TouchedTheAxeIn82

Congrats to the first Cal grad to win the Heisman Trophy. :cheers:

He graduated from the Haas School of Business in three years, as a D1 athlete. Pretty impressive.

That corner, Degner 1, I always found to be the scariest corner at Suzuka in the simulator. Always made me nervous. But the F1 guys rarely screw it up IRL.

I found these crazy shots of F1 cars exiting Degner 1:

All the clickbait sites will make up shite based on off-hand comments and language-barrier misinterpretations. No one really knows who might have an advantage. That being said, we can probably make predictions based on recent history.

I think with the new regs, Mercedes and some of its customer teams (McLaren, Williams) should be considered the early-season favorites.

Ferrari could be in the mix, but it also feels like they are more prone to growing pains with a new rule book.

No idea about Aston Martin and Honda. Honda could bomb like their ill-fated partnership with McLaren, or be strong out of the box like when they switched to Red Bull. With Adrian Newey at Aston Martin, this could be a strong partnership from the beginning.

The biggest question mark to me is Red Bull Ford Powertrains. It wouldn't surprise anyone if they struggle the most at the start of the season.

All right, the TD F1 Championship results are in!

dg42.net/TDF1/race-results.php?race=24

The winner of the TD F1 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix is pitstop with his third win and eighth podium of the season!

The podium is filled out by TouchedTheAxeIn82 in P2 for his sixth podium, and 225rumpshaker in P3 for his second podium.

Here's the championship table: dg42.net/TDF1/index.php?table=full

The last race battle turned into a total bust. :lol: pitstop topped off his championship in style with a race win. But bikerack finished P25, sorantable finished P21, and gatorhater08 finished P15. :dope:

The order of the top 6 in the championship did not change.

busbeepbeep scored a single point, breaking a tie with theone and moving past him. In the last two races, busbeepbeep jumped from P11 to finish the season P7. Nice job!

In the last race auisssa jumped from P11 to P9 for a nice top 10 finish!

kengel2 and 225rumpshaker also moved up a little in the final standings.

Stats:

I believe sorantable spent the most time at the top of the table. But pitstop and bikerack really came on strong at the end of the season!

bikerack had four race wins, pitstop, sorantable and jefforize had three race wins.

pitstop had eight podiums, bikerack had seven podiums, TouchedTheAxeIn82 had six podiums, sorantable and gatorhater08 had five podiums.

13 players won at least one race! My favorite stat! pitstop, bikerack, sorantable, gatorhater08, TouchedTheAxeIn82, 1999, theone, auisssa, jefforize, MississippiLebowski, ephidelt541, VABuckeye, and NfamousPanda!

The highest ranked player with no race wins is busbeepbeep, who finished P7 with three podiums.

22 players stood on the podium! Another nice stat!

The highest ranked player with no podiums is MikeD in P21.


I will contact pitstop, bikerack, and sorantable by e-mail about your Top 3 prizes!

I hope everyone had fun! I will take suggestions for improving the game for next year, but I feel like it will probably be pretty similar.

Also, next year I will take donations to increase the prize pot. This will be completely voluntary, you don't have to contribute to join the game. But if we can gather a good pot, maybe we can increase the number of players who can win a prize, maybe the top five or six?

Haas finish with both cars in the points.

Then Bearman gets hit with a 5-second time penalty for "more than one change of direction" and drops out of the points after the flag.

The VCARBS finished -8 and -5 from their starting positions. Bad finish for them.

Nice job Aston Martin P6 and P10, and Sauber P9 and P11, heading into next year.

I think the only way Yuki can help is to start on hard tires and hope the McLarens come out of the pit behind him.

Edit: He is on hards. And the announcers agree with me.

Hey Duke, Cal says you're welcome. :lol:

Heismendoza

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Maybe Norris and Max take each other out on the first lap tomorrow.

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I think they'll be very polite with each other, along with Oscar. Lando can cruise to the championship in P3. :dunno:

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Max is just unreal. Not sure anyone touches that time

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Max was on new softs and drafted Yuki. The McLarens were on used softs.

Yuki makes Q3 in his last F1 race.