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 Driver: Alonso Worst Driver: Hulk - lost his brake pedal Best Rookie (Gutierrez, Bottas, Van Der Garde , Bianchi, Chilton): Gutierrez - shocker!!! Best Team: Ferrari Worst Team: Mercedes - obvs Best Overtake: Kimi on Vettel? Funniest-moment: No one managed to get past Rosberg quickly Most Surprising Result: McLaren Least Surprising Result: Alonso Special Mention to: Kimi, Massa, di resta Race Rating: 5/10 - Not much real racing in my opinion.
Best Driver: Alonso Worst Driver: Hamilton Best Rookie (Gutierrez, Bottas, Van Der Garde , Bianchi, Chilton): Gutierrez Best Team: Ferrari Worst Team: Mercedes Best Overtake: Alonso on Hamilton around the outside. Funniest-moment: Hamilton team radio, very stroppy and inappropriate to bring down Williams name, seen as though they won there last year, which is more than can be said for him. Most Surprising Result: Paul Di-Resta. Least Surprising Result: Alonso Win. Special Mention to: MASSA/PDR/MCLAREN/RICCIARDO/GUTIERREZ Race Rating:6/10
Best Driver: Felipe Massa. Nice to have you back Worst Driver: Hulk. A weekend to forget Best Rookie (Gutierrez, Bottas, Van Der Garde , Bianchi, Chilton): Van Der Garde. Had a strong weekend until his problem, which wasn't his fault. Best Team: Ferrari Worst Team: Mercedes. Oh dear. Best Overtake: Massa on Rosberg Funniest-moment: ??? Most Surprising Result: No RBR on podium Least Surprising Result: Alonso/Kimi on the podium Special Mention to: Nico Rosberg, great pole lap, and owned his illustrious teammate. Race Rating: 3/10
Best Driver: Alonso Worst Driver: Hamilton Best Rookie (Gutierrez, Bottas, Van Der Garde , Bianchi, Chilton): Best Team: Ferrari Worst Team: Mercedes Best Overtake: Raikkonen on Vettel Funniest-moment: Massa tempting Kimi to knock jordans wig off Most Surprising Result: Mclaren beating Mercedes Least Surprising Result: Strong ferrari Special Mention to: Massa, good to see him up on the podium! Race Rating: 6.333/10
Best Driver: Alonso Worst Driver: Hulk Best Rookie (Gutierrez, Bottas, Van Der Garde , Bianchi, Chilton): Best Team: Ferrari Worst Team: Mercedes Best Overtake: Alonso on lap 1 Funniest-moment: i dont know Most Surprising Result: Vettel off the podium Least Surprising Result: Sutil gets terrible luck, as always Special Mention to: Sutil and Button Race Rating: 6.5/10
Best Driver: Alonso Worst Driver: Hamilton Best Rookie (Gutierrez, Bottas, Van Der Garde , Bianchi, Chilton): Gutierrez Best Team: Ferrari Worst Team: Mercedes Best Overtake: Alonso on Hamilton Funniest-moment: Most Surprising Result: Gutierrez Least Surprising Result: Alonso getting podium Special Mention to: Ricciardo Race Rating: 7/10
Best Driver: Fernando Alonso Worst Driver: Lewis Hamilton Best Rookie (Gutierrez, Bottas, Van Der Garde , Bianchi, Chilton): Gutierrez (amazingly) Best Team: Ferrari Worst Team: Williams Best Overtake: Kimi on Vettel Funniest-moment: Button passes Hamilton Most Surprising Result: After the first 10 laps, Button 8th Least Surprising Result: Mercedes fall away in the race. Special Mention to: Rosberg, Gutierrez, Perez. Race Rating: 6/10
Best Driver: Alonso, faultless. Worst Driver: Hamilton Best Rookie (Gutierrez, Bottas, Van Der Garde , Bianchi, Chilton): Best Team: Ferrari Worst Team: Mercedes, blew a front-row lock-out Best Overtake: Alonso on Lap 1 Funniest-moment: Vettel whining on the warm-up lap Most Surprising Result: Gutierrez wasn't ****! Least Surprising Result: Kimi, consistent as ever. Special Mention to: Ricciardo, Di Resta & Webber (good recovery) Race Rating: 6.491/10
Just out of interest, what happened to Sutil this time, or do you count having one of the fastest (he did beat Vettel in F3) teammates in F1 as being bad luck?
Best Driver: Alonso Worst Driver: Hulk Best Rookie (Gutierrez, Bottas, Van Der Garde , Bianchi, Chilton): Gutierrez Best Team: Ferrari Worst Team: Mercedes Best Overtake: Alonso on Kimi and Lewis Funniest-moment: The Marussia hanging onto Vettel after being lapped. Most Surprising Result: McLaren Least Surprising Result: Webber and Button going backwards at the start. Special Mention to: Kimi, Massa, Race Rating: 6/10
Best Driver: Alonso - flawless, and what an overtake on the first lap. Perfect! Worst Driver: Bottas - Hamilton and Hulk sucked but Bottas was 50 seconds behind his teammate (compared to Hamilton 30 seconds and Hulk 24 seconds behind their teammates) Best Rookie (Gutierrez, Bottas, Van Der Garde , Bianchi, Chilton): Bianchi - despite having to make an early pitstop for front wing damage, he ended the race beating Chilton by half a minute, and said "had we not had the extra stop we could have been fighting with Bottas today". WOW! John Booth said that "Jules’ recovery was particularly impressive" Best Team: Ferrari- best car and they called it perfectly with a four stop. Worst Team: Mercedes - LOL how can they suck that badly in the race? Best Overtake: Alonso's double overtake on the first lap Funniest-moment: Vettel being unable pull away from Bianchi for a while Most Surprising Result: Vettel not having the pace for the podium, Massa 9th to 3rd Least Surprising Result: Bad luck for Sutil - From being two seconds ahead of Di Resta, to being 50 seconds behind. He pulls it back to 30 seconds by the end of the race - that means without the problem he would've been fighting with Webber for 5th. Special Mention to: Other rookies deserving of a mention: Van Der Garde, Guttierrez. Drivers who deserved a better result: Sutil, Perez, Grosjean Race Rating: 9/10
His pit stop was about 30 seconds longer than it should have been. Before pitting he was 2 or 3 places ahead of di Resta and before getting held up by Hamilton was going quicker than him too
Best Driver: Alonso - pretty flawless today, no doubt helped by the support of the Spanish crowd Worst Driver: Bottas - not a good day for Williams' drivers, but of all the finishers, he had the slowest fastest lap, and somehow finished behind Maldonado Best Rookie (Gutierrez, Bottas, Van Der Garde , Bianchi, Chilton): Guitierrez - though still not convinced Best Team: Ferrari Worst Team: Mercedes Best Overtake: Alonso around outside of Hamilton at Turn 3 Funniest-moment: Father/Son banter between Massa and Rob Smedley on the BBC grid-walk Most Surprising Result: Ricciardo in the points again - don't know where he's getting all this speed from Least Surprising Result: Mclaren not making any step forward. Some would say their pace was embarrassing... Special Mention to:Pic - silencing the Marussia's Race Rating: 4/10 3 tyre delaminations in 2 grand prix. Bordering on dangerous and stupid. Pirelli's tyres were ok last year, they should have stuck with them and tried to make them have more consistent wear. My granddad suggested have only 2 tyre compounds. One is a qualifying tyre that lasts a few laps but gives a lot of grip and only used in the qualifying sessions. The second compound is only used in the race, lasts about 20 laps so we have more pit stops, and has consistent tyre wear so that we dont get this falling of the cliff nonsense or driving as slow as possible to preserve them
Best Driver: Alonso Worst Driver: Hamilton Best Rookie (Gutierrez, Bottas, Van Der Garde , Bianchi, Chilton): Bianchi, simply for managing to stay behind the Red Bull for a few laps Best Team: Ferrari Worst Team: Mercedes Best Overtake: Alonso on Hamilton on the first lap Funniest-moment: Hamilton's dog maybe? Most Surprising Result: Ricciardo scoring and Di Resta doing well AGAIN Least Surprising Result: Alonso winning Special Mention to: Di Resta and Guiterez Race Rating: 6/10
Best Driver: Alonso with a Massa running him close! Worst Driver: Hamilton, yes the car was eating its tyres but that was a pish poor effort! Best Rookie (Gutierrez, Bottas, Van Der Garde , Bianchi, Chilton): VDG, out qualified Pic in an upgrade-less car, was going OK until his tyre fell off. Best Team: Ferrari Worst Team: Mercedes Best Overtake: Alonso round the outside of 3 on the first lap Funniest-moment: Wig-gate.. told you it wasn't real Most Surprising Result: Massa fine run from 9th to 3rd. Least Surprising Result: Webbers starts! Special Mention to: The Midfield runners, if it weren't for their races the race would have been dire! Race Rating: 6/10, like Bahrain, after 15 or so laps, everyone knew who'd win!
Best Driver: Alonso Worst Driver: Valerie Bottoms Best Rookie: Gutiérrez - hurrah! Best Team: Ferrari Worst Team: Mercedes/Williams Best Overtake: Kimi on Vettel Funniest-moment: EJ and Suzi's painful Ecclestone interview Most Surprising Result: Massa back on the podium Least Surprising Result: Alonso Special Mention to: EJ and Suzi starting to work better together Race Rating: 4/10 - The tyres are taking too much away from the racing
