Fantasy Formula 1 - Spain: The other stuff

Wotcha. Right, here's the round up of all the random stuff relating to Fantasy Formula 1 and Vettel's Reign in Spain (damn, why didn't I think of that before).

Anyway, here's the driver and team stats for you:

Congratulations to Ian and Tony’s Mum, who bagged the two highest individual FF1 scores of the season so far with 126 and 109 respectively.

Naughty corner? The stewards. Did they really tell the teams it would be OK for cars to be launched into the path of each other because the pit lane was nice and wide? Lucky no-one was scraping bits of battered Ferrari off the tarmac...

Hero: Some high quality driving from a lot of different drivers, but for me it was Heidfeld again for failing to see last place on the grid as an obstacle to getting points.

Fantasy Formula 1 driver of the day was, of course, Heidfeld with a huge 36 points.

The top three drivers so far are Vettel on 124, Webber with 98 and Heidfeld (up 1) on 87. Hamilton drops out of the top three. Maldonado remains the only driver not to bag a single FF1 point so far.

The top three teams so far are Red Bull on 124, McLaren with 101 and Renault on 92. Williams are now the worst team to have picked this season.

Heather led for a week, Neil for 3, but now it’s.... ME! I put this down to having overhauled the budget teams, but not having been caught yet by the expensive high-scoring teams. I give it a week. Still, I’m basking in the warm glow for now...

The bottom 7 competitors are all still in negative figures, with Tony the only one not to be inside 100 points of zero. Gap from front to back reduced again this race – it’s now down to 320 points.

Fantasy Formula 1: Where Seb is practicing his ‘Look, I have a Global Hypercolour T-Shirt? Cool, No?’ look...

Next race: By jove, it’s this very weekend in Monaco, on the 29th of May. How very splendid!

(Musical entertainment provided tonight by the fresh-through-the-letterbox Flight Of The Conchords' self-titled album from 2008. Mighty fine it is too!)

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