The 4th Annual GTP Formula 1 Awards - Finalists!

[Lee]

Ok, same process as last time except you now have only one vote each, so make it count! Deadline is Friday 28th at 11pm GMT.


Best Start To A Race - This is to the driver who produced a faultless start off the line and capitalised into Turn 1.
'07 Winner - Marcus Winklehock (European GP)

The Nominees:
Felipe Massa (Hungarian GP)
Sebastian Vettel (Italian GP)
Lewis Hamilton (British GP)
Fernando Alonso (Singapore GP)
Jarno Trulli (Belgian GP)

Best Overtaking Manoeuver - The one moment that caused you to fall off your seat in pure amazement of an overtaking god.
'07 Winner - Sato's Pass On Alonso (Canadian GP)

The Nominees:
Lewis Hamilton on Felipe Massa (Turkish GP)
Felipe Massa on Rubens Barrichello and Heikki Kovalainen (Canadian GP)
Felipe Massa on Lewis Hamilton (Hungarian GP)
Sebastian Vettel on Lewis Hamilton (Brazilian GP)
Nick Heidfeld on Kimi Raikkonen and Heikki Kovalainen (British GP)

Most Improved Driver - Who has upped their game this season to a new level?
'07 Winner - Nico Rosberg

The Nominees:
Felipe Massa
Sebastian Vettel
Robert Kubica
Sebastien Bourdais

Best Rookie Performance - We had a couple of new faces this season, but who was the best?
'07 Winner - Lewis Hamilton

The Nominees:
Sebastien Bourdais
Nelson Piquet jr
Sebastian Vettel
Timo Glock
Kazuki Nakajima

Best Single Race Performance - Sometimes a driver is on the ball for a race and outperforms even themselves, this rewards just that.
'07 Winners - Heikki Kovalainen (Japanese GP), Sebastian Vettel (Chinese GP)

The Nominees:
Sebastian Vettel (Italian GP)
Fernando Alonso (Japanese GP)
Lewis Hamilton (British GP)
Robert Kubica (Canadian GP)
Adrian Sutil (Monaco GP)

Team To Watch in 2009 - Which team takes your fancy after this season's performance?
'07 Winner - BMW Sauber

The Nominees:
BMW Sauber
Red Bull Racing
Honda
Renault
Toyota

Most Promising New Driver - And of the rookies, who will you be keeping your eye on over the next few years?
'07 Winners - Lewis Hamilton, Sebastian Vettel

The Nominees:
Timo Glock
Sebastian Vettel*
Sebastien Bourdais
Kazuki Nakajima
Nelson Piquet jr

(*Yes, Vettel appears to be up for this award again... Which doesn't really make much sense, but we'll scratch that.)

Most Improved Team - And which team has really shook up the order of F1?
'07 Winner - BMW Sauber

The Nominees:
Scuderia Toro Rosso
Renault
BMW Sauber
Toyota
Williams

Biggest Dissapointment Of 2008 - What caused a downer in the Formula 1 paddock this season?
'07 Winner - The Spy Scandal

The Nominees:
Steward Rulings
Valencia Circuit
Spa-Gate
Max's Nazi Scandal
Super Aguri Going Into Administration

Best Race Of 2008 - Which race had it all? Overtaking, drama, accidents and giving us a truly memorable spectacle.
'07 Winner - Brazilian GP

The Nominees:
Brazilian GP
Singapore GP
Belgian GP
British GP
Italian GP

Best Team Of 2008 - 2008 will always be remembered for some right ol'mess ups by the top two teams, so who gets your vote for the team of the year?
'07 Winner - BMW Sauber

The Nominees:
Toro Rosso
BMW Sauber
McLaren
Toyota
Renault

Best Driver Of 2008 - The one all the drivers want, to be number one, you must have exceptional talent behind the wheel of a racecar, and not just outright speed. Overtaking, defending and knowing your limits all amount to becoming the best..
'07 Winner - Kimi Raikkonen

The Nominees:
Sebastian Vettel
Lewis Hamilton
Robert Kubica
Fernando Alonso
Felipe Massa

'The Max Attack' Villian Of 2008 - Named after the reigning 3 time winner of this award, Villian of the Year goes to the one individual who really deserves to be shown a lap of Silverstone wet by Felipe Massa..
'07 Winner - Max Mosley

The Nominees:
Max Mosley
Spa Stewards
Kimi Raikkonen
Lewis Hamilton
Ferrari's Pit Lights System


Hero Of 2008 - Out of all the chaos of Formula 1, who has stood up to it all the finest, this can be anyone connected with the sport.
'07 Winner - Kimi Raikkonen

The Nominees:
Felipe Massa
Sebastian Vettel
Lewis Hamilton
David Coulthard
Robert Kubica

Unluckiest Driver Of 2008 - For the driver who fealt the pain of walking under a ladder whilst watching a black cat cross paths..
'07 Winner - N/A

The Nominees:
Sebastien Bourdais
Felipe Massa
Adrian Sutil
Heikki Kovalainen
Mark Webber

Biggest 'ROFLMAO' Of 2008 (Sponsored By Appie) - This goes to the one moment of 2008 that caused you to break out the ROLFCOPTER before dieing from a sharp flaming on the forum..
'07 Winner - N/A

The Nominees:
Ferrari Mechanics Doing The 100m Sprint In Singapore
ITV's Goodbye Montage
Massa Family Reaction To Hamilton Winning Title
Hamilton Jumping The Red Light At Canada
Massa's 'Raindancing' At Silverstone​

Votes Recieved From:
Me.
peterjford
Only_in_f1
Studentdriver
duffers99
Ardius
mipuumal
PeterJB
Tired Tyres
Metar
Ross!
daan
waggles
GM
MTC

 

[Clark]

I'm not sure if I agree with Massa family's reaction being a 'ROFL' moment, as he and his family had put all their time and money into this, what he'd been working to his whole life. It's like somebody spending all their money and time building their dream home, only to have it fall down after one day and then laughing at them.

I voted anyway.

 

[Metar]

Votes in.


Lee, I disagree with Spa-Gate and Steward's Rulings being separate - the Spa-Gate was a steward's ruling.

 

[Ardius]

Votes in.


Lee, I disagree with Spa-Gate and Steward's Rulings being separate - the Spa-Gate was a steward's ruling.

But I'd say that the Spa incident was bad enough to warrant a seperate nomination, seeing as the stewards also screwed up in other places, like Bourdais' penalty in Japan, for example.

 

[Ross!]

Why on earth is Ferrari not in Best Team? They won the constructors championship...

 

[Alex.]

Because of all the stewards decisions, despite the fact had they gone the other way ferrari probably still would have won it away.

 

[Ross!]

How on earth can you take the stewards decisions into account? That has nothing to do with Ferrari's performance.

Anyway, how has it become a fact that the FIA are biased? It's a matter of opinion. I think the decisions were fair.

 

[Only_in_f1]

He has a point. The winning constructor isn't in the best team is a strange one

 

[Ross!]

Thanks xD

Having said that, I wouldn't have voted for Ferrari. As much as I support the team over their drivers, I think this year they don't deserve the constructor's championship after the amount of times they let Massa down.

 

[Ardius]

The reason the winning team didn't make it into the "best team" award was probably because there were so many teams who improved again this year or improved a lot over the season.
Also, Ferrari made some massive blunders this year, its a miracle (called Kovalainen, ) they even managed to win.
All the pit lane accidents and then theres the random engine blow-ups and bad tyre strategies. I'd definitely say they were the worst team of the year even though they won.

How on earth can Ferrari be considered best team when they managed to "forget" to put Kimi on new tyres in Silverstone? Or repeatedly put someone in the path of Sutil?

 

[daan]

Ferrari aren't up for the best team award as no one nominated them. No point going on about it now, Ross! There was nothing stopping you from nominating them.

EDIT: Voted

 

[Bram Turismo]

Vettel shouldn't be in the list of rookies, this wasn't his first season after all...

 

[Metar]

It's a valid point, but it's been discussed for ages. He's on the most improved and rookies nominations,which doesn't make sense, and will probably sweep most of the awards he was nominated for thanks to the latest Vettel-mania, but forget about it.

 

[Omnis]

Also, Glock isn't a rookie.

 

[waggles]

Voted.

There are a couple fo disagreements, but I just ignored them and DIDN'T VOTE FOR THEM.

 

[GilesGuthrie]

Several of my nominations appear not to have made it into the finals. Is there some pre-screening going on?

Anyway, how has it become a fact that the FIA are biased? It's a matter of opinion. I think the decisions were fair.

It's conjecture. Based on an analysis of all the stewards' decisions that affect either McLaren, Renault or Ferrari since 1999, there is a weight of evidence that suggests that key decisions favour Ferrari over their title rivals. The article that I read which summarised it was a print article in Autosport, but if you do your diligence you'll come up many instances.

 

[PeterJB]

I voted three days ago. Why aren't I on the voted list?

 

[mavuk]

Votes removed by mod. Send them in a PM to Bee.

 

[Danny]

How on earth have STR not been nominated for team to watch?!

I should have voted.

 

[Tired Tyres]

Because nobody nominated them?

On a side note I voted on the 21st but its not been read yet. I wonder if I've made a mistake.

 

[Ardius]

How on earth have STR not been nominated for team to watch?!

I should have voted.

I'm guessing everyone is putting down most of STRs performance to the fact that:
-3 teams were obviously not focusing on developing their car much this year (BMW Sauber, Honda and Force India).
-The Ferrari engines probably had some kind of help to them, no matter how small.
-Vettel was the real star of the team who got them the points, now he's leaving for Red Bull, they've not got as much going for them.
-The introduction of massive rule changes next year doesn't bode well for teams who cannot develop their own KERS system. I think many have doubts about whether STR will be good or not at adapting to the rules as well as perhaps teams who have focused all of their 2008 resources on 2009.
-2009 is STRs last year with Red Bull ownership and backing, perhaps some are thinking that Red Bull will be scaling back their aid to the team and taking some key personnel to their main team.
-Looking at the teams that did get nominated:
BMW Sauber - obviously a very likely championship contender, not much else to say.
Red Bull Racing - Vettel joining can only be a good thing.
Honda - focused on 2009 all the way through 2008, and they have Ross Brawn.
Renault - improved a lot at the end of 2008, they have Alonso and they know how to win championships.
Toyota - 2008 has been their best year for a long time and they have a excellent driver line-up, with Glock being very impressive this year. I think this one is more of a hopeful choice that Toyota will finally start winning something that they put huge amounts of money into.

 

[Lee]

Sorry guys haven't been able to update the list of those who have voted thus far, been snowed under with work, bare with me!

 

[Metar]

I voted, but that doesn't mean I'm going to strip naked!

 

[Lee]

And the lines are closed! Thanks to everyone who voted, results should be up soon enough!