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: Ricciardo Worst Driver: Stroll, even though he somehow had FL for a while. Luckiest Driver: Ricciardo didn;t go full alonso Unluckiest Driver: Alonso, couldn;t channel his inner Danny Ric Best Rookie/New Driver: Gasly, though Leclerc deserves a shout Best Team: RBR Surprise Team: STR Worst Team: Williams Best Overtake: Max on Sainz was a bit of a pulse raiser, I really thought CS would defend better, esp against Max Most Surprising Result: Max finishing Least Surprising Result: even with a sick car in front there was no action in the places that matter Funniest moment: When someone called the Monaco GP a race. Excuse of the week: Special Mention: Ocon, Hulk and, for his teamwork Sainz. Best post in race thread: Race Rating: Monaco/10
Best Driver: Ricciardo Worst Driver: Stroll, spoilt brat all weekend, and super slow. Luckiest Driver: Ricciardo Unluckiest Driver: Leclerc, brake failure a poor reward for a good weekend. Best Rookie/New Driver: Gasly Best Team: RBR Surprise Team: STR Worst Team: Williams - So, so bad. Best Overtake: Hamilton on Ocon, so good we didn't see it... Most Surprising Result: Max finishing Least Surprising Result: Top 6 unchanged Funniest moment: "Give Prince Albert a Shoey" Excuse of the week: Stroll is an excuse of an F1 driver. Special Mention: Ocon, Sirotkin drove well, race was ruined by penalties outside his control. Best post in race thread: Race Rating: 2/10
Very disappointing, it's bad enough when Red Bull and Toro Rosso do it, never mind even less tangible relationships. Force India/Ocon sacrificed points then, undoubtedly. I'm sure Ocon could have kept Hamilton behind until the end. I don't have a problem with team orders, as long as they're within a team. Things like this really don't do the sport any favours. I don't like the way it's become normalised either. "Oh don't expect the Haas to defend too hard against the Ferrari, har har" etc on the commentary really winds me up. It's sad when a team appears to have to prioritise "sucking up to a manufacturer" over actually racing.
Completely agree. Team orders are just part of the sport, but two separate teams conspiring to change a result should be illegal and punishable. It needs stamping out.
The only thing I can say in his defence is that Hamilton would've got ahead when Ocon had pitted, but there was no reason to just give it up, you don't really have to drive defensively at Monaco and lose time to defend you just your normal line
Maybe I'm in the wrong here, but didn't Ocon effectively "overcut" Hamilton by running 6-7 laps longer on the softest compound, whilst Hamilton nursed his used, harder tyres and had traffic? I didn't think Hamilton had the gap to Ocon for a pitstop. The race pace was so slow. I'm probably wrong, but regardless I still don't feel Ocon should have acted like he was being lapped.
I'm not excusing it, it took the piss imo, any other track, fine. Just pointing out that he didn't lose any net position, but if Hamilton had been forced to take a 2nd stop he would've
Best Driver: Ricciardo Worst Driver: Verstappen. Sure he had a good race but should have been in the top 2 and probably capitalise on Ricciardos issue if he didnt f*** up in FP3 Luckiest Driver: Ricciardo Unluckiest Driver: Alonso and Hartley Best Rookie/New Driver: Gasly Best Team: Red Bull Surprise Team: Force India Worst Team: Williams.....Just what?? Best Overtake: Verstappen on Sainz. He is probably the most creative overtaker on the grid. just needs to learn how to analyse risk. Most Surprising Result: OCON Least Surprising Result: STROLLOL Funniest moment: Excuse of the week: Special Mention: Best post in race thread: Race Rating: 0/10
Surely they were the luckiest drivers as they didn't have to complete the entire race? Wouldn't that have been a bonus!?
