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[Marklar]

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

 

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

[Nonesuch]

Rated it a 6/10 - an enjoyable race.

Best Driver: It's hard to say, as even those that impressed weren't without fault. I'll give the nod to Vettel this time.
Worst Driver: Bottas. Way too often clumsy in direct battles.
Best Team: Mercedes, of course.
Best Overtake: Hamilton on Bottas was inspired, and he didn't even completely run him off the road! That was nice and made for a good change from the DRS passes.
Best Moment: There wasn't one single moment that stood out for positive reasons, even though there was plenty of fun to be had. The amateur hour in the pitlane was quite memorable, though.
DRS + Tyres: DRS is dreadful, but the three compounds might just be the best thing Pirelli has ever done.
And the race in a sentence: Terrible at the start, awful stewarding, but became a proper race after the safety car.

Edited by Nonesuch, 17 April 2016 - 08:28.

[Ev0d3vil]

Best Driver: Danny Ric

Worst Driver: Well, basically those who were involved in the destruction derby at the start
Best Team: Mercedes
Best Overtake: LH on Bottas
Best Moment: No one retiring
DRS + Tyres: Unnecessary here
And the race in a sentence: Great race, but as an LH fan, i have to say, it was quite disappointing.

Edited by Ev0d3vil, 17 April 2016 - 08:29.

[BCM]

Best Driver: Ricciardo
Worst Driver: Vettel - his mistake damaged his team mate. Then he was classless enough to suggest it was Kyvat's "fault".
Best Team: Mercedes
Best Overtake: Kyvat on Vettel
Best Moment: I enjoyed the whole race. Can't nominate a particular point.
DRS + Tyres: OK
And the race in a sentence: Too much going on. Had difficulty following what was going on for a while there! Very entertaining.

 

Give it a 7/10.

Edited by BCM, 17 April 2016 - 08:30.

[Zesus]

Best Driver: Rosberg, Ricciardo, Raikkonen
Worst Driver: Bottas, Vettel (for acting like an idiot trying to shift blame for crash on Kvyat when it was his fault)
Best Team: Red Bull
Best Overtake: Kimi on Hamilton - I liked everything about it. Fact that Kimi overtook Hamilton and fact that he outsmarted him on braking. It was amazing.
Best Moment: Kimi passing Massa and hearing crowd cheering him
DRS + Tyres: /
And the race in a sentence: It was good, but I don't like that nowdays it more looks like amateurs are driving. Pieces of cars everywhere on the track.

[dreamer]

Best Driver: Ricciardo and Kimi for their recoveries. Rosberg for his win and great drive.
Worst Driver: Vettel but not for the racing incident (even if I believe he could have avoided it by just lifting a little). I didn't like his after race discussion with Kvyat. Also, Bottas wasn't impressive.
Best Team: Red Bull
Best Overtake: Kimi on Hamilton.
Best Moment: The restart with all the battles.
DRS + Tyres: ..........
And the race in a sentence: Interesting 8/10

[djonas79]

Best driver: Vettel, Ricciardo (overtook the field, in the case of Vettel with a damaged car)

 

Worst driver: Hamilton (what the hell was that?)

Edited by djonas79, 17 April 2016 - 08:49.

[RPM40]

Best Driver: Ricciardo
Worst Driver: Grosjean
Best Team: Red Bull
Best Overtake: Ricciardo on Hamilton
Best Moment: Kvyat standing up to Vettel in the press conference
DRS + Tyres: Fine
And the race in a sentence: Highly entertaining, but ultimately ruined by the key cars having damage. 

[IamFasterthanU]

Best Driver: Ricciardo (f
Worst Driver: Bottas, Hamilton (despite having damaged car he was clearly faster than Massa xduring that part yet wasn't able to do anything) and Vettel (for crying throughout the race and even after the race)
Best Team: Red Bull
Best Overtake: Hamilton on Bottas
Best Moment: Ricciardo overtaking Hamilton
DRS + Tyres: ..........

[johnmhinds]

Best Driver: Ricciardo, great battle through the grid to get back to 4th.

Worst Driver: Grosjean, just didn't seem to want to be there this weekend.
Best Team: Red Bull
Best Overtake: Kvyat spotting the Ferrai's running deep into turn one and taking the advantage.
Best Moment: The whole race was fun.
DRS + Tyres: ...
And the race in a sentence: Another banger race at the start but it ended with some great driving throughout the grid.

 

8/10

Edited by johnmhinds, 17 April 2016 - 09:03.

[scheivlak]

8/10, close to 9/10

 

Best Driver: Daniel Ricciardo
Worst Driver:  Hamilton was clearly off key, but I give him some benefit of the doubt because of the possible damage to his car. Maybe Bottas, maybe Palmer.
Best Team: Red Bull
Best Overtake: Ricciardo on Hamilton, superb stuff
Best Moment: Too many to mention. Really liked how Ricciardo, Raikkonen and also Verstappen carved through the field. Kudos to Kvyat as well for holding his own against Vettel after the race.
DRS + Tyres: OK, the extra compound choice really livens things up.
And the race in a sentence: Great race, thoroughly enjoyable, it's just a pity that especially Ricciardo and Raikkonen were hit by bad luck.

[superden]

6.5/10

Best Driver: Rosberg, fluffed start aside
Worst Driver: Nobody, particularly
Best Team: Red Bull
Best Overtake: None particularly
Best Moment: The safety car, it gave me time to get up and make a cup of tea
DRS + Tyres: Yes, I saw both, often
And the race in a sentence: I'm not sure I could fill a whole sentence

Edited by superden, 17 April 2016 - 09:26.

[Wuzak]

Best Driver: Danny Ric
Worst Driver: No-one in particular
Best Team: Has to be Red Bull - both finished higher than they would have dared hope, even after Danny's puncture.
Best Overtake: Danny Ric on Hamilton or Seb's on Hulkenberg and Verstappen (or was it Sainz?)
Best Moment: Anything but the first corner....
DRS + Tyres: Most of the tyres were left along the sides of the DRS zone.

[lbennie]

Best Driver: Ric
Worst Driver: Nasr
Best Team: Red Bull
Best Overtake:  Kvyat turn 1
Best Moment: Vettel throwing a wobbly after the race.
DRS + Tyres: Didn't seem to be too much deg. Even on the SS

[NotSoSilentBob]

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

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

Best driver: Ricciardo, by virtue of his recovery. (Honorable mention to Hamilton who may as well have had a car with no rear wing and without a working steering wheel if you believe his fans...)

Worst driver: Bottas, who is being shown up by old man Massa. Didn't this guy want a Ferrari seat once??

Best Team: Red Bull, maximizing their potential.

Best Overtake: Kvyat's mug job at Turn 1

Best Moment: Seb's smart thinking entering the pits

DRS and tyres: yes, everyone had them?? 🤔😕

Race in a sentence: The best one so far this year, and we've had three entertaining races in a row which is pleasing.

Edited by NotSoSilentBob, 17 April 2016 - 10:20.

[ConsiderAndGo]

7/10

 

Best Driver: Vettel / Ricciardo due to their fantastic recoveries.
Worst Driver: I don't think anyone was particularly rubbish. Maybe Bottas?
Best Team: Red Bull
Best Overtake: Kimi on Hamilton
Best Moment: Vettel nailing Kvyat on his outlap.
DRS + Tyres: Tyres added to the spectacle. DRS is pointless here.
And the race in a sentence: Best of the year, and probably the best Chinese GP since 2007.

[fZero]

8/10 -1 point for Ricciardo's puncture, +1 point for his recovery

 

Best Driver: Ricciardo, great start, amazing recovery
Worst Driver: Vettel because butt hurt
Best Team: Red Bull, great results despite handicap
Best Overtake: Kyvat on Vettel, great drama
Best Moment: 1st lap chaos
DRS + Tyres: Phoney as always
And the race in a sentence: Finally something to watch!

Edited by fZero, 17 April 2016 - 10:34.

[rjsports]

7/10

 

Best Driver: Ricciardo
Worst Driver: Palmer
Best Team: Red Bull
Best Overtake: Hamilton on Bottas
Best Moment: Pitlane chaos and Vettel jumping Hulkenberg en Sainz because the don't know the rules
DRS + Tyres: Tyres where fine, DRS was overpowered as expected really
And the race in a sentence: The race was al right, just a shame we haven't had a battle for the lead yet. But so far this has been one of the better seasons in terms of enjoyable races.

[Vesuvius]

Excellent race, with lots of overtaking...actually a record amount of overtaking! 123 overtakes in flying laps (start and pitstop overtakes not counted) so it broke the earlier record of Brazil 112 overtakes.

9/10
Best driver: Kimi and Ricciardo
Worst driver: Grosjean
Best team: Red Bull
Best overtake: Hamilton on Bottas
Best moment: Kimi overtaking Hamilton and Massa and yoi could hear the crowd yelling so hard.
DRS+Tyres: tyres fine, DRS makes it too easy on the long straight.

The race in one sentence: lots of overtaking behind the dominant leader.

[P123]

Best Driver: Rosberg/ Ricciardo
Worst Driver: Nobody did anything ridiculously stupid.
Best Team: Don't see a deserving winner of this one
Best Overtake: Hamilton on Bottas. May have been other non-DRs ones.
Best Moment: Most of it
DRS + Tyres: DRS still too powerful at China.. tyres lost their marbles, badly...
And the race in a sentence: Fun. 8/10

[superden]

Excellent race, with lots of overtaking...actually a record amount of overtaking! 123 overtakes in flying laps (start and pitstop overtakes not counted) so it broke the earlier record of Brazil 112 overtakes.

No, just no. That's like saying 'look, 57 goals in this Premier League game, it's the best game ever' whilst ignoring the fact that the goals were due to the governing body taking away goalkeepers to 'spice up the show' ... DRS doesn't count and there is a distinct difference between a pass and an overtake. Sadly the sport is now in such a state that many no longer seem to understand that this is the case.

Edited by superden, 18 April 2016 - 11:51.

[milestone 11]

Best Driver: Vettel
Worst Driver: Hamilton
Best Team: Red Bull
Best Overtake: Kvyat
Best Moment: Cool down room
DRS + Tyres: Phoney. Only saving grace is the introduction of 3 compounds, nullified by absurd counter productive pressures.
And the race in a sentence: Take Mercedes' (not customer teams) engine out of the equation and it may have been 10 points better than what I wanted to give it.

[zanquis]

Best Driver: Raikkonen, if not for Vettel he could have fought for the win.
Worst Driver: Vettel, eleminated teammate and himself for the win, blamed a other.
Best Team: RedBull, I would name Ferrari but too bad one of their drivers screwed it up.
Best Overtake: Sainz inside T1 making good use of the better STR in a corner where grip really matters.
Best Moment: Kvyat not letting Vettel bully him in taking the blame.
DRS + Tyres: for years I said they should get more options and freedoms for the tires and it shows I was right.
And the race in a sentence: I want to order Chinese take-out

[BuddyHolly]

Best Driver: Rosberg/Ricciardo
Worst Driver: none really
Best Team: Red Bull
Best Overtake: Ricciardo on Hamilton
Best Moment: Vettel using his headmeat and passing 2 cars in the pits, a Schumi type of move.
DRS + Tyres: DRS still sucks as does the 'cheese' tyres
And the race in a sentence:  Best race of the last two seasons, entertaining from start to end

 

9/10

[MasterOfCoin]

Best Driver: Flip a coin

 

Worst Driver: None

 

Best Team: All the teams that finished

 

Best Overtake: Any that wasn't the result of DRS or Knackered Pirelli's

 

Best Moment: The end and going back to bed.  

 

DRS + Tyres: Tyres are always worst than DRS

 

And the race in a sentence: Nothing special 6/10 

[BalanceUT]

Best Driver: Lots of contenders, because there were lots of excellent drives, but I pick Hamilton, he started at the back, was driving a damaged car the whole time, therefore lots of pit stops to change chewed up tyres and still finished in the points. Strong argument can be made for Ricciardo, though I'm calling that a team effort.

Worst Driver: Nasr for coming across Hamilton to knock his wing off... close contender: Ericsson for similar imposition on Grosjean
Best Team: Red Bull for managing Ricciardo's tire failure and the rest of the race weekend such that he finished very strong and got Kvyat on the podium. 
Best Overtake: Hamilton late in the race before his tires completely died (I think over Bottas and Perez) and he had to settle for just hanging on in the points.  
Best Moment: Vettel's pit lane overtake, that was in-your-face and surprising because so rarely seen.
DRS + Tyres: I don't think DRS had any effect but the tyres were massive in so many strategies, none of them working well, the pressures a bit high (which I think hurt Haas more than any other team). Yet, I don't think badly of the tyres because clearly the 3 tyre choices makes for wide variety of strategies. 
And the race in a sentence: In search of a workable tyre. 

[Jonnycraig37]

Best driver: Vettel. Great recovery from Raikonnen too, but ultimately his mistake caused the T1 incident.
Worst driver: nobody
Best overtake: Vettel around the outside of the hairpin on Bottas
Best moment: the pitlane overtake

Other than that, pretty mediocre stuff after the lap 1 carnage.

6/10.

[Kristian]

7/10. 

 

Best Driver: Ricciardo. He's been impressive all weekend.. Shout out to Kvyat and Nico Rosberg too. 
Worst Driver: Ericsson probably 
Best Team: Red Bull have made a lot of progress
Best Overtake: I really enjoyed Kvyat's first corner. 
Best Moment: The first lap chaos. 
DRS + Tyres: DRS is getting boring now, or at least don't use it at tracks like China where overtaking is easy anyway (it worked well in Melbourne at least). The tyres were great. 
And the race in a sentence: First third was frantic, but ultimately it all felt a bit empty with the ease of overtaking. But certainly worth getting up for. 

[Jonnycraig37]

Worst Driver: Nasr for coming across Hamilton to knock his wing off...

So Nasr should've collided with Raikonnen when he flew back onto the track infront of him, just to spare Hamilton who he didn't even know was there?

[TomNokoe]

Best Driver: Ricciardo
Worst Driver: not sure
Best Team: Red Bull and Ferrari
Best Overtake: Unsure, Ricciardo on Hamilton
Best Moment: Hamilton without a front wing again, utterly predictable, typical and hilarious
DRS + Tyres: Absolutely awful
And the race in a sentence: Same old current era F1, not redeemable

6/10

[Lord_Shaitan]

Best Driver: Ricciardo
Worst Driver: I don't know, really hard to say... maybe Nasr, Palmer or Bottas
Best Team: Red Bull
Best Overtake:  Ricciardo on Hamilton
Best Moment: Wehrlein on 4th and Haryanto on 8th position at one point of the race  .

DRS + Tyres: There was so many overtaking moves...

[Dauemannen]

I gave it 9/10

 

Best Driver: Ricciardo. Honorable mentions to Rosberg, Vettel, Räikkönen and Verstappen
Worst Driver: No one really stood out. I'll go with Grosjean
Best Team: Red Bull
Best Overtake: Vettel on Sainz and the Hulk in the pit entry
Best Moment: All the overtakes after the restart.
DRS + Tyres: Some might say it was a bit too much, but I loved it
And the race in a sentence: Crazy!

[BuddyHolly]

Someone voted it a 1/10?

 

I'm honestly shocked at that.

[Amin]

Best Driver: Daniel Ricciardo. Honourable mentions for the 2 Ferrari boys.
Worst Driver: I'm not sure if he had a problem or not but Palmer finishing last is poor.
Best Team: Ferrari. Great strategy for both drivers.
Best Overtake: Hamilton on Bottas.
Best Moment: The battle between Ricciardo, Raikkonen, Massa, Hamilton and Bottas.

[Frank Tuesday]

DRS and Safety Car farce. 1

[superden]

Someone voted it a 1/10?

I'm honestly shocked at that.

No more shocked than someone voting it a 10.

Edited by superden, 17 April 2016 - 15:34.

[Mat13]

Best Driver: Hamilton- he started from last, people!

Worst Driver: Raikkonen or possibly Bottas.

Best Team: Red Bull, although I'm glad I'm typing because the words would get stuck in my throat.

Best Overtake: Hamilton on Bottas.

Best Moment: Seeing a McLaren in 4th.

DRS + Tyres: Still all there, I see.

And the race in a sentence: A genuinely good race- good driving apart from the odd shocker (looking at you, Kimi), and interesting enough all the way to the end. I'm sure F1 will counter this good race by announcing all coverage to be spoken in Inuit this week, but we'll be happy with what we've got for the meantime.

[cpbell]

8/10

 

Best Driver: Ricciardo, though Kyvat and Raikkonen also had strong races
Worst Driver: Vettel for over-reacting as Kyvat came level with him in turn 1, then having a go at him in the driver's room.
Best Team: Red Bull managing to maintain mid-corner speed in the long-duration corners despite reducing wing levels to prevent them being too slow on the straights.

Worst team:  Jointly awarded to Mercedes for a baffling strategy on Hamilton's car (presumably they thought they could get to the end on softs, as they switched him onto supersofts for a lap under the SC), and Haas for a disappointing showing after the first two races. 
Best Overtake: Ricciardo on Hamilton into turn 6.
Best Moment: McLarens running well up after the Safety Car.
DRS + Tyres: DRS too powerful down the back straight as always at Shanghai; tyres OK, though Ricciardo's failure was concerning.
And the race in a sentence: Eventful and entertaining, but difficult to follow in a highlights package. 

[Spillage]

Best Driver: Ricciardo. I don't know if that Red Bull was carrying any damage after the puncture, but it was a masterful recovery drive with some quality overtakes.

Worst Driver: Nasr's letting his poor form go to his head. Capped off a bizarre accusation that the team are favouring Ericsson on Saturday with a crap drive on Sunday. Honourable mentions also to Bottas, Palmer and Hamilton (though to be fair, the latter may have been carrying damage after turn 1).

Best Team: I'm gonna say Manor. 22 cars got to the end today, and a Manor wasn't last! And Wehrlein finished ahead of both Renaults! Props.

Best Overtake: Very much liked the aforementioned Ricciardo divebombing Hamilton, but perhaps only because it's nice to see a Merc get merked. A better choice would probably be Button around the outisde of Bottas(?) early on.

Best Moment: Hamilton's Mercedes being overtaken by Raikkonen and Ricciardo. Nothing personal, but the more Mercedes win the more I want them to lose.

DRS & Tyres: Alright, I guess. That back straight does not need DRS.

And the race in a sentence: Everything you could ask for except a battle for the lead. 8/10

Edited by Spillage, 17 April 2016 - 16:33.

[BuddyHolly]

No more shocked than someone voting it a 10.

in all honesty I think its closer to 10 than it is to 1, so much action going on, but whatever floats your boat.

[DESCHAIN]

Best Driver:Ric. Good drives by Vettel, Massa and Kimi.
Worst Driver: This award goes unclaimed.
Best Team: Red Bull
Best Overtake:Lewis on Bottas
Best Moment:Kvyat chiiilll pre podium, plus the moment everybody were on the pitlane, organized chaos around Button.
DRS + Tyres:I really like this new tyre rule. The drs not so much around China.
And the race in a sentence: very entertaining race, 8/10.

[ExFlagMan]

I do not do best/worst of stuff.

The race in a sentence - quite a lot of passing - very little overtaking...   4/10

Edited by ExFlagMan, 17 April 2016 - 17:25.

[Chunkinator]

Best Driver: Without a doubt Daniel Ricciardo, although Vettel had a good comback aswell.
Worst Driver: Hulkenberg for the pitlane entry incident
Best Team: Red Bull as they have been faultless all weekend
Best Overtake: Ricciardo on 2 cars at the first corner, one of them was the renault of palmer
Best Moment: Vettel overtaking 2 cars on pit entry, cheeky
DRS + Tyres: Pirelli actually doing what they are supposed to do, multiple pitstop races. Shame about Ricciardos tyre though, DRS probably was a bit too powerful on the main straight however.
And the race in a sentence: Another hectic but good race which allowed drivers to show their racecraft

[thomasthetankengine]

I thought it a very good race. 8/10

Hilarious listening to Vettel try to justify taking his team mate out to his boss by blaming Kvyat. Nice to see Nico dominating Lewis, just to make up for the last couple of years. Shame to see McLaren continue to struggle though. I thought they would have fared better.

[THEWALL]

The scramble at the start and the safety car created some interesting shuffle that resulted in non-usual positions for faster cars. The different compounds are achieving what they are supposed to and what they did before: create better racing thanks to cars and drivers having more choice to optimize the car-tyre combo. If they scrap the stupid mandatory use of compound rule, it will improve even more. And then, of course, this being the 3rd year of the new regs, teams are a bit closer and that's creating closer races. That's what rule stability does to F1.

[Nathan]

Best Driver: Vettel
Worst Driver: Nasr
Best Team: Mercedes
Best Moment: first lap
And the race in a sentence: interesting

[MikeV1987]

7/10

 

Best Driver: Vettel, nice drive despite the t1 incident
Worst Driver: None stand out, maybe Palmer I guess but I have no idea if he had car issues or not.
Best Team: Red Bull
Best Overtake: Ricciardo on Hamilton
Best Moment: Vettel overtaking 2 cars at the pit entry
DRS + Tyres: I like the new tire rules, DRS is still ****.
And the race in a sentence: Better then I thought it would be.

Edited by MikeV1987, 17 April 2016 - 18:13.

[xtremeclock]

Best Driver: Vettel
Worst Driver: Nasr
Best Team: Ferrari / Red Bull
Best Overtake: Hamilton with a wrecked car on Bottas
Best Moment: Vettel overtaking two cars before the pit-lane entry.
And the race in a sentence: Entertaining, worth losing 2 hours of sleep   

[HoldenRT]

Pretty good.  My brother is a casual fan at best but seemed entertained when watching parts of it with me.  For a change..

[HeadFirst]

Best Driver: Lots to choose from ... okay Ricciardo
Worst Driver: No one stands out
Best Team: RB
Best Overtake: Kvyat on Vettel ..... ooops
Best Moment: Alonso interview
DRS + Tyres:
And the race in a sentence: good entertainment