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[ANF]

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

[TomNokoe]

Lewis
Bottas
Red Bull
Rosberg & Vettel on Lewis
As above
Meh
Garbage

...WELL THEN LOAD OF SHITE

[Disgrace]

It was basically like Abu Dhabi in 2010. A horrible race but one comical strategy call made it all worth it. 0/10 for the race, 10/10 for the call, so 5/10.

[BCM]

Best Driver Performance: Safety Car.
Worst Driver Performance: No one in particular.
Best Team Performance: Mercedes. Thanks to them there was some excitement at the end of a very boring race
Best Overtake: Vettel on Hamilton under yellow. I also enjoyed seeing the lapped cars going both sides of the Safety Car to un-lap themselves.
Best Moment: Seeing Verstappen moving after his big shunt.
DRS: What's the point at Monaco?
Tyres: Everyone had them. Made bugger all difference which compound you were on.

Edited by BCM, 24 May 2015 - 15:27.

[Brandz07]

Best Driver Performance: Lewis (Controlled the race. 20 seconds up on Nico at his best track)

Worst Driver Performance: Nobody stood out, so let's go with Bottas.
Best Team Performance: Ferrari (Red Bull close 2nd)
Best Overtake: Were there any? 
Best Moment: Max in P2 in practice.
DRS: Ineffective
Tyres: Meh
And the race in a sentence... Dull (Standard Monaco really)

[redraven9]

Best Driver Performance: Sergio Perez (for the whole weekend), credits to Vettel and Jenson
Worst Driver Performance: Raikkonen
Best Team Performance: Red Bull
Best Overtake: Alonso on Hulkenberg/Ricciardo on Raikkonen
Best Moment: Safety car and restart
DRS: -
Tyres: -
And the race in a sentence... Typical Monaco with some drama. 5/10

[HeadFirst]

Best Driver Performance: Kvyat .... performs under a lot of pressure.
Worst Driver Performance: No one stands out.
Best Team Performance: McLaren ... points (finally).
Best Overtake: Verstappen using Vettel as a screen to pass several, before the Grosjean thing.
Best Moment: McLaren in the points.
DRS:
Tyres:
And the race in a sentence ... At Monaco you pay for your mistakes, and others' mistakes too.

[HeadFirst]

Best Driver Performance: Safety Car.
Worst Driver Performance: No one in particular.
Best Team Performance: Mercedes. Thanks to them there was some excitement at the end of a very boring race
Best Overtake: Vettel on Hamilton under yellow. I also enjoyed seeing the lapped cars going both sides of the Safety Car to un-lap themselves.
Best Moment: Seeing Verstappen moving after his big shunt.
DRS: What's the point at Monaco?
Tyres: Everyone had them. Made bugger all difference which compound you were on.

 

Yes, that was a relief.

[ATM]

Best Driver Performance: Hamilton
Worst Driver Performance: I don't know, Bottas maybe. 
Best Team Performance: Ferrari. 
Best Overtake: not much to choose from, I guess Ricciardo on Raikkonen, although at the high level of legality. 
Best Moment: Grosjean making a perfect blocking move on Verstappen after being lapped by Vettel. 
DRS: what DRS?
Tyres: nothing to mention.
And the race in a sentence...boring, lit up by last 10 laps, other than that they really need to change something on the circuit in the future to actually allow some passes. 

[Tourgott]

1/10 until the safety car. Awful race.

 

Overall 3/10 because the Mercedes "strategy" made it entertaining.

[NoSanityClause]

Best Driver Performance: Mad Max
Worst Driver Performance: Rosberg
Best Team Performance: Ferrari
Best Overtake: Any from Verstappen
Best Moment: The podium
DRS: No, thanks.
Tyres: Tiring.
And the race in a sentence...Monaco: the circuit that knows beter than any other that lack of action on the track can be compensated by plenty of drama outside of it.

[Nonesuch]

Voted 3/10.

 

Best Driver Performance: Lewis Hamilton, he had a great weekend that unfortunately went all wrong towards the end.
Worst Driver Performance: Max Verstappen, completely misjudged Grosjean's braking point on old tyres.
Best Team Performance: It's impossible to give it to Mercedes for obvious reasons, so I'll give the nod to Red Bull for being pretty competitive and beating one of the Ferrari's.
Best Overtake: Did Verstappen sneak by Sainz following Vettel? That was very astute!
Best Moment: The hilarity of seeing Mercedes make a royal mess of things with Hamilton.
DRS: Monaco makes even DRS pointless!
Tyres: Problems throughout the weekend with them apparently being too hard. Considering the compounds used, that's pretty bad.
And the race in a sentence: Let's not race here again.

[ConsiderAndGo]

Best Driver Performance: Vettel
Worst Driver Performance: For once, I don't think anyone was particularly bad.
Best Team Performance: Redbull
Best Overtake: None stand out.
Best Moment: Seeing that Verstappen was okay / Merc botch job. 
DRS: Useless
Tyres: Crap
And the race in a sentence: Can't think of enough to say to form a sentence. I'll go with 'tragic'.

Edited by ConsiderAndGo, 24 May 2015 - 16:33.

[KavB]

Best Driver Performance: Hamilton for dominating. Kyvat for 4th and beating Ricciardo after facing a lot of pressure. Perez for an unrecognised solid drive all weekend in a fairly poor car and Sainz for his fight from last to a point. I'd have to go with Perez though.
Worst Driver Performance: No one was bad really. So by default, even though Verstappen was very good for most of the race, he was the only one to have an incident which lead to a DNF so I would say him.
Best Team Performance: Red Bull achieved the maximum result and were fair with that swap at the end.
Best Overtake: Can't recall any overtakes really!
Best Moment: The drama with Hamilton.
DRS: Will never work in Monaco.
Tyres: No opinion
And the race in a sentence...: Hahahahahahhaah

[Rakaman]

why is there a Best Team Performance but not a Worst Team Performance?

 

Worst Team Performance: Mercedes for obvious reasons. 

[MikePost]

Monaco is a waste of time as a race circuit, it's all about glamour and glitz, so as a race , well it pretty much sucked as usual, bit of drama at the end but otherwise just a train of cars following each other!

[JosD]

Best Driver Performance: Perez, although it was rather invisible
Worst Driver Performance: None in particular
Best Team Performance: RBR
Best Overtake: Verstappen on Bottas
Best Moment: Verstappen slipstreaming behind Vettel to pass Sainz, and Bottas, followed by the big crash and that he was moving after that big one
DRS: Why?!
Tyres: No opinion
And the race in a sentence: Extremely dull, and yet another parade

 

4/10

[Crossmax]

4/10. Really dull (even for being Monaco) until the safety car came out.

 

Best Driver Performance: Lewis Hamilton and Danil Kvyat
Worst Driver Performance: Tough one. If I have to give it to someone, I'll give it to Verstappen for the shunt.
Best Team Performance: Red Bull. Fair play to them for acting like a team in order to maximize the result, and still being fair to both drivers.

Worst Team Performance: Mercedes. Wtf was that?
Best Overtake: Verstappen on Bottas.
Best Moment: Safety car deployment.
DRS: 
Tyres: Way too durable. 
And the race in a sentence... One of the weirdest finishes I've seen.

[cpbell]

6/10 - the events at the end improved what was otherwise dull.

 

Best driver:  Kyvat, with honourable mentions for Hamilton and Perez

Worst driver:  Probably Sainz for his series of errors, though he came back well.  I'm not going to say Verstappen, as I suspect Grosjean brake-tested him.

Best team:  Red Bull - scrupulously fair on Kyvat when Ricciardo couldn't get past Hamilton.

Worst team:  No contest - Mercedes.  I cannot see any good reason for that strategy.

Best overtaking manoeuvre:  Verstappen out-fumbling Bottas on the descent to Portier when Vettel was lapping the Williams.

Best moment:  Ricciardo's cheeky pass on Raikkonen - reminiscent of Monaco overtaking manoeuvres of old.

DRS and tyres:  DRS is pointless in Monaco; tyres not too bad, as Jenson said, they enabled him to push all race, which is how it should be.

Race in a sentence:  Three-quarters of it was fairly dull, then mayhem ensued.

Edited by cpbell, 24 May 2015 - 17:59.

[masa90]

Was a really boring race

[FenderJaguar]

Best Driver Performance: although I don't want to admit Perez was pretty good this weekend
Worst Driver Performance: Nico Rosberg
Best Team Performance: nah
Best Overtake: Verstappen on Grosjean, good things the cars are safer nowadays because that was stupid
Best Moment: Lewis hitting the 3
DRS:
Tyres: give them tires to go racing
And the race in a sentence...racing?

[ANF]

Best Driver Performance: Hamilton, Vettel, or Verstappen for what could have been a great recovery drive after a long pit stop
Worst Driver Performance: Verstappen for outbraking himself into Grosjean
Best Team Performance: Force India?!
Best Overtake: Verstappen's clean and well executed move on Maldonado (with a BBW issue) into Sainte-Dévote
Best Moment: Apart from the sigh of relief when Verstappen removed the steering wheel: Merc robbing Hamilton of a victory
DRS: I actually don't mind DRS in Monaco
Tyres: It took them about three laps to get up to temperature and eight laps to overheat, so that's just extraordinary...
A decent Monaco GP with an exciting finish: 7/10

[zombie1965]

Best Driver Performance: LEWIS
Worst Driver Performance: KIMI
WORST Team Performance: Merc for terrible strategic decision with lewis's stop  / Mclaren for unreliability

Best Overtake: Button round the outside of Hulk on turn 3 
Best Moment: first Points for Jenson
DRS: Pointless at Monaco
Tyres: Not enough between them 

 

The race was a dull precession as usual with a bad call being the headline grabber

[Donkey]

Best Driver Performance:Verstappen for waking me up from my snooze.
Worst Driver Performance: Verstappen, he was lucky not to do Webber flip.
Best Team Performance: Red Bull for being fair with team orders and drivers actually following them. Also Mercedes for the mother of all cockups.
Best Overtake: There were none.
Best Moment: Kimi radio: 'That was not very nice'.
DRS: Ineffective, please let them use it in the tunnel! I'm sure these cars and drivers can cope with the extra speed there.
Tyres: Too hard.
 

Dull, even by Monaco standards. This is better than racing in Germany? (or Monza or other tracks under threat by Bernie?)

Edited by Donkey, 24 May 2015 - 20:27.

[Massa_f1]

The race itself was terrible to be honest even for Monaco.

 

3/10 would of been 2/10 if not for the unexpected drama after the safety car. Races should not need safety cars to spice them up, but seems that's what it takes these days.

[Fatgadget]

Come rain or shine,Monaco is always ace! Last year we had the eh the parking incident nothing new about that BTW! and before that the swimming pool incident.Best of all in my life time one Aryton Senna closing in rapidly on Alain Prost- in the wet-only for the race to be  prematurely called  off..was I frustrated or what about that one!   ..Mostly always a sting in the tail about Monaco...Long may it survive.

[Mekola]

5/10, but mostly by showing McLaren a real effort to be finally on points with Button. A first landmark for the Honda return to F1.

[Docc]

When did Mercedes get a new pit adviser ?

Edited by Docc, 25 May 2015 - 01:22.

[balmybaldwin]

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

Driver: Sainz - from pitlane to points in a so-so team in his first Monaco GP 

Worst Driver: Rosberg - Lucked a win having trailed by 20 seconds his team mate (who had early brake issues) in the best car

Best team: Redbull - best showing this year confirms they haven't totally lost "it" - oh and no monumental screw-ups

Best Overtake: Don't remember seeing one - I think i ought to stop drinking now

Best Moment: A healthy verstappen after his smash

DRS: Pointless

Tyres: not bad... slow to warm, but lasted well.

 

For a Monaco race 7/10 4/10 anywhere else

 

Lucky win, stupid decisions and finally some points for Mclaren

[tom]

worst race ever

[garagetinkerer]

I, a tifoso, couldn't help but laugh at how 2010 Abu Dhabi panned out. It was funny then, it is funny now. So Button got into points.

 

It is good to see that all but 1 team have gotten points, that at this early stage in the season. 

Edited by garagetinkerer, 25 May 2015 - 03:05.

[travbrad]

Best Moment:  "That wasn't very nice"

 

Kimi alone provided more entertainment with his radio messages than the entirety of the "race" provided.

Edited by travbrad, 25 May 2015 - 03:15.

[garagetinkerer]

Best Moment:  "That wasn't very nice"

 

Kimi alone provided more entertainment with his radio messages than the entirety of the "race"

Sorry mate, just ran out of my quota of likes for the day... blame it on the photoshop thread

[Jon83]

Best Driver Performance: Hamilton
Worst Driver Performance: Verstappen
Best Team Performance: Red Bull
Best Overtake: ?
Best Moment: Verstappen getting out the car safely
DRS: No point
Tyres: Ok
And the race in a sentence...Horrible race. At least before we had these horrible engines and rubbish tyres, the cars looked fast round here. Now they look slow, sound rubbish and everything is about saving one thing or another (tyres, fuel, bla bla)

 

F1 needs to change and fast.

Edited by Jon83, 25 May 2015 - 07:40.

[Bloggsworth]

The race in a sentence? Very boring then, in the end, laughable. If it hadn't started raining here I would have gone out to play golf.

[zanquis]

Best Driver performance: Max Verstappen, he was the fastest driver after the Mercedes guys for a big portion of the race. He played with Vettel while using him for overtaking

Worst Driver performance: Felipe Massa, he was no where, the Williams was probably the weakest car after the Manors but still.

Best team performance: RedBull finishing higher then they did before

Best overtake: The overtake from Verstappen on Bottas

Best Moment: Max Verstappen, playing with Vettel, on his gearbox when overtaking, giving space again and then easily in the gearbox again.

DRS: Did not even help to overcome the powerdifference of Mercedes vs Renault or any overtaking anyway.

Tyres: Ok, I loved the fact that Max Verstappen demonstrated that a 2 pitsstop CAN work in Monaco

The race in a sentence: The Max Verstappen show, he was the only thing making this race interesting, yes I am a fan, but even the haters have to admit that.

[SealTheDiffuser]

Best Driver Performance: Kvyat; VES
Worst Driver Performance: VES
Best Team Performance: RB
Best Overtake: ROS; VET on HAM
Best Moment: HAM having to stay behind VET after pit stop
DRS: useless, good
Tyres: I don't care anymore
And the race in a sentence... boring, but startling end.

 

9 points

[Cozzie]

dreadful race procession.

[metz]

Best Driver Performance: Hamilton - everyone agrees
Worst Driver Performance: whoever drove the Virtual Safety car
Best Team Performance: McLaren, in the points, with Button
Best Overtake: Verstappen The kid is the real deal
Best Moment: Hamilton on radio "What just happened?"
DRS: useless
Tyres: made no difference
And the race in a sentence: A snore until the last 12 laps

It's a strategy track and it proved it again. 8/10...

[Tuxy]

8

 

Thanks to the screw-up by Mercedes.  

 

Without it, a score of 2.  

 

It's Monaco, so without a heroic passing attempts to interrupt the procession, crashes and clown-shoes are next-best.

 

Some one post an animated gif of Hamilton knocking over the 3rd place placard! 

[ANF]

Some one post an animated gif of Hamilton knocking over the 3rd place placard! 

This is all I could find.

[oetzi]

Not sure I can rate it, but all weekend Verstappen made it worth watching.

It was Monaco, and things happened.

[scheivlak]

Best Driver Performance: Sergio Perez
Worst Driver Performance: Quite possibly this was Williams' bogey track but their drivers did not exactly cover themselves in glory. Special mention for Ricciardo for his Johnny Cecotto impersonation and the stewards for getting it all wrong there and then.
Best Team Performance: Red Bull?
Best Overtake: Verstappen on Maldonado. And on Bottas, And Vettel on Hamilton!
Best Moment: I had to laugh about Merc's cock up. Apart from that, Max' overtakes.
DRS: excellent   
Tyres: shite. Here Pirelli could have easily proved themselves with a fast and durable supersoft on the most tyre-friendly track in the universe - and guess what......
And the race in a sentence... Monaco is always a winner for me - even if there's not much passing there is still that special kind of suspense. A 7.