F1 Zorg & Badger GP Fantasy Grand Prix 2017

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"It is all going to happen at the end, keep it up mate," Lewis Hamilton is told over team radio.

The gap is down to 9.3 seconds as Sebastian Vettel picks his way past the backmarkers.

Ferrari team principal Maurizio Arrivabene can't take the tension. He's gone out of the garage for a bit of fresh air.

What a race.

 

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Chequered flag​

SEBASTIAN VETTEL WINS THE BAHRAIN GRAND PRIX.​

Lewis Hamilton finishes second and Valtteri Bottas takes third.

Sebastian Vettel moves seven points clear of Hamilton at the top of the drivers' championship.

Bahrain GP top 10
Posted at 18:40

1) Vettel 2) Hamilton 3) Bottas 4) Raikkonen 5) Ricciardo 6) Massa 7) Perez 8) Grosjean 9) Hulkenberg 10) Ocon

 

[Paul Rice]

Got the first three right just not necessarily in the right order

 

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Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff on Radio 5 live: We knew from the outset we were going to have problems with Valtteri but we didn't know we were not going to be able to recover it.

 

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Got the first three right just not necessarily in the right order

As above, only two for me though, 2) Hamilton 3) Bottas, I had them down for 1st & 2nd.
Think I got fastet lap with Hamilton though.

 

[Paul Rice]

Didn't get any points for predicting 1st retirement must be because he never started?

 

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The worst thing you can hear as a driver

Mercedes' Valtteri Bottas has just been speaking during the driver's press conference.

He was asked how he felt when he was asked to move out of the way for team mate Lewis Hamilton...

"As a racing driver it's the worst thing you can hear but I did it because I knew it could have potentially helped the team. But personally it was tough - I don't know why but I just didn't have the pace today."

 

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Red Bull's Max Verstappen, who did not finish the race: "I had a brake failure on the rear - the car was performing a lot better and we did the undercut on the two Mercedes so could have taken seconds place. We lost a lot of points today".

Red Bull's Daniel Ricciardo, who finished fifth: "At the beginning of the race I genuinely thought we had a chance in this race - it looked like Valtteri was struggling in front of me and I was looking after my tyres. But then with the safety car came out and we switched to the softs and they never 'switched on' as we say.

 

[Gail]

I predicted 1st & 2nd correctly but nothing else.

 

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Oh well, every dog has his day as I did in the last race.
With this race I got everything wrong except for fastest lap and safety car.....

Race Results for Bahrain

You scored 97 points
The Top score was 213 points
Your World Ranking was: 5426 / 8932

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Championship Standings

Pos Team Manager Pts
1 Kraken Racing Tim Sharpe 399
2 BMBabe Racing Stacey Jefferies 392
3 ZorgChampions2016 Gail Flint 389
4 HT HighTek Hard Top 388
5 Mint Racing Mint 351
6 Team Westfield Andy McDonnell 346
7 le chef torchey PRO 326
8 thesaints 34 Chris Sharpe 318
9 Team Smiffy Smiffy 317
10 Pudding club Paul Rice 276

 

[andyglym]

Oh well, every dog has his day as I did in the last race.
With this race I got everything wrong except for fastest lap and safety car.....

Race Results for Bahrain

You scored 97 points
The Top score was 213 points
Your World Ranking was: 5426 / 8932

Friends League
ZroadsterF1 2017
Passcode: 4685186
Championship Standings

Pos Team Manager Pts
1 Kraken Racing Tim Sharpe 399
2 BMBabe Racing Stacey Jefferies 392
3 ZorgChampions2016 Gail Flint 389
4 HT HighTek Hard Top 388
5 Mint Racing Mint 351
6 Team Westfield Andy McDonnell 346
7 le chef torchey PRO 326
8 thesaints 34 Chris Sharpe 318
9 Team Smiffy Smiffy 317
10 Pudding club Paul Rice 276

I didn't do much better Mike still, could be worse

 

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I didn't do much better

Mad Max going out badgered me up.....

 

[Mint]

I only got Bottas and the safety car

 

[Mint]

 

[Paul Rice]

Thought i'd done well but further behind in last place, Is my middle name McLaren?

 

[smiffy]

haven't changed position, but points gap to the midfield teams has reduced. Only got safety car right so most of it down to the team. just need a lucky weekend in Russia!

 

[5harp3y]

Boom!

Top of the league!

 

[smiffy]

Boom!

Top of the league!

at the moment!

 

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Looks like its going to be a good season as it is getting quite unpredictable between Mercedes, Ferrari & Red Bull..

 

[5harp3y]

Actually panning out to be quite good