Rate The USA GP!
#1
Posted 02 November 2014 - 21:45
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#2
Posted 02 November 2014 - 21:56
Driver : Lewis Hamilton & Daniel "Honey Badger" Ricciardo
Worst Driver: Sergio Perez
Best Team: Mercedes AMG Petronas
Best Overtake: Honey Badger modes on Alonso
Best Moment. Lewis on Nico... straight up fight .. Lewis wins...
DRS + Tires = Works as advertised .. cannot fault them this weekend
Race in a sentence = Pretty damn good !!! (GET IN THERE LEWIS !!!)
#3
Posted 02 November 2014 - 22:02
#4
Posted 02 November 2014 - 22:18
Best Driver Lewis, so dominant over his teammate.
And the race in a sentence... pretty boring if it hadn't been for Vergne.
For real?! Go and do something else with your time.
#5
Posted 02 November 2014 - 22:23
#6
Posted 02 November 2014 - 22:24
Best - Lewis
Worst - Perez
Team - Red Bull
Overtake - Hamilton on Rosberg, no contest
Moment - Hamilton on Rosberg. WDC all but sealed
DRS & Tyres - Wonderful
Race in a sentence - TENSE AS HELL
#7
Posted 02 November 2014 - 22:34
7/10
Best: Ricciardo (Alonso consistency but 10 years younger)
Worst: Raikkonen (he is just lame this season)
Team: Lotus (great pace today)
Overtake: Ricciardo on both Wiliams, after pit-stops
Moment: Hamilton on Rosberg
#8
Posted 02 November 2014 - 22:47
3/10
If it wasn't for Alonso,Ricciardo and Button it would have been another mindnumbingly dull race like russia.
yet again there was no real battle for the lead, what with Nico throwing in the towel at the first attack..
Edited by Longtimefan, 02 November 2014 - 22:48.
#9
Posted 02 November 2014 - 22:53
It was Russia all over again with maybe one or two exceptions until the last three or four laps, but even Vettel said 'that was all fake because of the tyres'. So true. It's like they've taken 2004's racing and put stupid infomercial dialogue over it. 'THE PASSING', 'THE STRATEGY', 'THE ADVANCED HYBRID TECHNOLOGY', 'THE ECO-FRIENDLINESS', 'THE F1'. Same thing in spirit, except I now feel like I'm being lied to on top of seeing something boring.
#10
Posted 02 November 2014 - 22:57
Worst Driver - Perez
Best Team - merc
Best Overtake - Ricciardo in t1
Best Moment - growjohn heroically keeping his mental car within the confines of austin
DRS + Tyres - good
And the race in a sentence... Bit of a slightly above average race by numbers for me, with a couple of interesting battles to knock it up to 7. I really like this GP event as a whole though
#11
Posted 02 November 2014 - 23:13
Could you cancel the results and do it again without DRS, please? And maybe you could put some gravel on the outside of T19.
6/10
Edited by ANF, 02 November 2014 - 23:20.
#12
Posted 02 November 2014 - 23:19
Wow a lot of sour grapes.
#13
Posted 02 November 2014 - 23:22
Bit slow at times, but it turned out pretty good at the end. Gave it a 7 out of 10.
Now, my awards. I know you are dying to hear them:
#14
Posted 02 November 2014 - 23:25
You can't be surprised that people aren't excited about the championship fight when it's looking more and more like New F1 is going to bring the sport we all love to its knees, can you? Ham > Ros was just one of the headlines this weekend when it should've been the headline.Wow a lot of sour grapes.
#15
Posted 02 November 2014 - 23:31
You can't be surprised that people aren't excited about the championship fight when it's looking more and more like New F1 is going to bring the sport we all love to its knees, can you? Ham > Ros was just one of the headlines this weekend when it should've been the headline.
Ooooh the melodrama. "To it's knees".... Somebody help us, save the children, man the liferafts all overboard........ The problem with F1 has been there for years, before Mercedes dominated, before Red Bull dominated. What's this 'new' F1?
Just waiting for somebody to rush in and tell us how much fun the refuelling era was......
#16
Posted 02 November 2014 - 23:32
You can't be surprised that people aren't excited about the championship fight when it's looking more and more like New F1 is going to bring the sport we all love to its knees, can you? Ham > Ros was just one of the headlines this weekend when it should've been the headline.
It isn't the New F1 that brings the sport to its knees, but old style F1 governance headed by That Old Man that just doesn't know how and when to quit.
#17
Posted 02 November 2014 - 23:33
3/10
If it wasn't for Alonso,Ricciardo and Button it would have been another mindnumbingly dull race like russia.
yet again there was no real battle for the lead, what with Nico throwing in the towel at the first attack..
So, in conclusion, it was actually quite an exciting race but you throw in a daft rating and a little negative smiley to tell yourself otherwise.
PS- I guess Vettel threw in the towel in 2012 too?
#18
Posted 02 November 2014 - 23:37
Worst Driver - Perez- oops!
Team - Mercedes
Overtakes - Ricciardo on Alonso
Moment - Hamilton passing for the lead ;)
DRS & Tyres - One of the better(if you can put it that way) DRS races with drivers having to work for it under braking. Tyres were fine- allowed drivers to push.
Race in a sentence - Some people need to go back and re-watch it; battling throughout the field!
7/10
Edited by P123, 02 November 2014 - 23:38.
#19
Posted 02 November 2014 - 23:44
Wow a lot of sour grapes.
I'm tired of seeing sitting ducks in the lead of a grand prix, that's all.
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#20
Posted 02 November 2014 - 23:44
Rated it 4/10, perhaps a bit harsh, but after a long day and a pretty good WEC race in China this wasn't all that enjoyable.
Best Driver: Daniel Ricciardo. Very solid effort, it was a bit of a shame for us viewers that he could jump the Williams cars during the pitstops, but a good drive nonetheless.
Worst Driver: Romain Grosjean. Every time he was in view he was either several meters outside the track limits, or being overtaken.
Best Team: Mercedes, their car is miles ahead of all the rest.
Best Overtake: Vergne on Vettel in one of those early corners was unusual. We didn't see much of it, unfortunately.
Best Moment: Button and Alonso having several goes at each other was nice.
DRS + Tyres: DRS once again robbed us of a few potentially good fights, but it is what it is. The tyres were rather more terrible than usual, leading to lots of sliding and the common late-race trains of cars which the guys on new tyres cut through easily (Vettel).
And the race in a sentence: This Texas track is more like India than Interlagos, and more like South Korea than Spa-Francorchamps. Watching the cars go around here isn't very interesting to me, and when the race is as trivial as this it doesn't make for a very exciting Grand Prix.
Edited by Nonesuch, 02 November 2014 - 23:48.
#21
Posted 02 November 2014 - 23:45
Best Driver RIC. What happened to the "only wins because he has the best car" theme of last year?
The other guy started winning.
#22
Posted 02 November 2014 - 23:51
Worst Driver: Romain Grosjean. Every time he was in view he was either several meters outside the track limits, or being overtaken.
You missed him passing Vettel and you missed the fact that those strange sweeps outside the track limits happened after the moment his steering rack was quite severely damaged by Vergne whacking into him.
#23
Posted 03 November 2014 - 00:03
And the vast expenses brought about by the new power units that are about to bankrupt half the grid were all part of That Old Man's plan, right?It isn't the New F1 that brings the sport to its knees, but old style F1 governance headed by That Old Man that just doesn't know how and when to quit.
Other series are catching up. The revamp this year was supposed to make F1 exciting again, but it's still losing ground to Indy and WEC at the same rate, and now it's a few hundred million and two or maybe more teams out of pocket to show for it. Generally, that's considered bad news.
'Blame it on Bernie' is the easy way out--talk is cheap. It accomplishes nothing. He may have failed, but so have the teams and the FIA. But hey, I guess if pointing fingers and playing the blame game works for Obama and all the other politicians around the world, it'll work for you.
Edited by Afterburner, 03 November 2014 - 00:03.
#24
Posted 03 November 2014 - 00:38
#25
Posted 03 November 2014 - 01:23
Remember the good old days, when we had like 2 passes for the lead in a whole season, 2 cars finished on the lead lap, no one could pass anyone else and the tracks were way more dangerous?
Ahhh, those were good times. The races were boring as **** but they retained that je ne sais quoi, that purity.
Edited by 917k, 03 November 2014 - 01:25.
#26
Posted 03 November 2014 - 01:27
Edited by Corredor, 03 November 2014 - 01:28.
#27
Posted 03 November 2014 - 01:28
So much sour grapes in this thread.
For me, race is a solid 8. Good action at the front, great fights in the midfield.
Sorry to say this but I did not miss Caterham and Marussia at all.
#28
Posted 03 November 2014 - 02:02
Lucky enough to be there- best part was Vettel DRIVING his car during the driver's parade... a Cobra (probably a replica, but who cares)....
And then on the way back to the hotel after the race- 2 cops getting everyone out of the way on the 130 toll road exit ramp (where speed limit is 80- those Texans know how to make a road!!) for a blacked out big Merc S class sedan- probably had Bernie in it...
#29
Posted 03 November 2014 - 02:16
Worst Driver: Perez
Best Team: Mercedes
Best Overtake: Ricciardo on Alonso
Best moment: Alonso battling it out with Button.
Race in a sentence: One of the best this season.
#30
Posted 03 November 2014 - 03:40
I didn't even bother watching it.
#31
Posted 03 November 2014 - 04:13
#32
Posted 03 November 2014 - 04:26
#33
Posted 03 November 2014 - 05:26
1/10
Very boring. I felt asleep.
#34
Posted 03 November 2014 - 05:31
Best Driver - Hamilton and VergneWorst Driver - Vergne - yes he gets both best and worstBest Team - MercBest Overtake - Vettel on Verne/Ricciardo on Alonso/Hamilton on NicoBest Moment - Vettel coming alive on the 2nd primes - then coming alive again on the softsDRS + Tyres - huh?And the race in a sentence... - Entertaining. Absolute brilliant fans.
Vergne? He was entertaining enough in a "blunt-instrument" sort of way, but his moves were crude and once again lacked the decisive precision and deft judgement displayed by Ricciardo.
As far as the worst driver is concerned, Perez was the stand-out.
Vergne was just an also-ran, - in both categories...
#35
Posted 03 November 2014 - 05:32
Please rate the race objectively and not on your favourite drivers resultBest Driver - DanWorst Driver - Kimi.Best Team - MercedesBest Overtake - Even though he got a penalty for it, Vergne saying "f*** it" and just shoving a Lotus out of the way.Best Moment - Mario Andretti doing the interviews - good racing the whole way but seeing a living legend of the sport is always great.DRS + Tyres - Worked well. Enough wear to make drivers earn it.And the race in a sentence... - "Get in there Lewis"
#36
Posted 03 November 2014 - 05:40
Best Driver - Hamilton and Vergne
Worst Driver - Vergne - yes he gets both best and worst
Best Team - Merc
Best Overtake - Vettel on Verne/Ricciardo on Alonso/Hamilton on Nico
Best Moment - Vettel coming alive on the 2nd primes - then coming alive again on the softs
DRS + Tyres - huh?
And the race in a sentence... - Entertaining. Absolute brilliant fans.
Vergne better than Ricciardo? Pfft!!
#37
Posted 03 November 2014 - 06:16
Race in a sentence: I managed to stay awake for the entire race
#38
Posted 03 November 2014 - 06:53
One of the most action-packed races Ive seen in a while. The race shows track layout has a lot to offer in terms of on-track action. Never expect anything of that kind on tracks like Bahrain, Abu Dhabi. Liked the Austin track despite it looks like one of the new characterless modern F1 tracks.
#39
Posted 03 November 2014 - 07:20
The race shows track layout has a lot to offer in terms of on-track action. Never expect anything of that kind on tracks like Bahrain,
Although I really don't like the venue, to be honest Bahrain does more often than not give good close racing.
But totally agree with you on Abu Dhabi.
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#40
Posted 03 November 2014 - 08:57
Sorry, this was grocery shopping with a fender bender for me.
Pole time: 1:36.0
P18: 1:39.6
Race laps: 1:44+ most of the time. The old V10 could last 5 races as well with this lift and coast.
17 cars at the start, 1 in pit. It looked like some Sunday local race class. Watching it through RTL Werbung wasn't helping either.
3/10 because of this slowness.
#41
Posted 03 November 2014 - 09:14
Best Driver Hamilton
#42
Posted 03 November 2014 - 09:18
You missed him passing Vettel and you missed the fact that those strange sweeps outside the track limits happened after the moment his steering rack was quite severely damaged by Vergne whacking into him.
The 'quite severely damaged' car that allowed him to post times only about two seconds slower than when it was working fine?
Grosjean:
48. 1:44.963
49. 1:45.191
50. 1:47.093 (drops from 9th to 11th)
51. 1:44.440 (personal best)
52. 1:45.488
53. 1:46.735
54. 1:47.142
55. 1:47.244
Pole time: 1:36.0
P18: 1:39.6
Race laps: 1:44+ most of the time. The old V10 could last 5 races as well with this lift and coast.
It's a trend we've seen all year, but seeing a lot of cars being creative with the track layout as well as being stuck in trains towards the end makes me think the tyres played a big role in this as well.
Edited by Nonesuch, 03 November 2014 - 09:19.
#43
Posted 03 November 2014 - 09:39
The 'quite severely damaged' car that allowed him to post times only about two seconds slower than when it was working fine?
A damaged steering was Brundle's guess - I now read it was something different but still a reasonable explanation that he had quite serious handling problems: "It was less amusing with Jean-Eric though, he broke my front wing and he broke my rear floor which made the car pretty difficult to drive afterwards. " http://www.forix.com...20140017008&c=0
#44
Posted 03 November 2014 - 14:24
Best Driver Hamilton best overall, Maldonado one who performed best compared to his normal level
#45
Posted 03 November 2014 - 15:21
I didn't even bother watching it.
Most people watch F1 on TV but don't post or talk about it online. You don't watch F1 on TV but do post about it online. I find that odd.
#46
Posted 03 November 2014 - 16:30
#47
Posted 03 November 2014 - 16:36
Vergne? He was entertaining enough in a "blunt-instrument" sort of way, but his moves were crude and once again lacked the decisive precision and deft judgement displayed by Ricciardo.
As far as the worst driver is concerned, Perez was the stand-out.
Vergne was just an also-ran, - in both categories...
Brilliant!
#48
Posted 04 November 2014 - 10:43
Edited by The Kanisteri, 04 November 2014 - 10:43.
#49
Posted 04 November 2014 - 12:18
It's getting pretty boring with the Mercedes dominance. After Lewis overtook Rosberg I turned the tv off and went to bed.