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Best Driver: No real surprise – Hulkenberg
Worst Driver: Di Resta – The anti-hulk. Seems to be going out of his way to show top teams why they shouldn’t hire him. Needs to find a way to sort out his recurring end of season slump.
Best Team: Lotus
Worst Team: Mercedes
Best Overtake: Raikkonen on Grosjean
Funniest moment: The fire truck, and in retrospect the back markers seemingly in competition to see who could pick up the most penalties and reprimands in one weekend.
Most Surprising Result: Hulkenberg keeping world champions behind him from lap 1.
Least Surprising Result: Vettel winning.
Special Mention to: Raikkonen, Sauber
Race Rating: 8/10World feed rating: 8/10
Best Driver: Vettel
Worst Driver: Di Resta – points seemed a certain
Best Team: Red Bull
Worst Team: Williams
Best Overtake: Raikkonen on Button
Funniest moment: More a timing thing really. They played the message from the pits telling Hulkenberg to do his best to keep the Mercedes drivers behind him otherwise he’d have Di Resta all over the back of his car, at the same time as we watched Di Restas car fly off the track and into the barrier.
Most Surprising Result: Raikkonen 3rd
Least Surprising Result: Vettel 1st
Special Mention to: Alonso, Raikkonen
Race Rating: 61. Vettel. In my opinion the most consistent of the drivers in the top cars.
2. Raikkonen. Let’s himself down slightly in qualifying but seems to achieve as much as he can during the race. Occasionally let down by strategy.
3. Hamilton. Doing well in a new team but has disappeared in some races. While the tyres were partly to blame, he seemed to lose his fighting spirit specifically in Spain.
4. Alonso. I might here be a little guilty of comparing Alonso 2012, to Alonso 2013, rather than Alonso vs the rest of the grid. But this year he seems to have lost a little of his spark.
5. Rosberg. Closer to Hamilton than I expected at the start of the season. Now that Lewis has established himself may fall away.
6. Di Resta. I hate myself for saying this but he’s done well. Still complains too much. Still too eager to bad mouth his own team, and more dammingly perhaps not robust enough when defending his position, but, I see him as more a complete driver than I did last year.
7. Button. With a lesser car than last year has done what button does best. Preserved tyres, opted for different strategies, and achieved somewhat surprising results.
8. Hulkenberg. Points from a poor car. Has shown signs of frustration though. Looking forward to his usual strong second half of the season. Defending his position from Hamilton in Germany proved his fighting spirit and racing ability are still there.
9. Webber. More of the same. Sublime or invisible. Bored of his passive aggressive hints of favouritism.
10. Massa. More of the same. Sublime or ridiculous. Too much of a confidence driver to achieve real success again.
11/12. Perez/Grosjean. Both have shown signs of deserving a top seat. Both have shown signs of recklessness.
13/14 Ricciardo/Vergne. Still don’t quite understand why Red Bull were so quick to dismiss Vergne. While Ricciardo is undoubtedly the better qualifier, Vergne tends to do better during the race. This may be down to strategy I guess, with Toro Rosso often opting to put in an attempt during Q3 while other surprise participants preserve tyres. Vergne, however, has every right to argue that he has been the unluckier of the pair and is still ahead in the championship. Too difficult to separate the pair in my opinion.
15. Sutil. Shows how close the midfield pack are that that Sutil is this low despite returning strongly after a year out. A couple of mistakes though nothing noteworthy. Some strong performances though nothing spectacular.
16. Maldonado. One of the rare occasions where the more experienced driver is the least fancied to succeed. Seems to have calmed compared to last year, I no longer wince when I see drivers alongside him.
17. Bottas. Difficult to judge. One great qualifying performance but the car isn’t there for us to decide wether or not it was a fluke. Probably a lot better than I’m giving him credit for.
18. Guittierez. I genuinely feel for him. He has arguably the most difficult task of the rookies against a highly rated driver in an obviously poor car. Started off sloppily but has shown signs of improvement, especially during the race.
19. Bianchi. I don’t get the hype. Bettering Max Chilton convincingly. Nothing more.
20. Van De Garde. I don’t get the criticism. A little sloppy when being lapped but has shown more to get excited about this season than Pic, especially qualifying at Monaco.
21. Pic. Safe, invisible.
22. Chilton. Has done little to convince me that he deserves a seat in f1.
