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Sikthskies wrote:

1117 for me. The 2008 champ starts well in 2009 .

I'm actually 8th in the whole league

Doesn't matter for now. The real race begins with the 3rd round.

Lol I know but still. Not easy decisions but my expectations have been reaslised

Lets hope I do as well in China as I have been doing recently! 4th overall and 1st in our league!

Damn double points bonus.

I will figure out my best team and will apply the DP before long!

With the "don't let the Europeans wake up before dawn to watch and North America be damned" madness over (I say that experiment really backfired, stupid Bernie), we can finally start to watch some races.

Good to see you back fighting up there with me fox. Takes me back to 2007!

I'm from England and I'm not finding the times any more convenient to watch the grand prix

I am in, Team name jigar2speed

Sikthskies wrote:

Good to see you back fighting up there with me fox. Takes me back to 2007!

I made the mistake of not including a Red Bull and putting too much faith in Toyota. Pole sitter saved me a bit though.

Sikthskies wrote:

I'm from England and I'm not finding the times any more convenient to watch the grand prix

So what happened before when the races were in the middle of the night? Did you guys just stay up? Or not watch them like us now? May be you guys should give Bernie some negative feedback. Three o'clock in the morning to catch the race is just too bad for us here.

Jigar2speed5095 wrote:

I am in, Team name jigar2speed

Welcome Jigar! I didn't know you are an F1 fan. Supporting Force India? Too bad you will be missing one whole race worth of points, so you may be out of the running for the top this year, but we can most certainly do some competition by individual races.

Flying Fox wrote:

Jigar2speed5095 wrote:

I am in, Team name jigar2speed

Welcome Jigar! I didn't know you are an F1 fan. Supporting Force India? Too bad you will be missing one whole race worth of points, so you may be out of the running for the top this year, but we can most certainly do some competition by individual races.

How did you know, i selected Force India ?

I know, i am not competing for the top spot, but it will be fun comparing scores on the individual races.

Jigar2speed5095 wrote:

How did you know, i selected Force India ?

Just base on the fact that you live in that country...

However, selecting winning teams in F1 is worse than the GPU wars. Fanboyism won't work if you want to win.

Well getting up at 6-7am is just as inconvenient. Either way it's sleep lost lol.

I think I have a good team, I should have done better this race, I'll do well in Bahrain I believe

Sikthskies wrote:

Well getting up at 6-7am is just as inconvenient. Either way it's sleep lost lol.

We do 7-8am for the European races and we (people on the East Coast at least) seem to be fine with it. We can just call it "an early morning". But 3am? That's a bit much.

Sikthskies wrote:

I think I have a good team, I should have done better this race, I'll do well in Bahrain I believe

I have faith in Toyota, they have tested heavily in Bahrain. We will see.

This league is price vs performance. More so than the McLaren league as you get bonus points for unused credits.

Flying Fox wrote:

Jigar2speed5095 wrote:

How did you know, i selected Force India ?

Just base on the fact that you live in that country...

However, selecting winning teams in F1 is worse than the GPU wars. Fanboyism won't work if you want to win.

LOL, not really, i didn't select Force india for that matter, i was out of credit points

Sikthskies wrote:

This league is price vs performance. More so than the McLaren league as you get bonus points for unused credits.

It suits even better here since the TR mantra is mostly about price/performance!

I scored 933 in the previous session. What's your score guys ?

1109 for me

Sikthskies wrote:

1109 for me

Dont worry, i am getting a hang of it. You'll face some competition after 2 sessions for sure

Wonder, how much did FF scored ?

My suckage continued because I don't have Red Bull in my pool. Got 973 this time. If only Trulli did not crash out, argh!

Looks like I have my proof for some changes next time.

I like where I stand after Monaco without having used any of my bonuses.

I need to make some changes or else I will slide further.

Wait for turkey practise. Ferrari looked very strong in Monaco.

Flying Fox wrote:

I need to make some changes or else I will slide further.

Looks like you really need to do something fast, i am now ahead of you

Mini League aside, I am going to have Sunday morning engagements in the summer so I will be missing a lot of races this year. Now we have this crap. IMO Max is a worse tool than Bettman. Must be all that Nazi sex going to his head.

Makes me getting less interested with F1 as days go by, when we are having one of the more exciting season in years.

Damn, 5th place overall for the entire weekend. That'll do pig, that'll do.

Flying Fox wrote:

Must be all that Nazi sex going to his head.

Well, Hitler "got things done" after all. Is it Formula 1 or Fuhrer 1?

I didn't even make the changes that I wanted (more Red Bull content) and I dropped one spot overall, but I now climbed to 3rd in the team with the 2 bonuses still in reserve. Good times.

But now, the question becomes, will MacLaren and Hamilton make a charge that we need to address, and/or if it is time to bail on the Brawn?

Flying Fox wrote:

But now, the question becomes, will MacLaren and Hamilton make a charge that we need to address, and/or if it is time to bail on the Brawn?

Since the spring that nearly killed Felipe Massa came from Barrichello's Brawn, I think their minds weren't fully in the race.

The spring coming off of Barichello's car compromised his qualifying strategy. Brawn had already decided on Button's Q3 fuel fill and put it in before deciding to spend 10 minutes swapping the spring on his car. This meant he had too much fuel in Q3 given how few laps he ended up running and so compromised his qualifying strategy.

On a circuit that is infamous for lack of overtaking (although being KERS equipped seemed to help) poor qualifying meant that the Brawn's were then in trouble for the race. They had some tyre degradation issues as well, although that might have been easier to manage from the front of the race rather from embedded in the middle of the pack.

F1 may be cutthroat, but behind it all they are still human. As a Brawn team member I know that I might have had a part in almost killing a driver. With that hanging over your head there's no way that the team is running a top form.

Agreed. There's quite a lot of movement of personnel from team to team as well so I bet some of them have worked closely with Massa over the years.