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Quick Standings:
Pos
Participant
Points
1
1 Max V
749
2
curley
740
3
RobM
725
4
Slater Sn
710
5
Indocti Discant
703
6
David D
693
7
Prost!
692
8
Jody Scheckter
677
9
Jellybeanz
671
10
Pastor Maldonado
671
11
Arun
655
12
=^._.^=
654
13
Kimi Haikunen
635
14
Chuck Calrissian
632
15
lightsOUT
632
16
sperry
602
17
ManipulatedMan
595
18
EL SLATSO
559
19
Croken
542
detailed standings →
Upcoming Rounds:
Round 14:
Belgian Grand Prix
27 Jul 2024, 7:00 AM PDT
(0 days, 10 hours, 31 mins)
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Round 15:
Dutch Grand Prix
Round 16:
Italian Grand Prix
Round 17:
Azerbaijan Grand Prix
Round 18:
Singapore Grand Prix
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Discussion Archive:
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!