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Australia 2019 Grand Prix – Rate the Race and Driver of the weekend – Round 1 Rate the race: Mean reader score 5.37 Rated 1/21 races. The best score of the year so far! Scoring slightly better than last year’s 4.59, it still paled into insignificance against 2016’s score of 7.26, and with good reason. … Read more

Abu Dhabi 2018 – Rate the Race and Driver of the weekend – Round 21 Rate the race: Mean reader score 6.0 Rated 12/21 races. Well it was a middling score for a middling race. It couldn’t possibly have been lower than last year’s abysmal score of 2.62. Even 2015 when the WDC had already been … Read more

New footage onboard with Ocon with team radio, who was to blame? [mv_video key=”te4otugt1avdfx3hf9eq” title=”Onboard with Ocon against Verstappen Brazil 2018″ id=”42334″ thumbnail=”https://mediavine-res.cloudinary.com/video/upload/te4otugt1avdfx3hf9eq.jpg” aspectRatio=”16:9″ volume=”70″ sticky=”true”]  Mad Max (the sequel) or ‘He had more to lose’ (the sequel) or Mercedes take WCC (the sequel’s sequel’s sequel’s sequel). Rate the race and Driver of the weekend: … Read more

Rate the Race and driver of the weekend  Round 19, Mexico 2018 Rate the race: Mean Reader score 6.42 ,9/19 races so far This year’s race scored slightly lower than 2017 and 2016 (6.84 and 6.45 respectively) but much higher than 2015 (4.70). 2017 saw Hamilton with a ‘mere’ 66 point lead over Vettel, compared … Read more

Rate the race and driver of the weekend – Suzuka , Japan 2018  Mean reader score:  6.34 Rated 8/17 races so far this season. This year’s score was higher than last year’s score of 6.20, but lower than 2016’s 6.97, which was the highest scoring race of the previous five years: way higher than 2015 … Read more

Rate the Race and Driver of the weekend – Round 16 Sochi, Russia, 2018 Mean Reader score: 4.57 Rated = 12/16 4.57 – this is a middling score for this track- higher than 2017’s 4.26 but lower than 2016’s 5.2. It has rated pretty low in the season overall. What made it so bad? Bottas … Read more

Rate the race and Driver of the weekend: Marina Bay Circuit, Singapore 2018. Mean reader score:  4.14 Rated 13/15 Having scored 5.55 last year, 6.77 in 2016, 5.56 in 2015 and 5.62 in 2014, this year’s score of 4.14 was the lowest of them all. Not surprising, really, as apart from a daring overtake from Vettel … Read more

Rate the Race and Driver of the weekend –  Round 14, Monza 2018 Mean Reader Score:  7.23 Rated 7/14 races this season This year’s race scored 7.23 far more than than 2016’s: paltry 4.35, and the 5.82 of 2017 but sadly did not deliver the showdown between the championship contenders Vettel and Hamilton. In my … Read more

Rate the race and Driver of the Weekend – Round 13 – Belgian GP, Spa Francochamps 2018 Rate the Race reader score 5.22 Well, you really didn’t think much of this race at all it was far lower than the 7.28 of 2016, 6.28 of 2017 or even the 6.32 of 2015, and was rated … Read more

Rate the Race and Driver of the Weekend – Round 12, Hungaroring, Budapest, Hungary, 2018. Mean Reader Score:  5.92 Rated 7/12 races so far this year. This score is relatively poor for this season, being in the lower half of the rankings, but it is much better than the 4.70 from last year and the 4.36 from … Read more