Fantasy Formula 1: India - the other stuff

Friday?! Are you sure? What the hell happened to the rest of the week?!

Well, it's certainly been a busy one if you're a F1 driver's wallet, especially if you belong to Ricciardo, Vergne, Hulkywulkyberg or Raikkonen. All have seen themselves stuffed with extra cash as their owners confirmed drives for 2013. Ricci and Vergne are staying put at Red Bull Jr, whilst Hulkenberg moves to Sauber. But the most exciting confirmation was that His Royal Icemanness is staying put at Lotus.

It was great to seem Kimi's facial expression exactly the same as it was before with joy. Top bloke.

Anyway, here's those random FF1 bits I know you all crave like the pointless-stats-and-facts-junkies you are. That makes me your crap dealer. Sweet.

Naughty corner: No major culprits this race, so I’ll have to plump for Perez, largely because we all know he can do much, much better than that...

Hero: Lewis and McLaren. 5 wheels in 3.3 seconds. Just wow.

Fantasy Formula 1 driver of the day was Seb, with 26 points. He’s top of everything, isn’t he? Show off.

Three races out front now for Elmon, and before that we had Mark E for 14. Ollie C has stalled in 2nd place finally, but there are just 26 points between him and Elmon now... OK to start biting the fingernails now?

Who’s hot, and who’s not?! Alonso is still the top-scoring FF1 driver, whilst the McLaren duo are only 6th and 7th, with Lewis slightly ahead. If you didn’t pick Karthikeyan, get a grown up to give you a pat on the back – he’s still last. Ferrari are still top team, whilst McLaren move up to 3rd this race. HRT are last, but only by 2 points now.

Next race: Some of it has happened already! The Abu Dhabi GP takes place this Sunday, the 4th of November. Expect fireworks. (See what I did there?)

(Banging remixes tonight by OK Go - Ooo! The Static Revenge Remix of White Knuckles!)

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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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