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 BBC commentator/presenter: Worst BBC commentator/presenter: Best Commentary moment: Overall BBC coverage rating: /10 Going to watch the race now
Best Driver: Button Worst Driver: Schumacher Best Rookie: Ricciardo Best Team: Mclaren Worst Team: Sauber Best Overtake: Umm...Too many to remember Funniest-moment: Dry track, they go on wets Most Surprising Result: Button winning on a Red Bull track Least Surprising Result: Vettel being boring Special Mention to: Massa beating Alonso in Q/ Heidfeld's jump gets a 10/10 Race Rating: 9/10
Best Driver: Button Worst Driver: Schumacher Best Rookie: Ricciardo Best Team: McLaren Worst Team: Sauber, v poor strategy cost them dear Best Overtake: I'll just say the Hamilton/Button moments were class. Funniest-moment: D'ambrosia trying a handbrake turn Most Surprising Result: Button winning Least Surprising Result: A Scotsman (McNish) screwing an Englishman over any chance he gets. Special Mention to: Buemi Race Rating: 9/10 weather brings it to play again, just without the 2 hour break in the middle. Best BBC commentator/presenter: MB Worst BBC commentator/presenter: Best Commentary moment: DC basically admitting he can't drive during qualifying (it's a drivers circuit, I never did well here) Overall BBC coverage rating: 8/10
Best Driver: Button Worst Driver: Massa Best Rookie: Ricciardo beating Liuzzi & D'Ambrosio by a huge margin Best Team: McLaren Worst Team: Virgin Best Overtake: Button on Hamilton Funniest-moment: Nick! your car is on fire Most Surprising Result: Primes being faster than options Least Surprising Result: Vettel at the top Special Mention to: Button 200th race with a win! Race Rating: 9/10 Best BBC commentator/presenter: Jordan why not Worst BBC commentator/presenter: Jake Best Commentary moment: I had one but cant remember it Overall BBC coverage rating: 8/10
Best Driver: Button Worst Driver: Webber, he really needs to sort out his starts Best Rookie: Di Resta Best Team: McLaren Worst Team: Renault Best Overtake: Can't single one out but the McLaren battles were great fun Funniest-moment: Every car fishtailing on the first lap Most Surprising Result: Ricciardo beating Liuzzi Least Surprising Result: Vettel extending his lead Special Mention to: Rosberg for keeping that terrible car in the points, Lewis for driving really well despite that spin, Massa for a good quali and clawing back some points after his spin, Ricciardo beating Liuzzi and D'Ambrosio Race Rating: 8/10 Overall BBC coverage rating: 8/10, enjoyed the Brundle/Pirelli feature.
Best Driver: vettel (second fastest car yet stuck it on pole and got second in race) Worst Driver: webber (just not fast enough) Best Rookie: di resta Best Team: difficult one as most teams messed up at least 1 driver but i will go with mclaren from buttons team Worst Team: ferrari Best Overtake: button on hamilton Funniest-moment: alonso reaction to getting third place trophy Most Surprising Result: vettel getting front row Least Surprising Result: mclaren winning Special Mention to: di resta Race Rating: 8/10
Best Driver: Button Worst Driver: No one stands out Best Rookie: Di Resta and Ricciardo Best Team: McLaren Worst Team: Renault Best Overtake: Don't know if this counts but the McLarens near the start Funniest-moment: I'm not laughing this weekend Most Surprising Result: Both Toro Rossos in the points Least Surprising Result: Vettel second Special Mention to: Lewis - hard luck, deserved better Race Rating: 9/10 Best BBC commentator/presenter: C Worst BBC commentator/presenter: U Best Commentary moment: Next Overall BBC coverage rating: Tuesday Seriously, the Beeb's failure to address our outrage is adding insult to injury: get your heads out of the sand and face us!!!!!
Best Driver: Hamilton (but not the best decision maker on this occasion) Worst Driver: Webber - has the car but just not doing it Best Rookie: Di-Resta - and a nice bloke too Best Team: Mclaren - Button side Worst Team: Renault Best Overtake: Hamilton on Button/Vettel/Massa/Webber... take your pick Funniest-moment: none Most Surprising Result: Hamilton 4th - looked good for the win all weekend Least Surprising Result: Vettel back on the posdium Special Mention to: Jenson Button - wins his 200th race Race Rating: 7/10 Best BBC commentator/presenter: Jake - as usual Worst BBC commentator/presenter: DC - talks absolute nonsense and please someone shove his rule book up his arse Best Commentary moment: none Overall BBC coverage rating: 6/10 - brought down by DCs obvious bias towards certain drivers
Best Driver: Jenson Button Worst Driver: Felipe Massa Best Rookie: Paul Di Resta Best Team: McLaren Worst Team: Ferrari Best Overtake: None really all were simple and easy Funniest-moment: None Most Surprising Result: Di Resta Least Surprising Result: Vettel Special Mention to: Jenson Button! 200 Races and picking up a win on that same weekend!! And Lewis for tackling the interview well. Race Rating: 8.5/10 Best BBC commentator/presenter: Martin Brundle Worst BBC commentator/presenter:None Best Commentary moment:None Overall BBC coverage rating: 7/10
Best Driver: Button Worst Driver: D'Ambrosio Best Rookie: Di Resta Best Team: McLaren Worst Team: Ferrari Best Overtake: McLaren teammate battles Funniest-moment: D'Ambrosio pitlane fail Most Surprising Result: Hamilton 4th Least Surprising Result: Vettel 2nd Special Mention to: Di Resta - great drive Race Rating: 6/10 Best BBC commentator/presenter: Brundle Worst BBC commentator/presenter: Humphrey - what a dick. Best Commentary moment: When Brundle spoke about editing out Ted's comments Overall BBC coverage rating: 8/10
Best Driver: Button - was the fastest and smartest. Worst Driver: Massa - he is just pathetic. Best Rookie: di Resta - very impressive. Best Team: Mclaren - pretty much dominated and could of had a 1-2. Worst Team: Sauber - one trick pony. Best Overtake: The Mclaren battles. Funniest-moment: Can't really think of anything. Button saying 'cake' about 10 times in one sentence? Most Surprising Result: Red Bull not being stronger. Least Surprising Result: Vettle getting on the podium. Special Mention to: Button for winning on his 200th race, and Hamilton maturing. Race Rating: 9.32/10 Best BBC commentator/presenter: Brundle and DC. Worst BBC commentator/presenter: Jake. Best Commentary moment: Nothing comes to mind. Overall BBC coverage rating: 8/10
Best Driver: Button Worst Driver: Can't really pick one but I thought Rosberg could have done better. Best Rookie: No question, Di Resta in 7th place! Best Team: McLaren Worst Team: Renault - slow this weekend and Heidfeld's retirement wasnt pretty lol. Best Overtake: So many to choose from but the McLarens did some good overtakes against each other! Funniest-moment: Cars pitting for Inters when only one part of the track is raining or spitting lol. Most Surprising Result: The Toro Rossos finishing in top 10. Buemi finished very well despite having that grid penalty. He even finished ahead of his team mate! Least Surprising Result: Alonso was always in the mix and got on podium. Special Mention to: Jenson Button! Fantastic drive and great to win his 200th gp! His pace was great throughout the race.Also a lot of respect for Lewis for that calm interview and he was unlucky today. Race Rating: 9.5/10 Best BBC commentator/presenter: MB Worst BBC commentator/presenter: None. Best Commentary moment: Can't really pick one out. Martin pointing out that DC wasnt that bad at this track having got some 2nd place finishes. Overall BBC coverage rating: 9/10
Best Driver: Jenson and Seb Worst Driver: Schumacher Best Rookie: Di Resta Best Team: Toro Rosso Worst Team: Sauber Best Overtake:Seb on Alonso Funniest-moment: Heidfeld blowing up Most Surprising Result: Lewis spinning under pressure Least Surprising Result: Mercedes going backwards Special Mention to: Hungarian weather Race Rating: 9/10 Best BBC commentator/presenter: All of them Worst BBC commentator/presenter: None Best Commentary moment: BBC going to the crowd and getting them involved Overall BBC coverage rating: 9/10
Best Driver: Hamilton Worst Driver: Alguersuari Best Rookie: Di Resta Best Team: Mclaren Worst Team: Renault Best Overtake: Loads done by the Mclarens Funniest-moment: Heidfeld blowing up + Alguersuari being too oppurtunisitic Most Surprising Result: Mercedes failing again Least Surprising Result: Schumacher Special Mention to: Schumacher in his start, whilst the cameras were focused on the front-runners, they forgot one guy was making mince meat of the drivers in front. Race Rating: 9/10 Best BBC commentator/presenter: All of them Worst BBC commentator/presenter: None Best Commentary moment: Jake mentioning the issue with the broadcast share, felt tears welling up. Overall BBC coverage rating: 9/10
Best Driver: Jenson Button Worst Driver: Tonio Liuzzi Best Rookie: Paul Di Resta Best Team: McLaren Worst Team: Williams Best Overtake:Button on Hamilton Funniest-moment: The intermediate cock up Most Surprising Result: Both Toro Rosso Cars in the points Least Surprising Result: Vettel on the podium Special Mention to: Daniel Ricciardo. Already beating liuzzi, thought it would take longer Race Rating: 10/10 Best race so far this season IMO Best BBC commentator/presenter: MB Worst BBC commentator/presenter:EJ Best Commentary moment: None stand out. Overall BBC coverage rating: 9/10. Enjoyed the comparison between road and race fuel yesterday, and the pirelli feature
Best driver: Button - no contest Worst driver: no one really. Probably Alguesauri at a push Best overtake: Hamilton squeezing by Webber in the traffic. Opportunistic and took it well Best team: McLaren Worst team: Williams - without a shadow of a doubt. Adam Parr is taking the team backwards. Not the man to run an f1 team. Funniest moment: 'You think they're listening to us?' MB to DC jokingly when Perez pitted Most surprising result: Learning it was going to be wet after recent weather forecasts saying otherwise Least surprising result: Mercedes struggling yet again Special mention to: Jenson Button - 200 GPs of which we've had a rollercoaster ride with them. Here's hoping for more great moments from the man! Oh and happy 30th birthday to Fernando Alonso! Race rating: 9.5/10 - had it all. Great driving, great tactics, great weather, great venue. Best BBC commentator/presenter: All of them bar Worst BBC commentator/presenter: Ted Kravitz - "Hamilton's handed the race to Vettel" while Button was leading. D'oh! Best commentary moment: See above - DC/MB interaction during Perez's pitstop Overall BBC coverage rating: 9.5/10 - once again a cut above the rest. Enjoyed Schumacher's tour of the Mercedes base with Lee McKenzie and for once Christian Horner doesn't try hogging the coverage! Sky could do everything they won't but because it's Sky they want but won't even be as good as ITV. Those scumbags don't deserve our praise no matter how slick they are.
Best Driver: Button. Hamilton's driving was superb but unlike Button, he agreed to the team call. They then made a terrible decision for Intermediate tyres. Worst Driver: Schumacher. Best Rookie: di Resta's 7th place ws very well deserved and he did well to read Hamilton's spin recovery. Best Team: McLaren. But for a bad strategic call, this would have been McLaren's easily. As it was, they spoiled things with a bad call on tyres for Hamilton but I'll still give it to McLaren for letting their boys fight and fight and fight! Would Horner have sat there with a smile on his face whilst watching such a scrap? Absolutely not! Worst Team: Williams: a poor job. Best Overtake: McLaren v McLaren! Hamilton-Button/Button-Hamilton/Hamilton-Button! Funniest-moment: Virgin 'handbrake' pit-stop but it could have been nasty. Was it my man Liuzzi?. And Heidfeld's leap but it could have been nasty. Most Surprising Result: Schumacher's excuse that he 'deliberately spun to avoid an accident! Laughable! Just how stupid does he think we all are?! Least Surprising Result: Button's win in variable conditions. Special Mention to: McLaren for such team spirit! Race Rating: 9.9/10 Best BBC commentator/presenter: Brundle. Worst BBC commentator/presenter: Lee McKenzie has added to BBC's budget which they clearly could not afford. If she wasn't there, would anyone really miss her? Best Commentary moment: Brundle's reaction to Ted Kravitz who made an uncharacteristic but amusing error. Overall BBC coverage rating: 9.9/10 - Even with the odd gaff, these guys are the best team of presenters for any sports coverage in the world in my opinion.
To be fair on Michael I think he meant he was forced into a spin. There was no room and on damp off track a spin was the inevitable conclusion. The other option was to plant the power down and into the side of Massa. That said very disappointed with Mercedes. They can't even take advantage of conditions where slower teams usually do. They have problems.
I listened very carefully to the way Schumacher presented his story. Your excuse for him McFerrari, is far better than his own! - Typically, he tried to put some spin (sic) on the truth to show himself in a better light. You should consider offering your P.R. services to him!
I think your spot on about williams and Parr. he seems out of his depth running a team, maybe frank should take back over. Would be nice to see them back in the points.
