So here are my picks:
Best Driver: Lewis Hamilton
Best Team: Mercedes
Best Drive: Sergio Perez, Sakhir
Most improved driver: Pierre Gasly
Most improved team: Williams (just shades Racing Point due to the question marks over its legality - they did, of course, get a penalty)
Best qualifier: Charles Leclerc (his best was in Sakhir)
Best qualifying lap: Lewis Hamilton, Styria
Best race lap: Kimi Raikkonen, lap 1 Portugal
Best start: George Russell, Sakhir, although I will probably think of a better choice later
Best overtake: A difficult one, with no obvious choice, but I chose Russell on Bottas in Sakhir
Best race: Turkey
Best technical innovators: Mercedes, for DAS
Best mechanics: Red Bull, for all those sub 2 second pitstops, fixing Verstappen's car before Hungary, and fixing a spark plug in five minutes in Imola qualifying
Best strategists: Haas, for pitting Magnussen and Grosjean on the formation lap in Hungary (even though they were penalised)
Best moment: I chose two for this. Pierre Gasly's sensational win in Monza, and Romain Grosjean escaping one of the worst crashes of all time relatively unscathed.
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