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Russia Results

Mach gets grandprix's second win.
Mercedes may have wrapped up the WCC, but the interforum league remains wide open with cliptheapex's lead cut to just 20 points over not606.
Sportsbabble didn't place in the top 10 this race , but keep trying!

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Pos nickname       forum  zdkf1 points  forum points
1  mach            grandprix   34            25
2  elbando         not606      32            18
3  go_cellino_go   ja606       31            15
4  greenlantern101 cliptheapex 31            12
5  chelseamf       ja606       30            10
6  dreggsf1        f1onboard   30             8
7  lawrence        grandprix   29             6
8  f1madgirl       f1world     28             4
9  andykarter      f1world     27             2
10 jb              not606      25             1

scores for also rans from sportsbabble:

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21 sco
16 stairs

League table
Pos_Forum__________Points

1___cliptheapex_____261

2___not606__________241

3___ja606___________227

4___f1world_________224

5___grandprix_______198

6___sportsbabble____131

7___f1technical_____101

8___garagistasf1_____72

9___f1onboard________43

10__v2_______________17



Individual championship
Not606's jb still leads the way on 588 points.
Bls, also from not606, remains second on 571 points.
Redfrog from f1world stays in third place on 564 points.
The best player from sportsbabble is sco in 19th place on 494 points (stairs is only 8 points behind).


Quali trophy
Grandprix's mach turns his victory into a grand chelem with the best pole time guess on zdkf1 earning him the maximum 3 points. 5 other players got within 0.25% for 2 points, and 13 more got within 1% for 1 point (including sco).
Here's the top 10:

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pos user           forum     points
1  bls             not606      13
2  redfrog         f1world     13
3  pdk             f1world     12
4  greenlantern101 cliptheapex 12
5  andykarter      f1world     11
6  sardaor         cliptheapex 11
7  chelseamf       ja606       11
8  jb              not606      10
9  pob             f1technical 10
10 atis            f1technical  9

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Race recap:
Mercedes seal the constructors' championship with four races to go. Hamilton looks set to claim the drivers' championship after his ninth win of the season. Rosberg was having a good weekend, taking pole and leading early on until a broken throttle pedal brought an end to his race.
Bottas in the Williams intially battled with the two Ferrari's for second place; Vettel managed to get past at the pitstop, but Bottas would battle with Raikkonen for the rest of the race.
There was some variation in the strategies thanks to a safety car for a heavy crash by Grosjean. Some drivers pitted, notably Perez and Ricciardo, while the leaders stayed out. This led to a great last few laps with Perez in third place for Force India on old tyres being chased down by Bottas and Raikkonen. Both Finns found their way passed, but then a desperate dive by Raikkonen caused a collision which brought an end to Bottas's race and heavily damaged Raikkonen's Ferrari, eventually dropping him to eighth after a 30 second penalty for the incident, and letting Perez back into third place for his fifth ever podium.
After a difficult qualifying, Massa had a good race to fourth to salvage something for Williams.
Local boy Kvyat placed fifth for Red Bull. His teammate Ricciardo retired with suspension problems.
Nasr was a great sixth for Sauber, Maldonado a quiet seventh.
Button was ninth for McLaren, his teammate Alonso initially finished tenth but was given a post race penalty for repeatedly cutting a corner to drop him out of the points.
Verstappen was tenth for Toro Rosso, recovering from a puncture from an opening lap incident caused by Hulkenburg which also brought an early end to Ericsson's race. Sainz in the other Toro Rosso had a good race from last on the grid, a big accident in practice forcing him to miss qualifying, but he eventually retired with brake failure.