based on the assumption that, at any moment in time, there is a non-zero probability that even the slowest, most inexperienced and least reliable of underdogs might win the race. That under every rock, there might be a gold nugget. This is the award for that first podium that we all celebrate, for the overtake no-one was expecting, for Ericsson's first win. This is the award, in short, for the driver or team that makes you go "Woah! Where did THAT come from?!".
Just remember: this is a feel-good award, that will focus on nothing but track action. Usual rules: everyone gets two votes. First vote is worth 10 points, the second 6.
Post your results until May 17 @ 1800 GMT.
Biscione's picks; 1st Carlos Sainz 2nd Max Verstappen
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10 points - Max Verstappen Safe to say he had a pretty good day today.
6 points - Marcus Ericsson Continues to consistently beat his team-mate, and pulled off a series of late overtakes that were barely even noticed while everyone focussed on the front four.
Not allowed to nominate - Helmut Marko Pretty good call on promoting Max Verstappen, despite the bad press he'd inevitably get for it.
Honourable mentions: Daniel Ricciardo (for holding on to (another) fourth place despite a penultimate-lap puncture), Kimi Raikkonen, and Carlos Sainz
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1. Max Verstappen - Yes, I don't like the kid. Yes, he was helped immensely by being on the best of the four dreadful strategies that the front runners were on. But to hold off Raikkonen for 30 laps on old tyres is something else entirely.
2. Carlos Sainz Jr - First step to unrejectification!
Fetzie on Ferrari wrote:How does a driver hurtling around a race track while they're sous-viding in their overalls have a better understanding of the race than a team of strategy engineers in an air-conditioned room?l
1- Max Verstappen - Yes I think Red Bull manufactured it for him to win but he had to get into that position in the first place. Good defending as well.
2- Carlos Sainz- 6th place must taste bitter for him because he could had been in Verstappens place but saying that he badly outperformed his teammate Kvyat (who is going to get chucked out of Red Bull sooner rather than later) and gave Helmut Marko another headache
I got Pointed Opinions and I ain't afraid to use em! F1rejects no.1Räikkönen and Vettel fan. BTW, thats Räikkönen with two K's and two N's. Not Raikonnen (Raikkonen is fine if you have no umlauts though)
1. Carlos Sainz - career best without the benefit of a superior car, thrashing Kvyat in the process 2. Kimi Räikkönen - challenging for the win for the first time in years
I won't nominate Verstappen, because nothing that happened today seemed improbable. Considering Ferrari and Ricciardo's side of Red Bull completely bathplugged their strategy, it was always Verstappen's race to lose.
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1. Max Verstappen -1st win, many more to come! Max has again proven his great talent.
=2. Carlos Sainz - Impressive performance, he will be happy for 6th. Outpaced Kvyat by a big margin. =2. Kimi Raikkonen - He will be happy with 2nd, not a win but still close to his 1st win in 3 years.
1. Max Verstappen: One word is enough: incredible. 2. Carlos Sainz, Jr.: He did a great job with a mid-grid car. Impressively fought the Ferraris until the inevitable happened.
Honorable mention: Mercedes: They made it possible.
1. Max Verstappen - "He will get destroyed by Ricciardo", "he can't handle the pressure". Ricciardo was generally quicker, but Max certainly wasn't embarrassing. Also, he freaking won. 2. Carlos Sainz, Jr. - Just needs a top five finish now
1. MAX VERSTAPPEN!!!!!!!!!!! HE DID IT!!!! 2016 is year of surprises after Leicester City wins BPL. 2. Carlos Sainz Jr. I don't see that coming in a car that have a year old engine.
Honorable mention: Mercedes drivers makes the race wide-open competition.
Anyone who fails to vote for Max is..... no word.
Rio Haryanto for the win! He upon seeing me accidentaly paint Belgian flag rotated 90 deg to right tommykl returns from the bathroom tommykl reads the chat logs tommykl has a stroke
Get this. I'm giving my ten points to The Mercedes drivers - even though I've also nominated them for the full ten in ROTR. Why? well, because without that clash, don't you think it would have been yet another Merc processional one-two? If there are going to be any results this season that aren't a Mercedes win, then at the very least there has to be one of them retiring or having severe mechanical failure - which, by and large, they don't. And only an incident such as theirs can open it up for the rest of the field.
Six points go to... no, not Max - because, for reasons which many others have mentioned, I don't get that same sense of satisfaction as I did from Seb winning at Monza in a Toro Rosso with ex-Minardi staff still building the car, or from Pastor "if you go for a gap that is no longer there" Maldonado four years ago because that came right out of the blue and a repeat was never threatened. I get this sense that, with Max now firmly rooted as the golden boy at Red Bull, the knock-on effect might be to send Daniel Ricciardo knocking at Ferrari's door...
...so instead my six points go to Max's ex-team-mate, Carlos Sainz the younger, the other son of a World Champion, for running third earlier and still holding a solid sixth at the end - and with last year's engine.
James Allen, on his favourite F1 engine of all time: "...the Life W12, I can't describe the noise to you, but imagine filling your dustbin with nuts and bolts, and then throwing it down the stairs, it was something akin to that!"
1. Golden Boy -Um yes, despite my opinion on the circumstances, no one would ever have expected this and that is exactly what this award is about. And yes he did have to be in position to capitalize but its nothing that say Kvyat or Sainz couldn't have done under the same conditions.
2. Carlos Sainz Jr. - Got up to third at the start and finally had a clean issue free race to get his career best finish. Though I'm slightly disapointed that Bottas jumped him in the first pitstops, they could have had a decent scrap for 5th otherwise.
Mentions
Esteban Gutierrez - Narrowly missed out on a point thanks to alternate strategy.
1. Rio Haryanto - possibly the finest race yet from the future world champion 2. Max Verstappen - all right, all right
Murray Walker at the 1997 Austrian Grand Prix wrote:The other [Stewart] driver, who nobody's been paying attention to, because he's disappointing, is Jan Magnussen.
1) Max Verstappen - It wasn't completely on merit but I'm so pleased for him. 2) Carlos Sainz - An excellent drive on home soil.
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Allard Kalff in 1994 wrote:OH!! Schumacher in the wall! Right in front of us, Michael Schumacher is in the wall! He's hit the pitwall, he c... Ah, it's Jos Verstappen.
1st. Max Verstappen - I mean, wow. Who the bathplug expected that? Absolutely amazing race, he was just faultless really and made that strategy work.
2nd. Carlos Sainz Jr. - Very strong race from Carlos, did everything he could with a Toro Rosso rather down on power.
Mitch Hedberg wrote:I want to be a race car passenger: just a guy who bugs the driver. Say man, can I turn on the radio? You should slow down. Why do we gotta keep going in circles? Man, you really like Tide...
1) Carlos Sainz Jr.. Got the Toro Rosso to third and put up a good fight for most of the race. Certainly proved he had the speed when he needed to.
2) Max Verstappen. Did not expect him to win for sure, but some strategic blunders from his opponents helped him clinch the win today. Still, he certainly stuck to the new car very well.
Honorable mentions:
Lewis Hamilton: His first lap moment prevented another Mercedes 1-2 and made the race interesting IMO.
Esteban Gutierrez: Got the better of his teammate after several mediocre performances.
Felipe Massa: Fell down to 20th (!) at the start, but did a good job rallying up the field to salvage some points.
Klon wrote:What did poor André do to you for him to be insulted like that?
(Tony Jardine, 1988)
