[pob]

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.  

[Amelia Chaffinch]

Happy with that seeing as I know so little about it!

[pob]

I will be joining the sportsbabble team for this race

[St Charles Owl]

Welcome to the team pob!!! Hopefully you can help us up the league a bit!!

[pob]

I hope so too. At the moment I'm mirroring Hulkenburg in real life: last year averaged 7th/8th position each race but have had a bad start to the season so far with only one finish in the top 10.

[St Charles Owl]

Well after a fairly prossessional race, the safety car screw up by Hamilton's team cost him biig style!!! And even worse it cost me a ton of points!!!! I lost points for Hamilton not winning and for Grosjean not coming in 10th!!!

Can't help thinking that Rosberg is really not in the same class as Hamilton and Vettel but due to a team mistake takes the top spot!! He couldn't shake Vettel all race while Hamilton easily moved 14 seconds ahead before young Max had his moment of madness!!

[Amelia Chaffinch]

Do you know that I picked Rosberg to win this without knowing he had won the last 2 years. Spooky or what?

[St Charles Owl]

I didn't realize he had won the last two years until they mentioned it yesterday. Even if I had known though I wouldn't have picked him to win!! Your turn this week to get near the top of the league.

[pob]

Monaco Results

Wehateowls takes the garagistas' first win of the year.
Cliptheapex extend their lead in the league to 77 points over second place grandprix.
Amelia claims fifth place for sportsbabble .

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Pos user           forum    zdkf1 points  forum points
1  wehateowls      garagistasf1 49            25
2  manutddaredevil ja606        38            18
3  jambo           cliptheapex  37            15
4  fb              cliptheapex  36            12
5  amelia          sportsbabble 36            10
6  mancini         ja606        36             8
7  f1madgirl       f1world      36             6
8  lyria           grandprix    36             4
9  jb              not606       35             2
10 atis            f1technical  35             1

scores for also rans from sportsbabble:
34 pob
31 sco
28 stairs


League table
Pos_Forum__________Points
1___cliptheapex_____162
2___grandprix________85
3___not606___________74
4___ja606____________66
5___sportsbabble_____51
6___f1world__________50
7___garagistasf1_____49
8___f1onboard________29
9___f1technical______23
10__v2_______________17


Individual championship
Not606's jb still leads the way on 281 points.
Teabagyokel and greenlantern101 from cliptheapex are the closest chasers on 264 points and 251 points respectively.
The best player from sportsbabble is sco in 9th place on 229 points.


Quali trophy
4 players got within 0.25% of pole for 2 points; 15 other players got within 1% for 1 point (including amelia and me ). Here's the overall top 10:

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

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Race recap:
A typical Monaco snoozefest until a safety car late in the race caused by Verstappen flying into the back of Grosjean. Mercedes made a terrible tactical error in calling Hamilton into the pits from the lead for new tyres in a race which he had dominated until then. Hamilton emerged from the pitlane just behind Vettel in third place, gifting the win to Rosberg.

The other talking points of the race were a first points finish of the season for McLaren after Button placed 8th and a very disappointing race for Williams who were off the pace due to their low drag car not being suited to the slow Monaco track.

[Amelia Chaffinch]

Suited with that