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Fantasy Formula 1 - Malaysia: The other stuff

Hi-de-hi, campers of an F1 persuasion!

Hope you've had a spiffing Monday. As usual, here's a round up of other Fantasy F1 stuff, starting off with driver & team statistics:

Well done to Ian for bagging the highest score so far this season with an impressive 94 points. He's now got two of the three best scores so far. At the other end of the spectrum, Chris W manages just 13 points from this race.

Naughty corner? Was anyone actually that naughty? The Hamilton & Alonso penalties seemed a little harsh, but I can't really think of anyone else doing anything particularly dumb or foolish. Damn, that's as rare as rocking horse poo.

Hero? I think you can guess this one... Mr Heidfeld, for that lightning start, some top racing and holding off Webber at the end. And the nice beard and fluffy hair. His podium finish now means he has the dubious record of being the driver with most podiums without a win in F1 history.

The top three drivers so far are Vettel with 52, Heidfeld (up 6) on 33 and Button (up 8) with 30. Petrov and Hamilton's dismal days see both of them drop out of the top 3. Honourable mentions to Sutil and D'Ambrosio for punching above their weight in joint 4th.

The top three teams so far are: Red Bull with 52, Renault on 42 and McLaren with 40. Williams and Hispania have still to break their duck. Seems a bit harsh on wildfowl, but there you go.

Congratulations to Neil for bagging the top FF1 step. I'm afraid we're out a champagne at the moment though (Heather drank it all last race).

Another 5 of you got out of negative figures this race, whilst Ollie's with varying degrees of 'L' still languish with over 300 negative points....

Fantasy Formula 1: Where Vitaly is getting sick of the repeat playing of "The Only Way Is Up"...

Next race: It's only this weekend! The Chinese GP is available for your delectation on April 17th. Oh look - its another early one...


(Brought to you by the mighty power of 12" vinyl, a Technics turntable and a Teac amp and speakers. Oh, and Language's "Goodbye Indian Summer".)

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