Alonso of the race

**donKey jote** · 22nd Jul 12, 14:36

+ special mention to button

**pino** · 22nd Jul 12, 14:37

Fernando

**Knock-on** · 22nd Jul 12, 14:38

Button for me

but Alonso was sublime

**DexDexter** · 22nd Jul 12, 14:43

Ki....no Alonso of course!

**rjbetty** · 22nd Jul 12, 14:44

Alonso today

**N4D13** · 22nd Jul 12, 14:53

What about the donkey? I couldn't single out anyone today, although Seb might be a candidate if that overtake on Button cost him a 25-second penalty. It's not a nice way to throw a podium away, even though it doesn't beat Maldonado.

**Mr Alca-Tazizzle** · 22nd Jul 12, 14:53

Hail Caesar

**DexDexter** · 22nd Jul 12, 14:55

Originally Posted by N4D13

What about the donkey? I couldn't single out anyone today, although Seb might be a candidate if that overtake on Button cost him a 25-second penalty. It's not a nice way to throw a podium away, even though it doesn't beat Maldonado.

Grosjean is the clear donkey. Made contact once again with somebody, finished a lap down out of the points while Kimi was 4th. A good driver, but too crash-prone at the moment.

**Koz** · 22nd Jul 12, 14:56

Niki Lauda

Honourable mentions to: Alonso, Jenson, Button, Kimi, Rosberg. In that order.

**steveaki13** · 22nd Jul 12, 14:58

Driver of the race: Alonso - By a mile. No mistakes. Faultless and we will never know how fast he could have gone.

Other Mentions:

Button - Fine drive 6th to 2nd really. Despite finishing 3rd.
Raikkonen- Fine drive 10th to 4th.
Kobayashi- Done a good job for more points.
Perez - 17th to 6th. Another great job and looked so fast.
Petrov - Battled well in early stages finished a few places ahead of Heikki and held off the faster cars recovering of Senna & grosjean.

**N4D13** · 22nd Jul 12, 15:01

Originally Posted by DexDexter

Grosjean is the clear donkey. Made contact once again with somebody, finished a lap down out of the points while Kimi was 4th. A good driver, but too crash-prone at the moment.

Fair point. You know, I have this weird thing going on in my mind and it looks like I can only remember the last 20 laps of a race or so.

**Mr Alca-Tazizzle** · 22nd Jul 12, 15:04

Great drive by button.

I think that flat spot cost him the win.

**Robinho** · 22nd Jul 12, 15:07

Alonso, with a mention to Button.

Donkeys for Massa, Senna and Grosjean for their 1st lap antics, although I didn't see enough of the last 2 to see who hot who first. Massa's drive into the back of Kimi was schoolboy stuff

**F1boat** · 22nd Jul 12, 15:20

Alonso DOTD

No obvious donkey for me.

**Mr Alca-Tazizzle** · 22nd Jul 12, 15:27

Grosjean drove like an idiot

**SlowSon** · 22nd Jul 12, 15:34

Noo, he rather drove like Vergne

**donKey jote** · 22nd Jul 12, 16:49

special mention now to Kimi for P3, and donkey now goes to Vettel

**edv** · 22nd Jul 12, 17:37

Despite the exciting battles at the front amongst all of the WDCs, I think special mention is deserved by the Saubers and the Force Indias. All 4 drivers played fair and provided some great entertainment.

**markabilly** · 22nd Jul 12, 18:43

Originally Posted by donKey jote

special mention now to Kimi for P3, and donkey now goes to Vettel

I hope you are wearing diapers beneath your kilts......

**Dave B** · 22nd Jul 12, 19:54

Hard to argue with Alonso as the driver of the whole weekend. A calm approach in variable weather on Saturday, and a controlled race in which there were only a handful of laps in which he looked remotely under pressure.

Not many donkeys but Massa's start was comedy gold, and Grosjean barely completed a whole lap on the tarmac all weekend.