Best Driver: Worst Driver: Best Rookie (inc. Rossi): 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. Aced it Worst Driver: Hulk do'h Best Rookie (inc. Rossi): Rossi. Proved me right about Stevens. Mehri must have been really bad. Best Team: Ferrari & Red Bull Worst Team: Mclaren... just what?? Best Overtake: N/A Most Surprising Result: Kimi Podium. Just suprised he kept it together Least Surprising Result: Hamilton trying to be senna in a weekend usually ends in embarrassing fail. Funniest moment: Eddies attire. Excuse of the week: Mercedes, Its just a blip... Is it? Special Mention: Verstappen showing dominance over his team mate. Best post from the race thread: EternalMSC: Was that 5ilv3r4rr0w on the track? Race Rating: ?/10 - Ill leave it at ?
Best Driver: Vettle Worst Driver: Maldanado Best Rookie (inc. Rossi): Rossi Best Team: Ferrari Worst Team: Merc - pound for pound Best Overtake: Most Surprising Result: Merc being so far off the pace Least Surprising Result: McLaren being woeful Funniest moment: Excuse of the week: Special Mention: Riccardo & Perez Best post from the race thread: None of note, it's all been pretty peaceful Race Rating: 5/10
Best Driver: Vettel - Took his chance and nailed it Worst Driver: Hulk - Painfully clumsy Best Rookie (inc. Rossi): Rossi, simply for having to start at a place like Singapore Best Team: Ferrari, praise for Williams too for their street track performance improvement Worst Team: McLaren - running out of excuses Best Overtake: ? Most Surprising Result: Before the weekend... two Ferrari's on podium Least Surprising Result: Red Bull special track Funniest moment: The idea that this was a race Excuse of the week: Button Special Mention: STR drivers recovery, Williams improvement at twisty places, Perez pulling away from Hulk in table, Ferrari&RB Best post from the race thread: Any conspiracy, I love a good conspiracy Race Rating: 3/10 - and I'm being generous due to the unexpected (season-wise) result
Best Driver: Vettel Worst Driver: Button and Hulkenberg let themselves down both in terms of pace and crashes Best Rookie (inc. Rossi): A tie. Rossi did well on his debut, while Verstappen's comeback was overshadowed by the nontroversy at the end Best Team: Ferrari Worst Team: Lotus - the off-track turmoil is clearly taking its toll, they have been atrocious since Spa Best Overtake: Sainz for somehow not hitting Grosjean at the end Most Surprising Result: The top 3 Least Surprising Result: both Mclarens out Funniest moment: The track invader Excuse of the week: Button Special Mention: Kvyat should have finished higher but got caught out twice by the safety cars; Perez solid again. Best post from the race thread: Race Rating: 4/10 - a combination of large field spread and lack of overtaking does not a good race make.
Best Driver: Vettel. Worst Driver: Not impressed with Hulkenberg and Stevens will feel he let himself down in being comprehensively dominated by someone in the throes of losing his F1 virginity! Best Rookie: Rossi! No question in my mind. A clumsy and expensive error in Practice 1, yet he overcame the mental gremlins this normally induces to completely dominate the more established driver who knows the car well. Best Team: Ferrari. Worst Team: McLaren. Best Overtake: Despite his tyre advantage at the time, Verstappen's move on Grosjean was another example of how readily he exploits an opportunity. Most Surprising Result: Mercedes not on the podium! Who'd have thought it?! Least Surprising Result: Safety Car at Singapore. Funniest moment: The reason for the second one! (See above). Excuse of the week: Mercedes complete lack thereof just when they really need it! Although admirable in principle – the integrity of which I personally applaud – one has to question the wisdom of broadcasting one's complete lack of understanding. I like openness and honesty but one must be careful not to be judged as naîve. Special Mention: Lotus. The uncertainty surrounding the team was playing on every one of its members. Best post from the race thread: I confess to having not read it all but I'll go with EMSC's reference to (wait, let me copy this… ) 5ILV3R4RROW! Race Rating: 4.9/10
Best Driver: Vettel Worst Driver: Hulk's error was just .... oh. Best Rookie (inc. Rossi): Verstappen, awful start but put some sparkle into the race. Best Team: Ferrari Worst Team: Lotus Best Overtake: Verstappen on Nasr It hink it was. Most Surprising Result: Mercedes losing 3 seconds Least Surprising Result: An accident involving Maldonado Funniest moment: The wanderer Excuse of the week: EMP Special Mention: Rossi, Perez Best post from the race thread: AG posting MTW, although it was the football commentary that made me laugh the mst Race Rating: 6/10