[Official] Rate the Grand Prix: Malaysian Grand Prix 2016

[Born Racer]

What score do you give it?

[Notso Swift]

If there were half points...
I feel I am being rough with a 7

[275 GTB-4]

6...but biting my lip because an Australian won and don't want to appear too jingoistic

[canamman]

Gave it a 7. That was drama filled. Happy for Nico,
good lesson to never give up.
I give that podium celebration a 10!
The podium drank out of the winners shoe! Bravo!

[Aysedasi]

8 from me, a bit generous but I was swayed by the Daniel v Max battle. Great stuff. And yes, best podium for a very long time....

[bjohnsonsmith]

Not the most riveting race but it had its moments. Good to see someone else win and a different looking podium. 6

[Lancsbreaker]

Enjoyed it for the evolving strategy developments - would have loved to know whether Hamilton would have stuck with a one-stop as he was close to creating a pit-stop "gap". The brief Daniel v Max battle was great, of course.

Vettel's defintely looking accident-prone these days.....

Gave it 7.

[TrapezeArtist]

8 from me. Plus points:
+ Using the "virtual safety car" which still disturbs the flow of the race, but not nearly as much as the real "safety car".
+ Vettel admitting his blame straight away and feeling sorry for Rosberg
+ Watching the tyre strategy swing to and fro during the course of the race. And although there were verying strategies, I never felt that I had lost the thread of who had stopped and who hadn't.
+ Rosberg's pass on Raikkonen (obviously I enjoyed it more than the stewards).
+ Ricciardo and Verstappen on "that lap".

[sparkione]

I'm surprised by the largely underwhelmed reactions here. By today's generally dull standards, it was a cracker. Has to be 9.

[bjohnsonsmith]

Originally Posted by sparkione

I'm surprised by the largely underwhelmed reactions here. By today's generally dull standards, it was a cracker. Has to be 9.

I will watch it again; maybe 6 was a tad low.

[Neil22]

Gave it a 9 for variety. Just about everything that could, did. If we had a little rain I would have given it a 10.

[GT6]

gave it a 7 best race in ages

[steve_r]

I thought it was OK.
I must be getting senile, but apart from LH blowing up and the fight between the RBR cars, I have already forgotten most of the race already , so for that reason - 6.

[chillibowl]

Originally Posted by steve_r

I thought it was OK.
I must be getting senile, but apart from LH blowing up and the fight between the RBR cars, I have already forgotten most of the race already , so for that reason - 6.

Agree with that.

They seem to be genuinely be improving but do you think it is fattered by all the other teams having stopped development already?

Probably a combination but I think McLaren Honda are figuring it out. They may just make a big leap next year...I hope

[chillibowl]

Sorry that was meant to be a response to viva's post about McLaren in the TOTR thread...hate posting from a cell phone

[Mekola]

Excellent race. 9.

[fieldodreams79]

7.5 so i round up to 8. had a little bit of everything at a decent venue.

[S griffin]

6, ones to watch were Fred and Nico, and there was enough drama to keep us watching throughout. Hopefully the racing is getting better again

[stripedcat]

A 7. A pretty decent race. Rosberg, Alonso, Kimi and Max gave us some good entertainment with their racing. The Max versus Danny battle towards the end seemed like a bit of deja vu - think Vettel versus Webber, and multi 21! But, it was a good tussle. Quite a dramatic race with the amount of cars going off and the use of safety cars. One of the season's better races.