F1 Most exciting race of the Year 2012

F1 Most exciting race of the Year 2012#336817

By LewEngBridewell - 27 Nov 12, 21:37

- 27 Nov 12, 21:37#336817

We had our fair share of action in 2012. Legendary circuits such as Spa supplied the usual fantastic entertainment, but the season was rounded out with three utterly excellent Grands Prix, two of which were from Tilke's pen!

Which was your favourite race this season?

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Re: F1 Most exciting race of the Year 2012#336819

By scotty - 27 Nov 12, 21:40

- 27 Nov 12, 21:40#336819

Tough one for me... but surely Brazil. Followed by Malaysia and Valencia.

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Re: F1 Most exciting race of the Year 2012#336827

By acosmichippo - 27 Nov 12, 21:47

- 27 Nov 12, 21:47#336827

The first 7 or so were fun due to the crazy Pirellis, but I don't remember any being as thoroughly entertaining as Brazil. The WDC championship on the line, the on/off rain, all the WCC battles up and down the grid, Hulkenberg was leading for a while and actually keeping pace, last Schumacher race, last race for Hamilton at McLaren... I could go on. It was insane.

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Re: F1 Most exciting race of the Year 2012#336829

By andrew - 27 Nov 12, 21:48

- 27 Nov 12, 21:48#336829

Brazil.

Re: F1 Most exciting race of the Year 2012#336834

By myownalias - 27 Nov 12, 22:00

- 27 Nov 12, 22:00#336834

It's kinda hard to look past Brazil as it's in our most recent memories and it was a stonker of a race, so much drama, great wheel to wheel action, some not so great wheel to wheel action!

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Re: F1 Most exciting race of the Year 2012#336843

By Jabberwocky - 27 Nov 12, 22:07

- 27 Nov 12, 22:07#336843

Has to be Brazil.... I was on the edge of my seat for the whole race, foot going like Horners.

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Re: F1 Most exciting race of the Year 2012#336854

By headless - 27 Nov 12, 22:13

- 27 Nov 12, 22:13#336854

Brazil because of its worth.
Abu Dhabi was very very good though, 2 of the best races in previous years.
And Vettel proved to everyone he can indeed overtake!!

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Re: F1 Most exciting race of the Year 2012#336855

By racechick - 27 Nov 12, 22:15

- 27 Nov 12, 22:15#336855

USA. Proper racing because of the wrong tyre and a stunningly good new track. Never thought id say that about a Tilke track!! You see, it is achievable. Good real racing !

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Re: F1 Most exciting race of the Year 2012#336856

By andrew - 27 Nov 12, 22:16

- 27 Nov 12, 22:16#336856

Most Tilke tracks are good.

Re: F1 Most exciting race of the Year 2012#336862

By LewEngBridewell - 27 Nov 12, 22:25

- 27 Nov 12, 22:25#336862

Tilke's tracks, for the most part, produced some great racing this year... apart from the ones on the boring-poll-list :hehe:

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Re: F1 Most exciting race of the Year 2012#336867

By What's Burning? - 27 Nov 12, 22:42

- 27 Nov 12, 22:42#336867

I really really really wanted to vote for Montreal since it was Hamilton's first win, Brazil also deserves more than just honorable mention because it had more action in the first 25 laps than two or three other races combined. But for an honest to goodness slugfest with lots of action I voted for Valencia. Imagine that...

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Re: F1 Most exciting race of the Year 2012#336878

By racechick - 27 Nov 12, 22:58

- 27 Nov 12, 22:58#336878

Most Tilke tracks are good.

No, most are dire. turkey and USA are the exceptions. He's learning!!

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Re: F1 Most exciting race of the Year 2012#336940

By LewEngBridewell - 28 Nov 12, 09:20

- 28 Nov 12, 09:20#336940

I really really really wanted to vote for Montreal since it was Hamilton's first win, Brazil also deserves more than just honorable mention because it had more action in the first 25 laps than two or three other races combined. But for an honest to goodness slugfest with lots of action I voted for Valencia. Imagine that...

The proof is in the pudding... Most users ever online was 238 on Sun Jun 24, 2012 9:18 am

This smashed the previous record which was set during the 2011 Canadian GP. :thumbup:

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Fantasy F1 Team = Bridewell Palace Racing

Re: F1 Most exciting race of the Year 2012#337044

By andrew - 28 Nov 12, 18:21

- 28 Nov 12, 18:21#337044

Most Tilke tracks are good.

No, most are dire. turkey and USA are the exceptions. He's learning!!

No, most are good. If you watch other series on Tilke tracks, the racing is pretty good. The tracks fail in F1 due to the cars but blaming the tracks is an easy cop out.

Re: F1 Most exciting race of the Year 2012#337046

By Denthúl - 28 Nov 12, 18:29

- 28 Nov 12, 18:29#337046

Most Tilke tracks are good.

No, most are dire. turkey and USA are the exceptions. He's learning!!

Bahrain and Malaysia are very good circuits (ignoring the silly version of Sakhir used in 2010), China isn't terrible. Even before DRS was brought in, you got more action in a dry race at most Tilke circuits than at Silverstone, which people seem to think is amazing for some reason. :hehe:

None of them are as good as Spa, Monza and Suzuka though. :cloud9:

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