Seriously now, appart from 1st position, the race was worthy to watch because the fight for 2-3-4 positions, or at least, what is considered "fight" in F1 terms However, I missed some spice in the show, like some Verstappen stunt , a Williams messed pitstop or somebody stopping without fuel .
Reviewing this week's guesses (something I find interesting to track what people thinks about drivers), we saw again MS in command with 31 out of 35 guessers (89%), then Rubinho 22 (63%). It seems we recognize KR as a proper WDC contender , because he is 3rd with 19 edging slightly Coulthard (15). Frank's boys and gals (no, I'm joking , I meant Frank's boys ) were not worthy of a lot of confidence, although they are clearly seen as belonging to the top club : Monty 10 () and a slighty recovered (in people's favour) Ralf with 5 ().
Those 6 drivers from the 3 top teams (they are there forever, are not they ;) ) are ligth years ahead the rest . Only "residual" singular votes go to Alonso, Jacques and Button (well, from JensonFan ;) ), and Alonso's was from MAX Notwhitstanding the rare events of the three first GPs, nobody seems to think the power has changed hands in F1. (And I suppose I'm the first in this: my guess was MS-RB-JPM, it is not possible a more coward guess )
As we can see, we have come to the usual great scores for the winners of the round: Jimmino, DeathMasteR, JensonFan (welcome back!), Nasty McBastard, rich42, dynamite7 and TT6 got 5 points out of a maximum of 6
I want to welcome back to scheivlak , and he has a great nick (very nice corner from Zandvoort). Sadly we have to regret our previous leader kismet missing this round. It will be a big handicap to overcome, but… who knows.
Name: Pt ----------------- Jimmino 5 DeathMasteR 5 JensonFan 5 Nasty 5 rich42 5 dynamite7 5 TT6 5 garth_b 4 Sammyed 4 Viss1 4 fisichella_2001 4 Double 4 dbltop 4 Estwald 4 jun 4 Pioneer 4 SeanValen 4 gerry 4 KWSN 4 sek 4 Makarias 4 Schuting 4 scheivlak 4 Schummy 4 BERNIE 4 Ric 3 WillieF1 3 weasle 3 Zawed 3 shays 3 LB 3 d_view7 3 MAX 2 lukywill 2 CaptnMark 2 -----------------
In the "total" classification, we are beginning to get some profile . TT6 is our new leader (and will be crowned as deserves by Ecclestone in the next GP in Montmeló…) with 11 points in 3 rounds, averaging 3.67 per round . A great score, having in consideration all the difficult GPs we have had! Second appears a classic gamer here: DeathMasteR , 10 points, he shows that he knows everything about this game and how to put a guess. And what we can say about the bronze position, fisichella_2001 (9 points)? He is in the same level as DeAtHmAsTeR , even getting two perfect scores last year!
There is a bunch of people with 8 and 7 points prepared to leap at the minimal failure of the top three. The game is yet open, will win it the "Prost guessers" or the "Gilles Villeneuve players" ? If one makes a "strange" guess and lose, he/she can be surpassed by many other people. If one get too conservative, certain people can do a great hit and win a susprising guess, leaping over many others. The only certain thing is … I will not rest up there for long time!;)
Name: M B S T ------------------------ TT6 4 2 5 11 DeathMasteR 3 2 5 10 fisichella_2001 3 2 4 9 LB 3 2 3 8 RicBol 3 2 3 8 garth_b 3 1 4 8 Pioneer 3 1 4 8 Schummy 2 2 4 8 sek 2 2 4 8 rich42 3 0 5 8 dynamite7 2 1 5 8 Jimino 2 1 5 8 NastyMcBastard 2 1 5 8 jun 3 0 4 7 Viss1 3 0 4 7 SchutingStar 2 1 4 7 kismet 4 2 * 6 Shays 2 1 3 6 Estwald 2 0 4 6 Makarias 2 0 4 6 SeanValen 2 0 4 6 gerrynassar 1 1 4 6 Sammyed 1 1 4 6 MAX 1 2 2 5 Zawed 2 0 3 5 BERNIE 1 0 4 5 dbltop 1 0 4 5 KWSNDSM 1 0 4 5 JensonFan * * 5 5 WillieF1 1 * 3 4 Double * * 4 4 scheivlak * * 4 4 AD 3 * * 3 Ghostrider 3 0 * 3 jangkrik 3 * * 3 titrisol 3 * * 3 Bjorn 2 1 * 3 JForce 1 2 * 3 CaptnMark 1 0 2 3 d_view7 * * 3 3 weasle * * 3 3 Apex * 2 * 2 QdfV 2 0 * 2 wioyet 0 2 * 2 lukywill 0 0 2 2 Tumppi@BXL * 1 * 1 axterix 1 0 * 1 PAULF1 1 * * 1 thegreatone 1 * * 1 nichotj 0 1 * 1 joachimvanwing * 0 * 0 OnlyMassa * 0 * 0 philhitchings * 0 * 0 TheRedBaron * 0 * 0 boost 0 * * 0 HiTest 0 * * 0 ------------------------
We will meet in Spain. Montmelo is usually previsible and there are not a lot of probabilities of wet weather there in May, so… someone thinking about a two Ferrari and Kimi guess?;)
Thanks to share this game here, and good luck in these two weeks!