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[Maxioos]

Best Driver:

 

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Best Team: 

 

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Best Moment: 

 

DRS + Tyres: 

 

[ConsiderAndGo]

Best Driver: Raikkonen / Verstappen

Worst Driver: Stroll / Vettel

Best Team: Ferrari

Worst Team: Haas?

Best Overtake: None of any note.

Best Moment: Raikkonen crossing the line to WIN

DRS + Tyres: Decent, for once! 

 

Solid 8/10 and one of the better races of the season.

Edited by ConsiderAndGo, 22 October 2018 - 08:03.

[Laster]

Best Driver: Raik, Vers, Hulk, all stood out for me, but I’ll give it to Raikkonen this weekend.
Worst Driver: Stroll and Grosjean can get the shout for it.
Best Team: Renault, after an awful few races they suddenly rock up and comprehensively win the midfield battle with a 1-2, it’s quite the dramatic shift in form.
Worst Team: Haas, throwing away more points between mistake on the driving side, and mistakes with fuel. They may have just kissed 4th in the constructors goodbye.
Best Overtake: Ham on Vers - Okay it wasn’t an overtake in the end, but it was a fun battle to watch.
Best Moment: “neeeeeOOOOOOOWWWWWwwwmmmm!”
DRS + Tyres: DRS too powerful here - Tyres were more fun from the lack of knowledge prior to the race.
And the race in a sentence: Good race, I’m not a fan of Kimi but it’s always good to see someone other than the usual suspects win a race and this one was well earned by him. 8/10

[P123]

Best Driver: Max/ Kimi
Worst Driver: Stroll for the opening lap crash
Best Team: Ferrari
Worst Team: Nobody
Best Overtake: Max's first lap
Best Moment: Kimi winning after such a long time
DRS + Tyres: Tyres gave some differing strategies

Tense race, 7/10

[Ivanhoe]

Best driver: Gotta give this one to Kimi. Honourable mention to Hulk and Max
Worst driver: Stroll, Grosjean
Best team: Renault
Worst team: Haas
Best overtake: Kimi on Hamilton for the lead
Best moment: battle through T12-T17 between Lewis and Max for second
DRS + tyres: ok this race

Gave it an 8

[JeePee]

Perfect race 10/10

 

Multiple crashes, some great overtakes and defending (Lewis vs. Kimi, Lewis vs. Max) a 3-car-fight for the win with 3 different teams, different tyre strategies (both in tyre life as in tyre compound), an undecided championship, a long awaited race winner, a comeback drive from P18 to P2, a dramatic DNF for one of the top guys...

 

This is F1 I wanna watch!

[Maxioos]

My own:

 

Best Driver: Max and Kimi

 

Worst Driver: Stroll and Grosjean

 

Best Team: Renault

 

Worst Team: (Lots of them imo.)Williams, McLaren, Haas and STR.

 

Best Overtake: Kimi op Hamilton.

 

Best Moment: Kimi start, Max his first laps progress and last race laps top 3. 

 

DRS + Tires: Looked oke, DRS not to powerful and the tires differences and strategie where oké and with significant influence.

 

Score: 9/10

[RPM40]

Best Driver: Kimi/Max. But I think Hamilton did a great job of playing the championship game.

 

Worst Driver: The Sebastian Vettel award for worst driver of the weekend. Its probably always Grosjean, but Vettel.

 

Best Team: Renault, p6/7 is a great result in the battle for 4th in the WCC.

 

Worst Team:  Red Bull, get both cars to the finish.

 

Best Overtake: None really stood out as the best. 

 

Best Moment: 

 

DRS + Tyres: Fine. Its nice to see one stop strategies not working!

[RPM40]

 

Perfect race 10/10

 

 

 

I'm surprised at that, I found it quite a bland race because the drivers largely just followed in line. China for instance was a far better race. 

[Nemo1965]

First of all:

 

I see a lot of posters rated Stroll as the worst. A safe bet, in many instances but... has anyone seen the crash between him and Alonso from another angle than what was shown in first instance? The whole race I thought: 'How can Stroll be to blame for an accident where Alonso understeers into him?'

 

Second:

 

Best Driver: Max. Who else?

 

Worst Driver: Bottas. 

 

Best Team: Ferrari

 

Worst Team: Not participating.

 

Best Overtake: I assume Max, but his passes were not shown. So perhaps they let him through?

 

Best Moment: Max and Lewis hanging it out.

 

DRS + Tyres: About as good as tyres and wings in the Good old Days (whenever that was).

Edited by Nemo1965, 22 October 2018 - 08:18.

[pitlanepalpatine]

Best Driver: Verstappen

 

Worst Driver: Grosjean

 

Best Team: Renault - best of the rest without breaking fuel flow limits

 

Worst Team: Haas - One crashed one disqualified

 

Best Overtake: Vettel on Bottas - initially couldn't get past him and then forced him into mistake.

 

Best Moment: Meeeeeeeooooooooooowwwwwwwwww

 

DRS + Tyres: More pirelli drama with red bull running longer on super softs than softs.

[JeePee]

I'm surprised at that, I found it quite a bland race because the drivers largely just followed in line. China for instance was a far better race. 

From the moment Lewis 1st pitted till the moment Lewis went wide at T19 with two laps to go, I didn't know if Kimi, Max or Lewis would win this race. It was exciting for me all race through. I don't need overtakes to make it exciting. The Lewis/Kimi and Max/Lewis fights beats a divebomb anytime of the day for me.

[JonnyJ]

Best Driver: Max Verstappen

Worst Driver: Sebastian Vettel

Best Team: Ferrari

Worst Team: Haas

Best Overtake: Can't remember any but some good battles. Lewis v Max was an example of perfect wheel to wheel racing

Best Moment: Lewis v Max and Kimi winning, finally.

DRS + Tyres: Detection point in a place where dirty air makes it tricky to get under a second without a massive advantage. Probably needs extending another 50-100m with these cars. Tyres were standard pirelli anti race garbage. Only VSC made things interesting.

[ConsiderAndGo]

 

First of all:

 

I see a lot of posters rated Stroll as the worst. A safe bet, in many instances but... has anyone seen the crash between him and Alonso from another angle than what was shown in first instance? The whole race I thought: 'How can Stroll be to blame for an accident where Alonso understeers into him?'

 

Second:

 

Best Driver: Max. Who else?

 

Worst Driver: Bottas. 

 

Best Team: Ferrari

 

Worst Team: Not participating.

 

Best Overtake: I assume Max, but his passes were not shown. So perhaps they let him through?

 

Best Moment: Max and Lewis hanging it out.

 

DRS + Tyres: About as good as tyres and wings in the Good old Days (whenever that was).

 

Wutttt?

 

He cut the corner and jumped into the side of Alonso. He had no right to put his car where he did. He just need to use the brake pedal and hey presto, no accident.

[Laster]

'How can Stroll be to blame for an accident where Alonso understeers into him?'

That’s not what happened. Stroll went up Alonso’s inside by jumping the kerb. Being on the outside if Alonso was understeering he would have gone away from Stroll not into him. Magnussen snuck passed Alonso, and Stroll thought he could sneak through too, but left it too late and actually had the whole of his car cross the white line effectively cutting the corner to try and get alongside Alonso, and then went into his side. It was Stroll’s error.

Edited by Laster, 22 October 2018 - 08:31.

[RPM40]

From the moment Lewis 1st pitted till the moment Lewis went wide at T19 with two laps to go, I didn't know if Kimi, Max or Lewis would win this race. It was exciting for me all race through. I don't need overtakes to make it exciting. The Lewis/Kimi and Max/Lewis fights beats a divebomb anytime of the day for me.

 

Thats fair enough. Sometimes tension helps.  Had Hamilton cut through to win I would have thought it was great.

Edited by RPM40, 22 October 2018 - 08:33.

[Nemo1965]

That’s not what happened. Stroll went up Alonso’s inside by jumping the kerb. Being on the outside if Alonso was understeering he would have gone away from Stroll not into him. Magnussen snuck passed Alonso, and Stroll thought he could sneak through too, but left it too late and actually had the whole of his car cross the white line effectively cutting the corner to try and get alongside Alonso, and then went into his side. It was Stroll’s error.

 

 I only saw the Stroll onboard. So thanks for clarifying.

[w1Y]

Best Driver:Max

Worst Driver: Grosjean

Best Team: Ferrari.The fact Kimi won shows how dominant that Ferrari was.

Worst Team: Dont have one

Best Overtake: Dont remember any special ones tbh

Best Moment: Kimi winning or Meowwmweoeooeoe

DRS + Tyres: Shocking. Late changes is a sign of incompetance from pirelli. The disaster continues

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[Retrofly]

Best Driver: Raikkonen / Verstappen joint best

Worst Driver: Bottas/Groj

Best Team: Ferrari

Worst Team: Haas and Force India, no excuse for illegal cars .

Best Overtake: Vettel on Bottas?

Best Moment: Hamilton fighting with RB's and Kimi.

DRS + Tyres: Today was further proof that the 1 stop strategy is pretty much the only viable strategy with these kinds of cars. Impossible to follow and overtake.

Edited by Retrofly, 22 October 2018 - 09:00.

[MikeV1987]

Best Driver: Verstappen. Starting at the back and mixing it with the front runners at the end of the race was really impressive. He's easily the better RB driver atm.

 

Worst Driver: Stroll for trying to go 3 wide in such a shitty place.

 

Best Team: Ferrari. It might have been a 1-2 if Vettel didn't have a spin.

 

Worst Team: Haas. One car crashes, the other gets DQ'd.

 

Best Overtake: Non really stood out for me, Vettel on Bottas I guess.

 

Best Moment: Kimi winning, his defense against Hamilton was fun to watch too.

 

DRS + Tyres: Never liked DRS, never will. The teams went in blind without much running on Friday, so that little bit of unpredictability with the tires made the race more interesting. The race probably would have been boring if it was a dry Friday.

 

8/10

[klyster]

Best Driver: Verstappen

 

Best Team: Ferrari

 

Best Overtake: Kimi at the start

 

Best Moment: Max and Lewis's battle, Kimi winning!

 

DRS + Tyres: DRS didn't seem to make much of a difference, tyres made a huge difference.

 

9/10, loved the race.

Edited by klyster, 22 October 2018 - 09:36.

[jcbc3]

Best Driver: Max Vérstappen

Worst Driver: Stroll

Best Team: Ferrari

Worst Team: Mercedes

Best Overtake: -

Best Moment: Vettel spinning - AGAIN

DRS + Tyres: Meh

[Ramon69]

Best Driver: Raikkonen

Worst Driver: Stroll

Best Team: Ferrari

Worst Team: Haas

Best Overtake: Vettel on Bottas

Best Moment: Raikkonen winning!!!

DRS + Tyres: -

Rating: 8/10

 

A very solid race, the last laps were tense and I seeing Kimi win one more (or last?) time made me extremely happy! I was literally cheering when he crossed the line. Superb!

[RECKLESS]

Best Driver: Kimi

Worst Driver: Seb

Best Team: Ferrari

Worst Team: Haas

Best Overtake: Kimi on Lewis at the start

Best Moment: Start/Finnish

DRS + Tyres: Gave us a good race, gave it a nine.

RÄIKKÖNEEEEEEEN!!!!!

[scheivlak]

Best Driver:  Max Verstappen / Kimi Raikkonen

Worst Driver: Lance Stroll / Romain Grosjean

Best Team: Renault

Worst Team: Haas

Best Overtake: Vettel on Bottas I guess

Best Moment: Hamilton / Verstappen dice

DRS + Tyres: DRS decent, Max's supersofts were superb

 

9/10, edge of the seat stuff

[BuddyHolly]

Best Driver: Raikkonen

Worst Driver: Stroll / Vettel

Best Team: Ferrari

Worst Team: McLaren

Best Overtake: Vettel on Wingman

Best Moment: Raikkonen winning!

DRS + Tyres: no real complaints this time I guess.

 

Superb Race, great racecraft from Lewis, Kimi and Max, abysmal performance by 'wingman'  Bottas and Seb again making rookie mistakes. tsk

[McLobby]

Best Driver: Raikkonen / Verstappen

Worst Driver: Hamilton (Even with a faster car and fresher tyres, he can't overtake)

Best Team: Ferrari

Worst Team: ----

Best Overtake: Raikkonen on Hamilton and Vettel on Bottas

Best Moment: Verstappen keeping Hamilton behind in a much slower car!

DRS + Tyres: ----

 

6/10 one of the best races in a dull season.

[HeadFirst]

Best Driver: Kimi

 

Worst Driver: lots to consider, but Seb had the most to lose ... so Seb

 

Best Team: Ferrari

 

Worst Team: Haas

 

Best Overtake: Kimi on Lewis at the start

 

Best Moment: Kimi`s 2 battles with Lewis, and his post-race interview

 

DRS + Tyres: 

 

Really enjoyed this one ... lots of good hard defending made up for a minimum of passing. Great drives by Kimi and Max.

[Carrinthe]

Best Driver: Max,

 

Worst Driver: Bottas

 

Best Team: Renault

 

Worst Team: Haas

 

Best Overtake: Kimi on Lewis lap 1

 

Best Moment:  Lewis and Max fighting it out

 

DRS + Tyres: DRS : meh Tyres: Intresting

 

Race: 9

[RacingGreen]

Best Driver: Max Verstappen ?

Worst Driver: Too many to choose from (Sirotkin / Stroll / Grosjean / Vandoorme ) Are these guys really among the best in the World ? 

Best Team: Ferrari - honourable mention to Renault

Worst Team: McLaren

Best Overtake: Can't remember any

Best Moment: Meeeeeeeeeeeooooooo

DRS + Tyres: DRS - unnecessary perversion of motor sport (as always) but  Tyres pretty decent (good job Pirelli may get your calendar this year.)

 

​and the Race in a Summary: When the unexpected "feel good" winner is in a Ferrari the sport is in a very bad place.  Add to that the best class "b" got was 6th and 7th after the retirement of Dan Ricciardo and was by a full works manufacturer. What an appalling predictable era of F1 the regulators are inflicting on an ever dwindling fan base - and they still haven't made the correlation and are letting the manufacturers dictate the 2021 PU rules.

6/10 slightly better than your average grand prix this season but comparing with previous eras the race was instantly forgettable.

 

[screamingV16]

Best Driver: Raikkonen & Verstappen

 

Worst Driver: Vettel, Stroll & Grosjean (although to be fair he does have to drive with only half a brain )

 

Best Team: Ferrari

 

Worst Team: Mercedes for bad strategy and throwing away a chance of victory.

 

Best Overtake: Vettel on Ricciardo

 

Best Moment: Raikkonen winning.

 

DRS + Tyres: Meh...

[messy]

Best driver - Raikkonen and Verstappen equal #1

Worst driver - Vettel hits self-destruct button as usual, but actually Valtteri Bottas was limp as lettuce so him. 

Best team: Ferrari

Worst team - McLaren were pretty dire again. Can't blame Mercedes too much because it looked like the right call at the time. They don't all work. 

Best overtake - Raikkonen nailing the start and surviving Hamilton's squeeze. 

Best moment: Kimi winning again. 

DRS/tyres - Really interesting, actually. 

 

9/10. Really, really enjoyed it. 

[Damsel]

Best driver: Max, obviously, he was so good.

 

Worst driver:  Stroll, Grosjean, Bottas

 

Best team: Ferrari

 

Worst team FI and Haas for the fuel issues

 

Best overtake: Kimi on Lewis at the start, Max on one of the Williams on the first lap, a lovely little move slipping by (even it was on a Williams, that was still pretty slick)

 

Best moment: Kimi, Max and Lewis following eachother those last laps, seeing the gaps get a little smaller and a little bigger the entire time, slipping in and out of DRS range, it was nailbiting. And of course Max and Lewis going wheel to wheel finally! Fun . Oh, and Kimi asking Lewis post-race if he won the championship. You knew that, Kimi!

 

DRS/tyres: Pretty okay actually. We had quite a lot of fun races this year, and tyres have been een big part of that at times.

 

9/10 This was a really really fun race! Cota never dissappoints actually, I love that track.

Edited by Damsel, 24 October 2018 - 11:49.