F1 league 2011 2011-12 off season chat

[Lazarus]

I'm after your Runner Up badge, Pete.

And I'm a lot grumpier than you.

 

[sonnetpete]

I'm after your Runner Up badge, Pete.

And I'm a lot grumpier than you.

Grumpier maybe.....but have you attained Meldrew parity yet?

 

[Lazarus]

I don't believe so.




Saw a TV clip today of the bit where he picked the handbag pooch off the floor thinking it was the dog and bone. Turned out it was just the dog. "4291"

 

[Topper]

Well done to all the plus 100 club, it seems I am destined to stay mid table as I seem to have the nack of picking the drivers that DNF this year

 

[Analoguesat]

Nick Heidfeld has left Renault and will not be returning so anyone who has him in their team should make some changes.

-http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/formula_one/14770449.stm

(Of course you should have removed him for Spa as he wasnt racing ;) )

 

[Lazarus]

Who is Nick Heidfeld?

 

[Analoguesat]

Cruel but funny

 

[woborny]

See The Sham-ilton is in the papers again...at lesat he is winning something this year...the driver causing the most smashes and accidents this year - 6 so far....

[h=2]LEWIS HAMILTON'S spectacular shunt at Spa was his SIXTH major incident of the Formula One season — more than any other driver.[/h]The 26-year-old Brit's highly-charged season has had the likes of former champ Niki Lauda lining up to blast his no-holds-barred style.
And even his most ardent fans are beginning to wonder if his apparent win or bust mentality is losing him more than it gains.
Here's how Hamilton's crash-bang-wallop season has shaken out...
APRIL 10, MALAYSIA: Fernando Alonso runs into the back of Hamilton as he makes a hash of an overtaking manoeuvre. Hamilton is later hit with a retrospective drive-through penalty for making more than one change of direction to defend a position. The 20 seconds added to his time drop him from seventh to eighth.
MAY 29, MONACO: Hamilton is given two drive-through penalties relating to separate thumps with Ferrari's Felipe Massa and Williams' Pastor Maldonado. Hamilton calls his visit to stewards as "an absolute frickin' joke" and jokingly suggests he is being picked on "maybe because I'm black". He later apologises to the stewards and FIA president Jean Todt.
JUNE 12, CANADA: In wet conditions following an initial safety car period, Hamilton taps Mark Webber into a spin. Three laps later Hamilton commits F1's cardinal sin by colliding with team-mate Jenson Button. He hits the pit wall and retires.
JULY 31, HUNGARY: Leading the race on lap 47, he spins and straightens his car into oncoming traffic, almost colliding with Force India's Paul di Resta. He receives another drive-through penalty and eventually finishes fourth. Hamilton later apologises to di Resta.
AUGUST 27, BELGIUM, QUALIFYING: Hamilton bangs wheels with Pastor Maldonado at the Bus Stop chicane. Maldonado retaliates as the pair head towards Eau Rouge, slamming into Hamilton and ripping off part of his front wing. Hamilton is reprimanded while Maldonado is given a five-place grid penalty.
AUGUST 28, BELGIUM, RACE: Hamilton heads into the Les Combes esses at the end of the Kemmel straight and moves left into the line of Sauber's Kamui Kobayashi. The resulting touch sends Hamilton crashing nose-first into a barrier. Hamilton later concedes the incident was "100 per cent" his fault.

_http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sport/motorsport/3781933/Hamiltons-six-of-the-worst.html

 

[misterminibus]

I think quick nick is a great driver, he has been at the front on many occasions just not for renault I wonder if he will still be around there seems to be an abundance of drivers now ?

 

[Analoguesat]

Well another thrilling race, although sadly marred by the unfortunate demise of several midfield runners by a waywards HRT at the first corner

Liuzzi caused mayhem when his fast starting Hispy (and thats not something we say every week!) had a major "tankslapper", got sideways on the grass, and ploughed backwards into the midfield pack, eliminating Rosberg in the Merc and Petrov on the Renault on the spot. Liuzzi has been given a 5 place grid penalty at the next race for his error.

Mark Webber's run of terrible luck continued when he ran into the back of a Ferrari, & dislodged the Red Bull nose cone which got stuck under the car. Whilst recovering to the pits he lost all downforce and slithered off the track onto a barrier at a fast right-hander.

Up at the front Vettel had it all his own way again, and its now going to take something extremely unexpected for him to lose the championship.

In the league , well qualifying had the Tossers & Piston Broke up in the 30's and a gaggle of folk in the mid and low 20's

League race results - well heres a turn up for the books - Norm did reasonably badly (must have been a poor pit stop, or he got caught up in the first corner melee!)

6 players scored the magic ton:

130 - Toppers Tossers
122 - wobbles
105 - Tivu
105 - Burnin Rubber
105 - dazdazdazzy
103 - Oily

Norm only scored 81 - the 14th highest points, and will be disappointed to have dropped 80 places in the overall PFF1 league placings. Maybe there is a chance for someone to wrestle our league lead away from Norm yet - things have tightened up in the top 5 a bit

 

[Lazarus]

My Drivers of the day?

Button and Senna.

But all in all that was well worth watching.

And that Fettel chappie is going to re-write the record books, methinks.

 

[Analoguesat]

Ex F1 driver Alex Zanardi will be trying to qualify for the 2012 Paralympics in hand-biking.

-http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/disability_sport/14858883.stm

For folks who dont remember Zanadi he lost both his legs in a horrendous CART crash at the Eurospeedway in 2001. (He spun coming out of the pits and another car driven by Alex Tagliani ploughed into Zanardi's car and ripped the front off)

I was watching the race live and to this day I dont know how he survived the crash.

A couple of years later he was back racing in a heavily modified car with hand controls fitted. This included finishing the last few laps at Eurospeedway where he had so nearly died 2 years previously.

One amazing bloke for his determination, and I wish him all the best in his quest to qualify for the Paralympics

 

[sonnetpete]

Well, I've resigned myself to try and finish in the top ten. The heady days of leading then finishing second last season seem well behind me!!

 

[Topper]

Its for others to lose Pete

 

[misterminibus]

Has to be Schui, the 1st time he has really been with the leaders since his comeback, watch this space he wil be winning races soon

 

[Lazarus]

Not this season he won't.

 

[Topper]

Has to be Schui, the 1st time he has really been with the leaders since his comeback, watch this space he wil be winning races soon

If he puts all his competitors into walls, barriers or onto the grass then yes perhaps he will, otherwise this season he will not

 

[woborny]

This report from Autosports just goes to show what a tw@ Bernie can be....
autosport.com/news/report.php/id/94823

Formula 1 teams seek clarification over 2012 calendar issues
By Jonathan Noble and Dieter Rencken Sunday, September 25th 2011, 11:38 GMT
Formula 1 teams are to seek clarification from Bernie Ecclestone about the state of the 2012 calendar, because they insist that it was ratified without their support.
As part of the Concorde Agreement, the document that binds F1 together, teams have to give approval to a calendar if there are more than 17 races and if more than half the races take place outside of Europe and the United States.
Under the version of the 2012 calendar that was published recently by the FIA, 11 of the 20 races are classified as these so-called 'flyaways'

When asked about the teams being unhappy that the procedures were not followed, Ecclestone replied: "Then they should go to the police. They are lucky we have got races. Otherwise they would all go out of business."

What a way to promote your product!!! Inspirational!!

 

[Analoguesat]

A couple of daysd late but never mind eh?

The forum game qualifying was interesting with wobbles on 30 points leading a pack of 8 cars who scored 20 or more points. Very impressive scored for the qualifying phase.

Round in Singapore the GP had everything - thrills, (exciting passing), spills (Schumacher up in the air after running into the back of a Sauber) and a totally dominant performance from the Red Bull team which takes Vettel to the brink of the championship with 5 races still to run. And we must mention a superb run by de Resta who finished a superb 6th in the Force India.

The maths for the title is now very simple.

Vettel needs one point from the next 5 races to retain his title.

Button is now the only other driver in with a mathematical chance, but he needs to win all 5 races AND have Vettel finish 11th or lower in all of them.

In our league we had a multitude of 100 point scorers - congratulations to the 10 ton scorers:

126 - ah its me..... ScotBordersF1 (this is the second highest points total of the season)
125 - Norm
121 - wobbles
119 - Burnin Rubber
116 - sonnetpete
113 - Pro Drive
108 - Blatherskite
106 - Toppers Tossers
105 - Tivu
103 - Rick

After a terrible last race Norm has improved his position in the overall competition - he's risen 23 places to 72nd. You may be interested to know that all 20 of our competitors are currently in the top 4000 in the game - it currently breaks down like this:

top 100 - 1
top 1000 - 4
top 2000 - 13
top 3000 - 14
top 4000 - 20

 

[Analoguesat]

Just been looking at the ton stats - we didnt have any at all in the league until race 6!

Since then at least one team has scored 100 or more in every race - and our 10 century scorers this race is by far the highest number this season.

Our worst performance was race 3 (China) where the highest score was a measly 81.