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 Best Commentator/Presenter:
Best Driver: Rosberg Worst Driver: Grosjean Best Rookie (Gutierrez, Bottas, Van Der Garde , Bianchi, Chilton): Best Team: Mercedes Worst Team: Ferrari Best Overtake: Sutil on Alonso (Perez's moves were stupid in my opinion and proven in the end the reason why) Funniest-moment: Button Blocking Perez to the pits Most Surprising Result: VDG in qualifying Least Surprising Result: A mercedes pole position Special Mention to: Kimi getting a point Race Rating: 5.999/10
Best Driver: Nico Rosberg. Perfect weekend Worst Driver: Romain Grosjean. Opposite of a perfect weekend. Best Rookie (Gutierrez, Bottas, Van Der Garde , Bianchi, Chilton): Giedo Van Der Garde Best Team: Mercedes, despite the dodgy tyre test Worst Team: Ferrari. This car won 2 weeks ago. Best Overtake: Perez on Button Funniest-moment: Most Surprising Result: Alonso being so far back Least Surprising Result: Vettel on podium Special Mention to: Adrian Sutil, for getting a girlfriend despite being obviously gay (allegedly) Race Rating: /10
Best Driver: Nico Rosberg Worst Driver: Roman Grosjean Best Rookie (Gutierrez, Bottas, Van Der Garde , Bianchi, Chilton): Van Der Garde Best Team: Mercedes Worst Team: Williams Best Overtake: Sutil on Alonso Funniest-moment: Button blocks Perez into the pits Most Surprising Result: Mercedes great race pace Least Surprising Result: Grosjean crashed Special Mention to: Adrian Sutil, quick, clean and opportunist, great stuff. Race Rating: 6.5/10, Boring for large periods, but some great, if infrequent, peaks of excitement.
Best Driver: Rosberg Worst Driver: Grosjean Best Rookie (Gutierrez, Bottas, Van Der Garde , Bianchi, Chilton): Van Der Garde? Best Team: Mercedes - shocker Worst Team: Marussia - Why turn up, so many faults all weekend Best Overtake: Perez's Funniest-moment: ermmm Most Surprising Result: Mercedes 1,4 Least Surprising Result: Vettel Podium, and Vettel going for fastest lap Special Mention to: Sutil Race Rating: 6/10
Best Driver: Sutil Worst Driver: Alonso Best Rookie (Gutierrez, Bottas, Van Der Garde , Bianchi, Chilton): None of them. Best Team: Mercedes Worst Team: Marussia, by a long long long long long long long long long long long long way. Best Overtake: I agree with others Perez's moves were just reckless. Absolute stupidity most of them, and others being forced to move over because he's essentially forced them off the track, rather than overtaking them, is pathetic stewarding. So you can't stick one down the inside if someone decides to turn in because it's your fault, but if the other car sees you being silly and decides not to crash it's their fault??? . Sutil's overtakes were better, his on Button's was the best one. Funniest-moment: Croft's erection at a replay of the first or second lap, where Button fights with Perez and Hamilton fights with Vettel, because even though we've just seen that all the cars are spread out from real-time, he doesn't realise it's a replay. Most Surprising Result: The safety car reigns supreme Least Surprising Result: The stewards having no braincells Special Mention to: Rosberg. Clearly faster than Hamilton, has been so all season long with one exception. Race Rating: 3/10. Yay crashes... Booo no decent racing.
I rue my decision not to include Webber as a candidate for worst driver. What happened to the hellbent on revenge, "this is the last time walla" Aussie we could get on board with? No no, he's cemented his place as a crying, pathetic patsy who hasn't got the balls or talent to take on Vettel or nail him to the Monaco street signs, considering that's the closest he'll smell him all season now.
Best Driver: Rosberg Worst Driver: Romain Best Rookie (Gutierrez, Bottas, Van Der Garde , Bianchi, Chilton): VDG Best Team: Mercedes Worst Team: Ferrari Best Overtake: Sutil on Alonso Funniest-moment: Crofty getting very excited over reply Most Surprising Result: Alonso finishing behind his start position Least Surprising Result: A safety car or two Special Mention to: Sutil was quality Race Rating: 5.5/10
Best Driver: Rosberg Worst Driver: Crashjean, Perez Best Rookie (Gutierrez, Bottas, Van Der Garde , Bianchi, Chilton): I don't think any were good today Best Team: Mercedes Worst Team: Marussia Best Overtake: I didn't like watching it, but Sutil's overtake on Alonso was very good. Funniest-moment: Button on the radio. Most Surprising Result: Alonso's bad race Least Surprising Result: When will the luck run out for Vettel? Special Mention to: Sutil, aggressive but not an idiot. Race Rating: 0/10 - Too many SC's and red flags, very little overtaking, Vettel lucky with SC, bad day for Alonso, Massa and Bianchi. A race to forget.
Gandalf, eat a snickers. Why? Because you turn into the Eye of Sauron when you're hungry. Better? Better.
Best Driver: Flipper Thanks to AG for focusing my mind on this one Worst Driver: Chilton Best Rookie: Van Der Garde Best Team: Mercedes Worst Team: Ferrari Best Overtake: Pérez on Button or Sutil on Alonso Funniest-moment: Little Jack Horner doing his 'serious face' Most Surprising Result: Adrian 'Flipper' Sutil Least Surprising Result: Vettel with the luck of the devil, as usual Special Mention to: Maldonado and Bianchi, both plagued by bad luck all weekend: better luck next time! Race Rating: 6/10
Best Driver: Rosberg Worst Driver: Grosjean Best Rookie (Gutierrez, Bottas, Van Der Garde , Bianchi, Chilton): Van Der Garde Best Team: Mercedes Worst Team: Maurissa Best Overtake: Perez on Button Funniest-moment: Brundle's comment 'all the KERS In the world' Most Surprising Result: Sutil being fifth Least Surprising Result: Kimi angry with Perez Special Mention to: Vettel and Di Resta Race Rating: 8/10
Best Driver: hard one, up until he got swiped by Raikonen it was Perez for me, risky overtakes, yeah, but that's what you have to do at Monaco Worst Driver: ermm Grosjean or chilton Best Rookie (Gutierrez, Bottas, Van Der Garde , Bianchi, Chilton): VDG somehow Best Team: hmm, should be Merc but the tyre test leaves a very bad taste in my mouth Worst Team: Caterham Best Overtake: the man who beat Vettel years ago Funniest-moment: Vettel showing just how much of a joke F1 and it's tyres are, and why Monaco should be dropped, by doing a lap 2 secs faster than anyone else when he didn't need t conserve tyres Most Surprising Result: Alonso finishing odff the podium Least Surprising Result: Button whining about his team-mate actually racing Special Mention to: he who shall not be named coming from 17th to 9th Race Rating: 0.01/10 Monaco and race don't really belong in the same sentence EDITED: oops, lol, forgot to put Sutil as my DoD he's always been like that, just people seem to think that Aussies are nice for some reason.
Best Driver: Sutil-showed it was possible to overtake without putting both cars at risk. PDR was also reasonably good at this. Worst Driver: Alonso-by his own high standards, his defensive driving was very poor. Grosjean also in contention. Best Rookie (Gutierrez, Bottas, Van Der Garde , Bianchi, Chilton): Bottas - I think the only one to have a clean race. Best Team: Mercedes - Without Hamilton's mistake they'd probably have had a 1-2. Worst Team: Marussia - Pretty hard choice between them and Caterham, both poor. Best Overtake: Sutil on Button(?) Funniest-moment: EJ's "Button needs an injection of speed" in qualifying. Crofty ran him close though Most Surprising Result: Sutil fifth Least Surprising Result: Seb petulance over the radio Special Mention to: Di Resta Race Rating: 4/10
Best Driver: Sutil - Everyone else seemed to be reckless and out of control, or just lapping to a delta. Sutil was controlled and aggressive, top stuff. Worst Driver: Perez - What the **** was Whitmarsh thinking telling him to be more aggressive? I wouldn't be surprised if he closes his eyes when he brakes. He just kept it on track when he streaked up the inside of Button and Alonso, more by luck than judgement. Then completely out of control with his first attempt on Raikkonen, luckily Kimi saw him coming and didn't get t-boned, not so luck the next time when he got rear ended. Grosjean had a shocker too. I don't think I've seen anyone crash in the way Massa did, certainly not twice. Chilton had a mare too. Best Rookie: Bottas - Never driven here and beat his Monaco-specialist team mate. Was scrapping for Williams' first point of the season right until the end. Best Team: Mercedes just edge Red Bull Worst Team: Marussia Best Overtake: Di Resta on Massa. Sutil had a few too. Funniest-moment: Grosjean's weekend generally - the crash addict relapsing in spectacular fashion Most Surprising Result: Alonso Least Surprising Result: Rosberg Special Mention to: Raikkonen keeping his point scoring streak going against the odds Race Rating: 3/10 - a procession interspersed with brain fades and a rare overtake
Spot-on, actually, and I'll amend my vote now; previously, I couldn't decide between him, Pérez and Rosberg. (Props to DHC too on this point)
lol, I've just noticed that I forgot to put him down as my DoD, I just went on about why I didn't give it to Perez.
