Best Driver: Worst Driver: Luckiest Driver: Unluckiest Driver: Best Rookie/New Driver: Best Team: Surprise Team: Worst Team: Best Overtake: Most Surprising Result: Least Surprising Result: Funniest moment: Excuse of the week: Special Mention: Best post in race thread: Race Rating: ?/10
Best Driver: Hamilton Worst Driver: Bottas Luckiest Driver: Significance wise Vettel, but Max and Bottas saved a potentially very embarrassing result Unluckiest Driver: Both of the Hass drivers Best Rookie/New Driver: CL did what he had to Best Team: Merc on outright performance but pound for pound Hass Surprise Team: RB, genuinely a very fast package. Worst Team: Too early to judge really, but FI get a shout for their drop off and Ferrari for not advancing as much as they needed to. Best Overtake: Ricc Most Surprising Result: Three chassis reasonably close in the initial stages Least Surprising Result: The class of 1: Lewis/Merc combo Funniest moment: I just wanted to wipe that smile of your face.....oh dear. Excuse of the week: We had an alga rhythm problem Special Mention: Lewis, and Ricc Best post from the race thread: Race Rating: 6.2/10 but only because of the VSC
Best Driver: Hamilton. Nothing he did wrong. Worst Driver: Sirotkin. Showed me nothing. LuckiestDriver: Vettel. Unluckiest Driver: Hamilton Best Rookie/New Driver: leclerc Best Team: Ferrari Surprise Team: Haas Worst Team: Williams Best Overtake: Ricciardo. Most Surprising Result: Alonso 5th Least Surprising Result: Raikkonen podium Funniest moment: Raikkonen doesn' Want champagne.... Excuse of the week: software... really? Special Mention: hulk is on it again Best post from the race thread: Race Rating: 6/10
Best Driver: Alonso Worst Driver: Weekend-wise, Bottas, race Verstappen. Luckiest Driver: Vettel Unluckiest Driver: Magnusson, he lost the most. Best Rookie/New Driver: Leclerc finished, so him. Best Team: Ferrari, though the Merc was class of the field. Surprise Team: Haas, until the tyre change anyway Worst Team: Sadly it has to be Haas Best Overtake: Ricciardo (on Hulk?) Most Surprising Result: Alonso Least Surprising Result: Honda breakdown Funniest moment: The pre-race interview was hilarious, especially Kimi Excuse of the week: "software problem" for another Mercedes strategy fail. Special Mention: Hamilton, unlucky not to walk it. Sergio Marchionne's stint as a Haas pit crew member Best post from the race thread: Race Rating: 6/10
Best Driver: Hamilton / Alonso Worst Driver: Pound for pound, Bottas Luckiest Driver: Vettel Unluckiest Driver: Magnussen Best Rookie/New Driver: Leclerc Best Team: Ferrari Surprise Team: Haas have raised Mansell's eyebrows. Now last year's Ferraris just need to be trimmed into shape… Worst Team: Haas Best Overtake: Ricciardo Most Surprising Result: Räikkönen quicker than Vettel all weekend Least Surprising Result: Vettel finishing ahead of Räikkönen, despite the above! Funniest moment: From Vettel's perspective, having the last laugh on Hamilton must be absolutely hilarious! Excuse of the week: I'm not impressed by Mercedes' claim of a software glitch. I think it was a straightforward case of complacency. Special Mention: Grosjean for being just as unlucky as his team mate; but also for his inconsiderate parking. Race Rating: 6.23/10
Best Driver: Hamilton Worst Driver: Bottas by a mile Luckiest Driver: Vettel by a mile Unluckiest Driver: Magnussen. did well was let down there Best Rookie/New Driver: Leclerc. not many options here Best Team: probably Ferrari just. Surprise Team:Haas Worst Team: Williams just cos. Best Overtake: Ricciardo as it was just about only one. Most Surprising Result: alonso making 5th Least Surprising Result: haas blew up Funniest moment: meh Excuse of the week: everyone has said it. Special Mention: Race Rating: 4/10
