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Disclaimer: I only really followed the first half of the year, kinda turned off once Vettel started dominating.

Best and Worst Driver[s] of the year:
Best: Vettel, Grosjean, Hamilton
Worst: Maldonaldo, Chilton, Van de Garde

Best and Worst Team[s] of the year:
Best: Red Bull, Mercedes, Lotus
Worst: McLaren, Williams, Sauber

Biggest surprise of the year: Mercedes getting wins with both drivers

Biggest disappointment[s] of the year (moments): Silverstone tire fallout, end of the Malaysian GP, no race chuva

Crash of the year: Nothing really stands out. Maldonaldo and Chilton coming together at Monaco I suppose.

Drive of the year: Hulkenberg in Korea

Race of the year: Australia (cos I was there)

Pass of the year: Iono

Most controversial moment of the year: Vettel passing Webber at Malaysia

Quote of the year: "Kimi, get out of the fucking way"

FAIL of the year: Alonso celebrating the most points / Chilton celebrating the most finishes

Funniest moment of the year: Bianchi's Marussia rolling down the hill in Germany

Saddest moment of the year: Maria de Villota

Race thread of the year: Australia

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Best and Worst Driver[s] of the year: Vettel, Hulkenberg, Grosjean (Best). Chilton (Worst)

Best and Worst Team[s] of the year: Red Bull, Mercedes, Sauber (2nd half) (Best). Williams, Caterham, Marussia (Worst).

Biggest surprise of the year: Grosjean changing from the idiot who causes start crashes to a very capable driver that will win races in the future.

Biggest disappointment[s] of the year (moments): Force India

Crash of the year: Maldonado @ Monaco

Drive of the year: Hulkenberg @ Korea, Kimi @ Melbourne

Race of the year: Melbourne (only because I was there)

Pass of the year: Can't think of anything absolutely oustanding

Most controversial moment of the year: Sepang, Silverstone

Quote of the year: Kimi @ India

FAIL of the year: Alonso @ Sepang not pitting with a broken front wing

Funniest moment of the year: The fire truck @ Korea

Saddest moment of the year: Maria

Best and Worst Driver[s] of the year:
Best: Vettel, Grosjean, Hamilton
Worst: Maldonaldo, Chilton, Pic

Best and Worst Team[s] of the year:
Best: Red Bull, Mercedes, Lotus
Worst: McLaren, Williams, Marussia

Biggest surprise of the year: Mercedes getting really strong before the Silverstone drama

Biggest disappointment[s] of the year (moments): Silverstone punctures

Crash of the year: There werent manny. Lets say turn 1 crash in Japan, or Massa in Monaco

Drive of the year: Hulkenberg in Korea

Race of the year: Monza (cos I was there)

Pass of the year: Raikkonen vs Lewis Melbourne

Most controversial moment of the year: Silverstone failures

Quote of the year: "Kimi, get out of the fucking way"

FAIL of the year: Alonso celebrating the most points / Chilton celebrating the most finishes

Funniest moment of the year: Bianchi's Marussia rolling down the hill in Germany

Saddest moment of the year: Maria de Villota

Race thread of the year: Dont know, theyre all the same to me

Best and Worst Driver[s] of the year:
Best: Vettel.
Worst: Maldonaldo, Chilton.

Best and Worst Team[s] of the year:
Best: Red Bull, Mercedes, Lotus
Worst: McLaren, Williams, Caterham.

Biggest surprise of the year: Vettel's dominance.

Biggest disappointment[s] of the year (moments): The Teams' self-interested handling of the tyre dramas, an utter farce.

Crash of the year: I really don't remember any. EDIT: Monaco getting a combination of Chilton and Maldonado.

Drive of the year: Hulk in Korea was very impressive.

Race of the year: Honestly not sure. Silverstone?

Pass of the year: Webber on Hamilton at Austin. May have been better ones but I forget.

Most controversial moment of the year: Multi 21.

Quote of the year: Lotus to Kimi in India.

FAIL of the year: Maldonado's team rants. Alonso DRS in Bahrain.

Funniest moment of the year: Fire truck in Korea.

Saddest moment of the year: Maria de Villota

Race thread of the year: Spain, obviously. (I started it.)

it's weird how little I remember from this year. I read about crashes and passes that really don't ring a bell.

Best and Worst Driver[s] of the year: Best: Vettel, Raikkonen, Hulkenberg, Grosjean. Worst: Maldonado, Chilton

Best and Worst Team[s] of the year: Best: Red Bull, Lotus, Mercedes. Worst: McLaren, Caterham, Force India

Biggest surprise of the year: Vettel' dominance, Raikkonen in Singapore, Grosjean improving.

Biggest disappointment[s] of the year (moments): Williams, McLaren

Crash of the year: Can't remember

Drive of the year: Raikkonen in Singapore

Race of the year: Can't remember

Pass of the year: Yes.

Most controversial moment of the year: Silverstone tire debacle.

Quote of the year: Anything Maldonado said about Williams

FAIL of the year: Maldonado

Funniest moment of the year: Maldonado

Saddest moment of the year: Maldonado

Race thread of the year: Don't know

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Best and Worst Driver[s] of the year: Best - Vettel, Hulkenberg, Kimi, Alonso, Bianchi, Bottas. Worst - Chilton, Maldonado

Best and Worst Team[s] of the year: Best - Red Bull, Lotus; Worst - McLaren, Williams

Biggest surprise of the year: Regression early season of Sauber/Williams

Biggest disappointment[s] of the year (moments): Hulkenberg not getting a top seat

Crash of the year: Massa at Monaco

Drive of the year: Rosberg in Monaco or Vettel in Singapore

Race of the year: Silverstone, Sepang, Sakhir

Pass of the year: Perez on Button, Monaco

Most controversial moment of the year: Test-gate, which led to Silverstone

Quote of the year: "I was racing, I was faster, I passed him, I won" - Vettel, pre-China

FAIL of the year: Maldonado at Austin

Funniest moment of the year: Jeep/Bianchi's runaway car rolling into an insurance advert

Saddest moment of the year: Death of Maria de Villota

Race thread of the year: Er, pass.

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Best and Worst Driver[s] of the year:
Best: Vettel, no one else stands out so much, but the top 5 from the points were doing good job. Worst: Maldonado, Pic (he did nothing remarkable, imo) and Chilton (same as Pic but even slower)

Best and Worst Team[s] of the year:
Best: Red Bull, they did nearly a perfect job all year long. Worst: Caterham for going out with two pay drivers and ending up 11th and McLaren for being number one at Jerez due an error and then falling off the cliff big time and finally firing Perez, who did have pretty reasonable last leg of the season.

Biggest surprise of the year:
Williams removes Coanda-exhaust and Bottas starts to score points in all of a sudden. Really tells how small the margins are with the cars.

Biggest disappointment[s] of the year (moments):
Heikki Kovalainen's whole year as a random Friday tester went up high when Lotus took him to replace Räikkönen and fall back down low when the red lights went out.

Crash of the year:
Maldonado and Marussians at Monaco was the most spectacular for me.

Drive of the year:
Vettel at Singapore after the SC. That really showed everyone what was coming for the rest of the year. He was untouchable.

Race of the year:
Melbourne. It was not anti-climatic and didn't let down as did many other race weekends.

Pass of the year:
Alonso going around the outside in T3 at Barcelona. That was a daring move.

Most controversial moment of the year:
Respect the track limits, don't respect the track limits, respect the track limits, don't respect the track limits, that's a track limit, that's not a track limit, that's a track limit...etc.

Quote of the year:
"Sometimes it is not very nice when you hear that you are not really a team player, and you don't have the interests of the team [at heart] - but you have been paid zero Euro the whole year,"

FAIL of the year:
Alonso/Ferrari at Sepang for not pitting with a broken front wing.

Funniest moment of the year:
Vettel's Doughnuts gave at least something nice to watch for the fans.

Saddest moment of the year:
Maria de Villota's untimely passing, just one day prior her biography publishing.

Race thread of the year:
US GP Thread where the most happened a few days after the race.

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Best and Worst Driver[s] of the year:
Best drivers: Sebastian Vettel, Nico Hulkenberg
Worst drivers: Pastor Maldonado, Max Chilton

Best and Worst Team[s] of the year:
Best team: Red Bull
Worst: McLaren, Williams, Caterham

Biggest surprise of the year:
Grosjean showing development and skills through the season

Biggest disappointment[s] of the year (moments):
McLaren failures, change of tires in the halfway point because the teams didn't follow Pirelli procedure and started whining

Crash of the year: Maldonado at Monaco

Drive of the year: Vettel in Singapore and Brazil

Race of the year: Bahrain GP

Pass of the year: Hulkenberg in Abu Dhabi coming in the middle during a 3-wide

Most controversial moment of the year: tire wear controversy. everyone was to blame and as consequence it all got extremely boring

Quote of the year: any Maldonado whining

FAIL of the year: McLaren

Funniest moment of the year: Webber slipping on podium last sunday

Saddest moment of the year: deaths of track marshall in Montreal and Maria de Villota

Race thread of the year: don't know

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Best and Worst Driver[s] of the year:
Best - Vettel, Hamilton, Alonso, Raikkonen, Grosjean and Hulkenberg
Worst - Maldonado and Chilton

Best and Worst Team[s] of the year:
Best - Red Bull and Mercedes
Worst - McLaren and Caterham

Biggest surprise of the year:
Mercedes

Biggest disappointment[s] of the year (moments):
Hamilton at Silverstone and the latter half of the year

Crash of the year:
Can't remember

Drive of the year:
Vettel at every race post-Hungary, Grosjean at Suzuka and Hulkenberg at Korea

Race of the year:
Australia and Brazil

Pass of the year:
Vettel on Webber at Malaysia (there were better, but this one was pretty big)

Most controversial moment of the year:
The teams continually bitching about the tyres when all along it was their own damn fault

Quote of the year:
"Get out of the fucking way"

FAIL of the year:
The team's attitude toward Pirelli

Funniest moment of the year:
Silverstone tyre failures (but only funny because no-one was hurt)

Saddest moment of the year:
McLaren's treatment of Perez

Race thread of the year:
No idea

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I'm anything but chauvinistic, so if a Dutch driver sucks then he simply sucks, but to Scotty and Philthy82; why VdG as one of the worst drivers?

Best and Worst Driver[s] of the year: Vettel, Alonso and Hülkenberg Worst: Chilton

Best and Worst Team[s] of the year: Red Bull and the fight back of Sauber Worst:Red Bull for whinging about tyres, even when they were winning

Biggest surprise of the year: Mercedes lasting a race distance

Biggest disappointment[s] of the year (moments): The tyre whinging

Crash of the year: Turn 1 in Japan

Drive of the year: Räikkönen in Australia

Race of the year: Monaco

Pass of the year: Grosjean on Massa in Hungary

Most controversial moment of the year: Mercedes' tyre test

Quote of the year: "Don't shout at me" - Kimi

FAIL of the year: Mercedes in Barcelona

Funniest moment of the year: iono

Saddest moment of the year: Kimi's end to the season

Race thread of the year: iono

Best Driver[s] of the year: Sebastien Vettel

Worst Driver[s] of the year: Max Chilton

Best Team[s] of the year: Red Bull

Worst Team[s] of the year: Williams

Biggest surprise of the year: Kimi Raikkonen wins the first race of the season

Biggest disappointment[s] of the year (moments): tyres drama at Silverstone

Crash of the year: Massa at Monaco

Drive of the year: Romain Grosjean at Suzuka

Race of the year: Barhain

Pass of the year: Romain Grosjean on Felipe Massa at Budapest (unfortunately it was penalized)

Most controversial moment of the year: Vettel passes Webber for the lead at Sepang

Quote of the year: "Kimi, get out of the fucking way"

FAIL of the year: the car on the track during the race in Korea

Funniest moment of the year: Bianchi's car runs without driver

Saddest moment of the year: Maria de Villota

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Best and Worst Driver[s] of the year: Vettel (Best). Chilton (Worst)

Best and Worst Team[s] of the year: Red Bull (Best) Williams (Worst).

Biggest surprise of the year: Grosjean no longer Crashjean

Biggest disappointment[s] of the year (moments): Webber not winning the race in his last year

Crash of the year: Maldonado at Monaco

Drive of the year: Hülkenberg at Korea

Race of the year: Silverstone

Pass of the year: Sutil on Alonso at Monaco

Most controversial moment of the year: Mercedes tyre test

Quote of the year: Kimi team radio at India

FAIL of the year: Record celebrations by Alonso and Chilton

Funniest moment of the year: Jeep at Korea and Bianchi's abandoned car at Nürburgring

Saddest moment of the year: Maria de Villota

Best Drivers of the year: Vettel, Rosberg, Hulkenberg

Worst Driver of the year: Maldonado

Best Team of the year: Red Bull

Worst Teams of the year: Williams, McLaren, Caterham

Biggest surprise of the year: Nico Rosberg

Biggest disappointments of the year: When Vettel took lead on lap 1 of Spa

Crash of the year: Maldonado at Monaco

Drive of the year: Vettel Singapore // Raikkonen Melbourne

Race of the year: Melbourne

Pass of the year: Bottas on Gutierrez in Austin, Alonso on Hamilton & Kimi in Barcelona

Most controversial moment of the year: Vettel passing Webber for the lead at Sepang & Massa's penalties in Hungary and Brazil

Quote of the year: "Kimi, get out of the fucking way"

FAIL of the year: Mercedes Tyre wear in the first few races, Alonso not pitting in Malaysia, Webber's starts in Australia and England

Funniest moment of the year: The Jeep, backwards Marussia in Germany

Saddest moment of the year: Maria de Villota

Vettel's post-race celebrations in India deserve a mention too.