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Spain Results

Jb takes not606's first win of the season
Sportsbabble didn't place in the top 10 this race   but the forum is doing relatively well overall in fifth place in the league  

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Pos user           forum   zdkf1 points  forum points
1  jb              not606      62            25
2  lyria           grandprix   62            18
3  dreggsf1        f1onboard   56            15
4  redfrog         f1world     53            12
5  lawrence        grandprix   53            10
6  greenlantern101 cliptheapex 50             8
7  wtcbu           ja606       50             6
8  andykarter      f1world     47             4
9  atis            f1technical 47             2
10 bls             not606      46             1

scores for also rans from sportsbabble:
40 sco
35 stairs
32 amelia


League table
Pos_Forum__________Points
1___cliptheapex_____135
2___grandprix________81
3___not606___________72
4___f1world__________44
5___sportsbabble_____41
6___ja606____________40
7___f1onboard________29
8___garagistasf1_____24
9___f1technical______22
10__v2_______________17


Individual championship
Jb from not606 has moved into the lead on 246 points (first out of the whole of zdkf1!) He has also taken the lead for the Bernie medal for most wins and six tenths award for most league points.
Teabagyokel from cliptheapex slips to second place on 229 points.
Greenlantern101 from cliptheapex and lawrence from grandprix are tied for third on 219 points.
The best player from sportsbabble is sco in 9th place on 198 points.  


Quali trophy
6 players got within 0.25% of pole for 2 points including sco   ; 11 other players got within 1% for 1 point. Here's the top 10:

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pos user           forum      points
1  bls             not606       4
2  pob             various      4
3  chelseamf       ja606        4
4  andykarter      f1world      3
5  jb              not606       3
6  wehateowls      garagistasf1 3
7  wtcbu           ja606        3
8  greenlantern101 cliptheapex  3
9  stairs          sportsbabble 3
10 13 players on 2 points       2

 Please remember that the deadline for Monaco is on WEDNESDAY night, one day earlier than normal.

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Spain race recap:
Barcelona rarely gives a good race, and this was no exception. Rosberg took an easy victory after Hamilton lost a place to Vettel off the line. Hamilton struggled to get close enough to try to overtake Vettel, but eventually got past him at the pitstops. Ferrari not even trying to cover Hamilton by pitting Vettel about the same time was one of the few talking points of the race.
Raikkonen recovered from a poor qualifying to take 5th place, splitting the Williams pair of Bottas in 4th and Massa in 6th.
Riccardo took the best possible from his slow Red Bull in 7th.
Grosjean was again in the points for Lotus, driving around problems with his gearbox to take a good 8th place. At his final pitstot he overshot the pitbox   , hitting his jackman who suffered torn ankle ligaments as well as painful bruising to his crotch where the jack hit him.

Maldonado in the other Lotus was one of only two retirements in the race, his rear wing end plate was broken after a collision on the opening lap, although he continued in the race until eventually retiring on lap 45.
A last lap tussle between Kvyat in the other Red Bull and Sainz in the Toro Rosso was investigated by the stewards, but no action was taken (with some questionable reasoning given by the stewards), leaving the race result as Sainz in 9th and Kvyat in 10th. Verstappen was 11th in the other Toro Rosso; both junior Red Bull cars struggled after going the wrong with car setup.
Sauber were slow, possibly showing they do not have the money to keep up with the development race. Ericsson was miffed that he was not let by teammate Nasr who was on the slower tyres, which compromised Ericsson's strategy.
The Force India drivers of Hulkenburg and Perez were anonymous in 13th and 15th.
McLaren were extra-disappointing, Button describing his car as "scary to drive" in 16th and Alonso retiring with brake problems after a visor tear-off got caught in the brake duct.
The Manor drivers trundled home several laps down, with FOM continuing the vendetta against them by doing their best not to show the cars on camera.