Infinite Improbability Drive of the Race - Hungary

eagleash · Post by **eagleash** » 01 Aug 2010, 12:53

As the Hungaroring looks a bit Keystone Cops courtesy of the SC & Carlos suns himself somewhere without internet, it again falls to me to set this thread off today:-

"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 Nico Rosberg'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

shinji · Post by **shinji** » 01 Aug 2010, 13:26

13 laps left, but:

1. Petrov
2. Hulkenberg

With de la Rosa not far behind.

Jeroen Krautmeir · Post by **Jeroen Krautmeir** » 01 Aug 2010, 13:42

1. Petrov!!!
2. Kobayashi (He's gone from the last row to 9th so far!!!)

Enforcer · Post by **Enforcer** » 01 Aug 2010, 13:44

1. Kobayashi - Last row of the grid? C'mon, do something that might make it hard for me to score points.
2. Petrov - A solid 5th is imminent.

Debaser · Post by **Debaser** » 01 Aug 2010, 13:46

1) Petrov, fast all weekend and kept it on the island for once.
2) Hulkenburg, a top drive to finish 6th in a donkey of a car and to demolish his teammate. Quite a few contenders for this award, a tough choice for once.

Post by **DemocalypseNow** » 01 Aug 2010, 13:48

1) Petrov
2) Kobayashi

Ducktanian · Post by **Ducktanian** » 01 Aug 2010, 13:58

1. Petrov - 5th Place!
2. Barrichello - For managing to overtake =P

Post by **tommykl** » 01 Aug 2010, 14:02

Petrov and Hulkenberg, for getting their cars up where they shouldn't be.

Barrichello: that pass was magic.

Shizuka · Post by **Shizuka** » 01 Aug 2010, 14:09

02. Vitaly Petrov - For beating Kubica in the qualifying and then keeping his head calm and taking a fifth position! Well deserved! Congratulations.
03. Nico Hülkenberg - For keeping himself calm, not making mistakes and driving in sight of Petrov! Sixth place, eight points! Nice work.

BUT...

KAMUI KOBAYASHI. A burn from the stern. Amazing result! Starting from the 23rd position, then rushing up to the 9th? Of course, this needed a Hamilton, Kubica, Rosberg retirement, but still, well deserved.

mediocre · Post by **mediocre** » 01 Aug 2010, 14:11

1. Cowboy Kamuiashi
2. Vitaly Petrov
3. The this time incredible Hulk

DonTirri · Post by **DonTirri** » 01 Aug 2010, 14:12

1: Kobayashi. Another brilliant drive from Kamui-san. if/when he gets a proper car under him, we're looking for the first ever Japanese gp-winner.
2: Petrov: My god, unlike piquet last year, he actually took heed when told its "Tulos tai ulos" i.e "Result or out". 5th is very epic.

Valrys · Post by **Valrys** » 01 Aug 2010, 14:17

Kobayashi - brilliant first lap, good pace throughout, just an all round excellent race
The New Teams - All the cars to the finish, none of the them blocked or did anything stupid, and even Yamamoto wasn't too shabby on the pace. Showing promise.

Bleu · Post by **Bleu** » 01 Aug 2010, 14:18

1. Hülkenberg - finally great result
2. New teams reliability - first time all of them finished

Klon · Post by **Klon** » 01 Aug 2010, 14:19

Debaser wrote:1) Petrov, fast all weekend and kept it on the island for once.
2) Hulkenburg, a top drive to finish 6th in a donkey of a car and to demolish his teammate. Quite a few contenders for this award, a tough choice for once.

I will have some copypasta, if you don't mind.

ADx_Wales · Post by **ADx_Wales** » 01 Aug 2010, 14:20

Vitaly Petrov? Who'd have thought fifth place was on his radar.

Shizuka · Post by **Shizuka** » 01 Aug 2010, 14:20

Well, yeah, the new teams. All six cars got to the finish! First time ever? And on the Hungaroring! And Lotus again got the upper hand of Branson's team!

Ed24 · Post by **Ed24** » 01 Aug 2010, 14:27

1. Petrov
2. de la Rosa

watka · Post by **watka** » 01 Aug 2010, 14:45

Loads of candidates this time, but I will say:

1. Rubens Barrichello - for 10th place, I would have back off if Schumi shoved me up against the wall. Keeping his foot in it was very impressive.
2. Kamui Kobayashi - I think I'd be right in saying he is the only driver this season to have got points despite starting on the back row of the grid.

For the record, I'd say 3rd = Petrov, 4th = Hulkenberg, 5th = De La Rosa, 6th = New teams for all finishing

tkcom · Post by **tkcom** » 01 Aug 2010, 14:48

Kobayashi - great recovery from the back (and for once, a streak of luck on his car's reliability)
Petrov - highest finish for a rookie this season so far

FullMetalJack · Post by **FullMetalJack** » 01 Aug 2010, 15:07

1. Vitaly Petrov
2. Nico Hulkenburg

Honourable mentions go to De La Rosa, Kobayashi and The New Teams.

jackanderton · Post by **jackanderton** » 01 Aug 2010, 15:16

Hulkenberg. Though for his most impressive drive he was almost invisible. Heidfeldian-type abilities to sneak under the radar.

Runner-up goes to Petrov. He converted that pace into a mature drive. We'll make an F1 driver out of him yet!

Sauber deserve a mention, but they don't quite outshine good days for the young number 2 drivers who if it wasn't for the amount of dangerous incidents, we would all be discussing.

amunt · Post by **amunt** » 01 Aug 2010, 15:55

Mark Webber - after he did not pit under safety car, I thought his race was effectively over
Vitaly Petrov - easily the race of his life; a deserved result and a good reward for the misfortunes of the first half of the season

Honourable 3rd place to Hulkenberg, de la Rosa, and the new teams

jackanderton · Post by **jackanderton** » 01 Aug 2010, 16:01

Just looking at the full race results...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/motorsp ... 499283.stm

According to the BBC Lucas Di Grassi managed the fastest lap in 27 seconds, which must be worth acknowledging!

eagleash · Post by **eagleash** » 01 Aug 2010, 16:07

Sauber, good effort by both drivers.

New teams.

Like to mention Rubens for being able to laugh about Michael. I suppose he's used to it by now.....

thehemogoblin · Post by **thehemogoblin** » 01 Aug 2010, 16:44

Mark Webber: That was an incredible drive, lasting so long on those well-worn option tires.

Rookie drivers: Great drives by Petrov, Hulkenberg and Kobayashi.

Salamander · Post by **Salamander** » 01 Aug 2010, 16:56

1. Petrov - Absolutely stunning drive, he managed to keep Kubica honest all throughout the weekend, and only made one mistake as far as I could tell. If he keeps this up, his seat should be very safe.
2. Kobayashi - Another banzai drive from Cowboyashi. 23rd to 9th on a track notoriously difficult to pass on is a superb effort, and more than makes up for his post-qualifying antics.

Dan B · Post by **Dan B** » 01 Aug 2010, 17:02

1) Rookie drivers; Hulkenberg, Kobayashi, and Petrov had excellent drives. Even Di Grassi and Senna didn't have bad drives, and their cars are worse than lackluster. Good job.

2) De La Rosa; the guy still has it, and the car obviously favors the European tracks.

Jack O Malley · Post by **Jack O Malley** » 01 Aug 2010, 19:31

1) Koba
2) The Hulk

beetleman64 · Post by **beetleman64** » 01 Aug 2010, 20:04

1. Sauber - both cars in the points on a track which shouldn't suit them. Kobayashi form 23rd to 9th too.

2. Petrov - kept Kubica honest all weekend and got a deserved 5th place.

Phoenix · Post by **Phoenix** » 01 Aug 2010, 20:33

My choices:
-Vitaly Petrov: by far the Russian's best outing so far. He constantly had the measure of Kubica and saved Renault's honor with a solid drive to 5th place.
-Both Sauber drivers, but especially Pedro de la Rosa: his qualifying was stunning, being 9th on the grid, and then he got a 7th place, which, considering how unlucky the guy has constantly been over the season, was unexpected. And Kobayashi did a phenomenal start from 23rd on the grid and brought Sauber 2 points for his 9th place. Who would have thought that some races ago?
-Nico Hülkenberg: trashed Barrichello and finished 6th, which is a good and solid effort, really.

Barbazza · Post by **Barbazza** » 01 Aug 2010, 21:07

Rubens, for keeping his foot in when Michael was being idiotic and then laughing it all off at the end rather than going off on one. 'Let the viewers decide' indeed!

Sauber, for coming such a long way since the start of the season and beating a McLaren on pace.

Petrov just misses out for that pathetic non-attempt to keep Lewis behind I'm afraid.

Post by **mario** » 01 Aug 2010, 21:20

For my 2 cents, for what it is worth:

1) Petrov - although he had improved in Hockenheim, he was on excellent form all weekend, as he was consistently quicker then Kubica. He put in a decent qualifying lap, considering that he had to use a used set of tyres, made a strong start and drove a sensible race to a solid, and thoroughtly deserved 5th place. OK, the only let down was the fact that he made a mistake in trying to get on the power too early in Turn 1 and let Hamilton through into Turn 2 as a result, but he withstood the pressure from Rosberg, and was pulling away from him gradually before the stops.
Considering that only a few races ago, the Renault management were starting to get a little frustrated with Petrov, he seems to have coped well with the pressure recently, and stepped up a gear. I only hope that he manages to keep this run of form up for the rest of the season.

2) All three new teams - for all three teams to make it to the end of the race with both cars still running was a major achievement for all of them, given the problems they have faced. OK, they were still the thick end of 2s a lap off Liuzzi in 13th place, but even so, it seems that they have all, hopefully, got reliable enough cars to at least finish the races, even if they are still some way off the rest of the field.

Honourable mentions for Kobayashi (he made a brilliant start - he promised Legard that he would be in 12th by the end of the 2nd lap, and certainly went about the right way to do that), De La Rosa (who also had quite good pace this weekend, and got into the top 10 on merit), along with Hulkenberg (for managing to quietly work his was into 6th place) and Rubens (for the sheer bravado when stuffing his car down the inside of a very aggressive Schumacher).

TomWazzleshaw · Post by **TomWazzleshaw** » 01 Aug 2010, 22:19

1. Petrov: Put in the best drive of his career by far and beat Kubica in the process
2. Kobayashi: Made an epic start (again) and scored some more points

AndreaModa · Post by **AndreaModa** » 01 Aug 2010, 22:48

1) Petrov

2) Kobayashi

Overall there were some pretty good drives out there though. Mario's pointed out how all 3 new teams got both cars to the finish, and also Hulkenberg had a very solid race. At this rate, Williams will overhaul The Force for 6th in the WCC!

Yannick · Post by **Yannick** » 02 Aug 2010, 11:45

This time, I must go for the popular vote of

1) Vitaly Petrov
2) Kamui Kobayashi (he's just in 2nd because it's a first for Petrov and an important contribution to the unrejectification - otherwise, going from P23 to P9 is flawless - especially with a car that is not of the top league and on a track that is known as not being one of the team's favourites.)

MinardiFan95 · Post by **MinardiFan95** » 02 Aug 2010, 12:36

Kobayashi - 23rd to 9th - what else can I say?
Petrov - When was the last time a pay driver came 5th in a F1 race?

An honourable mention goes to the new teams - all of them had both cars finish.

RAK · Post by **RAK** » 02 Aug 2010, 15:28

1) Vitaly Petrov: After a rather lacklustre season start, he finally proves his potential with a strong drive in both qualifying and the race.

2) Nico Hulkenberg: Sixth place wasn't exactly what I was expecting here. Another rookie driver with a result that brings him further away from rejectdom.

Honourable mentions go to the Sauber drivers - de la Rosa for managing to make Q3 and scoring points for the first time this season, Kobayashi for making up fourteen places on the Hungaroring of all circuits - and the new teams for reliability.

madcat · Post by **madcat** » 02 Aug 2010, 15:36

Rosberg's tyre: Best overtake manouvre, straight past the Sauber but the Williams got in the way.

Waris · Post by **Waris** » 03 Aug 2010, 04:50

1. Petrov - Wow! He might be actually beginning to show potential. I didn't think much of him at the beginning of the season, but if he keeps it up like this, he might become an interesting addition to F1.
2. Hülkenberg - Excellent solid drive and also showcasing potential.

dr-baker · Post by **dr-baker** » 04 Aug 2010, 10:32

1st.= Vitaly Petrol and Kobayashi - No idea who I was more impressed with.

Next position - Barrichello for that move on Schumi.

Also a special mention for a non-driver - Nigel Hope of the Williams pit crew for unintentionally bringing Rosberg's errant wheel to a halt, being unconscious for several seconds then later being involved with Barrichello's pit stop. Have to be made of stern stuff at Williams!