Rate the 2013 Spanish Grand Prix

Ferrari92 · Post by **Ferrari92** » 12 May 2013, 19:22

1 - Best Driver
2 - Best Team
3 - Best Overtake
4 - Best Moment
5 - Worst Driver
6 - Worst Team
7 - Best Rookie
8 - Biggest Surprise

9 - General Comment(s)

Post by **phil1993** » 12 May 2013, 19:36

1 - Best Driver
Fernando! Credit to Sutil as well.

2 - Best Team
Ferrari

3 - Best Overtake
Alonso on Hamilton

4 - Best Moment
Alonso winning

5 - Worst Driver
No one was truly dreadful

6 - Worst Team
Mercedes?

7 - Best Rookie
Steve Gutierrez

8 - Biggest Surprise
4 stops. Expected 3. Pace of Hamilton was awful

Eric_Cartman · Post by **Eric_Cartman** » 12 May 2013, 19:56

1 - Best Driver
Fernando Alonso

2 - Best Team
Ferrari

3 - Best Overtake
Vettel on Rosberg

4 - Best Moment
can't remember a special moment for me

5 - Worst Driver
Lewis Hamilton

6 - Worst Team
Mercedes

7 - Best Rookie
Gutierrez

8 - Biggest Surprise
Red Bull's slow race pace

9 - General Comment(s)
not as exciting as the first 4 races as usual in Barcelona. 6/10
Monaco is next!

donald29 · Post by **donald29** » 12 May 2013, 20:40

1 - Best Driver
Alonso

2 - Best Team
Ferrari. Just brilliant today; fastest car and most impressive for me was how the drivers pushed knowing they were 4 stopping. Red Bull dithered with Vettel, tried to 3 but just ended up on a slower 4 stop. Right call by Ferrari, wrong by Red Bull.

3 - Best Overtake
Raikkonen on Vettel.

4 - Best Moment
Massa's early charge, recovering from the penalty to join the pack.

5 - Worst Driver
Hamilton

6 - Worst Team
Williams

7 - Best Rookie
Gutierrez

8 - Biggest Surprise
Hamilton falling out the points and being so far behind Rosberg.

naiego · Post by **naiego** » 12 May 2013, 21:55

1 - Best Driver

Alonso

2 - Best Team

Ferrari, fast when they needed to be, that is on Sunday

3 - Best Overtake

Raikkonen on Vettel at the end of the start-finish straight

4 - Best Moment

Nothing special

5 - Worst Driver

Hamilton compared to what his teammate achieved

6 - Worst Team

Mercedes

7 - Best Rookie

Gutierez

8 - Biggest Surprise

Hamilton's perfeormance compared to Rosberg's

9 - General Comment(s)

The Catalunya GP is seldom thrilling, today's GP didn't break that rule. Tyres always played an important role in the championship but this year they do it in a wrong way because the drivers drive in a passive way in order to preserve them and not in an aggressive one which is what the fans want.
Off topic: Respect to my team Olympiacos for winning the Euroleague (against Real Madrid) in basketball for the second consecutive year.

F1EA · Post by **F1EA** » 13 May 2013, 01:39

1 - Best Driver
How about Massa. Despite a kinda dumb penalty, fought back and looked pretty good. Alonso was perfect, but Massa was really good.

2 - Best Team
Ferrari. Called everything perfect, had a great car.

3 - Best Overtake
Alonso on Kimi and Lewis

4 - Best Moment
Nothing stood out

5 - Worst Driver
Lewis Hamilton. Rosberg was comprehensibly better all weekend, but that means little; his race was just awful from lap 1 til the end.

6 - Worst Team
Mercedes. Should have learnt from Rosberg's last race! why compromise their races that much, just for pole?? They look like a team looking for sponsors.

7 - Best Rookie
Gutierrez. Fastest lap... on a race where even the leaders had to push. Not bad.

8 - Biggest Surprise
Red Bull attempting 3 stops... really? In Barcelona? Tsk tsk.

But actually, the biggest surprise was Sergio keeping behind Jenson... or rather, Mclaren telling him to "watch his tires". That was completely useless. Should have told Jenson to make it easy on Sergio, instead of the other way around.

9 - General Comment(s) 6/10. But an extra point for Alonso doing great at home.

Ferrari impressive. If not for Q... or for Mercedes showboating for front row, they would have looked even better.
Very strategic race. I liked it, but there was little action.

Ferrari running the mediums late in the race, and seeing how Vettel's strategy backfired just because they ran a couple extra laps on those tires, shows the value of strategy and why F1 is mind+muscle.

As for people calling on Pirelli... remember Heikki's tire failure in a Mclaren; THAT was dangerous. its the nature if this track. Caring for tires is nothing new.

Arrows_F1 · Post by **Arrows_F1** » 13 May 2013, 09:07

1 - Alonso
2 - Scuderia Ferrari
3 - Kimi on Vettel
4 - There was none
5 - Hamilton
6 - MGP & Williams
7 - Gutierrez
8 - Hamilton's "pace"

9 - General Comment(s) - 5/10

alex1369 · Post by **alex1369** » 13 May 2013, 10:15

1 - Alonso
2 - Scuderia Ferrari
3 - Kimi VS Vettel
4 - start
5 - Pic
6 - Mercedes, how the hell can this work. They have the fastest car on saturday, but on sunday its like someone swiched their cars with a Torro Rosso
7 - Gutierrez
8 - Ricciardo made some progress, While i already got used that Merc are going backwards...

9 - General Comment(s) - 5/10 was dull a bit

Joey Zyla · Post by **Joey Zyla** » 13 May 2013, 10:19

1 - Best Driver
Alonso, he was simply the most consistent driver all weekend and took a well-deserved victory.

2 - Best Team
Ferrari.

3 - Best Overtake
Alonso's opening lap overtake on Raikkonen and Hamilton around the outside of Turn 3 was absolutely brilliant.

4 - Best Moment
Alonso overtaking Rosberg. Not a particularly amazing overtake, but an important one nonetheless.

7 - Best Rookie
Gutierrez. I'll give a mention to Bianchi for recovering from a broken front wing early in the race to finish ahead of his teammate.

8 - Biggest Surprise
Mercedes going from a 1-2 start to a 6-12 finish.

9 - General Comment(s)
Not the best race I've seen, but still every bit as good as Bahrain. 7/10

mikhailv · Post by **mikhailv** » 13 May 2013, 13:44

1 - Best Driver- Alonso
2 - Best Team- Ferrari
3 - Best Overtake- Alonso on Raikkonen/Hamilton
4 - Best Moment- The home crowd cheering over the engines roaring
5 - Worst Driver- I dont know... Bottas?
6 - Worst Team- Williams
7 - Best Rookie- Gutierrez!
8 - Biggest Surprise- Not pitting kimi after the second stop, even though Alonso was taking just under 2 secs a lap out of him.

9 - General Comment(s)

Suntrek · Post by **Suntrek** » 13 May 2013, 14:26

1 - Best Driver
Alonso did what was necessary to win. He got himself in position by overtaking 2 in first lap, then he overtook Vettel in first round of pitstops ( Ferrari crew did brilliantly there, 2,5 sec stationary) and after that Rosberg was an easy target.

2 - Best Team

Ferrari. Both drivers on podium.

3 - Best Overtake

I'd say splitting this into "best TRUE overtake" and "best DRS overtake" would probably benefit. Best true overtake
of course Alonso on lap 1. The DRS ones I really can't be bothered with.

4 - Best Moment

Realizing the Ferrari pace here

5 - Worst Driver

Noone behaved like an idiot - so noone.

6 - Worst Team

as above

7 - Best Rookie

Gutierrez! Wished a point for him, he drove brilliantly and strategy was perfect.

8 - Biggest Surprise

How easily Alonso won the race. He did 2 overtakes (apart from first lap) - Vettel in pits and Rosberg on track and from there on it was no discussion.

9 - General Comment(s)
Practically everyone in tyre saving mode from lap 1 to end of race. Not good...

majidasadi · Post by **majidasadi** » 13 May 2013, 17:30

1 - Best Driver:Alonso
2 - Best Team:Ferrari
3 - Best Overtake:Alonso's move on Hamilton and Raikkonen at the beginning
4 - Best Moment:When Alonso came ahead of Vettel after first round of pit stops
5 - Worst Driver:No one
6 - Worst Team:Mercedes
7 - Best Rookie:Gutierrez
8 - Biggest Surprise:Hamilton finishing 12th

9 - General Comment(s):Average race,6/10.

Ferrari92 · Post by **Ferrari92** » 13 May 2013, 19:12

1 - Best Driver
Alonso and Massa

2 - Best Team
Ferrari

3 - Best Overtake
Alonso on Kimi and Lewis

4 - Best Moment
Both Ferraris on the podium

5 - Worst Driver
Lewis ?

6 - Worst Team
Mercedes

7 - Best Rookie
Gutierrez

8 - Biggest Surprise
Hamilton from 2 to 12

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