[Official] Rate the Grand Prix: Saudi Arabian Grand Prix 2024

[Born Racer]

What score do you give it?

[Richard C]

Average. I would rate a four, but bumped to five due to Bearman's drive and battle for 12th.

Richard

[Greem]

Another 6 from me. I did some washing up and played fetch with the dog for a while and positions were more or less the same when I came back.

Great drive by Bearman though!

[bjohnsonsmith]

I thought it was an ok race, but still I quite enjoyed as there were some good battles; KMag, Ocon, Tsunoda and Albon and further up the field Hamilton and Piastri. 6.

[Aysedasi]

4. It's just a Scalextric track. Would have been a 3 if it hadn't been for the 'Bearman element'....

[Alan52]

5
Without Bearman factor it would have been 4.
It’s going to be hard to stay enthusiastic for 24 races when the only question each race will be who is going to finish 3rd.Would love to be proved wrong.

[GT6]

ok so excitement with bearman driving but little else to cheer about. 4 again from me

[Badlands99]

Without Bearman, it would have barely been worth a score!
3 from me just for the 'New Kid on the block'

[Born Racer]

The unpredictable nature of our opinions is what makes Rate the Grand Prix fascinating. Whereas I think I rated Bahrain around 4, this one stirred me, so I'll go for a 7. I like the track and the racing was good. In the interests of fairness, because I've given DRS heavy criticism, here it wasn't too much of a foregone conclusion in some cases and at least often moves got done in braking zones.

[V8 Fireworks]

7/10 -- It was good. Very tense with Piastri trying to (unsuccessfully) overtake Hamilton and Magnussen backing up the pack. Quite an interesting race!

Originally Posted by Alan52

It’s going to be hard to stay enthusiastic for 24 races when the only question each race will be who is going to finish 3rd.

What's the problem with that? RBR's 1-2 finish was inevitable, so we didn't see those cars in the telecast. That might change when other constructors improve their race cars.

It's interesting that Ferrari started these rules with the fastest car in 2022, yet have done much rebuilding and reconfiguration since then rather than extending that lead.

It would be ironic too if the low- and hard-riding Mercedes W13 proves to be the most competitive of the W13, W14 and W15. At least the W13 had a focussed concept that could be very competitive when it was able to run low and hard on a medium speed circuit.

[steve_r]

Another 6 from me. The first half of the race was quite entertaining. I do have incredibly low expectations for any interest whatsoever at the sharp end moving forward.