Best Driver: Worst Driver: Best Rookie: Best Team: Worst Team: Best Overtake: Most Surprising Result: Least Surprising Result: Funniest moment: Excuse of the week: Special Mention: Best post from the race thread: Race Rating: ?/10
Best Driver: Alonso, (I've tried to ignore a 1st place Merc as much as possible this season) Worst Driver: Verstappen Best Rookie: Palmer? Best Team: Mercedes Worst Team:Manor Best Overtake: Verstappen on Alonso Most Surprising Result: Alonso 5th Least Surprising Result: Mercedes 1-2 Funniest moment: Verstappen Excuse of the week: they told me to push so I thought...... Special Mention: Hamilton, drove an almost perfect race Best post from the race thread: Race Rating: 7.5/10 I thought it was a good race with plenty of action down the field, some sensible stewarding (must've been Blundells early flight)
Best Driver: Alonso Worst Driver: Bottas, outperformed by a retiring Massa Best Rookie: Palmer, but why is he so angry at the moment? Best Team: Merc Worst Team: Manor Best Overtake: who did Verstappen overtake during the first sequence of corners? Most Surprising Result: Sauber decent Least Surprising Result: Merc 1-2 Funniest moment: Kimi trying to work out what to do without a handbrake. Excuse of the week: I thought you called me in. Special Mention: Sainz Best post from the race thread: Hardly any posts about the race... hmmm Race Rating: 5/10 not the best in the first few spots, a little more action in the midfield.
Alonso, Max had just come out of the pits (the time he was actually called in), he could've waited a few corners but he showed why he's enjoyable to watch.
Best Driver: Sainz Worst Driver: Palmer Best Rookie: Meh Best Team: Merc Worst Team: Sauber Best Overtake: Max on Alonso Most Surprising Result: Sainz Least Surprising Result: Merc podiu Funniest moment: Max burning out his tyres and then pitting early Excuse of the week: Special Mention: The VSC - not fit for purpose Best post from the race thread: Race Rating: 6.5/10
Best Driver: Alonso. Hamilton also superb but Alonso's drive was the greater challenge. Worst Driver: Despite his excellent overtake, mentioned below: Kvyat. Best Rookie: Palmer. Best Team: Mercedes. Worst Team: Ferrari. Best Overtake: Verstappen on Alonso early on. Also worthy of note: Palmer on Nasr (mid-race) and Kvyat on Ericsson towards the end. Most Surprising Result: Alonso 5th. Least Surprising Result: Mercedes domination. Funniest moment: Communication problems at Red Bull. Excuse of the week: Someone please tell me what excuses booing any driver who gets on the podium… Special Mention: Button had a great drive too. Race Rating: 7.48/10 Edit to follow … [Edit: blanks now filled. Thanks for your effort to help, EMSC; but I've been meaning to complete these award threads for all recent races]
