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Pos	Participant	Points
1	1 Max V	1242
2	Prost!	1240
3	David D	1240
4	Slater Sn	1219
5	Chuck Calrissian	1212
6	curley	1207
7	Jody Scheckter	1207
8	RobM	1195
9	=^._.^=	1177
10	Jellybeanz	1162
11	Arun	1149
12	ManipulatedMan	1132
13	lightsOUT	1116
14	Kimi Haikunen	1107
15	sperry	1102
16	EL SLATSO	1061
17	Pastor Maldonado	969
18	Indocti Discant	949
19	Croken	571

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by Jody Scheckter at 11:14 pm, Dec 17 LOL

edited by 1 Max V at 6:19 pm, Dec 17 ...and we look forward to Powerade's release of Mystic Mountain Blueberry.

edited by 1 Max V at 6:19 pm, Dec 17 Also, due to a binding endorsement contract that stipulates I mention Powerade at each winning speech, I just want to say that Powerade is delicious and it cools you off on a hot summer day.

edited by 1 Max V at 5:51 pm, Dec 17 Hope everyone has a great holiday and new year. See you next season! (Bring money)

edited by 1 Max V at 5:49 pm, Dec 17 Yeeeesssssssssss! Great season everyone! Looking forward to 2025!

Another thanks to Sperry and Jody Scheckter for doing such a great job running this league! Prost! You can blame Kimi Haikunen for my existence. I guess I can keep the "1" in 1 Max V for another year and the winnings are going right to the swiss bank account!

by Prost! at 4:58 pm, Dec 14 Tough season - I feel like I was just hanging on at the end. Did not expect to keep second, let alone be so close to first. The quality of the players makes this so hard to win.

by sperry at 10:00 pm, Dec 13 It took me a little long than planned, but the winners should have their winnings in their inboxes! Thanks for another great season!

by sperry at 9:54 pm, Dec 13 2024 is on the books!

Somehow, the longest F1 season resulted in the closest Fantasy finish we've ever had. 1 Max V ekes out a two point victory over Prost! and David D who tie on points, with Prost! taking 2nd on the merits of having selected two more 3rd place finishers over David D.

In a season opposite to his namesake, 1 Max V started slow, but dominated the second half of the year, never dropping below 2nd overall from Hungary on. Amazingly, 1 Max V took just a single 0 drop at Round 1, meaning there were 3 rounds out there where drivers could have been saved for later! 1 Max V was also last year's winner, and 2022's runner up... making them *the* person to beat next season. Once again 1 Max V takes home the top prize of $190! Congratulations!

In the points-tie for the remaining podium positions, Prost! and David D had to come on strong over the last 8 rounds, taking down the likes of curley and Slater Sn who had been dominant in the top 3 overall until the very end. Both Prost! and David D made up 5 positions over the last quarter of the season. At the end, both participants ended up at 1240 points, an average take of 62 points per round. Both drivers each picked the winner 12 times, and the runner up 13 times. But it was Prost!'s 11 3rd place picks over David D's 9 that made the difference. Was it RUS in Canada and Azerbaijan? Maybe! Prost!, however, did seem to intentionally drop 4 rounds vs. David D's 2 drops... was it was saving a few drivers that made the difference? Maybe! With the results so close, it could have been anything from a single bonus point for fastest lap, or some Sprint Race points that could have sent either of these folks to the top.

In the end Prost! will take home $114 for 2nd, and David D $76 for 3rd. This is Prost!'s second season as runner up to 1 Max V, and David D's first time back in the money since he won it all in 2021. Great job to both for an exciting finish!

The off-season is upon us, but it's shorter than ever. Before you know it, the driver's will be back behind their wheels, with some crazy changes like Lewis Hamilton in a red car. McLaren finished the season strong, will they carry that over to 2025? It looks like Max has the biggest target yet on his back, and his buddy Lando is aiming for it.

Thanks to all for another great season! We hope to see you all back in the spring!

by sperry at 3:44 pm, Dec 11 Hey everyone, I finally got around to watching the last two rounds last night, so I'm just checking in here now as to not spoiler myself, and seeing just how close it all came down to is nuts!

I'll put together the round up and send out the award money this afternoon or tomorrow. Congrats to the top 3!

by Jody Scheckter at 7:42 am, Dec 9 Hope springs eternal!

by lightsOUT at 5:29 am, Dec 9 I will take that personally @Jody Scheckter. lol Next season is my season...isn't that what they say?

by Jody Scheckter at 10:23 pm, Dec 8 😂

by 1 Max V at 4:39 pm, Dec 8 Simply lovely!

by Jody Scheckter at 4:14 pm, Dec 8 Interestingly, every player except lightsOUT won a round, or shared a round win this season. I'd be surprised if we've come that close to everyone winning a round before.

by Prost! at 4:00 pm, Dec 8 David D, that's a crazy result, but I'll take it! So many What Ifs!

by Jody Scheckter at 3:55 pm, Dec 8 Lando Norris won the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, which was all that was needed for McLaren to win their first F1 Constructor's Championship trophy since 1998*, despite Ferrari drivers Carlos Sainz and Charles Leclerc finishing second and third. It was quite a turnaround for McLaren after languishing as an also-ran team as recently as July last year, before making an impressive improvement to end 2023, giving reason for optimism going into this year.

The race got off to a crazy start that had FF1 players doing mental math early, as Max Verstappen clipped Oscar Piastri on the first corner, sending them both down the pack. Meanwhile Leclerc, who started on the back row, took advantage of the chaos to jump 11 places on the first lap alone. But those first lap events had a lasting impact on the final FF1 standings.

sperry wins the round, his second round win in the last three races, lightsOUT takes second and Chuck Calrissian comes third.

sperry's final FF1 standings recap and awards are still to come, but it was an epic season, and the finish, with the final drop being applied after the final round, was closer than anyone could imagine or predict.

*Note: McLaren actually scored the most points in 2007, Hamilton's first year in F1, but the team was disqualified due to Spygate.

by David D at 2:20 pm, Dec 8

edited by Prost! at 3:36 pm, Dec 7 HAM!!!

by Jody Scheckter at 8:41 pm, Dec 3 ... not O'Connor!

edited by Jody Scheckter at 12:11 am, Dec 3 As noted on Sunday, Jack Doohan will replace Esteban Ocon at Alpine.

edited by =^._.^= at 8:02 am, Dec 2 meow.

by Prost! at 5:34 pm, Dec 1 Gah! Really needed Hamilton to have a good weekend. Too bad there's a 24th race this year.

by Jody Scheckter at 4:44 pm, Dec 1 Max Verstappen won his ninth race of the season at a Qatar Grand Prix that turned on a safety car decision that wasn't made.

With a mirror that fell of Alex Albon's Williams sitting square in the middle of the track at the main overtaking spot on the circuit, race officials dithered about how to clear it, which resulted in events that may not have happened had they acted sooner.

During the delay Lando Norris failed to lift for the local yellow flag, and would later be hit with a mandatory 10-second stop-go penalty that would drop him out of contention from second. Valtteri Bottas finally forced a safety car by running over the mirror, sending shards of it over the track, but not before Lewis Hamilton and Carlos Sainz both suffered punctures that dropped them down the field, with a dejected Hamilton out of the points. Hamilton was also hit with a drive-through penalty for speeding when the safety car led the field through the pitlane to avoid the debris on the track. On the flip side, Zhou Guanyu and Pierre Gasly benefited from the shuffle, respectively earning Sauber their first points of the year, and Alpine precious points in their fight for sixth in the constructor's point standings.

Charles Leclerc and Oscar Piastri rounded out the podium, and the constructor's title will now be decided at the final race of the season next weekend in Abu Dhabi.

=^._.^=, David D and ManipulatedMan share the round win, but the weekend's results have brought added intrigue to the FF1 overall standings. 1 Max V retains top spot with one race to go, but Prost! moves up into second and David D jumps three positions to third. As we head into the final race of the season, with the last drop still to be applied, the final standings are far from decided!

Note: Reports indicate that Alpine's Esteban Ocon will be replaced by Jack Doohan at the final race, in advance of his move to Haas next season. Stay tuned.

by Jody Scheckter at 2:09 am, Nov 24 Max Verstappen did what he needed to do and won his fourth consecutive F1 Driver's Championship title at Las Vegas by earning more points than his closest rival. Despite a tough second half of the season, and one that has seen six other drivers each win two or more races, Verstappen has still been the class driver this year with his eight victories, all but one of which he earned by the 10th race of the season.

Undoubtedly it has been a fun season due to the competitive nature of the races and the fact the top four teams have each won four or more races, and hopefully there will be more of the same next year.

In Vegas it was Mercedes that took top honors, with George Russell winning from pole and Lewis Hamilton turning around a disastrous final qualifying session to come second after starting tenth. Ferrari closed the gap on McLaren in the constructor's standings by taking third and fourth with Carlos Sainz and Charles Leclerc, while the papaya cars struggled to impact the race and finished sixth and seventh.

Assuming there are no late penalties, sperry wins the round and Jody Scheckter takes second, while David D and RobM share third.

Overall 1 Max V stays in a solid first place, despite scoring few points this round, but Slater Sn and Prost! each jump a position to second and third respectively, relegating curley to fourth, amazingly his lowest position all season.

The standings are incredibly close as we head to the final races of the year in the Middle East, starting with Qatar next weekend. There's no telling who will come out on top!

by Jody Scheckter at 5:10 pm, Nov 3 In what was one of the craziest and most unpredictable F1 races in a long time, Max Verstappen managed to convert a 17th place starting grid position into an improbable win at the Brazilian Grand Prix.

After a sprint race that mostly went to form, race qualifying was rained out on Saturday and pushed to early Sunday morning. However, weather conditions remained poor and qualifying was marred by five red flags when multiple drivers crashed out due to the slippery surface. Alex Albon's car was too damaged to be repaired in time for the race that was run only three hours later.

The race start itself was further affected by an off by Lance Stroll on the formation lap, which was just the first of many incidents that brought out yellow flags, virtual safety car and full safety car periods, and eventually a red flag. By that time Verstappen had worked his way through the field, into an Alpine sandwich between Pierre Gasly and Esteban Ocon, who had qualified 4th and was gifted the race lead when Lando Norris and George Russell mistimed a virtual safety car period and pitted just as it was ending.

After the restart, Verstappen soon made it past Ocon, and positions mostly stabilized from that point onward, with both Alpine drivers eventually standing on the podium. The final results were only confirmed after various incidents had been investigated after the race, with Mercedes and Norris receiving fines, as opposed to race penalties, for various breaches of rules.

The FF1 round win is shared by five participants: Chuck Calrissian, curley, David D, Prost! and Slater Sn, whose strategy to pick the top six in-form drivers will have yielded less points than they will have hoped, but closes the gap at the top of the standings nevertheless. Unusually, it should be noted, no participant picked one of the podium drivers, perhaps further accentuating the surprising result for Esteban Ocon.

1 Max V stays in first overall, but gives up 18 points on his lead, with curley and Slater Sn staying in second and third.

With picks getting scarce, we resume in three weeks with another back-to-back-to-back set of races in Las Vegas, Qatar and Abu Dhabi to end the season. Chances are it will not rain again, which might make picking drivers less stressful!

by Jody Scheckter at 6:54 pm, Nov 2 New qualifying and race times have been set: https://www.formula1.com/en/racing/2024/...

by Jody Scheckter at 2:34 pm, Nov 2 Glad to see that we have no MAG picks.

edited by Jody Scheckter at 12:47 am, Nov 2 Magnussen is out for the weekend. We have sent out the following notice and made Magnussen unpickable:

Please make note: Oliver Bearman will replace Kevin Magnussen at the Brazilian Grand Prix in Sao Paulo due to Magnussen being taken ill this weekend.

This covers both the Sprint Race and main race on Sunday.

Since this news is late, if you have already picked Magnussen your pick will be switched to Bearman, or you will be given Bearman's points if he scores any.

If you picked both drivers, we regretfully cannot remedy that.

edited by Jody Scheckter at 6:50 pm, Nov 1 I've made Bearman pickable. Technically you could pick both to cover the possibilities. Allowing one pick to cover both isn't an option.

edited by RobM at 8:24 am, Nov 1 K-Mag is sick, this weekend (Interlagos). Bearman is in. Is that pick going to be available? But Bearman might only drive the sprint and K-Mag the grand prix. Then what?

by David D at 9:48 pm, Oct 29 But like, there's 20 "Max"s in the lyric snippet you provided. Smh.

by 1 Max V at 11:56 am, Oct 28 I picked Max 24 times.

Max, Max, Max, super Max, Max
Super, super Max, Max, Max, super Max, Max
Super, super Max, Max, Max, super Max, Max
Super, super Max, Max, Max, super Max, Max

by Jody Scheckter at 7:03 pm, Oct 27 Carlos Sainz converted his pole position into a well controlled win at the Mexican Grand Prix, with a late charge by second place finisher, Lando Norris, coming too late to trouble the Spaniard, but early enough for Charles Leclerc to change tires and pick up the fast lap point on the last lap while taking third.

The race marked yet another bad day for Red Bull, as they slipped into third in the contructor's championship standings, creating a potential rare end of season result, as the last time the F1 driver champion came from a team that placed third was 1983 when Nelson Piquet won driving for Brahbam.

Chuck Calrissian is mounting his own end of season charge, taking a second straight round win and moving up to sixth overall from 14th two races ago. sperry takes second on the day, while lightsOUT manages third place.

Overall, 1 Max V extends his lead in first place. curley in second, and Slater Sn in third manage to keep their positions despite scoring few points this round, allowing the rest of the field to catch up.

Next weekend we conclude this sequence of back-to-back-to-back races in Brazil for the second to last Sprint Race weekend of the year. With only four more races to go, and the last round drop to be applied after the final race of the season, it is anyone's guess who will win this year's FF1 competition!

by Jody Scheckter at 1:24 pm, Oct 27 On the stagings page the picks are labeled "Through Round 20". On the profile pages it is labeled "Through Round 19". When you make picks, we have through the last round and through all rounds.

Could this be different? Sure. Maybe something for sperry to adjust off-season.

Thanks for the feedback!

by David D at 4:46 pm, Oct 26 Henlo.

Maybe you guys are already aware of this, but the pick counts on individual profiles is incorrect during a weekend, as they don't factor in the current weekend.

For example, on the standings page, it says that 1 Max V has picked Verstappen 8 times. When you click on his profile, it says that he has picked him 7 times, even though a ctrl + F shows that he has picked him 8 times.

Not sure if this is by design, but it would be helpful if the picks on user's pages were updated to include the current weekend.

by Jody Scheckter at 11:04 pm, Oct 21 Charles Leclerc started fourth on the grid, but managed to lead the race after the first corners and never looked back to lead a Ferrari 1-2 finish with Carlos Sainz in second. Max Verstappen had to settle for third, but only after a long battle with Lando Norris, that wasn't ultimately decided until a steward's call docked the McLaren five seconds, which elevated the Dutchman.

The weekend results bolster in-form Ferrari's hopes for a constructor's championship, with a real possibility that Red Bull gets passed by both Ferrari and McLaren, yet Verstappen still wins the driver's trophy.

Arun, Chuck Calrissian and Manipilated Man each score a season round high 118 points for this weekend.

Meanwhile, 1 Max V extends his overall lead over curley in second, while rising Slater Sn moves up into third.

The races are coming thick and fast now, with the second of back-to-back-to-back race weekends coming up in a few days in Mexico City.

by RobM at 3:23 pm, Oct 20 Colapinto > Albon
Sainz > Albon
I think Albon is out, next year.

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!