2013 Chinese GP: Nods & Nays

[Rishu]

Honor Role
Driver of the race: Fernando, absolutely flawless
Honorable Mention: Ricciardo
Overtaking Move of the Race: Alonso & Massa on Hamilton on lap 5
Race Highpoint: Start for both red cars

Horror Role
Driver off the pace: Grosjean, Perez
The Lewis Hamilton Bonehead Move of the Race Award goes to: Estaben Guitierrez
Race Low Point: Massa compromised race after a fantastic first stint

Your Take on the Race
Great dominant victory in dry conditions, we are back!!

[Greig]

Honor Role
Driver of the race: Alonso.
Honorable Mention: Button, Hulk.
Overtaking Move of the Race: Alonso and Massa passing Lewis.
Race Highpoint: As above.

Horror Role
Driver off the pace: Perez.
The Lewis Hamilton Bonehead Move of the Race Award goes to: Massa strategy.
Race Low Point: Silly strategy for Massa.

Your Take on the Race
Fantastic pace and we are in with a real chance.

[scuderiafan]

Driver of the race: Fernando, he was next level
Honorable mention: Vettel, Kimi, Lewis, Hulk, Button
Overtaking move: Fernando owning Vettel
Race highpoint: Fernando owning Vettel

Driver off the pace: Sorry Felipe
LH Bonehead move: Sergio Perez weaving about on Kimi, Lewis, Fernando.
Race Low Point: When Felipe lost his pace

Take on the race
Great race and fantastic win like the days before the dark years of 2011 and 2012. More to come please. Utter domination. I have faith Felipe will bounce back for Bahrain.

[tifosi1993]

Honor Role
Driver of the race: Fernando Alonso
Honorable mention: Dan Ricciardo, Jules Bianchi
Overtaking Move of the Race: Both Ferraris on Hamilton on Lap 5
Race Highpoint: As always the start and Fernando's race on prime tyres

Horror Role
Driver off the pace: Grosjean, Perez and....Massa
The Lewis Hamilton Bonehead Move of the Race Award goes to: Esteban Guitierrez on Adrian Sutil
Race Low Point: Felipe's poor race pace on prime tyres

Your Take on the Race
Great Race. Especially when a Ferrari wins.

[Ken]

Honor Role
Driver of the race: Fernando Alonso
Honorable mention: Dan Ricciardo, Jules Bianchi
Overtaking Move of the Race: Both of Alonso's overtakes on the inside of the corner and keeping DRS advantage very clever
Race Highpoint: The Start seeing two red cars in the top 3.
Horror Role
Driver off the pace: Button but that has more to do with the car than driver
The Lewis Hamilton Bonehead Move of the Race Award goes to: Esteban Guitierrez on Adrian Sutil
Race Low Point: Poor strategy for Felipe which lost him time and put him in slow traffic.

Your Take on the Race
Great Race. A very enjoyable race to watch but did not want either Ramilton or Vettel to get 3rd very mixed feelings there

[Ferrari_gal]

to Alonso and Ferrari is again ....
I am so very glad Vettel never made the podium

[Nero Horse]

Honor Role
Driver of the race: Fernando Alonso of course
Honorable Mention: Ricciardo
Overtaking Move of the Race: Alonso and Massa on Hamster
Race Highpoint: The great start for both our guys and the incredible pace of Alonso

Horror Role
Driver off the pace: Grosjean, Massa (wish it wasn't so but unfortunately it is )
The Lewis Hamilton Bonehead Move of the Race Award goes to: hmmm...probably Perez
Race Low Point: Massa being way off pace compared to Fernando

Your Take on the Race: Fantastic race and a great win for Alonso, shame about Felipe (I'm sure he will do much better in the next race). Our car's race pace was just incredible, hopefully we can keep going like this.

[Infi24r]

2013 Chinese GP: Nods & Nays
Honor Role
Driver of the race: Daniel Ricciardo, he finished 2 seconds behind Felipe Massa in a Ferrari. Superb result for him.
Honorable Mention: Alonso, you expect him to be amazing and he was. This is what happens when you give him a competitive car.
Overtaking Move of the Race: I don't really remember many notable ones? The Ferraris on lewis after his tyres had gone
Race Highpoint: Vettel being off the podium

Horror Role
Driver off the pace: Perez was absolutely attrocious. Massa wasn't very strong either unfortunately.
The Lewis Hamilton Bonehead Move of the Race Award goes to: Jean Eric Vergne for turning into Webber.
Race Low Point: The comedy of errors from Red Bull for Webber, that was a joke.

Your Take on the Race
Amazing victory for Ferrari and great to see Vettel beaten by 3 superior drivers.

[Kyss4k]

Honor Role
Driver of the race: we all know...
Honorable Mention: Ricciardo, Kimi, Lewis and probably even Button
Overtaking Move of the Race: Double overtake on Lewis and Fernando's overtakes at turn 13 while keeping the advantage of DRS. Nice stuff.
Race Highpoint: Start and that double overtake

Horror Role
Driver off the pace: Pŕez, Grosjean, Felipe and Williams
The Lewis Hamilton Bonehead Move of the Race Award goes to: Guitierrez + Pérez
Race Low Point: Whatever happened to Felipe's race.

Your Take on the Race
Finally a confirmation that the F138 is a top class car. We couldn't be sure until now, but this weekend... just wow. Thank you Ferrari.

[Jose Lorca]

Honor Role
Driver of the race: Alonso
Honorable Mention: Bianchi for matching Maldonado's laptimes, Button for saving McLaren from disaster, Ricciardo for his incredible race pace
Overtaking Move of the Race: Our drivers overtaking Hamilton
Race Highpoint: When Alonso was comfortably leading, Vettel pitted for fresh tyres and still couldn't close the gap to Alonso.

Horror Role
Driver off the pace: Perez LOL
The Lewis Hamilton Bonehead Move of the Race Award goes to: Perez for his awful defensive driving against Raikkonen.
Race Low Point: Massa being off the pace on medium tyres

Your Take on the Race
Race pace was excellent. Great result for the championship. Very happy.

[Sianellen]

Honor Role
Driver of the race: Fernando.
Honorable Mention: Button is doing well in a car that isn't.
Overtaking Move of the Race: Fernando and Felipe passing Lewis.
Race Highpoint: Great Ferrari start.

Horror Role
Driver off the pace: Perez, although I never thought he was fast on raw speed even at Sauber, his results usually came from being on an alternative strategy.
The Lewis Hamilton Bonehead Move of the Race Award goes to: Red Bull for the disaster that was Webber's weekend.
Race Low Point: Felipe's strategy.

Your Take on the Race
The constant changing of tyres is a bit tedious. The soft tyres are much too soft that they are largely pointless after qualifying.

[fronaldo]

Honor Role
Driver of the race: Fernando Alonso
Honorable mention: Ricciardo,Button
Overtaking Move of the Race: Double attack overtake from Ferraris over Hamilton
Race Highpoint: Great start,double overtake by Alonso over finger boy and Alonso's "i'm not pushing"

Horror Role
Driver off the pace: Grosjean, Perez and....Massa
The Lewis Hamilton Bonehead Move of the Race Award goes to: Esteban Guitierrez
Race Low Point: Bad call on Massa's 1st pit stop

Your Take on the Race
Well controlled race by Alonso..more the same in Bahrain

[NanoTheQuickest]

Honor Role
Driver of the race: Alonso.
Honorable Mention: Iceman & Button & Bianchi (as Flawless as usual at the back)
Overtaking Move of the Race: Alonso diving into turn one on Button. (Now that's commitment)
Race Highpoint: Ferrari's progress.

Horror Role
Driver off the pace: Perez.
The Lewis Hamilton Bonehead Move of the Race Award goes to: E. Guitierrez
Race Low Point:Massa pitting a lap two late and graining. (Should be minimum 4th not 6th)

Your Take on the Race
We are back.

[Alonso14]

Driver of the race: Alonso. The way he sliced through the field was amazing.
Honorable Mention: Ricciardo, Hulk, Button, Helmut Marko's son
Overtaking Move of the Race: Massa and Fernando on Hamilton. Alonso's on the inside of the hairpin whilst having DRS.
Race Highpoint: Vettel missing podium by 2 tenths. Alonso weaving the Ferrari flag!

Horror Role
Driver off the pace: Perez, outside of his podiums he was mediocre in 2012 and you can see why Ferrari opted not to take him.
The Lewis Hamilton Bonehead Move of the Race Award goes to: Gutierrez playing bumper cars with Sutil and Sutil driving his teammate off the track.
Race Low Point: Webber's aim being tad off and missing Vettel with his tyre :D Also, Felipe's inability to get through the traffic.

[killer]

Honor Roll
Driver of the race: Alonso
Honorable Mention: Ricciardo, Hulkenberg, Vettel
Overtaking Move of the Race: Alonso and Massa on Hamilton on lap 5
Race Highpoint: Performance of the F138. Things look promising.

Horror Roll
Driver off the pace: Grosjean, Perez
The Lewis Hamilton Bonehead Move of the Race Award goes to: Massa strategy
Race Low Point: The soft compound tyre.

Your Take on the Race
Fernando drove like a champ and the car was right along with him. Really a shame that we missed out Felipe's strategy; felt a 1-2 was possible. Weaknesses in the RB are starting to show. Mercedes may come strong mid-season. Lotus still a legitimate contender.

[sagi58]

Three humourous moments from the race:

Stella: No need to push!
Alonso: I'm not pushing!



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Stella: FE - NO - MEN - A - LE !!



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Alonso taking off his Pirelli hat for the Podium picture:

[Katu]

Honorable Mention: Iceman & Button & Bianchi (as Flawless as usual at the back)

as i read Jules had brake problems, but stayed almost until the end of the race on leadlap