Fantasy Formula 1: Abu Dhabi

Fantasy Formula 1: Abu Dhabi - the other stuff

"Kimi...."

"What?!"

"Thank's for winning the Grand Prix for us, Lotus really..."

"Yes, Yes, Yes, I know you're pleased, now leave me alone!"

"But we just wanted to..."

"Where's my choc ice?"

"Um....."

"Kimi want Coke! Now! NOW NOW NOW!"

"Just give it to him... it seems to be working. Mind you fingers though, he can be a bit..."

"GRARARGGGGGGHHHH!!!!"

"Ambulance to Enstone immediately, please."

Naughty corner: How long have you got? There was a greater than usual display of grade 1 muppetry going on at Abu Dhabi, wasn’t there? I’m plumping for Webber though, for a quality showcase of error-strewn driving that made him look like he’s been getting lessons from Grosjean.

Hero: Remember my affection for Nick Heidfeld and his lovely beard? I think Kimi and his radio messages may be creeping ahead... and for the win, of course. About time too.

Fantasy Formula 1 driver of the day was that Vettel chappie, with an astonishing 57 points. Crikey.

Elmon’s record-breaking 176 point score sees him maintain the lead for a fourth race, with Mark E leading the preceding 14. 2 left, and the gap to Ollie C in second is now 36 points. In his 13th season of FF1, is this Elmon’s year? (That sounded quite professional, didn’t it? Sorry about that.)

Vettel takes over the most-points-scored-in-FF1 lead from Alonso, whilst Perez somehow manages to remain 5th best driver to have picked. Yes, Karthikeyan is still last. Seb’s super score sees Red Bull take over the lead from Ferrari, whilst Lotus move up to 3rd. HRT are still entirely last.

Remarkably, the top 3 scores this race are the top 3 of the season, whilst Elmon clears the magical 1000 point mark.

Next race: Head over to the USA y’all! It’s the inaugural US GP on the 18th of November! It’s on in the evening (if you’ve got Sky) or after beddie-byes time (if you’ve only got the BBC). Yee! And in all probability, Ha!

(More of Mr Oldfield playing tonight - this time it's one of my favourite albums, 1982's "Five Miles Out".)

Comments

The Schaf Shuffle

The weather – source of endless fascination, conversation, irritation and (just recently) excess irrigation. And a fidgety weather presenter on the BBC... I’m endlessly fascinated with the weather, and will confess to making sure I catch the BBC’s updates whenever possible. Not the local ones, where half the presenters look like they got dressed in the dark, or ITV, where they seem to know very little about actual weather, but the national forecasts. Delivered by actual Met Office personnel, their job entails a tricky mix of waving your hands about a bit, explaining about warm fronts without smirking, and trying not to look too pleased whilst mentioning gales force winds and torrential rain. Or stand in front of Cornwall. Each has their own presenting style, but there is one who intrigues me above all the others. Step forward, Tomasz Schafernaker, the 37 year old man from the Met who breezed onto our screens in 2001, as the youngest male ever to point out that it was going to r...

Making an exhibition of yourself

Now and again, it’s good to reaffirm that you’re a (relatively) normal human being. One excellent way of doing this is to go to a business exhibition. Despite what you might have surmised from reading my previous columns, I am employable, and even capable of acting like a regular person most of the time, even joining in the Monday morning conversation about the weather over the weekend, and why (insert name of footyballs manager here) should be fired immediately. The mug! True, there are times, often involving a caffeine deficiency, where it is like having the distilled essence of ten moody teenagers in the room, but I try and get that out of the way when people I genuinely like aren’t around to see it. As part of my ongoing experiment with what others call ‘working’, my ‘job’ involves me occasionally needing to go and see what some of my colleagues get up to outside the office, and what our competitors do to try and make sure that they do whatever my colleagues do better than ...

RIP Jenwis Hamilbutton

We are gathered here in this... (looks round a bit) um... blog, to mourn the passing of Jenwis Hamilbutton. His life may have been short and largely irrelevant, but he touched the lives of so many people that... sorry? Oh. Apparently that was someone else... Jenwis Hamilbutton rose briefly to fame on twitter during 2010, when he was retweeted by BBC F1 presenter Jake Humphrey, having criticised his shirt. A similarly unspectacular claim to fame occurred when a tweet he crafted at 1am on a windy night appeared in F1 Racing magazine. An amalgam of bits of Formula 1 drivers Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button (mostly the hopeless bits), he came into existence via 3 pints of cider, a Creme Egg and the Electric Light Orchestra’s mournful 1986 farewell album “Balance Of Power”, played loudly over headphones. In his short existence, he was followed on twitter by Paul Hardcastle of “19” fame, and a bunch of slightly odd but jolly nice people, whom he was never entirely sure actually exist...

grumpyf1

Search This Blog