John Privett

Evening all! Wow, what a race that turned out to be! With the channel4 highlights programme coming towards the end I'm sure anyone who didn't watch it live and is watching that programme will be glued to the screen and not wandering off browsing the 'net and stumbling across the results... So firstly, how did we all score today; Pos League Rank Team Manager Pts 1 1 0 Hidden Cucumber fat brownie 176 2 13 1 DMFC Racing Team Simon Webb 173 3 15 0 Gyronut F1 The Gyronut 171 4 3 2 Norfolk Flyers Kevin Fairgrieve 169 5 5 3 The JP Specials johnpflyrc 164 6 2 0 Pitts Specials john stones 161 7 10 0 Essex Racing Tony Clark 160 8 8 1 PSS Power Flyer 144 9 7 0 Revers Racing Pete B 143 10 11 0 LetsGoTotoLetsGo GrumpyGnome 134 11 14 1 Torque of the devil Stu 127 = 4 1 Team Charles Picd Charles Pic 127 13 12 0 teewrex John Tee 125 14 6 2 Iqonic racing iqon 113 15 9 3 Mannschaft Carl Brotherton 110 With a score of 176, fat brownie takes top place in our league today. Simon is just 3 points behind in second place with 173 points. And The Gyronut is only 2 points further back on 171 points, taking third place today. Well done to today's top 3! And several others were only a few points behind the top 3. Indeed, today we all scored over 100 - unlike last time! Looking now at the overall table; Pos League Rank Team Manager Pts 1 1 0 Hidden Cucumber fat brownie 1823 2 2 0 Pitts Specials john stones 1743 3 3 2 Norfolk Flyers Kevin Fairgrieve 1591 4 4 1 Team Charles Picd Charles Pic 1577 5 5 3 The JP Specials johnpflyrc 1562 6 6 2 Iqonic racing iqon 1555 7 7 0 Revers Racing Pete B 1549 8 8 1 PSS Power Flyer 1525 9 9 3 Mannschaft Carl Brotherton 1524 10 10 0 Essex Racing Tony Clark 1507 11 11 0 LetsGoTotoLetsGo GrumpyGnome 1411 12 12 0 teewrex John Tee 1401 13 13 1 DMFC Racing Team Simon Webb 1398 14 14 1 Torque of the devil Stu 1372 15 15 0 Gyronut F1 The Gyronut 1336 No change in the top 2 - clearly fat brownie's win today guaranteed no change in the top position! John S holds on to 2nd place with Kev moving up 2 places to take third. This means that Charles slips a place to 4th. This section of the table is very close on points! I now move up 3 places to 5th with iqon dropping 2 places to 6th. Ade is up one place to 8th, but Carl drops 3 places to 9th. But there's only a difference of 84 points between 3rd and 10th in the league. The only other place change today is that Simon moves up 1 place to 13th with Stu moving 1 place down to 14th. Next weekend it's Silverstone.

Evening all! Austria this weekend, and a 'regular' race schedule. So first, the customary reminder; Don't forget your predictions! P1 and P2 both took place earlier today, with Russell setting fastest time in P1. Verstappen was second fastest, followed by the two McLarens, Piastri ahead of rookie driver Dunne who was driving in P1. Fastest Ferrari was Hamilton in only 9th, their other car with rookie driver Berganovic placed 18th. P2 saw Norris fastest, ahead of Piastri with Verstappen 3rd fastest. With Leclerc back in his Ferrari, they were higher up the leader board in 5th and 10th (Hamilton). P3 is at 11:30 tomorrow if you're looking for more clues to help with your predictions. Qualifying is at 15:00 UK-time tomorrow (Saturday) - so get your predictions done before then! Sunday's race is at 14:00. Good luck everyone!

Evening all! I'm back from my weekend away, and back in time to watch the race live too! Now, as the channel 4 highlights programme doesn't start until midnight, I'll wait until then before clicking "Submit". But as usual, if you're watching the highlights and reading this at the same time, but don't want any hints about the results then maybe stop reading now... So, probably not the result that most of us were expecting - especially judging by our scores; Pos League Rank Team Manager Pts 1 6 4 Mannschaft Carl Brotherton 155 2 12 2 teewrex John Tee 128 3 2 0 Pitts Specials john stones 116 4 4 2 Iqonic racing iqon 111 = 3 2 Team Charles Picd Charles Pic 111 6 15 0 Gyronut F1 The Gyronut 93 7 9 1 PSS Power Flyer 88 8 11 0 LetsGoTotoLetsGo GrumpyGnome 85 9 5 1 Norfolk Flyers Kevin Fairgrieve 83 10 13 0 Torque of the devil Stu 82 11 10 1 Essex Racing Tony Clark 78 12 8 1 The JP Specials johnpflyrc 76 13 1 0 Hidden Cucumber fat brownie 63 14 7 4 Revers Racing Pete B 62 15 14 2 DMFC Racing Team Simon Webb 60 Two-thirds of us failed to hit a 3-digit score today! Top scorer was Carl with 155 points. Second today was John T with 128. And third was John S on 116 points. Well done to today's top three! So how does this affect the overall table? - let's take a look; Pos League Rank Team Manager Pts 1 1 0 Hidden Cucumber fat brownie 1647 2 2 0 Pitts Specials john stones 1582 3 3 2 Team Charles Picd Charles Pic 1450 4 4 2 Iqonic racing iqon 1442 5 5 1 Norfolk Flyers Kevin Fairgrieve 1422 6 6 4 Mannschaft Carl Brotherton 1414 7 7 4 Revers Racing Pete B 1406 8 8 1 The JP Specials johnpflyrc 1398 9 9 1 PSS Power Flyer 1381 10 10 1 Essex Racing Tony Clark 1347 11 11 0 LetsGoTotoLetsGo GrumpyGnome 1277 12 12 2 teewrex John Tee 1276 13 13 0 Torque of the devil Stu 1245 14 14 2 DMFC Racing Team Simon Webb 1225 15 15 0 Gyronut F1 The Gyronut 1165 No change in the top 2 with fat brownie retaining top spot from John S. But Charles moves up 2 places to 3rd, with iqon also moving up 2 places, taking 4th. Kev is down a place to 5th, with Carl leaping 4 places to 6th. Heading downwards are Pete - down 4 to 7th - also myself, Ade and Tony, each down one place to 8th, 9th and 10th. Finally we have a place swap between John T, up 2 to 12th, and Simon down 2 to 14th. Next up in 2 weeks time is Austria.

Evening all! A day early again, but I'll be away this weekend, so if I don't post the reminder now it might not get done before qualifying starts! Sadly I won't be in Canada (just the UK) but of course the race this weekend is there. Montreal of course, and regulars here may remember that I have "inside knowledge" of the circuit - having driven half of it, several years ago, in our rental car, subject to the 30 km/h speed limit that is there for all visitors to the park! 😁 But first the customary reminder; Don't forget your predictions! Friday's practice sessions are at 18:30 and 22:00 UK-time. On Saturday the final practice session is at 17:30 with qualifying at 21:00. Make sure your predictions are done by then! Sunday's race is at 19:00. Good luck everyone!

One think I learnt after the first season of this, and I still have to constantly keep reminding myself; For team selection and predictions, go with who you think will do well, not with who you hope will do well! Seems obvious, but it's so easy to get it wrong! 😞

Evening all! The channel 4 highlights programme must be drawing to a finish shortly, so let's get on and have a look at our results today! Pos League Rank Team Manager Pts 1 1 0 Hidden Cucumber fat brownie 202 2 9 0 Essex Racing Tony Clark 167 3 5 2 Team Charles Picd Charles Pic 161 4 10 0 Mannschaft Carl Brotherton 160 5 2 0 Pitts Specials john stones 153 6 3 2 Revers Racing Pete B 148 7 8 0 PSS Power Flyer 147 8 6 0 Iqonic racing iqon 145 9 13 1 Torque of the devil Stu 127 10 7 3 The JP Specials johnpflyrc 122 11 12 0 DMFC Racing Team Simon Webb 115 12 4 1 Norfolk Flyers Kevin Fairgrieve 111 = 14 1 teewrex John Tee 111 14 11 0 LetsGoTotoLetsGo GrumpyGnome 108 15 15 0 Gyronut F1 The Gyronut 81 With a score of 202, well ahead of the rest of us, it's fat brownie who heads our results today. Tony is second, 35 points adrift, on 167 points. And just 6 points back on 161, Charles completes our top three. Well done to today's top three! Now, let's see how this affects the overall table; Pos League Rank Team Manager Pts 1 1 0 Hidden Cucumber fat brownie 1584 2 2 0 Pitts Specials john stones 1466 3 3 2 Revers Racing Pete B 1344 4 4 1 Norfolk Flyers Kevin Fairgrieve 1339 = 5 2 Team Charles Picd Charles Pic 1339 6 6 0 Iqonic racing iqon 1331 7 7 3 The JP Specials johnpflyrc 1322 8 8 0 PSS Power Flyer 1293 9 9 0 Essex Racing Tony Clark 1269 10 10 0 Mannschaft Carl Brotherton 1259 11 11 0 LetsGoTotoLetsGo GrumpyGnome 1192 12 12 0 DMFC Racing Team Simon Webb 1165 13 13 1 Torque of the devil Stu 1163 14 14 1 teewrex John Tee 1148 15 15 0 Gyronut F1 The Gyronut 1072 No change in the top 2, though fat brownie increases his lead over John S to 118 points. But Pete moves up 2 places to 3rd, with Kev slipping 1 place to 4th. Also up 2 places is Charles, who moves up to equal 4th. Moving down to make room is me - down 3 places to 7th. The only other change is Stu moving up a place to 13th, pushing John T down to 14th. We have a short break now until the next race, in Montréal, in 2 weeks time. And for us in the UK it all takes place in the evening, with qualifying at 21:00 and the race at 19:00.

Morning all! Apologies for being a bit late - been a busy week! So, it's Spain this weekend and first, the customary reminder; Don't forget your predictions! In P1 Norris set the fastest time, with Verstappen second, followed by both Ferraris, then Piastri. In P2 it was Piastri setting the fastest time ahead of Russell and Verstappen. Norris was 4th followed by Leclerc. P3 is starting shortly, with qualifying at 15:00 UK-time today. Sunday's race is at 14:00. Now, get those predictions setup, and good luck everyone!

Evening all! With the channel 4 highlights programme coming to a close, let's take a look at how we all scored today; Pos League Rank Team Manager Pts 1 1 0 Hidden Cucumber fat brownie 173 2 3 1 Norfolk Flyers Kevin Fairgrieve 167 3 12 2 DMFC Racing Team Simon Webb 163 4 9 1 Essex Racing Tony Clark 154 5 14 1 Torque of the devil Stu 146 6 4 1 The JP Specials johnpflyrc 145 7 6 0 Iqonic racing iqon 142 8 11 1 LetsGoTotoLetsGo GrumpyGnome 141 = 7 0 Team Charles Picd Charles Pic 141 10 2 0 Pitts Specials john stones 137 11 15 0 Gyronut F1 The Gyronut 135 12 5 2 Revers Racing Pete B 122 = 8 0 PSS Power Flyer 122 14 10 1 Mannschaft Carl Brotherton 102 15 13 2 teewrex John Tee 91 Top scorer today is fat brownie with 173 points. Only 6 points behind on 167 points is Kev. And Just 4 points further back on 163 points is Simon. Well done to today's top 3! Let's see now how this affects the overall table; Pos League Rank Team Manager Pts 1 1 0 Hidden Cucumber fat brownie 1382 2 2 0 Pitts Specials john stones 1313 3 3 1 Norfolk Flyers Kevin Fairgrieve 1228 4 4 1 The JP Specials johnpflyrc 1200 5 5 2 Revers Racing Pete B 1196 6 6 0 Iqonic racing iqon 1186 7 7 0 Team Charles Picd Charles Pic 1178 8 8 0 PSS Power Flyer 1146 9 9 1 Essex Racing Tony Clark 1102 10 10 1 Mannschaft Carl Brotherton 1099 11 11 1 LetsGoTotoLetsGo GrumpyGnome 1084 12 12 2 DMFC Racing Team Simon Webb 1050 13 13 2 teewrex John Tee 1037 14 14 1 Torque of the devil Stu 1036 15 15 0 Gyronut F1 The Gyronut 991 No change in the top 2, but with Pete taking a leap 2 places downwards, Kev moves up a place to 3rd, and I move up a place to 4th. Then a little further down the table, Tony moves up a place to 9th pushing Carl a place down to 10th. GrumpyGnome moves up a place to 11th, Simon moves up 2 to 12th, but this means John T moves down 2 places to 13th and Stu is down 1 place to 14th. But we've got a few very small differences in some of those points scores! John T is just a single point ahead of Stu, Tony and Carl are separated by just 3 points, and I'm only 4 points ahead of Pete. Next up, in a week's time, is Spain.

Slight correction on my earlier comment re: tyres. They are required to use 3 sets of tyres, using at least 2 different compounds. So, at least 2 pit stops for everybody. Back to watching the race!

Evening all! Monaco this weekend, and we've alread had P1 and P2. But first, the customary reminder; Don't forget your predictions! Qualifying is at 15:00 UK-time on Saturday - so get them done before then. Fastest in P1 was Leclerc in his Ferrari, 0.163s ahead of Verstappen, with Norris third fastest. Albon, Piastri and Russell completed the top 6. P2 saw Leclerc fastest again, this time with Piastri 2nd and Hamilton 3rd. Norris, Lawson and Hadjar completed the top 6. P3 is at 11:30 on Saturday, and don't forget, in Sunday's race all drivers will be required to use 3 compounds of tyre, rather than just 2 as has been the rule for some considerable time now. Sunday's race is at 14:00 UK-time. Good luck, everyone!

Morning (Canada-time!) all; SPOILER ALERT - I'm posting the results now, a little before the Channel 4 highlights starts, because otherwise I won't be able to post them until Monday morning, UK-time. So if you don't want any clues as to how the race went, come back to read this later! So, first, how did we all score today? Pos League Rank Team Manager Pts 1 6 2 Iqonic racing iqon 160 2 3 1 Revers Racing Pete B 153 3 5 0 The JP Specials johnpflyrc 151 4 14 0 DMFC Racing Team Simon Webb 150 5 7 0 Team Charles Picd Charles Pic 148 6 1 0 Hidden Cucumber fat brownie 135 7 15 0 Gyronut F1 The Gyronut 134 8 8 2 PSS Power Flyer 133 9 10 1 Essex Racing Tony Clark 132 10 13 0 Torque of the devil Stu 130 11 12 0 LetsGoTotoLetsGo GrumpyGnome 127 = 2 0 Pitts Specials john stones 127 13 11 1 teewrex John Tee 123 14 9 0 Mannschaft Carl Brotherton 118 15 4 1 Norfolk Flyers Kevin Fairgrieve 102 With 160 points, it's iqon who is our top scorer today. Pete is second today with 153 points. And I complete today's top 3 with 151 points. Well done, today's top 3! Looking now at the overall table; Pos League Rank Team Manager Pts 1 1 0 Hidden Cucumber fat brownie 1209 2 2 0 Pitts Specials john stones 1176 3 3 1 Revers Racing Pete B 1074 4 4 1 Norfolk Flyers Kevin Fairgrieve 1061 5 5 0 The JP Specials johnpflyrc 1055 6 6 2 Iqonic racing iqon 1044 7 7 0 Team Charles Picd Charles Pic 1037 8 8 2 PSS Power Flyer 1024 9 9 0 Mannschaft Carl Brotherton 997 10 10 1 Essex Racing Tony Clark 948 11 11 1 teewrex John Tee 946 12 12 0 LetsGoTotoLetsGo GrumpyGnome 943 13 13 0 Torque of the devil Stu 890 14 14 0 DMFC Racing Team Simon Webb 887 15 15 0 Gyronut F1 The Gyronut 856 No change to the top 2 overall, but Pete moves up to 3rd, pushing Kev down to 4th. Iqon moves up 2 places to 6th, with Ade dropping 2 to 8th. And Tony moves up a place to 10th with John T slipping a place to 11th. Next up is Monaco, next weekend. And I'll be back in the UK for that!

Evening all! OK, a slightly early reminder, but it's already Thursday morning back home, though still Wednesday evening here in Vancouver. But as I'm travelling tomorrow (though still in B.C., Canada) I probably won't get a chance to post a more timely reminder until rather late on Friday, UK-time! So, first; Don't forget your predictions! It's Imola, of course, this weekend and a 'conventional' race timetable. So P1 and P2 on Friday at 12:30 and 16:00 (UK-time) and P3 on Saturday at 11:30. Qualifying - and the cut-off for predictions - follows at 15:00, with Sunday's race at 14:00. All those times are 8 hours earlier for me, so I'm off to set some initial predictions now, in case I don't get a chance to do them on Friday! Good luck everyone!

Evening (Vancouver time) all! Well, I didn't see the race today, though I did follow (literally, on a bicycle!) the Vancouver Marathon, then watched a Lacrosse playoffs match. But no F1 today. It sounds from the brief report I read like a fairly eventful race. So first the results from today; Pos League Rank Team Manager Pts 1 2 0 Pitts Specials john stones 251 2 4 1 Revers Racing Pete B 228 3 7 0 Team Charles Picd Charles Pic 225 4 8 1 Iqonic racing iqon 224 5 1 0 Hidden Cucumber fat brownie 222 = 12 1 LetsGoTotoLetsGo GrumpyGnome 222 7 3 0 Norfolk Flyers Kevin Fairgrieve 217 8 9 1 Mannschaft Carl Brotherton 214 9 6 0 PSS Power Flyer 213 10 10 1 teewrex John Tee 207 11 5 1 The JP Specials johnpflyrc 184 12 14 1 DMFC Racing Team Simon Webb 183 13 11 1 Essex Racing Tony Clark 168 14 13 1 Torque of the devil Stu 160 15 15 1 Gyronut F1 The Gyronut 153 Top scorer was John S with 251 points. Second was Pete on 228 points. And close behind, in third, was Charles with 225 points. Well donw to today's top three. Looking now at the overall table; Pos League Rank Team Manager Pts 1 1 0 Hidden Cucumber fat brownie 1074 2 2 0 Pitts Specials john stones 1049 3 3 0 Norfolk Flyers Kevin Fairgrieve 959 4 4 1 Revers Racing Pete B 921 5 5 1 The JP Specials johnpflyrc 904 6 6 0 PSS Power Flyer 891 7 7 0 Team Charles Picd Charles Pic 889 8 8 1 Iqonic racing iqon 884 9 9 1 Mannschaft Carl Brotherton 879 10 10 1 teewrex John Tee 823 11 11 1 Essex Racing Tony Clark 816 = 12 1 LetsGoTotoLetsGo GrumpyGnome 816 13 13 1 Torque of the devil Stu 760 14 14 1 DMFC Racing Team Simon Webb 737 15 15 1 Gyronut F1 The Gyronut 722 Again, no changes in the top three today with fat brownie, John S and Kev holding their top three places. Pete moves up to 4th, pushing me down to 5th. Iqon moves up to 8th, pushing Carl to 9th, John T moves up to 10th, with Tony slipping to 11th. Grumpygnome and St are also swapping places, 12th and 13th, and finally Simon moves up to 14th, with The Gyronut slipping to 15th. Next race is at Imola in two weeks time.

Evening all! Yes, I know it's only Thursday, but I'm travelling tomorrow, AND it's a sprint weekend! So, as usual - Don't forget your predictions! Sprint qualifying starts at 21:30 UK-time on FRIDAY. So get them done before then! On Saturday, the Sprint race is at 17:00 UK-time, with qualifying for the main race at 21:00. On Sunday the race is at 21:00. For me, I have to knock 8 hours off all those times, but I doubt I'll get to see any of it. I'll be watching/supporting my daughter running (with about 20,000 others!) in the Vancouver Marathon - I suspect I'll cover a greater distance on the bicycle than the marathon runners do in their race... I'll get the league results posted here after the race when I can - timing a bit uncertain at the moment! Good luck everyone!

Evening all! By the time I click 'Submit' the channel 4 highlights programme should be well underway, so lets take a look at our results from today's race; Pos League Rank Team Manager Pts 1 1 0 Hidden Cucumber fat brownie 169 2 5 0 Revers Racing Pete B 151 3 4 0 The JP Specials johnpflyrc 150 4 2 0 Pitts Specials john stones 149 5 10 2 Essex Racing Tony Clark 148 6 6 1 PSS Power Flyer 146 7 8 1 Mannschaft Carl Brotherton 136 8 3 0 Norfolk Flyers Kevin Fairgrieve 134 9 13 1 LetsGoTotoLetsGo GrumpyGnome 132 = 7 1 Team Charles Picd Charles Pic 132 11 9 1 Iqonic racing iqon 129 12 15 0 DMFC Racing Team Simon Webb 108 13 14 1 Gyronut F1 The Gyronut 105 14 11 1 teewrex John Tee 101 15 12 1 Torque of the devil Stu 95 With a score of 169 points, fat brownie tops today's scores. There's a bit of a gap to second, and Pete with 151 points. But it's very close for the next few positions - I'm third on 150, but John S is only 1 point back on 149, then Tony on 148, and Ade on 146. Well done to today's top three - and to those who narrowly missed the top 3 as well! Moving on now to the overall table; Pos League Rank Team Manager Pts 1 1 0 Hidden Cucumber fat brownie 853 2 2 0 Pitts Specials john stones 798 3 3 0 Norfolk Flyers Kevin Fairgrieve 741 4 4 0 The JP Specials johnpflyrc 719 5 5 0 Revers Racing Pete B 694 6 6 1 PSS Power Flyer 680 7 7 1 Team Charles Picd Charles Pic 674 8 8 1 Mannschaft Carl Brotherton 664 9 9 1 Iqonic racing iqon 660 10 10 2 Essex Racing Tony Clark 651 11 11 1 teewrex John Tee 615 12 12 1 Torque of the devil Stu 600 13 13 1 LetsGoTotoLetsGo GrumpyGnome 594 14 14 1 Gyronut F1 The Gyronut 568 15 15 0 DMFC Racing Team Simon Webb 554 Clearly fat brownie, being top scorer today, holds on to top place overall, and there are no place changes in the top 5. Ade and Charles swap places, taking 6th and 7th respectively. Carl moves ahead of iqon into 8th, while Tony leaps 2 places to 10th, displacing John T and Stu - each moving down 1 place. And GrumpyGnome steps up a place to 13th at the expense of The Gyronut. There's now a 2-week gap until the next race, which is in Miami, with qualifying and the race at 21:00 UK-time. I'll be in Vancouver, Canada, which I think puts the race at lunchtime for me. Hopefully I'll put out the usual reminder at a sensible time, but in any case; Don't forget your predictions!

Evening all! It's the Saudi Arabian GP this weekend in Jeddah, and as I start typing this P2 is still underway. But first the important reminder... Don't forget your predictions! P1 saw Gasly setting the fastest time, very late in the session on an improving track. Only 0.007 seconds slower was Norris, with Leclerc a further 0.063 seconds adrift. Piastri set 4th fastest, just under a tenth of a second slower than Norris. P2 has now finished, and was topped by the McLarens of Norris and Piastri, Piastri a bit over a tenth slower this time. Verstappen set third fastest, ahead of Leclerc and Sainz. P3 is tomorrow at 14:30 UK-time followed by qualifying at 18:00. Sunday's race is also at 18:00. Now go and get those predictions entered - you've got a little under 23 hours before it's too late! Good luck everyone!

Evening all! With the Channel4 highlights programme now well underway (and at least this week there's some actual highlights to put in it!) let's take a look at how we all scored in today's race; Pos League Rank Team Manager Pts 1 1 0 Hidden Cucumber fat brownie 184 2 2 0 Pitts Specials john stones 163 3 7 3 PSS Power Flyer 146 4 4 1 The JP Specials johnpflyrc 142 5 8 1 Iqonic racing iqon 134 6 6 0 Team Charles Picd Charles Pic 133 7 10 2 teewrex John Tee 129 8 3 0 Norfolk Flyers Kevin Fairgrieve 122 9 9 2 Mannschaft Carl Brotherton 120 10 12 1 Essex Racing Tony Clark 117 11 5 1 Revers Racing Pete B 116 12 15 0 DMFC Racing Team Simon Webb 107 13 14 0 LetsGoTotoLetsGo GrumpyGnome 106 14 11 3 Torque of the devil Stu 104 15 13 0 Gyronut F1 The Gyronut 85 And it's fat brownie who tops our chart for Bahrain, with a score of 184 points. John S takes second today with a score of 163. Ade completes our podium taking 3rd place with 146 points. Well done to today's top three! Moving on to the overall chart; Pos League Rank Team Manager Pts 1 1 0 Hidden Cucumber fat brownie 684 2 2 0 Pitts Specials john stones 649 3 3 0 Norfolk Flyers Kevin Fairgrieve 607 4 4 1 The JP Specials johnpflyrc 569 5 5 1 Revers Racing Pete B 543 6 6 0 Team Charles Picd Charles Pic 542 7 7 3 PSS Power Flyer 534 8 8 1 Iqonic racing iqon 531 9 9 2 Mannschaft Carl Brotherton 528 10 10 2 teewrex John Tee 514 11 11 3 Torque of the devil Stu 505 12 12 1 Essex Racing Tony Clark 503 13 13 0 Gyronut F1 The Gyronut 463 14 14 0 LetsGoTotoLetsGo GrumpyGnome 462 15 15 0 DMFC Racing Team Simon Webb 446 No changes today to the order of the top three - or indeed of the bottom three. Fat brownie holds on to top spot from John S and Kev. I move up to 4th, displacing Pete to 5th. Ade moves up 3 places to 7th with iqon moving up 1 to 8th. Carl slips 2 places to 9th to make way for them. Also on the move is John T, up 2 places to 10th, while Stu drops 3 to 11th and Tony is down 1 place to 12th. Saudi Arabia next weekend, with Saturday's qualifying and Sunday's race both starting at 18:00 UK-time. Start thinking about your predictions!

Evening all! Bahrain this weekend, with everything at normal times of the day for us! So first of course (and pay attention John S!) the usual reminder; Don't forget your predictions! We've had P1 and P2 already, with McLaren topping them both. In P1 it was Norris setting fastest time with Gasly 2nd fastest and Hamilton 3rd. Six rookies took part in P1, Verstappen was one of the regular drivers not running in P1. P2 was headed by Piastri from Norris, with Russell third. Verstappen set 7th fastest. P3 is tomorrow at 13:30 UK-time, followed by qualifying at 17:00. Sunday's race starts at 16:00. Now, go and do your predictions - that includes you, John S!

Afternoon all! With the channel4 highlights programme now well underway, I'll publish our results from today. Not the most exciting race today. Apparently it's the first time ever, on a purpose-built track (ie. not a street circuit like Monaco) that the top 6 have finished in the same order they qualified. But let's have a look at how we all scored today; Pos League Rank Team Manager Pts 1 1 2 Hidden Cucumber fat brownie 144 2 14 1 LetsGoTotoLetsGo GrumpyGnome 128 3 4 4 Revers Racing Pete B 123 4 3 1 Norfolk Flyers Kevin Fairgrieve 119 5 11 2 Essex Racing Tony Clark 115 6 5 1 The JP Specials johnpflyrc 113 = 2 1 Pitts Specials john stones 113 8 6 3 Team Charles Picd Charles Pic 107 9 15 1 DMFC Racing Team Simon Webb 103 10 9 1 Iqonic racing iqon 101 11 7 0 Mannschaft Carl Brotherton 97 12 10 1 PSS Power Flyer 95 = 13 1 Gyronut F1 The Gyronut 95 14 8 2 Torque of the devil Stu 89 15 12 7 teewrex John Tee 72 Top scorer today, on 144 points is fat brownie. Second, on 128 points is GrumpyGnome. And third, with 123 points is Pete. Well done to today's top three! And even after forgetting his predictions, John S still managed =6th with 113 points. Looking now at the overall chart, and this early in the season lots of place changes expected. Pos League Rank Team Manager Pts 1 1 2 Hidden Cucumber fat brownie 500 2 2 1 Pitts Specials john stones 486 3 3 1 Norfolk Flyers Kevin Fairgrieve 485 4 4 4 Revers Racing Pete B 427 = 5 1 The JP Specials johnpflyrc 427 6 6 3 Team Charles Picd Charles Pic 409 7 7 0 Mannschaft Carl Brotherton 408 8 8 2 Torque of the devil Stu 401 9 9 1 Iqonic racing iqon 397 10 10 1 PSS Power Flyer 388 11 11 2 Essex Racing Tony Clark 386 12 12 7 teewrex John Tee 385 13 13 1 Gyronut F1 The Gyronut 378 14 14 1 LetsGoTotoLetsGo GrumpyGnome 356 15 15 1 DMFC Racing Team Simon Webb 339 And in fact, only Carl, in mid-table, doesn't change places today. Our new leader is fat brownie, with John S and Kev slipping to 2nd and 3rd. Pete moves up 4 places today to 4th. Other big-movers today are Charles, up 3 to 6th, and John T, sadly down 7 places to 12th. The rest of us - except for Carl - shuffle up or down a position or two. Next weekend it's Bahrain, with Saudi Arabia the following weekend - both with late afternoon qualifying and race times for us here in the UK. If nothing else, it gives us longer to get our predictions done, eh John S? 🤔

Evening all! Quick reminder - it's Japan this weekend, and a 'normal' race weekend, though with an early start again for us here in the UK. But first, the customary reminder; Don't forget your predictions! First practice starts in a little over 5 hours from now, at 03:30 UK-time on Friday morning. P2 follows at 07:00 on Friday, leaving us the rest of the day to ponder over our predictions... P3 is at 03:30 on Saturday, with qualifying at 07:00 on Saturday morning - which is when the game gets locked. So make sure your predictions are in by 07:00 Saturday morning! Sunday's race is 06:00. Good luck everyone!

Afternoon all! OK, we've probably all seen the email today from fantasygp, but in short - it's 'all change' at Red Bull! Given his (lack of) performance in the first two races, it's probably not too surprising that Red Bull have done a driver switch. Lawson is demoted to the Racing Bulls team, with Tsunoda taking his place at Red Bull. In terms of what this means for the fantasygp game, I'll quote directly from the email from them; "In Fantasy GP terms, this means that if you had Lawson, you now have Tsunoda and vice versa. In recognition of this swap around, all players have unlimited team changes until Japan. "So everyone has 7 days and free changes to rework their team. More details can be found here: Tsunoda to Red Bull for Japan "

Afternoon all! With the Channel4 highlights programme now well underway, let's have a look at the results from today. Note that, with the disqualifications of Hamilton (skid block thickness) plus Leclerc and Gasly (underweight), the results have changed since those published on fantasygp immediately after the race; Pos League Rank Team Manager Pts 1 3 9 Hidden Cucumber fat brownie 265 2 1 2 Pitts Specials john stones 222 3 6 3 Mannschaft Carl Brotherton 208 4 11 2 PSS Power Flyer 206 5 5 2 teewrex John Tee 204 = 9 2 Team Charles Picd Charles Pic 204 7 10 0 Iqonic racing iqon 194 8 8 2 Revers Racing Pete B 192 9 2 1 Norfolk Flyers Kevin Fairgrieve 186 10 15 0 LetsGoTotoLetsGo GrumpyGnome 180 11 4 1 The JP Specials johnpflyrc 178 12 14 0 DMFC Racing Team Simon Webb 168 13 13 5 Essex Racing Tony Clark 164 14 7 5 Torque of the devil Stu 139 15 12 8 Gyronut F1 The Gyronut 137 Our winner for today is fat brownie with 265 points. John S is second with 222 points. And Carl is third with 208 points. Well done to today's top 3! Moving on now to the overall chart after the second round, we have; Pos League Rank Team Manager Pts 1 1 2 Pitts Specials john stones 373 2 2 1 Norfolk Flyers Kevin Fairgrieve 366 3 3 9 Hidden Cucumber fat brownie 356 4 4 1 The JP Specials johnpflyrc 314 5 5 2 teewrex John Tee 313 6 6 3 Mannschaft Carl Brotherton 311 7 7 5 Torque of the devil Stu 305 8 8 2 Revers Racing Pete B 304 9 9 2 Team Charles Picd Charles Pic 302 10 10 0 Iqonic racing iqon 296 11 11 2 PSS Power Flyer 293 12 12 8 Gyronut F1 The Gyronut 283 13 13 5 Essex Racing Tony Clark 271 14 14 0 DMFC Racing Team Simon Webb 236 15 15 0 LetsGoTotoLetsGo GrumpyGnome 221 So, place changes for nearly everyone today - only 10th, 14th and 15th remain unchanged! John S is now leading the table, with Kev slipping to 2nd. fat brownie leaps up 9 places to 3rd. Next up, in 2 weeks time is Japan. It's a 'normal' race weekend, but again early starts, with Saturday's qualifying at 7am UK-time, and the race on Sunday at 6am.

Evening all! OK, I know it's still only Wednesday, but China is a Sprint weekend, and they're 8 hours ahead of UK-time. And that means that the FantasyGP game locks considerably earlier than normal. Specifically, at 07:30 on Friday morning! So for most of us that probably means setting our predictions on Thursday, and maybe - if time permits - having a quick look first thing Friday morning at the results of the 03:30 Practice session and perhaps updating predictions. But whatever your chosen tactics - Don't forget, your predictions need to be done before 07:30 on Friday morning! Now, the big question... Can Kev hold on to top spot for another week? Good luck everyone!

No, I only got two predictions right - winner and pole. Given the forecast for rain, I probably should have predicted more than just 1 safety car!

Afternoon all! Well that was quite an eventful race! And with the Channel4 highlights programme now well underway then anybody who's avoiding seeing the results should be watching that, and not reading this (yet!) Anyway, here are our results from the opening race of the 2025 season; Pos League Rank Team Manager Pts 1 1 0 Norfolk Flyers Kevin Fairgrieve 180 2 2 0 Torque of the devil Stu 166 3 3 0 Pitts Specials john stones 151 4 4 0 Gyronut F1 The Gyronut 146 5 5 0 The JP Specials johnpflyrc 136 6 6 0 Revers Racing Pete B 112 7 7 0 teewrex John Tee 109 8 8 0 Essex Racing Tony Clark 107 9 9 0 Mannschaft Carl Brotherton 103 10 10 0 Iqonic racing iqon 102 11 11 0 Team Charles Picd Charles Pic 98 12 12 0 Hidden Cucumber fat brownie 91 13 13 0 PSS Power Flyer 87 14 14 0 DMFC Racing Team Simon Webb 68 15 15 0 LetsGoTotoLetsGo GrumpyGnome 41 Our top scorer today is Kev with 180 points. Second is Stu on 166 points. And third today is John S with 151 points. Well done to today's top 3! Next up is China, next weekend. And it's a Sprint weekend, but at least the main qualifying and the race are at a more civilised time of day - 7am! And don't forget, during the opening two rounds we have unlimited team changes available without penalty.