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[ANF]

Best driver:
Worst driver:
Best team:
Worst team:
Best overtake:
Worst overtake:
Best moment:
Worst moment:

And the race in a sentence:

[messy]

Best driver - Verstappen, near perfection. Gasly gets a shoutout too, and Kimi.
Worst driver - nobody really stood out, but basically everyone who got caught up at T1 went nowhere.
Best team - Red Bull, they looked quietly confident even after the Q3 disappointment, now we know why. Easy.
Worst team - McLaren chose a bad weekend to do absolutely nothing as Ferrari pulled ahead.
Best overtake - Kimi and Alonso both going round the outside, good day for the 40+ brigade.
Worst overtake - Perez on Hamilton because it blatantly wasn’t going to happen.
Best moment - the post-race atmosphere
Worst moment - the race.

The race in a sentence - great atmosphere, tedious race 3/10 Any crowd that can celebrate their driver coming home a distant third like they’ve won the World Cup deserve credit.

Edited by messy, 07 November 2021 - 21:23.

[engineblock1]

Best driver: Verstappen
Worst driver: Bottas
Best team: Red Bull
Worst team: McLaren
Best overtake: Alonso on Russell
Worst overtake: None
Best moment: Perez under 1s of Hamilton
Worst moment: The start

And the race in a sentence: the atmosphere is great here but the circuit seems to be as bad as Barcelona in terms of racing (4/10)

Edited by engineblock1, 07 November 2021 - 21:17.

[Tenmantaylor]

Best driver: Max
Worst driver: Bottas (how many times this season alone?)
Best team: RB
Worst team: Williams
Best overtake: Max T1
Worst overtake: Perez
Best moment: The crowd
Worst moment: Bottas 2 attempts at FL. 

And the race in a sentence: Imagine if this crowd had a race to cheer

[William Hunt]

Best driver: Gasly & Kimi
Worst driver: Stroll
Best team: Red Bull
Worst team: McLaren
Best overtake:  none
Worst overtake: none
Best moment: no best moment
Worst moment: Bottas' start

And the race in a sentence: boring sleepfest

Edited by William Hunt, 07 November 2021 - 21:19.

[balage06]

Best driver: Verstappen and Gasly
Worst driver: I'd give this one to Bottas. The T1 incidents were mostly on him and it was poor execution from him regardless
Best team: Red Bull
Worst team: McLaren's form has been quite bad lately, at this rate, Norris can lose P5 to the Ferraris in the end
Best overtake: Kimi, Alonso and Stroll on Russell were pretty neat, but was there any other memorable one?
Worst overtake: That desperate half-hearted attempt from Bottas behind Ricciardo   
Best moment: Everyone hyping up the charge from Perez, only to see him fail

Worst moment: The start incidents

And the race in a sentence: At least it wasn't my worst cardio session

Edited by balage06, 07 November 2021 - 21:33.

[ARTGP]

Best driver: Verstappen, like a dog to a bone.
Worst driver: N/A
Best team: Red Bull
Worst team: Haas
Best overtake: Verstappen to the lead.
Worst overtake: N/A
Best moment: Verstappen to the lead.
Worst moment: Ocon/Schumacher/Tsunoda

And the race in a sentence: There’s no stoppen Verstappen lol.

Edited by ARTGP, 08 November 2021 - 01:10.

[vonTrips]

Enjoyable race, that crowd was so passionate
incredible double overtake of Max at the start in T1
Why didn't RB do a Perez undercut on Hamilton?
Why didn't RB pull in Perez for the fastest lap, he had a free pitstop.
What a clumsy first try of Bottles to take the fastest lap.

[HeadFirst]

Best driver: Verstappen
Worst driver: Ricciardo for spinning Bottas was my choice, if you don't count Mazepin.
Best team: Red Bull overcame the mistake in Q that cost them the pole, AND sorted out the wing issue ... outstanding!
Worst team: I dunno hard not to pick Haas, but McLaren had a rough day.
Best overtake: Stroll on gaining 2 places (forget who)
Worst overtake: Stroll gaining 2 places (forget who), and then blowing his braking point giving both and another place back. Gotta curb your enthusiasm, Dude. 

Best moment: When I got bored and went to play my guitar. 
Worst moment: When I came back.

And the race in a sentence: I heard there were some good midfield battles.

[MKSixer]

Best driver:  VER/HAM - Both maximized their respective vehicles.  Gasly too.

Worst driver:  BOT.  Put someone else in the seat FFS
Best team:  RBR - Overcame adversity yesterday and maximized results today.
Worst team:  N/A
Best overtake:  VER on BOT.  BOT is useless.
Worst overtake:  N/A
Best moment:  When the pain was over.
Worst moment:  VER on BOT.  Race over.

And the race in a sentence:  Damage limitation for Mercedes.

Edited by MKSixer, 08 November 2021 - 03:47.

[404KF2]

Another dull race.  One interesting corner at the start, the rest was dull as dishwater.

[dissident]

6/10, the race itself wasn't that interesting but for once I thought the TV direction was actually decent.

[UreaBorealis]

Race was interesting all the way to the 1st corner. After that, not so much. Enjoyed Kimi getting a good result, but even that was uneventful excluding the pass on Russel.

[SenorSjon]

Best driver: Verstappen
Worst driver: Bottas
Best team: Red Bull
Worst team: Haas
Best overtake: Verstappen overtaking both Mercs in T1
Worst overtake: Stroll trying a simMonza overtake.
Best moment: Verstappen toying with Bottas, blocking his FL attempts two times in a row.
Worst moment: Perez not mounting one serious overtake attempt.

And the race in a sentence: dull but tense, like so many races this year. 

[Zoe]

Just watched the summary over lunch; then decided to go quickly through the race thread... ouch 

 

Best driver: Gasly?
Worst driver: don't care
Best team: RB?
Worst team: don't care
Best overtake: Verstappen in lap 1
Worst overtake: whoever in lap 1 taking out two cars.
Best moment: no specific moment
Worst moment: the hate spewing by some forumers towards Bottas in the race thread.

And the race in a sentence:

 

7 minutes was adequate   

[Gareth]

Best driver: Gasly - phenomenal performance that hasn’t got the love it deserves as he basically drove round on his own. Honorable mention to Verstappen, who drove fantastically (especially at T1) but was basically in a class of 2, and Hamilton who did well to salvage P2 despite the deficit to RBR.

Worst driver: Perez cost his team a 1-2 IMO with his qualifying cock up. Bottas was poor on the run to T1. Ricciardo’s crash was pretty poor too.

Best team: RBR - a cut above the rest on this circuit.

Worst team: nothing stood out.

Best overtake: Verstappen, T1.

Worst overtake: pick one from the various Ricciardo and Bottas moments during the race.

Best moment: every time the crowd went nuts. Fabulous atmosphere.

Worst moment: nothing really stands out. Maybe the stewards falling asleep?

And the race in a sentence: tense battle for P2, otherwise not that much going on, but still an awesome atmosphere - 7/10

[zanquis]

Best driver: Verstappen
Worst driver: Bottas
Best team: RedBull
Worst team: toss up between McLaren and Alpine
Best overtake: Verstappen on both Mercedes
Worst overtake: Bottas on …. Eh nevermind
Best moment: Verstappen’s start
Worst moment: RedBull missing the opportunity to get in front of Hamilton with Perez.

The race in a sentence? It could have been a sprintrace nothing happening.

[tourister46a]

Best driver: Max

Worst driver: Stroll
Best team: I don't know, Ferrari for making a huge dent into McLaren hopes?
Worst team: No clue but Renault were nowhere in qualifying at a track that 'supposedly' helps their turbos
Best overtake: Max on Bottas + Lewis
Worst overtake: Ricciardo who had to turn Bottas around to pass him
Best moment: L1 T1
Worst moment: Qualifying 3

And the race in a sentence: The word snoozefest was invented for this one.

[MikeTekRacing]

Why didn't RB pull in Perez for the fastest lap, he had a free pitstop.
What a clumsy first try of Bottles to take the fastest lap.

It wouldn't have helped them - 1 more point for Perez and 1 less for Bottas is not as important as keeping the pressure on Lewis.

If he should have taken the point off Lewis there would have been a serious discussion

[MikeTekRacing]

Worst driver: Perez cost his team a 1-2 IMO with his qualifying cock up. Bottas was poor on the run to T1. Ricciardo’s crash was pretty poor too.

 

That a clear alternate reality. Sure, it was not perfect, but worst driver? Give me a break

[Ramon69]

Best driver: Verstappen
Worst driver: Stroll
Best team: Red Bull
Worst team: Haas
Best overtake: Not many, I guess Max at the start on both Mercs!
Worst overtake: 
Best moment: The post-race celebrations! Great crowd, great track TO DRIVE on, but not to provide an exciting race unfortunately...
Worst moment: Perez going long for no reason, when he could've pitted right after Ham instead of losing time!

 

The race was forgetable! 6/10

[Singularity]

Best driver: Verstappen
Worst driver: Mazepin (I did not bother to factor in what he did this race, the "worst driver" trophy will always be his)
Best team: RBR
Worst team: Haas
Best overtake: If we include the start, then of course Verstappen on all the Merc's
Worst overtake: Ricciardo on Bottas (first time)
Best moment: Seeing that both HAM and VER cleared T1 safely
Worst moment: Seeing that Bottas did NOT clear T1. I had been looking forward for an epic strategy battle between RBR and Merc. 

And the race in a sentence: Had this been the first race of the season I would have rated it around 3-4 out of 10, now I gave it a solid 8.