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
Best Driver: Button Worst Driver: Hamilton Best Rookie Maldonado Best Team: Red Bull Worst Team: McLaren Best Overtake: No great passes IMO Funniest-moment: Hamilton, in general. Not at the point he ruined JBs race though Most Surprising Result: Hamilton, 10th (after penalty) Least Surprising Result: Vettel. Poor JB Special Mention to:Maldonado. Was doing so well. Poor guy Race Rating: 6 (spoiled at the end. Killed the battle) /10 Best BBC commentator/presenter: MB Worst BBC commentator/presenter:EJ Best Commentary moment: Overall BBC coverage rating: 9/10
Best Driver:Alonso/Button Worst Driver:Hamilton (IF YOU DONT PUT HIM I WILL GIVE YOU NEGATIVE REP) Best Rookie: Maldonado Best Team: Ferrari Worst Team: Mclaren Best Overtake: Schuey on Hamilton lap 1 Funniest-moment: Hamilton ****ing it up all the time Most Surprising Result: Hamilton allowing to be racing Least Surprising Result: Vettel getting lucky Special Mention to: Kobayashi/Sutil Race Rating: 10/10 (before the red flag) Best BBC commentator/presenter: MB Worst BBC commentator/presenter: EJ Best Commentary moment: ?? Overall BBC coverage rating: 9/10
Best Driver: Button. Worst Driver: Hamilton. (Twat) Best Rookie: Maldonado. Best Team: Red Bull. Worst Team: Team Lewis. Best Overtake: No memorable ones really. Funniest-moment: Hamilton in general. Most Surprising Result: Kobayashi getting 5th. Great drive. Least Surprising Result: Vettel winning. Special Mention to: Maldonado. Good race before Twatilton ****ed his race up. Sutil/Kamui as well Race Rating: 7/10 (Would be higher if the end wasn't ruined) Best BBC commentator/presenter: Brundle Worst BBC commentator/presenter: Jordan Best Commentary moment: N/A Overall BBC coverage rating: 9/10
Best Driver: Button, closely followed by Alonso Worst Driver: Hamilton Best Rookie: Maldonado Best Team: Ferrari Worst Team: McLaren Best Overtake: Massa on Rosberg Funniest-moment: Schumacher overtaking Hamilton, lap 1 Most Surprising Result: Hamilton finishing Least Surprising Result: Vettel 1st Special Mention to: Karthikeyan for bravery Race Rating: 7/10 Without red flag 10/10
Best Driver: Button Worst Driver: Hamilton Best Rookie: Maldonado Best Team: Ferrari Worst Team: Mclaren Best Overtake: Massa on Rosberg Funniest-moment: Hamilton's post-race interview - he is a joke. Most Surprising Result: Vettel winning. Least Surprising Result: Vettel winning. Special Mention to: Both Button and Alonso drove very well and deserved the win more than Vettel. Also to Perez and Petrov. Race Rating: Potential 10/10, Scs and Red Flag made it a 7/10. Best BBC commentator/presenter: Brundle and DC Worst BBC commentator/presenter: Jake Overall BBC coverage rating: 8/10
Best Driver: Kobay/Maldonado Worst Driver: Hamilton Best Rookie Maldonado Best Team: Williams, getting it together, but I fear the cosworth engine is what the real problem is. Worst Team: HRT Best Overtake: Schumacher hamilton/Hamilton Schumacher Funniest-moment: Massa into the wall. Most Surprising Result: Barricello Least Surprising Result: Vettel/Hamilton Special Mention to: Kobay, another great drive Race Rating: 9/10 Best Commentary moment: In qualifying, Brundle commenting on the thinness of Coulthards wallet Overall BBC coverage rating: 9/10, great camera shots during the race
Best Driver: Alonso/Button Worst Driver:Lewis Best RookieMaldonado Best Team:No stand out team Worst Team:HRT Best Overtake:Massa on Rosberg? Schumacher on Rosberg? Webber on Kobi? Funniest-moment:Chaos Most Surprising Result: Sutil fighting for fourth at one point Least Surprising Result: Vettel somehow winning.....again Special Mention to:Kobi Race Rating: 8/10 Best BBC commentator/presenter:Brundle Worst BBC commentator/presenter:DC.... cringeworthy RBR bias Best Commentary moment:N/A Overall BBC coverage rating: 7/10
Best Driver: Kobayashi Worst Driver: Lewis Best Rookie Maldonado Best Team: Sauber Worst Team: Mercedes Best Overtake: Massa on Rosberg Funniest-moment: Schumacher stalling Most Surprising Result: Vettel taking the win with a gutsy call Least Surprising Result: Lewis blaming everybody except himself Special Mention to: Jenson Race Rating: 9/10 Best BBC commentator/presenter: EJ and his swimming skills Worst BBC commentator/presenter: None, good job Best Commentary moment: Coulthard getting linched Overall BBC coverage rating: 9/10
Best Driver: Button = Alonso. Button was brilliant on a mixed-up strategy. Alonso (and Ferrari) just did the job. Worst Driver: Sadly, Hamilton. Best Rookie: Di Resta for entertainment value. A baptism of fire in F1 at Monaco. Best Team: Ferrari kept their heads down and got on with the job, Red Bull made horrible pit stops and lucked into it as much as their driver did. Worst Team: Mercedes. Best Overtake: Hamilton on Schumacher at Turn 1. Funniest-moment: Coulthard correcting Kravitz on being able to fix a big red nose to the car under the red flag by reminding him that it would need to pass crash testing and be homologated. Most Surprising Result: Kobayashi based on pre-race expectations. Vettel based on how the race unfolded. Least Surprising Result: Vettel based on pre-race expectations. Top three based on how the race unfolded. Special Mention to: The race stewards, who have a thankless task and are often taken to it. Race Rating: 9/10 High but this was Monaco. Best BBC commentator/presenter: Jordan. He's a tramp and he loves it but he's a good sport. Worst BBC commentator/presenter: Jake Humphrey. That pretentious casino thing before the FIA graphics was cringeworthy. He's outlived his usefulness now, IMO. Best Commentary moment: When Martin Brundle mumbled, "what the ****ing christ is Hamilton doing?" while Coulthard was speaking. I think that's what he said, anyway. Overall BBC coverage rating: 9/10 but it was hard to go wrong with this one. Except for Jake Humphrey's stupid casino intro thing. Best not606 Monaco GP chat thread moment: Fred.
Best Driver: Button Worst Driver: Karthikeyan, plain slow. And Hamilton obviously let his frustrations dominate his poorer than usual performance. Best Rookie Maldonado put in a great performance today and for the first time, did a better job than di Resta, who came unstuck a bit. P.S. to someone above: Kobayashi is not a rookie! Best Team: A very difficult choice this time, with none of the top teams getting my vote: Williams. Worst Team: I'm going to give this to McLaren for scoring several own-goals! Best Overtake: Hamilton on Schumacher, Turn 1: an audacious move at a place I've never seen it happen in modern day racing. Funniest-moment: Eddie 'the Fish' Jordan looking for his glasses. Most Surprising Result: After things settled down at the front with Button leading, his eventual 3rd place was a big surprise when one considers that he had such a lead and raced very very well. (I do not agree that he should have got closer to Alonso when the three leaders were close: his watching brief was the correct tactic under the circumstances) Least Surprising Result: Vettel victory. Special Mention to: Maldonado: he's impressed me with that drive. Race Rating: 9/10 Considering this is Monaco, it was superb. Unfortunately it was marred by an accident requiring the Safety Car with only 7 (potentially very exciting laps to go). For this reason I cannot give it 10. Best BBC commentator/presenter: Coulthard did his best effort this season and as far as I remember only said hide field once! Brundle is always good. Worst BBC commentator/presenter: None. All did a good job. Best Commentary moment: Eddie the Fish Overall BBC coverage rating: 9.5/10
Its good Lewis drives the way he does. I personally don't want the races going back to the dull as dishwater, decided in the pits processions we used to get. Good on him. And I wish Ferrari would shut up with their whining. Best drivier: Lewis (more entertaining than the rest of them put together.)
Just for having the guts to drive his car at Monaco, he deserves praise. In fact, I edit my earlier post to give Karthikeyan a special mention.
