Monolight - Pete’s Blog

It’s not been the best week in Motor racing.

The tragic news of Henry Surtees who was killed at Brands Hatch last week, and also the injury to Felipe Massa who was struck by an object during Qualifying on Saturday.

My thoughts go out to the family of Henry Surtees in these difficult times, and also I would like to wish Felipe Massa a speedy recovery.

Normally when I blog here, I usually dish out the dirt on drivers who I think are rubbish, and take the piss out of some race situation. This week I’ll just say how well McLaren have worked to get back in the season to take their first win this year, lets see you guys stir up the Championship, as at this time it can still go either way.

And now to a few FF1GP related matters.

Renault.

Late news has reached me that Renault have been banned from the European Grand Prix in Valencia. This was down to the wheel coming off after Fernando Alonso’s pit stop. So if Renault’s appeal is not successful, anyone with Renault or their two drivers will not score any points in the next grand prix.

Felipe Massa

I’m afraid no points to anyone who had Felipe Massa in their teams for this race, except to the 2 teams who correctly predicted Felipe Massa as a “DNF”. As the FF1GP rules state, prediction points for DNF’s are awarded since Felipe Massa did take part in Qualifying.

However we don’t know when Felipe Massa will return to racing. I’ll write a blog about this nearer the time of the next grand prix, when we all know what’s happening, but in the mean time, get well Felipe Massa!

See you all in 4 weeks time, and enjoy the break.

After 1 and a half year with the Toro Rosso team, Sebastien Bourdais has been dropped by the team.

It’s not suprising, since both Sebastien Buemi and formar team mate, Sebastian Vettel have both out-performed Sebastien Bourdais. Shame realy as Bourdais record from Champ Car did look very good.

There is a rumour going around the FF1GP office that Sebastien Bourdais was dropped because there was too many Sebastien’s in F1, but no-one can comfirm these rumours!

Bourdais is replaced by Jaime Alguersuari, a Spanish driver who is the British Formula 3 International Series champion, and is now the youngest F1 driver.

So how does this effect Fantasy Formula 1 Grand Prix?

For those who have the Toro Rosso team, you will score points as normal.

For those who have Sebastien Bourda, I’m afraid you don’t get any more points for him, and you can’t trade him for a replacement driver either. (Sorry this is more down to a technical limitation of FF1GP)

For those who want to create a new team with Jaime Alguersuar, you can. He is available for your FF1GP team for only 3 million.

Any other questions, drop me a line at admin@ff1gp.com

So…anyone taking any bets on how long Nelson Piquet Jr will last?

On Sunday 12th July from 19:00BST FF1GP.com will be offline until about Monday 13th July 08:00BST.

This is due to the server hardware that hosts FF1GP.com being relocated to a new datacenter by our hosts.

I would like to apologise for the inconvenience this will cause anyone.

Updated: Looks like I got my dates and days mixed up - correct dates are now up.

Updated 13/7/2009: Server move went very smoothly, everything is up and running again.