Reject of the Race - Mexico 2021 (POLL)

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Pick your Reject of the Race!

Poll ended at 13 Nov 2021, 10:31

Daniel Ricciardo
12
57%
Lance Stroll
2
10%
Valtteri Bottas
6
29%
Williams
1
5%
 
Total votes: 21

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1. Daniel Ricciardo. Bowling ball antics, not what we've come to expect at all.

2. Williams. Probably their worst race since Silverstone, absolutely no pace.
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Bottas' Fastest Lap Shenanigans. Possibly invalid as it was ultimately successful, but pitting him for FL and releasing him on top of Verstappen so he can't do it (why didn't he just drop 5 seconds back? Was there another car there?) and then pull him into the pits to sit in the box for a couple of seconds just looked absurd.
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1. Mercedes GP - is one point really worth indignifying yourself so much that you literally imitate strategies from the movie Driven?

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Londoner wrote:1. Daniel Ricciardo. Bowling ball antics, not what we've come to expect at all.
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1) Valterri Bottas: It wasn't his fault that he dropped down to the back, but he really didn't do much to acquit himself from that position.

2) Daniel Ricciardo: A wasted opportunity after early promise, along with some poor driving overall.
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1. Daniel Ricciardo. Brainfade at the first corner destroyed his race and was a big reason why Ferrari leaped McLaren
2. Lance Stroll. Messy weekend all the way.
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Darryn Binder for proving why he doesn’t merit a ride in MotoGP

Oh sorry wrong sport

Daniel Ricciardo who obviously watched what Darryn Binder did and decided it’d be a great move to try on 4 wheels. All he did was make what was an already open goal for Ferrari even bigger which they gladly accepted.

Antonio Giovanazzi who started so strongly and faded away while his team-mate scored. What happened?

Williams seemed to regress to their pre-France level of performance. George Russell got into the points but sank like a stone.

And while his car was probably hobbled by Ricciardo’s bowling game, the way Bottas made absolutely no progress afterwards was an all too familiar sight whenever he gets trapped in the mire.
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1- Danny Ric- Put himself back into ROTY contention. Screwed his race, and the teams because he was the team's best hope of stopping Ferrari's leapfrogging them in the constructors and that didn't happen and he screwed Bottas over on the first lap. Bad race all around.

2- Willams- Pace wise back to 2nd last. Poor overall

HM- Bottas and the fastest lap fiasco- well he actually did it but it did look ridiculous. But I suppose it gave a little bit of excitement to a race that was petering out to nothing
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Valtteri Bottas is my nomination here for another bad race in a season of highs and lows. That he dropped back in the first place wasn't his fault, but what happened after that was just sad to watch. The fastest lap is the only saving grace – after the earlier events I didn't even expect him to get that. Very rare to see the pole sitter finish out of points.

Ricciardo wasn't very good either, but I think how he helped Norris get that one point deserves more credit than Bottas' antics.
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Bottas: He gave a tow to the wrong driver at the start and then defended his position against the teammate he had to let through, while their No. 1 enemy walked ahead through Turn 1. After that mess of a start he spent what, 40 laps stuck behind Ricciardo, losing time against Raikkonen and Alonso despite having better tyres (let alone a much faster car), then suffered a terrible pit stop, and then got dumped next to Verstappen for some FL shenanigans, then got pitted again. An absolutely surreal race, and all he achieved from his pole was taking one point away from Verstappen.

Williams: Absolutely atrocious pace. Dead last only ahead of Mazepin and behind a driver who pitted *four* times. And somehow Mazepin's fastest lap was 6 tenths faster than Russell's.

HM. Stroll had a completely awful weekend. No way around it.
HM2: Mazepin was 11th when the safety car came in. He finished *three* laps behind the leader. I know he's actually trying for RotY not individual RotRs, and this is just par for the course, but the fact he was right next to the points after the start only makes it more painful to look at how the race developed for him.
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(1=) Ricciardo - how long was he stuck behind Giovinazzi?
(1=) Bottas - how long was he stuck behind Ricciardo and then the FL double-farce
(2) Williams - oh dear :(
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1. Daniel Ricciardo - Whacked Bottas, ruining their races and had a touch with Russell and Stroll per commentary. Not a clean race and when Ferrari scored a lot of points, he came up with 0.

2. Williams - They were nowhere.

Bit harsh on Bottas considering 3 slow stops (one purpose), he was knocked around by Ricciardo and there were issues with cooling around the grid which is why we saw cars moving out of the dirty air on straights. Plus Ricciardo couldn't pass Gio. The FL he got allowed Mercedes to stay ahead of Red Bull in the WCC by a single point. That point could matter in the end (doubt but would be funny if it did).
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I think Williams deserve it more than anyone. Bottas just had one of THOSE days but I doubt it made any difference to the overall result (for the win anyway).
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1. Stroll for being mysteriously slow. Who needs incidents when you have no pace in the first place. (If he actually did have an incident or good reason for being slow, ignore this)
2. Ricciardo for locking up (albeit slightly) and taking out the polesitter
=. Bottas for not acknowledging the possibility someone could be at the apex of turn 1 on lap 1 and then not coming through the field
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Really can't nominate as it wasn't really his fault he got killed at T1 and then had to do two extra-pitstops for a strategy worthy of Driven. The real fault lies, however, here:

1. Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez: I am nominating the racetrack. Ever since 2017, the new races have been marked by the same thing: cars not being able to follow and the DRS not being powerful enough around here to work. Remember that race Hamilton won just by driving as slowly as possible and backing everyone up? Yeah. A complete dud of a race and a frustrating experience where all the fights were "will they get close enough this time?". Without DRS, no one could have driven within 1 second of another. Terrible racetrack for these cars.

2. Daniel Ricciard - That was a bit clumsy, wasn't it?

Honorable mention to Williams and to Antonio Giovinazzi.
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1. Ricciardo: Force Bottas into a spin in a very clumsy move, and triggered all of the race's retirements. Not a good look when you're finally getting the hang of the McLaren.

2. Mercedes. I know it's a stretch to nominate ROTR to the polesitter and 2nd place finisher, but come on: Implying Bottas is to blame for not somehow blocking Verstappen and in some unexplained eventuality allowing Hamilton a win? Your star driver throwing shade at Perez who is finally coming to grips with the car, and drove a classic Perez race? Are you even surprised your sacrificial lamb of a #2 driver just wants to stay out of the way of the title fight with 4 races left in a torturous 5 season run? The grumblings from within the team are grade-school-playground levels of petulance, made even worse by the online entourage that supports them.
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Fetzie on Ferrari wrote:How does a driver hurtling around a race track while they're sous-viding in their overalls have a better understanding of the race than a team of strategy engineers in an air-conditioned room?l
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