So starting off with the champs Red Bull Racing.
Red Bull Racing: best car, best team, best engine and best driver of the season with Sebastian Vettel as world champion. While Mark Webber, constantly fast throughout the season, won in Brazil, but not as fast as the double world champion Vettel is all season.
McLaren: second best car of the season, need to improve next season to match Red Bull. Jenson Button driving has been the best in his career finishing 2nd in the drivers championship. While Lewis Hamilton either having a good or bad races this season, good race at Nurburgring, or very bad race at Monaco this year. Needs to improve for 2012.
Ferrari: another disappointing season from the prancing horse. The same for Fernando Alonso as Jenson Button, driving his best of his career too, dispute a poor race car. While Felipe Massa hasn't impress he all season, slower than Alonso throughout the season, next season needs to improve, big time.
Mercedes GP: a disappointing season from the silver arrows. Nico Rosberg had a bad season compared to 2010, needs to improve in 2012. While former seven times champion Michael Schumacher was much faster 2011, in some races fast, in some races very slow and very clumsy still.
Lotus Renault: a good start for the first two races, then went down hill. Vitaly Petrov started well until after Canada, only 6pts in 10 races not impressive. Same as for Nick Hiedfied, but got fired after Hungary. Burno Senna no better, pace was there though. Missed Robert Kubica this season and next season too. Kimi Raikkonen could be the solution if things all work in 2012.
Force India: started disappointing, until Nurburgring everything change, possibly 5th best car of the year, if a few 11ths were 10ths could have finished ahead of LRGP in the constructors championship, still 6th in the Constructors is still good, improvement from last year. As for Sutil, 9th in the drivers, best of the non top 4 teams, impressive since Nurburgring. Paul di Resta best of rookies, Impressive this year, now next year.
Sauber: much improve from last season, disappointing in the second half to finish 6th or even 5th in the constructors championship. Sergio Perez has been impressive as a rookie, expressively in race pace after poor qualifyings. Kamui Kobayashi impressive until after Canada, 5pts in 10 races, needs to improve on. Don't forget that Pedro De la Rosa was too in Montreal replacing Perez with 10 mins before 2nd practice for Perez's Monaco accident for his only race in the season.
STR: wasn't impressive until Montreal when STR was on form, 34 points in 11 races. STR could be stronger in 2012. Sebastian Buemi better than 2010, will he stay in F1 next year? Who knows. Jamie Alguersuari wasn't impressive until Montreal, 26 points in 11 races. More than likely seeing him in 2012 with Spanish/UAE money coming into team.
Williams: poor car, not alot of points (5 points all year), need to improve on 2012, big time. Renault engines will be a big help. Rubens Barrichello had a terrible year (only 4 points) possibly his last year in F1? Who knows. While Pastor Maldonado impressive at Monaco and Spa apart from that hasn't been impressive all year. Only Venezuelan money has saved him for 2012 at Williams.
Team Lotus: better pace then HRT and Virgin, better than last season, but still needs half a second/second. To match the likes of the midfield teams, also a name changed to Caterham F1 Team for 2012. Both Heikki Kovalainen and Jarno Trulli fast at race pace, needs to show it more in qualifying to beat the midfield teams for 2012. Karun Chandhok had a race in Germany, not as fast as either driver (Kovalainen or Trulli). Are we going to see Trulli in 2012, despite his has got a contract for 2012.
HRT: bad start to the season (both cars DNQ in the first race) however the team improved through the season until Monza. Pedro De la Rosa in 2012 should make the car better for pace. 2011 drivers Tonio Liuzzi impressive Canada, constantly fast with a poor car, Narain Karthikeyan impressive in Canada and his home race in India. Daniel Ricciardo shows better pace than Liuzzi for the second half of the season, are we going to see him in 2012? Which team? HRT, Caterham or STR?
Virgin Racing: another disappointing season again, 12th in the constructors championship again. Out goes Nock Wirth CFD and Virgin name. In comes McLaren simulator and wind tunnel, and Marussia name aswell for 2012. Timo Glock same as Liuzzi, constantly fast with a poor car. As for Jerome d'Ambrosio match Glock in pace in some races in his only season in Formula 1. Charles Pic will be a faster driver than d'Ambrosio for 2012.
Overall a dominating season from the World Champions Red Bull and Sebastian Vettel. A better season for both Red Bull and Vettel from last season. Despite last season was exciting from a championship stand point. But, the races this year are great, for example China, Monaco, Canada and Hungary, but with a little help from KERS, DRS and the return of Pirelli tyres who replace Bridgestone from 2010 which was a big factor. Bring on 2012.
And so My Top Formula 1 drivers of 2011, this is the part who was in my top 10 this season, not in championship order, so his list doesn't includes Felipe Massa or Nico Rosberg for example. So here is my list below.
My Top Formula 1 drivers of 2011:
1. Sebastian Vettel (Red Bull) - 2011 World Champion, and the best driver all year, enough said.
2. Jenson Button (McLaren) - The best driving in his career so far, despite not winning drivers championship.
3. Ferando Alonso (Ferrari) - Same as Button, the best driving in his career so far, despite a poor car.
4. Mark Webber (Red Bull) - Constantly fast throughout the season, despite not winning until the end of the season.
5. Lewis Hamilton (McLaren) - Fast, some brilliant drives, but inconstant compare to his team mate
6. Adrian Sutil (Force India) - Best of the non top 4 teams, impressive since Nurburgring, should be in F1 next season.
7. Jamie Alguersuari (STR) - Impressive since Montreal, can get points from poor grid positions.
8. Michael Schumacher (Mercedes GP) - The old fox is still has the old magic when the magic is there to surprise people.
9. Paul di Resta (Force India) - Best of the rookies, mostly match/ beat the pace of his experience team mate.
10. Sergio Perez (Sauber) - race pace is great, when he uses old tyres for a one stop strategy to collect impressive points from the rookie.
End of a super long post/blog for now. A new shorter post soon. That is all. Bye.
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