Infinite Improbability Drive of the Race - USA 2023

[Londoner]

Post your choices for IIDOTR!

[Enforcer]

Tsunoda: Another 2 points in the shitbox whilst everyone makes doe eyes at Lawson & Riccy.

[Ducktanian]

Hamilton - Honestly could've taken that win from Max on merit if not for that first pit stop/stint. Also easily better than Russell all weekend. Good race from Lewis. Lewis didn't lose that race, Mercedes did.

(EDIT: This nomination was before the disqualification)

Stroll: Surprisingly decent performance.

[RAK]

1) Yuki Tsunoda: Outclassed his teammate and scored a point in a very poor car.

2) Lance Stroll: The Aston Martin has dropped well back in terms of pace over the season, but Stroll made up 10 positions in it from a poor qualifying to score points.

[dr-baker]

1) Yuki Tsunoda: Outclassed his teammate and scored a point in a very poor car.

2) Lance Stroll: The Aston Martin has dropped well back in terms of pace over the season, but Stroll made up 10 positions in it from a poor qualifying to score points.

What RAK said. Except Tsunoda scored two points, including Fastest lap.

[rachel1990]

1 Yuki Tsunoda. 2 points in the worst car on the grid. Won't stop Alpha being last but it's a start

2 Lance Stroll. Points. Didn't get out of Q1 though (but neither did Alonso so it was the car this time)

[IceG]

(1) yeah, Tsunoda - did not expect that

(2) also Stroll - he ran he new package, which Alonso rejected as not an improvement, and scored points

[dj_vicious]

Going to copy everyone else's homework with mine.

1) Stroll. A clean quiet drive into the points in a car that seems to have devolved through the season.

2? Tsunoda. A little outpaced by Ricciardo on Fri/Sat, but drove like a man on fire today.

[Batty]

1. Logan Sargeant - He got a point!

2. Yuki Tsunoda - 4 points + an FL in an AT that hasn't seen much improvement

Shoutout Lance for finishing 7th starting from pitlane.

[sswishbone]

1) Aston Martin - to have legitimately come from pit lane start to points was amazing, shame for Alonso but huge kudos to Stroll.

2) Alpha Tauri - very crafty use of Ricciardo's place to test a fastest lap option that initially doubled Tsunoda's points, before the disqualifications giving even more

[Hermann95]

Logan Sargeant, first American to score a point since probably Andretti. And all of this on home soil.

[Alextrax52]

1 Stroll: Given the miserable pace of the Aston Martin prior to Sunday and the car changes which forced a pitlane start, I didn’t expect Alonso to do anything never mind Stroll. And yet Lance put in one of his best drives in a while to take 9th on the road. His subsequent promotion to 7th is his best result since Spain.

2: Tsunoda: Great performance from the Japanese driver. 2 points on the road 1 of which came from his first fastest lap and then the post race drama meant he ended up doubling his team’s entire points total. AlphaTauri will look fondly on this performance if they haul themselves off the bottom

HM: Sargeant: I can’t put him in the top two given he inherited the result afterwards but still he finally has his first point in F1 and only a week after succumbing to the conditions in Qatar as well

[Meatwad]

Yuki Tsunoda: Five points for AlphaTauri, thanks in part to the disqualifications but still. The fastest lap was also impressive in itself. They might not finish last in the WCC after all (they just need to score three more points than Haas in the remaining races, even if that will be difficult).

[James1978]

Yuki gets my vote mainly for FL. Sargeant was good but yes he did only through DQs, and for Stroll I'm thinking that's probably where he should be rather than any great step forward.

[Rob Dylan]

A straightforward race on the positive side of things. Vote for your IIDOTR candidate in the next 48 hours!

[Londoner]

Some inspiring candidates for IIDOTR at Austin.