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The "Actually that wasn't too bad" Australian GP awards

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  1. BrightLampShade

    BrightLampShade Well-Known Member
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    Race Rating: ?/10
     
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  2. SgtBhaji

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    Best Driver: Vettel. Bad strategy cost him.
    Worst Driver: Going for Verstappen for losing his sheet.
    Best Rookie: Palmer
    Best Team: Haas. 8pts on debut. :)
    Worst Team: McLaren. Still garbage.
    Best Overtake: I'll take Vettel's double bubble off the start... jus' cus.

    Most Surprising Result: Haas top 6
    Least Surprising Result: Merc 1-2
    Funniest moment: Vettel giving Webber a golden shower.
    Excuse of the week: Bernie dodging any culpability in the qualifying debacle.

    Special Mention: Haas, Haas, Haas and Haas.
    Best post from the race thread: (will edit later)
    Race Rating: 7/10
     
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  3. Smithers

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    Best Driver: Vettel.
    Worst Driver: None of note
    Best Rookie: Palmer
    Best Team: Haas. 8pts on debut. :)
    Worst Team: The F1 group for quali and McLaren - it's time to go sports car
    Best Overtake: Vettel and Rosberg at the start

    Most Surprising Result: Haas top 6
    Least Surprising Result: Merc 1-2
    Funniest moment: The F1 April fools joke with quali
    Excuse of the week: Honda engineer to Davidson "2017 will be better"

    Special Mention: Haas, F1 safety and Palmer
    Best post from the race thread: (will edit later)
    Race Rating: 7/10
     
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  4. EternalMSC

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    Best Driver: Vettel
    Worst Driver: Hamilton
    Best Rookie: Palmer
    Best Team: Mercedes
    Worst Team: Ferrari/Sauber/Renault/Manor/FI
    Best Overtake: Verstappen on Palmer. Kimi and Seb on both Mercedes.

    Most Surprising Result: Grosjean 6th
    Least Surprising Result: Kimi mechanical issue
    Funniest moment: Vettel and Webber podium
    Excuse of the week: -

    Special Mention: Alonso and Gutierrez. More concern of each others health rather than whose fault it was.
    Palmer for excellent defending.
    Nico for overturning a bad weekend and muscling Lewis out of the lead showing some backbone for once.
    Best post from the race thread: Memes and reaction about the crap qualifying.
    Race Rating: 8/10
     
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  5. Big Ern

    Big Ern Lord, Master, Guru & Emperor

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    Best Driver: Palmer
    Worst Driver: I thought Gutierez moved left
    Best Rookie: Palmer
    Best Team: I'm gonna say Haas
    Worst Team: McLaren
    Best Overtake: There were a few good battles through the race, either vettel on Hamilton or Hamilton on Massa

    Most Surprising Result: The Hass
    Least Surprising Result: Mercedes
    Funniest moment: the final 2 mins of Q3
    Excuse of the week:McHRT, it's an excuse of a racing car.

    Special Mention: lots of good drives, so my special mention goes to....
    Pirelli.

    Best post from the race thread:
    Race Rating: 8/10 such a relief, however I wonder how it would've turned out had the Mercs had a reasonable start.
     
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  6. El_Bando

    El_Bando Can't remember, where was I?
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    Best Driver: grosjean. So deserves a decent drive. I hope Ferrari are taking a serious look.
    Worst Driver: Hamilton. What happened? Bad start, got pushed over, didn't have pace and couldn't Overtake. It's like he turned into Rosberg overnight.
    Best Rookie: palmer
    Best Team: Ferrari. I can see there game plan. Red flag messed it up.
    Worst Team: Mclaren...well Alonso looked ok but Button?
    Best Overtake: Vettel slipping past Hamilton

    Most Surprising Result: Haas points. Well pre season we thought they could but practice and qualifying didn't look good.
    Least Surprising Result: the 3 usuals on the podium.
    Funniest moment: Verstappen
    Excuse of the week: claims the new qualifying format was a trial....

    Special Mention: Alonso. Hope he is OK. How is that guy still alive from all the high profile smashes he's had.

    Best post from the race thread:
    Race Rating: 7.5/10
     
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  7. allsaintchris.

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    Pretty much everything he said ^^^^^^^^^^^

    I'd give worst driver to Verstappen. Very petulant in demanding Sainz moves over at just the first race of the season. Hamilton could have had it too, but to be fair got on with it as best as possible after getting crowded at the first corner and didn't throw a hissy fit on his way through. Was very dignified for a change at the post race stuff.
     
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  8. Justjazz

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    Most relaxed driver on the grid -Vettel. He has a sense of humour that Hamilton lacks, he has fun when he feels like it and it is showing in his driving. He is the most relaxed in his skin.
     
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  9. DHCanary

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    Best Driver: Vettel
    Worst Driver: Hamilton
    Best Rookie: Palmer, but Werhlein did well.
    Best Team: Mercedes
    Worst Team: Ferrari, a DNF and a poor strategy call
    Best Overtake: Was it Seb around the outside of Hamilton in turn 2?

    Most Surprising Result: Grosjean 6th
    Least Surprising Result: McLaren nowhere near points
    Funniest moment: The 5live commentators declaring Hamilton polesitter, then realising they had several minutes to wait out for it to be official.
    Excuse of the week:

    Special Mention: Gutierrez for going to Alonso
    Palmer for excellent defending.
    Haas for looking the part
    Race Rating: 8/10
     
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  10. Julius Caesar

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    Best Driver: Grosjean. Obvioulsy lucky with the red flag, but hugely impressive to hold of Hulk and Bottas for the rest of the race.
    Worst Driver: Max Verstappen. Quick, but clumbsy and made an arse out of himself on the radio.
    Best Rookie: Palmer
    Best Team: Haas
    Worst Team: Ferrari, McLaren. For choosing Supersofts.
    Best Overtake: Vettel on Lewis.

    Most Surprising Result: Haas.
    Least Surprising Result: The podium, now and forever.
    Funniest moment: Vettel on the new qualy format "It's a bit ****".
    Excuse of the week: Mclaren are on a perpetual cycle of "big gains to come over the winter" "We just need to unlock the potential across the season" "we need to fix the issues over the winter..." and on and on it goes.

    Special Mention: Saftey standards the led to Alonso being unhurt.
    Race Rating: 8/10 - Decent. I'm worried though about what will happen when Ferrari don't jump the Mercs at the start.
     
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  11. JonnyBaws

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    Best Driver: Gorsjean or Danny Rick...
    Worst Driver: Mad Max, I like the lad but he's gotta stop whining!
    Best Rookie: Palmer
    Best Team: Mercedes
    Worst Team: Redbull for reliability issues with Danny K's car!
    Best Overtake: None of note, most were due to Tyre advantage or DRS so nothing special!

    Most Surprising Result: Hass in the points!
    Least Surprising Result: Mercedes 1-2
    Funniest moment: Max's constant whining
    Excuse of the week: Max's constant whining

    Special Mention: Rosberg, second best in Quali and Race (before red flag) but was in the right place at the right time!
    Best post from the race thread:
    Race Rating: ?/10 6.7/10
     
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  12. Number 1 Jasper

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    Best Driver: Vettel
    Worst Driver: Max .
    Best Rookie : Palmer
    Best Team: Merc
    Worst Team:McLaren ( surprised at that honestly )
    Best Overtake: None really spring to mind , perhaps when Palmer & Bottas went at it ?

    Most Surprising Result:HAAS , very hard to deliver in Race conditions .
    Least Surprising Result:MERC 1-2
    Funniest moment:Toys out of pram ( Max ) / Fish Taco's........( HAAS Himself )
    Excuse of the week: Not sure .

    Special Mention : Palmer
    Best post from the race thread:Not sure .
    Race Rating: 7/10
     
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