Fantasy Formula 1 - Italy: The other stuff

Well, hello. Jolly nice of you to drop by. Pull up a chair, pour yourself a stiff one and join me, your miserable host, for some random FF1 stuff to do with the really rather splendid Italian GP.

First up, here's the driver and team statistics! Woo! Yeah!

Naughty corner: I would say "stand up Tonio Liuzzi", but he'd probably get that wrong, fall over and knock several innocent upright people onto the floor too...

Hero: JB was outstanding once again. Whilst Lewis spent most of the race trying to pass Schumi, Jenson bided his time then nailed both of them. Star.

Fantasy Formula 1 driver of the day was the Aluersaurus, with a fab 28 points.

The top three drivers so far are Vettel on 295, Button (up 1) with 213 and Alonso (up 1) on 208. Webber drops out of the top 3. Whilst everyone pats Bruno Senna on the back, let us forget not little Nick Heidfeld, who is still the 7th best FF1 driver!

The top three teams so far are Red Bull on 299, McLaren with 290 and Ferrari on 224. 4th best team to own currently? Toro Rosso. Cripes.

Henry stays at the top of the table, making the leaders so far: Heather (1 race), Neil (3), Me (4), Ian (1), Me again (1), Henry (2).

Front to back gap? For the first time in ages, it's gone up: 309 points.

Fantasy Formula 1: Where Ricciardo is just crossing the line.... oh hang on, he's still got another lap to go.

Next race: Fun in the dark! Fingers crossed for rain and a tough day out for Seb as we head to Singapore on the 25th of September.

(Keyboard battered to the sound of the remastered "Autobahn" by Kraftwerk. Awesome!)

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