Infinite Improbability Drive of the Race - Abbie Dabby 2024

[Londoner]

1. Pierre Gasly. At one point he was holding his own in the top 4.

2. Kevin Magnussen. The last ever man to score fastest lap when it actually means something.

[Ciaran]

1. Pierre Gasly.

2. Alex Albon, he was unfortunate to fall outside of the points. It would have been nice for him to snap Williams' recent pointless streak today.

[Salamander]

1. Lewis Hamilton - Storming drive from the back of the grid to beat his teammate on the track. Maybe he still has it, after all? It'd be nice if he did.
2. Alexander Albon - Solid, calm performance to maximise the position he could, right when Williams needed it. Points would've been nice, sure, but ultimately they weren't on today.

[mario]

1. Pierre Gasly. At one point he was holding his own in the top 4.

2. Kevin Magnussen. The last ever man to score fastest lap when it actually means something.

Well, yes and no for Magnussen on that front - being outside of the top 10, it'll count for nothing for him in practice, and the rest of his race kind of unravelled too. I'd argue that Hulkenberg's drive was more worthy - he did about as well as he could have realistically hoped for, and did his best to keep the Alpine-Haas title battle open as well.

[rachel1990]

1- Pierre Gasly - Alpine needed him to deliver and he did. Got them 6th place in the constructors. Great form at the end of the season

2 Alex Albon- nearly got into the points but not a bad result with the Williams held together with Duct tape and glue

Hm The race- best Abu Dhabi race seen in a very long time

[dj_vicious]

1. Charles Leclerc: I know this might be cheating, but that was a stormer of a drive to 3rd.

2. Lewis Hamilton: Pulled a reverse strategy and beat Russell from a worse starting position. This guy can get a random strategy from a bingo roller and make it work to his advantage.

[James1978]

I'll go with Gasly but give HMs to both Leclerc and Hamilton for getting to where they did from lowly grid positions (and it was only right that 12 seasons at Mercedes ended on a high for Hamiton too). Also HM to Norris for delivering under pressure - once Piastri was out of the reckoning he had to do it and did.

[RAK]

1) Nico Hulkenberg: Haas have had a somewhat mixed turn of fortunes over the season, so a high qualifying ending in points is a pretty good showing for them.

2) Pierre Gasly: Easily Alpine's MVP for the year, with a solid performance to add to Alpine's point total.

[Meatwad]

Lewis Hamilton: A great recovery from a disastrous qualifying. Leclerc and Verstappen similarly gained a lot of positions, but doing it with the slightly weaker Mercedes was still more impressive.

[Alextrax52]

As much as Hamilton and Leclerc’s performances were really impressive, neither of them should have been that low on the grid in the first place, One got really unlucky with hitting a bollard and the other compounded his grid penalty with exceeding track limits. Plus with clear top 4 cars you would have expected both of them to get back up to the top anyway. That said though Leclerc put in the best first lap I’ve seen in a very long time. It was like he was playing a video game on easy mode.

So I’m going to give it to Gasly who just like Vegas achieved things on Merit in an average Alpine, this time it was running top 4 and still coming 7th to keep his team 6th in the championship, the last quarter of this season is probably the best I’ve seen him drive since that superlative 2021 for AlphaTauri

[Har1MAS1415]

Hamilton: His last race for Mercedes looked like it was going be one to forget, and that's putting it mildly, then he climbs all the way up to 4th! He's not passed it yet!

[James1978]

Another reason for Gasly which I hadn't realised when originally posting is incurring absolute zero worth of damage for the whole season. That's quite something (especially with his teammate's attempts in Monaco!)