Who was the best driver of the Singapore Grand Prix weekend? (Poll)
Which driver did the best job during the Singapore Grand Prix weekend?
See below for my pick of the best drivers in the Singapore Grand Prix.
Review each driver’s race weekend in detail below and vote for who you thought was the most impressive driver.
For your consideration
Here are some of the drivers who impressed me during the Singapore Grand Prix weekend:
Fernando Alonso – Took an unexpected pole position and soaked up two hours of pressure from Vettel.
Sebastian Vettel – Unrelenting in his pursuit of Alonso and by far the quicker of the two Red Bulls.
Mark Webber – Aggressive strategy looked like a mistake at first but he made the crucial passes that made it work.
Robert Kubica – Bounced back magnificently after a puncture with some perfectly-judged passes (albeit executed with a considerable tyre advantage).
Timo Glock – Quick all weekend and somehow kept Adrian Sutil’s Force India behind for the best part of ten laps. Race ruined by appalling luck with the safety car.
Compare all the drivers
You can review what happened to each driver in the race and compare their race data with their team mates using the links below:
McLaren: Jenson Button and Lewis Hamilton
Mercedes: Nico Rosberg and Michael Schumacher
Red Bull: Sebastian Vettel and Mark Webber
Ferrari: Fernando Alonso and Felipe Massa
Williams: Rubens Barrichello and Nico Hülkenberg
Renault: Robert Kubica and Vitaly Petrov
Force India: Adrian Sutil and Vitantonio Liuzzi
Toro Rosso: Sebastien Buemi and Jaime Alguersuari
Lotus: Jarno Trulli and Heikki Kovalainen
HRT: Christian Klien and Bruno Senna
Sauber: Kamui Kobayashi and Nick Heidfeld
Virgin: Timo Glock and Lucas di Grassi
Vote for your driver of the weekend
Which driver impressed you the most in the Singapore Grand Prix weekend? Cast your vote below and have your say in the comments.
Who was the best driver of the Singapore Grand Prix weekend?
- Jenson Button (1%)
- Lewis Hamilton (3%)
- Michael Schumacher (0%)
- Nico Rosberg (0%)
- Sebastian Vettel (3%)
- Mark Webber (10%)
- Felipe Massa (1%)
- Fernando Alonso (43%)
- Rubens Barrichello (1%)
- Nico Hülkenberg (0%)
- Robert Kubica (31%)
- Vitaly Petrov (0%)
- Adrian Sutil (0%)
- Vitantonio Liuzzi (0%)
- Sebastien Buemi (0%)
- Jaime Alguersuari (0%)
- Jarno Trulli (0%)
- Heikki Kovalainen (2%)
- Christian Klien (0%)
- Bruno Senna (0%)
- Nick Heidfeld (0%)
- Kamui Kobayashi (0%)
- Timo Glock (2%)
- Lucas di Grassi (3%)
Total Voters: 2,951
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Here are the top three drivers of the Italian Grand Prix weekend as voted for by over 2,000 F1 Fanatic readers:
1. Fernando Alonso, 40%
2. Jenson Button, 33%
3. Sebastian Vettel, 8%
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Regis said on 27th September 2010, 22:58
I have to give this one to Fernando, his pole position was unexpected, and he didn’t make any big mistakes in the race.
The sri lankan said on 28th September 2010, 0:35
Alonsos the man! although people dont like it, when he has to put his foot down he knows how to make it stick! this is what you would expect from a 2 time F1 champ!!!! lets hope he makes it 3
johnno said on 28th September 2010, 21:46
dissapointed with the lack of kovalainen votes :(
he bossed that fire.
T70 said on 29th September 2010, 3:33
I voted Kovalainen, how many drivers would have run away from their cars like little girls, He dealt to that fire like a disobedient stepchild, go Heikki!!!
miguelF1O (@) said on 28th September 2010, 2:38
i hope he doenst win the champ for me it would be
1st Web best car
2nd Alo 2nd best car
3rd Vet unlucky
4th Ham fastest on straight and fearless driver
5th But lucky
gwenouille said on 28th September 2010, 8:49
Haha “Vet Lucky, But unlucky”
Just like in Spa ?
Nonsense…
miguelF1O (@) said on 29th September 2010, 2:21
Vettel could have already win the championship at first half if it werent all problems he had button hasnt had any problem the only one was the collision on the spa gp
Mike said on 29th September 2010, 7:06
And IF a some of the drivers accidentally drive of a cliff, next year Sakon might end up world champion…
If If If…
chemakal said on 28th September 2010, 14:12
what about Webber very lucky???
Tango said on 28th September 2010, 14:16
He could have shattered his wheel when he went in to Hamilton. Lucky he didn’t end up like Hamilton in Monza.
miguelF1O (@) said on 29th September 2010, 2:20
i want web to win cause he is there since 2002 and yes he is lucky
Vico said on 29th September 2010, 11:30
Champion’s luck. See Hamilton Monaco 2008…
chemakal said on 29th September 2010, 12:08
We are speaking about Singapore 10, but very very true!!!
Ben Curly said on 28th September 2010, 9:11
Yeah, Alonso was very solid, but I believe that Kubica would do the same if he was in the red car. When it comes to the quality of racing, I think they were pretty much at the same level, and since I feel less sympathy for Fernando – my vote goes to Robert.
TommyB (@tommyb89) said on 28th September 2010, 12:34
Kubica without a shadow of a doubt. Awesome to watch and enjoyable for any F1 fan.
RaulZ said on 28th September 2010, 13:04
Kubica should go to Ferrari. It would be great watching Alonso and Kubica fighting with the same car.
He’s as good as handsome ;)
Tango said on 28th September 2010, 14:17
I think it is impossible to have two good drivers at Ferrari. Even with Kimi and Felipe, one of the two clearly took the lead early in the year and the second becomes second fiddle.
AndrewTanner (@andrewtanner) said on 28th September 2010, 13:16
Ditto!
Simply awesome to watch him pick them off!
As dull as it was up front, watching the timings on the app for the last 10 laps or so was interesting. Classic stuff from Vettel and Alonso.
glue (@glue) said on 27th September 2010, 22:59
I would go for either Kubica or Rosberg, but Kubica was the main entertainer and proved that pitting later in the race is feasible
damonsmedley (@damonsmedley) said on 28th September 2010, 2:07
I agree. I voted for Robert. I think it is difficult to tell how fast Kubica is this year. Either Petrov is struggling badly, which is making Robert look good, or Robert really is wrestling his car to positions that exceed its desired capabilities. I think it would be interesting to put someone like Vettel in the other Renault, just to test how fast Kubica is!
Casanova said on 28th September 2010, 15:21
Or both…………..
Jackpolak said on 28th September 2010, 8:29
I’m not surprised that so many people voted for Kubica. Human memory is great but short. So late race performance affect people votes.
Like for me Alonso did just what you expect from 2 times champion. Perfect weekend, not only few laps. Don’t take me wrong, I’m impressed with Kubica’s late recovery, but the driver of the race was Alonso.
Just imagine if Lewis pits after his “tyre was blown” to fix it and fight back for some points for half of the race. This guy has this heart, courage, skill and madness, which could make him the driver of the race.
Ben Curly said on 28th September 2010, 9:15
Late memory? Wait, did he make any mistake before his recovery? As far as I remember Robert had very good race from start to finish, despite his bad luck with the puncture.
Jackpolak said on 28th September 2010, 11:15
Yep.. Did Alonso make any mistake? No. Robert drove great, but even that, more difficult and crucial where two Webbers moves at the beginning of the race. Yes, he had one mistake approaching slower car, and this put him in the situation where many blames him for Hamiltons DNF, but overall he finished third, fighting for that place with competitive cars.
Alonso, Webber, than Kubica in my opinion.
US_Peter (@us_peter) said on 27th September 2010, 22:59
I was originally going to vote for Alonso because he milked every last ounce of performance from the F10, but I voted Glock, because when I started thinking about it he had actually managed to do milk more performance than anyone thought possible out of the Virgin, and on top of that had a slew of better equipped drivers behind him for quite a while. Hope to see him in a Renault next year.
Ted said on 27th September 2010, 23:04
Alonso did the job from the front and Webber did it from the back.
Kubica was the most entertaining though, fresh tyres he may have had but it’s still a narrow street circuit…brilliant!
Steezy said on 27th September 2010, 23:06
Kubica had fresh tyres overtaking people who had done about 90% of the race on the same set of tyres, hardly a candidate for best driver of the entire weekend when Alonso completes a Grand Chelem. Kubica shouldn’t have even had to overtake them as he was already in front of them until he punctured his tyre and had to pit.
Sometimes people just don’t make sense.
Tiffiamo Insieme said on 27th September 2010, 23:38
Tyres, schmyres… The move on Sutil on the outside was truly awesome, reminded me of the legendary move of Alonso on Schuey in the 130R at Suzuka. Kubica went wide enough to let room inside for Sutil to go on apace. In contrast, Webber had only two choices: brake hard and yield, or harpoon Hamilton.
Skett said on 27th September 2010, 23:41
How does that not make sense? If he was behind them because he’d spun it wouldn’t have made sense. But since it wasn’t his fault it shows how he drove well to get back. Its about who drove well not who did best.
Patrickl said on 28th September 2010, 13:56
Yeah I don’t get it either. So he passed Passing a couple of cars on seriously old tyres and who didn’t look like they were going to put up a fight either.
Entertaining surely, but “driver of the weekend”? Pfft
Ted said on 27th September 2010, 23:10
Harsh on the lad I think.
Icthyes (@icthyes) said on 27th September 2010, 23:13
Eh, I have to give it to Alonso. Not the best all weekend but the best over the parts that mattered.
Scribe (@scribe) said on 27th September 2010, 23:30
You mean quali and the race? :) Definatley the parts that matter.
Agree with you though, a grand chlem on a track that suits your competitors faster car down to the ground, thats damn impressive. Thats incredible infact, wish it had been a Webber or a Hamiltion/Kubica etc in that Redbull though, then we’d have had a race as well.
Alonso was mighty but Vettle was highly disapointing, he was so quick around the track but so poor at applying preassure in his faster car.
Todfod said on 28th September 2010, 14:30
Not the best all weekend??? What weekend are you talking about. He was absolutely flawless all weekend, and put that Ferrari in a spot ahead of the quickest cars on the grid.
An absolutely stellar performance! I was hoping to see the 2005-06 Alonso make a return… and after the last couple of races.. we know hes back!
Keith Collantine (@keithcollantine) said on 28th September 2010, 14:33
I don’t want to get into hair-splitting, but he did go off in FP2 and missed part of the session. And he fluffed the second restart a bit.
But make no mistake, he was very impressive this weekend.
Todfod said on 28th September 2010, 15:28
How do you expect him to test the 100% limit of the car without a spin or two? Better to push the car in FP sessions than quali.
Mike said on 29th September 2010, 7:14
Flawless is a strong word, Wouldn’t it mean testing the limits of the car 100% and staying on the track the whole time?
sumedh said on 28th September 2010, 18:37
I agree with Todfod above, a mistake in FP2 is much better than in qualifying.
And looking at Ferrari’s engine situation, don’t you think it is good that they reduce their running in practice sessions down to a bare minimum?
BTW Keith, which of the 5 did you pick?
DaveW said on 27th September 2010, 23:19
Kubica. It was like playstation how he was mowing down those cars at the end.
RaulZ said on 28th September 2010, 13:11
Yes, Kubica is like a play station but it’s because the Renault is not very stable. It makes us see how good he is.
If you see the Alonso’s saturday fast lap you can see the difference between the Ferrari and the Renault. Alonso didn’t have to move the wheel to correct at any time.
I think Kubica is making the Renault better than it is.
Rajesh_raman said on 28th September 2010, 21:19
Still, the Renault this year is a much better machine than last year’s Renault. Remember who won a race in that Renault???
Oliver said on 27th September 2010, 23:23
For me. Kovalainen. Just because of his fireman antics at the end. Really livened up the long race for me
Tiffiamo Insieme said on 27th September 2010, 23:23
Mark Webber, my hero! He’s done it again!!
Juan said on 27th September 2010, 23:53
Fernando Alonso all the way!!!
Alexi said on 27th September 2010, 23:57
Alonso. You don’t see a grand chelem every weekend.Kubica comes second this time, as much as I like him.
oleg said on 28th September 2010, 0:00
Kubica, then Alonso. If it wasn’t for Kubica’s overtaking the race would be quite boring.
Fer no.65 (@fer-no65) said on 28th September 2010, 0:03
Alonso, by miles! he was flawless this weekend.
By the way, what a job by Ferrari. After their struggles before Valencia, they really catched Mclaren and Red Bull!
And pretty quickly!. Wonder how well they’ll cope with the limited amount of engines they have available.
Dorian said on 28th September 2010, 0:15
Can’t go past Alonso – Grand Chelem, need I say more!!
Honourable mention to Kubica, as DaveW said, it was like playstation the way he was zipping past them!!