Rate the 2009 Spanish Grand Prix

Rate the Spanish Grand Prix

Poll ended at 23 May 2009, 14:15

10/10 Absolutely perfect.
1
2%
9/10: Superb race!
1
2%
8/10 A great race!
2
4%
7/10: Fun to watch.
4
8%
6/10 Quite good.
17
33%
5/10: Average.
6
12%
4/10 Sub-par.
5
10%
3/10: Barely worth watching.
7
14%
2/10: Boring.
6
12%
1/10: Atrocious!
2
4%
 
Total votes: 51

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Re: Rate the 2009 Spanish Grand Prix

Post by igla » 10 May 2009, 19:35

1 - Best Driver - Button
2 - Best Team - Brawn
3 - Best Overtake -
4 - Best Moment - First turn
5 - Worst Driver - nelsinho piquet
6 - Worst Team - Ferrari
7 - Biggest Surprise - ferrari last lap:)
8 - General Comment - boring race!!

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Re: Rate the 2009 Spanish Grand Prix

Post by Califax » 10 May 2009, 19:50

GRAN PREMIO DE ESPANA TELEFONICA 2009

1 - Best Driver - Jenson Button
2 - Best Team - Brawn GP
3 - Best Overtake - Webber/Alonso after restart
4 - Best Moment - Button senior screaming: 4!!!
5 - Worst Driver - Bourdais
6 - Worst Team - Ferrari
7 - Biggest Surprise - Webber's 2nd stint
8 - General Comment - Average race

6/10

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Re: Rate the 2009 Spanish Grand Prix

Post by sejtur » 10 May 2009, 20:08

Rachael-The-Great wrote:1 - Webber and Button
2 - Brawn and Red Bull
3 - Alonso and Webber battle.
4 - There kinda wasn't one.
5 - Raikkonen, give it up mate.
6 - Toro Rosso.
7 - The crash at the start and the fact only 14 cars finished.
8 - Pretty boring tbh. The only good bit was the start.
What was so bad about Kimi that you made him the worst driver? Doesn't make any sense to me. SMH
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Re: Rate the 2009 Spanish Grand Prix

Post by Richards19 » 10 May 2009, 20:20

1 - Best Driver - still Button
2 - Best Team - still Brawn GP
3 - Best Overtake - they had no good overtaking during this race
4 - Best Moment - Alonso leave the pits in front of Hamilton
5 - Worst Driver - Piquet
6 - Worst Team - McLaren
7 - Biggest Surprise - Massa reduce his speed at the end of the race
8 - General Comment - bbbooorrring

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Re: Rate the 2009 Spanish Grand Prix

Post by Tommi » 10 May 2009, 22:51

sejtur wrote:What was so bad about Kimi that you made him the worst driver? Doesn't make any sense to me. SMH
Yeah, Kimi started from P16 and was P10 when he got technical problems. I can't understand how someone can see him as the worst driver of this GP.

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Re: Rate the 2009 Spanish Grand Prix

Post by newtrex » 10 May 2009, 23:25

1 - Best Driver - Webber (Where did he come from?)
2 - Best Team - Brawn
3 - Best Overtake - Alonso / Webber
4 - Best Moment - Ferrari "Fuel consumption on last lap was very high; you have to save fuel"; Massa "I am fighting for position; what do i do?" LOL
5 - Worst Driver - Glock
6 - Worst Team - Toyota
7 - Biggest Surprise - Accident on 1st lap; Massa and Kimi start (Both without KERS boost)
8 - General Comment - Boring race, reminded me of Ferrari dominance (Should be good though)
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Re: Rate the 2009 Spanish Grand Prix

Post by syafiqa » 11 May 2009, 00:14

Tommi wrote:
sejtur wrote:What was so bad about Kimi that you made him the worst driver? Doesn't make any sense to me. SMH
Yeah, Kimi started from P16 and was P10 when he got technical problems. I can't understand how someone can see him as the worst driver of this GP.
Agreed. It is just because he cant finish his race, so u classsified him as a worst driver. :huh:
Huh..its truly does'nt make sense anymore.
:confused:
He has forced to retired. :<>:

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Re: Rate the 2009 Spanish Grand Prix

Post by TwistedArmco » 11 May 2009, 00:22

1 - Best Driver
I'm neither a Massa nor a Ferrari fan, but I'd say Massa. I know he ran out of fuel, but it shows how hard he's pushing in that poor Ferrari, and he troubled the podium for a time.
Special mention to Button, cos he was great, Webber, ditto, and Alonso, very solid with two amazing manouvres (even if only 1 gained him a place).
2 - Best Team
Brawn for regaining the advantage.
3 - Best Overtake
Alonso on Massa. I know Massa was slow, but it was so lairy the way he went off the track to get in front before the corner. Hamilton on Piquet was more KERS on Piquet than anything else, and Webber and Alonso can't really be called an overtake..
4 - Best Moment
However, that was one of the best moments, that Webber/Alonso scrap. Plus the start accident was super-cool.
5 - Worst Driver
Nakajima. Can't seem to string a race together like he could last year. Hamilton, Kubica and Glock are candidates.
6 - Worst Team
McLaren by a mile. So slow.
7 - Biggest Surprise
A decent start crash, the first really good start crash since Turkey 2006.

8 - General Comment
It was a strategy fest, but still fun to see where people came out. If Barrichello and Webber had been closer to Button that would have made a great finale on top of Massa's fuel issue. But it's wasn't so great.

The Alonso/Webber scrap was amazing - Alonso had two wheels on the grass at 200mph and then Webber's dive back through was so lairy. Amazing stuff. :)

China - 9/10
Malaysia - 8/10
Australia - 7/10
Bahrain - 6/10
Spain - 6/10 - Not quite as good as Bahrain, and nowhere near the other GPs, but it was still interesting, with the Brawns infighting, Massa as the rogue element and the two different strategies.

EDIT: I would also say that this was the best Spanish Grand Prix in years, not by a long way, but by two clear points (2004 = 4/10, 2005 = 4/10, 2006 = 4/10, 2007 = 3/10, 2008 = 3/10, 2009 = 6/10). the race had a plot and a certain amount of action with the first corner, the battles between Alonso/Webber, Kubica/Raikkonen, Massa/people, and the excitement and competativeness of the lead 6's races.. There were 2 distinct battles (1st-6th, 7th-12th) and those battles didn't spread out too much and had enough variation of strategy to be mildly interesting.
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Re: Rate the 2009 Spanish Grand Prix

Post by redmpav » 11 May 2009, 02:12

1 - Best Driver: Webber
2 - Best Team: Brawn
3 - Best Overtake: Webber on Alonso
4 - Best Moment: Jenson crossing the finish line
5 - Worst Driver: Sutil
6 - Worst Team: Ferrari
7 - Biggest Surprise: Ferrari forgetting to fuel Massa
8 - General Comment: It appears the rules change did not help as was expected

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Re: Rate the 2009 Spanish Grand Prix

Post by palino » 11 May 2009, 04:45

1 - Best Driver: Barrichello
2 - Best Team: Brawn
3 - Best Overtake: Webber and Alonso
4 - Best Moment: RB and FM performance
5 - Worst Driver: Vettel
6 - Worst Team: Ferrari
7 - Biggest Surprise: Ferrari Fuel strategy
8 - General Comment: Barrichello was better (today), Ross take gift for Jenson

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Re: Rate the 2009 Spanish Grand Prix

Post by HamiltonF1 » 11 May 2009, 12:12

1 - Best Driver: Mark Webber
2 - Best Team: BrawnGP
3 - Best Overtake: Alonso on Webber and than Webber back on Alonso
4 - Best Moment: Radio with Massa about the fuel problem. ' What do you want me to do?' I'm defending my posistion'
5 - Worst Driver: Piquet was pretty random again
6 - Worst Team: Toro Rosso but that was bad luck
7 - Biggest Surprise: There wasn't so that made this race avarage.
8 - General Comment: Tbh the most boring race this season but ah well I dont really care.
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Re: Rate the 2009 Spanish Grand Prix

Post by Rachael The Great » 11 May 2009, 15:41

syafiqa wrote:
Tommi wrote:
sejtur wrote:What was so bad about Kimi that you made him the worst driver? Doesn't make any sense to me. SMH
Yeah, Kimi started from P16 and was P10 when he got technical problems. I can't understand how someone can see him as the worst driver of this GP.
Agreed. It is just because he cant finish his race, so u classsified him as a worst driver. :huh:
Huh..its truly does'nt make sense anymore.
:confused:
He has forced to retired. :<>:
calm down.
i forgot about race positions. so i apologise. sorry kimi, and syafiqa, Tommi and sejtur. :( i do actually feel bad now. i'll change it.
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Re: Rate the 2009 Spanish Grand Prix

Post by Suntrek » 11 May 2009, 17:05

1 - Best Driver
Button and Alonso. Button for not putting a foot wrong the whole race and Alonso for being strong enough to place a hopeless Clio as "best of the rest".

2 - Best Team
Brawn. Hands down.

3 - Best Overtake
Webber/Alonso fight. Really tough, really good fighting! Brilliant from both. :thumbsup:

4 - Best Moment
When I realised Massa had not enough fuel onboard...Absolutely nothing against Massa, I really like him and he'd deserved better, but one man's death is another man's bread...(Swedish saying, but you get the idea - sorry Felipe baby)

5 - Worst Driver
Don't think anyone was bad, but I expected a bit more from Rosberg, he had a great strategy being more heavily fuelled than anyone else in top ten but nothing came out of it.

6 - Worst Team
Ferrari. What ARE they doing? Kimi out in Q1, cars breaking down by the minute, no fuel in Massa's car...Shall I go on? :blink:

7 - Biggest Surprise
Massa running out of fuel.

8 - General Comment
I know Barcelona has a reputation for being boring, but I wasn't bored at all... :cool:
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Re: Rate the 2009 Spanish Grand Prix

Post by megasyxx » 11 May 2009, 17:38

1 - Best Driver - jenson button obviously
2 - Best Team - brawn gp team obviously
3 - Best Overtake - none to mention
4 - Best Moment - chequered flag
5 - Worst Driver - none to mention
6 - Worst Team - mclaren obviously
7 - Biggest Surprise - mclaren worse than before
8 - General Comment - brawn are definitely strong, jenson for wdc and brawn for wcc unless something goes really wrong for them.
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Re: Rate the 2009 Spanish Grand Prix

Post by blizzard » 11 May 2009, 19:42

1 - Best Driver - JB, great season so far, 4 victories and not the slightest driver error, not even in qualifying. Top notch
2 - Best Team - Brawn, the "big" teams talked the talk, but Brawn walked the walk.
3 - Best Overtake - Not really an overtaking, but Alonso on Hamilton, when Fernando came out of the pits.
4 - Best Moment - The Alonso - Webber fight and the Kimi - Heidfeld fight.
5 - Worst Driver - Sutil, he ran full throttle over the runoff area straight into Trulli and blamed Jarno afterwards. Sutil you stupid man!
6 - Worst Team - McLaren, awful car.
7 - Biggest Surprise - The huge start crash and of course the fuel tragedy with Massa´s car.
8 - General Comment - One of the best Spanish GPs in years, Brawn a little surprisingly still very much on top. Webber finally managed to beat Vettel, the F60B is quite good and the McLaren is still awful aerodynamically. Monaco might be much tighter, I expect Hamilton, Heidfeld and Alonso to be spot on there. Vettel and Brawn fighting for the win again.
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