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[ferrariboy]

Please rate the race, not the results of your favourite drivers or teams. 

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

 

[quickndirty]

I give it a 7. Plenty of action in today's race. Vettel in charge of the entertainment.

 

Best Drivers: (quite many to choose from). Ricciardo, Stroll, Bottas and Magnussen, all did exceptionally well.

 

Best overtake: Magnussen and Ricciardo. Beautiful driving from both.

 

Biggest idiot:  Vettel

Edited by quickndirty, 25 June 2017 - 16:35.

[Vielleicht]

9 or a 10, because I never got bored

 

Best Driver:  Ricciardo, honourable mention to Stroll. 
Worst Driver:  I'll say Vettel today.
Best Team:  No one stood out.
Best Overtake:  Ricciardo at the restart for third.
Best Moment:  The last couple of laps.
DRS + Tyres:  Fine
And the race in a sentence: Two champions behaving like juveniles whilst an all round nice guy wins.

[Laster]

Best Driver:  Stroll I never would have thought I'd be saying it.
Worst Driver:  We could have a long list for this one. Vettel I guess. I can understand the anger, but intentionally hitting another car was stupid.
Best Team:  None - They all in some manner screwed up today. Better to ask who was the least worst team. Then it's either Red Bull or Williams.
Best Overtake:  Riccardo on Stroll/Massa/Hulkenberg
Best Moment: Seeing everyone on the podium happy for once. 
Tyres:  Too hard.
And the race in a sentence - People on the forum were saying it would be a dull affair based off last year, how wrong they were.

[EndlessMotion]

Maybe they should bring harder compound tires and run the pressures too high more often. The teams and drivers don't like it but boy does it increase traction loss throughout the lap which only aides overtaking opportunities. Similar effect to drivers missing gear changes back in the days of stick shift gearboxes. Who needs DRS?

 

Best Driver: Stroll
Worst Driver: Vettel (for an obvious reason)
Best Team: Hard to pick one 
Best Overtake: Has to be Ricciardo 
Best Moment: Stroll getting on the podium
DRS + Tyres: Clearly the wrong tires but that aided the chaos IMO

Edited by EndlessMotion, 25 June 2017 - 16:44.

[Pete_f1]

8 out of 10

[jonpollak]

My rating?..... Loads o' fun !

[Diablobb81]

Most fun race in a long time.

[Balnazzard]

Definitely 10/10...even though as Finn I was gutted for what happened with Bottas and Kimi.

But ye one of the best and most entertaining races in very long time.

Best driver: considering his bad start of the season Im going to say Lance Stroll

Worst driver: Vettel for doing what he did

Best team: Williams, really good improvement for this weekend, even though Massa's car broke down

 

[haryantofan666]

Best Driver: Ricciardo, faultless
Worst Driver: Hulk (race ending dnf), Sainz, Bottas, Ocon
Best Team: Redbull with one car I guess
Best Overtake: Ricciardo on 3 cars
Best Moment: Vettel vs Hamilton full contact
DRS + Tyres: tyres way too hard, drs meh
And the race in a sentence: 8/10 Was full of action but loses points due to long red flag breaks and safety cars

[Jovanotti]

Rarely we had so much action, craziness unexpected hiccups and very good driving (by most...). 10/10 would watch again anyday! Hard to say it's because of good racing or sheer madness though

Edited by Jovanotti, 25 June 2017 - 16:59.

[CSF]

Best Driver: Strolly baby
Worst Driver: Vandoorne is fast on his way out of Formula One. SC Driver too... 
Best Team: None. 
Best Overtake: Danny Ric takes 3 
Best Moment: Johnny Herbert claiming Lewis didn't brake while showing a replay of him braking....   
DRS + Tyres: Perfect
And the race in a sentence: Lance Stroll, World Champion 2020. 

[smitten]

Racing: Poor.

Drama: High.

[Marklar]

It's hard to rate because driver quality and controversy (and their impact) are part of my rating too. So it's something around 8.5-9. In terms of entertaintment it was a 10 though.

[Mat13]

Best Driver:  Hamilton.

Worst Driver:  Vettel, by a country mile. Just as I was beginning to warm to him, too.

Best Team:  Mercedes

Best Overtake:  Ricciardo mugging both Williams.

Best Moment:  Bottas mugging Stroll.

DRS + Tyres:  Needed the Ultra soft.

And the race in a sentence: Missed this one last year due to Le Mans- so glad they didn't clash this year!

8/10, although I'm not sure anything will beat this one this season.

[FredrikB]

10/10 Formula 1 doesn't get any better. Insane restarts reminded me of Pocono.

 

Best Driver: Stroll. What a turnaround this season.
Worst Driver: Vettel. WTF! 
Best Team: Sauber. The worst team on the grid did the right things today and was rewarded with a point.
Best Overtake: To many to remember
Best Moment: Restarts. 
DRS + Tyres: Ok. The drivers hated the tires. Good.
And the race in a sentence: Delivered everything we expected from last years race in Baku. 

[Donkey]

Best Driver: Ricciardo nailing the restarts
Worst Driver: Vettel for losing his temper and not admitting that he f**d up. Also honourable mention to Bernd Mayländer for being slower than Jolyon Palmer.
Best Team: Sauber because every single other team messed up to some degree and they made a sensible team order call.
Best Overtake: Ricciardo on 3 cars closely followed by Ricciardo on 2 cars
Best Moment: Vettel going nuts
DRS + Tyres: DRS good, tyres way too hard
And the race in a sentence: A cautionary tale.

[rjsports]

Best Driver: Stroll for once did everything right and actually deserves this podium looking at the rest of the drivers today
Worst Driver: Verstappen, since according to Dr. Helmut he's the one breaking the cars *sarcasm*
Best Team: Not a single team did well today since only Mercedes has two cars in the points, so Sauber?
Best Overtake: Ricciardo on Stroll, Massa, etc
Best Moment: Vettel breaking up with Lewis
DRS + Tyres: I think those tyres can just be used at the Red Bull Ring to be honest
And the race in a sentence: Well done Baku, well done!

[Tenmantaylor]

First ten I remember seeing     

 

What are the others?!

 

Aren't we a discerning lot, bit of crash bang wollop and we're all dancing on our sofas 

 

Only D Rics overtaking was memorable.

Edited by Tenmantaylor, 25 June 2017 - 17:15.

[messy]

I only rated it a 6. I'm thinking it's a harsh rating, but I thought at times it was a farce, and I don't want to see the two title protagonists ramming each other, I want to see them racing. I thought there were God knows how many moments where drivers made silly, amateur errors, Bottas finishing second doesn't sit easy with me after dropping a lap down through his own error, too many drivers - Hamilton, Vettel, Bottas, Raikkonen, Perez, Massa, Ocon, Verstappen - are (legitimately) going to feel that they should have won. Ricciardo won the race, but his pace was steady rather than anything (full marks for the overtake). Just a bit of a mess. I like races that get a bit silly and unpredictable (see today's MotoGP as a prime example), but I thought today's race went a bit too far to be genuinely a thriller.

Best driver - Hamilton. He should have won that by miles shouldn't he?
Worst driver - Vettel really lost the plot.
Best team - Williams, genuinely could have had a double podium, very competitive.
Best overtake - Ricciardo after the restart, worth a race win purely for that.
Best moment - Ricciardo's pass. That was racing.
DRS, tyres - DRS was very effective, created good drama, tyres too hard.
The race in a sentence - madness.

[RainyAfterlifeDaylight]

Best Drivers: Daniel Ricciardo, Fernando Alonso and Kevin Magnussen
Worst Driver: Sebastian Vettel for crashing deliberately into Lewis Hamilton
Best Team: Mercedes and RedBull
Best Overtake: Daniel Ricciardo
Best Moment: I don't know

DRS + Tyres: DRS + Tyres
And the race in a sentence: Shame on you Sebastian Vettel.

[JHSingo]

Perhaps the earlier MotoGP race is making me unnecessarily harsh on this one, but I don't think it was the instant classic people will undoubtedly make it out to be. In racing terms, it wasn't great. The safety car/red flag situation for debris was a bit ridiculous, and the theme of the afternoon seemed to be poor driving. A fun result in terms of the stories for the top three, but nothing more spectacular than that. Oh, and this track is still awful.

 

6/10.

[arial]

Best Driver: Stroll
Worst Driver: -
Best Team: Red Bull
Best Overtake: Ricciardo's double overtake for the victory(on Stroll and Massa)
Best Moment: When Hamilton had to pit from the lead and when Vettel took it he got the penalty. The 3 and 4 wide action on the straight was fantastic too
DRS + Tyres: 
And the race in a sentence A fantastic one, best one since Spain last year.

[Nonesuch]

Best Driver: After all the (deserved) flak he got, credit where credit is due: it was a fine mature drive by Stroll.
Worst Driver: Bottas, if only he could find that brake he uses whenever Hamilton is near to avoid crashing into yet another Ferrari.
Best Team: Force India for comedy value; way to self-destruct as a team.
Best Overtake: Has to be one of Ricciardo's.
Best Moment: Not one in particular.
DRS + Tyres: 
And the race in a sentence: Terrible first half, safety cars, more safety cars, more safety cars, red flags - the somewhat amusing end doesn't make up for that.

Edited by Nonesuch, 25 June 2017 - 18:01.

[HeadFirst]

Best Driver: Stroll ... no mistakes and decent pace all weekend
Worst Driver: Too many to single out one
Best Team: Force India .... team orders work great
Best Overtake: Dan on the restart
Best Moment: Lance's Dad post race
DRS + Tyres: 
And the race in a sentence: Surprising.

 

 

[4444]

 

Please rate the race, not the results of your favourite drivers or teams. 

Best Driver: Hamilton
Worst Driver: Vettel
Best Team: Mercedes
Best Overtake: Bottos at the line
Best Moment: 10 second penalty
DRS + Tyres: 
And the race in a sentence

horse ****

 

[superden]

Racing: Poor.
Drama: High.

Nail. Head.

Amateur marshals, amateur race control, embarrassing driving standards. It might have been interesting viewing, but that shouldn't be confused with good racing.

Memorable for all the wrong reasons.

[redreni]

Best Driver: Alonso as usual

Second Best Driver: I don't know, but it sure as hell wasn't Bottas! What a joke.
Worst Driver: Ocon
Best Team: Red Bull
Best Overtake: Ricciardo (turn 1 SC restart)
Best Moment: Sarcastic answer: The SC wave-by procedure
DRS + Tyres: Most of the entertainment came courtesy of the tyres being below the window on the restarts. DRS is totally unnecessary when you already have the longest straight on the calendar (the uncontested, pass-flap-enabled motorway pass of Stroll by Bottas was the cherry on top of this farcical Eton Mess of a motor race).
And the race in a sentence: A good illustration of why we need slow zones not SCs and we cannot have SC wave-bys and then expect the results to have any meaning or credibility whatsoever; Bottas finishing in P2? What the hell are the timekeepers smoking? A total mockery of a Formula 1 Grand Prix.

Edited by redreni, 25 June 2017 - 18:33.

[William Hunt]

Best Driver:  Lance Stroll

Worst Driver: - Hamilton for brake testing Vettel
                        - Bottas for his start crash

                        - Verstappen for his behaviour: first shouting bad language on the radio, then refusing to speak to the press, then for refusing to stay in the pits with the crew and for returning to his hotel room during the race: childish behaviour, grow up Max: F1 is a technical sport and cars can break down
Best Team: McLaren for finally reaching the finish with both cars
Best Overtake: Vettel on Hamilton behind the safety car
Best Moment: crybaby Verstappen dropping out of the race
DRS + Tyres: DRS was ok, tyres very bad, much too hard. Gunter Steiner from Haas commented that they could do 3 races on the super softs, that's how hard they are, this is simply ridiculous
And the race in a sentence: Baku is a lovely race track: a mixture between Monza (the straight line) and Monaco (the castle section) that always proviced action, hope F1 stats for many years in Baku

[Hans V]

Absolute track limits tends to increase race drama. 😉

[P123]

Best Driver: Stroll -if we'd been told beforehand the sort of race Azerbaijan would turn out to be not one person would have picked Stroll to be one of the few to keep his nose clean! Good turnaround in pace too. 
Worst Driver: Vettel... the race was falling into his lap; sacrificed for a daft bit of road rage. 
Best Team: Sauber (about the only team to get the max with both cars)
Best Overtake:  Danny Ric nailing two into T1
Best Moment: It had lots of moments... 
DRS + Tyres: Tyres useless, DRS not needed
And the race in a sentence: Not much quality racing but plenty of wacky races stuff- 8/10 for entertainment, 1/10 for racing (with the amount of contact it was like they were all hungover).

[Montie]

Just an observation, best overtake goes to Ricciardo for overtaking two into turn one. What about Magnussen, he did it as well.

[EauBleu]

Best Moment: crybaby Verstappen dropping out of the race

That's the best moment of the race for you? And you call him a baby?

[Ricardo F1]

Best Driver:  Hamilton, honorable mention to Stroll, Ricciardo
Worst Driver: Vettel
Best Team: Should've been Force India ; as it is I'll say McLaren for miracles!
Best Overtake: Riccardo into T1
Best Moment: Bottas on Stroll ; just coz.
DRS + Tyres: Meh
 

Drama.  Vettel needs a harsher subsequent punishment.

[ArrowsLivery]

8/10 for the race
1/10 for the stewards and Whiting

[jcbc3]

Without having read any replies before:

 

Best Driver: Kevin Magnussen
Worst Driver: Sebastian Vettel
Best Team: Force India
Best Overtake: Ricciardo after re-start
Best Moment: Keven Magnussen double overtake
DRS + Tyres: Unnoticeable (=good)
And the race in a sentence: Stewards not up to the job (again)

 

So:

 

Ad 1) No mistakes and punching above the cars weight

Ad 2) Ramming another car. Really?

Ad c) Team had their underfunded team all the way up ahead. Their drivers on the other hand...............

Ad 4) He's done it before and he'll do it again. He really is one of the best late brakers out there

Ad 5) This seen from a Danish perspective, of course

Ad 6) -

Ad 7) Vettel should have been black flagged. It's unfathomable that they let him off.

[scheivlak]

Best Driver: Lancelot Stroll
Worst Driver: Sebastian Vettel - that was both wrong and stupid
Best Team: Errr..... McLaren and Sauber I guess. All the other teams dropped the ball somehow.
Best Overtake:  Ricciardo taking three cars in one move and Hamilton on Ocon (?)
Best Moment: Vettel getting his penalty at the same time as Lewis heading for the pits
DRS + Tyres: Tyres too hard, DRS not really needed
And the race in a sentence: Pretty wacky and seriously entertaining. Viva Baku! 9/10

Edited by scheivlak, 25 June 2017 - 19:19.

[MashedPotato]

Best Driver: Stroll
Worst Driver: Vettel/Ocon
Best Team: None
Best Overtake: Ricciardo on those other guys.
Best Moment: Vettel hitting Hamilton
DRS + Tyres: Meh

And the race in a sentence: Destruction Derby

[f1paul]

Best Driver: Stroll
Worst Driver: Vettel
Best Team: Williams
Best Overtake: Ricciardo overtaking 3 cars into T1, which won him the race
Best Moment: EVERYTHING!!!
DRS + Tyres: Tyres were too hard, but we probably didn't even need DRS today
And the race in a sentence: This was a classic race, it's not often we get a race like today so lets soak it up!

[ANF]

I can't believe I just gave this farce of a race an 8/10.

[Bleu]

10/10
Best Driver: Stroll
Worst Driver: Vettel
Best Team: McLaren
Best Overtake: Ricciardo's double at the restart
Best Moment: The above overtake
DRS + Tyres: Tyres too hard, but it concluded to the drama methinks. Second DRS zone better than the one in S/F straight
And the race in a sentence: The circuit should not be rated crap based on one race.

 

Edited by Bleu, 25 June 2017 - 20:33.

[FLB]

Best Driver: Stroll. Seems completely crazy, but he actually delivered. 
Worst Driver: Vettel. I can understand the anger, but intentionally hitting another car was stupid.
Best Team: Williams. With a bit of luck, they would have been third and fourth.
Best Overtake: Magnussen's double pass.
Best Moment: The last few laps between Bottas and Stroll.
DRS + Tyres: DRS  , tyres decent.
And the race in a word: CRAZY!

Edited by FLB, 25 June 2017 - 20:43.

[Heyli]

Gave it a 9, even though I´m still disappointed Verstappen didn´t get very far... Race was highly entertraining!

 

Best Driver: Ricciardo - Great overtakes and did what he had to do to take the opportunity
Worst Driver: Difficult, as there were many mistakes... Let´s say Hülkbenberg. that looked clumsy and he was well on his way... but as I said, many contenders!
Best Team: Not sure how to rate this... Not 1 team stood out tbh. 
Best Overtake: Ricciardo on Massa/stroll
Best Moment: Ricciardo´s overtake
DRS + Tyres: yes, both were there.
And the race in a sentence: Chaotic entertainment. 

[Ivanhoe]

Best Driver: Stroll, Ricciardo both had a solid race
Worst Driver: Vettel, Bottas
Best Team: RBR, without the bad luck for Max it would have been a 1-2
Best Overtake: Danny's restart
Best Moment: Vettel vs Hamilton
DRS + Tyres: DRS no comment
And the race in a word: 6 for the race, 10 for the drama, makes an 8

Edited by Ivanhoe, 25 June 2017 - 21:16.

[Synkro89]

Perhaps the earlier MotoGP race is making me unnecessarily harsh on this one, but I don't think it was the instant classic people will undoubtedly make it out to be. In racing terms, it wasn't great. The safety car/red flag situation for debris was a bit ridiculous, and the theme of the afternoon seemed to be poor driving. A fun result in terms of the stories for the top three, but nothing more spectacular than that. Oh, and this track is still awful.

 

6/10.

Your never happy with F1 are you. Every time you post you slate the state of todays F1 i find it quite amusing actually mate 

[Seanspeed]

5/10

 

Pretty lousy.  End chase between Lewis, Vettel and Bottas was great, but it was otherwise a bunch of garbage.  

 

I feel like if people like this sort of thing, they'd probably better enjoy IndyCar than F1.  

[scheivlak]

5/10

 

Pretty lousy.  End chase between Lewis, Vettel and Bottas was great, but it was otherwise a bunch of garbage.  

 

I feel like if people like this sort of thing, they'd probably better enjoy IndyCar than F1.  

Why not both 

[Marklar]

Well, I always enjoy IndyCar too!

[Seanspeed]

Why not both 

No thanks.  

[Norsemaid]

Race 8/10
Best driver Ooh tough one . Lance Stroll / Ricardio - winning from 10th .
But others for simply keeping a cool head in very testing conditions .
Worst driver Attitudes : Hamilton ( radio talk ) and Vettel . So sad , so silly so unnecessary .
In parts a scary race and was concerned that a severe accident was waiting to happen , but saw some good manoeuvres even with tough conditions going on.