Fantasy F1 - Australia: The other stuff

Want to know how the drivers scored, and the teams?

Think you can rely on me to get it right? As long as the answer to at least one of those questions was yes, everything should be just fine... fingers crossed.

Driver	Score this race	Total	Ranking
Jenson Button	27	27	2
Lewis Hamilton	16	16	7
Michael Schumacher	0	0	=13
Nico Rosberg	0	0	=13
Sebastien Vettel	26	26	=3
Mark Webber	14	14	8
Fernando Alonso	24	24	5
Felipe Massa	0	0	=13
Kamui Kobayashi	22	22	6
Sergio Perez	32	32	1
Pastor Maldonado	0	0	=13
Bruno Senna	0	0	=13
Kimi Raikkonen	26	26	=3
Romain Grosjean	0	0	=13
Paul di Resta	11	11	11
Nico Hulkenberg	0	0	=13
Daniel Ricciardo	4	4	12
Jean-Eric Vergne	0	0	=13
Heikki Kovalainen	0	0	=13
Vitaly Petrov	0	0	=13
Timo Glock	12	12	=9
Charles Pic	12	12	=9
Narain Karthikeyan	0	0	=13
Pedro de la Rosa	0	0	=13

Team	Score this race	Total	Ranking
Red Bull	26	26	=2
McLaren	27	27	1
Ferrari	24	24	4
Mercedes	0	0	=9
Lotus	26	26	=2
Williams	0	0	=9
Sauber	22	22	5
Force India	11	11	7
Toro Rosso	4	4	8
Caterham	0	0	=9
Marussia	12	12	6
HRT	0	0	=9

Naughty corner: It can only be Skeletor Maldonado, can’t it? On for Williams’ biggest points haul for ages, and all he had to do was bring it home safely. Berk.

Hero: Button is deserving, but I’m going for Raikkonen, for a dazzling and fighting return to F1. Good to have him back – at least the BBC can use the time they would normally spend trying to prize more than a word out of him on something else...

Fantasy Formula 1 driver of the day was Perez, with a hefty 32 point haul. Who picked him this season? Yup – no-one.

Well done to Mark E for bagging 1^st place on his FF1 debut. Can he hang on to the lead next weekend...?

Front to back gap is a monstrous 482 points. Ouch.

Fantasy Formula 1: Where HRT are so far behind, they’re just lining up on the grid about..... now.

Next race: Woohooo! Not long to wait – it’s the Malaysian GP this Sunday 25^th March...

(Musical assistance provided by the Kaiser Chiefs' most recent outing "The Future Is Medieval". Isn't it, though?)

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

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

I know I'll regret this...

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

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