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[Nonesuch]

 

The Malaysian Grand Prix saw the first Ferrari win in almost two years, with Vettel taking the top spot on the podium for the Italian team.

 

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:

[TomNokoe]

8 or 9. 8.5?

Best Driver: VETTEL
Worst Driver: too busy staring at live timing, apparently Perez and Nasr were pretty rubbish?
Best Team: Ferrari
Best Overtake: Bottas on Massa was pretty sweet. Good lap 1 action. Great racing all day. Good moves from Lewis in traffic.
Best Moment: Seb taking the chequered.
DRS + Tyres: DRS a little too powerful, tyres did very well to deal with the conditions.
And the race in a sentence: I LOVE F1.

[fZero]

1!

 

I'm disgustipated.

[Ducks]

Solid 8 from me.

 

Best driver: Vettel

 

Best team: Ferrari

 

Best overtake: Bottas

 

Best moment: Rosbergs tampons not working

 

Worst driver: Perez

[redraven9]

Best Driver: Vettel
Worst Driver: Ericson
Best Team: Ferrari
Best Overtake: Bottas on Massa
Best Moment: Vettel winning
DRS + Tyres: -

And the race in a sentence: Good race, but nothing special.

Edited by redraven9, 29 March 2015 - 09:56.

[Peter Perfect]

Would have preferred an on-track battle at the front but this was streets ahead of Oz. Here's to a season of racing! 

[Nonesuch]

Rated it 7/10, with a bonus point for the numerous non-DRS scraps in the midfield.

 

Best Driver: Sebastian Vettel, he was as good as flawless this weekend.
Worst Driver: Pastor Maldonado; battles in the midfield can cause collisions, but speeding under the safety car, especially in light of recent events, is just ridiculous.
Best Team: Ferrari; Mercedes seemed actually surprised by the Italian team's pace this weekend, which might have contributed to some of their less than impressive strategic decisions.
Best Overtake: Hamilton put a smooth move on what I think was Grosjean after the safety car. Bottas sticking around the outside of Massa was pretty nice, as well.
Best Moment: I quite enjoyed the little battles the Toro Rosso youngster got involved in, but I have to admit to being partial to hearing the German and Italian anthems in quick succession.
DRS + Tyres: The tyres definitely played a role, but in a more or less predictable manner. The DRS is terrible, especially with two of these very long straights.

And the race in a sentence: Pretty interesting strategic race, marred by an early safety car that put a significant gap between Vettel and Hamilton.

Edited by Nonesuch, 29 March 2015 - 10:00.

[Claudiu]

I'll give it an 8

 

Forza Ferrari !!!

[STRFerrari4Ever]

Solid 9 for me, entertaining from the first lap, full of action everywhere.

Best driver: Vettel

Best team: Ferrari

Best overtake: Bottas on Felipe

Best moment: Vettel winning and the sheer emotion of it all

Worst driver: Perez

[Crossmax]

Voted 8, but on a personal level it was a 10 due to Seb's first Ferrari win and also coming off the poor race in Australia.

 

Best Driver: Vettel
Worst Driver: Ericsson
Best Team: Ferrari
Best Overtake: Kimi's double overtake on lap 1 into turn 4.
Best Moment: Seeing Sebastian maintaining his gap to Mercedes throughout the race.
DRS + Tyres: No complaints.
And the race in a sentence: Finger-time!   

[josepatches]

I said 9.

 

 

 

Best Driver: Vettel

Worst Driver:  -

Best Team: Ferrari

Best Overtake:  Botas Vs Massa

Best Moment: Chequered Flag

DRS + Tyres:  Nosense here. You cant defend your position in a track like this

 

And the race in a sentence:

The race could be much better but the result was fantastic so the note is higher to me

Edited by josepatches, 29 March 2015 - 10:07.

[Sanzx81]

9/10

Best Driver: Kimi
Worst Driver: Perez
Best Team: Ferrari
Best Overtake: Vettel on Mercs
Best Moment: Car other than a Merc wins
DRS + Tyres: ?
And the race in a sentence: great race, might turn out to be the best race of the season if the Mercedes win the rest.

[tmekt]

Best Driver: both Ferrari drivers
Worst Driver: Marcus Ericsson
Best Team: Ferrari
Best Overtake: Bottas on Massa
Best Moment: Il Canto degli Italiani
DRS + Tyres: DRS a bit too strong, tyres were fine

 

And the race in a sentence: Ferrari is back, baby!

 

Oh, and it's a strong 9 for me. There wasn't a moment I wasn't entertained really. 

Edited by tmekt, 29 March 2015 - 10:06.

[Jvr]

I gave 10 since it is so great to have a competition on, also many nice overtakes.

 

Best Driver: Vettel
Worst Driver: Ericsson
Best Team: Ferrari
Best Overtake: Bottas on Massa, good old time move in corners.
Best Moment: Merc disturbed when realizing Vettel is about to win.
DRS + Tyres: DRS again giving unrealistic advantage so nobody was overtaking on the first DRS zone, really. Ferrari very gentle on tyres.

And the race in a sentence: Great to have a real challenge to Merc dominance, now we need Renault to enter the mix.

[Amin]

Best Driver: Sebastian Vettel, honourable mention for Kimi Raikkonen
Worst Driver: Marcus Ericsson 
Best Team: Ferrari
Best Overtake: Bottas on Massa
Best Moment: Safety Car coming out
DRS + Tyres: Fine with both

And the race in a sentence: Ferrari are back!

[Kaiba]

I rate it a 7 or an 8, since i missed the first 8 laps  , 

Best Driver: Seb, though biased there

Worst Driver: Perez

Best Team: Ferrari, been a while since i was happy with there strategy

Best Overtake: Again going to be biased but seeing Seb past the Mercs

Best Moment: The celebratory drink after the race

All round good race

[BRK]

Eight! Rain would've made it better, maybe even helped surpass a wet Spa-Francorchamps race. 

[03011969]

Excellent race. It got more exciting as the race progressed.

 

Best Team: Ferrari

Best driver: I'll say Kimi and Vettel joint

Best moment: The realisation about a lap from the end(!) that Vettel would probably win

[ANF]

Best Driver: Vettel/Verstappen/Hülkenberg
Worst Driver: No one, really
Best Team: Ferrari/Toro Rosso
Best Overtake: Verstappen on Ricciardo? I liked the way he kept his cool.
Best Moment: Seeing Vettel cross the finish line and win for Ferrari
DRS: An absoablute disanasterdis! soluteab asterandis!
Tyres: Can't really blame the tyres for the high track temperature, but I would have liked to see the drivers push a little more
7/10

[Lotus53B]

Best Driver: Vettel, he controlled things nicely, drove well, looked after his tyres (honourable mention for Max V)
Worst Driver: Either Hulk or Perez for unforced bonking.
Best Team: Ferrari
Best Overtake:Bottas on Massa.  I wish they'd put cameras in cockpits so we can see their faces.
Best Moment:Probably in practice when it became clear that Ferrari have done their homework.
DRS + Tyres:Managing tyres was vital today, poor strategy by Mercedes in Q1 cost them very dearly.

And the race in a sentence:Good for Formula 1 - It needs more than competition between teammates, and it looks like we may have that.

[Zesus]

Best Driver: Vettel, Raikkonen
Worst Driver: Ericsson
Best Team: Ferrari
Best Overtake: Kimi vs two other drivers in one lap
Best Moment: Hamilton moaning about wrong tyres on his car (I enjoyed seeing them panic after so long time)
DRS + Tyres: /

And the race in a sentence: Perfect. Ferrari's back.

[Exb]

Best Driver: Got t o give it to Seb, great drive but very impressed with Max as well. Mention for Lewis and Kimi who also had very strong races.
Worst Driver: Ericsson, did well yesterday but threw it all away very early on.
Best Team: uggg, this hurts but Ferrari by a mile.
Best Overtake: Bottas on Massa - great battle ending with a good overtake. Max also with some very good ones.
Best Moment: The whole race - was a joy to watch after Australia. 
DRS + Tyres: Fine

And the race in a sentence: Great, exciting race, battles throughout the field and the ebb and flow of the different strategies kept me wondering who was going to end up on top until surprisingly late in the race.

[Joe Bosworth]

F1  redemption?  I would like to think so. Not optimistic.

 

Regards

[Raikkonen94]

8/10

Best Driver: Vettel, closely followed by Raikkonen
Worst Driver: Perez
Best Team: Ferrari
Best Overtake: Raikkonen overtaking two cars on the outside of T4 on the opening lap
Best Moment: Ferrari beating Mercedes on pure pace
DRS + Tyres: Fine, I really liked this race with 2 to 3 stops. Lots of overtakings when drivers on different tyres are mixed in the field

And the race in a sentence: Great to see this rocketship of a Ferrari, now I'm only hoping to see a troublefree weekend for Kimi to see what he is capable of!

[FenderJaguar]

Best Driver: Vettel
Worst Driver: Maldonado, Perez
Best Team: Ferrari
Best Moment: Ferrari beating Mercedes, especially listening to the radio from Mercedes when they start to worry they will be beaten

 

Worst moment: Kimi's puncture

And the race in a sentence: just what F1 needed (was it true, did it really happen?)

[MikePost]

Great race, the Ferrari looks really composed, we may just have a real championship this year!

 

Well impressed with Kimi to finish fourth after all his dramas!

[Donkey]

Best Driver: Vettel
Worst Driver: Ericsson, hero to zero
Best Team: Ferrari, made the most out of Kim's race as well after his puncture.
Best Overtake: Oh so nearly Grosjean...
Best Moment: Mercedes telling their drivers that they could still win even when it was obvious that Ferrari had played a better strategy with Vettel.
DRS + Tyres: Tyres perfect, mix of 2 and 3 stoppers. DRS made sure the Hulkenberg train didn't last the whole race.

And the race in a sentence: Some good racing down the field. Still a bit of a Noah's Ark finish though and less action for the last 8-10 laps as seems to be the trend these days.

[JosD]

Overall rating for race: 8/10

 

Best Driver: Vettel (Honourable mention for Max)
Worst Driver: Perez
Best Team: Ferrari
Best Overtake: Max on Ricciardo | Bottas on Massa
Best Moment: Insecurity of Mercedes, as the team was pushed in a position it didn't knew
DRS + Tyres: No real complaints, Ferrari seemed to be able to manage the tyres somewhat better

And the race in a sentence: Good race, especially after Melbourne, which hopefully will be an indicator for the races that will follow. (Hoping for a much less monotone year)

[spaceace1977]

Best Driver: Vettel
Worst Driver: Perez / Ericsson
Best Team: Toro Rosso
Best Overtake: Verstappen was quite busy 
Best Moment: Peter Sauber on the grid: "It's not easy to talk about all this ****."  

 

And the race in a sentence: Good fun..

[NoSanityClause]

Best Driver: Vettel
Worst Driver: Pérez
Best Team: Ferrari
Best Overtake: Bottas/Massa
Best Moment: those three way battles between the STR, the RB and whoever was around.
DRS: Anonymous 

Tyres: perhaps a little bit on the conservative side

And the race in a sentence: Great action, shame about the McLarens, of course 

[Jon83]

Best Driver: VET but mention also for VES and RAI
Worst Driver: ERIC
Best Team: Ferrari
Best Overtake: BOT on MAS
Best Moment: VET hunting down the Mercedes cars
DRS + Tyres: I don't like this double DRS nonsense where a faster car can pass on the back straight only to be re-passed on the main. Tyres seemed ok I guess. 

And the race in a sentence: Great to see Ferrari winning again. Plenty of decent racing throughout. 

[Geizterfahrer]

9/10

 

- 19 cars on the grid

- Drama (Kimi falling far, far behind, but fighting his way back)

- lots of wheel to wheel racing from the beginning till the end

- overtaking without DRS

- lots of driver errors (F1 is too easy they say?)

- different strategies

- McLaren showing some pace

- Ferrari and Vettel on top in the second race

- Mercedes and drivers getting nervous (lots of misunderstanding and confusion on the team radio)

 

Bonus:

- Red Bull not bitching about bad Renault and almighty Mercedes

 

Best Driver: Vettel! Flawless race and awesome pace when it was needed.

Worst Driver: Perez... He'll never learn it.

Best Team: Ferrari. They had a small chance and did everything right.

Best Overtake: Verstappen on Ricciardo. Verstappen is surprisingly good so far.

Best Moment: Hamilton hearing stuff about another stop on the team radio right after his final stop  

DRS + Tyres: DRS wasn't needed today, tyres were okay. Softer compounds would have led to too much chaos and traffic.

And the race in a sentence: The cure that F1 needed after the last GP.

[Heisenberg]

Best Driver: VETTEL
Worst Driver: ERICSSON
Best Team: FERRARI
Best Overtake: BOTTAS vs. MASSA 
Best Moment: VETTEL's FIRST WIN WITH FERRARI and FERRARI's COMEBACK!
DRS + Tyres: - 

And the race in a sentence: REALLY GOOD 8/10!

 

A big plus for Kimi's recovery today! And for Ferrari overall, they came from a season which was a disaster to taking the fight to Mercedes! Superb!

Edited by Heisenberg, 29 March 2015 - 13:08.

[Kelateboy]

Best Driver: Vettel
Worst Driver: Ericsson
Best Team: Ferrari
Best Overtake: Bottas on Massa
Best Moment: Lewis and Seb sitting down on the podium chatting away while Eddie was interviewing Nico. 

And the race in a sentence: Welcome back, Seb.

[kaisellgren]

Best driver: VETTEL

Worst driver: ERICSSON

Best overtake: BOTTAS

[nosecone]

Best Driver: Vettel/ Rai.... Kimi

Worst driver: -

Best team: Ferrari

Best overtake: BOT

Best moment: Alonso passing a FI

DRS+ tyres: Half way through the race i thought 'DRS ruined this race because the Merc's(especially HAM) passed the other cars quite easily'. Tyres: great-

Rating: 9/10. Lots of action.

[WhiteSGPlayer]

Will be more detailed later, but 3.5 out of 5. Decent, above average.

[skc]

Rating 9.

 

Best Driver:      Sebastien Vettel
Worst Driver:    Erricson
Best Team:       Ferrari
Best Overtake: They were all straight forward. Maybe Verstappens simply because it was proof that he belongs
Best Moment:    Seb celebrating with the team
DRS + Tyres:   As ever, meh.

And the race in a sentence:  An eventful race with lots of intriguing battles till the end. Also, any race that isn't a Mercedes snoozefest is always welcome.

[metz]

The first half of the race Hulkenberg was outstanding. Then they gave him an undeserved penalty. As TV crew said, Where was he to go?

But Vettel didn't put a foot wrong. Outstanding drive, preserving his tyres, as he does so well.

I found Rosberg drove like a little old lady. Always worrying about others and not focused on his own. There was no reason Vettel beat him coming out of the pits.

Maldonado was once again being Maldonado.

Kimi the comeback kid!

Bottas on Massa was ballsy. Good racing.

I give it a 8/10 with an outstanding effort by Ferrari...

[JAW97]

Best driver: A tie between the Ferrari boys.
Worst driver: Ericsson
Best team: Ferrari
Best overtake: Bottas > Massa
Best moment: Not any in particular, quite liked a few of the battles going on.
DRS + Tyres: Don't really care about DRS, tyres were just about perfect imo.

Very good race with close racing everywhere. Hopefully Ferrari regularly challenge Mercedes.

Edited by JAW97, 29 March 2015 - 15:18.

[MikeV1987]

Voted 10 

 

Best Driver: Vettel
Worst Driver: Ericsson
Best Team: Ferrari
Best Overtake: Bottas on Massa last lap
Best Moment: When the Mercs pit under the SC on (4?) lap old mediums, i was like WTF ARE YOU DOING.
DRS + Tyres: Meh

And the race in a sentence: As a Vettel fan, this was the most satisfying win in many years, I was almost emotional about it. Which does not normally happen at all 

Edited by MikeV1987, 29 March 2015 - 15:29.

[cpbell]

7/10 - better than Melbourne, but a touch dull in the later stages.

 

Best driver: Raikkonen - should have been Vettel, but someone has to penalise him for doing a circa 2002 Schuey swerve off the line to force someone (Rosberg in this case) into the pitwall - the FIA don't seem to bother with that one nowadays.

Worst driver:  Ericsson - very embarrassing, and he doesn't seem that quick either.

Best team:   Ferrari, without question.  Circuit conditions may have helped them, but that's one of the biggest improvements over a single winter, along with Williams last year, that I can recall seeing in recent times.

Best overtake:  I tend to find that the identities of drivers involved in every manoeuvre escape me these days (helmets being hard to identify in the modern cockpits and less distinctive in design), but Bottas on Massa stood out for me.

Best moment: Hamilton showing team leadership material when instructing the team to get their act together!

DRS:  Seems pretty good in Malaysia by not making overtaking too easy, though there was enough elsewhere on the track to render it less important than at other circuits.

Tyres;  OK, though I noticed a fair amount of "marbles" offline on the approach to the final corner.

 

Race in a sentence:  Encouraging to find that it won't be easy for Mercedes at all tracks and in all conditions, though I'll be surprised if Ferrari are that quick everywhere.

Edited by cpbell, 29 March 2015 - 15:33.

[P123]

Best Driver: Vettel
Worst Driver: Ericsson
Best Team: Ferrari
Best Overtake: Bottas on Massa
Best Moment: Probably when it became clear Merc won't have everything their own way.
DRS + Tyres: DRS still overpowered for this circuit, tyres actually providing a range of strategies for once.

7/10- not a classic, but a good race which shows some promise for fights at the front (which we still missed a bit today) with Merc and Ferrari being well clear of the rest.

[Imateria]

8 for me.

 

Best Driver: Vettel

Worst Driver: Ericsson

Best Team: Ferrari

Best Overtake: Verstappen round the outside of Ricciardo

Best Moment: see above

DRS & Tyres: They were fine, despite the really high temperatures the Pirelli's held up well and the DRS didn't guarantee an easy overtake.

 

A good, entertaining race.

[JohnDoe]

Voted 9. Rounded off from a 8.5+

Best Driver: Race - Kimi. Weekend - Vettel
Worst Driver: Perez
Best Team: Ferrari for the strategy gamble
Best Overtake: Max on Sainz
Best Moment: Must have been asleep when it happened
DRS + Tyres: Just about enough to make the race worth watching

And the race in a sentence: Excellent, but still missing something

[Gyno]

 7 for me

Best Driver: Vettel
Worst Driver: Ericsson
Best Team: Ferrari
Best Overtake: Alonso on some guy with more power
Best Moment:Ferrari winning
DRS + Tyres: DRS should be banned, Tires Ok.

And the race in a sentence: The early SC saved it from being a borefest.

Atleast it didn't rain and get redflagged.

 

[Konsta]

Solid 9 for me, entertaining from the first lap, full of action everywhere.

Best driver: Vettel

Best team: Ferrari

Best overtake: Bottas on Felipe

Best moment: Vettel winning and the sheer emotion of it all

Worst driver: Perez

Ditto :-)

Kimi did some nice overtaking as well.

[The Kanisteri]

Best Driver: Sebastian Vettel
Worst Driver: Felipe Nasr
Best Team: Ferrari
Best Overtake: Grosjean on Perez. (though it was not succesfull, nice recover by Grosjean)
Best Moment: Mercedes drivers whining on radio after they noticed somebody (Vettel) can actually beat them on track.
DRS + Tyres: OK

And the race in a sentence: Ferrari performance showed Mercedes won't get this season on silver tray like 2014.

[Nemo1965]

For the race: an 8. For what the race meant for F1: a 10. My god. After all the Renault-Red Bull-Boring-Race complaints, this is just what the doctor ordered...

 

Best Driver: Raikkonen.
Worst Driver: Nasr.
Best Team: Ferrari
Best Overtake: Verstappen on Ricciardo.
Best Moment: Seeing Max Verstappen finish. Pfff...

Edited by Nemo1965, 29 March 2015 - 16:30.

[BullHead]

A great race. Some great wheel to wheel and strategy battles. Mercedes can be beaten!
Disappointing from Red Bull. The only team as far as I can making little progress.