Vote for your 2014 British GP Driver of the Weekend

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Which F1 driver was the best performer during the British Grand Prix weekend?

Review how each driver got on below and vote for who impressed you the most during the last race weekend.

British Grand Prix driver-by-driver

Red Bull

Sebastian Vettel – Started from the front row for the first time since Malaysia after an excellent lap at the end of Q3. But didn’t get off the line well and was relegated by both McLaren drivers and Hamilton. His early first pit stop allowed him to get back in among the McLarens but it also forced him to make another pit stop later in the race. He was passed by Alonso on his out-lap, beginning a battle which looked fabulous but didn’t do his chances much good. He eventually squeezed past for fifth, but rued the strategic mis-step.

Daniel Ricciardo – The stewards decided against punishing Ricciardo after he overtook Alonso under a red flag during practice. He made the mistake of not running at all in the final moments of Q3, mistakenly believing the track wouldn’t improve enough, which meant he fell to eighth on the grid. His race went better, however – he passed the struggling Hulkenberg early on and gambled on making it to the end of the race after his lap 15 pit stop. It paid off handsomely for his fourth podium finish.

Mercedes

Nico Rosberg – Like Ricciardo, the stewards cleared Rosberg after investigating him for overtaking Kvyat under a red flag during practice. In Q3 he began his final lap looking extremely unlikely to take pole position – tucked up behind Hamilton’s rear wing on a greasy track. But then Hamilton pulled over and Rosberg took advantage of the rapidly-drying final sector to claim another qualifying win over Hamilton. In the race he wasn’t able to match Hamilton pace and the pair were poised to cross paths when Rosberg’s gearbox failed.

Lewis Hamilton – Lost half an hour of running in final practice due to an engine glitch. Made a costly mistake by abandoning his final lap in qualifying, believing the track was too wet, which dropped him from provisional pole position to sixth on the grid. He made light work of the McLarens and Vettel at the start, and after switching to the hard tyre he was flying. A pity we never got to see the fight between him and Rosberg which was about to unfold.

Ferrari

Fernando Alonso – A spin in Q1 kept him from making it to the second phase of qualifying. The red flag during the race meant he only had to use the hard tyres for lap one – he spent the rest of the race on mediums, pitting once, and passing several rivals early on. He picked up a five-second penalty for starting the race too far forward in his grid slot, and was shown the black-and-white flag for straying beyond the track limits too often. But he put an excellent move on Vettel at Abbey and stayed ahead for 13 laps despite debris lodged in his rear wing causing balance problems.

Kimi Raikkonen – Like Alonso he failed to proceed beyond Q1 as the team responded too slowly to the changing conditions. He ran wide at Aintree at the start, and lost control when he tried to rejoin the circuit at speed, causing a heavy crash.

Lotus

Romain Grosjean – Had a near-miss at the start when his visor was damaged by debris from Raikkonen’s crash. Switched to the hard tyres at the restart and spent more than half the race on them, though the car performed better on the mediums.

Pastor Maldonado – A lack of fuel caused him to stop his car during qualifying, and he was then excluded for the infraction. Starting from the tail of the field he was hit by Gutierrez early on, then retired shortly before the chequered flag.

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McLaren

Jenson Button – Ron Dennis’s comments that Button should try harder seemed inappropriate given the deficiencies of McLaren’s current car. Damp qualifying was made for him and he delivered a third place the car did not look capable of holding on to in the race. Sure enough Ricciardo’s quicker Red Bull got ahead, though Button was bearing down on him at the end of the race, tantalisingly close to a first-ever home podium finish.

Kevin Magnussen – Couldn’t take advantage of the Alonso-Vettel battle in front of him to claim a higher finishing position than seventh.

Force India

Nico Hulkenberg – The Force India seemed particularly sensitive to the wind at Silverstone. Having taken a season-best fourth on the grid, Hulkenberg slumped to ninth as he grappled with his car.

Sergio Perez – Just when it looked like he was about to turn around his poor qualifying record, Perez blew it by failing to get his tyres up to temperature in time for a final run. He slipped back to seventh, and a first-corner tangle with Vergne spoiled his race.

Sauber

Adrian Sutil – The Sauber continues to look like the most uncomfortable car in the field, with the exception of the Caterham. Both drivers spun in the wet conditions in qualifying, Sutil – secured a place in Q2 partly thanks to his spin, as it prevented others from improving. In the race he was vexed by braking problems again, finishing a distant 13th.

Esteban Gutierrez – Carried a ten-place grid penalty into the race from Austria, picked up a five-place penalty for changing his gearbox after his qualifying spin, and left with a three-place penalty for Germany after colliding with Maldonado, which led to his retirement.

Toro Rosso

Jean-Eric Vergne – Suffered a front-wheel failure on one of Silverstone’s quickest corners during second practice. Claimed a place in Q3 but neither driver did a final run, leaving them on the fifth row. However despite a tangle with Perez at the start, which left him at the back when the race got going again, he regained the lost ground to his team mate.

Daniil Kvyat – Impressive in wet qualifying again, Kvyat brought his car home where he qualified it in ninth.

Williams

Felipe Massa – His 200th race start was one to forget: he was eliminated in Q1, then eliminated again on lap one. The latter came courtesy of Raikkonen’s crash, and Massa’s quick reflexes prevented a much worse accident.

Valtteri Bottas – Having also dropped out in Q1 several penalties for other drivers promoted Bottas to 14th. From there he wielded the Williams straight-line speed advantage brilliantly carving past his rivals to take third place mainly due to on-track passes, and gaining second thanks to Rosberg’s retirement.

Marussia

Jules Bianchi – His Friday running was limited by technical problems in both sessions on Friday. But in the rain-hit qualifying session he delivered a best-ever 12th place for himself and Marussia. It was always going to be a challenge to stay there – Sutil’s Sauber made it by on lap eight – and Bianchi was 14th at the flag.

Max Chilton – Was enormously fortunate not to suffer a much worse injury after his car was hit by a flying wheel from Raikkonen’s crash. Proof that he had used up all his luck came quickly – a radio fault meant his team were unable to tell him to stay out of the pits, and as he came in under a red flag he not only received a drive-through penalty, but immediately went a lap down, ensuring he finished last.

Caterham

Kamui Kobayashi – Was also involved in the Raikkonen crash but was able to participate in the restart. His car felt strange afterwards – “almost certainly from the rallying I had to do” – but he brought it home 15th.

Marcus Ericsson – Like Kobayashi he failed to make the 107% cut in Q1 and was given a dispensation from the stewards to start the race. He only made it ten laps in before his suspension failed.

Qualifying and race results summary

DriverStartedGap to team mateLaps leading team matePittedFinishedGap to team mate
Sebastian Vettel2nd-3.22s28/5235th+7.369s
Daniel Ricciardo8th+3.22s24/5223rd-7.369s
Lewis Hamilton6th+3.466s6/2821st
Nico Rosberg1st-3.466s22/281
Fernando Alonso16th-0.749s0/026th
Kimi Raikkonen18th+0.749s0/00
Romain Grosjean11th-5.522s41/49212thNot on same lap
Pastor Maldonado20th+5.522s8/49217thNot on same lap
Jenson Button3rd-0.217s52/5214th-15.173s
Kevin Magnussen5th+0.217s0/5217th+15.173s
Nico Hulkenberg4th-2.128s51/5118thNot on same lap
Sergio Perez7th+2.128s0/51211thNot on same lap
Adrian Sutil13th-0.682s9/9213th
Esteban Gutierrez19th+0.682s0/90
Jean-Eric Vergne10th+0.148s9/51210thNot on same lap
Daniil Kvyat9th-0.148s42/5129thNot on same lap
Felipe Massa15th+0.377s0/00
Valtteri Bottas14th-0.377s0/022nd
Jules Bianchi12th-1.091s49/50214thNot on same lap
Max Chilton17th+1.091s1/50316thNot on same lap
Kamui Kobayashi22nd+0.204s4/11315th
Marcus Ericsson21st-0.204s7/111

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Vote for your driver of the weekend

Which driver do you think did the best job this weekend?

Cast your vote below and explain your choice in the comments.

Who was the best driver of the 2014 British Grand Prix weekend?

  • Marcus Ericsson (0%)
  • Kamui Kobayashi (0%)
  • Max Chilton (0%)
  • Jules Bianchi (2%)
  • Valtteri Bottas (53%)
  • Felipe Massa (0%)
  • Daniil Kvyat (0%)
  • Jean-Eric Vergne (0%)
  • Adrian Sutil (0%)
  • Esteban Gutierrez (0%)
  • Nico Hulkenberg (0%)
  • Sergio Perez (0%)
  • Kevin Magnussen (0%)
  • Jenson Button (12%)
  • Pastor Maldonado (0%)
  • Romain Grosjean (0%)
  • Kimi Raikkonen (0%)
  • Fernando Alonso (19%)
  • Lewis Hamilton (9%)
  • Nico Rosberg (1%)
  • Daniel Ricciardo (2%)
  • Sebastian Vettel (2%)

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128 comments on “Vote for your 2014 British GP Driver of the Weekend”

  1. This time voting should have an option for both Vettel and Alonso, a battle which made the whole weekend.

    1. Indeed. But I think we have a clear candidate for the top passes of 2014 :)

      1. Who ?

        1. He talking about Bottas’ overtake around the outside of Button of course :)

        2. Max Chilton

      2. there are many passes that are better than that
        but if it for top battle it one of the best
        minus the radio
        i think we should just band radio inside F1

      3. While Bottas’ overtake on Button was very impressive (for that matter all of his overtakes were impressive), I think so far that, over these past races, Bottas’ pass and Hulkenberg’s move on Magnussen at Portier in the Monaco GP will be neck and neck at the end season and they both should be in the top 3 overtakes of 2014

  2. Close between Bottas and Alonso, both put in relentless recovery drives. Had to give it to Bottas though, almost purely because we didn’t hear any whinging from him :P

    Honourable mentions to Ricciardo for yet another podium. Him and Bottas look set to be major, major players in F1 over the next decade or so….

    1. Even the English crowd loved him! He overtook quite a few cars at Stowe, especially round the outside. Incredible drive, seeing as the Williams shouldn’t have been pacy around such a high downforce biased track. I also think Ricciardo drove a great race, he was in the background the whole race, quietly acting out a great economy drive, especially to fend off Button in the final 10 laps. That said, Button also did a fantastic defence against Alonso who was stuck behind him for numerous laps and never got past, I think Button was a bit overlooked in the end.

    2. Yes. I struggled to choose, but went for Bottas in the end, for the fact that he was passing everybody and got another podium, which was definitely deserved.

      And I really do hope Bottas gets into a good team within the next few years (unless Williams continue their great form and become consistent front-runners, which I also hope for).

  3. Rosberg; outqualified his team-mate, was clearly ahead of his team-mate, and probably would have finished ahead of him as well if his gearbox hadn’t broken

    1. But would still be 40 points behind Hamilton if Hamiltons car hadn’t broken twice.

      1. what makes you think Hamilton would have won those 2 races?? in the first race Hamilton was beaten by rosberg in practise and qualifying until the last lap, which Hamilton got to run last, which helped him secure pole. in Canada, he probably would have finished behing rosberg, and to me it was his own fault he retired – rosberg had the same problem but managed it better, and didn’t kill his brakes. rosbergs failure was more costly then hamiltons as he led the race for so long, and probably would have won it even with Hamilton pressuring – take Austria as a precedent. so to me, your 40 points is incorrect, maybe rosberg would be 10-15 points behind.

        1. Lewis Hamilton running last during qualifying in Australia does not mean he will definitely get pole. He could have screwed up like he did in Canada and lost pole easily. In Canada, he will finish in front of Nico Rosberg if he did not have the brake issues. He has already jumped him in the stops for the lead (and in case you say he relies on pit stops to overtake his team mate, he did his part during the in-lap…). So in this case, you cannot say Rosberg’s failure was more costly than Hamilton’s, because Hamilton was leading the race by then.

    2. WilliamB (@william-brierty)
      7th July 2014, 14:10

      @xjr15jaaag – I wouldn’t be so sure that he’d have won had he not retired. In the first stint Hamilton was considerably faster, reducing the gap from over five seconds to less than two when Nico pitted, and that was before Nico started to suffer downshift issues. Whether Hamilton would have managed to pass is another question, but Lewis was certainly sufficiently faster than Nico to win.

      1. @william-brierty & @williamstuart
        Lewis was 5.09 seconds behind Nico on lap 4 (the first lap in which he cleared the McLaren’s), and was 2.82 seconds behind Nico the lap before Nico pitted (17). That is an overall gain of 2.27 seconds in 13 laps, or 0.175 seconds/lap.

        You might also be forgetting that Nico was pulling away from Lewis until lap 9 (where he had the gap up to almost 6 seconds).

        All in all Lewis was a bit faster today, but hardly by a large amount.

        1. All that says is that Hamilton didn’t start closing the gap after a few laps he used to settle in. After that he was closing in at 0.3s to 0.5s per lap.

          Most importantly though. Rosberg still had to make a pitstop and Hamilton wouldn’t have.

          There is no way Rosberg would have won the race even if his gearbox hadn’t broken.

          1. All that says is that Hamilton didn’t start closing the gap after a few laps he used to settle in. After that he was closing in at 0.3s to 0.5s per lap.

            The fact that Lewis took more time to “settle in” might be a hint that Nico was better during the early stages of a stint, before his tyres went off? Or the fact that Nico was better on cold tyres?

            Most importantly though. Rosberg still had to make a pitstop and Hamilton wouldn’t have.

            And Lewis would have been on dead tyres in the end with Nico catching him at a vast rate.

            There is no way Rosberg would have won the race even if his gearbox hadn’t broken.

            “No way” sounds far too confident based on such little evidence.

          2. And @kingshark, the fact that Lewis took more time to “settle in” might be a result of a lack of running in FP2?

        2. That is an overall gain of 2.27 seconds in 13 laps, or 0.175 seconds/lap.

          You might also be forgetting that Nico was pulling away from Lewis until lap 9 (where he had the gap up to almost 6 seconds).

          So he coasted for a time, presumably to protect his tyres and save some fuel, then when it was time to push (after lap 9) he closed at a rather impressive 0.45 sec/lap. And more significantly he was then able to continue running on those same tyres for a reasonable amount of time without much drop-off, thus setting himself up well for the rest of the race.

          It’s impossible to say that Hamilton would have got the job done, not least because passing the same car wouldn’t be easy, but he looked very strong to me.

    3. Lewis was clearly faster than Rosberg, in qualifying Lewis would most likely have out qualified Rosberg had he not scrapped it seeing as on the same track conditions Hamilton was a good chunk faster. The rate Lewis was catching Rosberg prior to Rosberg’s issue was considerable, and Rosberg pitted very early, leaving himself open to attack later in the race, it would have been tight, but I think Hamilton would have eventually got past him thanks to his newer tyres and seemingly faster pace.

      1. Voted for Bottas, but as to LH/NR it sure is a tough one to call. We’ve seen LH ‘faster’ before, but not able to get by NR, and NR might have extracted at bit more from the car enough to keep LH behind, as he has done before. Ie. just because LH was catching NR in clean air doesn’t mean he would have the same pace while being right behind NR, nor that NR wouldn’t have been able to react. One thing that has impressed me about NR is his near perfection while being pressured from behind by a formidable opponent in the equivalent equipment. They say it is harder to lead than to follow. Hard to say, and it sure ‘looked’ like LH would have handled NR, but then it has looked like that before. There’s also the question of when NR’s gremlin hit him, and it may have even been before anyone noticed, including NR.

        Just for fun as a small aside that I noticed but may be wrong on and it’s neither here nor there, but at one point a Sauber went off causing a local yellow. From what I could tell NR let up the requisite 3/10ths, but when they showed LH’s times right around then his last lap was almost the equal of his best lap up to that time Ie. not convinced LH didn’t get away with something there, and the gap to NR continued to close after that. Fully stand ready to be corrected on this though, as I cannot swear on a stack of Bibles that LH didn’t also slow for that local yellow and it was in fact another lap time I was observing. Just felt to me like LH didn’t skip a beat whereas NR did.

    4. Not again this, Keith should ban any comments related to LH/NR from this forum so we get rid of this everyday bs.

  4. Would have been Alonso if he didn’t moan as much as he did. Bottas it is.

    PS. Still kindergarten argument between multiple-time world champions was hilarious.

    1. I totally agree!

    2. Driver of the Weekend: Button

      Outstanding performances on race day: Alonso, Bottas, Hamilton, Button, Ricciardo.

      Alonso and Bottas had very poor qualy to get the full prize, IMHO.

      1. I voted Button . To qualify in third then finish 4th in a crap car was good.

  5. Fernando Ayrton Alonso.

    1. Nonsense

    2. Blasphemy. I’ve seen all kinds of praise thrown Alonso’s way over the years, but c’mon he’s no Senna. Or Prost.

      1. Actually, Senna and Prost were never what their respective names seem to mean today ^^
        While no driver is anyone else than himself, and it´s always kind of ridicoulus if a grown man wants to be anyone but himself, I´m not sure if Alonso is any slower than those two were. We´ll just never know.
        However, there are definitive differencies in personality. No other driver than Senna ever said anything of having visions of god during racing or any comparable things which could put any normal person into a mental institution.

    3. How dare you insult Alonso like that?

  6. Liam McShane (@)
    7th July 2014, 13:45

    Think it is between 4 men. Button, Bottas, Rosberg & Ricciardo. I don’t think Hamilton deserves it for his poor qualifying decisions.

    Button managed to take advantage of the weather conditions to qualify higher up than he should have done. He managed to stay high up in the race and would have had a great opertunity of passing Ricciardo if he had another lap or two.

    Bottas for overtaking so well and making up for Williams poor decisions in qualifying. He finished as high as he could have done in the Williams.

    Rosberg capitalized on the changeable weather in qualifying and took pole. He led the race until his gearbox failure. No doubt he was slowed by his failing gearbox which made Hamilton look faster than he was against Rosberg.

    Ricciardo for initially qualifying well before the weather changed. As i understand it was Red Bull’s decision to keep him in the pits. He raced well looking after his tyres. As far as i know it was his strategy call to try a 1 stop. It paid off and he beat Vettel, again.

    1. petebaldwin (@)
      7th July 2014, 14:05

      @motor_mad – Wait… So Ricciardo initially qualified well before the weather changed but Hamilton certainly can’t be driver of the weekend because of his poor qualifying? Didn’t they do pretty much the same thing?

      1. It wasn’t Ricciardo’s own fault that he qualified poorly, it was the team’s choice not to send him out again. Hamilton made the decision himself.

        1. But surely the Mercedes team should have made Hamilton aware of how quick the final sector was, they had at least half a minute to tell Hamilton, no driver could have guessed that and it was only because he was qualified behind Hamilton that Rosberg decided to finish the lap as he had nothing to lose. Unless Hamilton was aware the final sector was seconds faster, in which it was his fault, but I don’t think he did know.

          1. petebaldwin (@)
            7th July 2014, 15:28

            No-one knew until suddenly Vettel popped up with the fastest time! The timing screens wouldn’t have even given them a suggestion as they were much slower after sector 2!

        2. petebaldwin (@)
          7th July 2014, 15:33

          @retardedf1sh – That’s true but if Ricciardo felt he could go quicker (ie thought anything different to what Hamilton did), I’m fairly sure he would have gone back out!

          If it was the other way round, I can almost guarantee Vettel would have been out on track.

        3. @retardedf1sh, yes it was Hamilton’s decision to bail out of the lap, and given how much faster everyone went it made him look a bit silly, but I think the decision to abort was not that strange, or at least understandable. I assume Hamilton was slower than his fastest lap (I didn’t see qualifying, I don’t know by how much), and given that his car had already broken down twice in the races (also this weekend, of course, in FP2!), shouldn’t he deserve some sympathy for sparing his car the most taxing lap of the weekend?

          We still have more than half the season to go, and already the Mercedes has had three terminal failures in the races, with the second part of the season presumably getting tougher on engines and gearboxes – unless you want to incur five- or ten-place grid penalties.

      2. ricciardos result was not because of him, but his team. hamiltons result was because of him, so no waiting mr. baldwin

        1. petebaldwin (@)
          7th July 2014, 15:25

          Hamilton felt he couldn’t go quicker so he didn’t do the lap. If Ricciardo felt that he could do a quicker lap, he would have told the team but he didn’t which shows that he obviously felt the same as Hamilton. In effect, they both made the same mistake.

          As far as errors go, Hamilton’s may have been costly but is hard to really blame him for it. He was already on pole and everyone was at least a second off his time after sector 2.

    2. As far as i know it was his strategy call to try a 1 stop. It paid off and he beat Vettel, again.

      Red Bull beat Vettel, again, with their pit stop strategy. No other driver in the race was on the downright bizarre strategy which RB inflicted on VET.

      1. This. Red Bull screwed Vettel over, again, by pitting him too late in the second stint hence causing him to lose track position to Alonso. I – even without the timing screens – noticed he was losing time visibly from the footage.

        Failed strategies from Red Bull are becoming a theme (Canada also).

        1. Nov. 2013- RBR headquarters;
          Gopher: Mr Horner, next years strategies have just come back from the printers but they’ve made a mistake, 1 set is for Ricciardo and the other says Webber, what should we do?
          Horner: No problem, just cross out Webber and write Vettel on top.

          @vettel1.

          1. Rumour has it that it wasn’t Wettel driving at the Britch GP.
            Wettel had been talking up Vebber’s past performance at the British GP in the lead up to the race. The battle with Alonso was reminiscent of 2012.

            The real proof is in his get away at the start of the race.

            When was the last time you saw a Red Bull driver lose so many places at the start ;)

  7. What a race by Bottas. Something you could expect from a champion, not a guy in his seconds season. He made up 12 places in the race and all but one were on track. Didn’t make any real mistakes and all this despite not running at all in FP1. Alonso is second, but I can’t forgive him for the misplaced car at the start and his qualifying spin that might have affected Bottas as well. Honorable mentions to Ricciardo and Button.

    1. Same here, I think Button was a bit under represented in the poll. Bottas is really developing into a great driver, now that he’s got a good car to drive we are seeing his true talent. I imagine that if Bottas had been the one to crash, I can’t imagine Massa coming through the field as clinically. Does anyone know what happened to Massa at the start, neither Coulthard or Edwards picked up on his atrocious start. Was it mechanical or was Massa at fault?

      1. petebaldwin (@)
        7th July 2014, 15:42

        @williamstuart – He had clutch issues. He says the formation lap was too slow and his clutch overheated thus kicking in the anti-stall when he tried to start.

        http://www.espn.co.uk/f1/motorsport/story/166095.html

        1. It was interesting because as the leaders were approaching the grid I was thinking about that, about how long it takes, for example, for the last cars on the grid to arrive to their positions. The leaders normally reduce speed as they approach the grid and then they have the last acceleration in zigzag, and that takes forever. But I thought, for some reason, that this silly ceremony must affect the engine temperature, not the clutch. Makes sense to me, and it seems now strange that nobody complained about that before.
          On Massa´s onboard it was possible to see that he went like a rocket overtaking several cars until he found Kimi parked in front of him. His move to avoid a crash was fantastic.

  8. I voted Bianchi.

    Impressive drives from Alonso, Bottas and Button. I’m not eveng going to bother with Vettel, he lost 3 positions, while Ricciardo gained 5.

  9. This was an absolute no brainer for me. I went for the driver who had his qualifying screwed up by his team, yet was in the top 10 by the end of the first lap. Not only this, but he pulled some fantastic moves on World Champions and ended up on the podium. I have gone for Valtteri Bottas.

    Honourable mention to Jenson Button though, he needed a result and pulled out a third in qualifying, and a fourth in a race, in a car incapable of doing so.

  10. He had a bit of an innocuous race, but i’ve given my vote to Button. He was the only driver who i feel got the best result possible out of both qualifying and the race. Bottas and Alonso were great in the race but ultimately made the wrong calls in qualifying (alongside their team strategists).

    I have a bit of a caveat to my vote, but i’ll bring it up on another thread as it’s a bit off-topic.

    1. I agree with you about Jensen, one of the few drivers who didn’t make a mistake all w/end and got a decent result, which would have been better if race was one lap longer.

    2. Button is the only driver for me who maximised his qualifying and the race – Bottas is my driver of the race comfortably, but he didn’t maintain that throughout the weekend.

  11. A bit harder this time, but Bottas really stood out. His qualifying position wasn’t his fault, so it can’t be assessed. But he went like a strom through the grid during the race. To come from 14th to 2nd is a remarkable achievement in 2nd/3rd fastest car. His overtaking moves were cracking and he also managed his tyres briliantly, even though he was on attacking mode during half of the race. He’s showing why he’s considered as future champion.

  12. So difficult to choose a driver of the weekend, since pretty much everyone had mistakes somewhere. Alonso and Bottas had great races, but both made substantial tactical errors to go out in Q1. Qualifying errors elsewhere from Ricciardo and Hamilton (plus Raikkonen and Massa, but with them both retiring in the first lap, kinda puts them out of contention for me). Rosberg’s mechanical failure robbed us of what could have been a great battle. Vettel’s tactical mistake cost him potentially a podium place. I feel Magnussen could have taken advantage of Alonso and Vettel fighting each other for so long, but he sat back and watched, inexperience maybe? Button was close, I think if he’d had a few more laps to get Ricciardo then he probably would have had my vote but in the end I chose Bottas, purely because when it mattered, he managed 2nd from the back of the grid, and didn’t moan for 13 laps.

    1. bottas had a tactical error to go out in q1, but you must acknowledge he still finished the race as high as he could have even if he qualified well. star of the race by a mile. the Silverstone crowd only cared for the bozzo but.

  13. Best Quali: Bianchi
    Best Race: Bottas
    Best Helmet: Button
    Best tussle: Alonso & Vettel
    Best air: Maldonado

    I voted for Bottas, like 50% of us so far.
    Surprised that Ricciardo has 0% (after 44 votes), no fans out there?

    1. I think Ricciardo drove a stella race again, but cannot go past Bottas. He was fast, clean and gentle on the rubber, honourable mention to Alonso another gutsy drive in red caboose

    2. Actually I confess, I voted Ric, having in a previous race given it to Bottas when it was a toss up, this time Ric, team tactics aside he had a good qually and in the race made the smart call and carried it off, a quiet achiever.

      1. @hohum – Yes, he’s consistently been very good. A real eye-opener and quite entertaining.

  14. Bianchi was solid through qualifying, always ahead of Chilton, kept out of trouble and scored his best qualifying result, but had nowhere to go in the race. Alonso spoilt his last Q1 lap and made a great recovery, like Bottas, though I tend to consider the latter as less responsible for his Q1 exit. Vettel was great and came out on top in a great battle. Like Brundle (or was it Crofty?) said, that move on Vettel at Copse by Alonso makes the Spaniard come out on top against Bottas, who did not spend the whole race battling and had a better car. It was a long time since I suppor

  15. Bianchi was solid through qualifying, always ahead of Chilton, kept out of trouble and scored his best qualifying result, but had nowhere to go in the race. Alonso spoilt his last Q1 lap and made a great recovery, like Bottas, though I tend to consider the latter as less responsible for his Q1 exit. Vettel was great and came out on top in a great battle. Like Brundle (or was it Crofty?) said, that move on Vettel at Copse by Alonso makes the Spaniard come out on top against Bottas, who did not spend the whole race battling and had a better car. It was a long time since I supported Alonso!

  16. 1. Bottas – A qualifying to forget but what a charge! and an exceptionally overlooked overtake around the outside of Button.
    2. Button – What a well managed drive for an emotional occasion.
    3. Alonso – Ruined his chance of DOTW in qualifying and missed his grid slot… but made up for it with a race on par with Bottas’.

    Honorable mentions:
    Bianchi – Qualified 12th and kept some ground in the race
    Hamilton – Drove well for the whole weekend.. except the second run in Q3! and showed a good attitude after pitstop error from team – rightly complained about rubbish trophy!
    Felipe Massa – Reacted to prevent a 150mph side-impact to Kimi’s cockpit.

  17. Alonso got my vote. Even before the race had started he was giving great value for money by overshooting his slot. :)

  18. Tough to choose between a lot of drivers here. Apart from Kimi, whose deliberate excursion onto the runoff to gain an advantage (he’s got form on this, particularly at Spa) led to that maniac attempt to barrell back into the pack at full speed, almost killing at least two other drivers.

    Alonso and Vettel deserve kudos for their wheel to wheel dicing, but Alonso made a silly mistake at the restart and Vettel is still being beaten very easily by his teammate. Their radio sniping wasn’t good, but I blame the stewards for not enforcing the track limit rule in the first place. A 5 second penalty for both of them would have shut them up.

    Hamilton once again has immense speed and racecraft, but another brain fade means he’s not in contention. Without Rosberg’s car failure, this would have been another race he’d have thrown away.

    Rosberg as usual deserves to be up there because even when Hamilton is supposedly faster, he never ever stops looking for an advantage and never gives up. Even when the car was stopped he still waved away the marshals while he tried to get the gearbox back up and running: not for him the petulant wheel-chuck over the front of the canopy. Had the brains not to make assumptions during qualifying, and unlike the race overview, I don’t agree that he had a race pace deficit to Hamilton. He pulled out a massive lead in very short order, and even when Hamilton was in clear air in P2 he was still increasing it. Without the gearbox problem the two drivers would have been on similar pace, as they have been all year.

    Button did a great job in Q3 (helped by the fact that cars who would have eclipsed his time didn’t run), had a great start, and ran well in the race. A real pity the car can’t give him a platform to run with, but he looked genuinely pleased it was an improvement at this race. I think everyone would have loved to see a pink shirt on the podium.

    However I don’t see how anyone can overlook Bottas, with a stunning, cool headed drive, great overtaking from 14th to 2nd. No drama, no mistakes, no whining, he just gets the job done.

    1. +1
      The first balanced comment I’ve read, shame its on page 2.

  19. like i’ve said before, i’m not giving it to bottas because of his horrid qualifying. i would give him my vote if the poll was called “vote for your driver of the race”, but it isn’. i gave my vote to button instead, who had a brilliant qualifying and only got passed by car that were superior to his. a real shame he couldn’t finish on the podium, but still, great race by him.

    honorable mentions: bottas, ricciardo, kvyat and alonso.

  20. I choose Bottas for the poll.
    But, in truth, Vettel and Alonso were the DsOTH. They were amazing, and produced an intense fight at high speed! They represented what I truly love in F1.

  21. I can’t believe people actually voted from HAM…. Apparently not even trying on Saturday and getting luck yon Sunday makes you the driver of the weekend….

    1. *for Ham….*lucky…. darn mobile version. “edit” option would be quite useful.

    2. This “not trying” thing is bugging me. Every driver tries hard, even Kimi. He just pretends not to.
      And maybe that extra bit of running is what did for Rosberg’s gearbox… it’s a choice you have to make between the chance to go faster and the wear on your car. This time, Hamilton made a bad choice. If he hadn’t been trying, he wouldn’t have had provisional pole at the time of the bad decision!

    3. This is why im voting for Ham.
      1. fastest in the practice.
      2. had no long run tire data of his own because of a engine issue.
      3. qualified 6th when other big names were eliminated with less than stellar performances.
      4. overtook 2 drivers before the end of the 1st lap.
      5. had a better tire strategy than his teammate, which he could have used to do jump him by doing a one stopper, even if nico hadn’t dropped out.

      so when you average everything out Ham get my vote for DOTW.

      1. 1. fastest in the practice.
        2. had no long run tire data of his own because of a engine issue.
        3. qualified 6th when other big names were eliminated with less than stellar performances.
        4. overtook 2 drivers before the end of the 1st lap.
        5. had a better tire strategy than his teammate, which he could have used to do jump him by doing a one stopper, even if nico hadn’t dropped out.

        1. Doesn´t matter at all, practice is not about speed.
        2. Well, yes, that was a disadvantage he had. But does having a slight disadvantage give you DotW?
        3. Errr… who did a worse quali on own (not team´s fault) mistake? As far as I know, only the crashing Sauber drivers did worse than Hamilton on Saturday.
        4. Expected, car advantage.
        5. Team-thing, not Hamilton´s merit.

        1. Sven, Hamilton was worthy of some votes, don’t cry about it. Can’t you recognize a great driver when you see one?

        2. Umm that’s why it’s called Dotw and not Dotd, it’s about who was the most consistent over the weekend, what exactly am i missing? i think if you checked, the Saubers didn’t make it to Q3 and finished 14th and 16th, so 6th in qualy is worst than 14th and 16th?

          1. Actually, the raw Sauber-speed puts the car in positions 17 and 18, so if you´re 18th in a Sauber that´s an equal performance to being 2nd in a Merc.
            And furthermore yes, consistency is a very important aspect in DotW to me, so drivers who make mistakes are more or less disqualified to vote, with the rare exception of otherwise really stunning drives. Any Merc-driver this year is very unlikely to do so, as stunning drives are simply not neccessary for them to win.

  22. Driver of the GP Weekend I think should go to Button… if we’re talking about the overall performance. Williams failed just like Ferrari in Quali, so I don’t quite see how Bottas can get the DotW prize. Just me, but I fail to see why so many votes for Bottas, GP after GP. He’s good, but nothing spectacular (at the moment). In my opinion, Magnussen is just as “impressive”, but he doesn’t get even 25% of Bottas’ votes. Magnussen is in his 1st F1 year, not 2nd like Bottas, then Williams is a better car than McLaren. Driver of the race must be ALO. With a car that seems to be like 4th-5th fastest, depending on race, then starting from P16, 5seconds penalty, the pass on VET, then keeping VET behind for 13 laps… can’t be somebody else awarded driver of the race.

  23. Gave my vote to Bottas. Qualifying in mixed and changing conditions is always tricky, and could catch anyone out. His recovery drive was great though, and there is no doubt that he extracted the absolute maximum he could from the car.

    Additionally, what a showing from Alonso. It’s a shame Ferrari cannot give him a car in which to fight for podiums race wins.

  24. Bottas the best

  25. I think that this is quite difficult. No driver had a perfect weekend. Bottas had no luck in qualifying as well as Alonso but they put phenomenal drives in the race, Vettel was splendid until the race where the 2-stopper ruined it, Hamilton had a miserable qualifying but a strong race, Button and Ricciardo had quiet races with not much drama.
    I’ll give it to Bottas though. That Williams is fast and Bottas is on top form. He also managed to gain 12 places featuring some good overtaking.

  26. Bottas. Though I don´t tend to give votes to drivers who have bad saturdays, I think it was his team´s fault. Same goes to Alonso, who also had a storming race, but his one mistake (overshooting grid-box) is one more than Bottas´ zero mistakes. His battling with Vettel nearly made up for that, and maybe if I knew exactly how bad his car-problems were it would be a really tough decision again.
    Honourable mentions to Button and Bianchi, who both delivered well enough to win my vote on many other weekends with less shiny drivers around.

  27. Bottas. He proved himself once more.

  28. Neil (@neilosjames)
    7th July 2014, 16:02

    Had to give this one to Bottas. Didn’t drop his head after qualifying, just got on with it and did a great job for the second race in a row.

    Really starting to show what he’s made of again (wasn’t actually impressed with his early form relative to Massa).

  29. It´s between Alonso and Bottas for me.

    Both of them showed intelligence and mature driving standards but finally I´ve chosen Alonso because he has to work really really hard in both:
    – Attack mode. In a car with a clear deficit in straight-line speed with Mercedes powered teams he was able to execute some outstanding and well planned overtaking maneuvers with aggressiveness and style, positioning his car outside the typical race line along several corners. Although Bottas did a great job his overtakes were much easier and straightforward because Williams is the class of the field in straight-line speed.

    – Defensive mode. Performed great skills defending from Vettel´s attacks with tyres that were around 10 laps older succeeding for almost 15 laps against a car with a great traction advantage compared to the F14T and at that point around 1.5sec faster. I knew sooner or later Vettel would pass Alonso but was fantastic to see such defensive class and relentless impetus.

    Special mention also for Jenson Button who did a great job all weekend in the McLaren fighting for top positions and beating Magnussen.

    1. Fantastic review! To overtake so many cars, to defend his position as he did from Vettel’s moves, and to en 6th starting 16th with a 5 sec penalty is unbelivable!

  30. Driver of the race was either Bottas or Alonso, but driver of the weekend has to be Button. Fantastic work with not-so-fantastic car trough the whole weekend.

  31. Bottas again, beautiful to see him storm the car with the most classy livery on the grid through the field! I’ve always been a Michael Schumacher fan, and with Bottas, I really get that exciting feeling again I had with MSC in 1992, the feeling that a future champion is emerging!

  32. The highlight of my race was that great fight between Vettel and Alonso for fifth place. Two multi-champions going at with great clean attempts, blocks and ultimately overtakes. Fantastic.

    However I’m not going to vote Alonso as ‘driver of the weekend’ because there was a blot on his normally immaculate race day copybook – A penalty for a basic error in lining up at the grid.

    I’ll give it to Vettel. A good front row grid position in qualifying made for a strong Saturday. Also, he is still, for some reason, getting crap for ‘not being able to overtake’ yet he did well against the tenacious Alonso. Only really let down by matters out of his control – ie poor strategy which Red Bull acknowledged post race.

    Honourable mentions to JB and Bottas.

  33. Before I vote for my Driver of the Weekend, I want to highlight Jenson Button, who will be taking my vote. I hope some people take the time to read this comment (or if not, share it to fellow F1 Fanatics), because Jenson Button was the only driver to complete the race weekend with minimal setbacks. Think about it
    Vettel had a troublesome race
    Ricciardo messed up Qualifying
    Hamilton messed up Qualifying
    Rosberg had a mechanical failure
    Alonso messed up Qualifying
    Raikkonen messed up Qualifying, and crashed
    Romain Grosjean did nothing
    Pastor Maldonado got tangled and eventually retired
    Massa messed up Qualifying and crashed on Lap 1
    Bottas messed up Qualifying
    Kevin Magnussen missed his opportunity with Vettel & Alonso fighting
    Hulkenberg had no race pace
    Perez spun on Lap 1
    Sutil had a quiet race
    Gutierrez put 1 on Maldonado
    Vergne messed up Qualifying
    Kvyat messed up Qualifying
    Bianchi went backwards
    Chilton took a 1 hour pitstop
    Kobayashi had a quiet race
    Ericsson had a Mechanical Failure

    Either Australia lacks Formula 1 coverage, or Jenson Button had the smoothest sails throughout the British Grand Prix.

    1. Ha ha good review mate!

    2. I agree completely!

    3. Yet Button could have taken P3 if he hadn’t been cruising around so long. He actually had to be told to attack Ricciardo instead of doing so on his own.

      Hamilton couldn’t have done better than P1 whatever he’d done all weekend. Similarly Bottas could never have done better than P2 and Ricciardo couldn’t have done better than P3. So in the end they maximized their weekend result. While Button could have done better in the situation.

      So I would add:
      Button was having a leisurely Sunday drive when instead he should have been pushing for P3 :)

      1. @patrickl
        The thing is, he was not in cruising mode. The team tought RIC would have another stop, thus would drop behind him, so they needed to hold the gap to ALO and VET. When they realised that RB is not reacting to BUT slowly catching RIC, they told BUT that he might have to overtake him on track, thats when he started pushing.
        And with these regulations you really cant blame any driver or team, that tries to get the best possible result giving the least stress to the machine.

        1. So, its just like Hamilton thinking he had pole because no one was going any faster?

          Hamilton gets derided for that. Button was cruising when he should have been pushing.

  34. Jarmo (@jouhakainen)
    7th July 2014, 16:48

    Bottas/Alonso had a good race. Gave it to Bottas.

  35. Another difficult DOTW to choose… There weren’t a great deal of drivers who really excelled throughout the weekend. There were plenty of examples of drivers who fluffed qualifying but recovered to excellent results (namely Hamilton, Ricciardo, Bottas and Alonso), which are all performances I would always admire. But today I’m going to vote for the only driver who I feel both qualified and raced as well as anyone could have asked of him (in this case, Ron Dennis) and that would be Jenson Button.

  36. Glad there are no points for winning driver of the weekend.

  37. Voted for Bottas
    My second choice would be Ricciardo
    Third Place would be for Alonso.

  38. Jenson Button: 3rd in qualy, 4th in the race. The overall best performance of the weekend.

  39. Bianchi.

    Not because he’s lucky but because some other drivers weren’t…..

  40. Why do this poll instead of just giving it to Hamilton, we all know he is gonna win. Anyways for second I vote for Rosberg didn’t set foot wrong shame the car let him down.

    1. @ausuma Well, I think the current results say otherwise.

    2. Rosberg blundered with his early stop though. Compounded by him picking the same tyres again too.

  41. This was a tricky one.
    Hamilton, Alonso and Bottas were great on Sunday, but they/their team had it all wrong for qualifying. Vettel had a great qualifying and put in the overtake of the race, but his race was ordinary overall. Rosberg’s car let him down.

    Bianchi was solid all weekend and had his best qualifying. For me though Button is DoTW. Quietly consistent throughout and I think got the most that McLaren had to offer, if not a little bit more. Maybe it was the weather, maybe it was Dennis’s comments, whatever it was he looked better this weekend than he has for a while.

  42. It had to be Bottas for me. Firstly he sat out Friday morning whilst Susie Wolff brought some great p.r. for Williams. The once he got in the car on Friday afternoon it had a failure when the bodywork “exploded” at the end of Hanger Straight.
    Saturday afternoon was messed up.
    Then he performed a brilliant recovery programme and secured a great result in a car that is certainly improving as the season progresses. He might even get to win a race before the season ends. Monza perhaps with its long straights and fewer corners?

  43. valdek12 (@)
    7th July 2014, 19:44

    i chose Bottas over Button, because of great start from and a couple of first laps from Bottas . He was comfortably on third place until Rosberg retired and after that his second place wasn’t under a threat.
    Alonso was exactly there, where i expect he would be- behind Mercedes and Red Bull and ahed of the others.

  44. Alonso was the best, I lost count of how many pilots he did overtake, genius, Fernando Alonsenna!

    1. please stop insulting Alonso, he’s no Senna. And of course I mean it as a praise.

  45. The choice for me is clearly between the 4 drivers who did miss out on a good qualification and still got the best result possible with their cars. Which is Hamilton, Bottas, Ricciardo and Alonso. Even if they made a mistake in qualifying they do walk away from the race weekend with the maximum points they could expect.

    I pick them not so much because of them performing poorly in qualifying, but because the drivers who did perform well in qualifying performed poorly on the day that it actually matters most. Vettel and Hulkenberg were simply disappointing in the race.

    I feel the same goes for Button to a lesser extent. He had to be told to chase Ricciardo instead of keeping the pressure on Ricciardo to begin with. He could have taken that third podium spot if he’d just put in some effort earlier on instead of just cruising around. Therefore I say he didn’t get the maximum out of the weekend by settling for P4 until the team finally urged him to get on with it.

    Although Bottas also impressed me hugely, my vote is for Hamilton. With all the extra pressure on him fighting for the WDC it’s amazing how he bounced back from the disappointment of the unexpected track change on Saturday.

    At least Hamilton corrected his earlier mistake by overtaking cars and taking the win. Button made pretty much the same sort of mistake during the race by letting Ricciardo nurse his tyres until it was too late. Button did lose out on P3 because of it.

    For all the people who keep saying that Hamilton would never have gotten past Rosberg, please keep in mind that Rosberg forced himself on a two stop strategy in a one stop race. He made a very early stop going for the same medium tyres again.

    He essentially gave away 16 seconds with that mistake. All Hamilton had to do was cruise behind Rosberg and take the win once Rosberg had to go for his mandatory second stop. No overtaking necessary. The hard tyres could easily have lasted the distance if Hamilton had needed to do so.

  46. I almost chose Bottas over Alonso close second but in the last moment I remembered it is called driver of the weekend not the race, therefore it can only be Button. Strong qualifying followed by a strong race result.

    1. It is driver of the GP and the GP is the race, every thing else are just preliminaries. Alonso was the greatest one, overtaking everybody, everywhere and everyway from the beginning , finishing 6th after starting 16th with a 5sec penalty, a mediocre car and aerodynamic problems, amazing from the beginning till the end of the race (what in fact IS the Grand Prix)

      1. Vote for your 2014 British GP Driver of the Weekend

        How about reading the title? ;)

  47. Driver of the weekend – Jenson Button
    Driver of the race – Valtteri Bo77as

  48. Bottas, Alonso and Button are the current top three.

    I’d also like to see some more comments about why you’ve voted for who you have please guys. The best comments will get a place in the article :)

  49. For me it has to be Button. He rung the neck of the McLaren all weekend, and in qualifying took it somewhere it had no right to be. That, coupled with a brilliant race for him, keeping well up the field and running Ricciardo in the superior Red Bull very, very close indeed. Bottas was another consideration, but in the end, Button delivered the goods all weekend, and we’ll never know whether Bottas would have actually put that car where it should have been, or whether he would have made a mistake. For that reason, Button was the only choice that made sense to me.

  50. Driver of the race was probably Bottas for me, but being caught out in Q1 didn’t look good on Ferrari, but I think it’s even worse on Williams. He should have been higher up, especially since he did well in FP3.

    Meanwhile Jenson ‘can’t out-perform his car’ Button qualified in an opportunistic 3rd, but ended up a lap short of finishing there, despite fights with Alonso in which Alonso seemed to have the better car by a mile, who later, when passed, was dwarfed by Vettel, who didn’t come very close to Button after that.

    I think this might be the 3rd time ever I’ve voted for Button since starting to vote in 2012 or so?

  51. I had a difficult time deciding between Bottas and Button. I feel as though the comments above saying “well Jenson had to be TOLD to try to catch RIC” are a bit off base — at least having watched the race on America TV coverage, we heard just the one radio xmission stating (paraphrasing here) “Jenson, we think Ricciardo is going to the end, get after him” — which is a bit thin to state that he needed to be prodded to race. Love it or hate it, Jenson was managing his own tires per a strategy that I suspect evolved through the race as the team determined other driver’s strategies. In the end it was all even to me, as I would have been thrilled to see either RIC or BUT on podium!

  52. Michael Brown (@)
    7th July 2014, 23:30

    I chose Button, because he had the best weekend out of all of the drivers. He got qualifying right and did very well in the race.

  53. Close between Bottas and Alonso, but I chose Bottas. The way he was passing on the first stint was incredible. He couldn’t have really done any better. Honorable mentions to Alonso and Riccardio. The Alonso/Vettel battle was edge-of-the-seat stuff – something that I wish he had seen more of over the past few years.

  54. Dennis the menace (@)
    8th July 2014, 4:01

    I voted for Ricciardo simply because he made his tyres last so long to clinch a well deserved podium. Bottas has gotten a ton of praise and he did a good job although his car was easily the fastest out there other than the Mercs and all he had to do was keep it on the track. Button received plenty of votes but I only attribute that to the predominantly British patriots on this site as he didn’t do anything spectacular on track; Just a typical solid effort. I thought despite the mechanical fault Rosberg would be close to the driver of the weekend. He placed the car on pole whilst his petulant team mate fumbled. If not for the mechanical issues I do believe Nico could have managed the race from the front and been on the top step. At least the mechanical issues and thus Hamilton winning, saved the world from seeing yet another dummy spit from the ‘darling boy of British racing’…

  55. Got to be between Bottas and Ricciardo. Sure Bottas finished higher and made up a hell of a lot more spots, but at the same time he has a Mercedes engine. My vote goes to Ricciardo, making the options last 37 laps to pick up an unlikely podium, amazing.

  56. Gideon Hadi (@)
    8th July 2014, 6:05

    Have to be Jenson Button, excellent qualifying, and he maximised his race and get some decent points finish, in a car that Inferior compare to the front runners, and almost get a podium finish.

  57. Button was the best:)

  58. Luke (@scoobieluke)
    8th July 2014, 14:19

    I really don’t get the votes for hamilton. Lost pole because he was to arrogant to finish his final q3 lap and most likely would’ve finished behind rosberg in the race if he didn’t have a gearbox issue.

    Bottas and Alonso both had a great race, very impressive but neither performed in qualifying. Daniel ricciardo was equally impressive but unfortunately his team let him down in q3.

    Drive of the weekend has to go to Jenson Button, in a car worse than many of his competitors he qualified 3rd and drove brilliantly to secure 4th.

  59. Bottas. Also good work by Hamilton, Rosberg, Button, Ricciardo, Vettel, Bianchi.

  60. My choice for driver of the weekend was Bottas.

    He dropped out of qualifying in Q1 due to a team mistake which meant he had the chance to put in an impressive recovery to get second, which was thoroughly deserved.

    Second choice would be Alonso, a similar story to Bottas in that he was out in Q1 on Saturday and worked his way through the field on Sunday, but he made a mistake with his grid slot at the start, however he still managed to maximise the cars potential as usual.

    Ricciardo continues to impress and again managed to beat Vettel.

    Hamilton again made a mistake in qualifying and looked completely dejected in interviews afterwards. But on Sunday he had picked himself up and seemed on a mission in the race, even without Rosberg’s retirement I feel he would have won the race.

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