Rate the 2009 Belgian Grand Prix

[gregg1966]

1 - Best Driver - Fisichella´s great perfomance
2 Best Team - Force India,good result for BMW
3 - Best Overtake - Barrichello on Webber
4 - Best Moment - crash in first lap at Les Combes
5 - Worst Driver - Luca Badoer and Grosjean
6 - Worst Team - Toyota failure,Renault
7 - Best Rookie - Sebastien Buemi
8 - Biggest Surprise - Force India pace,Fisi could win ,but KERS system played decisive role in this fast circuit,Kimi with this had great start,and used this "magic button"when did spectacular manouevre on Fisichella behind Eau Rouge in long fast straight
9 - General Comment - A great race ,maybe the best in this season,Spa is one of the classic ciurcuits. There´s speculation about replacing Badoer in next race in Monza, (Giancarlo Fisichella is one of the adepts).KERS will be there again significant advantage.
I give 7.5 for this race

[kimifantuga]

1- kimi raikkonen---start 6. finish winner---kers help, but kimi moves was fantastics...so so close on eua rouge
2- force india---last team on start of the season, took tha pole and fight for the win
3- kimi on fisichella
4- kimi start
5- badoer
6- brawn...barrichello was 4 on qualify, but was the lightest man!!!
7- buemi
8- the bad qualify for button and mclarens
9- king of the spa will win again this season????? ;)

[hitman007]

1 Best Driver - Kimi Raikkonen
2 Best Team - Force India *GREAT JOB u deserve it especially to the engineers*
3 Best Overtake - Kimi on Gancarlo
4 Best Moment - i have 2 BEST MOMENTS...first when Kimi overtook Gancarlo...2nd when i saw Lewis and Button out of the race from the first lap xD *it's all becuz of Button if he didn't spin*
5 - Worst Driver - Luca Badoer * i hope he has something under his sleeve*
6 - Worst Team - Toyota
7 - Best Rookie - Sebstian Vettle
8 - Biggest Surprise - when i saw Gancarlo starting 1st place and after the race started Rubens stalling *didn't expect that from him...but he fought back*
9 - General Comment - WHAT A RACE...I LUVD IT...amazing race especially the 1st and 4th lap...also when Kimi and Gancarlo went into the pits for the 2nd time...i was on my feet...it was sOoOoOoOoOooOo CLOSE !!!!!

[TwistedArmco]

1 - Best Driver
Given that Fisi had seemingly the best car bar KERS, I'm narrowly going for Kimi for his opening 5 laps, although Fisi gets a worthy second, honorable mention and a huge deal of credit.
2 - Best Team
Force India - where the hell did they pull this kind of pace from?
3 - Best Overtake
I initially said: "Probably Kimi on Fisi given that it won him the race." Now I think Heidfeld on Webber after the pitstops in the audacious move around the outside into Les Combes.
4 - Best Moment
All the time it looked like Fisi was going to win.
5 - Worst Driver
Possibly... Grosjean? F1's not easy, is it mate?
6 - Worst Team
Toyota. So slow.
7 - Best Rookie
Buemi. Because the other two lasted two corners.
8 - Biggest Surprise
Fisi.

9 - General Comment
It was actually a really good race, a sleeper hit, one worth watching again on YT or somewhere in 5 years time. It was interesting, light relief (in terms of the championship not changing much) and as a whole race weekend, rather an anomaly as well. The first laps were quality, and the rest were filled with the battle at the front, the closeness of the top 8 and many good overtakes and incidents further downfield.

China - 9/10
Belgium - 8/10 - It was very good, it was intriguing. This makes 4/5 great races at Belgium in the last 5 races there (2007 being the odd one out).
Malaysia - 8/10
Australia - 8/10 - (I think I was too harsh on Australia at the time because I thought that it would pale in comparison to other races later in the year. It was probably as good as Australia 2008, to which I also gave an 8, I believe)
Germany - 7/10
Hungary - 6/10
Britain - 6/10
Bahrain - 6/10
Spain - 6/10
Monaco - 6/10
Valencia - 5/10
Turkey - 4/10

[kenny09]

1 - Best Driver - Fisichella, deserved to win for Force India, what a story!
2 - Best Team - Force India
3 - Best Overtake - Raikonnen on Fisichella after the safety car restart
4 - Best Moment - Barrichello's car literally on fire!
5 - Worst Driver - Badoer; his shortform name sums it up...
6 - Worst Team - Toro Rosso?
7 - Best Rookie - Sebastian Buemi
8 - Biggest Surprise - Force India and BMWs pace
9 - General Comment - Great race, threw up lots of surprises

[20simao]

well, it looks like we have to post, otherwise, acount suspended...

1 - Best Driver - probably Fisichella. Although a big part comes from the car, we have to see for instance that Sutil didn't reach q1...
2 - Best Team - Force India.. what an improvement!
3 - Best Overtake - Barrichello on someone.. looking at other comments, i think it was Webber
4 - Best Moment - There were quite a few, thnks to eau rouge
5 - Worst Driver - the inevitable.. Luca Badoer. But i have to say, for instance Nkajima doesn´t deserve to be in F1. This track separates boys from men, and we could see like Nakajima isn´t agressive enough. I dont wanna sound racist or somethin, but, as always, japanese driver = bad driver.
6 - Worst Team - i have to say Renault because they are ruining THE BEST DRIVER IN THE GRID's carreer.. weel, hope not, because i hope he gets a better car in the future
7 - Best Rookie - well, it has to be buemi, because grosjean and alguesuari didn´t complete the first lap lol
8 - Biggest Surprise - force india's pace

9 - General Comment, i have to say, i hope there were more circuits like Spa in F1. I'm tired of boring races without any overtaking maneuvers. I wonder what its gonna be like in 2010, without pit-stops? Even more boring races??

[TwistedArmco]

well, it looks like we have to post, otherwise, acount suspended...

Actually mate, only people with 0 posts are getting deleted. You have nada to worry about.

[Valour]

1 - Best Driver - Kimi, sure his KERS helped but he did well to keep that Force India ahead of him. Great drive by Fisi also.
2 Best Team - Force India
3 - Best Overtake - Barrichello on Webber
4 - Best Moment - First lap mayhem
5 - Worst Driver - Luca Badoer
6 - Worst Team - Renault
7 - Best Rookie - Sebastien Buemi by default
8 - Biggest Surprise - Pace of Force India, shame Sutil didn't qualify higher, he would have been right up there.
9 - General Comment - I wish every race was at Spa. Epic track, just love it.

[Flav787]

1 - Best Driver : Raikkonen - Giancarlo had a quicker car, so have to give it to Kimi (though just think if we hadn't had a SC......)
2 - Best Team : Force India - Wow!
3 - Best Overtake : Kimi at the start
4 - Best Moment : Button in the wall!
5 - Worst Driver : Ciao Luca
6 - Worst Team : STR - Really poor compared to '08
7 - Best Rookie : None
8 - Biggest Surprise : Force India, given that Giancarlo only won 2 races for Renault we can only wonder how good that car really is

9 - General Comment : Luca is a F3000 champ - such a shame to see him struggle like this + Let's have 17 races a year at tracks were they can overtake please!!!

[Scuderi]

1 - Best Driver: Kimi Raikkonen
2 - Best Team: Ferrari
3 - Best Overtake: Raikkonen on Fisichella
4 - Best Moment: Start and first lap
5 - Worst Driver: Romain Grosjean
6 - Worst Team: Renault
7 - Best Rookie: Sebastian Buemi
8 - Biggest Surprise: Giancarlo Fisichella

9 - General Comment: My first F1 visit! It was great! This circuit should never leave the F1 calendar.