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"SR F1 Championship 2002"

I'm not sure whether anyone will be interested but I'll give it a whirl. Just to liven the forum up a bit.

I'm going to start a World Championship on Grand Prix 4 and you have to pick a driver from the list below. I will give you the race results when I have them. Remember that all the cars and drivers will be equal so the race results will be completely random.

Michael Schumacher
Rubens Barrichello
Juan Pablo Montoya
Ralf Schumacher
David Coulthard
Kimi Raikkonen
Jarno Trulli
Jenson Button
Nick Heidfeld
Felipe Massa
Takumo Sato
Giancarlo Fisichella
Jacques Villeneuve
Olivier Panis
Heinz Harald Frentzen
Enrique Bernoldi
Eddie Irvine
Pedro De La Rosa
Mika Salo
Allan McNish
Mark Webber
Alex Yoong

First come, first serve basis.

3rd place is really good and now I am 4th in the Driver standings. :-)

Easy does it for Salo in Monte Carlo

Salo has won the Monaco Grand Prix with a superb drive and a seemingly effortless one at that. He took the lead off the grid and never looked back.

Bernoldi, the pole sitter, was in the wars a bit. He suffered a loose wheel and had to make a pit stop and had to make a second stop, dropping him down to last. Frentzen, his teammate, increased his championship lead with a second place finish.

The weather was nice and dry which meant that a lot of cars kept their noses clean. Sato came a cropper when he crashed into the barrier on lap 46. Trulli, Salo, Panis and McNish all had close calls with the barrier but they all survived. Panis eventually retired with a transmission failure on lap 72. De La Rosa was first out with a transmission failure on lap 8.

Salo takes his first win of the season with Frentzen a long way back in 2nd. Montoya just couldn't find a way past Frentzen and finished 3rd. Raikkonen, Massa and Ralf Schumacher rounded out the top 6.

Full race results:

1st Salo (PS2 Proud) 1h43m47.134s
2nd Frentzen (KR) +28.018s
3rd Montoya (Foreman) +30.902s
4th Raikkonen (Figo) +31.727s
5th Massa (Ortega) +32.470s
6th R Schumacher (Badgerman) +34.232s
7th Coulthard (Quinty) +34.806s
8th McNish (Dr. Pepper - oni) +36.113s
9th Trulli (Triple H) +36.627s
10th Heidfeld (Daxter) +37.735s
11th Fisichella (Major Chip Hazard) +38.196s
12th Irvine (mXtheared) +39.041s
13th Button (Jetster) +39.582s
14th Webber (Ant) +40.249s
15th M Schumacher (Ronaldo) +41.186s
16th Yoong (No.2) +41.802s
17th Barrichello (Reddy 2002) +42.486s
18th Villeneuve (James Pond) +42.968s
19th Bernoldi (Afrojoe) +43.471s

DNF

Panis (Your Honour) Transmission
Sato (Bizarre Cabbage) Crashed
De La Rosa (Grandprix) Transmission

Drivers standings: (From now on, only the top ten will be shown)

1st Frentzen 26pts
2= Villeneuve 18pts
2= Bernoldi 18pts
4th Montoya 14pts
5= Panis 12pts
5= Button 12pts
7= Salo 11pts
7= Trulli 11pts
9= Webber 10pts
9= R Schumacher 10pts

Constructors standings:

1st Arrows 44pts
2nd BAR 30pts
3rd Williams 24pts
4th Renault 23pts
5= Toyota 17pts
5= Minardi 17pts
7th Sauber 12pts
8th McLaren 10pts
9th Ferrari 5pts

Fastest Lap: Bernoldi 1m17.258s

Major Chip Hazard wrote:
> Told you my driver is a load of poo.:-(

Matches the forum user then, eh? ;-D

Excellent.

Another pole for Bernoldi. And the best thing is, it's at Monaco, the track where overtaking is very hard.

:-)

Need the points in next race.

Monaco eh, should be a good race but likely for a lot of DNF's

9th is not too bad for me. I reckon I can get a point.

Bernoldi takes 2 in a row and it couldn't be more important

Bernoldi takes the most important pole of the season in an extremely close qualifying hour. Monaco is extremely tight and twisty and the cars at the front are very difficult to overtake. The weather was very hot and dry and it couldn't have been closer, 15 cars within a tenth of pole and 21 cars within two tenths.

Full qualifying results:

1st Bernoldi (Afrojoe) 1m17.192s
2nd Salo (PS2 Proud) 1m17.216s
3rd Barrichello (Reddy 2002) 1m17.218s
4th Panis (Your Honour) 1m17.224s
5th Frentzen (KR) 1m17.227s
6th Villeneuve (James Pond) 1m17.228s
7th Coulthard (Quinty) 1m17.230s
8th Trulli (Triple H) 1m17.231s
9th Montoya (Foreman) 1m17.234s
10th Massa (Ortega) 1m17.250s
11th De La Rosa (Grandprix) 1m17.254s
12th Button (Jetster) 1m17.270s
13th R Schumacher (Badgerman) 1m17.271s
14th Raikkonen (Figo) 1m17.281s
15th Webber (Ant) 1m17.291s
16th Heidfeld (Daxter) 1m17.295s
17th Sato (Bizarre Cabbage) 1m17.316s
18th Yoong (No.2) 1m17.321s
19th Fisichella (Major Chip Hazard) 1m17.323s
20th McNish (Dr. Pepper - oni) 1m17.357s
21st M Schumacher (Ronaldo) 1m17.362s
22nd Irvine (Dead Wonder) 1m17.408s

A wet race could see a lot of drivers stack their cars in the barriers. Will Bernoldi finally get that elusive win?

Another podium position.

That's my 3rd of the season now. :-)

KR and I as the 2 Arrows cars are kicking behind!

:D

Told you my driver is a load of poo.:-(

Yay! Anouther point finish, its going well and the fastest lap to boot.