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2012 Japanese Grand Prix Awards

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  • #132193
    David-A
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    Best Driver:
    Worst Driver:
    Best Team:
    Worst Team:
    Best Overtake:
    Best Funny- moment:
    Most Surprising Result:
    Least Surprising Result:
    Special Mention to:
    Race Rating: /10

    Best BBC/Sky commentator/presenter:
    Worst BBC/Sky commentator/ presenter:
    Best Commentary moment:
    World feed rating: /10

    #211832
    David-A
    Participant

    Best Driver: Vettel
    Worst Driver: Perez
    Best Team: Red Bull
    Worst Team: Mercedes
    Best Overtake: Senna on Grosjean, 130R
    Best Funny- moment: Perez’s spin
    Most Surprising Result: Kobayashi and Massa on the podium
    Least Surprising Result: Vettel winning
    Special Mention to: Vettel for his grand slam, Massa/Kobayashi for the podium, Maldonado and Ricciardo for scoring
    Race Rating: 7/10

    #211833
    Ben Needham
    Participant

    Best Driver: Vettel
    Worst Driver: Senna
    Best Team: Tricky – the only team with two good points scorers was McLaren
    Worst Team: Lotus disappointed again
    Best Overtake: Perez on Hamilton – lap 5 or 6
    Best Funny- moment: Brundle: “He’s coming to get you…”
    Most Surprising Result: Has to be Massa and Kobayashi on the podium
    Least Surprising Result: Vettel winning in Japan
    Special Mention to: Maldonado
    Race Rating: 7/10

    Best BBC/Sky commentator/presenter: Martin Brundle
    Worst BBC/Sky commentator/ presenter: Mind blank, but the main Sky presenter(?), always terrible and looks uncomfortable.
    Best Commentary moment: “He’s coming to get you…”
    World feed rating: 6/10 – watching Massa cross the line while Kobayashi/Button and Ricciardo/Schumacher were still battling!

    #211834
    Antonio Nartea
    Participant

    Best Driver: Kobayashi – superb start, superb pace in his fight with Button, superb podium.
    Worst Driver: Grosjean / Senna – both taking someone out at the start and generally making fools of themselves.
    Best Team: Red Bull – they found that missing something right when it counts.
    Worst Team: Caterham – for letting a Marussia slip between their drivers again, but no one else really stood out as being THAT bad.
    Best Overtake: Perez on Hamilton
    Best Funny-moment: ninja reflexes on Kamui’s front-lift mechanic.
    Most Surprising Result: Massa on the podium.
    Least Surprising Result: Vettel – 1st.
    Special Mention to: Massa, Maldonado – getting points, Hulkenberg, Ricciardo – scoring again.
    Race Rating: 6/10

    World feed rating: 7/10 – again, uninspired camera switches, delayed / insufficient on-point replays and too many HD, slo-mo eye-candy. I have no clue what happened with Rosberg and Senna, no clue what happened to Pic. Still, better than the usual Fuji TV coverage. A lot better.

    #211835
    Nic Morley
    Participant

    Best Driver: Kobayashi
    Worst Driver: Grosjean
    Best Team: Sauber
    Worst Team: Mercedes
    Best Overtake: Perez on Hamilton
    Best Funny- moment: Webber on Grosjean : “first lap nutcase”.
    Most Surprising Result: Massa in 2nd.
    Least Surprising Result: Vettel’s win.
    Special Mention to: Kamui Kobayashi! Hope he keeps his drive for next year.
    Race Rating: 3/10 Apart from the first lap, wasn;t interesting at all.

    #211836
    andae23
    Participant

    Best Driver: Vettel – perfect race
    Worst Driver: Grosjean
    Best Team: Sauber
    Worst Team: McLaren – though they limited the damage, they were nowhere today
    Best Overtake: Perez on Hamilton
    Best Funny- moment: First lap nutcase
    Most Surprising Result: The podium
    Least Surprising Result: Grosjean crashing, Maldonado scoring some genuine points
    Special Mention to: Massa, Kobayashi, Webber
    Race Rating: 7/10

    #211837
    Pamphlet
    Participant

    Best Driver: Felipe Massa
    Worst Driver: Fernando Alonso / Romain Grosjean
    Best Team: Red Bull
    Worst Team: Caterham
    Best Overtake: Schumacher on Di Resta
    Best Funny- moment: First Lap Nutcase Grosjean, anyone?
    Most Surprising Result: Felipe Massa
    Least Surprising Result: Romain Grosjean
    Special Mention to: Sebastian Vettel
    Race Rating: 9/10

    #211838
    RagingInferno
    Participant

    Best Driver: Kobayashi – Outperformed his McLaren bound teammate and held off JB to take his first ever podium in front of his home crowd.
    Worst Driver: Grosjean – Another clumsy first lap incident.
    Best Team: RedBull – The car was lightning quick all weekend, most likely would have been a 1-2 had Grosjean not been a “nutcase”.
    Worst Team: Williams – Not a particularly bad performance to be honest, but I feel they should have scored more points given how fast the car was.
    Best Overtake: Perez on Hamilton.
    Best Funny- moment: Brundle having to calm down Johnny Herbert during his rant on Grosjean by giving him some tea.
    Most Surprising Result: Massa finishing 2nd.
    Least Surprising Result: Vettel winning.
    Special Mention to: Hulkenburg who thoroughly outperformed Di Resta this weekend and Ricciardo for holding off the advances of a flying Michael Schumacher.
    Race Rating: 7/10

    #211839
    necrodethmortem
    Participant

    Best Driver: Vettel, let’s not get silly here.
    Worst Driver: Grosjean for taking out Webber instead of Vettel.
    Best Team: Red Bull
    Worst Team: McLaren, failed to get a podium with probably the second quickest car and two botched pit stops.
    Best Overtake: Senna on Grosjean
    Best Funny- moment: McLaren botching Lewis’ pit stop for ol’ times sake.
    Most Surprising Result: Massa
    Least Surprising Result: Vettel
    Special Mention to: Massa, Kobayashi, Hulkenberg, Ricciardo
    Race Rating: 6/10

    #211840
    PhilEReid
    Participant

    Best Driver: Koboyashi (Survived serious pressure from Button).
    Worst Driver: Grosjean.
    Best Team: Red Bull.
    Worst Team: Mercedes.
    Best Overtake: Perez on Hamilton.
    Best Funny- moment: First-Lap Nutcase.
    Most Surprising Result: Massa, Maldonado’s points.
    Least Surprising Result: Vettel winning comfortably, first lap Grosjean crash
    Special Mention to: Koboyashi and Massa podiums, brilliant for both of them!
    Race Rating: 7/10

    Best BBC/Sky commentator/presenter: Martin Brundle/Anthony Davidson (Seemed particularly good this week)
    Worst BBC/Sky commentator/ presenter: Simon Lazenby(Doesn’t suit the job) Johnny Herbert (For his ‘pow, take that son,’ or something along those lines, because it sounded ridiculous).
    Best Commentary moment: ‘He’s coming to get you…’
    World feed rating: 6/10 The cameras were good I thought, especially the big pan one off the circuit where it took in the whole of the area from the degners, through the hairpin, and then all the way back around over the bridge. Otherwise, still, and always have been, fed-up with the cut to the replays of the start when the cars are closest on track, and the very last lap of the race where they missed racing because they watched Massa over the line. Makes no sense.

    #211841
    Participant

    Best Driver: Vettel. Who else?
    Worst Driver: I’m going to say Alonso XD
    Best Team: Red Bull
    Worst Team: Caterham
    Best Overtake: Pérez on Hamilton
    Best Funny- moment: Kobayashi speaking Japanese
    Most Surprising Result: Massa 2nd
    Least Surprising Result: Vettel winning
    Special Mention to: Kobayashi, Maldonado, Hülkenberg
    Race Rating: 5/10

    Best BBC/Sky commentator/presenter: Probably DC
    Worst BBC/Sky commentator/ presenter: Probably the other DC
    Best Commentary moment: On the Québec feed, one of the commentators said to another commentator (who’s French), “There’s you compatriot, Grosjean” to which he replied “Well today, he’s Swiss”
    World feed rating: 6/10

    #211842
    Slr
    Participant

    Best Driver: Kamui Kobayashi
    Worst Driver: Romain Grosjean
    Best Team: Red Bull
    Worst Team: Mercedes
    Best Overtake: Perez on Hamilton
    Best Funny- moment: McLaren botching pit stops again
    Most Surprising Result: Felipe Massa
    Least Surprising Result: Sebastian Vettel
    Special Mention to: Pastor Maldonado
    Race Rating: 8/10

    Best BBC/Sky commentator/presenter: Martin Brundle
    Worst BBC/Sky commentator/ presenter: David Coulthard
    Best Commentary moment: “He’s coming to get you” – Brundle
    World feed rating: 7/10

    #211843
    Master firelee
    Participant

    Best Driver: Vettel, Massa & Kobayashi.
    Worst Driver: Grosjean
    Best Team: Mclaren, im not too sure it was a bit mixed for everybody else.
    Worst Team: Mercedes.
    Best Overtake: Perez > Hamilton, the first time.
    Best Funny- moment: Massa botching up the podium?
    Most Surprising Result: Massa podium
    Least Surprising Result: Vettel win.
    Special Mention to:Kobayashi for his podium
    Race Rating: 6/10

    Best BBC/Sky commentator/presenter:
    Worst BBC/Sky commentator/ presenter:
    Best Commentary moment:
    World feed rating: /10

    #211844
    UTBowler0407
    Participant

    Best Driver: Vettel.
    Worst Driver: Grosjean, Senna, Perez
    Best Team: Red Bull. Probably would’ve been a double podium if not for a certain crash-prone Lotus driver.
    Worst Team: Mercedes
    Best Overtake: Perez on Hamilton (the 1st time).
    Best Funny- moment: Webber’s interview after the race.
    Most Surprising Result: Massa and Kobayashi on the podium.
    Least Surprising Result: Grosjean causes into a first lap incident.
    Special Mention to: Kobayashi, Massa
    Race Rating: 5/10

    #211845
    Bullfrog
    Participant

    Best Driver: Vettel. The fickle Vettel finger of fate is pointing towards 3 titles in a row…
    Worst Driver: Grosjean
    Best Team: Red Bull
    Worst Team: Mercedes.
    Best Overtake: Schumacher getting di Resta
    Best Funny- moment: Massa forgetting what to do on a podium. Should’ve asked for another bottle.
    Most Surprising Result: Hamilton qualifying 9th and finishing 5th, looks like he’s practising for next year.
    Least Surprising Result: Vettel winning
    Special Mention to: Great to see Massa and Kobayashi on the podium – good on Massa for seizing the opportunity at last, when a race opened up for him.
    Race Rating: 6/10

    Best BBC/Sky commentator/presenter: David Coulthard
    Worst BBC/Sky commentator/ presenter: Jake Humphrey Too much ponderous build-up and unnecessary put-downs, e.g. of Gary Anderson’s explanation of the Red Bull rear wing. And we now know he’s more interested in QPR v Wigan Athletic than F1.
    Best Commentary moment: David Coulthard’s line about Michael saying “boo” to di Resta as he came past
    World feed rating: 5/10 There’s a race going on dammit, you can show us a replay of Massa crossing the line on his own later…

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