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Pos	Participant	Points
1	1 Max V	927
2	curley	904
3	RobM	903
4	Jellybeanz	892
5	Slater Sn	891
6	Prost!	865
7	Pastor Maldonado	854
8	David D	838
9	Jody Scheckter	830
10	lightsOUT	829
11	Arun	821
12	Indocti Discant	812
13	=^._.^=	808
14	Chuck Calrissian	805
15	Kimi Haikunen	805
16	EL SLATSO	776
17	ManipulatedMan	729
18	sperry	713
19	Croken	571

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by Jody Scheckter at 3:33 am, Sep 27 Liam Lawson will replace Daniel Ricciardo at RB for the final six races of the season.

This news was not unexpected, and we'll be sad to see the Aussie go after 14 years and over 250 races, but this gives Lawson a chance to make his case for the race seat in 2025, after sitting in for Ricciardo for five races last year.

Please ensure any previously selected picks for upcoming races take this driver change into account.

by Jody Scheckter at 4:54 pm, Sep 22 Lando Norris converted a pole position into a dominant start-to-finish race win at the Singapore Grand Prix, beating the man he is chasing, Max Verstappen, who himself had a untroubled second place finish, as Oscar Piastri came third to help further extend McLaren's top position in the constructor's standings. It marks the eighth straight race the British team has outscored the Red Bulls.

EL SLATSO has another round win, Chuck Calrissian takes second and lightsOUT just edges into third place for the day.

Meanwhile, with the third drop of the season kicking in, 1 Max V manages to stay ahead of curley at the top of the standings, and RobM is just behind in third again.

F1 takes another four week break, but returns for a Sprint Race weekend in Austin, Texas the weekend of October 19th. Once again, picks are due before the Saturday morning Sprint Race.

by 1 Max V at 1:02 pm, Sep 22 Let's watch the language. Flip flopping like Salmons could be offensive to flip flops and salmon. You don't want to get fined by the FIA.

edited by Jody Scheckter at 11:43 pm, Sep 15 MaxV and curley flip flopping like salmons out here 🐟&🐟

by Jody Scheckter at 5:26 pm, Sep 15 Oscar Piastri held off Charles Leclerc for a hard fought and intense win at the Azerbaijan Grand Prix. Piastri closed in on Leclerc after their pit stops and made a Turn 1 lunge stick, and then dealt with the pressure of the Ferrari driver for lap after lap, until Leclerc could no longer take the fight to the McLaren for lack of rear wheel tire grip.

The race disappointingly ended under a Virtual Safety Car after Carlos Sainz and Sergio Perez locked wheels and the two cars slammed into the wall, ending a potential battle for both cars for second place with two laps remaining. That elevated George Russell into third. Lando Norris qualified 17th but was able to take fourth and pick up three points on Max Verstappen in fifth, marking the once dominant Dutchman's seventh straight race without a win.

The results moves McLaren into first place in the constructor's championship with seven races to go.

Slater Sn is the FF1 round winner, edging Jellybeanz by a point, with lightsOUT further back in third.

Overall, 1 Max V once again flip flops with curley for top position by just four points, and RobM remains in third.

We return to Singapore next weekend for another street circuit race that promises a tight battle between the top four teams, and in particular the in-form Ferraris and McLarens. The 18th round will also see the third of four drops applied to each participant's score.

by sperry at 5:41 pm, Sep 9 Bearman has been added to the roster a second time, with the old Bearman becoming "BEA_F" for his stint at Ferrari.

This workaround will allow us to pick him at Haas, without functionally moving his Ferrari points over to Haas in the results.

edited by Jody Scheckter at 11:34 pm, Sep 9 Oliver Bearman has been chosen as the replacement for Kevin Magnussen in Baku. We will update things here soon to reflect that.

by ManipulatedMan at 11:59 am, Sep 3 Drops and driver changes aside, this is such a long season that of the 200 total possible legal picks (20 drivers x 10 max picks each), we submit 144 (24 races x 6 picks each).

And good job LEC.

by Jody Scheckter at 10:59 pm, Sep 1 If McLaren fails to win the F1 contructor's championship, or Norris falls short of surpassing Max Verstappen for the driver's crown, they'll look back at various driver and strategy errors earlier in the season that cost them points, including how battling between themselves cost them a race win in Monza.

Oscar Piastri's risky pass on the first lap resulted in pole sitter Lando Norris losing a vital position to Charles Leclerc, which turned out to be critical for the Monegasque driver, and a launching point for a winning, if improbable, one-stop strategy that gave Ferrari another famous Italian Grand Prix victory, and relegated the McLarens to second and third, unable to chase down the Prancing Horse after making an extra pit-stop. McLaren know they were lucky the pass didn't result in both cars crashing out.

curley, Jellybeanz and RobM share the spoils for this round, each picking the top five drivers. The result enables curley to jump back into the lead of the overall standings, flip-flopping with 1 Max V, now in second, for the fourth round in a row. RobM moves back into third overall.

The next race in two weeks is in Baku. Kevin Magnussen picked up more penalty points in Monza and is likely going to be excluded from the Azerbaijan Grand Prix, pending appeals. If that happens we'll update things here accordingly and send out a driver change notice. Stay tuned.

edited by Jody Scheckter at 12:23 am, Aug 28 There's a new driver in F1: Franco Colapinto will replace Logan Sargeant at Williams for the remainder of the season.

This is sad news for Sargeant, although hardly surprising given his continued poor results and expensive car shunts. Meanwhile, Colapinta brings an Argentine back into F1 and a new face, if only for this year given the lineup of Albon and Sainz is already set for next year.

Please ensure any previously selected picks for upcoming races take this into account. As per the rules, participants will be able to pick any driver up to 10 times, although only nine races remain.

edited by Jody Scheckter at 10:42 pm, Aug 25 Lando Norris made a statement by winning the Dutch Grand Prix and beating the home crowd favorite, Max Verstappen, who had won the three previous races since Zandvoort was added back to the schedule, by more than 22 seconds. Charles Leclerc gave Ferrari an unexpected third place finish.

The result closes the gap between Red Bull and McLaren in the constructor's standings to only 30 points, and with the British team in the ascendancy, the it is looking like the reigning champion Austrian outfit will be hard-pressed to stay on top this year. Over the past five races McLaren has out-scored Mercedes by 42 points, Red Bull by 63 points, and Ferrari by 67 points.

Pastor Maldonado easily wins the round, EL SLATSO comes second, and 1 Max V takes third.

Overall, 1 Max V jumps back into first place as curley falls to second, and Prost! edges out RobM for third via the first tie-breaker: number of winners picked. Interestingly we also have tie-breakers deciding sixth and thirteenth place after this round, which indicates just how close the FF1 standings are.

Next up, next weekend, is the high speed Autodromo Nazionale track at Monza, which hasn't been a good track for McLaren the past two years, and has been good for Ferrari despite Verstappen winning in 2022 and 2023. But this is a different year for McLaren, so they'll be looking for a similar result as in 2021 when Daniel Ricciardo edged Norris for an unexpected 1-2.

by Jellybeanz at 4:36 am, Aug 24 Wowzers @David D -__-

by David D at 8:24 pm, Jul 28 Agreed about Russell, also Jellybeanz is bad.

(don't ban me this is just a bit of fun)

by Jody Scheckter at 3:37 pm, Jul 28 I feel bad for Russell. He deserved that win.

by Jody Scheckter at 3:35 pm, Jul 28 In a cruel twist, George Russell, who had so brilliantly claimed an improbable victory at the Belgian Grand Prix by switching to a one-stop strategy, was disqualified for his car being underweight.

Russell had seemingly taken his third career victory, just holding off his teammate Lewis Hamilton, en route to a 1-2 victory for Mercedes, with Oscar Piastri less than a second behind in third. Instead, Hamilton now has his career record extending 105th victory, and Charles Leclerc is promoted to the final podium position.

Regardless of Russell's misfortune, the podium confirmed that Red Bull and Max Verstappen, who was promoted to fourth, have a big fight on their hands after the summer break. Mercedes, fourth among the top teams, has now won three of the past four races, McLaren is now only 42 points behind Red Bull in the constructor's standings, and Ferrari is still in the mix. With only one podium finish in the past four races, there's no denying that the once dominant Red Bull has fallen off the pace.

FF1 players have clearly been paying attention too: despite taking similar grid penalties in past races at Spa and yet still winning those races, no player picked Verstappen for this race, not expecting the same payback and preferring to hold that pick for another race.

EL SLATSO easily wins the round, but misses out on valuable Russell points, sperry takes second, and Prost! comes third.

curley jumps back into first position overall in the standings, 1 Max V's stay at the top is short-lived, as he drops down to second, and RobM stays in third.

F1 takes a four week summer break, but the most competitive F1 season we've seen in a while, with four teams battling for race wins and podium positions, has also translated into a very competitive FF1 competition, and just as we really had no idea who would win at Spa, and were found to be wrong even after the race was done, it is anyone's guess which one of you will make the right number of winning picks to come out on top after the final ten races.

by RobM at 10:10 am, Jul 28 Uh oh :-(

by RobM at 7:26 am, Jul 28 My boy George!!!!!!

edited by Jody Scheckter at 8:58 pm, Jul 22 I would support that if that was all it took to make things right in the world! 😀

by 1 Max V at 3:43 pm, Jul 22 ahhh, first place again. Things are right in the world!

by Jody Scheckter at 11:55 pm, Jul 21 This year's Hungarian Grand Prix was notable as much for the strained radio communications as it was for the on-track racing, as McLaren and Red Bull struggled to get their top drivers to follow team directions. Yet while Max Verstappen was defiant to the end on his way to a disappointing fifth place finish, Lando Norris eventually played the team game and allowed teammate Oscar Piastri to win his first career F1 race, as McLaren parlayed a front row lockout into an impressive 1-2 finish.

Lewis Hamilton had another good result for Mercedes to take third.

RobM earns a dominant round win, 1 Max V takes second, and lightsOUT comes third.

In the overall FF1 standings 1 Max V benefits from others taking drops, and moves into first place. curley drops a place to second by sitting the round out, and RobM jumps six places to third.

Next weekend we are at Spa, where Max Verstappen will hope to get his mojo back, but things aren't coming easily for Red Bull, so we may get Annoyed Max once again.

by RobM at 8:03 am, Jul 21 McLaren needs a slap upside the head for boxing Norris ahead of Piastri. Like, wtaf?

by Jody Scheckter at 4:27 pm, Jul 7 Lewis Hamilton hadn't won a race since that fateful day in December 2021 when he lost the F1 Driver's Championship to Max Verstappen on the final lap of the final race, and the past 2? years, and 50-plus races, have been a tough slog for a Mercedes team that had been dominating F1 for so many years.

But Hamilton navigated the tricky weather conditions better than all his competitors to win an historic, and emotional, ninth British Grand Prix, and 104th Grand Prix of his career, 17 years after he won his very first. It was also Mercedes second consecutive win, confirming the talk by Russell and Hamilton that the team is once again in a position to regularly battle with Red Bull, McLaren and Ferrari.

Verstappen spent much of the race adrift of a podium position, but made a late charge to take second, while Lando Norris will rue his tire choice in his final stint and had to settle for third.

Croken, although sitting dead last in the FF1 standings, scores the most points on the day, Prost! takes second, and sperry comes third.

With the second of four dropped rounds this season having been applied, curley manages to hold on to the top spot for the eighth consecutive round, Prost! jumps six positions to second, and 1 Max V holds onto third.

Two weekends from now we'll be in Budapest for the Hungarian Grand Prix, where Mercedes will like their chances to make it three in a row.

by Indocti Discant at 8:36 am, Jul 7 Man, missing picks this weekend sucked

by 1 Max V at 6:50 pm, Jun 30 That was some spicy "dive-bombing!"

by Jody Scheckter at 4:26 pm, Jun 30 Max Verstappen thought his Sprint Race tussle with Lando Norris was "spicy", so the late overtaking attempts by Norris during the Austrian Grand Prix surely must have left a veritable bad taste in his mouth, as wheels touched and both drivers suffered punctures that dropped them out of contention.

The main beneficiary was George Russell, who was able to take the second Grand Prix victory of his career. While Lando abandoned the race, Oscar Piastri picked up important points and second for McLaren, and Carlos Sainz took third. Verstappen had to settle for fifth.

The result harkens back to previous F1 battles between race favorites, and surely suggests we'll see more spiciness this season as Norris seeks to continue to be Verstappen's primary challenger. After Red Bull's recent dominance, F1 could do with more competitive races like the kind we saw in Austria and at recent races.

As is often the case for Sprint Race weekends, we have a tie for the round between multiple FF1 participants as 1 Max V, David D, Jellybeanz, Jody Scheckter, Prost! and Slater Sn each made identical picks to share the spoils.

At the top of the FF1 standings curley continues to lead, Indocti Discant stays in second, and 1 Max V moves up a spot into third. However, things are tightening up.

We head to the third of this sequence of back-to-back-to-back races next weekend at Silverstone, where we can hope for more fireworks.

by Jody Scheckter at 2:26 pm, Jun 23 There's a lot going on amongst the challengers in F1 these days, and it all seemed to be happening around Max Verstappen at the beginning of the Spanish Grand Prix, as George Russell made a brilliant start to go from fourth to first by the first corner, and pole sitter Lando Norris lost position to the Dutchman to fall to third. Yet Verstappen soon found his way past the Mercedes, and managed to find a strategy that could hold off a late charge by the in-form Norris, to claim yet another victory in Spain. Lewis Hamilton took his first podium of the year, by topping Russell in an improved Mercedes.

Norris has been in the form of his life since China, with a win and four second place finishes, but Max Verstappen has frustrated him with four victories of his own and a second place over that same stretch. But at least now the McLaren is making it interesting, and as a team, have out-scored Red Bull over the past five races.

Jody Scheckter converts a slate of favorites into a strong round win, and jumps seven positions in the overall standings as a result, Prost! takes second, and RobM takes third.

The overall standings remain the same at the top, but things are tightening up again, with curley in first, Indocti Discant in second, and RobM in a close third.

Next weekend we're at Austria, with the third Sprint Race of the season, so once again picks are due before the Saturday morning Sprint Race.

by Jody Scheckter at 3:09 pm, Jun 9 Winning races has become harder for Max Verstappen and Red Bull in the past month, but perhaps that just makes doing so more satisfying and exciting for the Dutch champion, and the 2024 running of the Canadian Grand Prix was certainly a hard fought win in changeable weather conditions. Teams had to judge when to change from wet to dry tires in hard to predict conditions, plus the imminent threat of accidents that could lead to a safety car, of which there were two. It led to an exciting finish, with Lando Norris edging George Russell for the final podium places.

Once again Pastor Maldonado wins the round, Slater Sn takes second, and Kimi Haikunen comes third.

curley stays on top in the overall standings for a fifth straight race weekend, Indocti Discant stays in second, and RobM moves up into third.

We continue with a traditional race weekend format a couple of weekends from now at the Spanish Grand Prix, where Ferrari will hope to bounce back from a dreadful race in Montreal.

by Jody Scheckter at 12:29 am, May 30 Indeed. Corrected.

by David D at 6:07 pm, May 26 How do you do?

Hamilton earned a bonus point for getting the fastest lap!

edited by Jody Scheckter at 5:46 pm, May 26 For other drivers, qualifying on pole for the Monaco Grand Prix would be a great omen, but for Charles Leclerc converting pole positions into a race victory has not been a given, after twelve consecutive failed previous attempts, and twice before at Monaco.

However, the Monegasque had no problems this time, as he lead from start to finish to earn an emotional first Monaco Grand Prix. Surprisingly this was just his sixth career victory, which is both testament to his difficulties converting top grid positions into wins (he now has 24 pole positions to his name), and to the fact that over the past few years Max Verstappen hasn't left many opportunities for his opponents to accumulate wins.

Sunday, however, was one such chance, as the Dutchman was starting on the third row of the grid, and Ferrari and McLaren took advantage. Oscar Piastri, who just missed out on pole, took second, and Carlos Sainz survived a potential race ending first lap puncture, albeit aided by a red flag, to take third. Lando Norris followed home in fourth.

Pastor Maldonado handily wins the round, Jellybeanz takes second, and sperry fills out the FF1 podium in third.

curley extends the lead at the top of the overall standings, with Indocti Discant moving back into second, and David D making a first appearance this season in the top three.

With Red Bull once again losing points to rivals, in no small part due to Sergio Perez's poor showing at Imola and Monaco, Formula One reconvenes in two-weeks' time in Montreal for the Canadian Grand Prix, where Ferrari could challenge the Austrian team for the championship standings lead if they have another good weekend.

by RobM at 6:22 am, May 26 K-Mag makes chaos.

edited by Jody Scheckter at 9:58 pm, May 19 Max Verstappen struggled to find a good setup for his Red Bull during the practice sessions, but managed to pull an eighth straight pole position out of his hat on Saturday, and finally was able to hold on for a third career victory at Imola on Sunday.

Lando Norris, starting on the front row, put on a late charge to add excitement to an otherwise relatively flat race, but fell less than a second short of Verstappen. Despite that, McLaren had another good weekend, with Oscar Piastri also taking fourth.

Charles Leclerc took the final step of the podium for Ferrari, but for the first weekend in 2024, scored less points than the resurgent Team McLaren, who also outscored Red Bull.

Kimi Haikunen has a strong showing to win the round, and jumps from twelfth to fourth place overall in the process. Slater Sn takes a good second, while Arun ekes out a close fought third.

At the top of the standings things are very close, with curley retaining first despite sitting out this round, RobM moving up one position to second, only seven points behind, and Indocti Discant slipping to third, but only a further five points behind.

Next weekend we return to Monaco, where anything can happen and often does. Charles Leclerc, now second in the championship, will hope to finally win his home Grand Prix, but his luck on the streets of Monte Carlo has been poor in the past.

by Jody Scheckter at 8:02 pm, May 5 Lando Norris finally broke through with his first F1 victory by winning an entertaining Miami Grand Prix. A fortuitous safety car afforded the then leading Norris with a cheap pit stop at just the right time in the race, and he managed to hold off Max Verstappen on the restart before gradually pulling away.

Verstappen ended the weekend with the better point tally by winning the Sprint Race and taking second, while Charles Leclerc came third, after a second place finish in the Saturday Sprint Race.

David D takes this round by picking the well placed Daniel Ricciardo on the Sprint Race starting grid, over Oscar Piastri favored by most to score more points in the Sunday race (which didn't happen). Eight FF1 players who did pick Piastri tied for second just a couple of points behind.

With the first drop of the season being applied to the overall standings, curley has the most points dropped (for now) but maintains a slim lead over Indocti Discant in second, and RobM holds onto third. The three, unchanged from last round, now have a sizeable gap over the rest of the field.

We're back at Imola in two weeks, the site 30 years ago of Ayrton Senna and Roland Ratzenberger tragic fatal crashes. Fortunately, with the sad exception of Jules Bianchi's accident at Suzuka ten years ago, the all too common fatal F1 racing accident of yesteryear no longer plagues the sport, due to safety improvements to all aspects of F1 racing, but also due to a little luck.

Will Norris' victory spur him on to more success? The Emilia Romagna Grand Prix at Imola was cancelled last year due to heavy flooding in the region, and Red Bull has dominated recent races, but Lando came third in the past two races and should like his chances this year.

by RobM at 2:30 pm, May 5 Lando!!!!!

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!