Bubbling Bahrain Awards !

[Sportydan]

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

 

[El_Bando]

Best Driver: Paul Di Resta?
Worst Driver: Gutierrez
Best Rookie (Gutierrez, Bottas, Van Der Garde , Bianchi, Chilton):
Best Team: Lotus
Worst Team: Sauber

Best Overtake: Alonso on Button no DRS
Funniest-moment: The hilarious Bharaini cardboard F1 car on fire
Most Surprising Result: Grosjean and Di Resta fighting for 3rd
Least Surprising Result: Fernandos bad luck. Not first time DRS has been funny

Special Mention to: Caterham, they stepped up
Race Rating: 8/10

 

[EternalMSC]

Best Driver:
Vettel
Worst Driver:
Gutierrez
Best Rookie (Gutierrez, Bottas, Van Der Garde , Bianchi, Chilton):
Bottas
Best Team:
Lotus
Worst Team:
Torro Rosso/Mercedes

Best Overtake:
Loads
Funniest-moment:
None
Most Surprising Result:
Di-Resta 4th
Least Surprising Result:
Massa Strategy Screwed, Gutierrez Being ****e

Special Mention to:
Grosjean and Perez and PDR
Race Rating: 7/10

 

[Kyle?]

Best Driver: Sergio Perez. Vettel was too obvious, so i say Perez because he manned up today and showed JB who was boss, and despite what Forza says, his move on Alonso was excellent too.
Worst Driver: The other Mexican. Why is he in F1? Seriously, if Carlos Slim wants to bankroll mexicans into F1, surely there have to be better drivers in the junior formulae
Best Rookie (Gutierrez, Bottas, Van Der Garde , Bianchi, Chilton): Bottas
Best Team: Lotus. Great strategy and a double podium
Worst Team: Lotus. Horrific qualifying that cost them a shot at a win

Best Overtake: Perez on Alonso
Funniest-moment: Brundle's reference to Nico's "drunken Rosberg movement"
Most Surprising Result: Grosjean on the podium
Least Surprising Result: Vettel on the podium

Special Mention to: Fernando Alonso, Kimi Raikkonen.
Race Rating: 6/10

 

[Forza Bianchi]

Best Driver: Pic
Worst Driver: Gutierrez
Best Rookie (Gutierrez, Bottas, Van Der Garde , Bianchi, Chilton): Bianchi, but they were all poor today
Best Team: Red Bull
Worst Team: Marussia

Best Overtake: Hamilton on Webber
Funniest-moment: Dire Resta missing out on a podium
Most Surprising Result: I expected Gutierrez to struggle but WOW!
Least Surprising Result: Vettel gets lucky

Special Mention to: Alonso for fighting back
Race Rating: 1/10

 

[DHCanary]

Best Driver: Di Resta
Worst Driver: Gutierrez
Best Rookie (Gutierrez, Bottas, Van Der Garde , Bianchi, Chilton): Bottas although nobody shone
Best Team: Caterham - found 0.5s this weekend and Pic wasn't far from Ricciardo.
Worst Team: Ferrari - why they didn't tell Alonso not to use DRS after it failed the first time is beyond me.

Best Overtake: Button, Perez and Rosberg side by side into T1
Funniest-moment: "Drunk Rosberg Move" from Brundle on commentary
Most Surprising Result: The pace of the Force India
Least Surprising Result: Vettel winning

Special Mention to: Alonso's fightback, and Pic doing a great job.
Race Rating: 7/10

 

[u408379965]

Best Driver: Vettel
Worst Driver: Gutierrez
Best Rookie: Bianchi
Best Team: Force India
Worst Team: Probably Sauber

Best Overtake: So many
Funniest-moment: Hamilton's engineer: "OK Lewis, pace is good" LH: "Doesn't feel that way man"
Most Surprising Result: Di Resta
Least Surprising Result: Another amazing race at Bahrain

Special Mention to: Grosjean, Di Resta, Hamilton, Perez, Alonso...
Race Rating: 10/10 - Amazing racing the whole way through.

 

[allsaintchris.]

So far, race rating is somewhere between 1/10 and 10/10

 

[TheJudeanPeoplesFront]

Best Driver: DI RESTA
Worst Driver: Gutierrez
Best Rookie: Bianchi
Best Team: Renault for their strategy.
Worst Team: Ferrari... every-time the same issues?

Best Overtake: Perez on Alonso
Funniest-moment: Weird commentator analogies....
Most Surprising Result: Force India pace
Least Surprising Result: Vettel pulls a gap to 2nd, eases to win, and pisses me off.

Special Mention to: Grosjean and Alonso.
Race Rating: 9/10 - Very good race, slightly marked down by Vettel's dominance. Had Kimi or Fernando not had some bad luck, it could have been a legendary race!

 

[di Fredsta!]

Best Driver: Alonso, so much bad luck and still got points
Worst Driver: Button? Way too aggressive and moaned too much
Best Rookie (Gutierrez, Bottas, Van Der Garde , Bianchi, Chilton):
Best Team: Red Bull are best yet again
Worst Team: Williams

Best Overtake: Perez on Button
Funniest-moment: di Resta cracking under pressure again
Most Surprising Result: Grosjean being good in a car which isnt the same as Kimi's
Least Surprising Result: Alonso gets unlucky/Vettel and di Resta get lucky

Special Mention to: Sutil aka the unluckiest person alive
Race Rating: 6/10

 

[Julius Caesar]

Best Driver: Di Resta
Worst Driver: Gutierrez
Best Rookie (Gutierrez, Bottas, Van Der Garde , Bianchi, Chilton): Bianchi
Best Team: Red Bull
Worst Team: Ferrari

Best Overtake: Button/Perrez/Grosjean/Rosberg
Funniest-moment: Alonso's DRS sticks open again.
Most Surprising Result: Perez 6th
Least Surprising Result: Raikkonen podium

Special Mention to: Perez, Vettel, Alonso
Race Rating: 9.5/10

 

[Max Whiplash]

Best Driver: Pérez above Grosjean and Lewis because he really fought on the limit to get his result.
Worst Driver: Gutiérrez
Best Rookie:
Best Team: Lotus
Worst Team: Ferrari threw it all away

Best Overtake: Lewis on Webber
Funniest-moment: Lewis on team radio
Most Surprising Result: Pérez
Least Surprising Result: Vettel

Special Mention to: Grosjean, Lewis, di Resta, Alonso and Maldonado for heroic drives
Race Rating: 9/10

 

[Paco Montoya]

Best Driver: Grosjean
Worst Driver: Gutierrez
Best Rookie (Gutierrez, Bottas, Van Der Garde , Bianchi, Chilton): Bianchi, just about
Best Team: Lotus
Worst Team: Williams

Best Overtake: Anyone involving Rosberg
Funniest-moment: Drunk Rosberg
Most Surprising Result: di Resta
Least Surprising Result: from lap 3 onwards - Vettel

Special Mention to: Pic, Alonso, di Resta
Race Rating: 9/10 - had everything bar a fight for the lead

 

[StoneRosesRam]

Best Driver: Grosjean
Worst Driver: Gutierrez
Best Rookie (Gutierrez, Bottas, Van Der Garde , Bianchi, Chilton): Bottas
Best Team: Lotus
Worst Team: Ferrari (Why send Alonso back out and make him use DRS?)

Best Overtake: Any of Alonso's without DRS
Funniest-moment: Brundle's hilarous reference to Rosberg 'drunk movement'
Most Surprising Result: Grosjean's pace
Least Surprising Result: Mercedes tyre wear being awful

Special Mention to: Kimi, Lewis, Sergio for stellar drives. Thought Alonso drove superbly as well considering his problems
Race Rating: 9/10

 

[cosicave]

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Race Rating: 1/10

What? !! I thought you knew something about motor racing, Forza.

 

[cosicave]

Best Driver: di Resta/Vettel
Worst Driver: Gutierrez
Best Rookie: Bianchi
Best Team: Lotus
Worst Team: Ferrari

Best Overtake: So many really good battles it is a very difficult choice. I think the absolute best was, after a titanic battle, probably Hamilton on Webber.
Funniest-moment: Button asking his team to slow Perez down!
Most Surprising Result: Alonso finishing so far back.
Least Surprising Result: Vettel win.

Special Mention to: McLaren for not calling the shots despite desperate racing between their team mates. This team is probably the best example of 'sportsmen' (and women) in F1 today, closely followed by Lotus.
Race Rating: 9/10. A classic. Not quite a 10 because there was no realistic struggle for top spot on the podium.

 

[DHCanary]

Worst Team: Caterham/Ferrari

What? They were half a second faster than last week, and Pic comfortably beat the Marussia's, and wasn't far off Ricciardo. Van Der Gaarde tangled in the first corner with Vergne, although from what I've seen it wasn't his fault. To call them the worst team seems pretty harsh, or am I missing something?

 

[BrightLampShade]

Best Driver: Perez - First thought was Vettel but for the turn around in form it has to be Perez
Worst Driver: Gutierrez - Obvs
Best Rookie (Gutierrez, Bottas, Van Der Garde , Bianchi, Chilton): Bottas
Best Team: Lotus
Worst Team: Williams

Best Overtake: LH on Webber, although Perez in general was entertaining
Funniest-moment: Drunk Rosberg
Most Surprising Result: di Resta 4th. Although Hamilton 5th compared to what was happening mid race
Least Surprising Result: Lotus

Special Mention to: Vettel, di Resta, Hamilton, Alonso
Race Rating: 9/10 - Shame about the 0 battle for the win but the rest of the battles was amazeballs.

 

[JonnyBaws]

Best Driver: between Vettel, Paul Di Resta and Perez, will give to Perez.
Worst Driver: Esteban
Best Rookie (Gutierrez, Bottas, Van Der Garde , Bianchi, Chilton): Bottas
Best Team: Lotus
Worst Team: Ferrari, the DRS is broke, tell Alonso not to use the bleeding thing!

Best Overtake: Which one? Hard to narrow down anyone in particular!
Funniest-moment: Bernie on Radio Five Live not ruling out a race in Syria!
Most Surprising Result: Alonso not making the podium
Least Surprising Result: Sutil badluck?

Special Mention to: all drivers from 4 to 10th, well bloody done!
Race Rating: 8/10, lack of race for the lead cost it a higher rating.

 

[cosicave]

What? They were half a second faster than last week, and Pic comfortably beat the Marussia's, and wasn't far off Ricciardo. Van Der Gaarde tangled in the first corner with Vergne, although from what I've seen it wasn't his fault. To call them the worst team seems pretty harsh, or am I missing something?

Actually, you're quite right, DHC. I must have had a 'Forza' moment! (No offence intended, Forza. But DHC has corrected my memory lapse). I'll go back and change it.

Thanks DHC.