Infinite Improbability Drive of the Season - 2009

crazydude1992 · Post by **crazydude1992** » 17 Nov 2009, 18:08

Kobayashi, because if you look at his pre-F1 career, he was only 16th in GP2...16th! Hell, I and many had expected him to be even slower than Badoer, but...

CarlosFerreira · Post by **CarlosFerreira** » 17 Nov 2009, 18:22

crazydude1992 wrote:Kobayashi, because if you look at his pre-F1 career, he was only 16th in GP2...16th! Hell, I and many had expected him to be even slower than Badoer, but...

That's one vote. What your second?

LionZoo · Post by **LionZoo** » 17 Nov 2009, 20:45

1. Kamui Kobayashi
2. Luca Badoer (simply because him actually getting into a Ferrari seemed so improbable in the beginning of the season...)

I would've voted for Jenson Button, but went against it since Captain Hammer is being a bit of a Button fanboi and throwing his toys out of the pram in regards to Kobayashi at every opportunity simply because Kobayashi victimized Button for some of his finest moments. =P

SuperAguri · Post by **SuperAguri** » 17 Nov 2009, 22:00

Come on people, cast your votes. There are over 500 members on the board and we've just had under 20 votes, that is just 4%!!! Remember to read the first page before casting votes and keep a certain Japanese driver in mind when you vote (hint - it's not Kazuki Nakajima....)

CarlosFerreira · Post by **CarlosFerreira** » 17 Nov 2009, 22:02

SuperAguri wrote:Come on people, cast your votes. There are over 500 members on the board and we've just had under 20 votes, that is just 4%!!! Remember to read the first page before casting votes and keep a certain Japanese driver in mind when you vote (hint - it's not Kazuki Nakajima....)

Ahem....

thehemogoblin · Post by **thehemogoblin** » 17 Nov 2009, 22:22

CarlosFerreira wrote:
SuperAguri wrote:Come on people, cast your votes. There are over 500 members on the board and we've just had under 20 votes, that is just 4%!!! Remember to read the first page before casting votes and keep a certain Japanese driver in mind when you vote (hint - it's not Kazuki Nakajima....)

Ahem....

Agreed. That's totally ballot-stuffing right there.

Post by **DemocalypseNow** » 17 Nov 2009, 22:42

SuperAguri wrote:There are over 500 members on the board and we've just had under 20 votes, that is just 4%!!!

Yeah, but how many of those are now-defunct spam bots? Its like expecting Andrea Moda, Forti, Simtek, etc etc to vote in FOTA elecitons...

lostpin · Post by **lostpin** » 17 Nov 2009, 22:52

Kobayashi, Badoer, Brawn GP... fairly standard, isn't it?

CarlosFerreira · Post by **CarlosFerreira** » 17 Nov 2009, 22:53

kostas22 wrote:
SuperAguri wrote:There are over 500 members on the board and we've just had under 20 votes, that is just 4%!!!

Yeah, but how many of those are now-defunct spam bots? Its like expecting Andrea Moda, Forti, Simtek, etc etc to vote in FOTA elecitons...

You mean they don't?!

SuperAguri · Post by **SuperAguri** » 17 Nov 2009, 23:52

kostas22 wrote:
SuperAguri wrote:There are over 500 members on the board and we've just had under 20 votes, that is just 4%!!!

Yeah, but how many of those are now-defunct spam bots? Its like expecting Andrea Moda, Forti, Simtek, etc etc to vote in FOTA elecitons...

Ahh but top posting members like Yannick, Nuppiz, Henrique, Fjackdaw, Debaser, rfffp, dr-baker, Dontirri and Bleu have all failed to vote even though they have visited the site in the last few days...

Anyway I wasn't ballot stuffing, just hinting that a certain Japanese driver has been driving better then any Japanese driver since Aguri Suzuki, Ukyo Katayama or Takuma Sato...

Bleu · Post by **Bleu** » 18 Nov 2009, 09:22

My vote goes to Button. My main argument is that he looked worse than Rubens in 2008 and then completely destroyed him at the start of the season.

SuperAguri · Post by **SuperAguri** » 18 Nov 2009, 09:28

Glad to see that people are ignoring the first message

thehemogoblin · Post by **thehemogoblin** » 18 Nov 2009, 09:35

Two votes, people. Two.

JamesAllenShoeTrader · Post by **JamesAllenShoeTrader** » 18 Nov 2009, 09:43

1. Brawn GP: Came from nonexistence to to both drivers and constructors champions.
2. Kamui Kobayashi: Came out of nowhere to instant stardom.

Ross Prawn · Post by **Ross Prawn** » 18 Nov 2009, 10:33

SuperAguri wrote:Come on people, cast your votes. There are over 500 members on the board and we've just had under 20 votes, that is just 4%!!! Remember to read the first page before casting votes and keep a certain Japanese driver in mind when you vote (hint - it's not Kazuki Nakajima....)

Ah, ok I understand now:-

1. Mohammed Karzai
2. Robert Mugabe

CarlosFerreira · Post by **CarlosFerreira** » 18 Nov 2009, 10:50

Ross Prawn wrote:
SuperAguri wrote:Come on people, cast your votes. There are over 500 members on the board and we've just had under 20 votes, that is just 4%!!! Remember to read the first page before casting votes and keep a certain Japanese driver in mind when you vote (hint - it's not Kazuki Nakajima....)

Ah, ok I understand now:-

1. Mohammed Karzai
2. Robert Mugabe

That was the funniest post I've read in a while.

Post by **Nuppiz** » 18 Nov 2009, 11:58

Kobayashi and Brawn. There, I've posted here.

dr-baker · Post by **dr-baker** » 18 Nov 2009, 12:01

1. Perry McCarthy
2. Jean-Denis-Delatraz

...both for making it to the final of Race of Rejects. Yeah!

frongor · Post by **frongor** » 18 Nov 2009, 12:40

1. Force India.
I really did not see the results in Belgium and Monza coming.
2. Kobayashi
I lost my confidence in him during this GP2 season, so the pleasant surprise was even greater when he debuted.

The Brawn-story is incredible, but once we saw the testing pace, the actual results was not too surprising.

Warren Hughes · Post by **Warren Hughes** » 18 Nov 2009, 13:25

1. Brawn - I'm sorry, but who expected that!
2. Vettel - we all knew he was a star of the future, but I never thought he would be a title challenger this year.

Bleu · Post by **Bleu** » 18 Nov 2009, 17:47

2nd vote to Red Bull then. Renault engine was not along the best and they were lacking DD at the beginning. Surely they did some mistakes but in overall they were clearly 2nd best team.

MinardiFan95 · Post by **MinardiFan95** » 19 Nov 2009, 11:16

1: HWNSNBM - Will always recieve this award, even though he has been out of F1 since 2004.
2: Cowboy-ashi - Definently the most surprising driver of the season. No-one was expecting him to escape the back row let alone score points and have a battle with the eventual champion
Honourable Mentions: Force India (scoring a podium at Spa), Brawn GP (Winning both championships in first and only season), Renault (Managing to get a driver worse than Piquet) and Mark Webber (First win after 130 starts).

Nemo · Post by **Nemo** » 19 Nov 2009, 12:55

1. Kobayashi - so unfair if he can't get drive for 2010.
2. Hamilton - I did detest him so much it scared me, however, this year he wasn't in the best car for the first time but kept plugging away and avoided making arrogant remarks every time a camera was pointed at him and got decent results by the end. There is hope.

Enrique Bernoldi · Post by **Enrique Bernoldi** » 19 Nov 2009, 17:45

1) Fisichella - for that excellent pole position and second place in Belgium.
2) Kobayashi - for providing the most excitement that Toyota ever produced in Formula One.

howardmb · Post by **howardmb** » 19 Nov 2009, 17:49

OK, ok, I have been shamed by "SUPER Aguri" to vote.

1. Kobayashi

It has to be him. A true-blue nobody who came out of now where to challenge the world champion. In a car that sucked; backed by a team that had to know, at some level, their days were numbered. Morale was down in the dumpster; Fisichella earlier fled to Ferrari for what all knew would only be a handfull of races. Yet, still, this sushi chef apprentice with threadbare qualifications bursts onto the scene and sets jaws dropping and tongues wagging. Who would have guessed?

2. Badoer

I trashed him in earlier posts because it was so ridiculus to expect someone like him to do well in a car. While his performance was poor, it wasn't as bad as it could have been. He gave a reasonable account of himself and likely did better than could have been expected. In hindsight, I was wrong to trash him, he did OK...against all odds.

eagleash · Post by **eagleash** » 19 Nov 2009, 18:42

A) Fisichella...2nd for Force India
B) Fisichella...for making Badyouare, look half decent

Alianora La Canta · Post by **Alianora La Canta** » 19 Nov 2009, 23:49

1. Giancarlo Fisichella at Spa
2. Kamui Kobayashi in Abu Dhabi

deCrasheris · Post by **deCrasheris** » 20 Nov 2009, 01:46

1. Kamui Kobyashi Brasil
2. Giancarlo Fisichella: Belgium

kaiserfranz · Post by **kaiserfranz** » 20 Nov 2009, 07:22

1. Brawn
2. Nico Rosberg

Regarding number 2, either Nakajima was bad or the car was. I'll go with the car and say it was all Rosberg.
I simply can't vote for Kobayashi after only two races.

hclw · Post by **hclw** » 20 Nov 2009, 21:55

1) Adrian Newey for building his first great car in years
2) Barrichello for overcoming his own early season demons to win 2 races

thalion · Post by **thalion** » 22 Nov 2009, 00:08

1. Kobayashi -- I absolutely did not expect him to do as well as he did.
2. Force India -- they produced a car that was capable of winning a race, even if they were foiled yet again by Kimi (+5 vs. Force India).

Debaser · Post by **Debaser** » 22 Nov 2009, 10:43

Kobayashi!!!! He's my man, gets my vote.

thehemogoblin · Post by **thehemogoblin** » 22 Nov 2009, 19:19

Debaser wrote:Kobayashi!!!! He's my man, gets my vote.

Two. Votes.

WeirdKerr · Post by **WeirdKerr** » 22 Nov 2009, 20:47

1 Fisichella for flabbering my gaster with thast pole position at spa and very nearly winning the race
2 Button 12 months ago id written him off as finished..... 12 months on hes champion .....

Ferrim · Post by **Ferrim** » 27 Nov 2009, 18:23

Can I still vote?

1) Brawn GP
2) Kobayashi

Honourable mentions: Farce (sorry Force) India, Luca Badoer (for actually getting to drive a Ferrari), Kimi Raikkonen (for you didn't expect him to become that good in a frozen Ferrari).

CarlosFerreira · Post by **CarlosFerreira** » 28 Nov 2009, 10:10

Ferrim wrote:Can I still vote?

1) Brawn GP
2) Kobayashi

Honourable mentions: Farce (sorry Force) India, Luca Badoer (for actually getting to drive a Ferrari), Kimi Raikkonen (for you didn't expect him to become that good in a frozen Ferrari).

Yes, you can. The vote for the Infinite Improbability Drive of the Season closes at 00.00 next Tuesday, the 30th November, UK time. Please cast your votes if you haven't already.

RAK · Post by **RAK** » 28 Nov 2009, 13:20

1) Brawn GP. Even with the Honda design, getting to the grid at all was a triumph, let alone winning both championships.

2) Kamui Kobayashi. I know it's a bit of a clichéd choice by now, but he's the only driver to have come in during the season and score points (Liuzzi came close, but unreliability meant that it wasn't to be). Beating Nakajima over the course of two races when Nakajima had the whole season is something to talk about.

SuperAguri · Post by **SuperAguri** » 29 Nov 2009, 16:00

CarlosFerreira wrote:The vote for the Infinite Improbability Drive of the Season closes at 00.00 next Tuesday, the 30th November, UK time. Please cast your votes if you haven't already.

I hate to be pedantic but Tuesay is the 1st of Decemeber and Monday is the 30th December. Do you mean at 11:59.59pm on Monday 30th November will be the last second you can vote and on Tuesday 1st December at 12:00am the votes close?

Anyway to everyone that's not voted, and you know who you are...
VOTE NOW!!

Remember to think back to a fantastic driver who might be making sushi over the new year.

CarlosFerreira · Post by **CarlosFerreira** » 29 Nov 2009, 18:08

SuperAguri wrote:
CarlosFerreira wrote:The vote for the Infinite Improbability Drive of the Season closes at 00.00 next Tuesday, the 30th November, UK time. Please cast your votes if you haven't already.

I hate to be pedantic but Tuesay is the 1st of Decemeber and Monday is the 30th December. Do you mean at 11:59.59pm on Monday 30th November will be the last second you can vote and on Tuesday 1st December at 12:00am the votes close?

Yes, I'll close it when it's Tuesday here in the UK. And stop cheating!

thehemogoblin · Post by **thehemogoblin** » 29 Nov 2009, 18:15

CarlosFerreira wrote:
SuperAguri wrote:
CarlosFerreira wrote:The vote for the Infinite Improbability Drive of the Season closes at 00.00 next Tuesday, the 30th November, UK time. Please cast your votes if you haven't already.

I hate to be pedantic but Tuesday is the 1st of Decemeber and Monday is the 30th December. Do you mean at 11:59.59pm on Monday 30th November will be the last second you can vote and on Tuesday 1st December at 12:00am the votes close?

Yes, I'll close it when it's Tuesday here in the UK. And stop cheating!

If you need the extra nine hours, I can close it over here.