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Loving Jakes comments right at the end.

"The bar has been raised. Can anyone come close. We'll find out next year"

Obvious reference to BBC/SKY rather than Red Bull and the chasers.

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I can't hear anything on the F1 Forum.

same here but I went back to normal and it was on when i reloaded it

Loving Jakes comments right at the end.

"The bar has been raised. Can anyone come close. We'll find out next year"

Obvious reference to BBC/SKY rather than Red Bull and the chasers.

It was an obvious reference to both surely?

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Bored, so did the season under the "classic" 10-6-4-3-2-1.

It shows a few things.



1	Vettel		147
2	Button		83
4	Alonso		73
3	Webber		72
5	Hamilton	68
6	Massa		16
8	Scumacher	8
7	Rosberg		8
10	Petrov		6
11	Heidfeld	4
12	Kobayashi	2
9	Sutil		2
13	Di Resta	1

Alonso hops Webber, chiefly because of a good run of 2nd places.

Massa really did have a miserable season.

Schumacher actually beats Rosberg because of an extra 5th place.

Those podiums REALLY flatter Renault.

Toro Rosso and Williams lose all their points. As does Bruno Senna and Sergio Perez, although worth noting he would have scored in Australia.

(the positions are the positions in the "real" championship)

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Seemed like a bit of a dig by DC at Brundle there and looking at him behind DC doesn't seem too impressed.

:lol: Eddie is brilliant dives into the middle of a Ferrari press conference to get Domenicali, then Whitmarsh pops in for a comment.

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Do you want to know who won then .. read on

And the final result is in, it’s all over and about bloody time too.

Dear Bernie can we not have a 10 month season next year please, it’s too long. This year it was four races too long, in the good old days the FIA would have banned Vettel for a few races to give everyone else a chance. Bernie must be losing his touch !

Right straight off the bat then and I think Vettel has done a great job this year, he’s been consistent, hasn’t had to rely on the Lady Luck and has done exactly what he’s paid to do. He even gave Webber a win at the end of the year, what a jolly nice chap.

And to be honest with you all I think he is a jolly nice chap. He’s not a smug git like Schumacher was for all those years. He not a grumpy bugger like Alonso is and hes happy to give an interview on the starting grid unlike Hamilton. He can turn it on when he needs a pole, turn in fastest laps when he has too, and he can have a gear box problem when his team mate needs a moral boasting win.

What more do you require of a driver ?

So what if he hasn’t had to drive form the back of the grid to win or over take a load of people, this year do you really think he couldn’t have done that if he needed to. But the reality is he’s not let himself get into the position where he needs to do all that. Front row all year, beating Mansells record of 14 poles in a season here in Brazil, that’s 79% of the races he’s led into the first corner and from there it’s difficult not to win. As other drivers had to avoid each other and make up for a bad qualifying run, he calmly got on with it.

So you know I think he’s done alright this year, complaining he can’t over take is just sour grapes really.

Right then, Vettel on pole, gets away cleanly again, except this time rather than sailing off into the distance ... oh he did. Errr with Webber behind for a change. Then unexpectedly he started getting messages about the short shifting in 2nd gear to make it cool down a bit, then short shift in 2nd and 3rd. Then suddenly he was being told to be extra specially careful with the gearbox because it might explode at any second. As this was happening he slowed down a tinnys wennsy little bit, just enough for Webber to close up. Then he told the pits that “Got un himmel I vill haf to slow down aun let my team mate pass to save zee gear un box, himmel”

“oh” we all thought, maybe Alonso or Button can catch him and pass him and we he won’t make it to the podium yet again in two traces.

But then an odd thing happened and he started to follow Webber and not drop back at all like he had a gearbox on the edge of survival. Hamilton showed him how it was supposed to be down as he exited turn three and found he had a box of neutrals and not 4th gear as he expected.

No Vettel managed to be 2 seconds a lap faster than anyone else and apart from Webber and proceeded to pretty much cruise to an easy second place, ‘gifting’ the win to Webber who has singularly failed to come out of Vettels shadow all year ... what a surprise.

As for the rest who cares? They didn’t get close and didn’t look like beating the Redbulls all weekend.

So Webber gets his one and only win of the year, well done him. He also got the fastest lap on the very last lap, I think he’s trying to make a point there.

Vettel second for a change, he didn’t look too fussed

Button makes a bit of a meal of it but did enough to ensure 3rd with a fine drive past the ailing Alonso

Alonso is 4th and will be more than happy to see the back of this year Ferrari

Massa is as dull as ever in 5th after much weaving around in front of Hamilton.

Sutil might have done enough in 6th to buy the seat a Williams or even keep the seat at Force India.

Rosberg should have got a bit more out of the car than 7th but its still, as ever, better than Schumacher.

Di Resta rounds out a good rookie year in 8th, hopefully he’s nailed onto a Force India drive now.

Kobayashi was 9th apparently.

And Petrov rounds out the top ten, just to remind everyone that yes Renault are still in fact taking part.

Finally Ricciardo is the last man walking, will we see him in a Torro Rosso next year. More than likely though I don’t know why, Luizzi beat him most of the time.

So then, who has won our little championship ?

Captain LeChuck,21

Bradlay Law,21

Matthew Leach,21

James Roberts,20

Petey Stevens,19

Andy Daniell,19

Neil Carter,17

Alastair 'Agent L' G,17

Steve Allen,16

Oliver,16

Blu3Flame,15

kiroquai,15

Charles,15

Duane Weatherall,14

Charlie Bowdidge,14

Tomox,14

MrPogo,14

Matt O'Brien,13

Joffy Chinnock,13

Danster,11

Stephen Rose,11

Chris Bush,11

Rattlehead,7

1... 370... 0..... James Roberts

2... 360... -10... Alastair Agent L

3... 338... -32... Oliver

4... 333... -37... Neil Carter

5... 329... -41... Steve Allen

6... 328... -42... Andy Daniell

7... 324... -46... Bradlay Law

8... 319... -51... Charlie Bowdidge

8... 319... -51... kiroquai

10.. 317... -53... Charles

11.. 305... -65... Joffy Chinnock

11.. 305... -65... Matt O'Brian

11.. 305... -65... Blu3Flame

14.. 303... -67... Chris Bush

15.. 297... -73... Petey Stevens

16.. 295... -75... Duane Weatherall

17.. 291... -79... Captain LeChuck

18.. 275... -95... Danster

19.. 272... -98... MrPogo

20.. 260... -110.. Stephen

21.. 251... -119.. Rattlehead Rose

22.. 249... -121.. Matthew Leach

23.. 241... -129.. Tomox

Here are the results from the year

http://www.deltoid.co.uk/f1/results.pdf

The spoils g finally to Mr Roberts who has fought a season long battle with Agent L for the honor of the Rllmuk "I know more about F1 that yous" Predict-a-thon king of kings. He wins a weeks holiday at the little known but beautiful Valencia fish market packing boxes and selling fish, Agent L wins two weeks for Second place.

Tomax I'm afraid didn't really tried very hard and was pretty much last all year long. But someone has to be there at the bottom to make the rest of us look good.

I hope you’ve all had a good time and that this has in some way brightened the F1 year up for you. the spelling mistakes and bad grammar are all part of the fun and i hope didn't take too much away from the enjoyment.

Well done everyone and thank you for taking part. More of the same next year I expect.

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and even then spent his career racing sports cars rather than taking the normal open wheeled route as far as I know.

Is there anywhere to download the forum from? I missed everything from the podium onwards as I had to dash off to work.

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That was the best forum yet - way better than the race itself! First we have Eddie (who else) barging into a Pirelli meeting (after sweating all over the prepared food for evening dinner) whilst DC goes for a coffee, takes a pic with the marshals then comes back and talks to the Pirelli boss about sexy rubber.

But that's just the warmup. Wanting to chat to Luca, who is well into a press conference, Eddie just squirms his way in and asks his solitary, irrelevant question - whilst the journos, mics sticking out, are wondering who let this guy out of the asylum. And then! Martin Whitmarsh saves the day, gatecrashing the conference himself to save Eddie from embarrassment.... and gives him a disapproving shake of the head like a dad would to his kid. Pure magic.

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Just caught up with the race, whats with the Kasabian shit at the end? Leaves a bitter taste in the mouth for those who aren't fans of dreary, mediocre pop.

The Forum did make up for it though, theres something great about interrupting serious, prearranged press conferences.

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