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After the calm season opener, the F1 fraternity had room to make up to meet the F1 Rogues definition of a good race result. From the result it’s clear that the new guys have found the pit lane speed limiter. Fines were right down on the haul from Australia but the stewards, needing some top quality champagne for the gala dinner, slapped a $10,000 fine on Vergne (and Toro Rosso) for their mid race unsafe pit release. This brought up the total that Charlie can spend on the end of season booze up to nearly $20,000 from two races.

Last place man in qualifying was van der Gaarde. After the Dutchman spent more time trimming the grass in Australia than racing on the grey stuff, F1 Rogues was pleased to hand him two points for the last qualifier. Räikkönen blocked Rosberg during qualifying and was the first of the year to be docked grid places putting him back to 10th on the grid.

The race promised a wet and dry mix but in the end started wet and dried out pretty quickly. Alonso started out well, electing not to pit at the end of lap one to repair a very broken front wing. Alonso had clipped Vettel in the first few corners causing his front wing to hang half off. The choice not to pit was a bad one and down the main straight, Alonso and Webber ran close. The changed air flow caused the wing to finally fail, jamming itself under Alonso’s car sending him sliding into the gravel. Race over.

The race settled into a pace but the action for Vergne and Hamilton all happened in the pits after Hamilton forgot which team he drives for and went to stop at the McLaren pit. Luckily the mistake was quickly realized and he went onto his actual stopping point. Vergne fell foul of a quick exit from the pits as his team released him too early and he collided with a Caterham pitting one pit further on. Repair work needed to both cars cost Vergne both time and $10,000.

The rest of the race was quiet with the drivers mostly turning to whining about their team mates over the radio (Rosberg and Vettel) and lots of fist shaking and middle finger pointing (Webber and Grosjean).

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Who was hot and who was not?

How the points were divided

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The season opener harked back to older times with two qualifying sessions split over two days. Rain put pay to the session on Saturday after just one session. The rain held off to allow the cars to qualify on Saturday morning. With the new season it was clear that the feet were heavy on the throttle with a record (for us) number of drivers being caught for speeding. Five drivers were caught going faster than they should have, although in each an every case it was not really that much over the limit. But Charlie will have his way and $7,000 was collected for the FIA stewards end of season dinner (that an paying Damon Hill not to volunteer to be a race steward).

The race was really quite uneventful which makes writing it up pretty difficult. Yes we saw good drives from the likes of Alonso and Sutil but in the end nothing much happened. The first lap saw no contact in turns 1 & 3 which has to be a first. The rookies did not even manage to have a massive off although Van Der Gaarde was seen looming very close to the front of a hard charging Alonso.

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Who was hot and who was not?

How the points were divided

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So what happens when qualifying is abandoned due to bad weather? The F1Rogues Spy goes to investigate. 

At last the season begins and it starts in the right rogue way with a downpour. However, the days of Gilles and Ayrton are long gone, no longer are the drivers willing to get wet. In fact, they are getting more like their American cousins. Cry’s of “Get out the giant hairdryer” were heard over the radios between certain drivers and the pit wall. Certainly Charlie W and his team were listening. It is clear that the delay in calling off the remaining qualifying was due to the fact the the FIA delegation had as many problems as I did Googling for the actual rules on qualifying, only to find the watered down version normally reserved for the final three teams – they don’t really need to know the rules, they will probably never go enough laps to break them. But after some more Googling I came across the full and complete version (PDF).

So what happens when all the teams cry fowl and decide to go home?

So far the FIA has decided to run the remaining qualifying tomorrow before the race but what if that does not work? The regulations are particularly vague when it comes to this. So, we at F1Rogues, ever willing to help have the following suggestions:

The important bit – the fans

Anyone who had a ticket to the qualifying session, gets to come to race day. it’s only fair after all. They went to a country where, the day before it was 32 degrees and come Saturday they got socked and frozen.

Next most important – Ferrari

They get the front row, after all, they were technically in this competition first despite what Mercedes says.

The remaining places

The FIA flies in Chris Tarrant from the UK, to play a special version of “Who wants to be a Millionaire?” but only this is called “Who wants to punt off Massa First?” Drivers will then compete to score as many points as possible  The highest ranked gets 3rd on the grid. Questions will be asked on the history of Tag Heuer, what Norbert Haug has for lunch and Eddie Irvine’s girlfriends.

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First off I got a message from my boy the other day that he’s had a word with some old guy who’s a big cheese in F1 called St Bernard, or something like that. Anyway, the upshot is that I’m getting a pass to go to the races.  However, I’ve already told Lewis I don’t want to go to Korea…

The good thing about him being so far away, is that I get to play on his decks and make some wicked tunes.  You can see me below listening to my Bulldog Beatz.

Anyway, on Friday Lewis managed to crash. On Saturday Lewis managed to crash (a bit) and then they all got sulky as it was raining a bit and went inside – poor little things. I’ve no idea why they are all such babies, I mean, I go out in the rain to do my ‘business’ why can’t all those drivers?  Although, now I’m not sure I want to go out in the car with him if he’s going to go off everytime he drives.  I hope he’s got a nice comfy and well padded seat for me in his new A-Class.

Right, I need to go outside and pee on his mum’s flowers, so I’ll catch up with you laterz. Woof.

Sunday

So, I’ve just seen my human has finished fifth in Australia, not bad, but he’ll have to improve if he’s to get a B-Class.  As for any of the other letters of the alphabet, I think they’re a way off…  If you’re wondering why I haven’t posted about his result yet, do you really think I can be bothered to get up at that time of the morning?

Anyway, a few of you have asked who may favourite musical artists are, no really.  Well, if I fancy some hip-hop I put on  Snoop Dog, but if I prefr something classical then you can’t beat Bach, although Poochini is quite good too.  If I’m in the mood for classic rock, then I really like Hotel California by The Beagles, anything by the Dandy Warhowls and David Bow-wow-ie.

I’m off for a lie-down now – do you know how difficult it is to type with paws?  Anyway, I’ll be back soon to update you on how my human is doing in Malaysia.

Love & Wags,

Roscoe  xxx

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As usual the week has started off with barbeques on the beach, photo-shoots of drivers with kangaroos, koalas and old dogs (the last just bgeing Marussia’s event with one of the Russian manufacturer’s cars).

There were some worried faces at McLaren when Jenson Button said he was going for a lap on his bike and was gone for two days. Turns out he meant a lap of Australia, not the Albert Park circuit.

Practice

Finally the cars emerge and unusually there’s quite a bit of activity in P1 as teams try to find out if their testing data correlates to the track.

Immediately Max Chilton is able to provide some useful data at the end of his first lying lap when he spins at the last corner, slides across the wet grass and hits the tyre wall backwards – hard! Marussia later confirm the rear crash structure performed exactly as expected.

Others to have spins, etc are Maldonado, Button, Webber and most spectacularly Hulkenberg who sends a spray of gravel into the trackside hospitality area! Cans of Fosters, XXXX and VB go everywhere, followed by a load of Aussie blokes on their knees licking the grass!

At the end of the day Vettel is quickest from Rosberg, Hamilton, an impressive Ricciardo and Alonso.

Qualifying

There’s a slightly damp track as the cars venture out for the first qualifying session of 2013. Then the rain begins in earnest. What will happen…
Well, despite it being a new season with new cars, the only change at the back is in wondering who will be the two fall-out boys to join the perennial under-achievers in Caterham and Marussia. Van de Garde gets to start his first GP from last, with Chilton, Bianchi and then Pic moving towards the front. Joining them is a whining Pastor Maldonado, that a week after saying his car was great at the test, then says it’s un-driveable.  His rookie team mate that made it through to Q2 doesn’t seem to agree.  
Also joining him is returnee Adrian Sutil – caught out and sliding off at the first chicane on his last run. Surprisingly no-one was brave enough to ask him how he felt once he’d got out of the car.

The heavens then opened and there was a delay as the track conditions were deemd to be too dangerous to let Grosjean out on the track with other drivers.  Much pontificating later, the session was postponed until Sunday morning.

Finally on Sunday morning we got to see the cars in Qualy 2. It was as usual a bit more fun. Massa dropped out and then claimed to be saving tyres, although sliding off at the first corner and parking up seemed like a bit of an extreme way of doing this.

Also joining the Brazilian on the sidelines is Paul diResta, Nico Hulkenberg in the Sauber, Esteban Guittieririeireieiesez Jean Eric-Vergen and Ricciardo, unable to repeat his Friday showing, but good nonetheless.

So, onto the scrap for pole. Rain is threatening to fall again, so everyone piles out together, including Romain Grosjean who then drives straight into the side of Bottas’s Williams, setting a new record of crashing with 5m of starting to move. Both are out. Bottas ends up 9th, but Grosjean is then sent to the back of the grid for just being Grosjean.

Eighth is Rosberg, followed by local boy Mark ‘can everyone stop asking about when I’m going to retire’ Webber, Raikkonen, and Jenson Button in fifth, failing to stamp his authority over new boy Perez, who nets fourth.  Given how bad the McLarens started the weekend, there is a lot of relief in the tectonic team.

So to the top three – the three best drivers in F1 by a long way. Hamilton is the first to set a proper time and delivers the fastest lap of the weekend with a 1:23.784, over a second quicker than his 2012 pole time. Alonso is next up, purple in sector 1, purple in sector 2 and he crosses the line with a 1:23.784!

Vettel, just got over the line in time to set the last timed lap. He’s neck-and-neck with the others, but has a slight wobble as he comes onto the startline straight and stops the clock with a… 1:23.784!!! Hamilton grabs pole as he set the time first.

As the Briton gets out he leaps into the arms of the onlooking McLaren mechanics before they point out that he now drives for Mercedes…

Race

At last, following the frantic qualifying and quick turnaround of the cars, we finally get to the first race of the year.

Hamilton gets a great start and Alonso is side-by-side with Vettel as they go into the first turn – BANG – they’re out!  Neither gives way, they touch wheels and immediately in a shower of carbon fibre and disappointment they spin into the gravel trap.

Further back, Massa makes a great start around the outside, but as he reaches the first turn he’s left nowhere to go, runs wide and drives straight into the side of his team-mate’s stranded car!

The Safety Car is out after just 400m of racing and after 6 laps the cars are released again.  Button, who pitted with a puncture picked up in the mess at the start is now on the harder option tyre and after just 10 laps, those ahead on the super-soft are having to pit.  Immediately he’s picking up places and once it all sorts itself out after 18 laps, he’s second behind his old team-mate.

However, not all the pit-stops went smoothly.  Hulkenburg pulled up in the Force India pit and Van-de-Garde was delayed when the credit card machine that was thrust in his hand wouldn’t accept his PIN so he couldn’t buy his next set of tyres.  Eventually his dad came through from the back of the garage and paid the bill.

Rain starts to fall again after 34 laps and Button times it perfectly to come out on the inters as the rain gets heavier.  Whilst everyone else slithers around, the Briton puts in a monster lap and leads by 7 seconds from Ricciardo, Grosjean(!), Rosberg and Hamilton (who is now on the radio asking how the ‘frick’ did Britney get ahead of him).  When the team point out that tweeting during his pitstop is what slowed him down, he just says he can’t hear the team as he ‘iz liztenin’ to sum gansta-rap, init’.

Ricciardo eventually has to yield to the faster cars and ends up finishing in a creditable 8^th place. Ninth is Paul diResta who had as boring as race as his voice in and rounding out the top ten is Sauber new boy Hulkenberg, despite his earlier mistake.

At the front it’s getting close as Webber, who’s been trundling along in the middle of the top ten all race suddenly gets going. He’s straight past Raikonnen (finishes 7^th), then dispatches Perez who has had a solid race for  McLaren.

Next up is Rosberg who is fighting now with Grosjean.  All three are virtually side-by-side at the end of the start-line straight and somehow don’t touch. However, Rosberg just runs a bit wide forcing Grosjean to actually achieve something he’s never done before – miss someone – which allows the Aussie through into third.

He chases down the two Brits with three laps to go, but can’t find a way past Hamilton who is just driving like a demon after his earlier ‘problems’. A tweet from his just say ‘’avin it!’  Button is doing all he can to grab an unlikely win, but an engineer from Mercedes engine builder is seen to tap a few keys on a laptop and suddenly Button slows down. Hamilton is past and then ‘tap, tap, tap’ and Button speeds up again.  Mercedes later deny any skullduggery, and say the engineer was letting his wife know what he’d like for dinner…

So that’s it, at the end Hamilton, like Mansell when he went to Ferrari, wins his first GP for his new team, Button picks up and unlikey second and Webber fails to win his home GP again.  On Hamilton’s slow down lap, the Mercedes bosses – Ross Brawn, Nick Fry, Totto Wolf, Niki Lauda and Pope Francis all try and congratulate him at the same time.  No-one can understand and word, so Hamilton just tweets ‘Wikid’.

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It’s arrived. Finally. In a few days those lovely engines will fire up again in anger at the season gets under way. And, we would not be F1Rogues if we had not taken a good hard and insightful look at the F1 Testing over the past months.

The personal bit

As a founder of F1 Rogues, I try hard to be the cutting edge kind of guy that knows everything about F1. Who’s the best, who’s the worst (oh I do know this bit) but in all honesty my life is somewhat of a mess. Not because my leg fell off in a tragic mix up between myself and the Sunday roast, but more because I am so busy. Busy with what? Well basically nothing remotely interesting. Suffice to say that the only thing I know about the “closed season” is that fact that it is has almost ended. God I am a sad sack indeed.

My new 2013 season looks bleak. With the BBC serving it’s usual part of the season and RTL7 (I live in Holland) having lost their rights to pay per view (to be honest, this must have improved the F1 coverage as RTL7 was dire) I am left with watching the season opener on RTL; the German cousin of the Dutch channel. Now I married a German girl so I have no cause for complaint, but really, I am at rock bottom. I am not sure I can get lower.

Enough about me.

F1Rogues and 2013

So where does that leave the site. Well, we love F1 and we love our site. If only we got as much time as the whipper snappers of the likes of Jack Leslie – who is rather good at the F1 blogging – and had time to post every second day with a great and whitty insight into what is happening in F1. Fact is we don’t. Myself and Ironic (also know as Ian) are somewhat overloaded with life. So we need to trim it down a little (I am also on a diet by the way). Not on the blogging, but we won’t – I am sorry to say – run the fantasy this year.

So what are we doing instead?

Well good that you ask ! I am please to tell you we’ll rework it a little. We are going to try a different set of rules for 2013 and award points differently. This we are going to refine this as the season progresses so we will have a season winner for 2013, just perhaps a little different. At least to begin with, I am sorry to say, I’ll be doing this as blog posts and will keep the score the old fashioned way (with one of those giant white scoreboards that can be seen across a cricket pitch). The team of aging llamas will help me make the decisions and we’ll publish the results some time before the wednesday following the race as part of our post race follow up.

We are doing this because the current way of doing the results, whilst produces a good result, is a massive task. I still have nightmares following Canada 2011. So we want to simpify and only inlcude the race and certain incidents are going to give you points (not everything slightly wrong). Once we have it down to a fine art we’ll make sure that we do it the right way and feed it into our all time database. This move, even as I write it, seems a little rash but it’s necessary to make sure we keep enjoying what we do and not get bogged down in the dull details.

We really hope that you will enjoy our new format and that you will keep enjoying the irrelevant nonsense that we produce. We have no doubt that the new season will be a good one. With Schumacher gone, there is probably only one true rogue left. But is it really Maldonado?

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But what have we learned during 12 days of testing about who is, and maybe more importantly, who isn’t looking good for 2013?  We asked our Technical Correspondent Barry Danderson to run his watchful eye over the times and new cars.  This is his verdict.

Red Bull Racing

Let’s start with the current world champions.  It’s always worth having a look through the mass of mechanics that swarm over their car whenever it pits, to try and pick up some vital technical detail.  Well, it took a while to spot it, but I can tell you it’s now a funny purpley, mauve colour – kind of like a bruise, but without the little blood splotches you sometimes get.  I can’t help thinking when I look at it though, that Seb is going to find it much harder to get his helmets to compliment the colour scheme, but since he has more designs than my ex-wife has shoes, he should find one that goes well.

McLaren

The biggest change at McLaren is that they’ve gone for a pull-rod front suspension set-up, or do I mean push-rod?  Oh, I dunno, but whatever they did last year, they’re not now.  Apparently it was something to do with making enough room for a sombrero helmet to fit in the car.

Ferrari

2013 sees the last year that Ferrari are contractually obliged to keep saying sorry to Felipe Massa for being beaten to the 2008 world championship on the last bend, at the last GP in Brazil.  It is always difficult assessing a Ferrari pre-season as they don’t do a car launch (you think they do, but it’s just the same film played year-after-year), and since Alonso could drive a 20-yeal old Fiat taxi quicker than most people, we have no idea what it’s really like – except it’s red.

Mercedes

Still only outshone in awful colour schemes by the Swiss-based Sauber team, the team headed by Totto Wolf, Niki Lauda, Nick Fry, Ross Brawn, Aldo Costa, Barrack Obama, Pope Benedict XI (you thought he’d retired, eh?), Lord Lucan and the Dalai Lama are quietly confident that this years’ car is only a bit of a dog compared to 2012.  Sneakily, both drivers have yellow helmets, so that should cause the TV commentators some fun this year.

The biggest drama in testing was when Lewis’s new dog Roscoe had a go at new team boss (well, one of the new team bosses), Niki Lauda.  The pair of them were rolling around on the floor, but and when Niki got up, Lewis thought his bulldog had bitten Niki’s ear off…

Torro Rosso

They have nice pasta in their motorhome.

Sauber

Oh dear, this car seems to be testing still in grey primer.  Still, it didn’t stop them dropping the great Kamui Kobyashi for a man with a big wallet in his trousers.  Is there a duller team on the grid?  The car looks, oh I can’t be bothered…

Lotus

The Enstone-based have annoyingly tagging all their tweets with #ImSexyAndIKnowIt in relation to their new car.  I don’t know what you think, but I can’t think of any woman with two exhausts that I thought was sexy!  Still, it’s very shiny and Grosjean managed to go off all on his own in testing, but this time without hitting anyone – impressive.

Caterham

Painted in a new shade of disappointment, the 2013 Caterham looks to prove that the team are following the road car manufacturer’s philosophy of using the same design for 50 years.  This car also comes with no roof, doors, air conditioning or long wave radio to listen to Radio 4’s Test Match Special (that’s cricket for our non-British readers).

Marussia

Team Cashpoint have a new car designed in a wind tunnel, not on a Sinclair Spectrum now, although when I say wind tunnel, I just mean that draughty bit between the two buildings at the Marussia factory.  It does feature KERS for the first time, so should lead to an all new set of reasons as to why they retire or come last this year.  Halfway through the last test it announced that it had dropped Luiz Riaxa after his credit card was declined, but Nicolas Todt was quickly in there with his Black Amex and had the rejected by Force India, Jules Bianchi in the seat quicker than a Marussia can lap Barcelona.

Williams

So, apart from someone with the name ASS in their name driving now, not a lot has changed for the Grove outfit. Fore sure, another big cheque has wound it’s way from Venezuela to Oxfordshire, and there are elements of old Ferraris in the design, but they look pretty much as before.  The biggest news is that Susie Wollf is angling to be their reserve driver.  Obviously, driving round and coming stone last in virtually every DTM race is what qualifies you for a Super Licence these days – unless your husband happens to be a major shareholder in said F1 team.  Or is that just a coincidence???

Force India

The most radical thing about the new Force India is that they’ve finally decided to have a second driver, Adrian Sutil.  You remember him, he’s the one that after his little ‘incident’ in a Shanghai bar was dropped by the team, although apparently it had nothing to do with the decision… Apart from that, it’s got the same rubbish colour scheme as always and will mostly be found about two-thirds of the way down the grid, and parked up at the side of the track by lap 40.

Summary

I have also undertaken extensive data analysis of the times from all three tests and undertaken fuel correction calculations, followed by vectored assimilations using binominal coefficients to get a base set of results.  Then using meteorological conditional probability to allow for barometric bias and linear factorisation, was able to undertake a series of transversal parametric derivative formulas to establish a non-collinear graph of performance.

Once this initial work was done, a set of spread intersectional factorial differentiations led to the final associative product and results.  It was only after all this was finalised that I am able to say with a definitive probability of correlated certainty that I have no idea who’s got the quickest car. Roll on Oz!

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Because they’ve only been running one car at the pre-season tests, no-one it seems, sussed out that the reason most teams had different drivers in the car, was because they have two race drivers. It was just thought that you sold a few rides to raise some money to settle the bar bill at the end of the week.

It was only back in the UK when they had a phone call from the Towcester Gazette asking about the identity of the second driver, that the penny (or rupee), finally dropped.

Mr Hedup Arss, the teams Press and PR Manager said, ‘We were just loading the trucks, when first of all someone pointed out we couldn’t drive to Australia (typo on the team plan said Austria), so we had to load the flight crates. Then, as we went down the checklist, we all noticed there seemed to be two of everything – cars, garage sets, etc. In fact, there was at least two of everything except drivers!’

Reports suggest that the Silverstone-based team quickly tried to contact the Team Principal, although this wasn’t easy as he was on his luxury mega-yacht speeding away from India at a fast rate of knots, being followed by what can only be described as an armada of creditors.

Eventually a statement was released which stated the following:

‘Jordan, Midland, Spyker, Sahara Farce India would like to make it clear that the team has been undertaking extensive research to establish who would be the best person to drive our second car in the forthcoming season. Once it had been established that there was no way we could make the car wide enough for Team Principal, we turned our attention to the driver market.

In tradition with all driver announcements, we will announce the identity of this well-funded driver, as and when Jon Noble*, Autosport’s F1 Correspondent is once again taking a flight – either from the Barcelona test, or whilst he’s en route to Australia. Until then, just bugger off and leave us alone. We do know what we’re doing. Really.’

*In the past 6 months, virtually every significant driver announcement has taken place whilst the aforementioned Mr Noble has been taking a flight. Journalists now ask his flight schedule to ascertain when an announcement may occur.

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The return of the US GP at the awesome Austin track, saw Vergne take his second win of the season. The race was quiet overall with not many incidents to speak off. Vergne’s action was mostly reserved for practice where a suspension failure and a collision with Kovalainen gave the Frenchman a healthy points tally before the lights went out on the start of the race. Eventual retirement to, again, suspension failure meant that his place at the top was secure.

Holding up the remainder of the podium was Grosjean and Massa. Both keeping tabs on top 10 positions with Grosjean possibly able to overtake Vettel and Schumacher to net second in the championship come the mayhem of Brazil

In the next race, it’ll all be over. Maldonado is likely to hold on to first position so the fight is more about 2nd and 3rd places. Can Schumacher hold off Vettel and maintain a gap to secure second place? He has a good lead but it will soon be demolished if Vettel does something silly to win the world championship.

In our fantasy league, team KC4 looks to have netted it with a sizable lead with what looks to be a face off between Senna and Grosjean which will decide how far the lead extends or recedes. The team principles are closed too. “keithchanning” and “alistairmcl666” are separated by a mere 25 points which is nothing when you have 5 teams with which to grab points. The only thing I am glad about is that I am 3rd but have no hope of catching. It would not do to win your own championship…

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The final stretch of races is upon us both Korean and Indian proved to be somewhat of a let down from a rogue point of view. Both races had a very low incident per lap ratio compared to races earlier in the season. For Korean, Kobayashi took his first rogue race win ever with a first lap incident that had him take out both Rosberg and Button in the first few corners. The collision came as Kobayashi was somewhat forced into a Button/Rosberg sandwich. The impact caused critical damage to both Button and Rosberg that put them out of the race immediately. Kobayashi continue however was later given a penalty for his actions. The Korean runner up was Pic who was second due to the virtue of an engine change.

In India, the abcense of nonsense continued with a relative dull race (with a good FIA Championship result). Hamilton took the win making this his 2nd win in 2012. Hamilton, languishing in 8th position in our championship, had a series of small incidents but finished off the race with radio problems, bad mouthing schumacher and a rather snappy steering wheel change.

With the final few races to go, Schumacher needs a massive 34 points to overhaul Maldonado which, at current rate of points, won’t be possible. This would net Maldonado’s first Rogue Championship after coming second to Hamilton in 2011. Prospective 3rd place for 2012 is a toss up between Vettel and Grosjean with and outside bet on Senna. It looks to be a close one for the final podium position…

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