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Fantasy Formula 1: Canada - The other stuff

I wonder if Lewis has started complaining again yet? What am I thinking? Of course he has. The champagne was probably too cold, or Martin Whitmarsh's nipples were too pointy. Still, nice to see him win, and take a least a few minutes off from the grumblefest - he's starting to make me look like a cheerful person. Naughty corner: Everyone was pretty well behaved, weren’t they? I’ll have to go with Lee Mackenzie’s continuing over-use of the phrase “Just tell us..” on the BBC coverage, which she’s fronting whilst Jake Humphrey nips off to that footballerist thingy. Hero: I’m going with Perez – he made up 12 places to finish on the podium. Good work, Speedy! Fantasy Formula 1 driver of the day was Perez, with a huge 39 points for anyone that picked him. Which none of us did. D’oh. Mark E’s stranglehold on FF1 2012 continues for a 7th race, although his lead has dropped to an achievable 34 points... Front to back gap has crept up again to 444 points. Ouch. Hamil...

Who...?!

Do you remember selecting members for your team at school? Not a 'proper' team, arranged by the psychopathic PE teacher with the over-tight shorts and a tendency to shout a lot in a way that implied he was strangely compensating for something, but a mates team, during lunchtime. Captains get appointed and take it in turns to pick from the assembled mass. Well, the BBC have finally announced their TV F1 lineup. And it's clear Sky got to pick first. And second too. They've swiped the excellent Martin Brundle and Ted Kravitz (along with everyone from Five Live), so it was fair to say I wasn't expecting much. And I got even less. Alongside Coulthard, Humphrey (with his increasing twitter obsession about fitness training, his personal fitness guru and motivational phrases), Jordan and McKenzie, will be Gary Anderson and Ben Edwards. Gary Anderson I know - avuncular tech geezer, who spent a lot of time with EJ at Jordan. Cue Eddie joshing about how little he pa...