John Privett

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.

Morning all! We've now had the first two practice sessions of the new season, so it's time for the customary reminder; Don't forget your predictions! FP1 saw Norris setting the fastest time, 0.149 s ahead of Sainz, now in the Williams. Leclerc set 3rd fastest in his Ferrari, with Piastri in the other Mclaren 4th. Verstappen was 5th fastest, ahead of Albon, Russell and Alonso. Hamilton set 12th fastest time, 0.819s slower than Norris. FP1 also saw Bearman crash. FP2 saw Leclerc fastest, 0.124s ahead of Piastri, and 0.141s ahead of Norris. Tsunoda was 4th fastest, ahead of Hamilton. Verstappen set the 7th fastest time, with Russell down in 10th. FP3 is at 01:30 tomorrow morning followed by qualifying at 05:00. Make sure your predictions are done before then! And don't forget, we have unlimited team changes available in the first 2 rounds.

Evening all! Just a quick reminder that the 2025 F1 season kicks-off this weekend. And of course as it's in Melbourne both qualifying and the race take place, for us in the UK, at silly o'clock in the morning! As I write this at a little after 11pm on Thursday evening, the first practice session is just over 2 hours away, starting at 01:30 on Friday morning. P2 follows at 05:00 on Friday with P3 at 01:30 on Saturday. For most of us I guess that means trying to make sense of the times posted in P1 and P2, and getting our predictions posted sometime on Friday. And maybe for some, updating predictions after P3? Qualifying is at 05:00 on Saturday morning - so make sure your predictions are entered before then! And if you've not picked your team yet, then make sure that's done before then too. On Sunday the race is at 04:00. I think this may be one that I record to watch at a more civilised time of day! Those reliant on the Channel4 highlights coverage can see that at 13:00, I will delay publishing any results here until the highlights proramme is at least well underway, if not actually concluded.

OK, as we count down the final days until the 2025 season starts, here is the list of who is in our league so far - and the order is of course random at this stage! Pos League Rank Team Manager Pts Rankings are random until after the first race 1 0 0 The JP Specials johnpflyrc 0 = 0 0 Norfolk Flyers Kevin Fairgrieve 0 = 0 0 Iqonic racing iqon 0 = 0 0 teewrex John Tee 0 = 0 0 Pitts Specials john stones 0 = 0 0 LetsGoTotoLetsGo GrumpyGnome 0 = 0 0 Essex Racing Tony Clark 0 = 0 0 Hidden Cucumber fat brownie 0 = 0 0 Mannschaft Carl Brotherton 0 = 0 0 Revers Racing Pete B 0 = 0 0 PSS Power Flyer 0 = 0 0 Gyronut F1 The Gyronut 0 = 0 0 DMFC Racing Team Simon Webb 0 Right then, less than 10 days until the first practice session in Melbourne, and I really must get my team picked!

Au contraire, mon ami. Au contraire... Pos League Rank Team Manager Pts Rankings are random until after the first race 1 0 0 The JP Specials johnpflyrc 0 = 0 0 Essex Racing Tony Clark 0 = 0 0 Revers Racing Pete B 0 = 0 0 DMFC Racing Team Simon Webb 0 = 0 0 LetsGoTotoLetsGo GrumpyGnome 0 = 0 0 Hidden Cucumber fat brownie 0 = 0 0 PSS Power Flyer 0 = 0 0 Iqonic racing iqon 0 Ok, ok, I had to refresh that page about 12 times before it finally put Iqon in last place, but it amused me anyway... 😁 But seriously, there are now 8 of us back in the league for the coming year, and I'm sure that number will continued to grow. As for the budget, yes Pete, it would be nice to have a bigger budget. But then we could all buy the top cars/drivers. So I guess we're stuck with the budget we've got. Hopefully I can do better than last year - well I could hardly do much worse! 🤔 Right, time for me to go and have a look at those numbers again...

Simon - no you're not, we all are! 😁 (At least according to our own views) No doubt we all got the email yesterday from fantasygp reminding us that the season starts in less than 4 weeks from now. And that the fantasygp game is open for team selection from 8pm tonight. But before then you can 'reactivate' your teams and look at the driver pricing to work out who you want to select. Then from this evening, actually select them. I've reactivated the league - and found Simon and GrumpyGnome already in it 👍, so it looks like last year's entrants can simply rejoin without needing a code. Pos League Rank Team Manager Pts Rankings are random until after the first race 1 0 0 The JP Specials johnpflyrc 0 = 0 0 DMFC Racing Team Simon Webb 0 = 0 0 LetsGoTotoLetsGo GrumpyGnome 0 Any new entrants from the forum would be most welcome. Get yourself setup with a team on https://fantasygp.com/ (and please don't select the "Pro" membership there) and to join our league you will need the My Fantasy GP League Code: 8397165 As usual we have $75 million to play with, and unlimited changes until round 3. Round 1 is in Melbourne on 16 March, and there's pre-season testing from 26-28 Feb in Bahrain. Now, go and work out who you want on your teams!

Good team, Tony - as the results proved! Looking at it now, you'd wonder how it was possible to get that team within the available budget, but of course back at the start of the season both Norris and Piastri, and indeed McLaren, would have been seen as outsiders! Well done again - a great pick!

Evening all, Thanks iqon! I know my place... At the foot of the table. 😆 So, to confirm the results from today - here is how we all scored in Abu Dhabi; Pos League Rank Team Manager Pts 1 1 0 Essex Racing Tony Clark 198 2 3 0 Team Charles Picd Charles Pic 183 3 2 0 Revers Racing Pete B 180 4 7 0 teewrex John Tee 174 5 5 0 Hidden Cucumber fat brownie 151 = 4 0 PSS Power Flyer 151 7 8 0 Pitts Specials john stones 144 8 9 0 DMFC Racing Team Simon Webb 122 9 10 0 LetsGoTotoLetsGo GrumpyGnome 119 10 12 0 Norfolk Flyers Kevin Fairgrieve 117 11 15 0 Hans Brake Zoonie 108 12 6 0 Iqonic racing iqon 103 13 13 0 Torque of the devil Stu 97 14 16 0 The JP Specials johnpflyrc 96 15 14 0 GASTON Formula Chris McG 77 16 11 0 Mannschaft Carl Brotherton 74 Top place in today's race goes to Tony with 198 points. Second today is Charles on 183 points. And third today is Pete with 180 points. Well done to today's top 3! So, how does the overall table look after today's race? os League Rank Team Manager Pts 1 1 0 Essex Racing Tony Clark 4167 2 2 0 Revers Racing Pete B 4021 3 3 0 Team Charles Picd Charles Pic 3731 4 4 0 PSS Power Flyer 3670 5 5 0 Hidden Cucumber fat brownie 3653 6 6 0 Iqonic racing iqon 3545 7 7 0 teewrex John Tee 3521 8 8 0 Pitts Specials john stones 3464 9 9 0 DMFC Racing Team Simon Webb 3274 10 10 0 LetsGoTotoLetsGo GrumpyGnome 3184 11 11 0 Mannschaft Carl Brotherton 3105 12 12 0 Norfolk Flyers Kevin Fairgrieve 3052 13 13 0 Torque of the devil Stu 2999 14 14 0 GASTON Formula Chris McG 2957 15 15 0 Hans Brake Zoonie 2771 16 16 0 The JP Specials johnpflyrc 2750 No position changes at all today, so I can declare Tony as the winner of the Modelflying Forumites FantasyGP league for 2024. Well done Tony! Pete holds on to second, and Charles is third. Well done to them too. And as already pointed out, I managed to retain my hard-earnt last place! I'm off to sack my team now, and to devise a new, cunning plan for 2025... 🤔 So again, well done to our season's top 3, and indeed to all of you for beating me! It's been a long season, and today's race kept us guessing right up to the end. But a well-deserved (in my opinion) win for Lando, and confirmation of 2nd place for him in the Driver's championship, plus the Constructor's title for McLaren. Next season looks like being close.

Evening all, Abu Dhabi this weekend for the final race of the season. So, for the last time this year, the customary reminder; Don't forget your predictions! Earlier today, P1 saw 6 teams fielding rookie drivers - including Arthur Leclerc, brother of Charles. It was Charles Leclerc who set fastest time in the session ahead of Norris with Hamilton third fastest. However, Leclerc has a 10-place grid penalty to take on Sunday due to exceeding his allocation of Energy Stores. P2 saw McLaren set the two fastest times, Norris ahead of Piastri - who had not driven in P1. Hulkenberg was third fastest, ahead of Sainz and Hamilton. The Red Bulls seemed to have issues, with Verstappen 17th and Perez 14th. P3 is at 10:30 tomorrow, followed by qualifying at 14:00. Sunday's race is at 13:00 Now, as Charles has already mentioned, the battle for 3rd in our league is rather close, with Ade just 24 points adrift of Charles, and fat brownie just 17 points further back. Good luck everyone!

Evening all, Once again, with the channel4 highlights programme now in full-swing, I'll publish our results from today with the usual disclaimer; If you're watching the highlights programme and don't want any clues about the results, then it's probably a good idea to look away now! So first, how did we all score this weekend; Pos League Rank Team Manager Pts 1 1 0 Essex Racing Tony Clark 229 2 4 0 PSS Power Flyer 210 3 5 0 Hidden Cucumber fat brownie 205 4 2 0 Revers Racing Pete B 201 5 3 0 Team Charles Picd Charles Pic 193 6 6 0 Iqonic racing iqon 181 7 10 1 LetsGoTotoLetsGo GrumpyGnome 179 8 14 0 GASTON Formula Chris McG 176 = 7 0 teewrex John Tee 176 10 9 0 DMFC Racing Team Simon Webb 174 11 8 0 Pitts Specials john stones 161 12 11 1 Mannschaft Carl Brotherton 143 13 15 1 Hans Brake Zoonie 141 14 13 0 Torque of the devil Stu 137 15 16 1 The JP Specials johnpflyrc 128 16 12 0 Norfolk Flyers Kevin Fairgrieve 126 Top place today goes to Tony with 229 points. Second,with 210 points is Ade. Third, and only 5 points further back on 205 is fat brownie. Well done to today's top 3! Moving now to the overall table; Pos League Rank Team Manager Pts 1 1 0 Essex Racing Tony Clark 3969 2 2 0 Revers Racing Pete B 3836 3 3 0 Team Charles Picd Charles Pic 3543 4 4 0 PSS Power Flyer 3519 5 5 0 Hidden Cucumber fat brownie 3502 6 6 0 Iqonic racing iqon 3442 7 7 0 teewrex John Tee 3347 8 8 0 Pitts Specials john stones 3320 9 9 0 DMFC Racing Team Simon Webb 3152 10 10 1 LetsGoTotoLetsGo GrumpyGnome 3060 11 11 1 Mannschaft Carl Brotherton 3031 12 12 0 Norfolk Flyers Kevin Fairgrieve 2935 13 13 0 Torque of the devil Stu 2902 14 14 0 GASTON Formula Chris McG 2880 15 15 1 Hans Brake Zoonie 2658 16 16 1 The JP Specials johnpflyrc 2654 No place changes in the top half of the table, so Tony holds on to top spot, now with a lead of 133 points over Pete with Charles still third. Further down the table, GrumpyGnome takes 10th place from Carl. And as hinted at last week, I have now snatched last place from Zoonie. But I'm only 4 points behind you, Zoonie! So, an incident, and penalty, packed race today. And the constructors' championship result goes on to be decided next weekend at Abu Dhabi. It's a 'normal' race weekend, with qualifying at 14:00 UK-time on Saturday - so get your predictions done before then!

Evening all, Quick reminder, Qatar this weekend, and it's another SPRINT weekend. So predictions must be in before the start of Sprint qualifying which is at 17:30 UK-time on Friday. Don't forget your predictions! P1 is at 13:30 on Friday with the Sprint at 14:00 on Saturday followed by qualifying for the main race at 18:00. Sunday's race is at 16:00. Good luck everyone!

Afternoon all! With channel 4 's highlights programme well underway now, I'll publish our league results, but with the usual disclaimer; If you are watching the highlights and don't want any hints as to the race result then look away now! (But why were you looking here in the first place? 😯) So, our results today look like this; Pos League Rank Team Manager Pts 1 16 0 Hans Brake Zoonie 149 2 3 0 Team Charles Picd Charles Pic 147 3 2 0 Revers Racing Pete B 141 4 1 0 Essex Racing Tony Clark 130 = 4 0 PSS Power Flyer 130 6 5 0 Hidden Cucumber fat brownie 126 7 11 0 LetsGoTotoLetsGo GrumpyGnome 117 8 9 0 DMFC Racing Team Simon Webb 101 9 8 0 Pitts Specials john stones 96 10 6 0 Iqonic racing iqon 95 = 15 0 The JP Specials johnpflyrc 95 12 13 0 Torque of the devil Stu 80 = 10 0 Mannschaft Carl Brotherton 80 14 7 0 teewrex John Tee 78 15 14 0 GASTON Formula Chris McG 72 16 12 0 Norfolk Flyers Kevin Fairgrieve 70 Top place todfay goes to Zoonie with 149 points. Just 2 points behind is Charles in second. And Pete takes third today a further 6 points back on 141 points. Well done to today's top three, on what is a rather low-scoring day for many of us. For the first time this season half of us managed to score under 100 points! Looking now at the overall table; Pos League Rank Team Manager Pts 1 1 0 Essex Racing Tony Clark 3740 2 2 0 Revers Racing Pete B 3635 3 3 0 Team Charles Picd Charles Pic 3350 4 4 0 PSS Power Flyer 3309 5 5 0 Hidden Cucumber fat brownie 3297 6 6 0 Iqonic racing iqon 3261 7 7 0 teewrex John Tee 3171 8 8 0 Pitts Specials john stones 3159 9 9 0 DMFC Racing Team Simon Webb 2978 10 10 0 Mannschaft Carl Brotherton 2888 11 11 0 LetsGoTotoLetsGo GrumpyGnome 2881 12 12 0 Norfolk Flyers Kevin Fairgrieve 2809 13 13 0 Torque of the devil Stu 2765 14 14 0 GASTON Formula Chris McG 2704 15 15 0 The JP Specials johnpflyrc 2526 16 16 0 Hans Brake Zoonie 2517 And there are precisely no changes in overall position today. So Tony holds on to top place with Pete still second and Charles third. And at the other end of the table, Zoonie's win today leaves him only 9 points behind me. Last place, here I come! 😕 Two races to go now, and next up is Qatar next weekend. And it's another Sprint weekend, with all the action taking place at UK-friendly hours of the day. Sprint qualifying is at 17:30 UK-time on Friday, so get your predictions done before then. The season closer is at Abu Dhabi the following weekend.

Evening all! I'm a day early, perhaps... But the timetable for this weekend is a bit unconventional! In case anybody needs reminding, it's Las Vegas this weekend. And qualifying is at 10pm Las Vegas time on Friday, with "Sunday's" race on Saturday at 10pm LV time. Anyway, more of that in a moment, first the customary reminder; Don't forget your predictions! So, in UK-time, P1 is at 2:30 am on Friday (tomorrow!) with P2 following at 6:30 am. P3 follows, for us, at 2:30 am on Saturday morning followed by qualifying at 6:00 am. The race is at the same time, 6:00 am, on Sunday morning. I'll be checking the P1 and P2 results tomorrow morning and setting my predictions accordingly. I could then revise them at 3:30am on Saturday after P3, but almost certainly won't. Just make sure your predictions are done before 6am on Saturday! Good luck everyone.

Evening all! Sorry for the delay, last time I checked the fantasygp site they were still awaiting the confirmed results. But now they're there. so let's take a look at our results for this weekend; Pos League Rank Team Manager Pts 1 2 0 Revers Racing Pete B 218 2 4 2 PSS Power Flyer 214 3 9 0 DMFC Racing Team Simon Webb 194 4 6 1 Iqonic racing iqon 192 5 10 0 Mannschaft Carl Brotherton 191 6 5 1 Hidden Cucumber fat brownie 164 7 11 0 LetsGoTotoLetsGo GrumpyGnome 157 8 14 0 GASTON Formula Chris McG 155 = 7 0 teewrex John Tee 155 10 1 0 Essex Racing Tony Clark 150 11 12 0 Norfolk Flyers Kevin Fairgrieve 146 = 15 0 The JP Specials johnpflyrc 146 13 8 0 Pitts Specials john stones 142 14 13 0 Torque of the devil Stu 140 15 3 0 Team Charles Picd Charles Pic 137 16 16 0 Hans Brake Zoonie 101 Top place today is taken by Pete with 218 points. Second is Ade with 214 points. Third is Simon with 194 points. Well done to today's top 3! Looking now at the overall table; Pos League Rank Team Manager Pts 1 1 0 Essex Racing Tony Clark 3610 2 2 0 Revers Racing Pete B 3504 3 3 0 Team Charles Picd Charles Pic 3203 4 4 2 PSS Power Flyer 3179 5 5 1 Hidden Cucumber fat brownie 3171 6 6 1 Iqonic racing iqon 3166 7 7 0 teewrex John Tee 3093 8 8 0 Pitts Specials john stones 3063 9 9 0 DMFC Racing Team Simon Webb 2877 10 10 0 Mannschaft Carl Brotherton 2808 11 11 0 LetsGoTotoLetsGo GrumpyGnome 2764 12 12 0 Norfolk Flyers Kevin Fairgrieve 2739 13 13 0 Torque of the devil Stu 2685 14 14 0 GASTON Formula Chris McG 2632 15 15 0 The JP Specials johnpflyrc 2431 16 16 0 Hans Brake Zoonie 2368 No change in the top 3, so Tony holds on to top place from Pete and Charles. But moving up 2 places to fourth is Ade, which means that fat brownie and iqon both slip down one position to 5th and 6th respectively. All other places remain unchanged. Well that was a dramatic weekend of racing! From the 5 red flags in the delayed qualifying session, to Verstappen taking first place in the main race after starting 17th, with the aborted start, red flag and numerous (real and virtual) safety cars. Amazing what a 'little' rain can do... Next up, in three weeks time, is Las Vegas with it's odd night-time schedule. Qualifying is at 22:00 local time on the Friday, making it 06:00 on Saturday in the UK, with the race at the same times on Saturday night/Sunday morning.

Evening all, Update on the timetable for qualifying and the race; Qualifying is now delayed due to heavy rain until 10:30 UK-time on Sunday. The race time has also been changed - to avoid rain forecast for late-afternoon - and will be an hour and a half earlier than originally scheduled, at 15:30 UK-time.

Evening all, Yes, I know it's only Thursday today, but we have another Sprint weekend coming up, so the game locks early - at 6:30pm tomorrow, Friday 1 November. So, first the customary reminder; Don't forget your predictions (And get them done before 6:30pm on Friday!) P1 is on Friday at 2:30pm, with the Sprint Quali at 6:30pm. The Sprint race is on Saturday at 2pm, followed at 6pm by qualifying for Sunday's race which starts at 5pm. I'm off to do my predictions now. Good luck everyone!

Morning all! OK, the channel 4 highlights programme should be well underway by now, so let's take a look at our results from Mexico; Pos League Rank Team Manager Pts 1 1 0 Essex Racing Tony Clark 175 2 8 0 Pitts Specials john stones 149 3 4 0 Hidden Cucumber fat brownie 144 4 2 0 Revers Racing Pete B 141 = 3 0 Team Charles Picd Charles Pic 141 6 7 0 teewrex John Tee 137 7 6 0 PSS Power Flyer 135 8 5 0 Iqonic racing iqon 132 9 9 0 DMFC Racing Team Simon Webb 130 10 11 1 LetsGoTotoLetsGo GrumpyGnome 124 11 16 0 Hans Brake Zoonie 112 12 10 0 Mannschaft Carl Brotherton 107 13 12 1 Norfolk Flyers Kevin Fairgrieve 99 14 14 0 GASTON Formula Chris McG 88 15 13 0 Torque of the devil Stu 84 16 15 0 The JP Specials johnpflyrc 71 Top place goes to Tony with 175 points. John S takes second with 149 points. And third place goes to fat brownie on 144 points. Well done to today's top three! Moving on now to the overall table; Pos League Rank Team Manager Pts 1 1 0 Essex Racing Tony Clark 3460 2 2 0 Revers Racing Pete B 3286 3 3 0 Team Charles Picd Charles Pic 3066 4 4 0 Hidden Cucumber fat brownie 3007 5 5 0 Iqonic racing iqon 2974 6 6 0 PSS Power Flyer 2965 7 7 0 teewrex John Tee 2938 8 8 0 Pitts Specials john stones 2921 9 9 0 DMFC Racing Team Simon Webb 2683 10 10 0 Mannschaft Carl Brotherton 2617 11 11 1 LetsGoTotoLetsGo GrumpyGnome 2607 12 12 1 Norfolk Flyers Kevin Fairgrieve 2593 13 13 0 Torque of the devil Stu 2545 14 14 0 GASTON Formula Chris McG 2477 15 15 0 The JP Specials johnpflyrc 2285 16 16 0 Hans Brake Zoonie 2267 The top 10 places remain unchanged, so Tony, Pete, and Charles remain in the top 3 places. The only position change today is GrumpyGnome moving up to 11th, displacing Kev down to 12th. Next weekend it's Brazil, and it's another Sprint weekend. That means that the game locks at the start of Sprint qualifying - which is at 18:30 UK-time on Friday.

Evening all, Mexico this weekend, and first the customary reminder; Don't forget your predictions! Qualifying is at 22:00 tomorrow, Saturday - so just under 24 hours from now as I write this. Get your predictions in place before then. We've had P1 already today, with Russell setting the best time, just over 3-tenths of a second ahead of Sainz, with Tsunoda 3rd, 7-tenths off Russell's time. Verstappen set 4th fastest ahead of Hulkenberg, with Piastri 6th. Verstappen's session is reported to have ended early due to engine problems. Reserve drivers were out in P1 in place of Hamilton, Leclerc, Norris, Alonso & Guanyu. P2 is at 23:00 today with P3 at 18:30 on Saturday. Sunday's race is at 20:00 UK-time - don't forget, the clocks go back on Sunday morning. Get some predictions in place now, you can always change them up to 22:00 tomorrow if P2 and P3 give any more clues. Good luck everyone!

Evening all! With today's race being late in the day, the Channel 4 highlights programme doesn't even start until almost 1am tomorrow morning. So I will publish our league results now, but with a 'spoiler' warning; If you don't want to see any clues about today's US Grand Prix result, please read no further! ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ OK, hopefully anybody determined not to see the results will not be browsing the 'net in places where they're likely to see such info anyway! So, first our league results for today; Pos League Rank Team Manager Pts 1 1 0 Essex Racing Tony Clark 250 2 6 0 PSS Power Flyer 233 3 7 0 teewrex John Tee 224 4 2 0 Revers Racing Pete B 216 = 8 0 Pitts Specials john stones 216 6 4 0 Hidden Cucumber fat brownie 212 7 11 1 Norfolk Flyers Kevin Fairgrieve 196 8 5 0 Iqonic racing iqon 194 9 10 1 Mannschaft Carl Brotherton 184 = 9 0 DMFC Racing Team Simon Webb 184 11 16 0 Hans Brake Zoonie 179 12 13 0 Torque of the devil Stu 164 13 3 0 Team Charles Picd Charles Pic 153 14 12 2 LetsGoTotoLetsGo GrumpyGnome 152 15 14 0 GASTON Formula Chris McG 148 16 15 0 The JP Specials johnpflyrc 134 Tony takes top spot wih 250 points - remember, scores are higher than usual as it's a sprint weekend. Second place is taken by Ade with 233 points. And third place is taken by John T with 224 points. Well done to today's top 3. How does this affect our overall table? Let's have a look; Pos League Rank Team Manager Pts 1 1 0 Essex Racing Tony Clark 3285 2 2 0 Revers Racing Pete B 3145 3 3 0 Team Charles Picd Charles Pic 2925 4 4 0 Hidden Cucumber fat brownie 2863 5 5 0 Iqonic racing iqon 2842 6 6 0 PSS Power Flyer 2830 7 7 0 teewrex John Tee 2801 8 8 0 Pitts Specials john stones 2772 9 9 0 DMFC Racing Team Simon Webb 2553 10 10 1 Mannschaft Carl Brotherton 2510 11 11 1 Norfolk Flyers Kevin Fairgrieve 2494 12 12 2 LetsGoTotoLetsGo GrumpyGnome 2483 13 13 0 Torque of the devil Stu 2461 14 14 0 GASTON Formula Chris McG 2389 15 15 0 The JP Specials johnpflyrc 2214 16 16 0 Hans Brake Zoonie 2155 Unsurprisingly, with today's win, Tony remains in top place. And indeed, the next 8 places are also unchanged, so Pete remains in second place, with Charles still 3rd. Our only place changes today are that Carl and Kev each move up a place to 10th and 11th, with GrumpyGnome sliding two places down to 12th. Next up, next weekend, is Mexico - a 'conventional' (non-Sprint!) race weekend, with Brazil the following weekend.

Evening all! A quick reminder that F1 is back after 3 weekends without a race. As it's a Sprint weekend the game closes earlier than normal. So; Don't forget your predictions! The game closes at 10:30 pm (UK-time) on Friday, which is the time of the Sprint qualifying. Earlier in the evening is P1, at 6:30 pm. On Saturday the Sprint race is at 7 pm with qualifying for Sunday's race following at 11 pm. Sunday's race is at 8 pm. Get those predictions done now, and good luck everyone!

Evening all! After a dominant performance today from Norris, let's take a look at our scores in the league; Pos League Rank Team Manager Pts 1 1 0 Essex Racing Tony Clark 187 2 2 0 Revers Racing Pete B 178 3 7 1 teewrex John Tee 170 4 4 0 Hidden Cucumber fat brownie 160 5 12 1 Norfolk Flyers Kevin Fairgrieve 159 6 8 1 Pitts Specials john stones 150 7 3 0 Team Charles Picd Charles Pic 144 8 5 0 Iqonic racing iqon 139 9 6 0 PSS Power Flyer 125 10 13 1 Torque of the devil Stu 123 11 14 0 GASTON Formula Chris McG 118 12 10 1 LetsGoTotoLetsGo GrumpyGnome 110 13 9 0 DMFC Racing Team Simon Webb 104 14 15 0 The JP Specials johnpflyrc 98 15 11 1 Mannschaft Carl Brotherton 91 16 16 0 Hans Brake Zoonie 80 Top place today goes to Tony with 187 points. Pet is second with 178. And John T takes our final podium position with 170 points. Moving on then to see how this affects the overall positions; Pos League Rank Team Manager Pts 1 1 0 Essex Racing Tony Clark 3035 2 2 0 Revers Racing Pete B 2929 3 3 0 Team Charles Picd Charles Pic 2772 4 4 0 Hidden Cucumber fat brownie 2651 5 5 0 Iqonic racing iqon 2648 6 6 0 PSS Power Flyer 2597 7 7 1 teewrex John Tee 2577 8 8 1 Pitts Specials john stones 2556 9 9 0 DMFC Racing Team Simon Webb 2369 10 10 1 LetsGoTotoLetsGo GrumpyGnome 2331 11 11 1 Mannschaft Carl Brotherton 2326 12 12 1 Norfolk Flyers Kevin Fairgrieve 2298 13 13 1 Torque of the devil Stu 2297 14 14 0 GASTON Formula Chris McG 2241 15 15 0 The JP Specials johnpflyrc 2080 16 16 0 Hans Brake Zoonie 1976 No change then in the top 6 positions, so Tony holds on to top spot, with Pete still 2nd and Charles 3rd. John T's result today is enough to move him up to 7th, displacing John S to 8th. Grumpgnome also moves up a place today to 10th, with Carl dropping to 11th. And our final place swap today sees Kev grab 12th from Stu who is now 13th. All other places remain unchanged. Next up is the US GP in four weeks time, followed by Mexico and Brazil on the following weekends.

Evening all! Singapore this weekend. With it being a night race, despite the easterly location, everything takes place at "normal" Eurpoean times. But first... Don't forget your predictions! So we've had P1 and P2 today. P1 saw Leclerc setting the fastest time, but only 7 hundredths ahead of Norris. Sainz was next fastest in the other Ferrari with Verstappen 4th fastest. The Mercedes duo were down in 12th and 16th with Hamilton the faster less-slow of the two. P2 was even closer at the top, this time with Norris fastest, but less than 6 hundreths ahead of Leclerc. Again Sainz was 3rd fastest but Verstappen was only 15th. Mercedes improved slightly in P2, with Hamilton 11th, but with Russell crashing and bringing the session to a close after setting 7th fastest time. P3 is tomorrow at 10:30 UK-time. Qualifying follows at 14:00, and Sunday's race is at 13:00. Now go and get those predictions done, and good luck everyone!