overtake: What overtake? Funniest-moment: Hamilton's radio message Most Surprising Result: Vettel 4th Least Surprising Result: Schumacher DNF (I predicted it) and Webber winning Special Mention to: Webber, Rosberg, Hamilton, Massa, Schumacher, Hulkenburg, Kovalainen - superb driving throughout from them. Perez made some errors but deserves some credit for his strong race pace. Race Rating: 3/10 Best Commentator overall: Coulthard The best driver one wasn't easy because there were so many good performances, but overall I felt Alonso and Vettel were a step above the others. Alonso's performance was intelligent, saving his tyres in the first stint to attack Hamilton and doing an amazing in-lap. He was sharp at the start and SC restart and arguably the quickest driver when it started raining. Vettel was a bit lucky at the start but had strong race pace throughout his first stint - staying close to Massa despite having tyres that were apparently 1 second per lap slower. Then when others pitted he seemed to be in another league despite having much older tyres; credit to him for making the strategy work. Button on a similar strategy spent the race stuck behind a Caterham
•Best Driver: Red Bull boys and Heikki •Worst Driver: Romain Grojsean+Pastor Maldonado, the new crash kids! •Best Rookie(Grosjean,Pic,Ricciardo,Vergne): Vergne, would of been higher if he hadn't been put on the inters •Best Team: RBR •Worst Team: Lotus, McLaren and Toro Rosso •Best Overtake: I guess Seb at the start, avoiding Grojsean •Funniest-moment:Erm....the Sauber getting launched in the air •Most Surprising Result: Seb getting up to 4th, was thinking 6th at best! •Least Surprising Result: McLaren going backwards •Special Mention to: Alonso and Rosberg, both had solid races •Race Rating: 4/10 •Best Commentator overall: BBC.
Bit harsh on Jenson Forza, Overtaking wasn't possible today, Like when Raikkonen's tyres dropped off. He held up Schumacher, Hulkenberg, Senna, Di Resta, Ricciardo, Kovalainen and Button without anyone able to do anything on the guy in front. The Start simply ruined his race, Hence why Vettels strategy worked. He got lucky at the start and found the clean air to do something.
Best Driver: Webber Worst Driver: Maldonado (moron) Best Rookie(Grosjean,Pic,Ricciardo,Vergne): Vergne for finishing Best Team: Red Bull Worst Team: McLaren Best Overtake: Perez on Pic (the only overtake) Funniest-moment: "they're dropping things on my head" Most Surprising Result: Webber, 1st Least Surprising Result: Schumacher, unlucky Special Mention to: Nobody. Race Rating: 1/10 Best Commentator overall: Nobody.
Best Driver: Webber - No real stand out drives but Webber won and was faultless all weekend. Worst Driver: Maldonado - No other driver even came close. Best Rookie(Grosjean,Pic,Ricciardo,Vergne): Vergne. Best Team: Red Bull[./B] [*] Worst Team: Lotus - Again timid race strategy. [*] Best Overtake: Perez on Pic - Was there another one? [*] Funniest-moment: Hamilton getting hit on the head but stuff. [*] Most Surprising Result: Massa 6th. [*] Least Surprising Result: Schumacher DNF. [*] Special Mention to: - [*] Race Rating: 2/10 [*] Best Commentator overall: DC.
Best Driver: Webber? Worst Driver: Button Best Rookie(Grosjean,Pic,Ricciardo,Vergne): Vergne Best Team: Red Bull Worst Team: Sauber Best Overtake: Alonso's pit crew on Hamilton. There were overtakes? Funniest-moment: Maldonado in the wall Most Surprising Result: Double points finish for Force India Least Surprising Result: Schumacher retiring Special Mention to: Perez for his consistent pace is probably up there. Race Rating: 2/10 Best Commentator overall: Brundle
Best Driver: Webber/Kovalainen Worst Driver: Maldonado Best Rookie: Vergne Best Team: Red Bull Worst Team: McLaren Best Overtake: Perez on Glock was one of the few genuine overtakes and certainly the best I saw. Funniest-moment: Coulthard's boredom with the TV director's penchant for slow-motion replays. Most Surprising Result: At the time, I raised an eyebrow at Toro Rosso's late gamble with Vergne. Least Surprising Result: Alonso podium. Special Mention to: Schumacher: sorry mate; karma catching you again? Race Rating: 5.37/10 Best Commentator overall: Ben Edwards.
Best Driver: Webber/Heiki Worst Driver: Pastor Maldonado Best Rookie(Grosjean,Pic,Ricciardo,Vergne): Vergne Best Team: Red Bull Worst Team: Lotus Best Overtake: Kovalainen's Funniest-moment: Pre-show BBC Most Surprising Result: Mercedes quite strong here Least Surprising Result: Monaco procession Special Mention to: The top 6 at the end. Race Rating: 1/10 Best Commentator overall: Ben Edwards
Best Driver: Webber was faultless all weekend, his lap was out of the blue and then controlled the race. Worst Driver: Maldonado - from FP3 onwards he was awful, lucky to be allowed to race in my opinion and deserved to retire early whether it was his fault or not Best Rookie(Grosjean,Pic,Ricciardo,Vergne): Vergne Best Team: Mercedes Worst Team: I don't think anyone really deserves this Best Overtake: Vergne on Schumacher Funniest-moment: N/A Most Surprising Result: Schumacher fastest in qualifying Least Surprising Result: N/A Special Mention to: Perez probably would've had a strong weekend if Pastor hadn't hit him in FP3, pretty sure that caused his failure in Q1 and he looked strong all weekend apart from that Race Rating: 4/10 - <neg> Best Commentator overall: Edwards - because unlike DC he didn't complain about the swimming pool slo-mo's; they were the best part DC.
I'm sure you're not alone, Naz; but I am rather surprised that so many seem surprised ! Perhaps I should have placed a bet on a good showing from the car which has the best mechanical grip on the grid. These days, mechanical grip is the most important factor at Monaco and I believe Mercedes had the best car for the weekend – and by some margin. Rosberg did a fair job, although let himself down in qualifying when it really counted; but in my book, he is still not a top-tier driver. I truly believe that if they had a couple of the best (e.g. Alonso, Hamilton, Vettel, Button), they'd have sailed off into the distance with an easy 1 - 2.
His pace was awful all weekend. Overtaking was difficult but that didn't stop Vettel making up ground, whereas Button started lower than he should've and went backwards. Only Maldonado's horrorshow stopped JB getting worst driver from me as well.
Vettel didn't overtake anyone. He got to sixth in the first corner then followed Massa at frontrunning pace, allowing him clean air with which to set the great laps he did. Jenson was the big loser at the start when the flying kobayashi pushed him wide. From there he simply never had clear track to show his pace (whatever it was). Obviously as he admits it was his fault for qualifying so low but past lap one there was nothing he could do. One interesting thing is that his Q2 laps were worse than those from practice by 2-4 tenths. It does worry me though that Jenson seems to have no idea why its happening.
I didn't say he did, but you used not being able to overtake as an excuse for Button being stuck behind Kovalainen all race, despite others being able to overtake cars in the pitstop phase, even if Button couldn't make the pass on track his car was fast enough that he should've been able to pass after Kovalainen pitted. Aside from not being able to make up ground during the race, he qualified poorly and then crashed into the back of Kovalainen. He had a 'mare.
