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[Nonesuch]

 

I'm surprised to see this thread hasn't been made yet!

 

As always, please rate the race objectively and not based on your favourite driver's result!

 

Don't forget to also mention your ...
 
Best Driver:
Worst Driver:
Best Team:
Best Overtake:
Best Moment:
DRS + Tyres:

And the race in a sentence:

[redraven9]

Best Driver: Felipe - flawless race (credits to Ric for a great drive and strategy)
Worst Driver: No one in particular. Magnussen wasn't that great, but his strategy was really bad
Best Team: Williams
Best Overtake: Alonso on Jenson
Best Moment: Hamilton waving the british flag around

And the race in a sentence: I thought it was a great race for Abu Dhabi. Not too predictable results, but no drama either. 7/10

[Kristian]

6/10. As I expected, a pretty mundane title decider on a mundane track, made better by the charging Red Bulls and Williams out of position. 

 

Ricciardo easily the star of the race. 

[Jon83]

Best Driver: Massa 
Worst Driver: Hulkenberg but only for the incident he was penalised for. 
Best Team: Williams
Best Overtake: Can't think of any real standouts
Best Moment: The respect between Hamilton and Rosberg in the cool-down room. 

And the race in a sentence: Congratulations to Hamilton. 

 

4/10 - It was a pretty boring race. Anyone giving that a 10 is having a laugh!

Edited by Jon83, 23 November 2014 - 21:24.

[gowebber]

Best Driver: Ricciardo. (Last in pit lane to 4th is a stunning drive. Could have been on the podium if starting from his original 5th spot.)
Worst Driver: Sutil
Best Team:Williams
Best Overtake: Ricciardo (passed 2 drivers at once on more than one occasion)
Best Moment: Lewis with the flag in his car.
DRS + Tyres:

And the race in a sentence: A decent race at a decent track to finish off a dominant Merc season.

[scheivlak]

Best Driver: Felipe Massa just nudges Daniel for me, maybe because I'm not always his greatest fan!
Worst Driver: difficult to say, maybe Sutil.
Best Team: Force India, absolutely maximised it. Honorable mention to Caterham!
Best Overtake: Vergne getting back on Ricciardo, even for just a lap or so.
Best Moment: Rosberg refusing to retire   
DRS + Tyres: DRS quite influential, but that's also the nature of the circuit (though nature is perhaps the wrong word  ). Tyres OK if you have only Pirelli choices.

And the race in a sentence: not bad, not great.Glad that it didn't become the kind of double points drama that we feared.

[P123]

Best Driver: So many good performances Hamilton/ Massa/ Ricciardo/ Button....... I'll go with DR, pitlane to 4th. I know Massa pushed LEwis in the end, but LH did drop his pace by 2s per lap at one stage.
Worst Driver: Got all a bit clumsy between KMag and Hulk on the first lap, and KM did touch Sutil too on that lap.
Best Team: Williams
Best Overtake: Don't recall any standouts
Best Moment: Hamilton crossing the line to victory and 2nd WDC
DRS + Tyres: Tyres were good. DRS... would rather not have it. 2 helpings of it is a bit much.

And the race in a sentence: Not bad, quite tense but it would be nice to finish the season elsewhere though- like Suzuka or Interlagos.

[ATM]

Best Driver: Ricciardo. 
Worst Driver: hmm, not gigantic  errors, maybe just the first lap Magnussen/Hulkenberg/Sutil incident. 
Best Team: Williams
Best Overtake: I would say Alonso on Button. Pity we didn't see the rematch, the next lap. 
Best Moment: when Rosberg refuses to retire. If you gotta go, that's the way to do it. With grace. 
DRS + Tyres: nothing bad to mention here. We didn't see that many overtakes even with DRS, so I suppose that without it, it would have been a real snoozefest. Tires? good choice. 

And the race in a sentence: I give it a 6. Had it been in the early parts of the season, it would have been easily forgotten. 

Edited by ATM, 23 November 2014 - 22:15.

[Donkey]

Best Driver: Ricciardo - Ok he still started ahead of Vettel in the pitlane, but he got less bogged down than Vettel while making his way through the field and got probably the best result he could have hoped for.
Worst Driver: KMag, bit clumsy at the started, seemed to recover in the middle part of the race but still didn't finish in the points
Best Team: Williams
Best Overtake: Vergne re-overtaking Ricciardo, showed he meant business even if it didn't last long
Best Moment: Williams being true racers and egging Massa on to try and catch Hamilton + Hamilton/Button donuts
DRS + Tyres: Tyres were fine. Track is bad for overtaking and field spread (as Alonso found out against Petrov) so DRS kind of necessary

And the race in a sentence: Best man won.

Edited by Donkey, 23 November 2014 - 22:20.

[MP422]

Best Driver:  Hamilton/Massa
Worst Driver: Sutil
Best Team: Williams
Best Overtake: Alonso on Jenson
Best Moment: Hamilton's start    <- Nico

And the race in a sentence: Incredible ending to a classic season as next year's grid is going to look incredibly different.

 

10/10

Edited by MP422, 23 November 2014 - 22:31.

[30ft penguin]

6/10. Title decider race, but actually not that much exciting stuff happened, only some stupid penalties (Red Bull front wing, Hulk, ...). Rosberg's car failure robbed us of at least some SLIGHT excitement. Like someone above said, if this had not been the title decider race with all the Hamilton fans going crazy about the result and instead one of the races early in the season, this one would have been utterly forgettable.

[Nonesuch]

Rated it 5/10. I wasn't bored, but it's not exactly a highlight of the season.

 

Best Driver: Ricciardo, the car is no doubt pretty decent, but he had a very solid race to come through the field. He once again finished with a sizeable lead over his teammate.
Worst Driver: Nothing really comes to mind.
Best Team: Williams. They weren't a big threat to Mercedes, but they succeeded where Mercedes failed by having two cars that could finish the race at the front of the grid.
Best Overtake: Kvyat on Räikkönen was pretty cheeky. He came close to cutting the track when he did something similar a lap later, but I'll give him the benefit of the doubt.
Best Moment: Vergne refusing to give his position to Ricciardo. Honourable mention to Rosberg for refusing to give up, and to the FIA for throwing the book at Red Bull.
DRS + Tyres: DRS is perhaps the only thing that keeps this track even remotely interesting, but the better solution would probably be to race somewhere else. In the context of Pirelli's mission I suppose this wasn't too bad a race for them.
And the race in a sentence: What was shaping up to be the usual 'Hamilton keeps a three second gap to Rosberg'-race became an even more straightforward cruise to the end of this championship.

 

Pet peeve of the race: Mercedes' race-engineers starting every radio conversation with the pointless expression, 'So...'.

Edited by Nonesuch, 23 November 2014 - 22:41.

[rf90]

I didn't rate the race that highly but I did enjoy the "event". The race did though, pretty much sum up the season, that is; a very deserving champion, the Williams car not used to their full potential, the Ferrari is rubbish, Ricciardo better than Vettel.
The memorable part of the race for me was afterwards, with Nico Rosberg showing a lot of class in defeat.

[HeadFirst]

Best Driver: Ricciardo
Worst Driver: Mags was a bit off, but not all that bad.
Best Team: Williams
Best Overtake: Alonso on Kimi (I think)
Best Moment: Alonso vs Button
DRS + Tyres:

And the race in a sentence: Disappointing that Mercedes could not give us a battle for the WDC.

[Bleu]

Best Driver: Massa

Worst Driver: Magnussen

Best Team: Williams

Best Overtake: Vergne re-taking Ricciardo

Best Moment: Lotus Burn Twitter message

DRS + Tyres: OK for the track which is otherwise not good.

The race in a sentence: The race showed that WDC was won by a right driver, even though challenger was unlucky this time.

[Kristian]

Wow, how anybody can rate that race 10/10 is beyond me. So that's up there with Suzuka 2005, Brazil 2008, Monaco 1982, Italy 1971, etc. ? Give me strength....