Rate the 2009 British Grand Prix

[Rachael The Great]

1 - Vettel
2 - Red Bull
3 - One of Lewis's, he did a few good 'ens...
4 - Red Bull 'on Brawn's case'
5 - Bourdais. Why Heikki?
6 - McLaren, again. It pains me to say it.
7 - Button, definately thought he'd do better.
8 - It was alright, not too fabulous. good result for Red Bull, not so good for the Brits but theres always next year.

[Blindkiller]

it was good due to the positions battles and the pace of Vettel during his first stint

1 - Best Driver-Vettel
2 - Best Team-Red Bull
3 - Best Overtake-Hamilton on Alonso
4 - Best Moment-First Stint for Vettel
5 - Worst Driver-Alonso (what a s*** of race he had done!)
6 - Worst Team-Mclaren
7 - Biggest Surprise-Fisichella near the points
8 - General Comment-It could be mpore exciting, but it was a good race

[premier]

1 - Best Driver-Massa
2 - Best Team-Red Bull
3 - Best Overtake- Massa at the start
4 - Best Moment-Hamilton making stupid things
5 - Worst Driver-Buemi
6 - Worst Team-Mclaren
7 - Biggest Surprise-Fisico - 11th
8 - General Comment- boring, boring

[blizzard]

1 - Best Driver : Vettel (domination)
2 - Best Team : Red Bull (Adriaaaaaaan)
3 - Best Overtake : Hamilton vs Alonso and vice versa
4 - Best Moment : he start and the opening lap
5 - Worst Driver : hard to say this time, Piquet is never the wrong choice, but Kovalainen and Bourdais were pretty shite again. I go with Kova
6 - Worst Team : MclMerc remind me of Ferrari 1980, last year champion - this year s***.
7 - Biggest Surprise : Massa ending up in 4th from 11th, Nakajima ending up in 11th from 4th (after lap 1).
8 - General Comment : Breakaway series!!!!

[TwistedArmco]

1 - Best Driver
Vettel by a mile. I mean, he had the best car, but he kicked ass with it. 20 seconds up the road without a sweat, qualifying fastest with a sizeably heavier car than everyone else in the top 10, and pitting early to avoid a potential safety car, because there was no need to take his stint to the limit. Everyone else must be shell-shocked. We may have already seen the drive of 2009. Fisi deserves some incredibly honorable mention, taking a poor car beyond its means to finish ahead of many technically faster cars.
2 - Best Team
Red Bull.
3 - Best Overtake
Kubica on Hamilton, around the outside at Stowe. I think it was pretty awesome, and the only move in the whole race to work around the outside properly.
4 - Best Moment
The battles between Alonso/Heidfeld/Fisi and Hamilton/Kubica/Alonso/Heidfeld/Piquet.
5 - Worst Driver
NOT Hamilton or Alonso. Kovalainen for his awful double-movement. I should make it clear that Hamilton and Alonso were on really AWFUL strategies. Their only sin was bad starts. Their strategies and slow cars got them held up behind one stoppers, which ultimately allowed most of the one-stoppers to vault them. It's not like they weren't driving the wheels off those things, hence Alonso's relentless attack on Heidfeld and Hamilton's fights with everyone. They just had poor cars and stupid strategies. When will Renault learn that putting Alonso in the top 10 with a small fuel load will get him the same place as a heavy one would, but with much less fuel on board?
6 - Worst Team
Renault for their idiotic strategy with Alonso.
7 - Biggest Surprise
Nakajima's strategy not working. His race-pace was fine. Running light really helped no-one here.

8 - General Comment
It was good to see Vettel make decent points up on Button. Otherwise fairly boring., with those further down the field battles providing the entertainment to make it up to a 6/10. In fairness it was a joy to watch Vettel win like that, hence 6/10.

China - 9/10
Malaysia - 8/10
Australia - 7/10
Britain - 6/10 - here.
Bahrain - 6/10
Spain - 6/10
Monaco - 6/10
Turkey - 5/10

[Richards19]

1 - Best Driver : Vettel
2 - Best Team : Red Bull
3 - Best Overtake : the start of both Ferrari
4 - Best Moment : battles between Alonso and Hamilton
5 - Worst Driver : Bourdais
6 - Worst Team : McLaren
7 - Biggest Surprise : Button is not in the front of the race
8 - General Comment: not a bad race, but I not forgotten the war between FOTA and FIA

[tristan1117]

1 - Best Driver: Vettel
2 - Best Team: Red Bull
3 - Best Overtake: Fisichella on Alonso and Heidfeld
4 - Best Moment: Button giving us something other than a Brawnout.
5 - Worst Driver: Hamilton
6 - Worst Team: Mclaren
7 - Biggest Surprise: Massa's comeback to 4th
8 - General Comment: OK race, but a nice drive from Massa. Vettel just destroyed the field.

[I Love Crashes]

1 - Best Driver : Vettel
2 - Best Team : Red Bull
3 - Best Overtake : Fisi on Alonso And Hedfield
4 - Best Moment : Seeing Vettel At The Top
5 - Worst Driver : Bourdais
6 - Worst Team : McLaren
7 - Biggest Surprise : Button not winning
8 - General Comment: Not that great

[impatientinventor]

1 - Best Driver - Vettel
2 - Best Team - RBR
3 - Best Overtake - Fizzzzzi!!!!
4 - Best Moment - When the Queen demanded Bernie's head be served to her for dinner... O' wait that was my dream when I fell asleep between the first and second round of pit stops...
5 - Worst Driver - Max, He drove this one straight into the ditch on thursday and was stuck in the mud all weekend.
6 - Worst Team - FIA management
7 - Biggest Surprise - That the fans didn't riot
8 - General Comment - Again the off track c**p gets in the way

[dazmoffman]

1 - Best Driver - vettel didnt the boy do well
2 - Best Team - redbull and i am glad of it brawn have competition
3 - Best Overtake - lots cant narrow it down but alonso and hamilton had a respectible battle
4 - Best Moment - 7-10 i was entertained and i couldnt give a s**t that a brit didnt win it was good to see some racing except kovi and bordais
5 - Worst Driver - ^^see above
6 - Worst Team - mclaren
7 - Biggest Surprise - brawns race pace and vettels domination< oooooh and nakajima quali performance
8 - General Comment - i hope F1 gets its act together and will do return to silverstone in near future.

[lealjaime]

1 - Best Driver - Vettel
2 - Best Team - Red Bull
3 - Best Overtake - Alonso over Hamilton
4 - Best Moment - Vettel th whole race
5 - Worst Driver - Nakajima and Hamilton (again a mistake when he touch grass)
6 - Worst Team - BMW & Mclaren
7 - Biggest Surprise - Donuts of hamilton (what happen in his mind ??¡'¿?¿'¿)
8 - General Comment - Good race and vettel give us a hope for a second part of season.

[damper]

1 - Best Driver - Vettel
2 - Best Team - Red bull
3 - Best Overtake- Alonso on Hamilton
4 - Best Moment - Battle between Alonso and Heidfeld
5 - Worst Driver -Nakajima
6 - Worst Team - Mclaren
7 - Biggest Surprise - Massa took 4th
8 - General Comment - Average race 5/10

[JoostLamers]

7 - Biggest Surprise - Donuts of hamilton (what happen in his mind ??¡'¿?¿'¿)

You have to appreciate his way of thanking his fans. This was one of the most spectacular things that happened on sunday there. The way he treats his fans is awesome for his fans (I know what I'm talking about here ). By the way, the last donut we saw was Kimi (Spa 07) after his win there, I think . And donuts are super awesome!

[TwistedArmco]

Donuts are cool, and it is cool that he did it for the fans, but they were kind of ironic donuts. It's not really something that you do, finish 16th and then do some donuts, a thing mostly associated with celebration. But oh well, it proves that he still has fight, something better proved however, by his racing. You can say what you like about him, he's still giving it 100% in that tank, as is Alonso in that taxi.

[blizzard]

Donuts are cool, and it is cool that he did it for the fans, but they were kind of ironic donuts. It's not really something that you do, finish 16th and then do some donuts, a thing mostly associated with celebration. But oh well, it proves that he still has fight, something better proved however, by his racing. You can say what you like about him, he's still giving it 100% in that tank, as is Alonso in that taxi.

Absolutely agree with you, but it´s funny how we call cars like the Renault or the McLaren in particular c**p cars, when they´re just about 1 second off the pace in qualifying.

Some years ago, the top ten were always seperated by 2 or 2,5 seconds in qualifying , sometimes you were third on the grid with a second behind the leader! Strange how things have changed hm?