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Best Driver: Magnussen
Worst Driver: Tough decision. Gutierrez, I’d say, just based on the fact that he was off the pace of his teammate for most of the weekend.
Best Team: Mercedes. Probably would’ve had an easy 1-2 if not for Hamilton’s engine going down a cylinder.
Worst Team: Lotus
Best Overtake: Bottas on Raikkonen. Great stuff.
Funniest Moment: Button’s front end getting circumcised during the pitstop.
Most Surprising Result: Double podium for McLaren, both Toro Rossos finishing in the points
Least Surprising Result: Mercedes domination, Lotus failing to finish
Special Mention to: Ricciardo, Rosberg, Bottas, Kvyat
Race Rating: 8/10

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Best Driver: Button
Worst Driver: Maldonado/Hamilton
Best Team: McLaren
Worst Team: Toro Rosso–squandered a good quali result.
Best Overtake: Button on Gutierrez
Funniest moment: Massa raging over the penalty
Most Surprising Result: McLaren finishing 4th and 6th
Least Surprising Result: Vettel
Special Mention to: Vettel, Button, Perez, Grosjean, Webber
Race Rating: 7/10

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Best Driver: Vettel
Worst Driver: Kimi
Best Team: Red Bull
Worst Team: Toro Rosso
Best Overtake: Massa on…Hamilton?
Funniest moment: Smedley’s radio message to Massa
Most Surprising Result: Kimi out at the first corner
Least Surprising Result: Another Vettel runaway
Special Mention to: Grosjean, Rosberg
Race Rating: 5/10

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This may be one of the worst ideas I’ve ever heard. Between vote-to-pass and adding a 100 meter sprint between cars, this series is an absolute joke.

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Best Driver: I’ll go with Webber on this one. Definition of perserverence right there.
Worst Driver: Massa
Best Team: Lotus
Worst Team: Williams. What an awful car.
Best Overtake: Perez on Button
Best Funny- moment: The Marussia rolling back down the hill, although my initial reaction was “Oh God, I hope no one hits it!”
Most Surprising Result: Double podium for Lotus
Least Surprising Result: No points for Williams, again
Special Mention to: Vettel, Grosjean, Button
Race Rating: 9/10

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Best Driver: Rosberg
Worst Driver: Grosjean
Best Team: Merc
Worst Team: Marussia
Best Overtake: Sutil on Alonso, Perez on Button
Best Funny- moment: The pigeon on the circuit
Most Surprising Result: Such a dominant weekend for Mercedes
Least Surprising Result: Grosjean causing a big crash.
Special Mention to: Sutil for 5th, Kimi for charging back into the points.
Race Rating: 7/10

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Best Driver: Alonso and Massa.
Worst Driver: Hamilton
Best Team: Ferrari
Worst Team: Williams
Best Overtake: Alonso’s move from 5th to 3rd in one corner.
Best Funny- moment: “I can’t drive any slower” and “Oh God, I’ve just been overtaken by a Williams!”
Most Surprising Result: No Red Bulls on the podium
Least Surprising Result: Mercedes’ dropoff from Saturday to Sunday.
Special Mention to: Kimi, and Gutierrez.
Race Rating: 7/10

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Best Driver: Webber
Worst Driver: Maldonado
Best Team: Red Bull
Worst Team: Force India
Best Overtake: Vettel on Webber. As dirty and underhanded as it was, it was quite entertaining.
Best Funny-moment: Hamilton pulling into the McLaren pit, Webber’s post-race reaction
Most Surprising Result: Alonso crashing out.
Least Surprising Result: Vettel winning from pole.
Special Mention to: Bianchi, P13!
Race Rating: 8/10

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Best Driver: Kimi
Worst Driver: van der Garde
Best Team: Ferrari
Worst Team: Caterham
Best Overtake: Alonso on Hamilton
Best Funny-moment: Sutil getting blue flags repeatedly.
Most Surprising Result: Solid day from Force India, no Red Bull domination
Least Surprising Result: Caterham well off the pace, Ferrari intentionally botching Massa’s race strategy
Special Mention to: Sutil, Massa, Alonso, Bianchi
Race Rating: 9/10

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Best Driver: Hamilton
Worst Driver: Schumacher
Best Team: Ferrari
Worst Team: Mercedes; they’re in danger of moving down to 6th in the WCC (and no points since Singapore!)
Best Overtake: Raikkonen on Hulkenberg
Best Funny-moment: Nothing really
Most Surprising Result: Grosjean recovering from his spin to get a decent finish
Least Surprising Result: Vettel and Horner whining, as always. And Ferrari teams orders.
Special Mention to: Massa, Button, Alonso
Race Rating: 8/10

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Best Driver: Kimi
Worst Driver: Webber had a bad day, but I’ll give it to Perez on this one.
Best Team: Red Bull
Worst Team: Mercedes
Best Overtake: Vettel on Button
Best Funny- moment: Kimi’s radio messages, Vettel screaming about Ricciardo, the podium interviews
Most Surprising Result: An exciting race in Abu Dhabi!
Least Surprising Result: RBR basically locking up the WCC.
Special Mention to: Vettel and Hamilton
Race Rating: 10/10

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Best Driver: Vettel
Worst Driver: Kobayashi
Best Team: Red Bull, Toro Rosso
Worst Team: Mercedes, Williams
Best Overtake: Hulkenburg on Hamilton and someone else…I could’ve sworn it was one of the Lotuses but I could be mistaken.
Best Funny- moment: Astroturf on Hamilton’s car, and Vettel’s podium interview getting interrupted.
Most Surprising Result: Double points finish for Toro Rosso
Least Surprising Result: Red Bull domination, Ferrari team orders
Special Mention to: Felipe. Would’ve been a podium if it weren’t for team orders.
Race Rating: 8/10

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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

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Best Driver: Vettel, di Resta
Worst Driver: Schumacher, Karthikeyan
Best Team: McLaren (based on pace, not reliability)
Worst Team: Williams
Best Overtake: Massa on Senna
Best Funny- moment: Button nearly hitting Vettel under the safety car, Massa’s pass on Senna, and of course “What happened there?!”
Most Surprising Result: Paul di Resta nearly getting a podium
Least Surprising Result: Karthikeyan crashing again.
Special Mention to: Timo Glock and Marussia. Of course most of that was caused by car failures, collisions, punctures, etc., but 12th is still 12th.
Race Rating: 5.5/10

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And I’m sure if he hadn’t said anything about Dr. Watkins, he’d be criticized by some for that too. Fact is we don’t know how well they knew each other (if at all). I have no problem with him saying what he said.

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