Grand Prix Rejects

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 Charles Pic'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.

Results to be done: September 13th, Saturday

1. Perez
2. Perez

1st.Sergio Perez-Need any explanation?

2nd.Lewis Hamilton-From tweeting and madness one race to winning the next,give credit to him to bouncing back.

1. Perez
2. Massa

1. Perez

2. Alonso

Sergio "SPEED KING" Perez - With Ferrari engine beating Ferrari in their own turf. Embarrassing.
Jerome d'Ambrosio - For bringing the car home (for GGRRRSSSJJNNN to bin in another race!)

1. Perez
2. Alonso (just because of his recovery job)

HM: Hulkenberg, might have scored if the car hadn't packed up.

1. Obvious winner being Perez there.

2. Massa, as much as I'd like to see him score a podium Alonso and Perez were faster.

1. Perez: 2nd in what should have been a win for Sauber.

2. Massa: His best drive in a looooooooooooooooooooooong time.

1 - Sergio 'Speedy Gonzalez' Perez - Need I explain?

2 - Felipe 'Dead beat' Massa - Showed pace we haven't seen since Germany 2010.

Honourable mention to Mercedes for not being shite.

I'm gonna go with Pérez and Massa as well.

No brainer here

Sergio "Checo" Perez: Using late 80's, early 90's strategy, drove like a real champion, with a titanic burn-from-the stern, and owning the factory Ferraris with the customer in the house of the Il Cavallino Rampante. Fernando who?

Felipe Massa: Finally a solid drive for Felipinho. Shame for the "Fernando is faster than you 2.0", but he needed to be a team player.

Honorable mention to Mercedes, since both cars recovered at the end, Schumi almost got Kimi and Nico-Nico return to form.

The Clash of the Titans Award goes to Fernando Alonso: Survived Vetell's sweep without damages.

1) Perez: Completely unexpected.
2) Massa: Was quite fast the whole day.

1. Pérez: Another brilliant, unexpected result.
2. Massa: Awesome qualifying! He could have been on podium without team orders.

1. Perez
2. Massa

That was easy.

1. Perez- quite wonderfully quick and had to make passes stick. Alonso must now start becoming Massa's biggest advocate.

2. Massa- made the impression that he is a competent grand prix driver

Kimi Raikkonen - 35 laps on those tyres and he still pipped Schumacher to the line. Almost beat Massa too. Much more impressive than Perez.
Lewis Hamilton - Did his job.

Why are people nominating Massa? He was slow all day. He kept losing .3-.4s through the first sector, and any bit of time that he gained in S2 would be lost in S3 anyway. And I'm saying this as a Massa fan first and foremost.
Hell, why are people nominating Perez? It's definitely not the first time we've seen just how advantageous it can be to get knocked out in Q2. Alonso and Perez in Australia, Vettel in China, Raikkonen in Bahrain, Alonso again in Europe, Kobayashi in Germany...

1: Perez
2: Maldonado- didn't score any points, but he managed to do so in a way that didn't involve crashing and such like. As far as I'm aware. Given recent races that seems pretty improbable.

1. Perez
2. Massa (He's been better of late).

1.Perez. I've said it before and I'll say it again, he is a champion in waiting and IMHO is too good for the Ferrari #2 spot
2. Senna. Only one point, but a point here and a point there (four to be precise) and he'll have outscored Maldonado

Honourable mention to Massa, although he could have done without Perez beating him again

1) Sergio Perez - storming through the field drive on reverse strategy to score excellent podium

2) Attrition - When was the last time three title contenders all retired due to mechanical issues? I rest my case

1. Perez
2. Massa

Bleu wrote:1. Perez
2. Massa

This.

1. Perez
2. Massa

Just to be slightly different:

1. Massa
2. Perez

Has to be Perez. A stunning drive by a future World Champion.

Hamilton too, a near lights-to-flag victory.

Honourable mention to the backmarker teams, who got both cars home with no problems. Unlike some World Champion teams.

14 Hundred Hours wrote:1: Perez
2: Maldonado- didn't score any points, but he managed to do so in a way that didn't involve crashing and such like. As far as I'm aware. Given recent races that seems pretty improbable.

Yeah, I'm going with this as well, because I was certain that he would clatter into some poor souls at the start...

1) Perez
2) Massa

Mercedes were close - I genuinely think that they did well considering that a 2 stopper really shouldn't have worked.

Speaking of improbable:




1. The Spa 1st corner casualties. Good job filling the podium a week later.
2. Can't really think of another one except for Massa's qualifying effort.

1. Sergio Perez - That Ferrari seat has to be his now, it just has to be.
2. Felipe Massa - Probably the best we've seen of him since Germany 2010.

1. Perez

2. Di Resta I guess for his qually and scored solid points.

Pamphlet wrote:Hell, why are people nominating Perez? It's definitely not the first time we've seen just how advantageous it can be to get knocked out in Q2. Alonso and Perez in Australia, Vettel in China, Raikkonen in Bahrain, Alonso again in Europe, Kobayashi in Germany...

Well probably becuase plenty of other drivers who missed Q2 had plenty of opportunity to the same strategy and failed to - one of whom was driving a Red Bull.

James1978 wrote:

Pamphlet wrote:Hell, why are people nominating Perez? It's definitely not the first time we've seen just how advantageous it can be to get knocked out in Q2. Alonso and Perez in Australia, Vettel in China, Raikkonen in Bahrain, Alonso again in Europe, Kobayashi in Germany...

Well probably becuase plenty of other drivers who missed Q2 had plenty of opportunity to the same strategy and failed to - one of whom was driving a Red Bull.

The Red Bull was extremely poor today. Sauber, on the other hand, had a great car on race day, even better than the Ferrari. If anything, this paints Kobayashi in an extremely bad light.

Perez
Massa

Perez
Massa

1. Perez, because that's obvious. I didn't think he'd make the podium, even after seeing him go so long on the hard tyres.
2. Maldonado, for having a clean weekend, keeping quiet for once and not crashing into anything!

2. Maldonado, for having a clean weekend, keeping quiet for once and not crashing into anything!

Nah I'd give hime a ROTR for not trying hard enough!

Pamphlet wrote:If anything, this paints Kobayashi in an extremely bad light.

I think Kobayashi was hamstrung by his choice of strategy. Starting on the faster tyre really limited his options.

Perhaps the FIA should consider amending the "top ten start on the tyres they qualified with" to be "the top ten start on the same compound they qualified with", which I think would allow for a little more diversity in strategy.

1. Perez (duh)
2. I dunno, let's say Hamilton

Going against the notion, and since my nominations won't change Perez' inevitable IIDOTR with Massa in second:

1. Pic
He was about 10 seconds behind Petrov. Okay, so Glock has had a wing change, but it seems Charles has really come into play in Marussia, mostly due to Timo being bored.

2. Maldonado
He started 22nd, he finished just outside of the points, being finally anonymous, not causing any trouble this weekend. Also finished right behind Senna, who's slowly catching him in the WDC.

HM: Räikkönen
He was driving a 35-lap stint and still kept his fifth place, promoting him to 3rd in the WDC, ahead of the two Red Bulls. He might not be doing the 110% like Kubica did with his Renault two years ago, but Kimi IS an outside contender for the championship right now.