Best Driver: Worst Driver: Best Rookie (Magnussen, Kvyat, Ericsson): 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: Perez Worst Driver: Chilton Best Rookie (Magnussen, Kvyat, Ericsson): Magnussen - But so unlucky! Best Team: Mclaren? Worst Team: Ferrari Best Overtake: Perez on Button Funniest-moment: Nothing Most Surprising Result: Alonso retiring! Least Surprising Result: The FIA punish racing, yet don't punish jump starts and speeding in the pits Special Mention to: Kvyat, started last and finished ahead of JEV while having no brakes at the end Race Rating: 7/10
Best Driver: Hamilton - dominant all weekend, recovered from a poor start excellently Worst Driver: Gutierrez - was already running pretty much net last even before he stupidly hit Grosjean Best Rookie (Magnussen, Kvyat, Ericsson): Kvyat - was unlucky to not pick up a point Best Team: Mercedes - one/two finish and no drama Worst Team: Lotus - simply awful Best Overtake: Ricciardo on Raikkonen Funniest-moment: Rosberg 'it was a shame for my side of the garage' Most Surprising Result: Williams kept it together Least Surprising Result: Ericsson was dire Special Mention to: Kobayashi, for coming back in with no fuss and proving himself far too talented for the back of the grid; Ricciardo for another sterling drive; Massa for his long overdue podium; Perez for an excellent defensive performance against his former team-mate; Magnussen who is rather unlucky to be stuck in such a slow Mclaren Race Rating: 10/10 Best Commentator/Presenter: Ben
Best Driver: Ricciardo Worst Driver: Ericsson Best Rookie (Magnussen, Kvyat, Ericsson): Magnussen Best Team: Mercedes Worst Team: Ferrari Best Overtake: Ricciardo on Perez and Vettel Funniest-moment: Wasn't one Most Surprising Result:Alonso retirement Least Surprising Result: Mercedes 1-2 Special Mention to: Perez Race Rating: 7/10 Best Commentator/Presenter Anthony Davidson
Best Driver: Hamilton Worst Driver: Chilton Best Rookie (Magnussen, Kvyat, Ericsson): Magnussen Best Team: Williams Worst Team: Ferrari Best Overtake: Rosberg on polystyrene boards (twice!) Funniest-moment: Perez "Look what he did to me!" Most Surprising Result: Hamilton not having problems Least Surprising Result: Rosberg not having problems Special Mention to: Bottas/Ricciardo Race Rating: 8.5/10 Best Commentator/Presenter: Martin Brundle
Best Driver: Kvyat, started last and was unlucky not to score at least a couple of points. kept his car relatively undamaged, managed to avoid taking out the cars in front and still managed to finish the race ahead of his team-mate despite having a catastrophic brake failure. Worst Driver: Guttierez Best Rookie (Magnussen, Kvyat, Ericsson): Kvyat. Best Team: Mercedes Worst Team: Lotus Best Overtake: The Button Perez battle. Funniest-moment: Chilton, manages t pull off a move on a faster car only to dump it in the gravel. Do what you're, er, 'paid' for, driving slowly around at the back in a mobile billboard Most Surprising Result: Massa/Hamilton wheel to wheel without an accident. Least Surprising Result: merc 1-2 Special Mention to: oh my, there were so many having a good race today I struggled to choose a best driver. so the nominees other were, Hamilton, Ricciardo, Massa and Perez. Race Rating: 7/10 Monza is a track totally ruined by the current rules on DRS use. Best Commentator/Presenter
Best Driver: Hamilton was magisterial; Ricciardo, mercurial Worst Driver: Rosberg exposed his weaknesses too clearly; Hulk was disappointing too Best Rookie: Kvyat over Magnusson, who was a tad sloppy again. Best Team: magnificent Mercedes Worst Team: another sad day for Lotus Best Overtake: Lewis on Massa - credit to both Funniest-moment: Rosberg's talking Italian to Massa - petty point-scoring Most Surprising Result: Alonso DNF Least Surprising Result: Hamilton and Ricciardo's performances. Special Mention to: Bottas and Pérez; Massa's well-deserved podium Race Rating: 10/10 for me. Best Commentator/Presenter: the BBC triumvirate
Best Driver: Kobayashi Worst Driver: Chilton Best Rookie (Magnussen, Kvyat, Ericsson): Kvyat Best Team: Mercedes Worst Team: Lotus Best Overtake: Ricciardo on Vettel Funniest-moment: Rosberg choking Most Surprising Result: Massa on the podium Least Surprising Result: Ericsson slow Special Mention to: Perez Race Rating: 6/10
While Hulk did his chances of a top drive no favours today, he was screwed over by a bizarre strategy from his team, pulling him in around lap 20, negating the entire benefit of starting on the hard tyres. (seriously, did he have a puncture or something? Why would you attempt more than half the race on the soft tyres?!)
I thought that was utterly bizarre too, presumably he'd either shredded the tyres or the team had another reason for making the change.
Oh behave, Chilton binned it into the gravel and Gutierrez weaved into Grosjean and shredded his tyre, one racing ending the other pretty muc so. Rosberg lost about 6 seconds.
Thanks for this. It seemed so out of character from him and I had just put it down to everyone having a bad day sometimes. I think my attention was elsewhere yesterday Oh, behave yourself! Neither of those two is challenging for the WDC or even points! I picked Rosberg, and indeed Hulk, because I expect much better from both of them. It's true that I don't care much for Rosberg but I'm a huge Hulk fan.
Best Driver: Ricciardo, Bottas & Perez The 3 best overtakers of 2014 Worst Driver: Ericsson clearly not good enough Best Rookie (Magnussen, Kvyat, Ericsson): Best Team: Mercedes Worst Team: Lotus Best Overtake: RIC on VET Funniest-moment: The wolff smile Most Surprising Result: Rosberg didnt have a bad start like dhel predicted Least Surprising Result: Mercedes were dominant Special Mention to: Kobayashi for coming back at short notice and showing how its done Race Rating: 8/10 Best Commentator/Presenter Lee McKenzie
Best Driver: Ricciardo Worst Driver: Chilton Best Rookie (Magnussen, Kvyat, Ericsson): Kvyat Best Team: Mercedes Worst Team: Ferrari Best Overtake: Either move Ricciardo pulled into the second chicane Funniest-moment: - Most Surprising Result:Alonso's DNF Least Surprising Result: Mercedes 1-2 Special Mention to: Bottas Race Rating: 8/10
