Rate the 2009 Petronas Chinese Grand Prix

Rate the Chinese Grand Prix

Poll ended at 02 May 2009, 11:35

10/10 Absolutely perfect.
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11%
9/10: Superb race!
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11%
8/10 A great race!
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31%
7/10: Fun to watch
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31%
6/10 Quite good.
4
11%
5/10: Average.
2
6%
4/10 Sub-par.
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No votes
3/10: Barely worth watching.
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No votes
2/10: Boring.
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No votes
1/10: Atrocious!
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No votes
 
Total votes: 36

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Rate the 2009 Petronas Chinese Grand Prix

Post by phil1993 » 19 Apr 2009, 11:35

1 - Best Driver
2 - Best Team (hmmmm)
3 - Best Overtake
4 - Best Moment
5 - Worst Driver
6 - Worst Team
7 - Biggest Surprise
8 - General Comment

1. Vettel
2. Red Bull
3. Webber on Button/Hamilton on Trulli (same move basically)
4. Vettel winning
5. Piquet
6. Ferrari
7. How much rain there was
8. Nice race
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Re: Rate the 2009 Petronas Chinese Grand Prix

Post by shailf1 » 19 Apr 2009, 11:44

1 Best Driver: Sutil, Webber, Vettel

2 Best Team: Red Bull for sure

3 Best Overtake: Button and Webber scrap; but the one i enjoyed, massa going past trulli

4 Best Moment: After the saftey car came out , Massa was third...!!!

5 Worst Driver: Most of them did well to hang on so maybe Piwuet and Nakajima for going off track too much..

6 Worst Team: Ferrari (Poor reliability and poor strategy)

7 Biggest Surprise: Toyota off the pace...

8 General Comment: How many times did Hamilton went off, I am pretty sure he broke or atleast matched Massas record :P
Anyways a great race, sad to see Massa retire when he was doing well..

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Post by AzShadow » 19 Apr 2009, 11:49

1 - Best Driver: Vettel (would have been Sutil if he hadn't crashed)
2 - Best Team: Red Bull
3 - Best Overtake: Webber vs Button
4 - Best Moment: Red Bull leading 1-2
5 - Worst Driver: Hamilton
6 - Worst Team: Ferrari
7 - Biggest Surprise: Red Bull's dominant pace in wet
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Post by Zack » 19 Apr 2009, 11:57

1 - Best Driver : Vettel
2 - Best Team : Red Bull
3 - Best Overtake : Marky on Jenson from outside.
4 - Best Moment : Vettel passing Jenson :n
5 - Worst Driver : Usual .. B.N.N. :lol:
6 - Worst Team : Ferrari :(
7 - Biggest Surprise : Sutil :zz:
8 - General Comment : Great race ..coverage was very poor. As it was wet race not conclusion from this can be taken.
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Re: Rate the 2009 Petronas Chinese Grand Prix

Post by TheViewer » 19 Apr 2009, 11:57

1 - Best Driver: Sebastian Vettel.
2 - Best Team: Red Bull Racing
3 - Best Overtake: Webber passing Button for the last time
4 - Best Moment: Vettel observing that the track was wet over the team radio
5 - Worst Driver: Nelson Piquet
6 - Worst Team: Ferrari
7 - Biggest Surprise: Toro Rosso scoring more points
8 - General Comment: A good race, and deserving win for RBR. But I don't see the point in races starting behind the safety car. If it's wet enough for the safety car then I think they should delay the start until conditions are good enough for a real race, rather than a safety car race. I can't imagine the Japanese GP 1976 being started under the safety car conditions (even though they didn't have the safety car then).
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Post by Totopupu » 19 Apr 2009, 12:01

1 - Best Driver : Vettel

2 - Best Team : McLaren

3 - Best Overtake : Weber on Button

4 - Best Moment : the rain :)

5 - Worst Driver : Bourdais

6 - Worst Team : Renault

7 - Biggest Surprise : Toyota and williams bad

8 - General Comment : great race
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Re: Rate the 2009 Petronas Chinese Grand Prix

Post by escalador » 19 Apr 2009, 12:39

1 - Best Driver - Vettel
2 - Best Team - Red Bull
3 - Best Overtake - Webber and Button
4 - Best Moment - Piquet destroyed a sign :lol:
5 - Worst Driver - Piquet
6 - Worst Team - BMW
7 - Biggest Suprise - Sutil accident :S
8 - General Comment - Many overtakes, many crashes...

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Re: Rate the 2009 Petronas Chinese Grand Prix

Post by Haukinen » 19 Apr 2009, 12:46

phil1993 wrote:1 - Best Driver
2 - Best Team (hmmmm)
3 - Best Overtake
4 - Best Moment
5 - Worst Driver
6 - Worst Team
7 - Biggest Surprise
8 - General Comment
1. Vettel
2. Red Bull Racing
3. Räikkönen-Hamilton (1 of them :p )
4. Safety car left, and the race really started
5. Nelson Piquet
6. BMW
7. The rain
8. Nice race. But it would have been better, if Kimi was in the Top 8
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Re: Rate the 2009 Petronas Chinese Grand Prix

Post by columbo77 » 19 Apr 2009, 12:52

1 - Best Driver - Vettel
2 - Best Team - Red Bull
3 - Best Overtake - Kubica On Trulli (Joke)
4 - Best Moment - Safety Car Finally Coming In
5 - Worst Driver - Piquajima!
6 - Worst Team - BMW
7 - Biggest Suprise - Sutils Crash
8 - General Comment - Good Race but enough with the wet races for now please :)

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Re: Rate the 2009 Petronas Chinese Grand Prix

Post by dazmoffman » 19 Apr 2009, 12:53

1 - Best Driver - vettel he had the advantage of starting in the font from a rolling start (wet conditions) but he was literally untested today a magnificent drive.

2 - Best Team (hmmmm) redbull, nobody else could have did it better
3 - Best Overtake - a few to choose from kimi/hamilton hamilton/kimi buemi on raikenon
4 - Best Moment - vettel taking the 2nd win of his career
5 - Worst Driver - pq who else, nakajima did a bit of cross country too.
6 - Worst Team - ferarri, they are donig even worse than they expected.
7 - Biggest Surprise - sc start and beumi performance.
8 - General Comment - a good race but predictible the top four will dominate for over half the season but improvements from mclaren look promising hamilton touched his limit on several ocassions but still managed respecteble 6th, ferarri need to pull there finger out with delelopment of the car soon as possible becasue this team is walking wounded right now but i wont right them off. well done again vettel.

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Re: Rate the 2009 Petronas Chinese Grand Prix

Post by Jacobss » 19 Apr 2009, 13:44

1 - Best Driver - Vettel and Buemi
2 - Best Team - Red Bull
3 - Best Overtake - Vettel on Button
4 - Best Moment - Hamilton spining :lol:
5 - Worst Driver - Hamilton
6 - Worst Team - Ferrari and BMW
7 - Biggest Surprise - Very weak pace from Kimi and again a failure from Felipe
8 - General Comment - Very good race, quite disapointing because of Ferrari, but still amazing drive from Vettel and Buemi.
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Post by TwistedArmco » 19 Apr 2009, 14:25

1 - Best Driver
Vettel for being stunning in the best car; honourable mention to Webber for playing support especially well, and to Buemi for a very promising racer's edge. Honourable mention to a very impressive Heikki Kovalainen, beating Lewis on merit.
2 - Best Team
Red Bull, naturally.
3 - Best Overtake
Webber on Button, like Hamilton's move on Trulli (??), which was also the absolute tits, but Mark's move was wetter and lairier.
4 - Best Moment
Vettel overtaking Button to be effectively a pitstop ahead of him; Alonso suddenly appearing in 13th, not many laps after being 20th; Vettel wins! Webber second!.
5 - Worst Driver
NOT Hamilton, Massa or Alonso. All three of these, despite my fellow members comments, showed their worth, and maybe Hamilton and Alonso did make some crucial mistakes, but they all showed pace and had some promising laps.*
Probably.. Piquet? After his pitstop, Alonso (heavier) was three places behind Piquet. Not many laps in from the safety car coming in, Piquet was more than three places behind Alonso.
6 - Worst Team
Toyota, although it might have been their drivers' fault, who never looked comfortable here.
7 - Biggest Surprise
Red Bull had the pace to back their strategy up. Neat..; Sutil losing it; race officials allowing marshalls on to the track to retrieve Sutil's car, which was just dangerous; rain for the start. Lots of things surprised me.

8 - General Comment
*The trouble with Alonso's race was that he was fighting from the back. In fairness to him, he made up lots of places towards the end of his first racing stint (on merit), and was on course for points when he made his time-consuming driver error.

The trouble with Hamilton's race was he seemed off-colour in the wet, and spun 3 or 4 times. Some of these can be put down to tyre wear, some were just driver error. His strategy was good, but made him really slow on the used tyres, which prevented him from fighting for 4th. His race was by no means bad either.

The trouble with Massa's race was his untimely exit from it. Without that he would have been in good shape. He was ahead of Hamilton, who started ahead of him, having overtaken Bourdais, Trulli and Raikkonen, and a couple of others, and having gained places by others pitting on worse strategies (he was on a promising two stopper by the looks of things), he looked like he was in a fairly good position, having got there on merit. His race was certainly NOT a bad race, it was in fact probably one of the better ones, better than Hamilton's and a lot better than Alonso's in my book.

I thought it was a stunner of a race, with a great fight for the win and podium, with a great wealth of general action and incident, some super overtakes (Buemi on Raikkonen, Vettel on Button, Alonso and Hamilton on lots of people, Massa on Trulli). The best Chinese Grand Prix was 2006. This comes very close to beating it. It lacked a certain something to make it better than that, or make it a 10/10, but it was superb. I loved it.

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Malaysia - 8/10
Australia - 7/10
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Post by JoostLamers » 19 Apr 2009, 15:33

1 - Best Driver - Vet Vet Vettel!
2 - Best Team - RBR
3 - Best Overtake - Hamilton on Raikkonen, on the outside :drool:
4 - Best Moment - Ferrari FAIL!
5 - Worst Driver - Piquet, Nakajima
6 - Worst Team - Ferrari :zz:
7 - Biggest Surprise - RBR, the whole weekend very strong, McLaren is coming back though
8 - General Comment - Worst driver Hamilton.. Yeah right :lol:

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Re: Rate the 2009 Petronas Chinese Grand Prix

Post by Jaguar » 19 Apr 2009, 15:51

1 - Best Driver(s) - Vettel , Webber , Lewis Hamilton and of course not to forget "Adrian Sutil"
2 - Best Team - Red Bull
3 - Best Overtake - Webber Vs Button / Lewis Vs Raikonnen both on the outside
4 - Best Moment - Vettel 1rst Webber 2nd a 1-2 for RBR ! just wow !
5 - Worst Driver - Nelson Piquet again and again ...
6 - Worst Team - None for me :P maybe Ferrari is the one to nominate but its hard to judge yet on it
7 - Biggest Surprise - Buemi almost took Vettel out of the race , Heiki finished the race in points ! and Adrian Sutil out of the race :(
8 - General Comment - Overall , after 2 promising races from them Red Bull lead the pack and scored a 1-2 , Vettel master of Rain faster than any1 else ... Sutil in points fighting McLarens then leaving the race with a spin just 6 laps before the end was so chaotic and i guess Sutil proved again he's a driver to be worried if he had a car that can challenge on dry he said there will be updates and upgrades for Bahrain so let's hope he can do something on dry , i believe Red Bull Proved that even a car without the Double and triple diffuser design is able to win , ferrari needs to work harder for Bahrain i guess they are about to make something there alongside Toyota , maybe score some points before heading for Europe

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Re: Rate the 2009 Petronas Chinese Grand Prix

Post by HamiltonF1 » 19 Apr 2009, 16:12

1 - Best Driver: Vettel
2 - Best Team: Redbull and Mclaren (stratergy)
3 - Best Overtake: Hamilton on Trulli or one of the many times he overtook Kimi
4 - Best Moment: When I woke up and saw it rained in Shanghai
5 - Worst Driver: Piquet
6 - Worst Team: Ferrari
7 - Biggest Surprise: 1-2 Redbull
8 - General Comment: Great race with action and drama. Hope there will be more races like this ;)
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