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I've gone for:
Hamilton - Though some couldn't understand how anyone could possibly vote Bottas, i think i can. As that lunge By hamilton was deemed to be his fault, and had Bottas not retired, he would have actually got a better result. But that would have been lucky. That is the only reason i can think to vote Bottas. otherwise he was comfortably outperformed, though was put on a rubbish strategy. Even worse than hamiltons. And I rally do wonder if them pitting him at a time that would get him out directly behind Leclerc will have actually made his issue come sooner? I guess they wouldn't know this at the time.
Vettel - This was a hard one, but vettel did outperform Leclerc in qualifying and looked better in the race too until the contact. The contact was certainly mainly Vettel's fault, but I can see two reasons why they judged neither as predominantly to blame. Others seem to disagree, but i am certain that i do see leclerc flick his wheel to the right slightly (not a shake fromt he track, this was before that) I know he also went right, but since leclerc had started givign him a bit of room and vettel was heading outwards, I'm not sure why he felt the need to stop. He could have kept going and avoided contact. Yes Vettel had no need at all to do this, but i can see both having some blame. But certainly mainly Vettel.
The other reason why i think it may not have got investigated further was because if the stuwards say they judge from the incident and not the after effects (yes i know they are so inconsistent here), you have to say that it was such a tiny contact that most of the time, nothing will have happened. Maybe they looked at it this way and left it at that?
Verstappen - Quite easy really. He had easily the best car, but was really really good all weekend. Kept calm in the pits when williams really got in the way and made up for their mistake which cost him a place without getting too stroppy about it and that having a negative effect on his race. I really though that would happen. But he recovered really well.
Hulkenberg - I've explained before in this thread. Ricciardo was the quicker driver this weekend. But he made a mistake which he was responsible for. As well as getting the 5 second penalty, he suffered the big consequences of his rather common and clumsy lunge. I've said this before about Ricciardo. These moves look good when they work, but he totally relies on other drivers giving him the space, which they don't always have the right to do. If more drivers were more like magnussen and just stuck to the line, ricciardo will have been involved in crashes in his career far more than he is. He's done this sort of think several times this year and found out the hard way. I respect he is very quick, but he should learn from this. Hulkenberg did get a penalty later on yes, but still would have beaten Ricciardo comfortably if not for the safety car bringing him back into the fight. This made Ricciardo's result look better than his race was. ----
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--- Trying to follow their race (which was hardly ever broadcast) - looking at the graphics, Ricciardo looked to catch and get past Hulkenberg even including his penalty and not the safety car. I already have had people be against me for this. Now I have seen more highlights, I understand now and would change my vote if i could. But looks like some others have gone for Hulkenberg too.
Grosjean - Don't know why there is a single vote for Magnussen. He was outqualified and lost far more positions at the start of the race than Grosjean did. I don't blame him for the crash with
Ricciardo, but he was unfortunate. Grosjean was in the points a grat deal of the race. Before he first pitted, he was as high as 6th. when the safety car came out and he was left out, he was back at 7th again. Very soon after the restart, he had an MGU-K failure, and that is the reason he lost nearly 10 places and finished almost last. Comfortably outperformed his team mated and can only assume people vote for magnussen because he bet him without people looking at the circumstances. Would be like voting for Grosjean at Singapore.
Sainz - I think norris was a bit unlucky, and the opposite for Sainz, but I still certainly think Sainz did the better job given he started at the back of the grid.
Stroll - The most unfairly voted team mate wars I'd say. Stroll was out in Q1 yet again, yes, but he instantly got past Perez and was ahead of him until the safety car other than when pit stops switched their positions. It was only at the safety car restart that Stroll got passed and then his suspension failed.
Raikkonen - didn't really see much of their race, but Kimi was ahead the whole race by the look of it and i don't think Gioinazzi had any bad luck against him.
Gasly - I'll admit i though Kvyat was better than Gasly initially, but Gasly is a totally different driver now compared to the start of the year. Kvyat has made a few mistakes recently, but I'd still say he's been pretty good this year, but for Gasly to beat him in the way he did, this was some special race.
Russell - Don't know if Kubica had a problem or something, but he lost about a second per lap over the first 20 laps to his team mate... I won't judge him for the contact with verstappen at all, but his pace compared to Russell again was really slow.
Last edited by TheGiantHogweed on Thu Nov 21, 2019 9:37 am, edited 4 times in total.
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