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[ANF]

Rate the Bahrain GP, and while doing so, mention some of the following:

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

[aramos]

Best Driver Performance: Hamilton
Worst Driver Performance: Vettel
Best Team Performance: Ferrari (no failures)
Best Overtake: Alonso unlapping himself on the race leader Raikkkonen
Best Moment: Ricciardo coasting over the line after his failure
DRS: fine
Tyres good balance

[hittheapex]

Best Driver Performance: Raikkonen. Honourable mentions to Bottas, Alonso and Maldonado.
Worst Driver Performance: Vettel. Finished 5th but made a few unforced errors. Should have finished 3rd, maybe 2nd.
Best Team Performance: Ferrari. Car and pitstops without fault.
Best Overtake: Raikkonen around Rosberg at start/Rosberg on Raikkonen just after.
Best Moment: Raikkonen getting Rosberg after chasing him down.
DRS: Boo
Tyres: Good, we need them
And the race in a sentence...Best Bahrain GP I have seen 8/10 from me, the top 4 all had a chance of winning and a very competitive fight for the final 4 or 5 points positions.

Edited by hittheapex, 19 April 2015 - 17:50.

[blackmme]

7 out of 10

Best Driver Performance: Lewis
Worst Driver Performance: Seb / Pastor
Best Team Performance: Mercedes
Best Overtake: Nico on Ferrari's x 2
Best Moment: Kimi on the attack
DRS: about right
Tyres: about right
And the race in a sentence... Not entirely predictable

Regards Mike

Edited by blackmme, 19 April 2015 - 18:07.

[Tourgott]

Even worse than Australia. I actually felt asleep around lap 20 and woke up in lap 32.

 

2/10

Edited by Tourgott, 19 April 2015 - 17:54.

[Boing Ball]

I'm sure the mighty roar of the V8s would have kept you awake.

[Donkey]

6.5/10

 

Best Driver Performance: Kimi
Worst Driver Performance: Rosberg because he just can't match Hamilton.
Best Team Performance: Ferrari (apart from Vettel nose change which was pretty slow. They need to watch the video of Toyota's nose change for Timo Glock at China 2009)
Best Overtake: Rosberg on Vettel first time.
Best Moment: Ricciardo's perfectly timed Renault explosion.
DRS: A bit innefective. Vettel should really have been able to overtake Bottas, the Ferrari was comfortably quicker than the Williams in clean air.
Tyres: Ok.
And the race in a sentence... A bit dull until the end.

[kimster89]

Best Driver Performance: Raikkonen. He was flawless. Made a great start and middle stint.
Worst Driver Performance: Vettel. To many off the track excursions.
Best Team Performance: Ferrari
Best Overtake: Few good ones but no one stands out.
Best Moment: Seeing Kimi pass ROS for P2.
DRS: I bit to strong i think
Tyres: OK, they should be just a little less durable. 

And the race in a sentence....Not a classic like last year, but much better than China and a good fun especially if you are a Kimi  fan. This race seems to have benefited to a night shift.

 

 

8/10

[dreamer]

Best Driver Performance: Raikkonen and Hamilton
Worst Driver Performance: Maldonado
Best Team Performance: Mercedes
Best Overtake: Raikkonen on Rosberg and Rosberg on Raikkonen
Best Moment: Kimi chasing the Mercedes
DRS: ...
Tyres: ok
 

7/10

[cpbell]

6/10

 

Best driver:Hamilton, though Kimi, Ricciardo, Bottas and Rosberg for his much more aggressive race were worth the verdict.

Worst driver:  Vettel; his performance was wayward.

Best team: Ferrari - Mercedes would have had it but for their brake problems.

Best overtake:  Rosberg on Vettel (I think it was that way round ) when Hamilton exited the pits after his first stop.

Best moment:  Sir JYS gettiing more than a sentence out of Kimi on the podium, but seeming disappointed nonetheless.

DRS:  OK

Tyres:  OK - the options were a viable choice for the final stint, giving Kimi the chance to capitalise on Rosberg's brake problem.

Race in a sentence:  Ferrari are definitely competitive; Mercedes have a weakness, and Jenson is a brilliant pundit!

[tmekt]

Best Driver Performance: Kimi
Worst Driver Performance: Rosberg, Vettel
Best Team Performance: Ferrari, I guess
Best Overtake: Nico on the Ferraris
Best Moment: Ricciardo finishing with a bang
DRS: a little too strong
Tyres: provided excitement
And the race in a sentence...Kimi's back!

 

8/10...Kimi hunting the Mercs saved it

[FenderJaguar]

8/10 - a really good race

 

Best Driver Performance: Kimi for his start, second stint and chasing down the Mercedes cars, Ericsson had a great race until he got stuck in the pits

Worst Driver Performance: Sorry but I will go with Maldonado again
Best Team Performance: -
Best Overtake: Nasr did a nice one on Massa?
Best Moment: Kimi passing Rosberg in the end
DRS: -
Tyres: give the racing drivers racing tires that they can race with

[Tsarwash]

Even worse than Australia. I actually felt asleep around lap 20 and woke up in lap 32.

 

2/10

What was it about the race that you didn't like ? What would have had to happen to make you give it a higher score ? 

[Yoran]

7/10

 

Best Driver Performance: Räikkönen, too bad they didn't pit him one or two laps earlier... might've been able to give Lewis a run for the money.

Worst Driver Performance: Not at all impressed with Kvyat today. Vettel didn't seem to be doing a lot of things right either.
Best Team Performance: Ferrari
Best Overtake: Nasr on the outside of turn 4
Best Moment: Kimi passing Rosberg in the end 
DRS: Not impressed by it, as usual.
Tyres: Decent enough, as they allowed for different strategies which actually worked out.

 

Race in a sentence: Entertaining enough to not fast-forward any of it after I was momentarily halted for a dinner break, mainly due to an excellent Kimi. 

[Nonesuch]

Voted 7/10 - it was quite enjoyable.

Best Driver Performance: Räikkönen. He made the most of his 'odd one out' strategy, and actually managed to beat one of the Mercedes, nice!
Worst Driver Performance: The Germans; Hülkenberg, Vettel and Rosberg were each disappointing in one way or another.
Best Team Performance: Mercedes; still the class of the field.
Best Overtake: Nasr getting the better of Massa was nicely set up.
Best Moment: The pitstop switcharoo between the three cars was nice.
DRS: Get rid of it already!
Tyres: The tyres seemed weak, though it didn't matter as most people had the same strategy. That Räikkönen was losing two seconds at the end of his second stint showed how much of a role the tyres still play.
And the race in a sentence: An entertaining race, mostly thanks to Räikkönen's alternative strategy.

[Atreiu]

There was drama, excitement and terrific driving. I guess a 7 is fine simply because Hamilton controled the win too easy and Williams remains too far from Ferrari.

[The Kanisteri]

Best Driver Performance: Kimi Räikkönen. Happy smiley mentions to Felipe Massa and Felipe Nasr.
Worst Driver Performance: Pastor Maldonado. He was all over the places.
Best Team Performance: Mercedes. Happy smiley mention to Ferrari
Best Overtake: Though superior car and powerunit, this goes to Nico Rosberg. On Räikkönen and Vettel...now with sparks!
Best Moment: Räikkönen taking advantage on Rosbegr's nerve breakdown.
DRS: - (I still don't understand why DRS is asked here. Rules are same for everyone and stick with them.)
Tyres: Round and black

And the race in a sentence...

Red team is growing up as a real threat to House Lannister...ahem...Mercedes.

 

9/10

sparks, lights, speed and rosewater.

Edited by The Kanisteri, 19 April 2015 - 18:27.

[Raikkonen94]

8/10

 

Best Driver Performance: Raikkonen
Worst Driver Performance: Maldonado
Best Team Performance: Ferrari
Best Overtake: Nasr did quite some good ones
Best Moment: Raikkonen passing Rosberg on the penultimate lap
DRS: Fine
Tyres: Fine, we got quite some mixed strategies which I liked
And the race in a sentence... Great to see Kimi back up on the podium again, he showed he's still a force to be reckoned with in racepace.

[viceroy1]

Best Driver Performance: Lewis/Kimi
Worst Driver Performance: Maldonado (all over the place.. poor kid)
Best Team Performance: Mercedes. They won, got the most points and had decent strategy
Best Overtake: Nico on Sebastian x3
Best Moment: Lewis crossing the finish line   
DRS: I'm fine with it, I wish it was on the run down to turn 4 as well so that they could fight back from being passed on the main straight
Tyres: Good balance of durability and speed. Wish the drivers could push a bit more though, still too much tyre management going on but it wasn't ridiculous either.

Good race, battles for the podium places, winner not 100% decided by the closing stages of the race, good mix of differing strategies from the top5 and good scraps up and down the field. Good race. 8/9 out of 10 

[JAW97]

7/10

Best Driver Performance: Couldn't choose between Hamilton, Raikkonen, Bottas and Ricciardo. Perez, Alonso and Grosjean also very good.
Worst Driver Performance: Vettel and Maldonado.
Best Team Performance: Ferrari for me
Best Overtake: Eh.
Best Moment: Ricciardo's engine blow out (even though that's a bad thing)
DRS/Tyres: Alright.

Edited by JAW97, 19 April 2015 - 18:25.

[MikePost]

Pretty tedious, knew who had won before it started, hats off to Kimi for making a race of it!

[f1RacingForever]

Pretty ordinary. Gave it a 4. Something about the night race I don't like. Maybe it's the bland environment. Maybe it's something else. Can't put my finger on it. Hoping for better at Barcelona.

[Beamer]

Even worse than Australia. I actually felt asleep around lap 20 and woke up in lap 32.

2/10

I'm confused. Please explain what defines a good race for you?

[NoSanityClause]

Best Driver Performance: Kimi, much to my chagrin.
Worst Driver Performance: Seb, surprisingly.
Best Team Performance: not sure...both Ferrari and Merc almost got too smart for their own good, very dumb and very clever at the same time.
Best Overtake: Alonso on Kimi snigger snigger
Best Moment: The battle between ROS and the two Ferraris
DRS: Without it, the race would have been a procession except for a Maldonado crash, two STR DNFs and Nico missing some apex sooner or later.
Tyres: As usual
And the race in a sentence... Entertaining enough for a boring Sunday afternoon but not exactly memorable. Still too much of a one horse race, but getting better. 7/10

[Zesus]

Best Driver Performance: Kimi Räikkönen
Worst Driver Performance: Sebastian Vettel
Best Team Performance: Ferrari
Best Overtake: Nico doing it 3 times on Vettel
Best Moment: Kimi passing Rosberg for P2
 

[Jimisgod]

Best Driver Performance: Alonso or Kimi Worst Driver Performance: Vettel or Maldonado Best Team Performance: Mercedes Best Overtake: Rosberg on the Ferraris Best Moment: Alonso overtaking Kimi DRS: I guess it worked Tyres: Good for Kimi And the race in a sentence... Bad for Rosberg and Renault engines, promising for Kimi, Ferrari and McHonda.

Edited by Jimisgod, 19 April 2015 - 19:03.

[nosecone]

Best driver: Hamilton

Worst driver: Maldonado (and his special view of track limits in the opening stages)

 

Best team: Ferrari

Best overtake: (heavily biased) Alonso on Kimi

Tyres: Ok

DRS: Without DRS some battles could have been longer (and therefor better)

Race in a sentence: Well a classic F1 race.

 

 

Worst performance overall: FOM tv coverage

-they surely showed every single spectator in portrait. Preferably while there was on-track action.

- showed the un-eventful Williams pit stop while Rosberg failed to stay ahead of Vettel during the first round of pit stops

- AFTER Kvyat passed Alonso they showed "Battle for XX" like Alonso was chasing down Kvyat- though we never saw a replay of that overtake

- missed a lot on-track action

- showed cheering mechanics instead of a possible counter-attack

Edited by nosecone, 19 April 2015 - 19:47.

[D1rtyHarry]

8/10

Best Driver Performance: Raikkonen
Worst Driver Performance: Hulkenberg
Best Team Performance:Mercedes
Best Overtake: Race start Raikkonen on Rosberg
Best Moment: Lotus pitstop for Maldonado
DRS: OK
Tyres: About expected
Entertaining race, plenty going on and very clean racing throughout, I was surprised how the only retirements were technical related.

Edited by D1rtyHarry, 19 April 2015 - 20:02.

[Kristian]

6/10. A bit of a squib compared to the expectation, but still some good racing down the field. 

 

Nobody looked like beating Hamilton though. 

[TomNokoe]

It was a race which helps you appreciate the winners. Very feel good. 7/10

Hamilton, Kimi and Ricciardo all wonderful

Vettel shades of last year, no surprise he's said it's to do with an unstable rear end, seems that is his achilles heal.

I think Williams and Ferrari were very solid.

Mercedes did their best to throw the race way, good job they have LH.

DRS was okay, seems Mercs special overtake mode is just bonkers fast.

Favourite moment was probably the replay of Arrivabene at the start, wonderful to see.

[Sanzx81]

2/10. Very boring race
I think the ppl that voted it a 10 should be certified . lol

[Jon83]

Best Driver Performance: Hamilton was faultless but I'm going to give it to Bottas for an excellent drive. 
Worst Driver Performance: None.
Best Team Performance: Ferrari
Best Overtake: Nasr was involved in a good one early on. Rosberg on Vettel after the first pit stop was exciting - looked spectacular with the sparks. 
Best Moment: Same as what Tom said about Arrivabene at the start!
DRS: Still don't like it.
Tyres: Ok
And the race in a sentence...Not as good as last year's race but still a good watch. I like the circuit and this is where F1 cars look at their best. Far and away the best of the 3 night races, just looks amazing. 

[Jon83]

2/10. Very boring race
I think the ppl that voted it a 10 should be certified . lol

 

I'd be more concerned about those giving it a 2, if I'm being honest. 

[D1rtyHarry]

Exactly. It was never going to deliver the same amount of thrills as the year before when Mercedes were so dominant with both their drivers at level-pegging to now when they aren't and Ferrari are also in the mix. I'd say the start to this years season has been definitely much better in terms of overall race entertainment. Australia, Malaysia & China 2014 were all absolute shockers of a race.

Edited by D1rtyHarry, 19 April 2015 - 21:10.

[HeadFirst]

Best Driver Performance: Kimi
Worst Driver Performance: no-one stands out
Best Team Performance: Ferrari
Best Overtake(s): Nasr on Massa, Rosberg on Kimi, Kimi on Rosberg
Best Moment: Alonso passing Kimi
DRS:
Tyres:
And the race in a sentence... Good start, some suspense at the end.

[LeClerc]

Meh

[superden]

Raikkonen's performance saved it.

6/10

[ClubmanGT]

I give it a four.

 

I can't for the life of me figure out why we persist with a two compound tyre system that forces drivers to conserve rather than a one compound one that would let them race. 

[KingTiger]

Best Driver Performance: Hamilton + Bottas
Worst Driver Performance: Vettel
Best Overtake: Rosberg on Ferraris
Best Moment: Bottas beating a Ferrari
DRS: Don't want it
Tyres: Made of cheese
And the race in a sentence... Hamilton is simply unbeatable right now   

[SR388]

Can we talk about those damn sparks?!


Amazing!

[JHSingo]

I'm sure the mighty roar of the V8s would have kept you awake.

 

[D1rtyHarry]

Can we talk about those damn sparks?!


Amazing!

They're cool but it is an inherent decision in the design of the cars to cause those sparks and despite liking them, I don't like it so much when the only reason they're occuring is for fan approval. They should be sparking because they are low and scraping not because of some bullshit one-size-fits-all titanium floor plate.

Edited by D1rtyHarry, 19 April 2015 - 23:08.

[TecnoRacing]

They're cool but it is an inherent decision in the design of the cars to cause those sparks and despite liking them, I don't like it so much when the only reason they're occuring is for fan approval. They should be sparking because they are low and scraping not because of some bullshit one-size-fits-all titanium floor plate.

 

Yes, they were brought back (in stardardized form) for 'spectacle', but I try to see it as a return to a more befitting/F1-style material....they were running titanium skid plates anyway in the 80s-90s before the wood/jabroc plank.

The FIA should have just disguised their real intention, and said they we're reverting to titanium due to complaints about the wooden planks marking up the tracks or something

Edited by fer312t, 19 April 2015 - 23:59.

[D1rtyHarry]

Nah, lieing about the reason for adding them this season would be far worse than telling the truth that they've just been added for the spectacle which is the case.

[travbrad]

Even worse than Australia. I actually felt asleep around lap 20 and woke up in lap 32.

 

2/10

 

You clearly aren't getting enough sleep at night.

[Atreiu]

I'm sure the mighty roar of the V8s would have kept you awake.

hahaha

[Hamandeggs]

Best Driver Performance: Lewis,had his 5" lead wiped to accommodate nico`s stop 1st,but then pulled another 5,calm
Worst Driver Performance: Vettel
Best Team Performance:Ferrari
Best Overtake: Kimi on rosberg T1/2
Best Moment: Rosbergs team radio panic when informed Kimi was closing to 5"
DRS: GO AWAY
Tyres: made it a challenge
And the race in a sentence.... interesting,finally had a real chase down

[OO7]

They're cool but it is an inherent decision in the design of the cars to cause those sparks and despite liking them, I don't like it so much when the only reason they're occuring is for fan approval. They should be sparking because they are low and scraping not because of some bullshit one-size-fits-all titanium floor plate.

That is exactly why they are sparking.

[RealRacing]

DRS> It's been a long time since I have seen such easy passes down the main straight. It almost seemed as if it was introduced to discourage racing.

[ClubmanGT]

So a race where there was no racing for the actual lead scores an 8 or 9 out of 10 for some people?