[pob]

Canada Results

F1madgirl takes f1world's first win of the year, moving them up to third place in the league.
Cliptheapex extend their lead to 84 points over second place grandprix.
Sportsbabble didn't place in the top 10 this race , but keep trying!

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Pos user       forum   zdkf1 points  forum points
1  f1madgirl   f1world     55            25
2  lawrence    grandprix   53            18
3  sardaor     cliptheapex 47            15
4  chelseamf   ja606       46            12
5  soccerman17 cliptheapex 46            10
6  redfrog     f1world     44             8
7  atis        f1technical 43             6
8  jb          not606      43             4
9  mancini     ja606       42             2
10 bls         not606      42             1

scores for also rans from sportsbabble:

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39 sco
37 stairs
27 amelia

League table
Pos_Forum__________Points
1___cliptheapex_____187
2___grandprix_______103
3___f1world__________83
4___ja606____________80
5___not606___________79
6___sportsbabble_____51
7___garagistasf1_____49
8___f1onboard________29
9___f1technical______29
10__v2_______________17


Individual championship
Not606's jb still leads the way on 324 points.
Teabagyokel from cliptheapex remains in second place on 301 points.
Lawrence from grandprix has moved up to third on 294 points.
The best player from sportsbabble is sco in 9th place on 268 points .


Quali trophy
3 players got within 0.25% of the Canadian pole time for 2 points; 16 other players were within 1% for 1 point.
Here's the overall top 10:

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pos user           forum     points
1  pob             various     6
2  chelseamf       ja606       6
3  greenlantern101 cliptheapex 6
4  pdk             f1world     5
5  andykarter      f1world     5
6  jb              not606      5
7  bls             not606      5
8  teabagyokel     cliptheapex 5
9  sardaor         cliptheapex 5
10 mancini         ja606       5

(I haven't watched the race yet so the traditional race recap from me will have to wait )

[pob]

Race recap:
An easy 1,2 for Mercedes, Hamilton's fourth win of the year ahead of Rosberg.

The Williams of Bottas beat Raikkonen's Ferrari to third place thanks to a spin at the hairpin by Raikkonen.

Vettel and Massa both came through the field after both problems in qualifying to finish 5th and 6th respectively.
It was definitely a race where having the Mercedes engine was an advantage: the Renault engined Red Bulls and Toro Rossos were poor, the only highlight being Kvyat salvaging ninth place; the Sauber Ferraris and Marussia Ferraris were slow; both McLaren Hondas retired. In contrast the Lotus Mercedes had their best qualifying of the season, with Maldonado able to convert that to his first points finish of the season in 7th, but Grosjean with a scrappy race to 10th. The Force India Mercedes were also relatively quick, Hulkenburg taking a good 8th, although Perez was anonymous on a track that he is normally good at in 11th.

[pob]

Austria Results

Following their win in Canada, f1world take a 1-2 to jump up to second place in the league behind league leaders cliptheapex.
Amelia takes seventh place for sportsbabble.

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Pos user         forum   zdkf1 points  forum points
1  redfrog       f1world      67           25
2  pdk           f1world      56           18
3  bls           not606       55           15
4  tranquilchaos ja606        55           12
5  wehateowls    garagistasf1 52           10
6  sardaor       cliptheapex  52            8
7  amelia        sportsbabble 51            6
8  lyria         grandprix    48            4
9  dreggsf1      f1onboard    44            2
10 teabagyokel   cliptheapex  41            1

scores for also rans from sportsbabble:

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23 stairs
20 sco

League table
Pos_Forum__________Points
1___cliptheapex_____196
2___f1world_________126
3___grandprix_______107
4___not606___________94
5___ja606____________92
6___garagistasf1_____59
7___sportsbabble_____57
8___f1onboard________31
9___f1technical______29
10__v2_______________17


Individual championship
Not606's jb still leads the way on 364 points.
Teabagyokel from cliptheapex remains in second place on 342 points.
Lawrence from grandprix is still third on 332 points.
The best player from sportsbabble is sco in 17th place on 288 points (same score as me ).


Quali trophy
Only f1world's pdk got close enough to the actual pole time to earn 2 points, which propels her into the lead.
11 other players got within 1% of the actual pole time for 1 point.
Here's the overall top 10:

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pos user           forum      points
1  pdk             f1world      7
2  pob             various      7
3  greenlantern101 cliptheapex  7
4  andykarter      f1world      6
5  jb              not606       6
6  bls             not606       6
7  chelseamf       ja606        6
8  teabagyokel     cliptheapex  6
9  wehateowls      garagistasf1 5
10 sardaor         cliptheapex  5

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Race recap:
Another 1-2 for Mercedes, but unusually Rosberg wins on merit ahead of Hamilton in second place. (With no disrespect intended towards Rosberg, him beating Hamilton in a direct battle is rare.)
Ferrari's Vettel loses third place to the Williams of Massa after a problem in the pits. Bottas in the second Williams takes fifth with some good overtakes. Raikkonen in the other Ferrari has a weekend to forget, qualifying poorly and then crashing scarily on the opening lap taking out Alonso:

Hulkenburg continues the momentum of his win at the 24 hours of Le Mans last week with a good sixth place in his Force India. His teammate Perez came 9th. Force India will use their new b-spec car from the next race.
Maldonado took 7th again in his Lotus after some hairy moments behind Verstappen's Toro Rosso who eventually came 8th:


Ricciardo had a good race to 10th place in the Red Bull, coming through the field due to a poor qualifying exacerbated by grid penalties and a 5 second time penalty for using more than his season's power unit allocation. We're not even at the halfway point of the season, so many more grid penalties and time penalties are likely to hit the Renault engined Red Bulls and Toro Rossos as well as the Honda engined McLarens.

[Amelia Chaffinch]

Damn, I have missed the deadline

[pob]

So did I Amelia! (if you remember you've forgotten, you can post your prediction here and I will include it in the league results if you post it before Free Practice 1. You can also email late predictions to support@zdkf1.com and they might add it to the website at their discretion.)

Great Britain Results

It's a third win in a row, and another 1-2 for f1world, which slashes cliptheapex's lead in half to 35 points.
Sportsbabble didn't place in the top 10 this race , but keep trying!

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Pos user         forum    zdkf1 points  forum points
1  andykarter    f1world      56            25
2  redfrog       f1world      53            18
3  bls           not606       52            15
4  chelseamf     ja606        52            12
5  go_cellino_go ja606        48            10
6  jb            not606       47             8
7  teabagyokel   cliptheapex  47             6
8  mach          grandprix    47             4
9  soccerman17   cliptheapex  47             2
10 wehateowls    garagistasf1 46             1

scores for also rans from sportsbabble:

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42 stairs
30 sco

League table
Pos_Forum__________Points
1___cliptheapex_____204
2___f1world_________169
3___not606__________117
4___ja606___________114
5___grandprix_______111
6___garagistasf1_____60
7___sportsbabble_____57
8___f1onboard________31
9___f1technical______29
10__v2_______________17


Individual championship
Not606's jb still leads the way on 411 points.
Teabagyokel from cliptheapex remains in second place on 389 points.
Redfrog from f1world moves up to third on 379 points.
The best player from sportsbabble is sco in 22nd place on 318 points (same as me ).


Quali trophy
Only 2 of the 23 predictions for this race scored points towards the Jarno Trulli Trophy: redfrog from f1world and jambo from cliptheapex got within 1% of the actual pole time for 1 point.
Here's the overall top 10:

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pos user           forum      points
1  pdk             f1world      7
2  pob             various      7
3  greenlantern101 cliptheapex  7
4  andykarter      f1world      6
5  bls             not606       6
6  jb              not606       6
7  teabagyokel     cliptheapex  6
8  chelseamf       ja606        6
9  redfrog         f1world      6
10 wehateowls      garagistasf1 5

I haven't seen the race yet, so the recap will have to wait unless someone else wants to do the honours.

[Amelia Chaffinch]

I wouldn't have got first place right. I was going to plump for Rosberg again. But thanks for the tip.

[pob]

Race recap:
The Williams pair of Massa and Bottas got great starts off the grid to get ahead of the two Mercedes of Hamilton and Rosberg. Hamilton came back at Bottas before losing the place again when attacking Massa:

Hamilton eventually managed to jump the pair at the pit stops to take the lead (Williams again showing their tactical naivety). Then the rain came... Rosberg used the Mercedes superior downforce in the damp to overtake both Williams to take second place and Vettel came from nowhere to claim third. Massa finished fourth and Bottas just held onto fifth from Kvyat in the Red Bull in sixth. The Force Indias had a good race in their B spec car, with 7th and 9th. Raikkonen in the second Ferrari fared badly in 8th after gambling early on changing to the intermediate tyres. Alonso claimed his first points finish of the season in 10th despite an early pit for a replacement front wing.
Ericsson in the Sauber was disappointed to miss out on points in 11th: another one to suffer with gambles on the intermediate tyres.
The Manor Marussia drivers trundled home 12th and 13th, two laps down.
As for those that retired: a first lap crash took care of both Lotus drivers and Button's McLaren, Nasr's Sauber didn't make the grid with gearbox issues, the Renault engines of Ricciardo (Red Bull) and Sainz (Toro Rosso) failed and Verstappen in the other Toro Rosso span off.

In the news, Lotus are facing a winding up order from creditors; Maldonado's millions in sponsorship should be enough for them to survive but there are rumours that they will be bought by Renault.

[pob]

Hungary Results

Elbando leads home a 1-2 for defending champions not606, their second win of the year.
Cliptheapex's lead is cut to just 30 points over f1world.
Stairs is on the podium in third place    and sco takes eighth    for sportsbabble, moving the forum up a place in the league to sixth.

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Pos user           forum    zdkf1 points  forum points
1  elbando         not606       39            25
2  bls             not606       34            18
3  stairs          sportsbabble 32            15
4  wtcbu           ja606        31            12
5  pob             f1technical  29            10
6  mach            grandprix    26             8
7  redfrog         f1world      24             6
8  sco             sportsbabble 24             4
9  tranquilchaos   ja606        23             2
10 greenlantern101 cliptheapex  21             1

scores for also rans from sportsbabble:

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League table
Pos_Forum__________Points
1___cliptheapex_____205
2___f1world_________175
3___not606__________160
4___ja606___________128
5___grandprix_______119
6___sportsbabble_____76
7___garagistasf1_____60
8___f1technical______39
9___f1onboard________31
10__v2_______________17


Individual championship
Not606's jb still leads the way on 430 points.
Bls, also from not606, has moved up to second on 412 points.
Teabagyokel from cliptheapex slips to third place on 409 points.
The best player from sportsbabble is sco in 19th place on 342 points.  


Quali trophy
Redfrog from f1world and I scored the maximum possible 3 points. 8 players scored 2 points for being within 0.25% of the actual pole time, 7 others got within 1% for 1 point.
Here's the overall top 10:

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pos user        forum    points
1  pob          various    10
2  pdk          f1world     9
3  greenlantern cliptheapex 9
4  redfrog      f1world     9
5  bls          not606      8
6  jb           not606      8
7  chelseamf    ja606       8
8  andykarter   f1world     7
9  teabagyokel  cliptheapex 7
10 mancini      ja606       7

[pob]

Race recap:

The f1 community mourned the loss of Jules Bianchi, who finally succumbed to the injuries he suffered in last year's Japanese Grand Prix. A minute of silence was held before the race start:


For the second race in a row, the Mercedes were beaten off the line by cars behind, both Vettel and Raikkonen in the Ferraris got ahead of Hamilton and Rosberg. Hamilton then ran wide at the chicane and fell down to tenth place. Rosberg did not have the pace or desire to challenge the Ferraris ahead, but the prospect of a great 1-2 for the Italian team was brought to an end when Raikkonen started to experience problems with the hybrid part of his power unit.
The safety car was brought out so marshals could clean up the debris from Hulkenburg's front wing failing:

At the restart, Hamilton collided with Ricciardo's Red Bull at turn 1. The stewards deemed Hamilton was at fault and he received a drive through penalty.
Mercedes had made a tactical error in putting Rosberg on the slower medium tyre when he pitted under the safety car, but even with this disadvantage, he was able to pass the ailing Raikkonen. Rosberg was then put under pressure from Ricciardo. The young Australian took a dive down the inside of the German and the two collided after Rosberg cut back in front of Ricciardo, damaging Ricciardo's front wing and puncturing Rosberg's tyre, ending both drivers chances of winning.

Vettel won, putting him on the same number of career wins as Ayrton Senna. The Red Bulls of Kvyat and Ricciardo were second and third, making it the first podium since Brazil 2013 that a Mercedes team driver has not been on the podium. Verstappen was lucky to get a great fourth for Toro Rosso: the team unusually chose to give him the undercut at the first pitstops to get him ahead of his teammate Sainz and then the stewards were perhaps too lenient in their choice of penalty for Verstappen speeding under the safety car.
Alonso gave McLaren their best result of the season so far with fifth place, and his teammate Button placed ninth.
Hamilton recovered from his various incidents to take sixth, a good result in light of the title race as at one point in the race it looked as if Rosberg was set to take the lead of the championship going into the summer break, but Rosberg's puncture meant he had to settle for eighth place.
The other points finishers were Grosjean in seventh for Lotus and Ericsson in tenth for Sauber.
Both Williams drivers had poor races: Bottas had a couple of collisions with Ricciardo and Verstappen; Massa never recovered from a 5 second penalty for causing the start of the race to be aborted by not lining up in his grid slot properly.
Maldonado kept the stewards busy, earning three penalties in total for crashing with Perez, speeding in the pitlane and overtaking behind the safety car.

[pob]

Belgium Results

Wtcbu takes ja606's first victory of 2015.
Cliptheapex extend their lead in the league to 51 points over f1world, with not606 another point further back.
Sco and stairs place sixth and seventh respectively for sportsbabble.

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Pos user         forum   zdkf1 points  forum points
1  wtcbu         ja606        37            25
2  jambo         cliptheapex  36            18
3  bls           not606       35            15
4  pob           f1technical  35            12
5  mach          grandprix    35            10
6  sco           sportsbabble 34             8
7  stairs        sportsbabble 33             6
8  sardaor       cliptheapex  32             4
9  go_cellino_go ja606        32             2
10 pdk           f1world      32             1

scores for also rans from sportsbabble:

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League table
Pos_Forum__________Points
1___cliptheapex_____227
2___f1world_________176
3___not606__________175
4___ja606___________155
5___grandprix_______129
6___sportsbabble_____90
7___garagistasf1_____60
8___f1technical______51
9___f1onboard________31
10__v2_______________17


Individual championship
Not606's jb still leads the way on 452 points.
Bls, also from not606, remains second on 447 points.
Teabagyokel from cliptheapex stays in third place on 435 points.
The best player from sportsbabble is sco in 16th place on 376 points.


Quali trophy
A difficult race for pole time predictions: only cliptheapex's sardaor got within 0.25% for 2 points this race; four others got within 1% for 1 point.
Here's the overall top 10:

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pos user        forum    points
1  pob          various    10
2  redfrog      f1world    10
3  bls          not606      9
4  pdk          f1world     9
5  greenlantern cliptheapex 9
6  teabagyokel  cliptheapex 8
7  sardaor      cliptheapex 8
8  chelseamf    ja606       8
9  jb           not606      8
10 andykarter   f1world     7

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Race recap:
Back to normal form with an easy one-two for Mercedes: Hamilton winning after Rosberg had a bad start.
Grosjean took the final spot on the podium for Lotus, which will be important for the team as their financial troubles continue while awaiting a possible takeover by Renault.
Ferrari's Vettel was running in third place until his tyre exploded with less than two laps to go. He was naturally unimpressed by this and took his wrath out on the tyre supplier Pirelli in the postrace interviews.
Kvyat raced well for Red Bull to fourth, and Perez in the Force India continued their good pace since introducing their b-spec car to take fifth.
Massa was sixth for Williams, Raikkonen seventh for Ferrari.
Verstappen placed eighth for Toro Rosso after some more great overtaking manoeuvres that belie his young age:

Bottas was perhaps lucky to claim ninth for Williams, the stewards only penalising him with a drive through penalty for using an illegal combination of tyres. Ericsson took the final point for Sauber in tenth ahead of his teammate Nasr.
The McLarens of Alonso and Button were painfully slow on a "power" track, the horsepower deficit of their Honda engine being abundantly clear.