A simple extended version of the race awards Best Drivers: 1st: 2nd: 3rd: Worst Drivers: 1st: 2nd: 3rd: Best Rookie (Magnussen, Kvyat, Ericsson): Best Teams: 1st: 2nd: Worst Teams: 1st: 2nd: Best Overtake: Funniest-moment: Most Surprising: Least Surprising: Special Mentions to: Season Rating: /10
Best Drivers: 1st: Vergne 2nd: Ricciardo 3rd: Button Not a lot of people have noticed how badly JEV has thrashed Kvyat this season, and his race pace all year has been pretty much as good as it can be, bar one or two races, he's massively improved his qualifying although it's still slightly iffy, but I think he's been the best driver of the year. Worst Drivers: 1st: Kobayashi 2nd: Raikkonen 3rd: Ericsson Best Rookie (Magnussen, Kvyat, Ericsson): Magnussen by a country mile. Best Teams: 1st: Mercedes 2nd: Marussia Worst Teams: 1st: Lotus 2nd: Williams - So much lost potential because of bad drivers and bad strategy calls Best Overtake: Can't really remember much, will edit when I remember! Funniest-moment: See above. Most Surprising: Rosberg dominates in qualifying... Nobody saw that coming. Least Surprising: Hamilton fans claim he's god after winning in the best car of all time Special Mentions to: Button - Deserves a drive but will likely end up without Alonso - Out performed the car yet again, will be missed at Ferrari Bottas - Most overrated driver of the season, even Webber has better starts and race pace! Force India - One of the best driver line-ups for such a "small team" Season Rating: 5/10 - Didn't really enjoy it all that much, needs more than one car being the best.
1st: Ricciardo 2nd: Hamilton 3rd: Alonso 1st: Maldonado 2nd: Sutil 3rd: Gutierrez *(Magnussen, Kvyat, Ericsson): Kvyat 1st: Mercedes 2nd: Williams 1st: Lotus 2nd: Sauber Best Overtake: Ricciardo on many many people. Funniest-moment: Abu Dhabi pre race presser. Most Surprising: Williams pace. Ricciardo and Alonso schooling teammates. Least Surprising: RBR cheated. Special Mentions to: Jules and Michael. We need you up and about again. Season Rating: 8/10
Best Drivers: 1st: Hamilton 2nd: Bottas 3rd: Ricciardo (Sorry Nico...) Worst Drivers: 1st: Sutil 2nd: Gutierrez 3rd: Raikkonen Best Rookie (Magnussen, Kvyat, Ericsson): Best Teams: 1st: Mercedes 2nd: Williams Worst Teams: 1st: Ferrari 2nd: Lotus Best Overtake: Ricciardo on Vettel into the second chicane at Monza Funniest-moment: No idea, Lotus mechanics laughing at Maldo's flaming car was amusing though. Most Surprising: Not just how strong Williams were, but Massa's renaissance. Least Surprising: Mercedes dominating the championship was obvious from pre-season Special Mentions to: Rosberg, Vergne, Kvyat, Bianchi. No doubt others I'm missing Season Rating: 7/10
Best Drivers: 1st: Ricciardo 2nd: Hamilton 3rd: Rosberg Worst Drivers: 1st: Gutierrez 2nd: Sutil 3rd: Raikkonen Best Rookie (Magnussen, Kvyat, Ericsson): Kvyat by an absolute hair from Magnussen purely because he had a few standout moments whereas KMag was probably overall more consistent but can't help but feel he was a bit of a letdown a few times too. Though also credit to Ericsson, after looking like a total donkey for nearly half the season and even getting owned by anybody who showed up to drive the other Caterham, he started to get it together then ended up being pretty immense for 2 or 3 races. Best Teams: 1st: Mercedes 2nd: Williams Worst Teams: 1st: Sauber 2nd: Ferrari (Lotus spared purely because their main letdown was the Renault, still maintain the car wasn't bad but losing Fric hurt them hard just when they had unlocked more pace). Best Overtake: can't remember many, Ricciardo had several. Funniest-moment: Grosjeans persistent outbursts on radio. Most Surprising: Vettel getting pretty much owned over the season by Ricciardo, Raikkonen just being poor, the cars reliability being better than expected, Lotus aside! Least Surprising: Mercedes pace advantage, 2 horse title race. Special Mentions to: Bottas, impressive year. Bianchi for several good drives and scoring in Monaco, Vergne for much improved form, Force India for their fight with McLaren, Button for being consistently good. Season Rating: 5/10
Best Drivers: 1st: Hamilton 2nd: Ricciardo 3rd: Bottas Worst Drivers: 1st: Raikkonen 2nd: Kobayashi 3rd: Sutil Best Rookie: Can't choose between Magnussen and Kvyat Best Teams: 1st: Mercedes 2nd: Williams Worst Teams: 1st: Ferrari 2nd: Lotus but it was close with McLaren Best Overtake: The best was Lewis on Nico in Austin but my favourite was Vergne on Grosjean in the same race Funniest-moment: Suzi: "Nicole is kissing Lewis's helmet. I don't know if he can feel it." Most Surprising: Massa's renaissance Least Surprising: Vettel ain't all that Special Mentions to: Jules Bianchi for his points as well as wishing him well; Alonso worked so hard for so little gain Season Rating: 7.5/10
Best Drivers: 1st: Ricciardo 2nd: Hamilton 3rd: Bottas pips Button. Worst Drivers: 1st: Raikkonen 2nd: Gutierrez 3rd: Maldonado Best Rookie (Magnussen, Kvyat, Ericsson): Kvyat, though honestly im not convinced by any of them. Best Teams: 1st: Mercedes 2nd: Williams Worst Teams: 1st: Lotus 2nd: Sauber Best Overtake: Ricciardo on Hamilton(?) in hungary Funniest-moment: Most Surprising: Ricciardo thrashes Vettel Least Surprising: Mercedes pace. Special Mentions to: Jules Bianchi. Season Rating: 7/10 Dull title fight, but decent racing.
Best Drivers: 1st: Ricciardo. Stuffed Vettel pretty much all season, showed great racing and overtaking ability. To out race a 4xWDC in 'their' team at the first time of asking is very impressive. Deserved his wins, Hungary was excellent. 2nd: Hamilton. 11 wins, only Rosberg beating him in qualifying knocks him off the top. Did only what was required to win each race and always looked in control when leading, unlike Rosberg. 3rd: Just going to give this to Bottas, though lots of other contenders that could have got it. Rosberg made too many mistakes, Button only got it together in the 2nd half and Alonso drove well but seemed deflated at times. Worst Drivers: 1st: Sutil. Seriously unimpressed with him this year. 2nd: Kobyashi. Such a shame. 3rd: Maldonado. Still too many crashes in between the odd decent performance. We have our new Andrea de Cesaris (RIP) Best Rookie (Magnussen, Kvyat, Ericsson): Magnussen Best Teams: 1st: Mercedes. Who else? [/COLOR]2nd: Williams. Great resurgence, need to hone their race craft to make it back to the top step Worst Teams: 1st: Sauber. No points for the first time in their history 2nd: Caterham. No progress again. Best Overtake: No real humdingers, but some good scrapping at various points. Funniest-moment: Vettel "tough luck" when asked to move over for Ricciardo. Most Surprising: Williams keeping pace all year and actually closing the gap to Mercedes Least Surprising: Mercedes total domination. ROS/HAM no longer chummy chums once the pressure of fighting for a WDC came in. Hamilton haters crying about him having the best car and making out that his fans think he is god as a result (not true on this forum where reaction has been pretty muted and acknowledge he had dominant car) Special Mentions to: Jules Bianchi. Season Rating: 6/10 Would have been better if more pressure could have been put on Mercedes, but an entertaining battle between the Silver Arrows
Best Drivers: 1st: Hamilton 2nd: Ricciardo 3rd: Rosberg Worst Drivers: 1st: Raikkonen 2nd: Sutil 3rd: Ericsson Best Rookie (Magnussen, Kvyat, Ericsson): Best Teams: 1st: Mercedes 2nd: Williams Worst Teams: 1st: Caterham 2nd: Mclaren Best Overtake: The many duels of Ricciardo and Alonso Funniest-moment: please log in to view this image Most Surprising: Ricciardo making Vettel look ordinary. Least Surprising: Mercedes dominating. we knew it was going to happen (after tyregate) Special Mentions to: Jules Bianchi. He was going to be a star. Very sad day in Suzuka Season Rating: 4/10 - wasn't great. Poorly promoted, poor races, Uneventful outcome
Best Drivers: 1st: Ricciardo 2nd: Hamilton 3rd: Bottas Worst Drivers: 1st: Ericsson 2nd: Raikkonen 3rd: Gutierrez Best Rookie (Magnussen, Kvyat, Ericsson): Best Teams: 1st: Mercedes 2nd: Williams Worst Teams: 1st: Ferrari 2nd: Lotus Best Overtake: Any of Ricciardo's non-DRS overtakes Funniest-moment: Jenson going all sarcastic for a weekend Most Surprising: How bad Raikkonen was Least Surprising: Bernie contradicting what he says every time he speaks Special Mentions to: Jules Season Rating: 5/10 - were some decent races in there, but dominance of Mercedes made it pretty dreary
An simple extended version of the race awards Best Drivers: 1st: Riccardo 2nd: Alonso 3rd: Button Worst Drivers: 1st: Chilton 2nd: Maldanado 3rd: Kimi Best Rookie (Magnussen, Kvyat, Ericsson): Kvyat Best Teams: 1st: Merc 2nd: Williams Worst Teams: 1st: McLaren 2nd: Sauber Best Overtake: Riccardo on many Funniest-moment: How bad Crofty is every race weekend. Most Surprising:Nico beating Lewis in quali Least Surprising: A Merc driver winning the championship Special Mentions to: Alonso & Button for hauling **** round all season and thrashing their team mates. Williams & FI for mixing it with the establishment. Season Rating: 4/10
