Formula One - 2015 Season

[kiroquai]

Possibly, but that's the thing really - he has to prove that he can do it when it matters. Arguably the only time he's done that this year was in Austria. If he comes back next season and does this off the bat then it'll be interesting

[Dudley]

I bet it's 100% deliberate Mercedes send up the woman to force them to hand her the trophy.

EDIT : Hah, not just me then.

[Bacon Horsemeat]

It happened with Red Bull a few years ago too. Notice how they take a photo of it but not with the guys, like it's a PR opportunity for them, not shaking hands with a woman

[Sidewaysbob]

But the real championship isn't over yet..... Just who will win the prediction challenge title this year....

Back after these messages from our sponsors.

[kiroquai]

I'll dust off the tuxedo and get ready to hand my trophy over

[SMD]

Amazing how loud the GP2 is compared to modern F1.

Was actually more fun to watch

[Sidewaysbob]

Long, rambling and slightly depressing .. but enough about the race, my championship report is fantastic.

http://sidewaysbob.blogspot.co.uk/2015/11/at-last-its-all-over.html

And so tot he final number ... and this years winner is ..............

Johnny5 who kept his nerve and wins with 374 points a big congratulations it was a great game and anyone could have taken it here. really, jolly well done.

He beats Roskelld by 2 points and king A by 3. A really close finish this one and you have all been superb contestants.

Charles was the highest scorere of the year with an extremely impressive 37 points.

I totally beat my brother (Arakawa Automotive) by a country mile, making up for the mugging I received in the Rugby world cup and Le Mans prediction games we played. With the Tour De France game that makes us 2 and 2 which i think is a fair result.

Last place was Makkuwata 10 points behind Rattlehead.

Thank you all for playing. I won’t be running this game next year. Its getting to stressful to run and I want to enjoy the season without having to worry about thinking up witty things to write afterwards for a change.

So once again, thank you all for playing, it has been fun.

Cheers

Julian.

http://www.deltoid.co.uk/f1/results.pdf

merman,25
Velse,22
mortis,21
nuskool,20
Simbo,20
jeebus,19
ridgeracer ,19
PeteBrant,18
SeanR,18
King A,18
roskelld,18
Sidewaysbob,18
Jonny5,18
Arakawa Automotive,17
Baring,17
Duane Weatherall,17
JPR,17
CHUGG2015,17
TarquinTheHppyMouse,17
Fragglerock,17
Buzbybill,17
Myoozikk,17
MrPogo,16
Blue,16
Charles,16
SMD,16
Rattlehead.ie,15
kiroquai,15
makkuwata,15
Dudley,15
Valver,13
jaguar1,13
ilpostino,12
Jobi Stod,11
mlewis,11
Tefleon,8

[SMD]

interesting conversation with Toto there - they gave Hmilton a choice on tyres and thus strategy.

Edit - heh, once again the winners get a woman on the podium so the arabs are forced to shake hands with one

What a dickhead. Did you miss that one of the trophies was presented by a woman?

[myoozikk]

4th that's pretty respectable considering I don't think I changed my prefections since race 4 after forgetting my password.

Thanks for running it all season bob!

[Rattlehead.ie]

Thanks Bob for another season of well run predictioness. Jackpot.....Not last.

[kiroquai]

Nice job Jonny *hands Jonny the trophy*.

Thanks for another entertaining season of picks Bob. Looking forward to trying to regain my title next year!

[T Pot]

I'm happy with 3rd!

[Jonny5]

*sprays champagne*

Edit: Bob - sad to see you won't be running this next year. Would you consider handing over the game for someone else to run?

[T Pot]

Yeah, how easy is it to run? I have hosting space I could probably put the software on.

[Sidewaysbob]

If anyone wants to run a game next year than please be my guest

I used a mates website and he wrote all the software for me and ran that side of things as a favour. So i don't actually have anything i can hand over, other than goodwill.

Once you get the program to calculate the points it's pretty easy to run, because i didn't know the first thing about writing code i had to manually send out the results rather than just publish the results and have the program automatically email everyone. but it was just a case of copy and paste the address each time.

The hard bit was always trying to write something witty each week. That's what take the time. Every year i claim i'll keep the writing short, but still end up with 1000 words or so.

If you want to do your own game then a ground up build incorporating the game and the words would be the best way to do it, i sort of bolted the whole thing together over time and didn't really have much input in the look of the thing, my mate was doing it for free afterall, that's why it looks so clunky.

[Jonny5]

I might have a go at building something myself then, but I'd not be doing any of the writing stuff.

[kiroquai]

Er, I could potentially step into the writing void if one existed, although it would be a shame to lose your write-ups Bob as they're very good reads .

However, if you do want a break from it then I am good to go.

[mexos]

Fuck...

[Sidewaysbob]

I think i've become a lttle jaded this year, i need a break from it.

though saying that ... if someone else did all the leg work, I might be persuaded to contribute the odd piece, maybe a monthly round up ...

It was a case of trying to find something interesting to write about dull races that dragged me down.

I'm open to offers

[Baring]

Great read Bob as always and thank you for all your hard work.

[Jonny5]

OK, I'm under-way writing my own version. I can't promise it'll get finished but it's a nice project to learn some new web technology stuff with.

[merman]

Bob, thank you for all your efforts in running this.

Very happy with joint 5th in my first year.

[wev]

I thought I'd done much, much worse than that! Joint 12th with Bob himself, although I think I only changed my prediction once (I normally work Thursday evenings so kept forgetting to do it before the deadline )

Huge thanks again bob.

As for yesterdays race, best thing about it was (once again) Suzi's outfit... and Verstappen, obviously

[zxcvbnm]

Thanks for running it Bob, even though I doggedly stuck by my guns and didn't change my pre-season predictions, which massively back fired. Thanks Honda.

[Sidewaysbob]

Again thank you all for playing, without players it's not much of a game

[T Pot]

I love your writing Bob, it's fantastic. But I can see why you need a break after this year.

Honestly, I'd be happy with just the game. It's a bit of friendly rivalry on here :-)

[f. grimes]

Er, I could potentially step into the writing void if one existed, although it would be a shame to lose your write-ups Bob as they're very good reads .

However, if you do want a break from it then I am good to go.

Do it, kiro.

Back to 2015, I've been watching F1 less and less since early in the last decade and care sadly little for most of the circus in this era. There's a better world for me in bikes, Endurance, GT, V8s, DTM and the tech, sights, sounds, racing personalities and attitudes in some of those but I've always looked forward to your round-ups, Bob. Typos 'n' all, they've been fantastically entertaining year after year. Wouldn't have changed a thing! It's not often I get a chance, so I just wanted to jump in and say... thank you.

Enjoy the racing!

[Sidewaysbob]

Cheers, that means a lot

[Velse]

7th after skipping the first race. I'll take that.

[mexos]

Why is there this desire to turn F1 into a series of ugly WEC style cars?

New Mclaren future study

looks a bit like one of these thats been on a diet.