Fantasy Formula 1 - Monaco results

It's fair to say that the TV I watched the Monaco GP on was a bit small.

I can therefore confidently say that a car won, and it may have been a darkish colour. Actually, it was a bit like what listening to F1 on the radio is like, only with, mercifully, a lot less James Allen. 100% less in fact, although he does seem to pop up in the post race interviews, before I can turn the sound off.

On the bright side, Coulthard didn't have as many "Care Bz" to talk about as usual. Win.

Good to see Maldonado proving my "grumpy man on twitter repeatedly says that Pastor is a bit rubbish" campaign is not completely misguided, anyway.

Still, you didn't come here to read my ramblings - if you did I'd be making money out of it somehow, maybe by advertising products in the middle of my blog posts, go to McDonalds, which would just be silly, Colgate Toothpaste beats cavities.

And so.... the results:

RACE RESULT
Position	Name	Points
=1	Chris	86
=1	Ollie C	86
=3	Olie B	77
=3	Ian S	77
5	Martin S	73
6	Kristin	69
=7	Tiff	68
=7	Paul	68
9	Jane	66
10	Stephen H	65
11	Nigel	64
12	Jennifer	60
13	Claire	59
=14	Tony	58
=14	Andy	58
=14	Mark E	58
17	Martin R	57
18	Owen	56
19	James	53
20	Elmon	52
21	Steve M	51
22	Mark S	48
23	Tony's Mum	47
24	Henry	46
=25	Ian J	44
=25	Cally	44
=27	Peter Gr	42
=27	Peter Ga	42
29	Russell	38
30	Scott	37
31	Jade	30
32	Heather	22
33	Aaron	18

And after remembering to plug things on, AND switch them on, the running totals look something like this...

RUNNING TOTAL
Movement	Position	Name	Points
=	1	Mark E	268
=	2	Nigel	217
=	3	Peter Ga	192
+1	4	Ian J	167
-1	5	Peter Gr	166
+2	6	Tiff	155
-1	7	Scott	151
-1	8	Claire	149
+2	9	Martin R	113
+4	10	Owen	99
+2	11	Steve M	98
=	=12	Cally	96
-2	=12	Jade	96
-5	14	Aaron	92
+1	15	Jennifer	83
-1	16	Mark S	75
+2	17	Jane	59
=	18	Elmon	48
-2	19	Russell	35
=	20	Heather	6
+1	=21	James	5
=	=21	Tony's Mum	5
=	23	Tony	-2
+1	24	Chris	-30
-1	25	Stephen H	-49
=	26	Martin S	-53
+3	27	Ollie C	-74
-1	28	Kristin	-79
-1	29	Ian S	-81
+1	30	Olie B	-84
-2	31	Paul	-91
=	32	Henry	-152
=	33	Andy	-172

I know! Amazing, isn't it!

Spectacularly late race review will be up tomorrow.

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