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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Salty25" data-source="post: 561899" data-attributes="member: 185281"><img src="http://www.satellites.co.uk/satellite/attachment.php?attachmentid=18664&stc=1&d=1225674278" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Introducing the SupaLiga stars..<img src="http://www.satellites.co.uk/satellite/attachment.php?attachmentid=18667&stc=1&d=1225674325" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Team Oily – <a href="http://www.satellites.co.uk/satellite/member.php?u=109508" target="_blank">Oily</a>Coming into this season on the back of a 9th place finish in 2007, Oily seemed an unlikely contender for the 2008 title.Oily had a good start to the season with 3rd in Australia. This was the launch pad for an early-season sensation, as the Team went up to 2nd in Malaysia and then 1st for the first time ever in Bahrain.However, the great start was short-lived when a 44pt disaster in Spain saw Oily down to 6th – it was to be his lowest position all season and the ONLY time he dropped down the rankings.Team Oily grew from that point onwards, recording 124pts in Germany, and the hard work really paid off at the end of the European season – 132pts in Belgium, and then the season record 139pts in Italy saw Oily not only return to 1st, but also consolidate his position at the top.Oily repeated Norm’s 2007 run of 7 successive end-of-season centuries, and also won the European Cup and Asia & Americas Cup.<img src="http://www.satellites.co.uk/satellite/attachment.php?attachmentid=18668&stc=1&d=1225674325" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />F1 Aberdeen – <a href="http://www.satellites.co.uk/satellite/member.php?u=2427" target="_blank">Norm</a>With the domination of the 2007 season came expectation that 2008 would be a repeat of the same, and there was also the added responsibility of managing SupaLiga’s first ‘Supa’ team in the Pure FF1 Cup.47pts in Australia was not what the doctor ordered, but F1 Aberdeen’s form was to improve quickly, and by Spain they were leading the league.The trouble for Norm was that he could not find that magic formula that worked so well in 2007 –he failed to score 100 or more in only 3 races in 2007, but only scored 3 centuries before the 13th race in Belgium.This was the critical deficiency in the campaign that allowed Team Oily to barge the once great team aside, and although F1 Aberdeen got 5 more centuries in the last 6 races, they just couldn’t match the machine that was Team Oily.As for the Supa team, they were briefly in with a chance at the start of the season of making the top 32, but hope was lost well before the deadline race in Belgium and SupaLiga will have to wait for future years for another crack at the big time.<img src="http://www.satellites.co.uk/satellite/attachment.php?attachmentid=18669&stc=1&d=1225674325" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Auto-Dynamo – <a href="http://www.satellites.co.uk/satellite/members/51965/salty25/" target="_blank">Salty25</a>After nearly 3 years of looking after SupaLiga competition, I was finally able to compete for a title, and if only briefly, reached the sky!Almost mirroring F1 Aberdeen, Dynamo had a poor start before moving quickly up the standings to 2nd. They remained there until Hungary when, for the first time, I took the top spot in a SupaLiga competition!Unfortunately, the very next race in Valencia I was back down to 2nd, then 3rd in Belgium, and but for a blip by Norm in Singapore that allowed me to climb to 2nd, I remained solidly in 3rd, under no threat from those below. I hope for better next term.Also of note…Linhas BMW started 2 races late, but shocked everyone with their razor sharp performances, and for sometime it looked like they would provide a late threat for SupaLiga itself. But they lost their way at the end of the European season and any title aspirations were gone. Linhas redoubled his efforts in the final 3 races, and 3 centuries and poor outings by others paved the way for the Portuguese performer to take 4th place in amazing fashion in Brazil.1st in Australia and for a long time 4th in SupaLiga, ScotBorderF1 will be disappointed with a 6th place finish but Analoguesat should feel consoled by the fact that they improved 5 places on 2007. Tom34 did even better, up 7 places from 2007 and never falling lower than 13th.Despite the early season heroics of Team Wod and Outcast, the new entrants failed to breakthrough as their predecessors did in 2007, with only misterminibus’s Pro-Drive in the top 10.From your league secretary…Once again, thank you all for a fantastic competition, and congratulations to Oily for winning the league – I know it has been a long wait, as you are now one of only 8 managers to have competed in all 3 seasons of F1 SupaLiga to have been staged so far.I look forward to (hopefully) seeing you all again next year, and with any luck new and older faces for 2009!</blockquote>

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