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: Grosjean Worst Driver: Bottas. Plenty to pick from, but his body language after the race said he knew he'd messed up. Best Rookie: Wehrlein Best Team: Haas. Despite one car finishing, they're doing amazingly. Worst Team: Ferrari. They have to get two cars running fast! (Plenty to choose from again). Best Overtake: Grosjean on the outside of one of the Williams. Can't recall which. Most Surprising Result: Wehrlein quali and race. Impressive stuff. Least Surprising Result: Merc pole/win Funniest moment: Bernie and his stupid ideas. That or Rosberg fumbling around in lapped car battles. Excuse of the week: Bernie.... he's a proper excuse. Special Mention: Manor. Proving why we need teams like them. Haas for being ace. Best post from the race thread: (will fill out later) Race Rating: 7/10 Not bad... not a classic either.
Best Driver: Grosjean. Relishing in his new team. Worst Driver: Bottas. Best Rookie: Vandoorne. Pointy on his debut, out Q'd Button. Very accomplished start in a crappy car. Werhlein worthy of mention too. Best Team: Haas. Even with Ferrari support, they're still a new outfit and doing amazing. Worst Team: Williams. They have gone backwards since 2014 and seem to be getting worse. Race pace was bad today. Best Overtake: Ericsson around the outside on the S-bend against Massa (I think?) Most Surprising Result: Vettel's car failing and not Kimi's! Least Surprising Result: Merc pole/win Funniest moment: F1 is no laughing matter anymore. It's becoming a bit sad now. Excuse of the week: Jenson complaining that he could have done better but for blah and blah and blah. Time to move on Mr B, you're number has been called. Special Mention: Max. Much better race, keep your head son and you will do fine. Best post from the race thread: Race Rating: 7/10
Best Driver: Grosjean Worst Driver: Best Rookie: Wehrlein, although a very worthy mention for Vandoorne. Best Team: Haas. Worst Team: FI Best Overtake: Grosjean and Kimi on one of many Most Surprising Result: Wehrlein quali and race Least Surprising Result: Two Mercs on the podium Funniest moment: Bernie Convincing the world he knows what he's doing Excuse of the week: Lewis saying he's not that worried about Nico's run of wins "my win cup is full enough" Special Mention: Manor and Haas and Kimi for keeping the Mercs honest. Best post from the race thread: Race Rating: 7.5/10
Best Driver: Grosjean Worst Driver: Perez, a bit dirty today just because hes had a podium here doesn't mean aggressive driving entitles him to another good position Best Rookie: Wehrlein again. Best Team: Mercedes. Worst Team: Force India or Sauber again (running out of money). Best Overtake: Kimi on Ricciardo and some other people. Wonderful Kimi 2007 style driving. Retire my ass. Most Surprising Result: Haas again leicester city of F1. Least Surprising Result: A Ferrari and Mclaren retired. Funniest moment: Rosberg team radio and Fernando confronting Herbert live on air "You aren't a champion just a commentator jibe". Excuse of the week: None Special Mention: Vandoorne Best post from the race thread: Bhaji and Kimi always receiving rose water when he is on the podium haha. Race Rating: 8/10 A good start to the season putting aside the Quali debacle.
Best Driver: Grosjean Worst Driver: perez Best Rookie: wehrelein Best Team: Haas Worst Team: Mclaren Best Overtake: grosjean on bottas Most Surprising Result: wehrelein in qualifying Least Surprising Result: Mercedes victory Funniest moment: Alonsos face when Button blew up Excuse of the week: the rules won't change because us and Fia want to keep them: Bernie Special Mention: vandoorne. A little hope is what mclaren needs Best post from the race thread: Race Rating: 7/10
Best Driver: Romain Grosjean Worst Driver: Rio Haryanto Best Rookie: Pascal Wehrlein, Best Team: Manor, Huge strides. Worst Team: Force India Best Overtake: Jenson Button on Vandoorne, Perez and Sainz into turn 10. Great bit of opportunism. Not actually shown on broadcast but can be seen from the 55 second mark from this Vandoorne onboard. Most Surprising Result: Grosjean, 5th Least Surprising Result: A Honda explodes Funniest moment: Hamilton and Bottas on lap 1. Excuse of the week: The fans would find a return to the 2015 qualifying confusing according to the FIA. Special Mention: Grosjean, Vandoorne. Race Rating: 6.5/10 Promising start, but kind of fizzled out.
Great spot with that overtake JC. I don't think there'll be a better overtake than that this season. Liked how Perez left room for the guy on the inside at 0:32, unlike someone else a couple of turns before. I really hope Stoffel's racing again China, great to see him in an F1 car.
Best Driver:grosjean Worst Driver: Poeple in Force Indias Best Rookie: hmm, Vandoorne or Wehrlein, Best Team:Haas Worst Team: FI or Sauber Best Overtake: Most Surprising Result: Wehrlein Least Surprising Result: Mercedes front row lockout Funniest moment: Excuse of the week: Qualifying was an excuse of a spectacle Special Mention: Kvyat quietly got on with it gaining 8 places. Best post from the race thread: any that criticise Zelda the toxic gnome. Race Rating: ?/10