Best Driver: Worst Driver: Luckiest Driver: Unluckiest Driver: Best Rookie/New Driver: Best Team: Surprise Team: Worst Team: Best Strategy: Worst Strategy: Best Overtake/Defence (Racecraft): Most Surprising: Least Surprising: Funniest moment: Excuse of the weekend: Special Mention: Race Rating: ?/10
Best Driver: LeClerc. Untouchable all weekend. Worst Driver: not sure if anyone had a real mare Luckiest Driver: Stroll picking up a point on the last lap due to 2 retirements. Unluckiest Driver: Norris was one of the above. Best Rookie/New Driver: Albon. Best Team: Ferrari for once. Did team orders correctly for a change. Surprise Team: Ferrari, see above. Worst Team: William's, plum last again. Best Strategy: Ferrari, see above again! The instant switch probably save LeClerc the win Worst Strategy: Renault? No idea what happened to them in the race. Best Overtake/Defence (Racecraft): Albon and Gio (I think) trying to do a Schuey/Mika on Grosjean. Most Surprising: Ferrari didnt bollox it up Least Surprising: Funniest moment: Norris screaming down the radio Excuse of the weekend: Special Mention: Antoine Hubert RIP. Also to Albon for an excellent weekend in the hot seat. Race Rating: 7/10
Best Driver: Leclerc. No other was a more apt winner Worst Driver: Verstappen. Stupid move Luckiest Driver: Unluckiest Driver: Norris breakdown Best Rookie/New Driver: Albon. Best Team: Ferrari for actually doing a race winning strategy Surprise Team: Racing Point Worst Team: McLaren but it was the engines fault Best Strategy: Ferrari Worst Strategy: Best Overtake/Defence (Racecraft): Albon on everyone Most Surprising: Least Surprising: Funniest moment: lewis calling max a dickhead Excuse of the weekend: Special Mention: RIP Hubert. The minute silence was shared at Silverstone for you too. Race Rating: 7/10
BestDriver: Charles Leclerc Worst Driver: Kevin Magnussen - did he have a car issue? Sank like a stone. Luckiest Driver: Stroll Unluckiest Driver: Lando Norris Best Rookie/New Driver: Lando Norris Best Team: Ferrari Surprise Team: Racing Point Worst Team: Haas Best Strategy: Ferrari Worst Strategy: Renault Best Overtake/Defence (Racecraft): Albon on Ricciardo Most Surprising: Perez Least Surprising: Hamilton podium. Funniest moment: Not really a lighthearted weekend unfortunately. Excuse of the weekend: probably the idea that Max was entitled to be left space in that sucidial dive bomb. Special Mention: Hubert - Talented young man taken far far too soon. Second Special Mention: Juan Manuel Correa. We shouldn't forget that he was also seriously injured and is doubtlessly suffering physically and mentally right now. Here's hoping he can make a comeback soon. Race Rating: 7/10
Best Driver: Leclerc gets my vote. He had to cope with more than just being closed down by Hamilton in the final laps. A very difficult weekend for all, but particularly CLC on his (overdue) maiden victory. Worst Driver: Kubica. Magnussen also less than good - and seemed easier to pass than usual! Luckiest Driver: Yes, I agree with all so far, and for the same reason: Stroll. Unluckiest Driver: This has to be Norris suffering a car failure right at the end after a superb drive. Best Rookie/New Driver: Norris and Albon were both very classy. Neither have looked like rookies. Both fully justify their places on the grid, as does Russel. Best Team: Ferrari. They finally called the right shots on drivers and strategy, and exploited the superior power unit to the full. Surprise Team: Ferrari might have claimed this from me but in all honesty, I saw it coming. Therefore, Racing Point. Worst Team: Several reasonable candidates as mentioned by others above and I can't really choose between them. Best Strategy: Ferrari. Worst Strategy: I agree with others here: Renault. Best Overtake/Defence (Racecraft): Giovinazzi v Ricciardo: a great move around the outside, despite his better tyres. Albon on Ricciardo was also very good, and so was Stroll on Grosjean. Albon v Perez is also worth a mention because he completed it whilst having to take to the grass due to the potentially dangerous squeeze; although far less dangerous than Schumacher v Barrichello with a wall inches away, Perez also began the move late, i.e. after his assailant already had his nose alongside the slower driver's rear wheels. Most Surprising: McLaren Honda engine failure so late in the race. Despite cranking up the power recently, I didn't see that coming. Least Surprising: Hamilton tyre management whilst on the pace throughout and never giving up saw him achieve what I believe was as much as the car could give - unless Leclerc had crumbled in the way we've seen Vettel a few times over the past couple of seasons. Funniest moment: If Hamilton called Verstappen "a dickhead", it must have raised a few laughs. I didn't hear it. Excuse of the weekend: No idea. But relative to all others, Kubica has the best available; full credit for him never ever using it… Special Mention: Has to be Hubert. He had considerable potential to graduate into F1. Devastating. Tragic. Unavoidable. Planets momentarily lined up the wrong way… Race Rating: 7.65 /10
Best Driver: I'll break with the norm and say Albon, started at the back and did what Gasly was supposed to do at the front. Worst Driver: Kubica Luckiest Driver: Stroll got a point somehow. Unluckiest Driver: Norris or Kimi Best Rookie/New Driver: Albon, obv. Best Team: Ferrari got most points Surprise Team: Ferrari getting the strat right Worst Team:Williams Best Strategy: Ferrari Worst Strategy: Haas or Renault, both went backwards Best Overtake/Defence (Racecraft): For me Albon around Ricciardo because of the way he positioned it through Rivage Most Surprising: Least Surprising: Funniest moment: Excuse of the weekend: I didn;t hear what Max had to say about his crash, but I doubt he took responsibility. Special Mention: Chalres le Clerc, glad he won as he did deserve it. Race Rating: 7/10
Best Driver: Leclerc. Amazing perfomance on saturday and solid on sunday. Absolutely deresved first victory. Worst Driver: Kubica. Sadly to say, but Robert is the weakest link on the grid right now. Luckiest Driver: Albon. No doubt, he did a good job, especially for the first race at Red Bull seat, but he's real pace wasn't exceptional. Alex needs to improve. Unluckiest Driver: Norris. Best Rookie/New Driver: Norris. Best Team: Toro Rosso. Another brilliant team job. Surprise Team: Racing Point. Double in-point finish. Worst Team: Haas by far. Best Strategy: Toro Rosso. Both drivers in points. Worst Strategy: Haas/Renault. Best Overtake/Defence (Racecraft): Albon on Perez. That was risky. Most Surprising: Pierre Gasly and his 2 points. He was a strong race after with very difficult background. Least Surprising: Williams is too far. Funniest moment: None. Excuse of the weekend: My English. Special Mention: Another brilliant but most underrated perfomance by Kvyat (From P19 to P7 by Toro Rosso), strond weekend from Perez and solid perfomance and heavy crashfrom Giovinazzi. Rest in peace, Anthoine Hubert. Juan-Manuel Correa, get well soon. Race Rating: 8/10
TBH I thought that too, until he switched to the soft tyre and carved his way through the field. Then it showed how well he'd done to keep pace with the field on the mediums whilst they were on the softs. Of course, only time will tell how well he stacks up against Max, bu tI think he showed why he desreved to be in the seat over Gasly.
Best Driver: I would like to say LeClerc. He had the best car though but having just lost a friend the day before he still delivered. Worst Driver: I will go with the view of some and say Kubica. Real sorry it hasn't worked out for him though. I don't see it improving. Luckiest Driver: Stroll Unluckiest Driver: Norris Best Rookie/New Driver: Albon. Good maiden drive for the team. Best Team: Ferrari Surprise Team: Ferrari. Worst Team: William's unfortunately. They presumably will be trashed this weekend too. Best Strategy: Ferrari for finally not giving Vettel No 1 status. Worst Strategy: As a strategy, none stood out as worse. Perhaps Vettels early tyre change, resulted in a second stop as a consequence. Best Overtake/Defence (Racecraft): Albon on Ricciardo. Most Surprising: Vettel not crashing when Lewis was catching him. Least Surprising: Le Clerc winning although I think if Vettel had not delayed Lewis he might have challenged Charles. Funniest moment: Not a weekend for funny moments Excuse of the weekend: Special Mention: Antoine Hubert to whom I raise a glass. All of the drivers given the circumstances.