Fantasy Formula 1 - Germany: The other stuff

Whilst the Mrs basks in the warm glow of finding out who died in CSI, I bring you the random grab-bag of oddities relating to Sunday's scintillating (but parky) German GP. First up, the driver and team stats:

Naughty corner: Buemi for assisting with Heidfeld's spectacular exit from the race. Wake up, not-as-good-as-the-other-one-Seb!

Hero: Hamilton was actually on form this weekend, and managed to be polite, cheerful and not a complete git. Impressive.

Fantasy Formula 1 driver of the day was Lewis, with 27 points.

The top three drivers so far are Vettel with 224, Webber on 174 and Hamilton with 160. Oh surprise, surprise - Maldonado STILL hasn't scored anything.

The top three teams so far are Red Bull on 228, McLaren with 216 and Ferrari (up 1) on 168. Renault finally drop out of the top 3. For the first time this FF1 season, Red Bull's points aren't entirely made up of Seb's score.

It's back to the front for me thanks to Ian's rubbish score, but the distant thunder of the big spenders is drawing steadily nearer. Can the expensive teams out haul us frugal-types in the second half of the season? So the top step has been: Heather (1 race), Neil (3), Me (4), Ian (1), Me again (1).

And still the gap from front to back reduces - it's now 259 points only...

Fantasy Formula 1: Where Eddie Jordan had to give that jacket back to the lady he stole it from. And the underwear too.

Next race: It's only this weekend, innit?! The Hungarian GP is on the 31st of July.

(Tunes now courtesy of the other New Musik CD in the double set, called "Anywhere".)

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Malaysian Grand Prix - Vettel hot, but not bothered

Malaysia. It's always hot, and it always rains. Except the 2nd part is no longer true (unless you count the drizzly bit around lap 14). Saturday's qualifying session had highlighted the fact that Red Bull and McLaren seemed well matched on pace, but also that Ferrari were struggling. Whilst Vettel bagged another pole, followed by Hamilton, Webber and Button, Alonso was only 5th, and Massa 7th, with Nick Heidfeld an excellent 6th on the grid between the two red cars. At this point, I would like to break momentarily for a small rant: How many times do I have to say Heidfeld is good? Why wasn't he given a top drive years ago? WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE?! ARE YOU BLIND!!!?? Ahem. The Hispanias somehow managed to a) turn up b) remember to bring cars c) get both of them on the track d) actually get both of them within 107%. Pretty remarkable really. Oh, and it didn't rain. Race day looked a more likely candidate for a drop of the wet stuff. The start was exciting, with

I know I'll regret this...

For @Feisty_Onion @BroughtonLass @LizWestmorland Me... before the grumpiness set in. Have a great weekend.

Senna bags Willy drive?

The great thing about F1 rumours is that they change every 5 minutes. Just last week it was looking like Barrichello might be back in at Williams, as new engines, tech staff and a general reshuffle would mean they needed someone who actually knew what they were doing in an F1 car. Which rules out Maldonado, obviously. Now it looks like Senna might be about to get a seat with the team where his Uncle lost his life. I'm sure Bruno's mum must be delighted. I don't hold with all this superstitious mumbo-jumbo though, and with the extraordinary level of safety in modern F1 cars, Bruno should be pretty safe. There is one significant problem with Williams signing him though - and this is going to be a bit unpopular I suspect - Bruno isn't very good. Yes, he put in a couple of reasonable performances with Renault, but Nick Heidfeld (ah... Nick and his lovely beard...) would have been able to do likewise, has he not been dropped. And then they dropped Senna too. Thi

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