Who could forget Lewis Hamilton’s pit lane faux pas in Montreal, or his moment of madness at the first corner in Japan?

Title rival Felipe Massa managed an impressive five spins in one race at a sodden Silverstone and schoolboy errors in Australia and Malaysia.

Other lowlights included Fernando Alonso throwing away a great opportunity in the rain of Monaco with a kamikaze move at Loews; Kimi Raikkonen careering into the back of Adrian Sutil in the same race; and Giancarlo Fisichella’s aerobatics at the start in Turkey.

Then there were operational mishaps by the teams, like the curious case of McLaren fitting Heikki Kovalainen’s tyres the wrong way round in China, and Ferrari’s Keystone Cops-style pit lane fiasco in Singapore.

So, in the spirit of festive fun that we like to foster here on the Team's Pit-stop, we want to know who and what gets your vote for the most egregious error of the season...

 

Ferrari's fueling incident at Singapore has to take the top spot for Team blunder of the year. Driver's Blunder of the year fittingly goes to the World Driver's Champion Lewis Hamilton for crashing into Kimi at Montreal

 

Blunder of the year? Timo Glock on dry tires and letting Hamilton by on the last corner of the last race.... THANKS A MILLION.

 

^^^^^^^^^^^hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha. ..........

 

Now that, i've composed myself I would have to say it was Ferrari taking so long to realize the break heating issue which caused Massa to be relatively uncompetitive in a race where Hamilton scored no points...and thats one of many lets downs by team scuderia to their drivers.

 

Haha cant get enough of that gif!

 

Other than Massa's fueling incident at Singpore, Ferrari not providing a reliable enough car for Massa in Hungary. He makes the amazing pass at the beginning, leads the entire race, and then his engine blows with a few laps to go to gift the win to Heikki.

 

My vote goes for the outcome of the Belgium GP at Spa. Hamilton made a gutsy pass (as all F1 drivers should) and even after cutting the turn and then letting Kimi pass (as mandated in the rules), he passed Kimi again but then was hit by Kimi in the next turn, before Kimi eventually crashed and retired from the race. Hamilton won the race outright and the racing of both drivers created one of the most exciting races in racing history. Unfortunately, the stewards made a very hasty decision to impose a 25 second penalty on Hamilton which cost him the race and bumped him from 1st to 3rd place.

To me, stripping the winner of one of best races ever of his victory makes this the biggest blunder in F1 history, possibly even all-time sports history, imo. Complete and utter bullshit of a call, and one that may have permanently tarnished F1's image.

 

^ Well put, Alex. Great minds...

 

Blunder of the year goes to the FIA for all it's crap penalties, the worst of all being its calls in Japan.