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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...

 

[MaxisOne]

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 !!!) 

[RealRacing]

Best Driver RIC. What happened to the "only wins because he has the best car" theme of last year?

Worst Driver MAL, PER

Best Team Merc

Best Overtake RIC on ALO

Best Moment Pamela

DRS + Tyres Bad

And the race in a sentence... pretty boring if it hadn't been for Vergne.

[Jamiednm]

Best Driver Lewis, so dominant over his teammate. 

Worst Driver Perez - what was he thinking?!

Best Team Mercedes

Best Overtake Loads to choose from, RIC on ALO

Best Moment Button v Alonso was great racing!

DRS & Tyres Fine

Race in a sentence A great return to exciting action on a brilliant track, very much needed after the off-track goings-on and the awful 'race' in Sochi last time out.

 

 

 

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.

[Masteroftheuniverse]

Best Driver - Daniel Ricciardo, did a great job with poor machinery

Worst Driver - Lewis Hamilton, for further eroding my love of F1

Best Team - Mercedes, utterly dominant

Best Overtake - Ricciardo on Alonso, 2 top level drivers showing each other respect

Best Moment - When Nico was leading

DRS + Tyres - Didn't notice

And the race in a sentence... Predictable

[TomNokoe]

7/10

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

[ionutf1fan]

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

[Longtimefan]

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.

[Afterburner]

4 from 10.

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.

[superdelphinus]

Best Driver - hamilton
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

[ANF]

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.

[MP422]

Wow a lot of sour grapes.

[Emilvang]

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:

 

Best Driver -  Hamilton

Worst Driver - Perez

Best Team - Mercedes

Best Overtake - Hamilton on Rosberg

Best Moment - Same as above

DRS + Tyres - no comment

And the race in a sentence... - Hamilton is a worthy champion. Would be a disgrace if he loses it because of the double points.

[Afterburner]

Wow a lot of sour grapes.

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.

[P123]

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......

[scheivlak]

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. 

[P123]

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?

[P123]

Best Driver - Ricciardo
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.

[ANF]

Wow a lot of sour grapes.

I'm tired of seeing sitting ducks in the lead of a grand prix, that's all.

[Nonesuch]

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.

[CSF]

 

Best Driver RIC. What happened to the "only wins because he has the best car" theme of last year?

 

 

 

The other guy started winning. 

[scheivlak]

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.

[Afterburner]

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.

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?

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.

[SirT]

Best Driver  HAM & RIC

Worst Driver   PER

Best Team   Mercedes

Best Overtake    RIC on ALO turn 1

Best Moment  Lewis overtaking Nico

DRS + Tyres   Worked very well

[917k]

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.

[Corredor]

Best Driver: Lewis Hamilton.

Worst Driver: Sergio Perez.

Best Team: Mercedes.

Best Overtake: Hamilton on Rosberg.

Best Moment: Hamilton overtaking Rosberg and Vettel's recovery in the last few laps.

DRS + Tyres: Good.

Few drivers and some very good moments (7/10).

Edited by Corredor, 03 November 2014 - 01:28.

[payinkind]

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.

[SKL]

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...

[DILLIGAF]

Best Driver: Ricciardo & Hamilton

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.

[404KF2]

I didn't even bother watching it.

[f1RacingForever]

Average. Not bad but nothing memorable. A couple enjoyable scraps livened up an otherwise forgetful race. Disappointed with Nico. Might as well send Lewis his congratulations now if he doesn't grow a pair and race like he wants it.

[bourbon]

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.

[Tourgott]

1/10

Very boring. I felt asleep.

[Redback]

 

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?  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...

[teejay]

 

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

 

Best Driver - Dan

Worst Driver - Kimi.

Best Team - Mercedes

Best 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"

 

 

 

[DILLIGAF]

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!!

[Eastern]

 Race in a sentence: I managed to stay awake for the entire race 

[engineblock1]

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.

[Kristian]

 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. 

[SenorSjon]

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.

[sycove]

Best Driver Hamilton

Worst Driver Button

Best Team Mercedes

Best Overtake Hamilton on Rosberg

Best Moment  Hamilton on Rosberg

DRS + Tyres    Nothing to say

And the race in a sentence... Fairly Dull, far to many run offs, No Stetsons

[Nonesuch]

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.

[scheivlak]

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

[Bleu]

Best Driver Hamilton best overall, Maldonado one who performed best compared to his normal level

Worst Driver Perez, no contest

Best Team Mercedes

Best Overtake Alonso on Button

Best Moment  Late-race scrap for minor points

DRS + Tyres DRS good on S/F straight, not so good on the longest one. Tyres better than in two earlier visits

And the race in a sentence... Average all the way

 

7/10

[HoldenRT]

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.
 

[HeadFirst]

Best Driver: Ricciardo, "Honourable Mention" to Pastor M, whom I believed declined to hit any moving or stationary targets, AND scored points.

Worst Driver: Perez

Best Team: Red Bull ... they got Ricciardo ahead of the faster Williams cars of Massa and Bottas, and the low downforce set-up for Vettel seemed to work well.

Best Overtake: Perez on Sutil ...... only kidding

Best Moment: Perez explaining why the crash was not his fault .... breaks me up every time.

DRS + Tyres

And the race in a sentence... Some bright spots (especially Pam), but little drama up front.

[HeadFirst]

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!

[The Kanisteri]

Best Driver

Lewis Hamilton

Worst Driver

Pastor Maldonado (I was wondering to give this tittle to Kimi Räikkönen, but he didn't get any penalties from race jury...)

Best Team

Mercedes

Best Overtake

Lewis Hamilton on Rosberg

Best Moment

Race weekend  was sunny and warm, I guess spectators enjoyed warm weather too

DRS + Tyres

Yres were joke, only colour of them was correct and they were round

And the race in a sentence...

I like track but race itself was very boring

 

5/10

Edited by The Kanisteri, 04 November 2014 - 10:43.

[Sash1]

It's getting pretty boring with the Mercedes dominance. After Lewis overtook Rosberg I turned the tv off and went to bed.