Fgp 2015

"Mercedes wins, again"
Mercedes team scored another dominant win during Chinese GP, however not without a last minute drama. The team was on course for a podium lockout when leading Mercedes GT S steered into the pit lane on the last lap with the finish lane in sight. The two Mercedes’ cars remaining on track finished in 1st and 2nd position.
After the race rumours appeared that the leading car might have actually been ordered to drive off the track to secure the double win for the new state of the art Mercedeses W06, the team boss not being keen on seeing less advanced GT S crossing the finish lane first.

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Originally Posted by rjbetty

FORD FOCUS F1 TEAM STATEMENT

Round 3: Chinese GP

We bring an announcement regarding the recent Chinese GP. With Mercedes winning, Kimi coming 4th and Williams as 3rd best engine, these factors have conspired to place us... IN THIRD FOR OUR FIRST PODIUM EVER!! YAY!!!

However, there was controversy during the podium ceremony as it seemed we had to share the podium with 7 other people, including 6 on our step and no-one on the 2nd place step. We found it very difficult to bunch up with the others and try not to fall off the step during the entire ceremony. The officials had a problem trying to give 3rd place trophies to all of us as there was only one available, causing the 6 of us to fight over who got to take it. We have agreed that the trophy is to be cut up into 6 equal pieces, though we are delighted we get to take a piece of podium trophy back to proudly put on display at our team base.

Strangely, we have dropped a place in the overall standings to 13th but seem fairly well in the mix. We look slightly stronger than last year due to our copout policy of now making more 'mainstream' and conventional choices for our line-up this year i.e. no more pie-in-the-sky gambling on McLaren (who will probably make a big leap by Spain).

It doesn't look like we will beat Aki or Jens' teams though since those smartypants chose better than us again. :(

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Being several of us had the same teams with the exception of the bonus GP, I had to look and see if anyone picked this race. Nobody did. Which is a shame, because all of us are going to score really good at Bahrain. :)

Bahrain Grand Prix Results:

https://sites.google.com/site/2009fgp/results/china

1 HennersF1 Racing 62
1 Twix's Aki's Racing Team 62
3 Chatter Ham 59
3 Team 137 59
3 Team Loco Americano F1 59
3 Lion in the West 59
3 FORD FOCUS F1 TEAM 59
3 ‘Save Internet Explorer’ Williams-Mercedes 59

Overall Standings:
https://sites.google.com/site/2009fg.../-00-standings

1 Bobby's Bits 245
1 Top Step Racing 245
3 Il ritorno di Sebastiano 235
4 HennersF1 Racing 220
4 Twix's Aki's Racing Team 220
6 POSF1 Sponsored by Lionel 205
6 Team Truspeed 205
8 Victoria Bitter's Mt Gambier Boganwagon F1 Team 199
9 ‘Save Internet Explorer’ Williams-Mercedes 196
9 Chatter Ham 196
9 FORD FOCUS F1 TEAM 196
9 Lion in the West 196
9 Team 137 196
9 Team Loco Americano F1 196

Twix's Aki Racing Team is delighted to have won its second race in a row and moves into 4th in the Championship.

The team is enjoying a stunning start to the season. With the same line up as Henners F1, we await the bonus rounds with interest. This being the only thing that can split these two.

For the first time since our start we picked up the last Point. It wont be our last this season!!

“Team not happy with Maldonado’s pointless finish”
After running in top 10 during the race Pastor Maldonado again failed to score any point, for the 4th time during this season (from 4 starts, including 3 consecutive retirements in previous rounds). However his team is not pleased with the result.
“His objective was clear this season” team boss explains. “Keep on the back of the grid and cause some spectacular pile-ups to spice up the boring races. And he hasn’t delivered. He hasn’t crashed into any notable driver, hasn’t disrupted fight for the win. Even more, he allowed former champion Jenson Button to crash him out of the previous race. And today he simply finished outside the points. He showed absolutely nothing, driving a clean race. Even worse, he was heading for a strong top 10 finish – luckily some mechanical fault hampered his progress. We expect to have a serious talk with him before the next race.”
However he insists Maldonado has full team’s support. “We all know it’s difficult to join the new team and start crashing right off the bat” he says. “But overshooting pit entry during last race in China was promising. We hope he will unlock his potential during next race in Barcelona. He already won there, so he won’t feel pressure to win there again.”

‘pointless’ has a double meaning ;)

Sooooooooooo happy I stuck with Ferrari!

Sooooooooooo angry I'm stuck with Nico! (angry at moderators/admins responsible)
But I'm happy with Maldonado as my lead :)