2014 F1 Pool

[PeteC]

2014 FORMULA 1 AUSTRALIAN GRAND PRIX

http://www.formula1.com/races/in_detail ... agram.html

(Thai Time)

Fri 14 March 2014
Practice 1 08:30 - 10:00
Practice 2 12:30 - 14:00

Sat 15 March 2014
Practice 3 10:00 - 11:00
Qualifying 13:00

Sun 16 March 2014
Race 13:00

As you can see I screwed up with my explanation to Frank about practice/qualifying and making picks. I forgot all about Practice #3. Anyway, be careful if waiting to make picks until after practice #3 as not much time before qualifying starts. Good luck to all!

[PeteC]

BBC coverage schedule for 2014 F1:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/formula1/26443262

[PeteC]

BBC sources still seem to be more optimistic about Schumacher than some other press.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26541565

[PeteC]

Most picks are in and for those who haven't picked yet for this first race of the year, you only have a few more hours before qualifying starts.

[JW]

As usual last minute entrant!! Will be my last minute picks again, my best weekend last season happened when i forgot to pick!

[PeteC]

As usual last minute entrant!! Will be my last minute picks again, my best weekend last season happened when i forgot to pick!

You're in, and have 3 hours until Qualifying to get the early bird bonus.

EDIT; Better put is 1300 hours our time.

[PeteC]

I just noticed that the German is July 20, Belgium July 24, and Hungarian July 27. If those are not typos I pity the drivers and crews......and the cars. Assuredly there will be upsets during that period.

[Pleng]

I just noticed that the German is July 20, Belgium July 24, and Hungarian July 27. If those are not typos I pity the drivers and crews......and the cars. Assuredly there will be upsets during that period.

24 July is a Thurdsay

Belgium is 24 August

[PeteC]

I just noticed that the German is July 20, Belgium July 24, and Hungarian July 27. If those are not typos I pity the drivers and crews......and the cars. Assuredly there will be upsets during that period.

24 July is a Thurdsay

Belgium is 24 August

A schedule like that would be right up there with double points for the last race.

[PeteC]

Rosberg takes the first win with Red Bull and McLaren coming in 2nd and 3rd. Both Vettel and Hamilton retired, along with six others which may be a record.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/formula1/26599556

1 Germany N Rosberg Mercedes
2 Australia D Ricciardo Red Bull
3 Denmark K Magnussen McLaren
4 Great Britain J Button McLaren
5 Spain F Alonso Ferrari
6 Finland V Bottas Williams
7 Germany N Hulkenberg Force India
8 Finland K Raikkonen Ferrari
9 France J Vergne Toro Rosso
10 Russia D Kvyat Toro Rosso
11 Mexico S Perez Force India
12 Germany A Sutil Sauber
13 Mexico E Gutierrez Sauber
14 Great Britain M Chilton Marussia
15 France R Grosjean (ret.) Lotus
16 France J Bianchi Marussia
17 Venezuela P Maldonado (ret.) Lotus
18 Sweden M Ericsson (ret.) Caterham
19 Germany S Vettel (ret.) Red Bull
20 Great Britain L Hamilton (ret.) Mercedes
21 Brazil F Massa (ret.) Williams
22 Japan K Kobayashi (ret.) Caterham

The first one is under our belt now and it seems clear this will be an interesting season, with still much work to be done getting the cars in top racing condition. Our top three are Parahandy and JW both with 15.50 points, and Richard with 14.00.

Next up is Malaysia on March 30. Good luck to all!

1 - Parahandy 15.50
2 - JW 15.50
3 - Richard 14.00
4 - JJBones 13.00
5 - lindosfan 12.00
6 - pharvey 11.50
7 - Zeitgeist 10.50
8 - Pete 10.00
9 - redzonerocker 10.00
10 - mwbrown 10.00
11 - bsdk1960 9.50
12 - Vital Spark 9.00
13 - Terry 8.50
14 - BigBoy 8.00
15 - Frank Hovis 7.00

Malaysia GP (Thai Time)

http://www.formula1.com/races/in_detail/malaysia_915/

Fri 28 March 2014
Practice 1 09:00 - 10:30
Practice 2 13:00 - 14:30

Sat 29 March 2014
Practice 3 12:00 - 13:00
Qualifying 15:00

Sun 30 March 2014
Race 15:00

[PeteC]

ALERT

Something has changed. Button is now been moved to 3rd and someone disqualified or penalized. I don't have exact details yet, but the above results and standings will change once Superbru updates things.

EDIT: Here's the deal: http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/formula1/26601418

He's out and everyone moves up one. Superbru probably won't update before tonight our time. When they do, I'll publish amended results.

[Pleng]

Riciarrdo was disqualified for a fuel-flow irregularity

[PeteC]

Here are the new Australia results per the BBC:

1 Nico Rosberg 6 Mercedes 3 1:32.478 1:32:58.710 25
2 Kevin Magnussen 20 McLaren 4 1:32.917 +00:26.777 18
3 Jenson Button 22 McLaren 10 1:33.186 +00:30.027 15
4 Fernando Alonso 14 Ferrari 5 1:32.616 +00:35.284 12
5 Valtteri Bottas 77 Williams 15 1:32.568 +00:47.639 10
6 Nico Hulkenberg 27 Force India 7 1:33.210 +00:50.718 8
7 Kimi Raikkonen 7 Ferrari 11 1:33.691 +00:57.675 6
8 Jean-Eric Vergne 25 Toro Rosso 6 1:33.864 +01:00.441 4
9 Daniil Kvyat 26 Toro Rosso 8 1:32.634 +01:03.585 2
10 Sergio Perez 11 Force India 16 1:33.366 +01:25.916 1
11 Adrian Sutil 99 Sauber 13 1:34.564 +01:25.916 0
12 Esteban Gutierrez 21 Sauber 20 1:34.202 lapped 0
13 Max Chilton 4 Marussia 17 1:35.635 lapped 0
14 Jules Bianchi 17 Marussia 18 1:35.281 lapped 0
15 Romain Grosjean 8 Lotus 22 1:34.202 retired, 43 laps 0
16 Pastor Maldonado 13 Lotus 21 1:37.332 retired, 29 laps 0
17 Marcus Ericsson 9 Caterham 19 1:37.064 retired, 27 laps 0
18 Sebastian Vettel 1 Red Bull 12 1:49.947 retired, 3 laps 0
19 Lewis Hamilton 44 Mercedes 1 1:40.287 retired, 2 laps 0
20 Felipe Massa 19 Williams 9 No time retired, 0 laps 0
21 Kamui Kobayashi 10 Caterham 14 No time retired, 0 laps 0
DSQ Daniel Ricciardo

[PeteC]

Something new this season which may be helpful when making picks and in understanding a driver's performance. I had to use screenshot and then shrink to make it work on the forum so the image is not as clear as it could be. Pete

[PeteC]

After my email they've confirmed back to me that they've change the Belgium GP to the correct date. My reminder about changing the results after Ricciardo's disqualification hasn't been acted upon yet.