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by TwistedArmco » 13 Sep 2009, 14:12
1 - Best Driver
Barrichello was solid, Sutil, Raikkonen and Button did well, Liuzzi deserves an extra special honorable mention and Hamilton would have been best but for the crash, but I'm going to be a massive fanboy and say Alonso. Why not? He was the first driver to finish not to have a race winning car at his disposal, and made at least two sweet overtakes which made his race.
2 - Best Team
McLaren had an awesome car, but Brawn were more awesome.
3 - Best Overtake
Liuzzi on Kovalainen around the outside of the Parabolica. Alonso's 'takes on Vettel and on Kovalainen were sweet, and proved he still has plenty of fight.
4 - Best Moment
Toyota battle, Sutil's girl encounter, Alonso's 'takes, the first 10 laps of battling and fighting.
5 - Worst Driver
NOT Hamilton, NOT Rosberg. Rosberg had a damaged wing (you could see it on the TV images) and pitted because it felt so bad in the car and then couldn't do anything from there in a c**p car. The worst driver of this race was Heikki Kovalainen. As DC just said; "he didn't deliver". I don't think he's very good with hard tyres OR heavy fuel.
6 - Worst Team
Williams. Toyota were bad, but Williams had a further fall from grace.
7 - Best Rookie
Buemi finally looks like he's been there a longer time than his two fellow drivers from the class of '09.
8 - Biggest Surprise
The lack of pace from Kovalainen, Hamilton crashing.
9 - General Comment
That was quite a good race. If it had carried on like the first 10 laps, it would have been 10/10. But then it calmed down too much, people were unable to overtake and not even Hamilton's crash and the Toyota fail was enough to revive my interest. The strategies were quite fun though, hence the 7/10. It was like the Nurburgring; interesting but not ultimately a great race.
China - 9/10
Belgium - 8/10
Malaysia - 8/10
Australia - 8/10
Italy - 7/10 - It was about as intruiging as Germany, but had more overtakes, and boy were a few of them good.
Germany - 7/10
Hungary - 6/10
Britain - 6/10
Bahrain - 6/10
Spain - 6/10
Monaco - 6/10
Valencia - 5/10
Turkey - 4/10
No, I'm not calmer. Just more jaded.
(I didn't check whose was first mate. Selfish of me and sorry. 
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Anyway, here are the Belgian votes 
