Malaysia Heroes and Zeroes

[FW14B]

Heroes:
Red Bull- for lasting a whole race and giving their drivers a well deserved 1-2.  This should have happened in the preceding two races.  Great drive by Vettel as well.

Hamilton- Amazing drive through the field.  Not unexpected given the pace of the car but well done nonetheless!

Sutil- Great race for him and did very well holding up Hamilton.

Rosberg- A quiet, understated drive but a good podium for him and the first for Mercedes GP.  Destroyed Schumacher throughout the weekend.

Zeroes:
Ferrari- A pretty poor weekend all round compounded by failures for them and their customer teams.  Massa and Alonso are fast but the team seems to lack that organisation of the last decade. 

Williams- So promising, admittedly due to the rain, but so disappointing today.  I am worried about this season.  Don't let Cos see this, but I am worried about the engine.  Great for Hulkenberg though.

Sauber- Another double failure, the team really did a great job deceiving us in the winter tests, they're sadly not a great outfit right now.  I know, I know, BMW didn't do a whole lot to help the situation, and Ferrari customer support seems lacking too.

[Scott]

Heros:

-Like WF said, hats off to RBR (and for that matter STR) for providing the cars and the drives to make a 1-2 (and 9-11).  Sorry for Webber that he was blown away on the first corner by Vettel.  He showed that he had the speed today that probably would have kept him in front if he had won that initial drag race.
-Hamilton - Wow...fantastic job.
-Rosberg - great drive, great pace.  You deserve a few smirks thrown towards your teammate, who wasn't making any impact even before his breakdown.
-Alguersuari - pass of the race in my opinion.  Outside on Hulkenberg.  Had a wiggle at the worst possible moment, but he sucked it up and made it through.  His teammate Buemi deserves special mention as well as I think the STR's had more replay moments than anyone else, all for overtaking.

-Hukenberg for being the fastest Cosworth.

Zeros:

-Mclaren-Ferrari, for completely blowing Q.  At least Mclaren made something of it in the race thanks to Hamilton's 8-9 place jump at the start.  Button was struggling to get anywhere near Hamilton's pace though.  I wonder what the problem was.

-Ferrari for giving Sauber crap engines.

-Rubens - I had him picked because I thought it would be a wet race, and I know how well he does in the wet, but what happened?  Did he forget to put it in gear??

[Dare]

Hero's

from what I've read


Vettel-all he needed was the car to
         be reliable.Next WC ?

Webber-nice 2nd but I bet he's disappointed

Hamilton-nice drive thru the pack

Rosberg-is he beating MS or has Michael lost
             his edge and become a mere mortal drive

Zero's

my alarm clock-thanks alot

Sauber-really disappointed in them,would Fisi have
           helped any?

MS-Not what I expected from his return to F,still it's early

the rain-who said predicting the rain was too easy in the GG

Asian races-2 resons.the time and they suck

[John S]

Heroes:-

 Red Bull - for the 1-2, at last!
 Lewis, and to some extent JB, - for drives from the back into the points.
 Petrov - for the entertainment he gave us when fighting for position with LH.
 Algeusauri  -for some feisty driving, especially to take the Williams, to get some deserved points.

Zeroes:-

 Sauber - was it just engines or general car troubles as well?
 Ferrari - two Saubers and Alonso, are they in trouble with the power plant?
 Glock - for shunting a Lotus at their home GP, how not to make friends!
 McLaren - for having a car that goes well on full tanks but fails to get the job done on lighter fuel in the later stages both in OZ and here.

Special mention:-  the HRT boys for both cars getting home, even if it was only just ahead of the support race cars and the late evening news.

[david1275]

Heroes

Red Bull - Faultless weekend and a well deserved victory.

Nico Rosberg - Again making the master look like an amateur.

Adrian Sutil - Great drive to 5th. The Force India is starting to look like a force in his hands anyway.

Lewis Hamilton & Felipe Massa - For excellent starts and drives through field, inspired by both drivers. Extra special mention to Massa as I seem to be the only person that noticed that he was on Hamilton all the way.

Fernando Alonso - Again an excellent drive through the field, not helped by a gear bag instead of a gear box. Shame the engine had to go.

Vitaly Petrov - Best entertainment of the afternoon chasing the weaving Hamilton. Any more weaving we might have had a wee basket!!

Zeros

Ferrari & McLaren - For blowing quli.

Ferrari Engine Department - What to hell happened this weekend lads?? Let that be the end of that craic!!

The weather - Where was our rain?

[cosworth151]

Heroes:

RBR - They really are looking like the team to beat.

Petrov - He gave Hamilton all he could handle. Great drive!

Hamilton - Did a good job working his way back up through the field.

Ferd - Made the best of a car with a failing gearbox.

Zeroes:

Ferrari - The prancing horse seems to be becoming a swaybacked old nag.

Glock - Pinballed off of Trulli early on.

The rain - Pulled a Dare and overslept.