Rate the Malaysian Grand Prix

Rate the Malaysian Grand Prix

Poll ended at 19 Apr 2009, 13:43

5/5 (Half points awarded :p): Absolutely perfect.
6
11%
4.5/5: Superb race!
5
9%
4/5: A great race!
7
13%
3.5/5: Fun to watch
21
39%
3/5: Quite good.
5
9%
2.5/5: Average.
6
11%
2/5: Sub-par.
1
2%
1.5/5: Barely worth watching.
1
2%
1/5: Boring.
0
No votes
0.5/5: Atrocious!
2
4%
 
Total votes: 54

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Rate the Malaysian Grand Prix

Post by phil1993 » 05 Apr 2009, 13:43

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

1. Jenson Button/Timo Glock
2. Brawn GP/Toyota
3. Button on Alonso, Lap 1
4. Podium
5. Raikkonen
6. Ferrari
7. Race not restarting
8. A good race, but I'm surprised the race didnt restart or get rescheduled for tomorrow
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Re: Rate the Malaysian Grand Prix

Post by Jaguar » 05 Apr 2009, 13:50

Rated : Fun to Watch

1 - Best Driver - Nico Rosberg
2 - Best Team - BMW (Strategy)
3 - Best Overtake - Mark Webber and Alonso
4 - Best Moment - Webber P3 :P
5 - Worst Driver - Kovalainen
6- Worst Team - Ferrari
7 - Biggest Surprise - Nico jumping to lead on start :D
8 - General Comment - a word to FIA , just never think again of delaying the race start an hour unless it was some better cause ..

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Re: Rate the Malaysian Grand Prix

Post by coup » 05 Apr 2009, 13:51

1 - Best Driver- Glock
2 - Best Team- Toyota
3 - Best Overtake- hamilton v webber
4 - Best Moment- when the rain started to properly come down
5 - Worst Driver- Raikkonen
6- Worst Team- Ferrari
7 - Biggest Surprise- Ferrari messing up with the tyre choice for raikkonen
8 - General Comment- good race, the threat of heavy rain built the tension nicely, suprised ferrari felt the need to gamble with raikkonens strategy, heidfeld did well to only need to do one stop
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Re: Rate the Malaysian Grand Prix

Post by Mitsuro Sano » 05 Apr 2009, 13:54

1 - Best Driver ---> Mark Webber
2 - Best Team ---> Toyota
3 - Best Overtake ---> Webber on Hamilton, greatest battle of the race in my opinion
4 - Best Moment ---> Rosberg taking the lead :D
5 - Worst Driver ---> Kovalainen
6- Worst Team ---> The FIA and Bernie
7 - Biggest Surprise ---> Rain....Rain....Rain!!
8 - General Comment

The race was pretty nice, but the FIA could have stop the race before the 2 hours mark..... It was clear that the race couldn't be restarted because of the darkness and the rain....

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Re: Rate the Malaysian Grand Prix

Post by TheViewer » 05 Apr 2009, 13:59

1 - Best Driver: Timo Glock - he called the strategy just right and was looking very strong.
2 - Best Team: Brawn - they won the race, had the pace, and got their pitwall calls spot on to hold onto the position.
3 - Best Overtake - Button on Alonso, lap 1. Button needed to get ahead and did just that.
4 - Best Moment - Raikkonen in shorts eating an ice cream.
5 - Worst Driver - Nakajima, only because I don't remember seeing him all race.
6- Worst Team - Ferrari, horrible strategy for Raikkonen.
7 - Biggest Surprise - Rosberg taking the lead at the start.
8 - General Comment - It was assumed that it would be risky to start the race late, and it proved correct. Shame that we didn't get a very long race (worse for the people who paid for tickets at the track) but it was exciting nevertheless.
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Re: Rate the Malaysian Grand Prix

Post by Haukinen » 05 Apr 2009, 14:11

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

1 - Nick Heidfeld
2 - Toyota
3 - Webber vs Hamilton
4 - It started to rain
5 - Sebastian Buemi
6 - Ferrari
7 - Kimi full wet tires
8 - Cool race, but it should have been a little bit longer
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Re: Rate the Malaysian Grand Prix

Post by TwistedArmco » 05 Apr 2009, 14:37

1 - Best Driver
I can't decide!
The candidates to me are Rosberg, Heidfeld, Glock and Button. I'm going for Rosberg. He did everything right in that first stint.
- Rosberg for his amazing start and super pace in the first stint. He was really unlucky with the rain and his pitstops, and deserved way more than half a point for his great weekend. (Alonso's start was even better and he couldn't really help falling down the order in a car that had no right to be 3rd whatsoever, so he's only not on this list due to his spin.)
- Heidfeld for telling the team to put the right tyres on him and for preserving them. What is it about Heidfeld and rain? He does so well when everyone else loses their head and makes too many stops.
- Glock for his searing pace on inters and wets, streaming through the field.
- Button for a generally superb performance, fastest in the dry-weather fastest car, in the wet and in the dry.
2 - Best Team
Toyota for improving the car almost to Brawn's level.
3 - Best Overtake
Button on Alonso on lap 1 or Barrichello on Trulli around T5-6 on lap 25 or so.
4 - Best Moment
Superb battle between Alonso and Webber/Superb battle between Hamilton and Webber/Heavy rain/Rosberg and Alonso's starts/Rosberg's first stint.
5 - Worst Driver
For me, no one stood out, but I'm going to go for Kovalainen if he genuinely spun out by himself, although in fairness that looked like it could have been mechanical.
6- Worst Team
Ferrari - awful decisions over the weekend, no hope. Desperation.
7 - Biggest Surprise
The rain actually coming, or the mega starts from ALO and ROS.

8 - General Comment
I liked the race. :) I think the dry part was very fun, the wet part was chaotic and both together make a 9 out of 10 - then subtract 1 for the anticlimax. So make that 8/10.

I loved the first stint, particularly because of Alonso and Rosbergs' starts - I mean 4th to 1st and 9th to 3rd!! Amazing, not just because of the speed, but because of how canny they were in choosing the inside line.

There was some amazing cut and thrust racing between Alonso, Button, Barrichello, Webber and Glock, and also some great Vettel overtaking when it was dry. Add that to the wet weather overtakes from Webber and Hamilton (mainly on each other) Glock blasting his way through everyone, Barrichello making his way around people and lots of harmless but entertaining spins and you can see why I loved this race so much.

Unfortunately, the anticlimatic finish ruined it slightly - I think the decisions should have been made earlier to call it off, since it clearly wasn't going to give them more than 15 minutes of racing at any point after the red flag. Maybe an hour earlier for the start of the race would indeed have been wise. :O

Overall though it was still a very interesting and memorable Grand Prix. Brawn's pace was astonishing. It's like the Ferrari domination of the early 2000s. I'm glad its so competative otherwise, and I still hope that we'll see either some mistakes from the Brawn team at some point, or some other teams gain form at a certain type of track in order to get (even) more unpredictable results.

So:

Malaysia - 8/10
Australia - 7/10
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Re: Rate the Malaysian Grand Prix

Post by Tommi » 05 Apr 2009, 15:15

1 - Best Driver : Timo Glock
2 - Best Team : Toyota
3 - Best Overtake : Raikkonen on Alonso
4 - Best Moment : Rob Smedley and Felipe Massa conversation :lol:
5 - Worst Driver : Kovalainen
6- Worst Team : Ferrari
7 - Biggest Surprise :
8 - General Comment : Very disappointing that they didn't continue the race. Because of that, my rating to this GP is only 5/10.
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Post by Zack » 05 Apr 2009, 15:37

Rated : Quite good.

1 - Best Driver - Nick :)
2 - Best Team - BMW & Brawn
3 - Best Overtake - Mark Webber - Alonso circus :lol:
4 - Best Moment - (((Felipe baby! calm down...))) :lol:
5 - Worst Driver - Kovalainen
6- Worst Team - Ferrari & FI
7 - Biggest Surprise - Kimi switch to wet tires * * *
8 - General Comment - echo
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Post by sejtur » 05 Apr 2009, 15:42

1 - Vettel
2 - Brawn GP
3 - Kimi on Alonso
4 - The fights between the drivers, nothing particularly
5 - Buemi?
6- Force India
7 - The heavy rain
8 - It was a really fun race to watch, with alot of overtaking. The rule changes have paid off. Good. :)
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Post by JoostLamers » 05 Apr 2009, 15:51

1 - Best Driver - Button, Glock, Rosberg
2 - Best Team - BGP
3 - Best Overtake - Webber, Hamilton, and again, and again :p
4 - Best Moment - Massa crying about his helmet :lol:
5 - Worst Driver - Heikki
6- Worst Team - Ferrari
7 - Biggest Surprise - Vettel spinning in the rain
8 - General Comment - A shame that they couldn't finish the race, but I expected it..

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Post by raikkonen4ever » 05 Apr 2009, 15:51

1 - Best Driver - Jenson Button and Timo Glock
2 - Best Team - Toyota
3 - Best Overtake - Webber on Alonso, Alonso on Webber and Webber on Alonso again :p
4 - Best Moment - Seeing Raikkonen eat an ice cream
5 - Worst Driver - Kovalainen, the victim of first lap for 2 races in a row
6 - Worst Team - Ferrari
7 - Biggest Surprise - Raikkonen and his new engineer made a dull strategy again!
8 - General Comment :
"The race director took too much time to decide whether the race will be restarted or not, and they have to think to switch Malaysia race back to it's usual race time. I give this race worth of 3/5".
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Post by shailf1 » 05 Apr 2009, 15:52

1 - Best Driver
most of the driver performed their most i believe it was all down to strategy.. mostly with hiedfield and glock..

2 - Best Team
Toyota for getting that call right with glock and BMw for hiedfiels..

3 - Best Overtake
They were lots and others might disagree but for me it was massa overtaking hamilton at turn 4

4 - Best Moment
When it starting raining..

5 - Worst Driver
Heikki made a fatal error so he might be the one..

6- Worst Team
No options in this one.. has to be ferrari for their poor descision making in quali and in the race..

7 - Biggest Surprise
Lets see...The start with Alonso making it to third and the race not restarting after the red flag..

8 - General Comment
Was on the way to be a memorial and exciting race... in the end became memorable but not as exciting as it could be...
Felt like watching a Gp2 race

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Post by HamiltonF1 » 05 Apr 2009, 16:12

1 - Best Driver: Got to say Timo Glock altough Mark Webber did very well to
2 - Best Team: BrawnGP simply because Button won and Barrichello got some points to.
3 - Best Overtake Webber driving around Heidfeld.
4 - Best Moment: Ferrari making a fool of them selve by giving Kimi full wets, he was 5th you know!
5 - Worst Driver: Heikki c'mon m8 you've had your learning moments know its time to do something, Melbourne was not your fault this was.
6- Worst Team: Force India
7 - Biggest Surprise: Rain
8 - General Comment: I have the feeling I haven't watch a race and know we have to wait 2 more weeks. Time for Ferrari Mclaren and Renault to work on the car because the Diffusers will be legal.
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Post by MP4/4#12 » 05 Apr 2009, 16:23

Best Driver
Glock

Best Team
Brawn

Best overtake
Webber-Alonso/ Alonso-Webber/ Webber-Alonso

Best moment
Kimi putting wet tyres ; I was in disbelief watching it.....

Worst driver
I would say Heikki but he didnt drove today so....

Worst Team
Unbelieveble a few months back but Ferrari and Mclaren

Biggest surprise
Yeah, Kimi with wet tyres again, how stupid was that ?

General coment
Confirmation of the Brawn pace, with Button smooth maturity, Toyota is very well indeed, cars and engine supplier to Williams;Felt sorry for Kubica, he and Vettel are loosing precious points for the title fight. If this was Hamilton`s 1st season how would he be rated ? The "God" that fans keep saying he is ? This Mclaren is the weakest in years and he`s not so impressive now is he ? Just a thought guys, dont want to start a war.

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