•Best Driver: Vettel. •Worst Driver: Button or hamilton. Had the best car. •Best Rookie(Grosjean,Pic,Ricciardo,Vergne): Grosjean •Best Team: Lotus •Worst Team: McLaren not helped by there drivers. •Best Overtake:None really all DRS. •Funniest-moment: hamiltons pitstops hahahaha. •Most Surprising Result: Kimi getting on the podium. •Least Surprising Result: hamilton not winning. •Special Mention to: Di Resta •Race Rating: 5/10 •Best Commentator overall: MB
I think you'll find that the McLaren drivers weren't helped by the team, not the way you've put it. They have 2 of the best drivers in F1.
^ Well done Kyle on picking out that truly silly statement from Trilogy. Some people don't have a clue do they and merely just show what idiots they can be at times. Best Driver: Raikkonen Worst Driver: No one. May have drove too aggressively but hey that's racing. Can't help but think though that if Lewis or Schumi did that they'd be penalised. Once again the FIA's consistency is terrible. Best Rookie(Grosjean,Pic,Ricciardo,Vergne): Grosjean. What can I say. The second good race in a row. Making up for the sheer incompetence he gave us in the first two races. Best Team: Lotus Worst Team: McLaren - dear oh dear. I would like to know what Lewis was thinking in his head with the cock ups in the pits. For such a great team the incompetence for that team to address it's issues is unacceptable. They let Lewis down badly today. Best Overtake: Raikkonen had plenty. Beautiful race craft from the Finn. Funniest-moment: Can't think of any Most Surprising Result: Least Surprising Result: Special Mention to: Felipe Massa. Drove brilliantly today amid so much criticism. Keep up this form Felipe! Also Schumacher from 22nd to 10th in a race where the standard was very high. He drove excellently and better than his team. Race Rating: 7.5/10 Best Commentator overall: Ben Edwards and DC again. Watched the race live on an internet stream as well. Always a pleasure listening to Brundle though but the BBC guys take it.
Just watched the highlights so from that edit here are my awards: Best Driver: Kimi Worst Driver: - Best Rookie(Grosjean,Pic,Ricciardo,Vergne): Grosjean Best Team: Lotus Worst Team: Mclaren Best Overtake: Schumi v Kobayashi Funniest-moment: Alonso's pure rage at being forced off the track, good job he didnt have a machine gun strapped to the front of the car Most Surprising Result: Lotus Least Surprising Result: Webber p4 Special Mention to: Kimi, showed he is still a great racer Race Rating:7 /10 Best Commentator overall:
Best Driver: Vettel - Just beating Raikkonen in my eyes Worst Driver: Rosberg - Probably undeserved but no one else jumps to mind Best Rookie(Grosjean,Pic,Ricciardo,Vergne): Grosjean Best Team: Lotus Worst Team: McLaren x a million billion trillion Best Overtake: Hamilton round Rosberg for drama, but there were probably better Funniest-moment: - Most Surprising Result: The Lotus' Least Surprising Result: Alonso Special Mention to: di Resta Race Rating: 6/10 Best Commentator overall: Edwards
Best Driver: Hamilton - although this was heavily camouflaged by his team. Worst Driver: Rosberg: his 'defending' was out of order - first against Hamilton and then against Alonso. (Although Alonso failed to pass, where Hamilton succeeded, Rosberg's defence was actually worst against the McLaren). Best Rookie: Grosjean: a great performance. Best Team: Lotus Worst Team: McLaren. Disgraceful. Perhaps the first error on Hamilton's car damaged the thread: this might explain the second. But whatever the case, those two stops were critical and completely destroyed Hamilton's race. Best Overtake: Some good examples such the di Resta's 'double', but Hamilton on Rosberg clinches it for sheer, gutsy determination - which required outrageously good braking to complete the move. Funniest-moment: Schumacher's whinging interview about Formula 1: which I will paraphrase as 'a formula he clearly cannot get to grips with'. Actually; not funny so much as pathetic. Most Surprising Result: Lotus so strong in the race. Least Surprising Result: McLaren's disastrous pit-crew. Special Mention: Schumacher: get out if you don't like losing, before you become an embarrassment. Race Rating: 8/10 Best Commentator: Ben Edwards
If you were to have a gearbox problem in the first race, be crashed out by a rookie in the 2nd , have a wheel nut failure in the 3rd.. and have a DRS-gearbox failure again in the same weekend so you had to start 22nd, and then fight up for 10th. I am sure you would be whinging if you could not put your foot down in the race. Hamilton - Raikkonen are two other examples, very attacking drivers who have lost out slightly because of the pathetic tyres given only for viewer entertainment, how are the drivers meant to show their true potential if one of the key tools are lacking in durability? Raikkonen could have won the race today, but his one chance given by the tyres was not enough.. if you were watching this in 2008-2009 he would have been on the top step of the podium. And that's the truth. -F1 is becoming more like a game of chess rather than a proper full blown race, and it's sad to see. Many fans agree with Michael, check the article on Sky Sports F1. Rosberg got away free from deserved punishment today, but the "one move for defence" rule was completely shredded to pieces by nearly every driver on the grid. F1 is a mess at the moment.
Thanks for that fixing up above Miggins Best Driver: Raikkonen - Great race, maybe he could have won, but 2nd is still a great result Worst Driver: Ricciardo - I thought he was in for a good points finish, but i was a little wrong... Best Rookie: Grosjean - Great comeback for Romain Best Team: Lotus - Nice set up, and Tyres worked well, one mistake was not to bring in Raikkonen earlier or later Worst Team: Mclaren - Mostly for their pit stops, absolute joke Best Overtake: Raikkonen on Webber was sweet Funniest-moment: Alonso trying to get a slip stream Most Surprising Result: 2 lotuses on the podium Least Surprising Result: Mercedes being weaker Special Mention to: Paul Di Resta making a 2 stopper work Race Rating: 8/10 Best Commentator overall: Brundle
The Pirelli tyres aren't stopping him putting his foot down and running a sprint race if that's what he wants to do. He just needs to run a different strategy. That's how the McLarens ended up on the podium in China. Schumacher's problem is that he wants to be able to determine everybody else's strategy so that he's not at a disadvantage. I for one am much happier watching a race in which drivers have to think and manage the situation, pushing when appropriate, instead of just running flat out for the entire duration. Having a race determined in realtime by driver tactics instead of being preordained by pit wall strategy is far more satisfying. If the difference between a two-stop and a three-stop race is marginal then we get the great racing we've had this season instead of the processions Schumacher used to lead.
Best Driver: Raikkonen Worst Driver: Massa...No wait he was pretty decent.... erm.... Maldonardo Best Rookie(Grosjean,Pic,Ricciardo,Vergne): Grosjean Best Team: Lotus Worst Team: Williams Best Overtake: Grosjean on Hamilton / Kimi on Webber Funniest-moment: Vettel Tyres joke to kimi Most Surprising Result: Red bull were top this time Least Surprising Result: Protesters not making the most of their opertunity on the world stage Special Mention to: Kovalainen out qualifying MS Race Rating: 7/10 Best Commentator overall: Brundle
Total for season : Best Driver Jenson Button (1) Fernando Alonso (1) Nico Rosberg (1) Kimi Raikkonen (1) Worst Driver Felipe Massa (3) Kimi Raikkonen (1) Sergio Perez (1) Nico Rosberg (1) Best Rookie Romain Grosjean (2) Daniel Ricciardo (1) Jean Eric Vergne (1) Best Team Mclaren (1) Mercedes (1) Sauber (1) Lotus Renault (1) Worst Team HRT (2) Mclaren (2) Ferrari (1) Best Race Malaysia (8.92) China (8.82) Australia (7.92) Bahrain (6.76)
Massa didnt get worst driver!!!!! It's a miracle. Although i think people voted for Rosberg for being "dangerous" rather than bad. Ricciardo dropped like 12 places in one lap.
Unanimous vote for Grosjean. Near-unanimous for Lotus too, who disagreed and who did they vote for? I'm assuming Red Bull. Also stunned that the race rating average is so low, I thought it was a cracker. Petered out a bit towards the end but still!
I did not put Lotus as best team (I put Red Bull), I actually put Lotus as the worst team . Reason for this was while yes Mclaren cocked stuff up a bit, their mistakes only costed them a few more points for Hamilton but that is all. I felt though that Lotus could of won the races if they had wanted to but were too timid to try and do so. They could of done this two ways; one was to let Raikkonen passed Grosjean straight away (he was clearly faster and by not doing so all they did was hold Kimi up for a few laps and prevent them from winning), if they had done this then Kimi would of jumped Vettel. The second way was that they should of brought Raikkonen a lap earlier to try undercut Vettel (the previous pitstop Kimi had pitted a lap before Vettel and took out almost 3 seconds of Vettel's lead), however despite having new tyres compared to Vettel's scrubbed tyres Lotus were too scared to try it because of what happend in China. Lotus even said after the race that they did not want to get too greedy and try and win the race, which to me is completely ridiculous for a F1 team to say. So while Mclaren's mistakes cost them a few more points, Lotus' mistakes cost them a possible race win, which is why I chose them as the worst team.
