The F1 season starts now! The Australian GP will be on Saturday night at 10:00 pm CT

I am posting this thread away from the main F1 thread for a few reasons:

1. Last year, several people complained as the F1 season started that they didn't know that an F1 thread was already active because of the detested bottom sticky. So I am telling you now to scroll down to the bottom sticky to find the 2026 F1 thread, which is already on Page 34.

2. A heads-up that the first race is on Saturday night in the US, not on Sunday.

3. A reminder for those in last year's TD F1 Championship that I sent an e-mail telling you that you are entered automatically in the 2026 TD F1 championship. FP1 is on Thursday night at 7:30 pm. The prediction lists will be locked out one hour before FP1 starts, so get your predictions in now!

4. If you are following F1 this year but did not play the game last year, you can still enter this year's TD F1 Championship. It's completely free to play, and there will be prizes for at least the top 3 finishers in the championship. The game is that you will predict the race finishing order for every race in the championship. The accuracy of your list will be scored, and the top 10 scores for each race will receive F1 points. Your F1 points will be added up for the championship. Please see this post for instructions on how to join the championship:

tigerdroppings.com/rant/display.aspx?sp=122826857&s=2&p=122372734#122826857

To help you understand the game, you can look at last year's championship data. You can look at every race result and everyone's scorecard for every race. Scoring is completely transparent: dg42.net/TDF1/index.php?year=2025