Opinem: "Drive of the year 2013"

Já era para eu ter postado isso aqui no Blog, mas com este tempo de fim/início de ano acabei me enrolando...

Pois bem, eis aqui uma lista de melhores do ano do site Crash.net. Lista aliás, feita por fãs, que votaram nos melhores!

E de certa forma, ela me surpreendeu. Confesso que não imaginaria uma lista tão generosa com Alonso e Kimi. Se bem que no fundo, a gente sabe que eles dois é que são os grande pilotos que movimentam os fãs atualmente na F1, além disso, eles para demonstrarem talento e serem favoritos, não precisam vencer tudo e todos. Ponto para gente!

Posto somente um pedacinho da lista... o restante está AQUI.

Nos comentários, QUERO saber a opinião de vocês. Desta vez, eu não vou opiniar, deixarei isso com VOCÊS!

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Top ten F1 Drivers of the Year vote: 1st - Kimi Raikkonen

It only required 17 races, one win, a string of second places and the odd choice comment or two to see you vote Kimi Raikkonen into top spot in the 2013 F1 Driver of the Year poll...

F1 Driver of the Year vote: 1st

Top ten F1 Drivers of the Year vote: 1st - Kimi Raikkonen

Top 10 F1 Drivers of the Year 2013:

1: Kimi Raikkonen

Team: Lotus

Races: 17

Wins: 1

Podiums: 8

Best Finish: 1st

Poles: 0

Fastest Laps: 2

Points: 183

Championship Position: 5th

2012 Driver of the Year position: 2nd

Having returned to the top step of the podium in Abu Dhabi in 2012, Kimi Raikkonen would have come into 2013 looking to take the fight to Red Bull and Ferrari, and winning the season-opener in Australia would have done little to temper that ambition.

Success in Melbourne, however, had as much to do with Lotus' ability to manage its tyre wear as outright performance, and Raikkonen, while a podium threat more often than not, wouldn't return to top spot through the remaining 18 rounds.

The Finn made a habit of finishing second, doing so six times in his seven other podiums, putting together a hat-trick between China and Spain, then going back-to-back in Germany and Hungary before the summer break.

Although he again finished as runner-up in Korea, the effect of not having been paid by Lotus was beginning to take its effect and, having backed down on a threat not to race in Abu Dhabi – where, ironically, he was a first lap retirement after having to start at the back following a qualifying DQ – the flaring of a old back injury precluded appearances in the final two races of the season, dropping Raikkonen from third to fifth in the final standings.

Well before that, the 2007 world champion had been confirmed as a Ferrari driver for 2014, returning him to the team that guided him to his title as a potent team-mate to Fernando Alonso...

The Finn had been linked with a possible move to Red Bull prior to his decision to return to Maranello, and the severing of ties with Lotus will comes as a blow to the Enstone team's ambitions. How Raikkonen fares against - and with - the previously Alonso-centric Ferrari set-up remains to be seen and could be a potentially divisive sub-plot for the year ahead.

 Top ten F1 Drivers of the Year vote: 2nd - Fernando Alonso

Second in the 2013 F1 world championship standings was mirrored by a similar position in the 2013 Driver of the Year poll for last year's number one, Fernando Alonso...

 F1 Driver of the Year vote: 2nd

Top ten F1 Drivers of the Year vote: 2nd - Fernando Alonso

Top 10 F1 Drivers of the Year 2013:

2: Fernando Alonso

Team: Ferrari

Races: 19

Wins: 2

Podiums: 9

Best Finish: 1st

Poles: 0

Fastest Laps: 2

Points: 242

Championship Position: 2nd

2012 Driver of the Year position: 1st

Fernando Alonso claimed his third world championship runners-up spot in four years, but there was to be no repeat of the three-point margin between himself and Vettel as the Spaniard had no answer to the Red Bull man in the second half of the season.

Things started promisingly, with two wins in the first five races – including another on home soil in Barcelona – but tailed off once the FIA mandated a change of tyre specification on safety grounds.

Alonso had a front row seat as the original selections gave up the ghost in dramatic fashion at Silverstone but, with Ferrari unable to get as much out the replacements as their rivals, saw his challenge fade, despite some typically battling performances.

Podiums in Australia, Canada and Britain early on were surpassed by three successive second places in Belgium, Italy and Singapore but, with Vettel winning each time, the performances did little to close the points gap. The title was out of reach by India, but Alonso was able to clinch second overall with Kimi Raikkonen's absence in Austin.

The Spaniard's consistency resulted in points from 18 of 19 rounds – his only retirement came after an uncharacteristic mistake with a broken front wing in Malaysia – and helped keep Ferrari in the hunt for second overall in the constructors' championship until the final round, but a return to the podium in Brazil was, ultimately, not enough to overhaul Mercedes.

Alonso did, however, become the sport's highest-ever points scorer, although he was the first to admit that the revised scoring system skewed the record books somewhat.

Despite an apparent dissatisfaction with Ferrari that led to him being mentioned in connection with moves to Lotus, McLaren and Red Bull towards the end of the season, Alonso remains at Maranello in 2014, where he will be joined by the returning Kimi Raikkonen to forge the Scuderia's strongest line-up for some years. How the pair work together will be one of the enduring stories of 2014.

Top ten F1 Drivers of the Year vote: 6th - Nico Rosberg

Capable of holding his own against new team-mate Lewis Hamilton not only confirmed Nico Rosberg's performances against predecessor Michael Schumacher, but earned him sixth spot in the 2013 Driver of the Year poll...

  

F1 Driver of the Year vote: 6th

Top ten F1 Drivers of the Year vote: 6th - Nico Rosberg

Top 10 F1 Drivers of the Year 2013:

6: Nico Rosberg

Team: Mercedes AMG Petronas

Races: 19

Wins: 2

Podiums: 4

Best Finish: 1st

Poles: 3

Fastest Laps: 0

Points: 171

Championship Position: 6th

2012 Driver of the Year position: 11th

Ninth overall the previous season, Nico Rosberg established himself as a genuine contender in 2013, adding two victories to the one he took in China in 2012, and claiming three pole positions as Mercedes took the qualifying fight to Red Bull in the early part of the season.

The German's victories came in contrasting fashion, dominating Monaco from start to finish, adding the win to pole, while inheriting Silverstone from the luckless Vettel when the Red Bull driver ground to a halt while apparently cruising to the flag.

While Vettel proved unstoppable in the second half of the year, it was frequently Rosberg that led the Mercedes resistance, finishing on the podium in India and Abu Dhabi while team-mate Lewis Hamilton struggled to breach the top six.

Both Mercedes drivers had been involved in the contentious Pirelli tyre test that followed the Spanish Grand Prix, and were denied the chance to test the revised rubber introduced following the dramatic incidents at Silverstone, potentially setting them on the back foot for the second half of the year.

Despite that, however, continued development of the W04, even though the sport's technical blueprint changes for 2014, ensured that Mercedes was able to fend off both Ferrari and Lotus to end the year as runner-up to Red Bull in the onstructors' championship.

The pairing of Rosberg and Hamilton remains intact for 2014 and, if Mercedes can weather the departure of Ross Brawn, should be contenders once again.

(fonte: Crash.net)

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