Guess I'm doing them now? Best Driver: Worst Driver: Best Rookie (Gutierrez, Bottas, Van Der Garde , Bianchi, Chilton): Best Team: Worst Team: Best Overtake: Funniest-moment: Most Surprising Result: Least Surprising Result: Special Mention to: Race Rating: /10 Best Commentator/Presenter:
Best Driver: Grosjean Worst Driver: Bianchi Best Rookie (Gutierrez, Bottas, Van Der Garde , Bianchi, Chilton): Gutierrez Best Team: Red Bull Worst Team: Mercedes Best Overtake: Kimi on Esteban, outside before 130R Funniest-moment: Something to do with banana's??? Most Surprising Result: Grosjeans crazy start Least Surprising Result: Massa going backwards Special Mention to: Lewis' great start Race Rating: 7/10 Best Commentator/Presenter: None
Best Driver: Grosjean Worst Driver: Bianchi Best Rookie Gutierrez, though Chilton nearly got it for his quali Best Team: Red Bull Worst Team: Williams Best Overtake: Lots of very good ones, but no real standout this year Funniest-moment: Bianchi/VDG doing a Senna/Prost reinactment Most Surprising Result: Guitierrez holding it together Least Surprising Result: Vettel coming through to win, Webber somehow finishing behind despite being in front Special Mention to: Chilton, maybe too late but quali will give him a big boost Race Rating: 7/10 Was intruiging until about 2/3rd's though just because you wondered if Grosjean could do it. Best Commentator/Presenter : meh
Best Driver: Vettel Worst Driver: Bianchi Best Rookie (Gutierrez, Bottas, Van Der Garde , Bianchi, Chilton): Best Team: Red Bull & Sauber Worst Team: Force India Best Overtake: Alonso on Massa No team orders Funniest-moment: Most Surprising Result: Webber Pole Least Surprising Result: Webber made 2nd best to Vettel Special Mention to: Grosjean, though he would get that 1st win Race Rating: 7/10 Best Commentator/Presenter: BBC
Best Driver: None of any real note for me. Worst Driver: A/A Best Rookie (Gutierrez, Bottas, Van Der Garde , Bianchi, Chilton): Gutierrez Best Team: Red Bull Worst Team: Force India Best Overtake: Vettel on Grosjean Funniest-moment: Webber being put on a 3 stop Most Surprising Result: Webber Pole Least Surprising Result: Webber made 2nd best to Vettel Special Mention to: Grosjean for pushing the RB's and Hulk/Gutierrez/Sauber Race Rating: 6/10 Best Commentator/Presenter: Brundle
Best Driver: Grosjean - The top three separated themselves from the rest of the field, but Grosjean did it with an inferior car Worst Driver: N/A Best Rookie: Gutierrez had a decent race Best Team: Red Bull Worst Team: Mercedes - Four points is pathetic from them Best Overtake: Raikkonen on Hulkenberg Most Surprising Result: Chilton's qualifying Least Surprising Result: Vettel's win Race Rating: 7/10 - Not as much a action as Korea but still a decent race Best Commentator/Presenter: Ben Henderson
Best Driver: Grosjean and Gutiérrez - because yesterday showed how far they've both come this season Worst Driver: Best Rookie: Gutiérrez Best Team: Lotus and Sauber - both punching above their weight Worst Team: Williams - just awful Best Overtake: Hulk on Ricciardo Funniest-moment: Most Surprising Result: Grosjean and Gutiérrez Least Surprising Result: Vettel wins Special Mention to: Chilton for his quali Race Rating: 6.5/10 Best Commentator/Presenter: EJ had a good one. He and Suzi are turning into quite a double act; great to watch. Now DC is looking like the gooseberry!
Best Driver: Grosjean, did as much as he could, just didn't have the car Worst Driver: Chilton, fastest of the new teams in Q, 2 of his opponents get taken out 1st lap, the other 1 has to take a drive through at the start and he still doesn't win the new team battle. Almost Ricciardo for his foolishness, why race people a pit-stop ahead and lose time? Best Rookie (Gutierrez, Bottas, Van Der Garde , Bianchi, Chilton): Gutierrez, when he failed to get passed Massa throgh the hairpin and started losing positions quickly I feared the worst, nice to see him battle back. Best Team: RBR Worst Team: Williams, Best Overtake: Hulk on Ricciardo there were some nice over-takes, and some v aggressive ones (Maldonado). Most Surprising Result: Gutierrez solid race performnce Least Surprising Result: Vettel wins Special Mention to: Vettel for his calm intelligence, Gutierez for once again proving he belongs in F1, he's getting better and better, he's coming on in leaps and bounds, and fatty boom boom, another great drive, shame his tyres went towrds the end, had the measure of Alonso and Raikonnen until then (IMO) Race Rating: 8/10, some great racing all the way to the end, and even a race for the lead in the last 15 laps. Best Commentator/Presenter:
Best Driver: Romain Grosjean Worst Driver: Sergio Perez Best Rookie (Gutierrez, Bottas, Van Der Garde , Bianchi, Chilton): Esteban Gutierrez Best Team: Red Bull Worst Team: Williams Best Overtake: Raikkonen on Hulkenberg Funniest-moment: Rocky saying "Go get him" Most Surprising Result: Grosjean taking it to the Red Bulls Least Surprising Result: Massa screwing up Special Mention to: Nico Hulkenberg, Sebastian Vettel, Charles Pic Race Rating: 8/10
Best Driver: Romain Grosjean Worst Driver: Max Chilton - for finishing behind Pic. Best Rookie (Gutierrez, Bottas, Van Der Garde , Bianchi, Chilton): Gutierrez Best Team: Red Bull Worst Team: Williams Best Overtake: Kimi on Hulk Funniest-moment: Massa ignoring team orders to advertise himself, then finishing 10th anyway. Most Surprising Result: Webber on pole Least Surprising Result: Vettel wins again Special Mention to: Nico Hulkenberg, Sebastian Vettel, Race Rating: 7/10 Best Commentator/Presenter: David Coulthard
Best Driver: Grosjean Worst Driver: Massa for the drive-through and Chilton for reasons stated by Miggins Best Rookie (Gutierrez, Bottas, Van Der Garde , Bianchi, Chilton): Gutierrez Best Team: Red Bull Worst Team: Mercedes Best Overtake: Maldonado on Bottas Funniest-moment: Most Surprising Result: Grosjean leading most of the race Least Surprising Result: Webber screwed by Red Bull Special Mention to: Gutierrez Race Rating: 6/10
Best Driver: Grosjean Worst Driver: Ricciardo Best Rookie (Gutierrez, Bottas, Van Der Garde , Bianchi, Chilton): knew that guy had potential! Best Team: Red Bull Worst Team: Williams Best Overtake: Anything without DRS, so none Funniest-moment: N/A Most Surprising Result: Chilton legitimately beats Bianchi in quali Least Surprising Result: Red Bull screw over Webber, them tyres lasted all day there was no way he had to three stop Special Mention to: Vergne for beating his team mate YET again. Vettel for not creating a gap and keeping it. Race Rating: 6.5/10
Best Driver: Romain Grosjean. Nearly beat the unbeatable Worst Driver: Paul Di Resta. Just because Best Rookie (Gutierrez, Bottas, Van Der Garde , Bianchi, Chilton): Esteban Gutierrez Best Team: Red Bull. Worst Team: McLaren Best Overtake: Kimi on Hulk at the chicane Funniest-moment: ? Most Surprising Result: Gutierrez not spinning off/crashing/doing something daft Least Surprising Result: Gee, i wonder... Special Mention to: Max Chilton, though not in a good way. Finishing behind a guy who had a drive through penalty is pretty poor. Race Rating: 6/10 Best Commentator/Presenter:
Best Driver: Romain Grosjean Worst Driver: Max Chilton for somehow not winning the battle of newer teams Best Rookie (Gutierrez, Bottas, Van Der Garde , Bianchi, Chilton): Gutierrez Best Team: Red Bull Worst Team: Williams Best Overtake: Kimi on Hulk Funniest-moment: Most Surprising Result: Not a walkover for Vettel Least Surprising Result: Vettel winning Special Mention to: Chilton's qualifying Race Rating: 7/10
Best Driver: Grosjean. Superb drive. Showed some real class when defending. My driver of the day. Worst Driver: Maldonado. His aggression goes beyond what I see as the acceptable limits for honourable combat and reminds me somewhat of Schumacher, although Maldonado is a fair bit clumsier. It's a shame Chilton didn't have a better race, but due to his superb qualifying performance, I find myself unable to nominate him as 'worst driver' over the weekend. I also agree with Miggins about Ricciardo's possible lack of awareness about who he was racing. Best Rookie: Gutierrez, showed some gritty determination and out-performed the other rookies this time. Best Team: Red Bull. No question about it. Worst Team: Mercedes? McLaren? Marussia? No: they all begin with the letter 'M'. Well, in that case it might be Williams, but my selection of them as 'worst team' is almost entirely due to one (supposed) team member… (See 'worst driver'.) Best Overtake: Räikkönen around the outside of Hulkenberg at the chicane. Courage can sometimes be seen as closely related to 'foolhardy' but it is entirely different to 'reckless'. He made his move in such a way that he would be seen and therefore very likely to survive. For the 'reckless' example, read Maldonado's clumsy attempt at the same part of the track: he gave Bottas absolutely no chance to avoid some gardening. Most Surprising: Massa ignoring team orders. Fair play to him but it's ironic that he may as well have complied… Least Surprising: Vettel's win, very much enhanced by getting the obvious strategy and making it work. I've read (and heard) some interesting verdicts on Webber's three stopper. To be frank, I was surprised how early his first stop was – and then even more surprised by his short second stint, although it's possible he took more out of those tyres over the course of the weekend. During the race, his only fresh tyres were his last set of Options. Even so, I still have a raised eyebrow at what actually happened. Special Mention for: Maria de Villota… …
I was going to nominate him as well, it was a hopeful lunge for a meaningless position against his team-mate in the last corner. That said, you race to the line, and the FIA's stance says to me that if contact had been made then Bottas would've been the likelier to go in to see the stewards, and Williams didn't castigate him either (although that may have been financially motivated) which is why I didn't.
I almost put Maldo as best overtake, partly out of mischief but also because it seemed to me like a revelation of the desperate state of Williams, the severity of which I had not been aware of, and all for 16th place!
Best Driver: Grosjean - pretty perfect race from him, just the car wasn't quick enough. Probably the best race he's ever had Worst Driver:Maldonado - That overtake wasn't even clumsy, he meant to do that. Forcing another driver off the track through diving down the inside where there isnt much room isnt an overtake. Bottas had been much better than him Best Rookie (Gutierrez, Bottas, Van Der Garde , Bianchi, Chilton): Guitierrez - great to see he got his first points, and improve on his performance in Korea Best Team: Sauber - fanatic result for them, its amazing how quickly they've improved the car, though, I should think that's thanks to the Russian company investing money in them Worst Team: Williams - not making any progress whatsoever, I guess they're focusing on next year, but they're performances are still really poor. Just hope they have a good car next year Best Overtake: Raikonnen on Hulkenberg round the outside of the chicane Funniest-moment: None Most Surprising Result: Chilton's qualifying Least Surprising Result: Jenson in the points again. I think he's doing really well this year. He's finished in the points in all but 3 races, and I think he gets the most out of his car. A lot of people criticised him when Lewis was at Mclaren, but with the car not being a race winner this year, I think it's shown how good he really is Special Mention to: Hulkenberg - Lous would be stupid not to sign him up now. Did so well to move up to 4th and keep Alonso behind Race Rating: 7/10 Best Commentator/Presenter: DC
