2011 Abu Dhabi GP: Nods and Nays

[Rishu]

HONOUR ROLL

Drivers of the Race: Fernando Alonso
Honorable Mention: Lewis Hamilton
Overtaking Move of the Race: Alonso on Button, Lap 1
Race High Point: Vettel in smoke

HORROR ROLL

Driver off the Pace: Michael Schumacher
The Lewis Hamilton Bonehead Move of the Race Award goes to: McDonalds, twice avoiding the blue flag
Race Low Point: Felipe's half spin, potentially costing him P4

Your Take on the Race:

Fantastic Alonso, for a change Ferrrai had a decent result with both the cars, & yes no screaming girl but Senna reincarnation getting the winners message on team radio

[Kyss4k]

HONOUR ROLL

Drivers of the Race: Fernando Alonso!
Honorable Mention: Lewis Hamilton and Kovalainen (3.3 behind Senna, yea with penalty but still, and one lap infront of his teammate)
Overtaking Move of the Race: Alonso on Webber + Button in first turns
Race High Point: Vettel out and Fernando gettin second place

HORROR ROLL

Driver off the Pace: Felipe and Michael (it is hard to write those two...)
The Lewis Hamilton Bonehead Move of the Race Award goes to: All the blue flag sinners
Race Low Point: Felipe from fighting for podium to defending 5th befeore Rosberg... just 1.7 seconds between them at the end of the race

Your Take on the Race:

Great second, mediocre fifth place. Nothing else to say. Not so much action going on so if there wasn't Ferrari guy with a chance to victory it would be quite a boring race for me.

[Suzie]

HONOUR ROLL

Drivers of the Race: Fernando Alonso
Honorable Mention: Nico Rosberg
Overtaking Move of the Race: Alonso at the start getting past Webber and JB
Race High Point: Felipe getting ahead of Webber after their initial duel

HORROR ROLL
Driver off the Pace: I don't even remember seeing Michael until the end when he parked.
The Lewis Hamilton Bonehead Move of the Race Award goes to: Maldonado. What was he doing?!
Race Low Point: Felipe's spin, and when he ran over the bit that flew off the Williams.

Your Take on the Race:
A decent result for the team. Flawless drive from Fernando, and it was a solid race from Felipe until he had that silly spin.

Sick of hearing about Lewis' personal problems and all the pity the BBC are giving him. God help the poor little millionaire who has to go to work and do his job when his private life isn't great - just like the rest of us.

[F1NAC]

HONOUR ROLL

Drivers of the Race: one and the only Fernando Alonso !!!
Honorable Mention: Lewis Hamilton and Alonso , also Kobayashi
Overtaking Move of the Race: Alonso on Webber + Button in first turns
Race High Point: Vettel out definetly
HORROR ROLL

Driver off the Pace: Schumy and Felipe
The Lewis Hamilton Bonehead Move of the Race Award goes to: All the blue flag sinners
Race Low Point: Felipe spun

Your Take on the Race:
Great driving by Fernando , but it's shame looking him in slow car, hopefully next year he'll rock

[RockyRaccoon]

HONOUR ROLL

Drivers of the Race: Fernando Alonso
Honorable Mention: Lewis Hamilton
Overtaking Move of the Race: Alonso on Button
Race High Point: Alonso Podium

HORROR ROLL

Driver off the Pace: Schumacher
The Lewis Hamilton Bonehead Move of the Race Award goes to: Maldonado and Alguersuari, what on earth were they doing??
Race Low Point: Alonso not jumping Hamilton when I thought he might

Your Take on the Race:

Superb race from Alonso and Massa was solid until his spin. Alonso is just on another planet which makes it very difficult for Massa to compete. Great job from Hamilton too.

[Mrs Alonso]

<b>HONOUR ROLL</b><br />
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<b>Drivers of the Race:</b> Fernando Alonso <br />
<b>Honorable Mention:</b> Rubens Barrichello<br />
<b>Overtaking Move of the Race:</b> Alonso on Webber and Button, Lap 1<br />
<b>Race High Point:</b> Nando being close enough to challenge for a win<br />
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<b>HORROR ROLL</b><br />
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<b>Driver off the Pace:</b> Bruno Senna <br />
<b>The Lewis Hamilton Bonehead Move of the Race Award goes to:</b>Pastor Maldonado<br />
<b>Race Low Point:</b> Felipe's half spin, potentially costing him P4, back markers costing Nando time, Ricciardo pitting infront of Nando and Alguersuari's messed up 1st stop.
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<b>Your Take on the Race:</b><br />
<br /> excellent to see Ferrari able to challenge for victory. Been a while since that was possible. Shame Vettel had his problem because although it made the show more interesting without him, I'm sure he could have won today.

[F2008]

HONOUR ROLL

Drivers of the Race: Fernando Alonso
Honorable Mention: Fernando Alonso
Overtaking Move of the Race: Fernando Alonso
Race High Point: Fernando Alonso

HORROR ROLL

Driver off the Pace: Mark Webber
The Lewis Hamilton Bonehead Move of the Race Award goes to: everyone ignoring blue flags
Race Low Point: None!

Your Take on the Race:

Great race, 2nd place really feels like a win these days.

[FFFerrari]

HONOR ROLL

Driver of the Race: Hate to say it...Lewis Hamilton. Pretty much perfect race which is a massive change to what we have seen this season from him.
Honorable Mention: Fernando Alonso. Great start, great overtaking but no win . Also have to mention Kovalainen, great work with a bad car.
Overtaking Move of the Race: Alonso on Button.
Race High Point: Lap 1.

HORROR ROLL

Driver off the Pace: Bruno Senna.
The Lewis Hamilton Bonehead Move of the Race Award goes to: Maldonado. The guy is clearly blind.
Race Low Point: Felipe's spin, costing him P4.

Your Take on the Race:
Very boring track and a very boring race apart from the first lap. Decent result from both drivers, always nice to see Ferrari on the podium.

[F2008]

Webber was going to take P4 anyway, he finished 15 seconds in front, Felipe only lost about 7 seconds with that spin.

[Greig]

HONOR ROLL

Driver of the Race: Fernando Alonso
Honorable Mention: Rubens Barrichello, Bob Marley
Overtaking Move of the Race: Alonso on Button.
Race High Point: Very good start

HORROR ROLL

Driver off the Pace: MS
The Lewis Hamilton Bonehead Move of the Race Award goes to: Backmarkers
Race Low Point: Realising we just did not have enough to win it

Your Take on the Race:
Thought the race was better than I expected, double DRS did not work, although drivers should have ignored the first and just passed in the 2nd, races always seem a bit more exciting when you are challenging for the win

[TheProdigalSon]

HONOR ROLL

Driver of the Race: Hate to say it...Lewis Hamilton. Pretty much perfect race which is a massive change to what we have seen this season from him.
Honorable Mention: Fernando Alonso. Great start, great overtaking but no win . Also have to mention Kovalainen, great work with a bad car.
Overtaking Move of the Race: Alonso on Button.
Race High Point: Lap 1.

HORROR ROLL

Driver off the Pace: Bruno Senna.
The Lewis Hamilton Bonehead Move of the Race Award goes to: Maldonado. The guy is clearly blind.
Race Low Point: Felipe's spin, costing him P4.

Your Take on the Race:
Very boring track and a very boring race apart from the first lap. Decent result from both drivers, always nice to see Ferrari on the podium.

Decent result? You must be living under the Grand Canyon if you missed that we have the third fastest car don't really know how you could expect more really

[FFFerrari]

Decent result? You must be living under the Grand Canyon if you missed that we have the third fastest car don't really know how you could expect more really

I expect the same from every race: a Ferrari win. Everything else is a small or big failure. I know it is currently a tall order, but I can keep expecting ,eh?

[TheProdigalSon]

I expect the same from every race: a Ferrari win. Everything else is a small or big failure. I know it is currently a tall order, but I can keep expecting ,eh?

Your living in cuckoo land if you expect nothing but victory from this car

[dicec2]

I'm not sure if this was mentioned, but on Speed here in the states, a piece of Maldonado's car flew off and landed in the middle of the track. Then they showed Massa coming by and it looked like he nailed it and spun out. I haven't seen it written anywhere, even from the team but that's what it looked like here. Anybody else see that?

[Greig]

he did hit it, but it was not at the same time he spun

[dicec2]

Oh, I'll have to look again. Probably a sneaky replay splice. Steve Matchett actually mentioned that with the spin, I think.

[Poltergeistes]

either way... If Felipe was doing spins 'round the track, shouldn't he get points for that ???

[Nova]

HonorRole...
Driver of the Race: Alonso
Honorable Mention: Kova
Overtaking Move of the Race: Alonso on everyone at the start!!
Race High Point: I really liked when FA was within striking distance of LH, constantly pushing
and setting killer times...thought we were in it w/a shout.

HORROR ROLL
Driver off the Pace: Webber..in that car, I may have won
The Lewis Hamilton Bonehead Move of the Race Award goes to: Maldona
Race Low Point: When we had to put the harder compound on the car..Race got boring knowing that
we werent going to close the gap on anyone, and may even lose places...AND, Felipes spin.

Your Take on the Race: It was an ok race considering Im not crazy at all about the track, the novelty of the pit exit has worn off, n looks plain stupid. Enjoyed the Ferrari's fighting and looking a bit better as of late, and for awhile I honestly thought we may win it. Great drive from FA, Massa was doing well there, he doesnt like the harder compound..that makes 2 of us!! Just pik a tire n race..enough of these kids games already..

[Corey]

HONOUR ROLL

Drivers of the Race: Alonso
Honorable Mention:
Overtaking Move of the Race: Massa on Webber at the 2nd DRS (after mark had him on the first one)
Race High Point: Sebastian DNF

HORROR ROLL

Driver off the Pace: Bruno Senna, not even close to his teammate.
The Lewis Hamilton Bonehead Move of the Race Award goes to: Maldonado
Race Low Point: Sad to see how hunting down button has become defending from Mark. Then the spin and etc etc.

[sv_godspeed]

HONOUR ROLL

Drivers of the Race: Lewis and Fernando - took full advantage of Seb's misfortune
Honorable Mention: Rubens (24th to 12th - pretty good for the 2011 Williams) and Buemi (yes, he retired but had a great race till then - compare with Alguersari fighting with the Lotuses and Virgins at the back)
Overtaking Move of the Race: overtaking? what overtaking?
Race High Point: not much really...another procession with not much action (just wasn't Seb at the front this time)

HORROR ROLL

Driver off the Pace: Senna (way off Petrov and even he isnt really very good!), Trulli (a lap behind Kovi? now, thats shameful), Felipe (hope he's got all the s*** out of his system this year...)
The Lewis Hamilton Bonehead Move of the Race Award goes to: Maldonado (ignoring blue flags? twice!)
Race Low Point: actually, Seb's spin (but it worked out well for Fernando)

[brembo man]

either way... If Felipe was doing spins 'round the track, shouldn't he get points for that ???

Spinning round the track! Culpa da cachaca dentro da Guarana! Forget the red bull!