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by phil1993 » 01 Nov 2009, 19:28
Favourite year:
Lets start with 2000: Quite a good year with some stunning races, Spa comes to mind. 2001 was alright, mainly technical issues blighted the season with some monster shunts at Hockenheim and Spa. 2002, bar Australia was just boring. 2003 was one of my favourite years because someone finally took the fight to Schumacher and Kimi drove brilliantly that year and Mercedes cost him the title. 2004 was nice, only Schumacher's 13 wins masked the brilliant racing behind him. 2005 was fantastic, the most races in a season, although we still had boring races. And we had the best race ever, Suzuka 2005. Alonso's move into 130r was breathtaking. 2006 was much the same at the start of the year, nice fight at the end and of course Australia, Hungary, Italy and Brazil were the best - very emotional in Monza, can't believe its been 3 seasons since Schumacher retired! 2007 was brilliant really, the emergence of a star in Hamilton, in Kubica and in Vettel. Fuji was one of the best races of the decade. A supreme drive. 2008 was the best year, action, drama and controversy and of course that final lap! Spa was a great race, soured by FIA decisions as was much of the year unfortunately. Monaco was good as was Australia and of course Silverstone. Another fantastic drive by Hamilton. We also saw change in new tracks and a night race and of course crashgate which unravelled in 2009. This year saw a fairytale complete, the new guys and the reject beating them all!
Car:
Well, the McLaren MP4/20 was a brilliant car, blighted by reliability sadly. The Brawn this year although I think 2005 had the nicest cars, the liverys were nice and the V10 engines for the final time
Driver: Montoya for taking it to Schumacher and not being afraid. Ultimately Schumacher was the best driver of the decade, followed by Alonso and Raikkonen. I would put Hamilton in 4th there.
Race:
My top 10 would be:
Monaco 2008, Australia 2008, Britain 2008, Brazil 2008, Brazil 2003, Belgium 2000, Japan 2005, Europe 2007, Hungary 2006, Australia 2006
Moments:
- When Hamilton went around Alonso in Melbourne 2007
- Cars spinning off in Europe 2007
- Winklehock leading that race!
- Kubica rolling, his horrifying crash
- Indygate, that terrible day
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