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[Snic]

Please rate the race objectively and not on your favourite drivers result

Best Driver
Worst Driver
Best Team
Best Overtake
Best Moment
DRS + Tyres
And the race in a sentence...

[Skinnyguy]

Whoever rated it 1: obvious trolling is obvious.

Best driver: Vettel first. He can´t race, uh? Di Resta was excellent too. What Alonso did deserves lot of credit too. Räikkönen another great race.
Worst driver: No idea. Probably Webber.
Best team: Red Bull and Lotus.
Best pass: Race long scrap bewteen Rosberg and the McLarens.
Best moment: The previous, in the moment when Massa and the Lotus were there too.
DRS+tyres: Perfect combo,if anything I´d move the DRS from main straight to the previous one.
Race in a sentence: Epic.

Edited by Skinnyguy, 21 April 2013 - 13:53.

[ArkZ]

Best Driver Hamilton and Alonso (he was down to +45s after 2 pitstops, yet still in the points) for me , + mention to Vettel speed.
Worst Driver Perez this guy is ridiculous hitting Button, pushing Alonso off the track while Ferrari was side-by-side with McLaren...
Best Team Lotus (great strategy for both drivers)
Best Overtake There were few overtakes in T6
Best Moment Hamilton vs Webber
DRS + Tyres To easy with DRS

[stillOrange]

Gave it a 9 as the only thing missing was the fight for the 1st place.

Best driver: Sebastian. He was perfect like Fernando in last race. Many others were driving great as well
Worst driver: No idea. Didn't like what Perez did to Fernando (haven't seen the replays yet) and he almost slashed Jenson's tire.
Best team: Lotus. Did maximum and got strategies right.

It was a fantastic race to watch, some good racing and fights

[Zesus]

Best Driver: Vettel, Kimi, Lewis, Alonso - sorry, I can't choose just one. 4 of them showed today why are they the best.
Worst Driver: Rosberg, Webber
Best Team: Lotus
Best Overtake: Hmmm..Alonso on Button was good and I liked last one: Hamilton on Webber
Best Moment: Kimi crossing the line as second
DRS + Tyres: Was ok

Edited by Zesus, 21 April 2013 - 14:10.

[Zoetrope]

Best Driver Vettel. 2011ish style race win with clearly not dominant car this time. Hamilton and Di Resta very impressive.
Worst Driver I don't really know... Gutierrez dissapointing me so far into the season. Rosberg seemed to have very mediocre race.
Best Team I am impressed by Force India, if not for Sutil's problem they could get both cars really high up.
Best Overtake Webber squeezing 1 inch of his tyres just onto white line so his reovertake on Hamilton is legal and on the track.
Best Moment Perez hitting Button like 3 times total, am I right?
DRS + Tyres DRS was great, just perfectly balanced. Exploding tyres thou...

I gave the race a 7/10, lot's of non DRS overtaking was great.

[F1ultimate]

7/10
After the first 6 laps I was bracing myself for a Vettel snooze fest to towards the flag. However the midfield really kept me entertained - the battles in sector 1-2 were really lively and on the edge. The race would have been a 9 had there been more challenges at the top.

[JRizzle86]

Best Driver - Perez just on sheer improvement from the last few races. Alonso on merit for sheer speed with no DRS.
Worst Driver - No one really
Best Team - Red Bull
Best Overtake - Probably Rosberg on sheer determination
Best Moment - Any midfield battle involving a McLaren, Mercedes, Ferrari or Red Bull
DRS + Tyres - I saw no major issue
And the race in a sentence... - Best battle for anything but first place.

8/10

Edited by JRizzle86, 21 April 2013 - 14:16.

[bourbon]

Best Driver - Sebastian Vettel/Kimi Raikkonen
Worst Driver - Nobody can claim this today.
Best Team - Red Bull
Best Overtake - Perez on Button...Alonso... Rocking Rebel - gotta love it!
Best Moment - Vettel through the initial battles; Checo/Jense battles
DRS + Tyres DRS is alright - now that they have it lined up better (although I'm not a fan ), but breakdowns are not acceptable. Tyres were obviously ridiculous again for some.

And the race in a sentence... Blistering race with lots of wheel to wheel, can't ask for more! Loved it!

[ElDictatore]

Gave it a 8, since Vettel was alone at the front.

Best Driver

Too much to choose from. Di Resta would be my pick.
Honorable mentions would be Perez and his fighting
Vettel was criticised for Malaysia and was under pressure somewhat but drove a nice race today. Yes many of you will say it was easy, but he made the early moves and had it under control during whole the race. Strong stuff
Alonso came back brilliantly with a broken rear wing
Hamilton wasn't in much fights and came back without many noticing
Raikkonen came back with a brilliant tyre strategy and management
Grosjean shows why he is in the Lotus

Worst Driver

Gutierrez by far.
Webber and Rosberg were poor too.

Best Team

Lotus. Came back after weak Quali and Start

Also mention McLaren for letting their drivers race that hard, even though it cost them much time.

Best Overtake

Perez vs. Button and Perez on Alonso

Best Moment

Button going in between Rosberg and Perez. Typical 3way

DRS + Tyres

Tyres questionable, too many defects, although we have to see why that was.
DRS was perfect in this race, no sitting duck like China or the sort.
FIA should learn from these races so far how much DRS they should allow in a race. China was overkill.

And the race in a sentence...

Best Bahrain race so far. Also best race out of the first four for me.

Edited by ElDictatore, 21 April 2013 - 14:27.

[Topsu]

Best Driver - Perez, amazing stuff.
Worst Driver - Gutierrez, useless.
Best Team - Lotus, incredible tyre management and two different strategies working.
Best Overtake - Perez on Webber on last lap.
Best Moment - The countless rollercoaster rides from turn 1 to turn 8.
DRS + Tyres - Excellent I'd say, especially DRS was better than expected.
And the race in a sentence.. - Bahrain is hot!

[jj2728]

A good race. A walk in the park for Vettel.
There was some very good, clean, hard and fair racing amongst the others.
Enjoyable.

[Sin]

Best Driver Sebastian Vettel
Worst Driver hard to say... I would say Gutierrez, even tho I really like him
Best Team Lotus... quite simple... 2 podium spots
Best Overtake Di Resta on... Grosjean it was I think, that looked pretty... and at the beginning Vettel overtaking Nico and Alonso
Best Moment Button and Perez racing each other
DRS + Tyres DRS failure at Alonso... mhhh and I feel like the smaller DRS zone was kinda useless... Tyres were a desaster the whole weekend Pirelli gotta do something there
And the race in a sentence... The race ended nicely for my taste but in itself was kinda boring...

Edited by Sin, 21 April 2013 - 14:56.

[Nonesuch]

Best Driver: Raikkonen, I guess. Coming back to 2nd was pretty nice.
Worst Driver: Rosberg? Not sure what was up with him, very unimpressive.
Best Team: Red Bull, together with Vettel they were in control of this race.
Best Overtake: I suppose Vettel's move on Alonso was pretty good, and important.
Best Moment: The 'McLaren battle', dubious moves by Perez and much complaining by Button.
DRS + Tyres: DRS is a terrible gimmick that renders all overtaking on the straights completely unimpressive. The tyres are far too important to be left to one supplier; some real competition here would be most welcome.
And the race in a sentence: It was certainly an eventful show, but not my kind of show.

[fatd]

Best Driver - So many to choose! I'd say Vettel for a race when everything works his way and he just does everything the right way. Honorable mention for Kimi, Grosjean, Alonso and Hamilton
Worst Driver - Gutierrez, just nowhere in the race.
Best Team - Lotus for that double podium in split strategies.
Best Moment - The midfield battles especially the McLaren catfight lol

[RealRacing]

Vettel, Perez best drivers.
Worst: of the ones that matter, Webber (penalty pending), Rosberg
Team: Lotus, nice come back, both cars on podium
Overtake: Vettel on Alonso 1st lap, midfield fight between Merc, etc.,Perez on Alonso last lap, Alonso on Button.
Best Moment: see above
DRS: still making passing too easy, a necessary evil apparently until aero is addressed.
Tyres: hard seemed to allow some racing, safety may be questioned pending investigations on Hamilton, Massa...

[ANF]

8/10. So much better than China where the drivers didn't dare to push!

Best driver? I don't know, but there was some impressive defensive driving by Rosberg and Button. And it was good to finally see strong performances by Grosjean and Pérez.

[Otaku]

7/10 for not having a fight for the lead

Best Driver Kimi. Started 8th and finished 2nd.
Worst Driver Clearly Rosberg. Started on pole and finished way behind his own teammate, who in turn started 9th.
Best Team Lotus
Best Overtake Hamilton on Webber
Best Moment 4-car fight at the end between Web, Ham, Per and Alo
DRS + Tyres DRS is idiot as usual. Races would be better without it, no exceptions. Tyres were a good selection for this kind of track.

Edited by Otaku, 21 April 2013 - 15:18.

[driver1]

the best driver I think Roman Grosjean! Fantastic race!
Thanks a lot Pirelli!!! I love Pirelli so much! Great racing! Pirelli+DRS=PERFECT!
THE BEST FORMULA ONE EVER WATCHED!

[driver1]

I watched Formula 1 very long time and now I can say that modern Formula 1 with Pirelli and DRS is the BEST!!! very exciting! SUPERIOR!!

[jrg19]

Best race of the season for me.

Best Driver: Vettel
Worst Driver: Probably Nico but its not his fault he was so quick yesterday.
Best Team: Red Bull
Best Overtake: Vettel on Alonso
Best Moment: Button and Perez battle which ended with Jenson with his tail between his legs pitting for an extra set of tyres.

[SpaMaster]

Difficult to give single nominations for this race
Best Drivers - Vettel, Raikkonen, Grosjean, di Resta, Perez
Worst Driver - n/a
Best Team - Red Bull, Lotus, Force India
Best Overtake - so many, I can't even remember. Those sequence of turns and Pirellis - absolute winner!
Best Moment - same as above
DRS + Tyres - DRS artificial as always, Pirellis are okay
And the race in a sentence... - Wheel-to-wheel stuff all the time

[Ravenak]

I watched Formula 1 very long time and now I can say that modern Formula 1 with Pirelli and DRS is the BEST!!! very exciting! SUPERIOR!!

lol

[skc]

Best Driver - Vettel. He was imperious in those first three laps
Worst Driver - Not a fair question, but Button rubbed me the wrong way today with all his whingeing
Best Team - Lotus. Obvious.
Best Overtake - Probably DiResta on Rosberg? *shrug*
Best Moment - Perez vs Button
DRS + Tyres - Didn't mind it at all today, probably has more to do with the track allowing for real racing regardless
And the race in a sentence...
Epic, action packed from first lap to last. Lot's of great little skirmishes from P2 downwards.

[Fastcake]

Please rate the race objectively and not on your favourite drivers result


And the race in a sentence...

Very fun race, plenty of action for the lead on the first three laps, then continued fighting up and down the grid for the remainder of the race. Shame Vettel was allowed to run away after Alonso's DRS broke, but you can't have everything I suppose.

Best Driver Several candidates I think. Vettel had a strong win, di Resta had a great race, as did Perez and Grosjean finally.
Worst Driver Gutierrez I suppose, though I'll have to see again.
Best Team Lotus ultimately, they got both cars home on the podium.
Best Overtake Not sure, perhaps one of the ones at the beginning through turn 5/6.
Best Moment Button vs Perez was a lot of fun
DRS + Tyres Taking hard and medium tyres were definitely the right decision, and even those required a three-stopper from most drivers. The softs need changing, no question. DRS didn't impact much really, there were overtakes across the circuit and I imagine many would still of passed without it.

[Kelateboy]

I will give this race a 9. Plenty of actions throughout the race.

[yoyogetfunky]

Best Driver Vettel
Worst Driver Gutierez
Best Team Lotus
Best Overtake Vettel on Alonso, Rosberg. Kimi on a bunch of people
Best Moment Perez fighting Button
DRS + Tyres good
And the race in a sentence... A very entertaining afternoon

[Atreiu]

8 for me. It seemed as if they were pushing and racing harder than China and the whole race seemed more fun, even if Vettel ran away.

[seahawk]

Best Driver Hamilton or diResta
Worst Driver Guiterrez
Best Team RBR + FI
Best Overtake Alonso´s without DRS
Best Moment Perez moves in the final laps
DRS + Tyres : Good
And the race in a sentence... : Best dry race of the season.

[ChiltonsCats]

Best Driver: Hamilton (at one point down in 11th, comes back to finish 5th despite being in a car that's awful on tyres) or Di Resta (faultless drive to 4th, only man to manage 2 stops without having a car that was really capable of it as shown by the huge gulf in race pace between him and the Lotuses)
Worst Driver: Guiterrez (behind a Caterham???? wow this guy sucks.)
Best Team: Lotus (had the only car capable of 2 stops without losing performance, just a shame they sucked in qualifying or they might have made the battle for the race win actually worthwhile to watch)
Best Overtake: Hamilton on Webber on the last lap, cracking stuff.
Best Moment: probably the same as the above.
DRS + Tyres: DRS was fine, Tyres were an utter disgrace yet again and were the only thing that mattered today.
And the race in a sentence...: Pirelli Tyres punish Racing as Button and Rosberg have to make 4 stops for daring to do what F1 is supposed to be about.

[Kobasmashi]

Best Driver: As much as I dislike them, Vettel and Di Resta were very good, honourable mentions to Perez and Alonso for gritty drives
Worst Driver: Gutierrez looked out of his depth again, Sauber must be wishing they had big non-Mexican backers....
Best Team: Probably Lotus given their results
Best Overtake: Would have given it to the Vettel move on Alonso had other drivers not pulled off moves in the same place, so in that case I'd probably say some of Rosberg's on crap tyres
Best Moment: The McLaren fight was jolly good fun
DRS + Tyres: DRS was OK, not really sure why they put a zone on that back straight... Tyres? In terms of life span they were probably perfect with multiple strategies possible, but the failures on Hamilton's and Massa's cars were not good
And the race in a sentence...: Entertaining.

[Sakae]

Race: 6 points.
Could be higher up, but for my liking there was too much of imbalance all over.

Racer of the day: Sebastian Vettel
Lives in another zone.

Worst:
Some drivers talk too much.

[rasul]

Best Driver: Kimi, Lewis, Perez were very good, but Vettel was flawless today, so he's DotD.
Worst Driver: Gutierrez or Webber. Rosberg was poor, as well.
Best Team: Lotus
Best Overtake: Lewis on Webber, Vettel on Alonso, Alonso on Button.
Best Moment: Button vs Perez was very entertaining, though Vettel's driving in the first 3 laps was exciting as well
And the race in a sentence: very entertaining and very disappointing at the same time (for Ferrari)

9/10

Probably the best race of the season so far.

[joshb]

Best Driver- Vettel was flawless all weekend- though di Resta did a good job too as did Pic in the Caterham
Worst Driver- Gutierrez again- slow and then clouts a Caterham on Lap 1... and finished behind Pic
Best Team- Lotus got both cars on the podium and did a quietly good job. Force India also impressive
Best Overtake- Vettel on Alonso but spoiled for choice today. GP2 drivers would've smashed all over the shop today.
Best Moment- Vettel's opening laps
DRS + Tyres- Tyres more marginal than I hoped, DRS a bit too much on the start straight
[b]And the race in a sentence...[b] Vettel dominates but Raikkonen still chipping away
9/10- no lead battle but lots o drama lower down

Edited by joshb, 21 April 2013 - 17:52.

[weston]

10 - 2 = 8. It was a very good race but the leader (Vettel) was not challenged for the win after the 3rd lap.

Best Driver: Vettel. (Lot of good drive today: Kimi, Gro, Ham and Di Resta were very impressive.)
Worst Driver: Gutierrez. Webber and Rosberg tends to have very mediocre races and fade away.
Best Team: Lotus. Runner-up: Force India.
Best Overtake: Vettel on Alonso.
Best Moment: Perez buttoned Button.
DRS + Tyre: Hard tyre offers some racing.

[ThadGreen]

I gave it an 8, it could have been a 9, either way I enjoyed it.

Best Driver Hard to say, I think Grosjean, di Resta and Perez all performed well
Worst Driver No comment
Best Team McLaren for letting their drivers have at it
Best Overtake Vettel on Alonso
Best Moment McLaren drivers dicing without team orders, take note Red Bull, Mercedes, Ferrari etc
DRS + Tyres DRS has been around so long it's the norm, tyres are the same for everyone
And the race in a sentence... Enjoyed it, a lot of overtaking and position changes, shame it's so long until the next one

[metz]

Outstanding race for Grosjean, considering where he started and who he passed to get to the podium.
Good effort from di Resta, Perez, Hamilton, Kimi, Vettel and Alonso.

Disapointed in Webber. Did nothing with a race-winning car.
Rosberg went backwards. Gutierrez was just baffling.

How can Pirelli expect to sell their exploding tyres to the viewing public.

Are we back to the famous Ferrari lack of quality?

[mattferg]

Best driver - Vettel. Clearly outpaced his teammate and everyone else
Worst Driver - Gutierrez, beaten by a Caterham. Why is this man in F1?!
Best Team - Lotus, by far best pit wall operations all day
Best Overtake - Vettel on Alonso early on. To pull that off when you can't race is amazing...
Best Moment - Alonso's DRS issues. Glad to finally see Ferrari have some of the unluck that other teams had last year
DRS + Tyres - THIS is what the changes to F1 are all about. It worked perfectly today. Now stop bringing the wrong compound in future Pirelli! You made the right call with the switch for today.

Edited by mattferg, 21 April 2013 - 20:05.

[np93]

Best Driver : For me it was Vettel, fought brilliantly in the opening laps, and pulled away in his customary way. Honourable mentions to Di Resta, Raikkonen, Grosjean, Perez, Hamilton, Alonso, and Pic.... Which says a lot for the quality of the race today.

Worst Driver : Gutierrez as some people have pointed out, Van Der Garde as well annihilating Vergne. Webber and Rosberg were anonymous, as was Button.

Best Team : Lotus had the highest points haul, so I'll plump for them.

Best Overtake : So many, but Vettel on Alonso left me stunned for a while.

Best Moment : The fight between Button and Perez, and just Perez in general.

DRS + Tyres : The tyres were good, I'm thinking it may be the graining in the cooler conditions that has given the impression of cheese tyres, but I may be wrong. DRS was good, it put the drivers in a position to make the move into T1, but left them vulnerable for non-DRS passes down to T4.

And the race in a sentence... Great action and driving standards from the top drivers.

9/10

[Afterburner]

I gave it a 9, but that's probably because we just came off the comparative snore that was the Chinese GP.

Best driver: Applying the standards used in China, it's got to be Vettel, no contest. Loved it when his engineer came over the radio and told him he needed to do high 38's, and he went by the line with a 38.2.
Best team: Lotus. Happy to see them looking like a genuine title contender this year.
Best overtake: I can't pick one--too many to choose from.
Best moment: Watching the drivers being able to push again.
DRS and tyres: Tyres were spot-on this time, DRS was okay--maybe a little too effective into turn one.

All I could think after watching was 'this is the F1 that's been missing in action'. Kudos for Pirelli for making the decision to bring mediums/hards as opposed to softs/hards. The tyres could take some punishing in the name of on-track battles or gap-opening this time but still didn't last so long as to make the racing processional. In other words, just the way it should be.

[Les]

Please rate the race objectively and not on your favourite drivers result

8/10 for me, really good race barring a fight for the lead. Guess you can't have that every race.

Best Driver - Alonso's fightback without DRS was fantastic, Di Resta and Hamilton (as usual) dragged the best possible results out of their race. Has to be Vettel though, maybe not the most likeable bloke but an awesome driver.
Worst Driver - So you start from pole and your team-mate starts from 9th but by the end your 9th and he's 5th. I've never rated the guy (I'm talking about Rosberg incase you didn't get it) and seen nothing this season to change my mind. He would easily have been my worst driver if it hadn't been for Gutierrez being so completely awful.
Best Team - Renault (or as I should have said 'Lotus'. Silly me).
Best Overtake - Vettel on Alonso on lap 1.
Best Moment - The McLaren drivers banging wheels.
DRS + Tyres - Will be interesting to see what went wrong with Alonso's DRS. The effect of DRS and tyres ruined China for me but it worked a lot, lot better here.

Edited by Les, 22 April 2013 - 12:14.

[Craven Morehead]

Very entertaining. Differing (successful) strategies, lots & lots (& lots) of wheel to wheel, right till the end of the last lap. Can't ask for much more. I enjoyed it from start to finish.

I've been a fan for 30+ years and I must say that today's formula one is very good indeed. Job well done on fixing the 'procession' issue.

[Longtimefan]

Excellent race, I'll give it 9/10

Giving it 10/10 means it cannot be any better, I think if Alonso's DRS hadn't failed it could have been even better, especially up front.

[Watkins74]

Best Driver - Vettel, Grosjean
Worst Driver - Gutierrez
Best Team - Lotus
Best Moment - Vettel's opening laps and Button crying on the radio.
And the race in a word.. - hectic

[Claudius]

Best Driver My favourite driver
Worst Driver -
Best Team My favourite team
Best Overtaking My favourite driver overtaking someone
Best Moment My favourite driver doing something
DRS + Tyres Don't care

Rating - depends on the results of my favourite driver

[BigCHrome]

7.

Best Driver Di Resta and Growjon did well.
Worst Driver Button - ruined Perez' race by blocking all over the place, had the nerve to cry on the radio on top of it.
Best Team Red Bull's car was amazingly fast.
Best Overtake Vettel on Alonso in the beginning was impressive.
Best Moment When Hamilton found some pace in the second half of the race.
DRS + Tyres Better than usual.
And the race in a sentence... Take notes Pirelli, harder tires allow for racing.

[MarileneRiddle]

Best Driver Sebastian Vettel
Worst Driver Gutierrez
Best Team Lotus GP
Best Overtake Sebastian on Alonso
Best Moment Romain's 'yeehaw!'
DRS + Tyres Great
And the race in a sentence... My kind of perfect.

[Lotusseven]

6/10

Best Driver Many...Vettel, Raikkonen, Grosjean, Alonso, Perez, di Resta, Hamilton...
Worst Driver Non.
Best Team Lotus.
Best Overtake Many, but great to see Perez on Button.
Best Moment Perez and Button´s battle. Alonso fought through to eighth despite his lack of DRS.
DRS + Tyres It is what it is from track to track. IDC.
And the race in a sentence... Hectic and annoying...

[OO7]

Best Driver My favourite driver
Worst Driver -
Best Team My favourite team
Best Overtaking My favourite driver overtaking someone
Best Moment My favourite driver doing something
DRS + Tyres Don't care

Rating - depends on the results of my favourite driver

[Zoetrope]

Worst Driver Button - ruined Perez' race by blocking all over the place, had the nerve to cry on the radio on top of it.

What do you mean ruined? McLaren's philosophy let their drivers race and he Button did nothing wrong, it was Perez who hit him. I agree Perez was faster that day, but you need some skills to overtake as well.

Edited by Zoetrope, 22 April 2013 - 08:45.