Your Reject of the Race - Spain

[Londoner]

1. Stoffel Vandoorne - No idea what he was trying to achieve with that move, unless he decided he didn't want to drive that heap any longer today. In which case, job well done Stoffel.

2. Williams - No race pace whatsoever.

Not going to mention Jolyon Palmer, as this level of performance is rapidly becoming the norm for him...

[Enforcer]

1st - Williams. Miles off the pace.

2nd - Vandoorne. Absent minded turn in on Massa causing a VSC right after Alonso's pit stop, thus ruling out any sniff Alonso might have had of points.

[andrew]

Stoffel- Yes Massa was alongside you
Williams/ Palmer- Awful, just awful.

[novitopoli]

1. Williams - Ridiculous showing, miles off the pace, even behind the Saubers and McLarens. Compare this race with Force India's and see how they're wasting that Mercedes engine.

2. Jolyon Palmer - It was harder to be slower than the Williamses today. Well, it isn't if you are Jolyon Palmer.

[good_Ralf]

1) Williams - They've even fallen behind Toro Rosso after today

2) Stewards - I know Wehrlein's penalty was probably going to happen regardless of who was stewarding but they could've handled some of those incidents better

HM) Vandoorne - Looked as though he was trying to ape Bottas/Vettel's defensive moves and took himself out as a result

[golic_2004]

Vandoorne: At least he apologized for his blindness

Magnussen's tyre: Cutting with just a couple laps to go

[UncreativeUsername37]

3 points for:
Lewis Hamilton, for complaining the whole race then winning
Kimi Räikkönen, for being completely oblivious at turn 1
Stoffel Vandoorne, for being completely oblivious at turn 1
Lance Stroll, who unlike Scott Speed is living up to his name
Jolyon Palmer, for the same reason as Stroll
And 1 point for Marcus Ericsson because he's the only deadbeat teammate left and there was one more point to give out

[dinizintheoven]

Ten points and a tin of surströmming several years past its use by date goes to The Unstoffable Belgian Waffle: mirror, signal, bash! Combine that with a points-scoring performance from the supposedly slowest car on the grid that had to take a penalty, and that was an error of Gutiérrez proportions. Will that be the result that means McLaren end up bottom of the pile in the final reckoning?

Six points and a can of warm Mountain Dew served from Daniel Ricciardo's racing boot goes to Williams: I know Manor have dropped off the grid, but was there any need for this dubious tribute to their fallen Mercedes-engined brothers? At this rate, contracts be damned, McLaren will be hammering on Merc's door (and Eddie Jordan will, once again, turn out to be right all along).

[AdrianBelmonte_]

1. Stoffel Vandoorne

2. Jolyon "another day at the office" Palmer

HM for Manel Navarro

[Dj_bereta]

1 - Vandoorne: Clumsy move towards Massa.

2 - Magnussen: Threw away a points finish with his clash with Kvyat.

[Aislabie]

10 points - Lance Stroll (got his Williams overtaken by a Sauber, a McHonda and his team-mate's post-puncture Williams)
6 points - Jolyon Palmer (for being Jolyon Palmer)

[solarcold]

and a tin of surströmming several years past its use by date

M-man, sure Vandoorne messed up quite a lot there, but that's just, ehm, I mean he already has to drive that McHonda, and a 3-place grid penalty too, so let's save that surströmming for whoever it will be who takes the first victory from Rio Haryanto on his fabolous return in the Monaco Grand Prix after Button confirms he's not really _that_ interested in all this stuff.

My nominations:
1. Vandoorne
2. Palmer
HM. Stroll

[tommykl]

1. As much as it pains me to admit it, that was a poor, poor showing from Stoffel Vandoorne. Inexcusable.

2. Williams. Just painfully slow the whole way through.

[Alextrax52]

1 Stoffel Vandoorne: The award should go to the most stupid thing we see and I have no idea what Stoffel was trying to achieve with that move against Massa. A shame because he was running ok

2 Lance Stroll: I see many nominating the whole Williams team but I disagree. I certainly think Massa would have challenged the points without the damaged car. Stroll was atrocious all weekend consistently well off Massa's pace and he finished behind the Brazilian despite Massa's woes.

HM's

Jolyon Palmer: He is wasting that Renault seat. He finished 9 places and a lap behind Hulkenberg with no problems. That's appalling considering he's in a works car. Even Marcus Ericcson would be an improvement at this rate

McLaren: Only team with no points

[Meatwad]

1. Stoffel Vandoorne: What was he doing? For the first time this season, he really showed his lack of experience.
2. Jolyon Palmer: He has been absolutely nowhere compared to Hülkenberg all season, but today Hulk's result emphasized the difference. I was one of the few who defended Renault's decision to keep Palmer this season as he improved over the year and wasn't that bad for a rookie, but he has actually done much worse than last year. Time for him to go, he has shown what he's capable of.

[Aguvazk]

1 and 2. The number two drivers of the midfield teams: Vandoorne, Stroll, Palmer, Kvyat, all of them with worse race than theirs team mates (it's 4 points for each one)

[Psyclepath]

10 points: Stroll. I don't care about him being a newbie; the fact is Massa beat him despite an extremely incident-strewn afternoon. There's no excuse for that.

6 points: Vandoorne. He was absolutely blind!!

[Spectoremg]

1. Vandoorne. Stupid move and qualifying miles behind your team-mate. You're not as good as I used to think.
2. Williams. What now seems like forever in the doldrums needs a plan which doesn't involve the boss's daughter.

[watka]

1. Stoffel Vandoorne - Why he decided to do that I don't know. He MUST have seen Massa.
2. Williams - Just one of those weekends where they are way, way off the pace. They seem to finish 6th or absolutely nowhere.

HMs: Jolyon Palmer for taking up a decent seat that so many others would do a better job in (but as others have said, its becoming expected now), Carlos Sainz for once again showing he has no idea of how to exit a pit lane

[This Could Be You]

RoTR
1. Massa- Did his best Maldonado impression, but not 2012 Maldonado unfortunately.
2. Palmer- hopeless, as per usual. If I ran Renault, I'd either call up Nasr or promote Siroktin- they could hardly do worse
DHM:
Williams- Sinking down the order fast
McHonda; now they're behind Sauber, who have no money and a 2016 engine. As Alonso would put it- "amazing"
Vandoorne; Mirrors? What mirrors?

[mario]

Ten points and a tin of surströmming several years past its use by date goes to The Unstoffable Belgian Waffle: mirror, signal, bash! Combine that with a points-scoring performance from the supposedly slowest car on the grid that had to take a penalty, and that was an error of Gutiérrez proportions. Will that be the result that means McLaren end up bottom of the pile in the final reckoning?

Surely, by definition, surströmming is already past its use by date...

Either way, I would have to agree that Vandoorne's mistake there may well prove to be rather costly for McLaren by the end of the year. His performances this whole weekend were rather disappointing, and the way that he ended up putting himself out of the race effectively summed up his weekend - the only points he has managed to earn himself are two rather unwelcome points (plus a grid penalty in Monaco) on his superlicence and 10 points from many posters here (myself included).

Whilst I do agree that Palmer and Stroll were completely execrable this weekend, on the other hand they have generally performed so badly during the season that they are at the point where, since my expectations of them are lower than the base of the Kimberley Mine, they almost cannot fall below my expectations.

To that end, I might be inclined to nominate Magnussen for his late race clash with Kvyat - whilst I can appreciate that he was keen to keep Kvyat behind, the way in which he ran into the side of Kvyat looked quite clumsy (like he'd outbraked himself in trying to hold him back) and risked taking them both out of the race. As it was, it failed in both ways - he threw away a points finish for himself whilst losing the place to Kvyat anyway.

[lance_rambert]

1. I'm giving it to Stoffel Vandoorne. - That incident... why? I know the McLaren has its lion's share of speed-related problems, but Massa was definitely alongside Stoffel before turn 1. I didn't think McLaren's most exciting junior prospect since Hamilton would make such a silly cockup. Neither did I expect him to fall behind Alonso to this extent over the course of the weekend.

2. Chase Elliott - Decided to have a similar lack of awareness @ Kansas' pit road as Stoffel, which screwed his and Michael McDowell's race. The big kicker for me is the Hendrick golden boy decided to hassle McDowell under caution, even though it was absolutely not McDowell's fault.

Looks like this weekend was amateur hour for motorsports' most exciting juniors turned drivers for top teams.

HM: Williams

Stroll and Palmer are starting to look like Reject of the YEAR material at this point in the season, so I'm not going to bother giving them further schtick. Unless they do something so stupid that defies expectations.

[CoopsII]

Vandoorne - For that incident. Plus Alonso showed him right up in Qualifying.
Force India - For not getting big enough number decals for the car.

[yannicksamlad]

1. Vandoorne...race and quallie
2. Palmer..race pace

[James1978]

I'm going for McLaren first of all (rather than just vandoorne) as the main reason - they are now plum last in the WDC. 2nd vote is Stroll, just went backwards. Even Palmer beat him!

[Rob Dylan]

Sorry for the long wait - it's been one crazy week for me. Anyway, the results have been counted up in Catalunya, and here they are!

1 Stoffel Vandoorne 179
2 Williams 63
3 Jolyon Palmer 52
4 Lance Stroll 39
5 Magnussen's Tyre 18
6 Felipe Massa 10
- McLaren 10
8 Chase Elliott 6
- Force India 6
- Stewards 6
11 Daniil Kvyat 4
12 Lewis Hamilton 3
- Kimi Räikönnen 3
14 Marcus Ericsson 1

And Stoffel Vandoorne wins by a landslide, for his wonderful move on the Williams! And the Williams team get a commendable runner-up position for their serious lack of pace, with an apparent emphasis on Lance Stroll, who himself came fourth.