Infinite Improbability Drive of the Race - Baku

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Pick your Infinite Improbability Drive of the Race!

Poll ended at 05 May 2018, 22:22

Charles Leclerc
13
87%
Sergio Pérez
2
13%
Carlos Sainz Jr.
0
No votes
Fernando Alonso
0
No votes
 
Total votes: 15

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Post your choices for IIDOTR here. As with ROTR I'm gonna hold off posting while I consider my choices, although I have a good feeling who my IIDOTR will be. :deletraz:

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Charles Leclerc

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It is I... Leclerc! Was wondering where the real one had gone to... :D
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good_Ralf wrote:Image

It is I... Leclerc! Was wondering where the real one had gone to... :D


Dammit, that's the perfect joke. We're gonna need to use that more.

Anyway, I'll actually say Sainz. Good is one thing, we all knew Sainz was good. Completely beating the Red Bulls on pace alone before the ultrasofts fell off the cliff is another. Fair play to ya,
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Charles Leclerc.

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Charles Leclerc is the only choice.
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Since Leclerc is deservingly already mentioned, I'm going to make the case for Sergio Perez, so there's some sort of decision to be made.

Force India have been nowhere all season, so a podium, ahead of Alonso, Sainz and Vettel is a very good result that would be a slam-dunk IIDOTR had Leclerc not pulled of his own heroics.
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Charles Leclerc is the obvious choice, but I was also impressed by Sergio Pérez in his podium-scoring drive. Carlos Sainz Jr. also managed a solid result for Renault.
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I thought we could nominate two drivers for IIDOTR, or has that rule changed?
Because this race was full of many improbable drives.
Anyway, my choices would be
1. Leclerc - Awesome performance!
2. Alonso - What a king this guy is, too.
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I think all the points-scorers bar Hamilton and the Ferrari drivers have cases to make for themselves TBH.....(you could even make a case for Bottas as that would have been a great unexpected win without that puncture).
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Bottas, because although I'm something of a fanboy (on the basis I'm a fan of neither Vettel nor Hamilton :lol: ), he was really good this week and in China. Almost won if not for that tragic Massa-2008-esque retirement.

Also Renault for what I think is a heartening return to competitive form. It's good to see Enstone do so well, and for a team to break into the top three on merit. Good job guys!
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Well this has to go to Charles Leclerc, for achieving his first points (pre-2003 points, even!), Sauber's best finish since 2015 and mostly doing so on merit alone (he would have scored at least a couple of points even with attrition). Honourable mentions to both Sergio Perez, for managing a podium in a mediocre at best Force India and Brendan Hartley for somehow scoring his first points (and the first for a driver from New Zealand since 1973) despite nearly murdering his teammate in qualifying.
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There is no other who deserves it more than Leclerc. Note: he is the first driver from Monaco to score in F1 since Louis Chiron, who scored a podium at home, in 1950!

Hats off to Sainz & Hartley for getting the job done and scoring their first points respectively and to Perez for that unexpected podium. Bravo gentlemen.
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There is only one correct answer and that is Fernando Alonso. Yeah, yeah Pérez, Leclerc & co. had good races but it was again due to the top boys having bad days.

Alonso meanwhile deserves the IIDOTR just for bringing that two-wheeled McLaren to the pits and being able to continue the race after crawling around half a lap. But wait, that's not all! The Spaniard actually finishes seventh after all that trouble. Drive of the day by far for me.
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None other than Leclerc.
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Leclerc - quallie and the race - had speed and didnt endanger anyone

And Alonso as runner up - not sure the McLaren was all that good , even with all the bits on it, but he knew he had to just keep going on a day like Sunday
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CarloSpace wrote:There is only one correct answer and that is Fernando Alonso. Yeah, yeah Pérez, Leclerc & co. had good races but it was again due to the top boys having bad days.

Alonso meanwhile deserves the IIDOTR just for bringing that two-wheeled McLaren to the pits and being able to continue the race after crawling around half a lap. But wait, that's not all! The Spaniard actually finishes seventh after all that trouble. Drive of the day by far for me.

Benson did state that he was allowed to see Alonso's car when the team brought it back to the factory after the race, and when you read about how heavily damaged it was - there was a 20cm by 30cm hole in the front splitter, for example - the fact that Alonso not only got the car back to the pits, but then managed to drag the car into the points is a quite impressive achievement.
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Like the Reject of the Race post, the poll is up, so decide which driver you thought deserved this award the most!
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In dominating fashion, Charles Leclerc gets the site's prestigious Infinite Improbability Drive of the Race award! 6th? In a Sauber? In 2018? An impressive drive without mistakes, in a race where just about everybody made mistakes. He even scored a point in the pre-2003 system, which of course puts him on a path to being unrejectified! Good job, Charles.

With 87% of the vote, he is far ahead of Sergio Pérez, this week's honourable mention, who brought a troubled Force India chassis onto the rostrum! On any other weekend, that would be a slam-dunk win. Bad luck for Sergio there.
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