Rate the 2011 Japanese Grand Prix

[phil1993]

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)

No race report today, maybe one mid-week.

[hamilton10000]

1-Button
2-Mclaren
3-Sutil around the outside at turn 1
4-?
5-Buemi
6-HRT
7-Perez
8-Button winning

[DJDisco]

1 - Best Driver - Jenson Button and Michael Schumacher
2 - Best Team - Red Bull or McLaren
3 - Best Overtake - Jenson on Schumacher!
4 - Best Moment - Button winning the race!
5 - Worst Driver - Tonio Liuzzi
6 - Worst Team - HRT
7 - Best Rookie - Sergio Perez - fastest lap till Jenson took it!
8 - Biggest Surprise - Michael Schumacher leading the race!

[JoostLamers]

1 - Best Driver - Button, one of his best
2 - Best Team - McLaren, I think they had the package
3 - Best Overtake - Rosberg on..? At the hairpin
4 - Best Moment - Knowing that Button would win
5 - Worst Driver - Senna
6 - Worst Team - Williams
7 - Best Rookie - Perez
8 - Biggest Surprise - Couldn't see another winner than Vettel, so Button and Alonso in the first 2 spots is quite a surprise to me

9 - General Comment(s) - not much special 6/10

[dacer]

1 - Best Driver
JB!!!. Alo, awesome too. Koba, nice race too, his homerace

2 - Best Team
Not sure, not Ferrari, not RBR, and Mclaren good work, but one of his drivers fails.

3 - Best Overtake
When you see the diferent between a man and a boy, a crashbov. Great JB.

4 - Best Moment
Final laps purchase, and Alo vs Vet

5 - Worst Driver
Crashboy

6 - Worst Team
7 - Best Rookie
8 - Biggest Surprise

9 - General Comment(s)

[phil1993]

1 - Best Driver
Three drivers really stood out today. Jenson Button (again) deserves huge credit for his performance and finally winning that dry race! Fernando Alonso was quiet but efficient in dragging the Ferrari to places it didn't deserve to be, whilst Sergio Perez had awful flu all weekend and went from 17th to 8th on a demanding circuit.

2 - Best Team
McLaren really had good upgrades - a stable front end helped by the new rear wing. But then again, Red Bull did precisely what was needed. Kudos to Team Lotus for finishing on the lead lap with both cars

3 - Best Overtake
Sutil on, I think, Kobayashi into 130r. Was given little room and kept his foot in it

4 - Best Moment
Probably all the post-race celebrations. The race itself had few moments where there was a wow factor

5 - Worst Driver
A few drivers were mediocre: Hamilton, Massa, Kobayashi but Liuzzi was the only driver to actually make a mistake and he's being outclassed by Ricciardo

6 - Worst Team
Williams utterly anonymous yet again, but Toro Rosso were equally poor and made a basic error in the pits

7 - Best Rookie
Perez

8 - Biggest Surprise
Button's pace. Relentlessly quick all weekend long

9 - General Comment(s)
Suzuka - great track but not really great for high-octane racing. Still a classic circuit though

[Zack]

1 - Best Driver - Button ..... Perez gr8 race despite hving flu
2 - Best Team - McLaren but q3 blunders did no good !!
3 - Best Overtake - lot of 130r
4 - Best Moment - Schumi - Vettel on slow down lap.. *emotional*
5 - Worst Driver - Bruno
6 - Worst Team - Williams
7 - Best Rookie - Perez
8 - Biggest Surprise - Schumacher leading <3 ...darn i m waiting for 92nd

9 - General Comment(s) - Suzuka is always special for someone and today it was Button, Vettel and Japan.

BBC forum was good today except vettel being asked same thing again n again

[ovviamente]

1 Best Driver
Jenson Button. Sebastian's Vettel defence at the start was impressive, no matter what people say. Michael Schumacher has proved that he's closer and closer to being his old self.

2 Best Team
Hate to say it but McLaren were excellent this weekend.

3 Best Overtake
Adrian Sutil on Kamui Kobyashi into 130r.

4 Best Moment
The moment between Michael and Seb during the parade lap was emotional to watch.

5 Worst Driver
Felipe Massa's driving was poor again. Lewis Hamilton was also surprisingly slow considering his pace during the start of the weekend.

6 Worst Team
Williams have performed awfully this weekend.

7 Best Rookie
Sergio Perez was on fire!

8 Biggest Surprise
Michael finally leading another race. Just hope it can last for longer next time.

9 General Comment(s)
A lot of tears for me watching Seb take his second championship. The BBC did an excellent job on the forum.

[starbright]

1 - Best Driver
BUT
2 - Best Team
McLaren
3 - Best Overtake
Nothing special here
4 - Best Moment
BUT overtake VET and starts to lead the race
5 - Worst Driver
HAM once again
6 - Worst Team
...
7 - Best Rookie
PER
8 - Biggest Surprise
VET didn't win this Grand Prix

[Eric_Cartman]

1 Best Driver
Jenson Button and Michael Schumacher

2 Best Team
Mclaren

3 Best Overtake
Hamilton on Massa

4 Best Moment
The finish. Second title for Vettel

5 Worst Driver
Liuzzi

6 Worst Team
Williams

7 Best Rookie
Sergio Perez

8 Biggest Surprise
Schumacher leading the race. I'd like to see that more often

9 General Comment(s)
a decent race, but I think Korea is going to be more exciting because DRS will produce many overtakings there. 7/10

[naiego]

1 - Best Driver

Button, solid drive from him, kept his cool at the beginning, managed to stay close to Vettel in the early stage of the race and finally won it with ease.

2 - Best Team

McLaren, they were faster and proved that all through the weekend except for those 0,009's of a second in qualifying


3 - Best Overtake

Sutil on Kobayashi


4 - Best Moment

The finish, Button winner on his girlfriends' home soil (at least one half of her home soil) and Vettel second time world champion in a row.

5 - Worst Driver

For me that would be Hamilton given the fact that he had the best car this weekend and yet he couldn't perform a decent race. In fact this is the first time this year that he was overshadowed by his team-mate in terms of race pace. All the previous times that he finished behind Button he could find a reasonable excuse (penalties, crashes, poor starts, bad qualifying sessions) but today he can't.


6 - Worst Team

Williams once more.


7 - Best Rookie

Perez, I wonder if he will be in Ferrari next year instead of 2013.


8 - Biggest Surprise

Kobayashi's absence from the top-10.

9 - General Comment(s)

Suzuka GP isn't one of the most exciting races usually but it's a real pleasure watching it, the circuit is just unbelievable, I always have been a fan of "old school" circuits.

[cformula1]

1 - Best Driver
Jenson Button
2 - Best Team
McLaren
3 - Best Overtake
Sutil on Kobayashi @ 130R
4 - Best Moment
Schumacher leading
5 - Worst Driver
Hamilton, lacklustre in the best car
6 - Worst Team
Williams
7 - Best Rookie
Perez
8 - Biggest Surprise
Alonso relegating Vettel to 3rd

9 - General Comment(s)
Good race on a classic circuit
7/10

[alex1369]

1 - Best Driver - Button
2 - Best Team - RBR
3 - Best Overtake - dont know right now but the ones that were at the hairpin were good
4 - Best Moment - start
5 - Worst Driver - none, but the director sucks
6 - Worst Team - none, but the whole Fuji tv sucks
7 - Best Rookie - Perez
8 - Biggest Surprise - Well Perez good strategy

9 - General Comment(s)
For start of FP1 till the race finish the tv director was absolute s***, im mean seriously total carp. I understand that he shows Kamui but of every session he gets 30 min in tv, and he always missed the action specially at race. The race was a bit borring... and the directorrs from Fuji tv should be fired, bring back F~0~M

4/10 from me, poor for Suzuka

[majidasadi]

1 - Best Driver: Jenson Button, and also sergio perez, he started 17th on the grid and finally finished 8 brilliant job
2 - Best Team: Mc laren
3 - Best Overtake: Hamilton On Massa
4 - Best Moment: When saftey car went in, the restart was fascinating,and also when vettel was chasing alonso, great excitment
5 - Worst Driver: I think all the guys did a good job, i mean, even tonio liuzzi finished the race! for me there's no such thing as Worst driver this weekend
6 - Worst Team: unfortunately Williams, we really miss the early 90's and their golden age, hope they get back to those days
7 - Best Rookie: sargio perez
8 - Biggest Surprise: rosberg getting a point and also sergio perez finishing 8th
9 - General Comment(s) :for me this was the best race since brazil last year, full of action, incredible!

[snake_f1]

1 - Best Driver: Button, he was compromised at the start but he could recover and win the race
2 - Best Team: Ferrari, good strategy with alonso to put him ahead of Vettel
3 - Best Overtake: Perez on Algesuari
4 - Best Moment: the fight between midfield cars
5 - Worst Driver: Hamilton
6 - Worst Team: Williams
7 - Best Rookie: Perez
8 - Biggest Surprise: Ferrari had the pace to fight for the win

9 - General Comment(s)
Congrats for Vettel on his double world championships, well deserved