Dragon of China

[A FONDO]

Max was fantastic once again. Especially that bold overtake on Sauber at the long straight. Bold dive and precise braking, as he's been driving F1 from 15 years.

Say who else made impression to you.

[truefan72]

there can only be one
- fastest in all 3 FP sessions
- Fasted in all 3 Q sessions
- fastest lap of the race
- race win
the full house

Vestappen did have some nice overtakes, but so did malonado

[rjbetty]

Hamilton - easy to pick the winner, but I feel he deserves DOTD
Verstappen - Just as Raikkonen and Kvyat before him, if you're good enough you're old enough.
The Sauber car - seems to be at least the 4th best vehicle in F1 at the mo!
Manor for a 2 car finish - Bernie must be chewing his own face.

[Mia 01]

Have to give it to Lewis today but i want to mention Kimis start.

[The Black Knight]

Gotta go for Hamilton. He has been unstoppable all weekend. Fastest in every session.

Other than that, I give it to Verstappen. Really looking forward to this amazing young talent develop over the coming years.

[journeyman racer]

Hamilton

[henners88]

Hamilton for winning with ease and controlling his own teammate in the process. A good controlled and dominant drive, well done Lewis.

Honourable mention for Verstappen as he's certainly an amazing talent and perhaps a major force in the years to come.

[truefan72]

I must say that I might have been wrong about Vestappen.
I still think he is awfully young but he is certainly silencing his doubters
myself included :/

[pino]

Lewis !!!

[kfzmeister]

HAM. Controlled the whole show!

[anfield5]

Max V. was outstanding. Too easy to give it Hamiltwat, in best car, no competition, just like Vettel in his championship winning years. Mention to for Fred for a strong drive in his Honda powered tractor

[steveaki13]

As with everyone else.

Driver of the Race:
Lewis Hamilton - Drove a calm composed race and found time to mess his team mate around. :dork:

Other Mentions:
Max Verstappen - As Brundle said. He is looking a star of the future.
Kimi Raikkonen - Good start and solid drive after some bad luck this season so far.
Romain Grosjean - Fine points for Lotus.
Felipe Nasr - Good drive for more points for Sauber. Good to see

Mention also for Manor. Two cars finishing is a good result.

[N. Jones]

Hamilton. If he doesn't win the WDC I will be shocked.

[Tazio]

Boss

[longisland]

The boss. He was Vettelsque.

[yodasarmpit]

Lewis, he was just toying with Nico - at no point did you feel there would be any other winner.
A an honourable mention to Max, nice driving and overtaking.

[keysersoze]

Edwin Moses. A living legend. I met him in 1982, while he was still dominating the hurdles. On Sunday he seemed like a well-informed fan, and I thoroughly enjoyed his podium interviews.

[driveace]

Well anfield5 ,there was another guy out there in an identical car to Hamiltons ,but the driver had a problem with getting his head around why his team mate was so dominant .So there were two fast Mercs ,but the British driver controlled the race and his team mate !

[kfzmeister]

The boss. He was Vettelsque.

REALLY? (rolls eyes)

[anfield5]

Well anfield5 ,there was another guy out there in an identical car to Hamiltons ,but the driver had a problem with getting his head around why his team mate was so dominant .So there were two fast Mercs ,but the British driver controlled the race and his team mate !

True, but I see Nico absolutely in the Webber role. Always claiming to be as good as his team mate, but in reality, only able to win when the number one car has a problem

[Tazio]

Edwin Moses. A living legend. I met him in 1982, while he was still dominating the hurdles. On Sunday he seemed like a well-informed fan, and I thoroughly enjoyed his podium interviews.
I understand Amos Moses is doing the podium interviews at the USGP :mark: :spinhead:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRs97POJsAk

[Warriwa]

Imo, I was only really under the impression that Webber wanted to have the opportunity for a fair fight. I always thought his problem was with the team, not Vettel. I heard him say more than once "it's hard to accept that someone else is doing a better job than yourself, but you have to take it on the chin and keep fighting". I certainly don't remember him always claiming to be Vettel's equal and he certainly didn't only win when Vettel had problems. That's the beauty of Webber's nine wins. He had to beat Vettel who by his own admission was fast as f**k.

[Duncan]

Hamilton - totally commanding performance the whole weekend.

Max Verstappen. Great performance, shame about the (gearbox?) failure. I went back and listened to the audio from the onboard footage of the failure and it was just brutal. Sounded like a rabid badger locked in a mailbox. I'd love to have seen the pile of parts fall out of the back when they opened the casing to see what happened...

Vettel. Pushing the red machine for all it's worth; I'm expecting to see him gradually reeling in the Mercs over the course of the next few races, and definitely think we'll be seeing him higher up the podium again very soon.

[jens]

Nothing to add here.

Yep, Hamilton was pretty impressive. Especially how he responded, when he needed to open up a gap before second pitstops. It was textbook race management. Even though this made his team a bit nervous whether they may risk a 1-2 finish. But from a driver performance point of view there is nothing to criticize. It is team's task to inform drivers if they need to do something differently for a team result - Mercedes informed Hamilton and he immediately responded. Great job all around.

And then Max... almost a customary answer in these threads recently. That's saying something.

[anfield5]

Imo, I was only really under the impression that Webber wanted to have the opportunity for a fair fight. I always thought his problem was with the team, not Vettel. I heard him say more than once "it's hard to accept that someone else is doing a better job than yourself, but you have to take it on the chin and keep fighting". I certainly don't remember him always claiming to be Vettel's equal and he certainly didn't only win when Vettel had problems. That's the beauty of Webber's nine wins. He had to beat Vettel who by his own admission was fast as f**k.

And I fully respect that. Webber was great for sound bites etc and that side of him is missed by all, all I am saying is that Nico is a Webber/Coulthard type of driver, good.... but not great, can win when things are in his favour, but quite a way short of his team mate. (my thoughts only - not for an instant claiming it as a god-given fact)

[DannyQ]

Id say Hamilton but its a close run thing really Verstappen has proved all his critics wrong with his performances so far very unlucky at the end