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#1 Snic

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Posted 24 August 2014 - 14:07

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... 



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#2 Disgrace

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Posted 24 August 2014 - 14:12

Strange race overall. Poor races from Rosberg, Vettel and even Alonso. Some great racing, some silly DRS moves. Without the massive Mercedes controversy, the race didn't have too much else.



#3 Longtimefan

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Posted 24 August 2014 - 14:17

8/10 and I'm feeling generous.

Had its good and bad points but it's spa and that alone is worth extra points ;)

#4 MinT

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Posted 24 August 2014 - 14:18

A touch of the Wacky Races today.

 

I'll give it an 8



#5 TomNokoe

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Posted 24 August 2014 - 14:20

Best Driver
Ricciardo. His consistency, pace, tyre management, everything was world class.

Worst Driver
Rosberg, so many mistakes.

Best Team
Red Bull as usual

Best Overtake
Can I choose the McLaren ft Alonso battle? Not an overtake as such.

Best Moment
Hamilton/Rosberg #drama

DRS + Tyres
meh

I gave a 7. Disappointed by Rosberg at the end. Would've been juicy if he caught Ric.

Edited by TomNokoe, 24 August 2014 - 14:21.


#6 l8apex

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Posted 24 August 2014 - 14:24

Best Driver

Ricciardo

 

Worst Driver

Massa

 

Best Team

Red Bull

 

Best Overtake

Probably one of the many by Alonso.  Shame he had poor luck at the end.

 

Best Moment

Ricciardo's huge smile at the end.

 

 

Williams need to work on Strategy.  They keep putting Bottas in a strategy that won't allow them to win.  Bottas has the car and pace to do like Ricciardo when Mercedes screw up, but the team strategy is holding him back.



#7 Nonesuch

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Posted 24 August 2014 - 14:30

Rated it 7/10. Enjoyable, but helped a lot by the fantastic Spa-Francorchamps circuit, which is ever more in a class of its own.

 

Best Driver: Nobody really stood out, I think. It was nice to see Räikkönen up there, so I might as well give him the nod.
Worst Driver: Magnussen. There's defensive driving, and then there's whatever it was he was doing.
Best Team: Difficult to say. Red Bull made the most of it with Ricciardo, Mercedes adapted to Rosberg's problems nicely (and once again had a ridiculously superior car), while McLaren and Ferrari got both their cars reasonably up in the points.
Best Overtake: Alonso on Pérez was nice.
Best Moment: The various fantastic helicopter and long-focus lens pictures that combined the beautiful track with the still impressive speeds of the F1 cars. The helicopter coming through the forests at Blanchimont, or climbing up to Les Combes was fantastic. The shot at the end of the main grand stand beautifully captured the crowds at Pouhon (!) in the same shot. Spa-Francorchamps is the real jewel in F1's crown, whatever the bozos in Monaco might claim.
DRS + Tyres: DRS was horrific as usual at Spa-Francorchamps. It makes a mockery of the fantastic La Source - Eau Rouge - Kemmel combination to slap on a DRS zone at the end of that straight. The tyres seemed to hold together decently, which unfortunately has to be seen as a positive.

And the race in a sentence: Dubious driving standards notwithstanding, this was an amusing race in a fantastic - and well attended - venue.



#8 William Hunt

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Posted 24 August 2014 - 14:36

Best Driver

Ricciardo

2nd best: Bottas

Worst Driver
Hamilton & Massa

Best Team
Red Bull

 

Worst Team

Lotus

 

Best Overtake
difficult to tell, several good overtakes. Maybe one of Ricciardo?

Best Moment
the fight between the 2 McLaren's and Alonso & Vettel

DRS + Tyres
we need more tyred degredation, DRS: fine

8 or even 9 for the fight in the end between Magnussen, Alonso, Button & Vettel


Edited by William Hunt, 24 August 2014 - 14:36.


#9 Max!

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Posted 24 August 2014 - 14:53

Best Driver: Ricciardo (for managing his tyres until the very end)
Worst Driver: Hamilton (for the lack of spirit)
Best Team: Red Bull (for betting on the risky low downforce strategy)
Best Overtake: Alonso on Perez
Best Moment: the battle behind Magnussen
DRS + Tyres: duh

 

 

Gave it an 8 as it was good entertainment and Mercedes didn't dominate as expected



#10 HeadFirst

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Posted 24 August 2014 - 14:57

Rated it 8/10. Had some odd moments and some very exciting racing.

 

Best Driver: Ricciardo. He delivers.
Worst Driver: Magnussen. Thought he was over the top in his defensive moves. (edit) On second thought .... Mags did what was necessary, so I nominate Hamilton and Massa (tie) for whining.

Best Team: Dunno ... Ferrari seemed to be making progress, but that snafu at the start ruined Fernando's chances, so Red Bull for the winning strategy. 
Best Overtake: Alonso on Pérez was my fav, but that Vettel pass on Mags (????) near the end was pretty cut-throat.
Best Moment: Kimi's interview.
And the race in a sentence: This was an interesting race on many levels, but not near as much fun as the pathetic bleating from the Hamilton fans during and afterwards.


Edited by HeadFirst, 24 August 2014 - 15:00.


#11 nosecone

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Posted 24 August 2014 - 14:58

10/10

 

Best driver: Ricciardo

Worst driver: mr. bean (they all made it to F1 thus they can't be that bad)

Best team: RB

best overtake: there where many good overtakes though i don't remember one particular

Best moment: The K-Mag train in the last laps

DRS + Tyres: we don't need DRS at tracks like this

 

Race in a sentence: This race had everything a soap opera needs; excitement and intrigue.



#12 Cyanide

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Posted 24 August 2014 - 15:03

Best Driver: Ricciardo

Worst Driver: Massa - totally invisible while Bottas was right up there. Vettel a strong second, closely followed by Rosberg. 

Best Team: Ferrari for pulling a great strategy for Raikkonen

Best Overtake: Raikkonen on Button at the bus stop 

Best Moment: Alonso getting frustrated by Magnussen and raising his hand

DRS + Tyres: OK

 

Race in a sentence: Decent but could have been so much better if Ham and Ros wouldn't have messed it up. 

 

7/10. 


Edited by Cyanide, 24 August 2014 - 15:04.


#13 Lotus53B

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Posted 24 August 2014 - 15:32

Best Driver

 

Daniel Ricciardo - drove consistently, avoided trouble, preserved his tyres

Honorable mention to Kimi - okay, it's his favourite circuit, but he really upped his game today

Worst Driver

 

Either Massa or Rosberg

Best Team

 

Red Bull

Best Overtake

 

Alonso - his planning and execution were, as usual, excellent

Best Moment

 

When a large ball of debris attached itself to Rosberg's aerial.

DRS + Tyres

 

Not really much to say here - the tyres lasted better than expected, the DRS was not too obvious

 

Spa normally delivers us a good race, this year was no exception - very enjoyable, very interesting - and once again* provided plenty of controversy which will keep this board buzzing for days.

 

*I won't mention 1998**.

 

**Oops 


Edited by Lotus53B, 24 August 2014 - 15:33.


#14 Risil

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Posted 24 August 2014 - 15:35

Weird but enthralling. F1 is better with Lewis racing for wins.

 

And Daniel Ricciardo is F1's most exciting new talent since, er, Vettel.


Edited by Risil, 24 August 2014 - 15:38.


#15 Laster

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Posted 24 August 2014 - 15:48

Best Driver: Ricciardo, yet again he was there ready to pounce when the Mercedes hit trouble.
Worst Driver: No real standout's
Best Team: Red Bull, don't think they can complain too much about power problems now.
Best Overtake: Button on Alonso
Best Moment: Mag/Alo/But/Vet battle
DRS + Tyres: DRS allowed for a decent amount of overtakes and the tyres allowed for a difference in strategy between 2 and 3 stops.
Race in a sentence: The media must have been whoopin with joy when the Merc's clashed.

#16 dreamer

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Posted 24 August 2014 - 16:19

Best Driver - Ricciardo!!!!!! Bottas, Raikkonen
Worst Driver - Maldonado (for his overall performance during the weekend)
Best Team - Mercedes (They managed to be 2s faster than the other teams in qualifying)
Best Overtake - the Magnussen vs Alonso vs Vettel vs Button was exiting to watch, also Kimi on Button
Best Moment - Magnussen vs Alonso vs Vettel vs Button
DRS + Tyres - Never liked DRS... the tyres were ok

And the race in a sentence... Spa is my favourate track and it didn't dissapont me this year.  8/10



#17 HoldenRT

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Posted 24 August 2014 - 16:36

Best Driver: Ricciardo, yet again he was there ready to pounce when the Mercedes hit trouble.
Worst Driver: No real standout's
Best Team: Red Bull, don't think they can complain too much about power problems now.
Best Overtake: Button on Alonso
Best Moment: Mag/Alo/But/Vet battle
DRS + Tyres: DRS allowed for a decent amount of overtakes and the tyres allowed for a difference in strategy between 2 and 3 stops.
Race in a sentence: The media must have been whoopin with joy when the Merc's clashed.

 

They were visibly using a rear wing that was 2-3 inches smaller than everyone elses. :lol:  It wasn't just slightly different, it was blatantly smaller.



#18 Spillage

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Posted 24 August 2014 - 18:57

Best Driver: Ricciardo. Did exactly what he needed to do. Honourable mention also to Raikkonen for a much better performance sadly not rewarded with the podium it deserved

Worst Driver: Uhmm. No real howlers, to be honest. Vettel was very slow relative to Ricciardo (which made for quite a painful race for we few who consider ourselves his fans  :p) but he did produce some great opportunistic driving at the end to salvage fifth place. I thought Magnussen was downright dangerous at the end, so maybe it should to be him. Or perhaps Ericsson for being unable to outqualify Lotterer. 

Best Team: Red Bull. The decision to run skinny wings looked inspired, I didn't expect them to be anywhere near the pace here. I think they manage to make the best of their situation more often than any team on the grid. Ferrari and Mclaren also appear to have moved forwards and deserve plaudits.

Best Overtake:  Not sure, we didn't really have many of them. Some moves of real class by Vettel, Button and Alonso at the end held in real contrast to the shocking driving Magnussen was pulling off. He has a long way to go.

Best Moment: The aforementioned end-of-race scrap. None of the three champions gave up when I'd have been inclined to treat Magnussen's car like the back end of an irked donkey, which was nice to see and made up for the fact that Rosberg couldn't quite catch Ricciardo.

DRS/Tyres: Different tyre strategies viable, which was good. DRS sucked however. Spa doesn't need one zone, never mind two.

And the race in a sentence... Not a bad race by any means, but one that was more significant than it was entertaining. 7/10.



#19 bourbon

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Posted 24 August 2014 - 19:23

I give it a 6/10.  It would have been higher but the unwarranted podium booing put a damper on one of the great races on the schedule. 



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#20 gruntguru

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Posted 25 August 2014 - 04:57

I thought the racing/overtaking was better than average. At least partly a consequence of the low downforce setups needed for Spa IMHO.



#21 JoseArrogantio

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Posted 25 August 2014 - 09:46

Best Driver - Ricciardo
Worst Driver - Maldonado - stupid practice crash
Best Team - Red Bull - good job with the low drag aero package
Best Overtake - Magnussen, Button, Alonso, battle
Best Moment - Rosberg hitting Hamilton drama
DRS + Tyres - Ok

 

10/10 best race of the season



#22 jmoboy1

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Posted 25 August 2014 - 13:54

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... 

Best Driver: Daniel Ricciardo - faultless drive.

Worst Driver: Fernando Alonso - Sulky and poor.

Best Team: Red Bull.

Best Overtake: Hard to remember, but I'm sure it involved Kevin Magnussen!

Best Moment: Rosberg on Hamilton on lap two - so begins the war.

DRS & Tyres: What about them?

 

A classic race, filled with controversy and good scrapping throughout the field.


Edited by jmoboy1, 25 August 2014 - 13:57.


#23 scheivlak

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Posted 25 August 2014 - 14:18

Best Driver: Daniel Ricciardo - it's getting repetitive  :D   Honorable mention to Kimi!
Worst Driver: Pastor missed his chance by retiring so early. Maybe Vettel for still not finding where the circuit was.
Best Team: Red Bull for making a low downforce configuration work so well
Best Overtake: Alonso on Perez! 
Best Moment: Scramble for fifth at the end!
DRS + Tyres: I thought DRS was not really necessary here, but passing was less easy than I expected. Tyres: well, they're still Pirellis. Not dramatic but could be better.

And the race in a sentence: 8/10 - annoyed that we didn't see, say, a full Ham/Ros fight till the end but there was still enough happening on the track. And it's Spa.


Edited by scheivlak, 25 August 2014 - 14:18.


#24 Atreiu

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Posted 25 August 2014 - 14:41

6/10.

It was fun but very frustrating to see Rosberg ruin Hamilton's race and then be so inept in tyring to catch up with Ricciardo.



#25 Jon83

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Posted 25 August 2014 - 14:52

6/10.

It was fun but very frustrating to see Rosberg ruin Hamilton's race and then be so inept in tyring to catch up with Ricciardo.

 

Have a go at Rosberg over the Hamilton collision if you must but surely you aren't having a go at him for not catching Ricciardo at the end?

 

He cut the gap massively, hardly inept.



#26 TomNokoe

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Posted 25 August 2014 - 14:54

Have a go at Rosberg over the Hamilton collision if you must but surely you aren't having a go at him for not catching Ricciardo at the end?

He cut the gap massively, hardly inept.


He should've won the race easily, or at least been in a battle with Daniel. Didn't even get close.

#27 Amin

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Posted 25 August 2014 - 21:32

Best Driver - Daniel Ricciardo
Worst Driver - Felipe Massa
Best Team - Red Bull
Best Overtake - Raikkonen on Button
Best Moment - The battle for 5th in the final laps

The first race I've ever attended and it didn't disappoint. Can't wait to go back next year!

#28 Jon83

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Posted 26 August 2014 - 10:31

He should've won the race easily, or at least been in a battle with Daniel. Didn't even get close.

 

I think that does a bit of a disservice to DR.

 

To say Rosberg should won easily is a massive exaggeration.



#29 Imateria

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Posted 26 August 2014 - 11:17

Best Driver: Ricciardo
Worst Driver: Massa
Best Team: Don't know, most teams had 1 car that went well and another that went backwards
Best Overtake: Bottas on Vettel
Best Moment: the Magnussen/Button/Alonso/Vettel scrap
DRS + Tyres: Tyres were very good, hard to say with the DRS, most of the overtakes into Les Combes had more to do with the how good a run the drivers got through Eau Rouge and who was being overtaken, e.g. Ferrari were easy to get passed, Red Bull very difficult.

 

An entertaining race overall. 



#30 Gridfire

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Posted 26 August 2014 - 11:23

Best Driver - Ricciardo
Worst Driver - Maldonado
Best Team - Redbull
Best Overtake
Best Moment - The Vettel+Alonso+McLaren-Drivers battle.
DRS + Tyres - All seemed pretty good with these this weekend - very few really lame DRS overtakes, tyres lasting and performing as expected.
 
A reasonable race overshadowed by the farcical Mercedes bosses making a mountain out of a tiny racing incident molehill, and the despicable behavior of the fans booing the guy who came in second despite having been through a collision which damaged his car.

Edited by Gridfire, 26 August 2014 - 11:32.


#31 MrPodium

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Posted 26 August 2014 - 11:29

I give it a 6/10.  It would have been higher but the unwarranted podium booing put a damper on one of the great races on the schedule. 

 

Blame the race organizers. They should have handed the British fans a copy of "Racing guide for dummies" upon their entrance into the circuit.

 

As for the race, I gave it a five out of ten. In hindsight though, I should have rated it a seven. Sunday's events have all but certainly guaranteed that every race from now on is going to be so much more enthralling!


Edited by MrPodium, 26 August 2014 - 11:33.