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: Max Verstappen Worst Driver: Snapchat Best Rookie: Ocon Best Team: Mercedes WCC wrapped up Worst Team: Haas went from starting in the points and letting it go. Best Overtake: Vettel Ricciardo 130R but there were plenty more. Most Surprising Result: Nothing was suprising. Least Surprising Result: Mercedes win. Funniest moment: Nothing really Excuse of the week: No excuses to be seen. Special Mention: Kimi Raikkonen strong again all weekend. Unlucky to take a gearbox penalty, podium or more possible. Best post from the race thread: - Race Rating: 5/1
]Best Driver: Nico. Lorded it all weekend Worst Driver: Hamilton. Is rattled and seemingly can't find an answer. Best Rookie: Palmer. Close to points finish again. Best Team: Mercedes I guess Worst Team: McLaren and Williams jointly. Dire performance from both. Best Overtake: 130R is no longer the ball breaker it once was. Going to say Hulk around the outside at the chicane of someone. Most Surprising Result: Hamilton had no answer to Nico all weekend. Least Surprising Result: Hamilton screwed his start again. Max weaving again. Funniest moment: Merc on PR management survival with Hamilton's games. Excuse of the week: Special Mention: Mercedes. Another WCC. Best post from the race thread: Race Rating: 6/10. Some good racing through the field again, just be better if it were at the front.
Best Driver: I gave it to Lewis last week so really ought to opt for Nico, but I'm going for Max. Worst Driver: Lewis for his lack of PR and KMag for his on track performance. Best Rookie: Palmer - the boys doing all right Best Team: Merc, even with the engine turned down they are dominant. Worst Team: McLaren - no grunt, no grip..... Best Overtake: Hulk on Bottas Most Surprising Result: How bad McLaren are at their home track Least Surprising Result: Merc win Funniest moment: Hamilton fans accusing the race organisers of watering his grid slot Excuse of the week: Lewis digging deeper with the press Special Mention: Rosberg Best post from the race thread: Race Rating: 7/10
Best Driver: hmm, hard call, I'll go for Rosberg Worst Driver: Gutierrez, Q3, ended up 20th Best Rookie: Palmer had a good race, when he wasn't annoying the front runners Best Team: Merc Worst Team: McHRT have returned, was looking forward to seeing how they fared, seems the last few races were a bit of a false dawn Best Overtake: Hulkenberg on Bottas into the final chicane Most Surprising Result: A merc won Least Surprising Result: Gutierrez not getting points despite great quali. Funniest moment: Hulkenbergs "see ya later" after taking Bottas into final chicane Excuse of the week: Special Mention: Max Best post from the race thread: Race Rating: 8/10, I'm not quite so lead oriented, I thought it was a great race with plenty of clean action through the grid.
Best Driver: Rosberg Worst Driver: Driving performances all ok. Hamilton for antics. McLaren because I need to get them in two worst categories somehow. Best Rookie: Palmer Best Team: Force India, really getting a handle on their car Worst Team: You need to ask? McLaren Best Overtake: Hulkenberg "See you later" Most Surprising Result: Rosberg's car survived Least Surprising Result: Hammilton conspiracy theories everywhere you look. Funniest moment: Rosberg comments on the Shooey on the podium Excuse of the week: Toto's Hamilton's performances on track justify him being a twat off it? Really? a) humanity/morals? b) what performances? Special Mention: Verstappen Best post from the race thread: Race Rating: 8/10
Best Driver: Rosberg. Looking every bit the champion elect. Outperformed Hamilton all weekend. Worst Driver: Sainz. Less than impressive. Very untidy throughout the weekend but especially during the race. Hamilton has to be mentioned here too, with a start nothing short of disastrous; and his off-track antics during the run up to the race were, in my view, foolish and naive. Best Rookie: Palmer. As per previous race: he's quietly getting his act together and beginning to answer his critics. Even better this weekend. Best Team: Force India / Mercedes. Worst Team: McLaren are an embarrassment to the marque, and Honda are an embarrassment to their country – especially at their own circuit. In times of old, top brass at Honda would have had at least one honourable suicide by now… Williams were not impressive either. Best Overtake: Hulkenberg v Bottas. Most Surprising Result: Hamilton inviting a battle with the universe. Least Surprising Result: Verstappen's whinging has become as predictable as a Merc getting on the front row. Funniest moment: Hulkenberg's "See ya later" after despatching Bottas at the chicane. Special Mention: Positive: Verstappen – very good, apart from his rather dubious late defence against Hamilton. Negative: Vettel – who looked very amateur whilst dealing with Wehrlein. Best post from the race thread: Race Rating: 7.8/10
