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Quick Standings:
Pos
Participant
Points
1
curley
358
2
Indocti Discant
339
3
RobM
298
4
ManipulatedMan
298
5
David D
267
6
Croken
255
7
EL SLATSO
245
8
Chuck Calrissian
244
9
Kimi Haikunen
241
10
Prost!
239
11
Jody Scheckter
236
12
lightsOUT
231
13
Jellybeanz
228
14
1 Max V
225
15
sperry
205
16
Arun
190
17
=^._.^=
185
18
Pastor Maldonado
181
19
Slater Sn
160
detailed standings →
Upcoming Rounds:
Round 6:
Miami Grand Prix
4 May 2024, 9:00 AM PDT
(7 days, 3 hours, 40 mins)
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Round 7:
Emilia Romagna Grand Prix
Round 8:
Monaco Grand Prix
Round 9:
Canadian Grand Prix
Round 10:
Spanish Grand Prix
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27 Apr 2024, 5:19 AM PDT
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Discussion Archive:
by
Jody Scheckter
at 9:34 pm, Apr 21
Max Verstappen made easy work of yet another victory, his first in Shanghai, as he assuredly handled two safety car restarts that regrouped the field, to win at the first Chinese Grand Prix since before the COVID-19 pandemic. Verstappen also easily won the first Sprint Race of the season.
Lando Norris capped a strong weekend, that saw him on pole for the Sprint Race, by taking a strong second in the race on Sunday. Sergio Perez took third in both races.
On the first Sprint Race weekend of the year, with the benefit of knowing the Sprint Race Qualifying positions,
Croken
takes best advantage to win the round. Last year's FF1 overall winner
1 Max V
, ties for second with
Kimi Haikunen
and
RobM
.
curley
wasn't far off the round leaders and now leads the overall FF1 standings by a good margin over
Indocti Discant
, who drops from the top rung for the first time this season. Meanwhile,
RobM
moves back into the money positions in third.
F1 heads to Miami next, and another Sprint Race weekend. Once again, picks will be due before the Sprint Race starts.
by
Jody Scheckter
at 11:21 am, Apr 7
Following a poor Australian Grand Prix, Red Bull reverted to their regular dominant form as Max Verstappen and Sergio Perez raced to a comfortable 1-2 finish at Suzuka, Japan, with Carlos Sainz taking third. In a race of varying pit strategies, this was a weekend when Ferrari got it right, and Mercedes got it wrong.
Kimi Haikunen
wins the round, with
Pastor Maldonado
earning his first points of the season for second, and
curley
taking third.
Indocti Discant
barely holds onto the overall FF1 lead after a poor round score,
curley
moves up to second only two points behind, and
ManipulatedMan
moves into third.
Next up is a return to China after a five-year, pandemic related break from the F1 calendar, and the first of two back-to-back Sprint Race events. As a reminder, FF1 picks will be due
before
the
Sprint Race
this year, a significant change from past years.
by
Jody Scheckter
at 9:24 am, Mar 24
Two weeks ago Carlos Sainz underwent an appendectomy. Two weeks later he won just his third career F1 Grand Prix in 185 starts, taking advantage of Max Verstappen dropping out due to brake failure, and keeping the rest of the field at bay for the entire race. Charles Leclerc placed second, earning Ferrari an important 1-2, on a day where Red Bull scored their fewest points since the inaugural race two years ago - which was also the last Ferrari 1-2.
Lando Norris took a strong third place, with teammate, and home crowd favorite, Oscar Piastri finishing fourth.
JellyBeanz
wins the round having picked the top four finishers,
Indocti Discant
is on the podium again in second, and we have a three-way tie for third with
David D
being joined by
Jody Scheckter
and
Prost!
, who scored their first points of the season.
Overall
Indocti Discant
increases his lead, but
RobM
and
curley
keep their positions in second and third.
The next race, in a couple of weekends, is an earlier in the season than usual Japanese Grand Prix.
by
Indocti Discant
at 8:12 am, Mar 24
No no no. Stop inventing.
by
RobM
at 6:49 am, Mar 24
Way to go Carlos #55!!
by
Jody Scheckter
at 9:02 am, Mar 20
Ferrari have announced that Carlos Sainz is expected to drive in Australia, so he is now pickable and Oliver Bearman is not.
edited by
Jody Scheckter
at 7:15 pm, Mar 9
It is hard to believe that Max Verstappen still has firsts to achieve, but after a first pole and front row start in Saudi Arabia, he went on to win, which is the first time he's won the first two races of a season.
Ho-hum!
There was a thought that Red Bull would be beatable in 2024, but based on the evidence so far it hasn't looked that way, as Sergio Perez has demonstrated that both sides of the garage are pulling their weight this year. Then again, last year also started with two One-Two Red Bull finishes.
Third place went to Charles Leclerc, but the driver of the day was stand-in rookie Oliver Bearman, who on short notice jumped into a Ferrari, replacing Carlos Sainz who underwent an appendectomy on Friday. Bearman qualified 11th and drove to an impressive seventh place finish. Not bad after only one hour of practice in FP3.
Indocti Discant
is also having himself a memorable start to the season, with a dominant second FF1 win,
RobM
once again comes second, and
sperry
takes third for the round.
Unsurprisingly
Indocti Discant
and
RobM
top the overall standings, with
curley
in third.
The F1 circus travels next to Melbourne, Australia in two weeks, where qualifying will be back to a more normal Saturday. Once we know if Carlos Sainz will be able to drive we will update his status here. Stay tuned!
Reminder: it is
still
not too late to sign up to join Fantasy Formula 1 this season given there will be
four
drops.
by
sperry
at 9:35 am, Mar 8
I will swap out any Sainz picks for Bearman. (Also, who the heck is Bearman?) lol
by
Jody Scheckter
at 9:08 am, Mar 8
Gah! Just waking up to this news. We'll add Oliver Bearman. I will let sperry chime in on what will happen to the Sainz picks for this round.
edited by
Chuck Calrissian
at 8:42 am, Mar 8
by
David D
at 7:31 am, Mar 8
I'm assuming that Bearman will be added as his own driver, similar to Lawson and De Vries last year.
by
David D
at 4:37 am, Mar 8
How does the Sainz swap with Bearman work in terms of picks?
by
=^._.^=
at 4:32 am, Mar 8
Sainz "That was a tough session, my stomach still hurts"
Sainz's Dr. "You have appendicitis and need surgery asap"
edited by
sperry
at 6:17 pm, Mar 7
I have run through a bunch of steps to make sure our emails are sent from a properly verified domain name.
SPF is properly setup with the DNS. They should arrive from "administrator@seccs.org via fantasypitlane.com" which is the actual hostname on the box that's sending the emails via the hosting ISP.
The last thing I need to configure is DKIM for seccs.org... which I couldn't figure out on the old server, but I may be able to on this new one.
It's the last thing I can do, aside from (finally) switching away from the familiar ff1.seccs.org to fantasypitlane.com proper, which is where I intend to run this site from once I get around to the code rewrite I've been planning for the last, oh 5(?) seasons.
edited by
Jody Scheckter
at 4:59 pm, Mar 3
There were no driver lineup changes heading into this year, and so in many ways this season feels like a continuation to last season, and nothing that happened during the Bahrain Grand Prix really seems to have altered that perception as Max Verstappen eased to another dominant victory, and Sergio Perez came a distant second to give Red Bull an identical result as last year at this venue. Carlos Sainz made a small statement, by coming third, that Ferrari may have (in his mind) decided to keep the weaker of their drivers by hiring Lewis Hamilton to replace him next year. The final positions also showed that the top teams from 2023 remain the top teams in 2024 - at least based one weekend's results.
Despite running into email troubles,
Indocti Discant
manages to win the inaugural round, pipping
RobM
who takes second, while
curley
takes third. However, more than half of you chose to sit back and observe the race by taking a drop, most surely to gather intel for upcoming picks. As a strategy this is a clear option given the rules for this season allow
four
drops, instead of the usual two.
It also means that if you've not yet signed up, you could do so as late as mid-April, before the fifth race in China, and still have a chance to win the FF1 season, so tell your friends they can still do so.
Next week we head to Saudi. Will Perez find a way to win the race as he did last year? Will McLaren and Mercedes find better form on the high speed street circuit? Once again, due to Ramadan, qualifying will be on
Friday
, with the race on Saturday.
edited by
Jody Scheckter
at 6:22 pm, Mar 3
When emails aren't being received it is typically because an ISPs email security heuristics are identifying something about an email sender/body it doesn't like. I've had the same problem in the past.
by
Indocti Discant
at 8:46 am, Mar 2
first I have ever heard of my ISP blocking emails. IIRC this happened to a bunch of folks last year as well.
by
Jody Scheckter
at 9:00 am, Mar 1
Your ISP could be blocking them. Try a different email address if you have one.
by
Indocti Discant
at 7:05 am, Mar 1
Have we fixed emails? I stopped getting them last year.
by
=^._.^=
at 5:33 am, Mar 1
Excited for another year!!
Here we go meow!
by
sperry
at 4:39 pm, Feb 29
Due to the late opening of registration and the early Round 1, I plan to leave registration open for a while after the season starts... so tell your friends!
We've got 4 drops this season, so missing round 1 shouldn't be that much of a disadvantage.
edited by
Jody Scheckter
at 11:37 pm, Feb 28
Gah! It just occurred to me that this race is on Saturday and qualifying is on Friday, because Sprint Race weekends last year weren't confusing enough!
In fact the next race in Saudi Arabia is also on a Saturday, both due to the timing of Ramadan and rules that govern the time that must exist before any two races.
So yay! 😜
by
Jody Scheckter
at 6:56 pm, Feb 26
On the plus side you had a chance to update a few things! 😀
by
sperry
at 4:29 pm, Feb 26
Phew!
Sorry for the delay opening up registration. The server was from 2016 and a bunch of the software was past EOL and could no longer be updated. I ended up putting in about 30 hours of work over the weekend to rebuild it from scratch, so it should be good to go!
Let me know if anyone sees anything wonky so I can address it quickly!
edited by
sperry
at 4:39 pm, Feb 29
Welcome to the 2024 F1 Season!
Sorry for the short registration window. The minuscule off-season caught me off-guard, and then there were some technical difficulties with our website server that required me to rebuild it on short notice. Due to some newer versions of the underlying software that came with the update, I have had to make changes to the code. So please, if anyone sees anything "weird" with the site, please let me know so I can address it!
All that said, 2024 appears to be a silly-season throughout, with all the driver lineups changing... in 2025. We are looking at a planned 24 rounds, which I believe is the longest season ever. As such, we've gone with a pick-6 format, with a 10 pick-per-driver season limit. Also, due to the length of the season, and due to the short registration period, there will be 4 drops this year. So, plan your drops if you can, or be thankful for them if you take one on accident.
Also note, with the more consistent sprint weekend schedules, we are going to aim for picks to be due before the traditional Saturday afternoon qualifying session for conventional weekends, and the start of the Saturday morning sprint race session for sprint weekends. Sprint points do count! And you will be able to see the sprint shootout (aka sprint qually) on Friday before making picks.
To summarize:
Conventional Weekends:
Picks are due before Q1 on Saturday afternoon.
Sprint Weekends:
picks are due before the Sprint Race on Saturday morning
Good luck to everyone!