[Official] Driver of the Grand Prix: Turkish Grand Prix 2021

[Born Racer]

Who's your pick?

[GTRMagic]

Mr Ocon for saving Alpine some Euros by not using more than one set of tyres for the race..

[E.B]

I went with Carlos for a good drive through the field.

[chillibowl]

Bottas won taking points away from Max, but Perez more importantly took points away from Lewis.

Perez the king of one stoppers

[bjohnsonsmith]

Leclerc. I thought he looked really good out in front, shame the tyres didn't last.

[Beau2]

Alonso...for the entertainment.

[steve_r]

Sainz for a great battling drive from very back.

Kudos to the whole podium for tidy clean races.

And hats off to Ocon for trying to make F1 a little greener by not using any more tyres than he really had to.

[BTCC frog]

Bottas, although he wasn't fastest in qualifying. Sainz, Gasly, Leclerc and Hamilton were very good too.

[GT6]

Valtteri finally wins a race after all this time so he gets my vote.

[chunterer]

Sainz

[TrapezeArtist]

Bottas. Early on I thought it was going to be Sainz but his progress slowed a lot in the latter part of the race.

[Tourer]

Carlos is the Saint for me from Turkey - his passes under brakes were really committed and classy - close call today but he comes out on top of DOTR for mine.

[crmalcolm]

Vettee, for trying mediums when the world around him thought the track was wet!

[Adam43]

There was just good driving from a lot of them today. Nice to see.

Best dice was Hamilton and Perez. So I want to give it to one of them. Perez already has some votes so Hamilton. And he had that nice move on Tsunoda early on.

[F1Pete]

Brilliant Bottas. Finest demonstration of "how to drive" of the season so far. Merc senior management are surely regretting letting him go. All they had to do was give him an extended contract beyond one year which would have resulted in race wins and driver championship.

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[Adam43]

[Teretonga]

I said Bottas because I was really pleased for him after all the negative nonsense
slung his way. It was a complete run to the flag. He beat Max, who we can't say had a lessor car and Valterri's teammate wasn't able to do any better. Yeah.
The complete weekend for him.

[Adam43]

Great reason to vote for Bottas. I was really pleased to see him win too.

[Alan52]

Bottas was outstanding.
Perez for the first time since France did what Red Bull hired him to do.
Gasly was very unlucky to cop that penalty and might have been close to the podium without it.

[Neil22]

Bottas with kudos to Max, Sainz and Perez.

[AndreasDavour]

I thought Gasly did a good job this time. Same for Norris. They kept it together while the faster cars where racing.



Checo did provide us with some entertainment in a race that was quite static. Really well done, and great for the team.


Ferrari was a bit lost, and sounded really like they where not sure what their drivers where doing, and I was wondering myself about Leclerc. But, when he was good he was great!



Then we have the big ones. Bottas did an excellent job. Keeping it consistent and judging the conditions lap after lap. I have said it before that I think he is one of the mentally strongest drivers on the grid. He did the drive of the day.



But, the driver of the day for me was a man who drove like it was dry, and showed that fakers might need DRS, but not he. DotD, Carlos Saintz. Vamos!

[AndreasDavour]

Damnit!

"Carlos Sainz" nothing else. I always have to go back and take out that 't' which my finders insist should be there. I missed it this time.

[TrapezeArtist]

Originally Posted by crmalcolm

Vettee, for trying mediums when the world around him thought the track was wet!

And the world around him was right!

It was a staggeringly optimistic roll of the dice. But of course we would all have been in awe if he could have made it work. As it was he just threw away what little hope of a result he still had.