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Malaysia Grand Prix weekend

Sunday, April 5th, 2009

Well, I went on a trip to Cornwall this weekend. When I passed the “Welcome to Cornwall” sign on the A30, well it just decided to tip down with rain. The rest of the weekend was quite hot and at one point, I did wonder where the rain went.

Well I can tell you where this rain went, it made it’s way to Malaysia in time for the Grand Prix!

It’s great to see Jenson Button winning again, even if the race didn’t complete to even half race distance. Much that I like seeing cars sliding and spinning off, it was the right decision to call off the rest of the race.

Now to the important bit, the race points. In the FIA rules it says only half points are awarded to the teams and drivers if they do not complete 75% of the race distance.

The FF1GP rules does not have this clause in them, except maybe this grey area of “It is the same scoring system as used by the Formula 1 championships, as set in 2009″ which could apply, but my intention has always been to give 10 points to the winner regardless.

The 2010 FF1GP rules will have a clause in them that covers the 75% race distance rule, but for all remaining 2009 races full race points will be awarded to all FF1GP teams and drivers.

So 10 points have been awarded to teams with either Jenson button or Brawn owners, instead of 5 points.

If you don’t agree with this FF1GP ruling, you can send an email to admin@ff1gp.com and you don’t need to send a €150,000 protest fee.

Next race is in China. Hopefully a simpler race, but knowing F1, it wont be.

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Revised Australian FF1GP results

Thursday, April 2nd, 2009

Well this isn’t quite the start we wanted to the 2009 F1 season. More controversy!

After Jarno Trulli got penalised very harshly in the Australian Grand Prix for overtaking during a safety care period, his 3rd place win has been restored.

However, new evidence came to light to the stewards, that Lewis “deliberately mislead” the stewards at the hearing in Australia. I’ll leave you to judge for yourself, but the end result was Lewis has been disqualified, and Jarno’s 3rd place has been reinstated.

The FF1GP results for Austalia have been updated, if you have either McLaren or Lewis Hamlilton you will be awarded -5 points.

However the results are still provisional, as the diffuser appleal due to be heard on the 14th of April could change things again.

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Australian FF1GP weekend

Saturday, March 28th, 2009

14:03 Qualifying day - Well the 1st Grand Prix weekend has been full of controversy, and we have not even got to the actual race!

First things, is the diffusers on the Brawn’s, Williams and Toyota’s cars. 3 of the teams lodged a protest about the design, saying the designs wasn’t legal.

The stewards threw the protests out, saying the diffusers are legal. However, the teams making a protest have appealed. The appeal will be heard in Paris in about 2 week’s time on the April 14th.

This does have an effect on the results for the 1st two rounds of the 2009 FF1GP seasons. It means the results will be provisional. What happens in 2 weeks time is anyone’s guess.

Also the 2 Toyotas have been thrown out of Qualifying for having excessively flexible wings. As far as FF1GP is concerned, their starting positions will be taken from their original qualifying positions of 6th and 8th, however they will not be awarded any Qualifying points.

More news will follow after the race. The 1st round of FF1GP results is expected to be up late in the afternoon on Sunday (UK time)

15:30 Race Day - Well what a race! Jenson Button and Brawn wins the Australian Grand Prix! If you was up at 6am this morning like me, then I bet you was on the edge of your seat.

However there was some more controversy with Toyota. Jarno Trulli overtook Lewis Hamilton when the safety car was out. The stewards investigated the incident, and gave Jarno a 25 second penalty, which dropped him down to 12th.

Finally a special mention goes to Sebastien Buemi who started 13th, and drove smoothly and confidently to finish 7th… and that means (Amusingly) that Toro Rosso have beaten Red bull yet again, although a lot of that could be blamed on Sebastian Vettel!

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The 2009 FF1GP season is now open

Sunday, March 8th, 2009

Welcome to the 2009 Fantasy Formula 1 Grand Prix Season. Back a little later than planned mainly due to Honda taking their time to sell the team to Ross Brawn.

I am please to see Honda surviving on in the new name of Brawn GP. And if you want to have the Brawn GP team in your FF1GP team, you can at a nice low figure of 4million!

The rules for Fantasy Formula 1 have not changed much this year. The only major change is the budget for teams, which has dropped from 34 million to 32 million - yes even FF1GP is not immune from the credit crunch.

Some of the regular visitors will have spotted the site has had a little makeover for 2009. I hope you like the changes. The biggest change is the front page, which will have the latest news from FF1GP and also it has the latest news from a selection of F1 news sites. At the moment only ITV-F1 and BBC are shown, but it is planned to allow you to customise the news feed so you can view the latest news from your favourite F1 news sites.

Also the code is now running within my own new PHP5 framework. As the season goes along, the older code will be migrated to match the code style and standards. It is the goal of this update to allow you to look at previous seasons.

Enjoy the FF1GP 2009 season!

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The 2008 FF1GP season comes to a close

Sunday, November 2nd, 2008

Well who will remember a finish to the F1 season, where the world championship was decided in the final corner. Hamilton was in 6th approaching the final corner until he passed Glock who was running 4th place on the wrong tyres.

Much respect goes to Massa, who I say deserved the World Championship title just as equally as Hamilton. He was obviously gutted to lose the title like this, but he looked up and took it very well, like a true sportsman.

The final race brings a close to the 2008 FF1GP season, which has been enjoyable as ever. FF1GP will be back in 2009, with I hope few changes. I’ve been working on the new code for a few years now, most of the work has been on the framework that will be used to run the FF1GP site, but due to changing requirements, it has been delayed as a result.

One feature that is likely to be given a rest for the 2008 FF1GP season is the “Want to lose” rules. There has always been a few issues with the rules for that, so rather than scrap it completely, it will be given a rest. However the final decision won’t be decided until at least February.

The first race of 2009 is on 29th March. The FF1GP website for 2009 will be online for entries at the beginning of March 2009.

See you all next year!

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FF1GP in Brazil

Monday, October 27th, 2008

The final race of the season is nearly here, and it’s going to be a cracker.

Let’s hope it’s going to be a clean fight between Hamilton Vs Massa. No-one wants’ a repeat of any stewards madness like in Spa, Japan or another coldfuel-gate like appeal from Brazil last year. Being a Brit, I’ll be supporting Jenson Button to take the chequered flag!

Anyway, what I’ll be doing is posting the final 2008 FF1GP results from about 21:00GMT on Sunday, hopefully all ready for everyone in their own Fantasy Leagues to see who is the overall winner on Monday morning.

If (And remember the word IF is F1 backwards) things do get daft in the world of F1 for any reason, I’ll post up the latest news here.

More news after the race.

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Belgium FF1GP results

Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008

Yesterday, Lewis Hammilton and the Mclaren team presented their case in Paris over the 25 second penalty that was given for cutting a chicane.

The FIA gave their verdict today, it turns out that the appeal wasn’t admissible in the first please, as the 25 second penalty is counted as a stop-go penalty and can’t be appealed. So we will never know what was decided about the chicane cutting in Paris, if it was ever decided.

The story can be read more from the BBC and the ITV-F1 sites.

As for the FF1GP results, the Belgium results are now considered as finalalised.

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Round 14 - Monza

Sunday, September 14th, 2008

Well that race was astonishing! Sebastian Vettel in a Toro Rosso scored his first maiden victory, and I’m sure I wasn’t alone in cheering him onto the finish. Let’s hope we all see more wins out of this driver in the future.

One thing that did amuse me, was the team’s weather forecasts. Several times, if you watched the race, you heard over the team radio things like “Rain in 5 minutes” or “It’s going to rain in 3 laps”

Except it didn’t rain. You would think the teams with a bigger budget that the Met Office, would get better weather forecasts in…Unless it’s a sneaky tactic by the teams to force drivers onto the wrong tyres.

Anyway onto the FF1GP results, good news, no stupid post-race stewards decisions to deal with this week, so the Monza results are final.

And for those wanting to know about the Spa results, they are still provisional depending on the appeal at the FIA in Paris on Monday 20th September. As soon as I know, the results will be updated here. However judging from the news over the week, I’m not convinced that McLaren will win their appeal, but maybe the punishment will be changed.

The next race is a special one, it’s the first F1 night race in Singapore, until then see you then.

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Round 13 - Belgium

Sunday, September 7th, 2008

Well Belgium was one of the first Grand Prix’s I went to. Whether its wet or dry, it always produces a good race, and the last 3-4 laps was just unbelievable! Lewis was running in 2nd place originally got Kimi at the Bus Stop chicane, but yielded the place back as he short-cut the chicane, only for Lewis to gain the first position back under braking in Le Source.

It was enough to make the race stewards investigate the incident, and they decided that Lewis had gain an unfair advantage by short-cutting the chicane. Whether you think it was fair, may depend on whether you are a McLaren or a Ferrari fan.

However, news has broken a few hours ago that McLaren are appealing against the decision of the stewards. Knowing how slow the FIA can be at summoning everyone together to have a chat about it in Paris, it’s unlikely it will be decided before the next race in Monza.

So until then, the Belgium FF1GP results are provisional.

One final thing, Glock was initially classified eighth, but had 25 seconds added to his race time for passing under yellow flags, which dropped him from 8th to 9th.

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Round 6 - Monaco

Sunday, May 25th, 2008

Well Monaco was one of those races, that went over the 2 hour race limit, and was worth watching every minute of.

Now you may have noticed the FF1GP results are not up yet, this is because the official F1 result are still provisional. Normally the results are finalised usually within an hour of the race finishing.

I’m not sure why they are, but it may be because the stewards are investigating the accident where Kimi Rikknen hit Adrian Sutil or something else.

So hold tight until then!

Pete FF1GP Admin (25th May 2008 - 17:19BST)

Update: Looks like everything is ok, FF1GP results are up!

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