Sorry if I'm treading on any toes here... Best Driver: Worst Driver: Best Rookie (Gutierrez, Bottas, Van Der Garde , Bianchi, Chilton): Best Team: Worst Team: Best Overtake: Funniest-moment: Most Surprising Result: Least Surprising Result: Special Mention to: Race Rating: /10 Best Commentator/Presenter:
Best Driver: Grosjean Worst Driver: Sutil Best Rookie: Bottas Best Team: Red Bull Worst Team: Pound for pound, Ferrari Best Overtake: Webber on Hamilton Funniest-moment: Laughter eluded me this time Most Surprising Result: Bottas Least Surprising Result: Vettel breaks another record Special Mention to: Rosberg for giving us something to watch Race Rating: 2/10 Why did I bother? Best Commentator/Presenter:
Best Driver: Grosjean + Hulk Worst Driver: Maldonado Best Rookie (Gutierrez, Bottas, Van Der Garde , Bianchi, Chilton): Best Team: Red Bull Worst Team: Marussia Best Overtake: N/A Funniest-moment: Vettel Winning. Its hilarious Most Surprising Result: nothing surprised me Least Surprising Result: F1 being an embarrassment in the USA again Special Mention to: Bottas. A fine weekend. Kovi too for stepping in and doing ok Race Rating: -1,000,000/10 Best Commentator/Presenter:
This So bored and tired of F1 right now that I'm gonna be very lazy and say Bando summed it up great!
Best Driver: Grosjean & Vettel Worst Driver: Sutil & Maldando (but Massa and Button come close) Best Rookie: Bottas Best Team: Red Bull Worst Team: FI Best Overtake: Webber on Hamilton Funniest-moment: ? Most Surprising Result: Bottas Least Surprising Result: Vettel breaks another record Special Mention to: Bottas & Grosjean Race Rating: 2/10 Woeful Best Commentator/Presenter: Crofty is a knob
Best Driver: Grosjean, Great qualifying, great start, great race Worst Driver: Sutil, got out qualified by his team mate and crashed into Maldonado. Best Rookie (Gutierrez, Bottas, Van Der Garde , Bianchi, Chilton): Dominated his team mate. Best Team: Red Bull, because... + new pit stop record. Worst Team: Force India, laughable performance with a car equal to Sauber. Best Overtake: Webber on Lewis, basically spanked him on the outside. Funniest-moment: Grosjean wearing a 'cowgirls' hat... Most Surprising Result: Hulk ending up 6th. Least Surprising Result: Mercedes being harder on their tyres. Special Mention to: Vettel on his 8th straight record win. Race Rating: 0/10 was crap Best Commentator/Presenter: They don't deserve any praise, but Kravitz and Crofty trying to kid the audience that there was some little hope that Vettel MIGHT! have a gearbox problem and MIGHT not win the race for once. How droll *scoffs*
Best Driver: Grosjean Worst Driver: Maldonado Best Rookie (Gutierrez, Bottas, Van Der Garde , Bianchi, Chilton): Best Team: Red Bull Worst Team: Caterham? Best Overtake: Bottas on Gut Funniest-moment: Well I most enjoyed the part I fell asleep Most Surprising Result: Bottas Least Surprising Result: Vettel Special Mention to: Bottas, Hamilton and Vettel Race Rating: 0/10 Best Commentator/Presenter: N/A
Best Driver: Grosjean Worst Driver: Chilton, blocked about 21 people in qualifying then finished a minute behind everyone else, even when Pic had a penalty, absolutely pathetic, worst driver in recent history. Best Rookie (Gutierrez, Bottas, Van Der Garde , Bianchi, Chilton): Gutierrez Best Team: Oh... I wondered Worst Team: Marussia Best Overtake: Alonso on Hulk last lap Funniest-moment: The race finished Most Surprising Result: Vettel didn't lap everyone Least Surprising Result: The race was crap Special Mention to: Perez once again getting everything out of the car Race Rating: 0.5/10
Best Driver: Grosjean, Great qualifying, great start, great race Worst Driver: Sutil, got out qualified (again) by his team mate and crashed into Maldonado. Best Rookie Bottas Best Team: Red Bull, all other teams had at least one driver off the pace. Worst Team: Force India. Best Overtake: Webber on Lewis, basically spanked him on the outside. Funniest-moment: Grosjean wearing a 'cowgirls' hat... Most Surprising Result: Bottas keeping it in the points Least Surprising Result: Vettel proving a point with 2 laps to go by showing how much he was holding back Special Mention to: Vettel on his 8th straight record win. Race Rating: 2/10 was crap
Best Driver: Bottas Worst Driver: Sutil or Maldonado Best Rookie (Gutierrez, Bottas, Van Der Garde , Bianchi, Chilton): Bottas Best Team: RBR Worst Team: Marussia Best Overtake: Bottas on Gutierrez, apparently it's impossible to overtake in that section.... Funniest-moment: Most Surprising Result: Bottas Least Surprising Result: Vettel Special Mention to: Grosjean for holding 2nd in a much slower car, Vettel another flawless perfformance (Gran Chelems are the only way he'll get DoD), Button making it into the points, & Perez Race Rating: 6/10, c'mon, so what Vettel won and harvested more tears for his new record, there were overtakes without DRS. Best Commentator/Presenter:
Best Driver: Grosjean. The young man is beginning to show the promise that was alluded to back in 2009. Becoming a dad has really calmed him down and he now looks the real deal. Worst Driver: Maldonado. What a tool, accusing the team of sabotage before damaging his car at T1 and blaming it on Sutil. Best Rookie: Bottas. Great accomplished drive, with decisive overtakes. Best Team: Who else but Red Bull. Millimetre perfect all weekend, especially the pitstop for Webber. Worst Team: Ferrari. Systematically manage to mess everything up pretty much every weekend. Without Alonso they would be nowhere. Best Overtake: Bottas on Guitierrez. Brave move that paid off. Funniest-moment: Brundle's camera comment When Bottas was up against Guitierrez into T1 the revolving camera on Bottas' car turned to look at the wheel. Brundle said "not sure that's where we shoukd be looking". Most Surprising Result: Webber having a problem that didn't retire him. Least Surprising Result: Vettel winning. Special Mention to: Hulk. If this guy doesn't have a drive next year it will be an utter travesty. Race Rating: 3/10. A total snooze fest, in fact, that's what I did for about 10 laps in the second half of the race! Best Commentator/Presenter: See my funniest moment comment
Best Driver: Grosjean. Although Vettel was faultless, it's all a bit too easy for him. Worst Driver: Maldonado once again showed a lack of class. Sutil also poor. I'll split this award between them. Best Rookie: Bottas. Best Team: Red Dull. Worst Team: Marussia. Best Overtake: Bottas > Gutierrez: a fine move! – Webber > Hamilton was good but DRS assisted, as well as Hamilton needing to brake sooner than normal due to worn tyres. Funniest-moment: Most Surprising Result: Williams performance. Bottas did a great job all weekend. In this instance, 'impressive' is perhaps a better description than 'surprising'. He certainly put Maldonado out to pasture… Least Surprising Result: Vettel win. Special Mention to: Maldonado: take a year out and do some homework. Race Rating: 4/10 Best Commentator/Presenter: Not seen either British broadcasts yet, so I'll guess that Ben Edwards was far, far better than the 1970s DJ who thinks the show is 50% about himself.
Best Driver: Valtteri Bottas just beats Grosjean for me Worst Driver: Chilton was just so slow Best Rookie (Gutierrez, Bottas, Van Der Garde , Bianchi, Chilton): Bottas Best Team: Red Bull Worst Team: Ferrari Best Overtake: Alonso on Hulkenberg, just after he had been passed Funniest-moment: erm Most Surprising Result: Vettel. LOL. Least Surprising Result: Vettel Special Mention to: Alonso driving wounded Race Rating: 3/10 Best Commentator/Presenter:
I think that's a good post, Paco. Bottas was outstanding, particularly when compared with his team mate. On the other hand, Grosjean's performance relative to his team mate is virtually impossible to compare with Kovalainen's return, i.e. to a completely unfamiliar environment and a car with all sorts of strange buttons. Good call about Alonso's overtake too. I voted BOT > GUT because Gutierrez is rather unpredictable, especially when defending, and yet Bottas succeeded in one of the most difficult places to pass.
Thanks cosi That's what swung it for me, Bottas was a long ahead of his race-winner team mate, whereas Grosjean beat Heikki who, understandably, was probably still trying to learn the car and was race-rusty. Also a great move!
Best Driver: Grosjean Worst Driver: Some drivers got thrashed by their teammate: Maldonado 64 seconds behind, Massa 57 seconds, Chilton 73 seconds, Gutierrez 61 seconds. For the lap 1 crash, I give it to Maldonado Best Rookie (Gutierrez, Bottas, Van Der Garde , Bianchi, Chilton): Bottas Best Team: Red Bull Worst Team: Ferrari Best Overtake: Alonso on Hulkenburg Funniest-moment: None Most Surprising Result: Grosjean 2nd Least Surprising Result: Boring race. Special Mention to: Kovalainen Race Rating: 0/10 Best Commentator/Presenter: Not Croft. He was especially irritating yesterday.
Best Driver: Romain Grosjean Worst Driver: Pastor Maldonado Best Rookie (Gutierrez, Bottas, Van Der Garde , Bianchi, Chilton): Valtteri Bottas Best Team: Red Bull Worst Team: Marussia Best Overtake: Webber on Hamilton Funniest-moment: ? Most Surprising Result: [ B]Bottas[/B] Least Surprising Result: Vettel Special Mention to: Nico Hulkenberg Race Rating: 0.5/10 Best Commentator/Presenter:
Best Driver: Bottas Worst Driver: Pastor Maldonado Best Rookie (Gutierrez, Bottas, Van Der Garde , Bianchi, Chilton): Bottas Best Team: Red Bull Worst Team: Marussia Best Overtake: Bottas on Gutierrez Funniest-moment: That bit when....oh...wait, no. Most Surprising Result: Bottas Least Surprising Result: Vettel Special Mention to: Grosjean Race Rating: 3/10 Best Commentator/Presenter:
This. For commentator/presenter I'd say Brundle and Davidson, they did a great piece of analysis before the race comparing rims (wheel rims that is not... y'know) and then these trails coming off the front wings in Friday practice, I forget what they were called but because of the humidity you could see the airflow, Red Bull's was so much more controlled than Ferrari's, I found it really interesting.
