John Privett

Evening all! Azerbaijan this weekend! (Did I spell that correctly?) So before anything else, the customary reminder; Don't forget your predictions! P1 was punctuated by red flags following crashes by Leclerc and Colapinto. Verstappen set fastest time in the disrupted session, just over 0.3 s ahead of Hamilton with Perez third fastest. Norris was 4th with Sainz 5th. P2 saw Leclerc set fastest time, just six-thousandths of a second faster than Perez, with Hamilton 3rd fastest, just 6-hundredths of a second slower. A bit of a gap then to Saiz, Piastri and Verstappen. P3 is tomorrow at 9:30 UK-time, followed by qualifying at 13:00. Sunday's race starts at noon. Good luck everyone, and get those predictions done now if you haven't aready! You can always change them after P3 tomorrow if needed!

Well it looks like channel4 have done a one-hour highlights programme - and shown it early with a repeat of it scheduled for late tonight - all wrapped around their paralympics coverage. So I'll proceed with publishing the league results - but as always, if you're waiting to watch the highlights programme later then you might want to look away now! So, first today's scores; Pos League Rank Team Manager Pts 1 1 0 Essex Racing Tony Clark 168 2 8 1 teewrex John Tee 155 3 5 2 Hidden Cucumber fat brownie 154 4 2 0 Revers Racing Pete B 152 5 6 0 PSS Power Flyer 130 6 4 0 Iqonic racing iqon 128 = 3 0 Team Charles Picd Charles Pic 128 8 14 0 Norfolk Flyers Kevin Fairgrieve 124 9 9 1 DMFC Racing Team Simon Webb 116 10 13 0 GASTON Formula Chris McG 98 11 12 0 Torque of the devil Stu 97 12 7 2 Pitts Specials john stones 96 13 11 0 LetsGoTotoLetsGo GrumpyGnome 87 14 16 0 Hans Brake Zoonie 80 15 10 2 Mannschaft Carl Brotherton 76 16 15 0 The JP Specials johnpflyrc 69 Topping today's scores is Tony with 168 points. John T is second, with 155 points. Hot on John's heels, just a single point adrift on 154 is fat brownie. Well done to today's top three! How does this affect the overall table? Pos League Rank Team Manager Pts 1 1 0 Essex Racing Tony Clark 2634 2 2 0 Revers Racing Pete B 2535 3 3 0 Team Charles Picd Charles Pic 2420 4 4 0 Iqonic racing iqon 2354 5 5 2 Hidden Cucumber fat brownie 2326 6 6 0 PSS Power Flyer 2310 7 7 2 Pitts Specials john stones 2277 8 8 1 teewrex John Tee 2219 9 9 1 DMFC Racing Team Simon Webb 2164 10 10 2 Mannschaft Carl Brotherton 2143 11 11 0 LetsGoTotoLetsGo GrumpyGnome 2104 12 12 0 Torque of the devil Stu 2043 13 13 0 GASTON Formula Chris McG 1989 14 14 0 Norfolk Flyers Kevin Fairgrieve 1983 15 15 0 The JP Specials johnpflyrc 1889 16 16 0 Hans Brake Zoonie 1799 No change in the top 4 today, with Tony (unsurprisngly!) holding top spot from Pete and Charles. fat brownie moves up 2 to 5th, displacing John S to 7th. John T and Simon are also on the move - each up a place to 8th and 9th with Carl slipping 2 spots to 10th. All other places remain unchanged. Next up in two weeks time is Azerbaijan.

Morning all! Apologies for the late reminder, it's Monza this weekend; Don't forget your predictions! P1 saw Verstappen setting fastest time, with Leclerc, Norris and Sainz next fastest. Hamilton was 7th fastest, with the other Mercedes being driven in this session by Antonelli. P2 saw Hamilton fastest, but by only 3 thousandths of a second from Norris. Sainz, Piastri, Lecerc and Russell filled the next places. Verstappen was down in 14th. P3 starts in the next few seconds, and qualifying is at 15:00 UK-time. Tomorrow's race is at 14:00. Good luck everyone!

Eveing all, The Channel4 recorded coverage must be coming to a conclusion by now, so let's have a look at our scores for today; Pos League Rank Team Manager Pts 1 1 0 Essex Racing Tony Clark 178 2 7 0 Hidden Cucumber fat brownie 175 3 2 0 Revers Racing Pete B 165 4 9 2 teewrex John Tee 162 5 3 0 Team Charles Picd Charles Pic 141 6 14 1 Norfolk Flyers Kevin Fairgrieve 135 7 5 1 Pitts Specials john stones 132 8 4 0 Iqonic racing iqon 129 9 10 0 DMFC Racing Team Simon Webb 126 10 6 1 PSS Power Flyer 124 11 12 0 Torque of the devil Stu 119 12 13 0 GASTON Formula Chris McG 107 13 8 0 Mannschaft Carl Brotherton 96 14 15 1 The JP Specials johnpflyrc 88 15 11 2 LetsGoTotoLetsGo GrumpyGnome 87 16 16 0 Hans Brake Zoonie 85 Taking top place today is Tony with 178 points. Close behind in 2nd place is fat brownie on 175 points. A little further back on 165 points, Pete takes third place today. Well done to today's top three! Let's take a look now at how this affects the iverall table; Pos League Rank Team Manager Pts 1 1 0 Essex Racing Tony Clark 2466 2 2 0 Revers Racing Pete B 2383 3 3 0 Team Charles Picd Charles Pic 2292 4 4 0 Iqonic racing iqon 2226 5 5 1 Pitts Specials john stones 2181 6 6 1 PSS Power Flyer 2180 7 7 0 Hidden Cucumber fat brownie 2172 8 8 0 Mannschaft Carl Brotherton 2067 9 9 2 teewrex John Tee 2064 10 10 0 DMFC Racing Team Simon Webb 2048 11 11 2 LetsGoTotoLetsGo GrumpyGnome 2017 12 12 0 Torque of the devil Stu 1946 13 13 0 GASTON Formula Chris McG 1891 14 14 1 Norfolk Flyers Kevin Fairgrieve 1859 15 15 1 The JP Specials johnpflyrc 1820 16 16 0 Hans Brake Zoonie 1719 No change in the top 4 places, so Tony retains top place with Pete and Charles remaining 2nd and 3rd. John S moves up a place to 5th, with Ade slipping a place to 6th. Simon remains in 10th, but the previous holders of 9th and 11th swap places, John T taking 9th, with GrumpyGnome now in 11th. One more place change today - Kev moves up 14th, pushing me down to 15th. Next up is the Italian GP at Monza next weekend.

Evening all! The F1 Summer Break is now over and it's time for battle to recommence. Netherlands this weekend, but first the customary reminder; Don't forget your predictions! In P1 earlier today it was Norris who set fastest lap, 0.2 sec ahead of Verstappen, with Hamilton 3rd fastest ahead of Sainz and Russell. P2 saw Russell setting fastest lap ahead of Piastri with Hamilton third followed by Norris and Verstappen. But only a little over a quarter of a second separated the top 5 in P2. P3 starts at 10:30 (UK-time) tomorrow, followed by qualifying at 14:00. Sunday's race is also at 14:00. Good luck everyone!

One explanation that I saw somewhere is that the weight would have been fine if they'd stuck to their planned tyre strategy. But by staying out instead of having a second tyre change the tyres on the car at the end of the race had less rubber on them than anticipated. Add to that that there was less opportunity than normal to go offline to pick up 'marbles' on the tyres (and gain weight) immediately after the finish, and the car ended up lighter than intended. Should they have anticipated all of that before the start? Possibly...

No need to feel a 'bit of a fraud', Pete! My view on e-bikes is that they allow people to cycle a bit further and up steeper hills than they would have done otherwise. And if that gets more people out on bikes - or allows people to continue cycling as they get older - then that's a good thing. And I've said that on a couple of occasions to e-bikers who've caught up with me on a ride and slowed for a quick chat. Now my view on the Uber eats (etc) louts on dodgy, illegal electric motorbikes is rather different... (But not really a subject for this thread!)

And now, we do have the results - hopefully all correct now, they do seem to have sorted out the glitch over the pole prediction! So first, here are our points today; Pos League Rank Team Manager Pts 1 3 0 Team Charles Picd Charles Pic 157 2 4 1 Iqonic racing iqon 156 3 7 0 Hidden Cucumber fat brownie 148 4 1 0 Essex Racing Tony Clark 141 5 10 1 DMFC Racing Team Simon Webb 136 6 6 0 Pitts Specials john stones 127 7 2 0 Revers Racing Pete B 125 8 13 0 GASTON Formula Chris McG 119 9 12 0 Torque of the devil Stu 118 10 8 0 Mannschaft Carl Brotherton 116 = 9 0 LetsGoTotoLetsGo GrumpyGnome 116 12 5 1 PSS Power Flyer 114 13 14 0 The JP Specials johnpflyrc 108 14 11 1 teewrex John Tee 106 15 15 0 Norfolk Flyers Kevin Fairgrieve 103 16 16 0 Hans Brake Zoonie 71 Charles takes top place today with 157 points. And just ONE point behind, it's iqon taking second place with 156 points. fat brownie completes out podium taking third place today with 148 points. Well done to today's top 3! Next up, the overall table after today's race; os League Rank Team Manager Pts 1 1 0 Essex Racing Tony Clark 2288 2 2 0 Revers Racing Pete B 2218 3 3 0 Team Charles Picd Charles Pic 2151 4 4 1 Iqonic racing iqon 2097 5 5 1 PSS Power Flyer 2056 6 6 0 Pitts Specials john stones 2049 7 7 0 Hidden Cucumber fat brownie 1997 8 8 0 Mannschaft Carl Brotherton 1971 9 9 0 LetsGoTotoLetsGo GrumpyGnome 1930 10 10 1 DMFC Racing Team Simon Webb 1922 11 11 1 teewrex John Tee 1902 12 12 0 Torque of the devil Stu 1827 13 13 0 GASTON Formula Chris McG 1784 14 14 0 The JP Specials johnpflyrc 1732 15 15 0 Norfolk Flyers Kevin Fairgrieve 1724 16 16 0 Hans Brake Zoonie 1634 No changes in the top 3, so Tony retains top spot over the summer break. Pete stays second with Charles holding on to third place. Only a couple of place swaps today - iqon moves up to 4th, displacing Ade to 5th, and Simon moves up to 10th with John T slipping to 11th. All other places remain unchanged. Summer break now, and then it's Verstappen's home GP in the Netherlands on 25 August, with Italy the following weekend.

To be honest John, I haven't dared even try to work out what my score might be! Meanwhile... Pete's cycling mention might not be that far off-topic. Cycling is widely used in motorsport as part of drivers' fitness regimes, and Valteri Bottas is a very keen, and competitive cyclist. His partner, Tiffany Cromwell, is a professional cyclist, and he competes with her in gravel bike events. He has qualified for the Gravel bike World Championships in October. I hope it doesn't clash with a GP weekend! And Pete - the Col du Tourmalet is certainly a "decent" climb! 18.7 km at an average 7.1% gradient, though the pros will doubtless make it look easy(ish!) I climbed Cypress Mountain in Vancouver earlier this month - my biggest climb ever. That's 10.5 km at 6.3 % gradient and it was hard work, even with a couple of stops on the way up. Back on-topic - still waiting for fantasygp to update!

So, checking the fantasygp Facebook page, it seems the "small glitch with the predictions" was that they were not awarding predictions points for Verstappen getting pole - and as I mentioned in Friday's post; "Points for the pole prediction though are based on the qualifying results, regardless of any penalties - at least according to the game guide!" And then the Russell disqualification... We may need to wait until Monday to get the result!

Evenng all! Well I had hoped to be posting the results now that the Channel 4 highlights have finished, but fantasygp seems to be still updating... I watched the race live - closest finish I can remember for a long, long time! Then I went out for a longish bike ride (no T-d-F stages, Pete, and a proper - not e - bike too!😇) and came back to find that Russell had been disqualifed for being 1.5 kg under-weight. So I guess we'lll have to wait until fantasygp finish updating themselves... [Update - posted on twitter/X 5 hours ago; "Points are in for Spa, but we are looking into a small glitch with the predictions, which will be updated in due course."]

Evenng all! Quick reminder time, it's the final race weekend before the summer break, and Spa in Belgium this weekend. So first the customary reminder; Don't forget your predictions! P1 saw Verstappen setting fastest time, over half a second ahead of Piastri, with Albon third, followed by the Mercedes duo led by Russell. P2 saw Norris heading the charts, 0.2 s ahead of Piastri with Verstappen third fastest. The two Ferraris were next followed by Russell. P3 is tomorrow at 11:30, followed by qualifying at 15:00 UK-time. Rain is likely tomorrow though, and possibly Sunday too for the race which starts at 14:00. Don't forget, Verstappen is taking a 10-place grid penalty for exceeding the permitted number of engines used in the season. Points for the pole prediction though are based on the qualifying results, regardless of any penalties - at least according to the game guide! Good luck everybody!

Evening all! Channel 4's coverage should have finished by now, so let's get on with today's results; Pos League Rank Team Manager Pts 1 2 0 Revers Racing Pete B 178 2 7 2 Hidden Cucumber fat brownie 170 3 3 0 Team Charles Picd Charles Pic 166 4 5 2 Iqonic racing iqon 164 5 1 0 Essex Racing Tony Clark 161 6 6 0 Pitts Specials john stones 143 7 4 0 PSS Power Flyer 139 8 15 0 Norfolk Flyers Kevin Fairgrieve 137 9 10 1 teewrex John Tee 134 10 13 1 GASTON Formula Chris McG 129 11 12 0 Torque of the devil Stu 106 12 16 0 Hans Brake Zoonie 93 13 9 1 LetsGoTotoLetsGo GrumpyGnome 81 14 14 1 The JP Specials johnpflyrc 73 15 11 1 DMFC Racing Team Simon Webb 70 16 8 3 Mannschaft Carl Brotherton 68 Quite a range of scores today, but topping our chart today is Pete B with 178 points. Second today is fat brownie with 170. And third, with 166 points, is Charles. Well done to today's top three! I mentioned a wide range of scores, and 5 of us only managed to scrape together a 2-digit score... Looking now at the overall table after today's race; os League Rank Team Manager Pts 1 1 0 Essex Racing Tony Clark 2147 2 2 0 Revers Racing Pete B 2093 3 3 0 Team Charles Picd Charles Pic 1994 4 4 0 PSS Power Flyer 1942 5 5 2 Iqonic racing iqon 1941 6 6 0 Pitts Specials john stones 1922 7 7 2 Hidden Cucumber fat brownie 1859 8 8 3 Mannschaft Carl Brotherton 1855 9 9 1 LetsGoTotoLetsGo GrumpyGnome 1814 10 10 1 teewrex John Tee 1796 11 11 1 DMFC Racing Team Simon Webb 1786 12 12 0 Torque of the devil Stu 1709 13 13 1 GASTON Formula Chris McG 1665 14 14 1 The JP Specials johnpflyrc 1624 15 15 0 Norfolk Flyers Kevin Fairgrieve 1621 16 16 0 Hans Brake Zoonie 1563 No changes at the top, so Tony holds on to first place overall from Pete and Charles. Iqon moves up 2 places to 5th, fat brownie also moves 2 to 7th. Clearly this means we have players heading in the opposite direction - Carl drops 3 places to 8th and GrumpyGnome drops 1 to 9th. Further swaps see John T take 10th from Simon who moves to 11th. Finally our sadly-departed friend Chris clearly made a great job of picking his initial team. Even with no predictions now being made, he outscored 6 of us today and takes 13 place from me in the overall table. Belgium, and Spa, next weekend before the 4-week summer break.

Evening all! Back to normality... I'm back from my travels and it's a 'normal' GP weekend - this time in Hungary. So without further ado; Don't forget your predictions! P1 saw the Ferraris of Sainz and Leclerc setting fastest and third fastest times, sandwiching Verstappen in 2nd. Mercedes had Russell setting 4th fastest, with Hamilton 10th, McLarens were 6th and 7th. P2 was topped by Norris, though Piastri was only 13th. Verstappen was again 2nd with Sainz 3rd but Leclerc only 18th. Mercedes were 5th (Russell) and 7th (Hamilton.) P3 is tomorrow at 11:30 (UK-time) - will that provide any more clues to base our predictions on? Qualifying is at 15:00 with Sunday's race at 14:00. Good luck everyone!

Hmmm... looks like the scores on fantasygp changed some time after I copied and posted them! So today's scores are now as follows; Pos League Rank Team Manager Pts 1 9 1 Hidden Cucumber fat brownie 146 2 1 0 Essex Racing Tony Clark 136 3 6 1 Pitts Specials john stones 132 4 2 0 Revers Racing Pete B 131 5 16 0 Hans Brake Zoonie 126 6 13 1 The JP Specials johnpflyrc 123 7 5 0 Mannschaft Carl Brotherton 120 8 11 0 teewrex John Tee 119 9 7 1 Iqonic racing iqon 116 = 8 0 LetsGoTotoLetsGo GrumpyGnome 116 11 3 0 Team Charles Picd Charles Pic 114 12 15 0 Norfolk Flyers Kevin Fairgrieve 110 13 12 0 Torque of the devil Stu 109 = 4 0 PSS Power Flyer 109 15 10 1 DMFC Racing Team Simon Webb 107 16 14 1 GASTON Formula Chris McG 102 The top three places are unchanged, though with an additional 10 points each. And many - though not all of us - also now have an additional 10 points compared to the initial results posted. So the overall table now looks like this; Pos League Rank Team Manager Pts 1 1 0 Essex Racing Tony Clark 1986 2 2 0 Revers Racing Pete B 1915 3 3 0 Team Charles Picd Charles Pic 1848 4 4 0 PSS Power Flyer 1803 5 5 0 Mannschaft Carl Brotherton 1787 6 6 1 Pitts Specials john stones 1779 7 7 1 Iqonic racing iqon 1777 8 8 0 LetsGoTotoLetsGo GrumpyGnome 1733 9 9 1 Hidden Cucumber fat brownie 1719 10 10 1 DMFC Racing Team Simon Webb 1716 11 11 0 teewrex John Tee 1662 12 12 0 Torque of the devil Stu 1603 13 13 1 The JP Specials johnpflyrc 1551 14 14 1 GASTON Formula Chris McG 1536 15 15 0 Norfolk Flyers Kevin Fairgrieve 1484 16 16 0 Hans Brake Zoonie 1470 The top 5 now remain unchanged with John S overtaking iqon to take 6th. Other place changes remain the same.

Morning all - just coming up to 9am here in Vancouver, and no TV coverage of the race available to me where I am, but it looked like quite a race from viewing the live timing screen... With channel 4 having live coverage this week, no need to wait for them, just for fantasygp.com to update their tables - which they've now done. So first, today's results in our league; Pos League Rank Team Manager Pts 1 9 1 Hidden Cucumber fat brownie 136 2 1 0 Essex Racing Tony Clark 126 3 7 0 Pitts Specials john stones 122 4 2 0 Revers Racing Pete B 121 5 5 1 Iqonic racing iqon 116 = 16 0 Hans Brake Zoonie 116 = 8 0 LetsGoTotoLetsGo GrumpyGnome 116 8 3 0 Team Charles Picd Charles Pic 114 9 13 1 The JP Specials johnpflyrc 113 10 6 1 Mannschaft Carl Brotherton 110 11 12 0 Torque of the devil Stu 109 = 4 0 PSS Power Flyer 109 = 11 0 teewrex John Tee 109 14 14 1 GASTON Formula Chris McG 102 15 15 0 Norfolk Flyers Kevin Fairgrieve 100 16 10 1 DMFC Racing Team Simon Webb 97 Top place today goes to fat brownie on 136 points. Second today, 10 points back, is Tony on 126 points. Third today is John S with 122 points. Well done to today's top 3! Now, looking at the overall table after today's race; Pos League Rank Team Manager Pts 1 1 0 Essex Racing Tony Clark 1976 2 2 0 Revers Racing Pete B 1905 3 3 0 Team Charles Picd Charles Pic 1848 4 4 0 PSS Power Flyer 1803 5 5 1 Iqonic racing iqon 1777 = 6 1 Mannschaft Carl Brotherton 1777 7 7 0 Pitts Specials john stones 1769 8 8 0 LetsGoTotoLetsGo GrumpyGnome 1733 9 9 1 Hidden Cucumber fat brownie 1709 10 10 1 DMFC Racing Team Simon Webb 1706 11 11 0 teewrex John Tee 1652 12 12 0 Torque of the devil Stu 1603 13 13 1 The JP Specials johnpflyrc 1541 14 14 1 GASTON Formula Chris McG 1536 15 15 0 Norfolk Flyers Kevin Fairgrieve 1474 16 16 0 Hans Brake Zoonie 1460 No changes in the top 4 today, but iqon moves up to 5th, dropping Carl to 6th. Fat brownie's win today moves him up a place to 9th pushing Simon to 10th. And I move up to 13th ahead of Chris. Next up is Hungary in 2 weeks time.

Evening (B.C.-time) all! Just a quick, early, reminder as my day is currently 8 hours behind most of yours... Silverstone this weekend, and a 'normal' race - no sprint - so the usual 2 practice sessions on Friday, with P3 on Saturday then qualifying at 3pm. Sunday's race is also at 3pm - or 7am for me! I'll end for now with the usual reminder; Don't forget your predictions!

Afternoon (B.C. time!) all, Sounds like an interesting race - I didn't see it. So first, our scores today; Pos League Rank Team Manager Pts 1 1 0 Essex Racing Tony Clark 211 2 2 0 Revers Racing Pete B 207 = 16 0 Hans Brake Zoonie 207 4 6 0 Iqonic racing iqon 201 = 8 2 LetsGoTotoLetsGo GrumpyGnome 201 6 7 0 Pitts Specials john stones 190 7 5 0 Mannschaft Carl Brotherton 188 = 4 0 PSS Power Flyer 188 9 3 0 Team Charles Picd Charles Pic 184 10 13 1 GASTON Formula Chris McG 171 11 9 1 DMFC Racing Team Simon Webb 163 12 10 1 Hidden Cucumber fat brownie 155 13 11 0 teewrex John Tee 152 14 14 1 The JP Specials johnpflyrc 147 15 12 0 Torque of the devil Stu 126 16 15 0 Norfolk Flyers Kevin Fairgrieve 123 Top place today goes to Tony with 211 points. Tied for second today are Pete and Zoonie on 207 points. Well done to today's top 3! Turning now to the overall league positions after today's race; Pos League Rank Team Manager Pts 1 1 0 Essex Racing Tony Clark 1850 2 2 0 Revers Racing Pete B 1784 3 3 0 Team Charles Picd Charles Pic 1734 4 4 0 PSS Power Flyer 1694 5 5 0 Mannschaft Carl Brotherton 1667 6 6 0 Iqonic racing iqon 1661 7 7 0 Pitts Specials john stones 1647 8 8 2 LetsGoTotoLetsGo GrumpyGnome 1617 9 9 1 DMFC Racing Team Simon Webb 1609 10 10 1 Hidden Cucumber fat brownie 1593 11 11 0 teewrex John Tee 1543 12 12 0 Torque of the devil Stu 1494 13 13 1 GASTON Formula Chris McG 1434 14 14 1 The JP Specials johnpflyrc 1428 15 15 0 Norfolk Flyers Kevin Fairgrieve 1374 16 16 0 Hans Brake Zoonie 1344 No changes in the top 8, so Tony (not surprisingly with today's win!) holds on to top place. Further down the table, GrumpyGnome moves up 2 to 8th, displacing Simon and fat brownie to 9th and 10th. And our sadly departed friend Chris had made a team selection that, even with no predictions made, manages to move up a place ahead of me today! Next up is Silverstone next weekend.

Evening all! Quick, belated reminder before I head off for Canada in the morning... Sprint qualifying is at 15:30 UK time on FRIDAY Please get your predictions done by then!

Evening all! With the channel4 highlights safely finished, time to have a look at our results today; Pos League Rank Team Manager Pts 1 7 2 Pitts Specials john stones 167 2 2 0 Revers Racing Pete B 148 3 1 0 Essex Racing Tony Clark 146 = 10 0 LetsGoTotoLetsGo GrumpyGnome 146 5 15 0 Norfolk Flyers Kevin Fairgrieve 144 6 6 1 Iqonic racing iqon 139 7 3 0 Team Charles Picd Charles Pic 138 8 12 0 Torque of the devil Stu 135 9 4 0 PSS Power Flyer 126 10 9 1 Hidden Cucumber fat brownie 124 11 11 0 teewrex John Tee 123 12 5 0 Mannschaft Carl Brotherton 120 13 13 0 The JP Specials johnpflyrc 115 14 14 0 GASTON Formula Chris McG 106 15 8 2 DMFC Racing Team Simon Webb 90 16 16 0 Hans Brake Zoonie 69 Our clear winner today is John S with 167 points. Second today, almost 20 points behind, is Pete B with 148 points. And joint third. just a couple of points back, Tony and GrumpyGnome both scored 146 points. Well done to today's top 3 (4!) Looking now at the overall table; Pos League Rank Team Manager Pts 1 1 0 Essex Racing Tony Clark 1639 2 2 0 Revers Racing Pete B 1577 3 3 0 Team Charles Picd Charles Pic 1550 4 4 0 PSS Power Flyer 1506 5 5 0 Mannschaft Carl Brotherton 1479 6 6 1 Iqonic racing iqon 1460 7 7 2 Pitts Specials john stones 1457 8 8 2 DMFC Racing Team Simon Webb 1446 9 9 1 Hidden Cucumber fat brownie 1438 10 10 0 LetsGoTotoLetsGo GrumpyGnome 1416 11 11 0 teewrex John Tee 1391 12 12 0 Torque of the devil Stu 1368 13 13 0 The JP Specials johnpflyrc 1281 14 14 0 GASTON Formula Chris McG 1263 15 15 0 Norfolk Flyers Kevin Fairgrieve 1251 16 16 0 Hans Brake Zoonie 1137 No changes in the top 5, or in the bottom 7. All today's changes are mid-table. Iqon moves up 1 to 6th with John S moving up 2 to 7th. Heading in the other direction, Simon moves down 2 to 8th, fat brownie is down 1 to 9th. Next up in a week's time is Austria and it's a Sprint weekend. That means our predictions must be in my the start of Sprint qualifying on FRIDAY. I'll be travelling to Vancouver on Friday and will be away until after the British GP - so my updates for Austria dn the British GP might be at rather odd hours of the day - UK-time!

Evening all! Back to Europe this weekend, and it's the Spanish Grand Prix at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya. So first, the customary reminder; Don't forget your predictions! We've had P1 and P2 already today. In P1 Norris set fastest time from Verstappen, but only by 0.024 seconds, with Sainz a third of a second slower in third. Russell was very slightly slower, ahead of Perez, Piastri and Hamilton. P2 was even closer, with Hamilton fastest, 0.022 s ahead of Sainz and 0.055 s ahead of Norris. Gasly, Verstappen and Leclerc were next, the top 6 being separated by only a third of a second. P3 is at 11:30 UK-time tomorrow, with qualifying at 15:00 - so get your predictions done (or updated!) before then. Sunday's race is at 14:00. Good luck everyone!

Morning all! By now the Channel 4 highlights programme should be well underway, so anybody who is watching that and doesn't want any clues about the results - please look away now, and get back to watching the race! So first, our results from Canada; Pos League Rank Team Manager Pts 1 4 2 PSS Power Flyer 143 2 7 1 Iqonic racing iqon 142 3 15 0 Norfolk Flyers Kevin Fairgrieve 140 4 13 1 The JP Specials johnpflyrc 139 5 10 1 LetsGoTotoLetsGo GrumpyGnome 137 6 8 1 Hidden Cucumber fat brownie 133 7 12 0 Torque of the devil Stu 131 8 1 0 Essex Racing Tony Clark 130 9 2 1 Revers Racing Pete B 127 10 16 0 Hans Brake Zoonie 124 11 9 0 Pitts Specials john stones 116 12 11 1 teewrex John Tee 114 13 5 0 Mannschaft Carl Brotherton 111 14 6 2 DMFC Racing Team Simon Webb 100 15 14 1 GASTON Formula Chris McG 96 16 3 1 Team Charles Picd Charles Pic 83 And some close scores at the top! Today's winner is Ade with 143 points. Iqon is just one point behind with 142 points and takes second. Kev is only two points further back on 140 and takes third. Well done to today's top 3 - and the close scoring continues, with just 6 points separating the top 5. Looking now at the overall table after Canada; Pos League Rank Team Manager Pts 1 1 0 Essex Racing Tony Clark 1493 2 2 1 Revers Racing Pete B 1429 3 3 1 Team Charles Picd Charles Pic 1412 4 4 2 PSS Power Flyer 1380 5 5 0 Mannschaft Carl Brotherton 1359 6 6 2 DMFC Racing Team Simon Webb 1356 7 7 1 Iqonic racing iqon 1321 8 8 1 Hidden Cucumber fat brownie 1314 9 9 0 Pitts Specials john stones 1290 10 10 1 LetsGoTotoLetsGo GrumpyGnome 1270 11 11 1 teewrex John Tee 1268 12 12 0 Torque of the devil Stu 1233 13 13 1 The JP Specials johnpflyrc 1166 14 14 1 GASTON Formula Chris McG 1157 15 15 0 Norfolk Flyers Kevin Fairgrieve 1107 16 16 0 Hans Brake Zoonie 1068 Tony holds on to top place. But there are a few place swaps, most significantly Pete moves up to take 2nd from Charles who slips to third, and Ade and Simon exchange places, Ade taking 4th, Simon 6th. Next up is Spain in two weeks time.

Evening all, Back to North America this weekend. Its Canada this time, and specifically Montréal. And of course this means everything is a few hours later than normal for us. P1 was delayed by a rain storm, and started 21 minutes late. As the track dried out it was only in the last 5 minutes that any vaguely-representative times could be set, and Norris was fastest ahead of Sainz and Leclerc. Hamilton set 4th fastest, though over 1.5 seconds down on Norris with Verstappen 2 seconds adrift of Norris in 5th. So not really a useful indication of anything - except for how badly weather-affected the session was! P2 starts in around 90 minutes from now - at 22:00 UK time. P3 is at 17:30 tomorrow with qualifying at 21:00. So, the customary reminder... Don't forget your predictions! Get them done before 21:00 on Saturday. Sunday's race is at 19:00.

Evening all! With channel 4's programme safely finished, it's time to look at our results from today's race; Pos League Rank Team Manager Pts 1 2 3 Team Charles Picd Charles Pic 202 2 1 1 Essex Racing Tony Clark 166 3 3 1 Revers Racing Pete B 164 4 7 4 Hidden Cucumber fat brownie 151 5 6 0 PSS Power Flyer 140 = 9 1 Pitts Specials john stones 140 7 8 0 Iqonic racing iqon 130 8 16 0 Hans Brake Zoonie 120 9 12 0 Torque of the devil Stu 115 10 10 1 teewrex John Tee 112 11 13 1 GASTON Formula Chris McG 98 12 4 1 DMFC Racing Team Simon Webb 92 13 11 4 LetsGoTotoLetsGo GrumpyGnome 77 14 15 0 Norfolk Flyers Kevin Fairgrieve 66 15 14 1 The JP Specials johnpflyrc 54 16 5 4 Mannschaft Carl Brotherton 37 Quite a spread of scores today! But top spot today is taken by Charles with an impressive 202 points. Well done, Charles! Second today on 166 points is Tony, with Pete just 2 points further back taking 3rd place. Well done again to Charles and to the rest of our 'podum places' today. Several of us failed to even reach double-figures with our scores today - myself included... Looking now at the overall table; Pos League Rank Team Manager Pts 1 1 1 Essex Racing Tony Clark 1363 2 2 3 Team Charles Picd Charles Pic 1329 3 3 1 Revers Racing Pete B 1302 4 4 1 DMFC Racing Team Simon Webb 1256 5 5 4 Mannschaft Carl Brotherton 1248 6 6 0 PSS Power Flyer 1237 7 7 4 Hidden Cucumber fat brownie 1181 8 8 0 Iqonic racing iqon 1179 9 9 1 Pitts Specials john stones 1174 10 10 1 teewrex John Tee 1154 11 11 4 LetsGoTotoLetsGo GrumpyGnome 1133 12 12 0 Torque of the devil Stu 1102 13 13 1 GASTON Formula Chris McG 1061 14 14 1 The JP Specials johnpflyrc 1027 15 15 0 Norfolk Flyers Kevin Fairgrieve 967 16 16 0 Hans Brake Zoonie 944 So Tony is back up to top place. Carl had briefly taken top place after Imola, but unfortunately his last place score of 55 points today means he falls 4 places to 5th. Charles' win today means he jumps 3 places to 2nd, with Pete moving up a place to 3rd. Amongst other changes, fat brownie is also heading upwards, 4 places up to 7th, and GrumpyGnome moves down 4 places to 11th. Canada is next, at Montreal, in 2 weeks time - and that means evening qualifying and race times for us in the UK.

Evening all! Monaco this weekend, and some interesting leaderboards coming out of P1 and P2. But first, the customary reminder! Don't forget your predictions! P1 saw the best times set by Mercedes and McLaren. Hamilton set fastest time ahead of Piastri, with Russell and Norris next. Verstappen and Perez set 11th and 12th fastest times - though that was on 'medium' compund tyres, rather than softs. P2 saw Leclerc setting fastest time from Hamilton with Alonso third and Verstappen 4th - though still over half a second adrift of Leclerc's time. So, once again, as I wondered last weekend - will Red Bull get their act together for P3 and/or qualifying and/or the race? P3 is tomorrow at 11:30 UK-time. Might be a good idea to set some predictions now and be ready to update them (or not!) after P3. Qualifying follows at 15:00, with Sunday's race at 14:00. Bonne chance à tous!