Best Driver: Worst Driver: Best Rookie: Best Team: Worst Team: Best Overtake: Most Surprising Result: Least Surprising Result: Funniest moment: Excuse of the week: Special Mention: Best post from the race thread: Race Rating: ?/10
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
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
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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