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"SR F1 Championship - Malaysian Grand Prix"

3 years, 3 wet races, Pizzonia survives the mayhem

Antonio Pizzonia has won the Malaysian Grand Prix in tricky conditions as almost everyone around him was eating gravel. This is Pizzonia's 2nd career victory after winning the final round in Japan last year.

The drama began on the first lap when Bruni tapped Michael Schumacher round. Fisichella was next when he got a good run on Firman but something went wrong and he spun into the gravel. He recovered to the track but a couple of corners later, Fisichella parked the car on the side of the track with a puncture and a bit of car damage.

Bruni got his just desserts when he ran wide, letting a recovering Schumacher back through. More drama happened at the front when Firman's car developed a brake problem and he ran off the track. He recovered to the pits to get it fixed but his chance of points were finished.

Coulthard twice, Montoya, Firman, Da Matta twice, Button twice, M Schumacher, Panis three times, Bruni, Frentzen, Villeneuve, Heidfeld and Verstappen all had spins and excursions into the gravel. De La Rosa and Verstappen had a coming together as well.

Amazingly, there were only 3 retirements. Fisichella I've already mentioned, Raikkonen's transmission failed on lap 20 and Montoya had a spectacular oil fire and he retired on lap 27.

So, after that eventful race, Pizzonia takes the win and is right up there in the title race. Pantano takes 2nd in only his second Grand Prix. Baumgartner makes it 2 points finishes in a row with 3rd. Ralf Schumacher is showing some consistency with a 4th place finish. Barrichello gives himself and Renault more points with 5th. Bruni managed to limit the damage of the off track excusions to pick up 3 points for 6th place. Sato follows his Jaguar teammate home with 7th and Salo watches everyone fly off around him and amazingly comes in 8th from last on the grid.

Full race results:

1st Pizzonia (Icarus) 1h42m30.727s (Up 5)
2nd Pantano (English Bloke) +13.564s (Up 2)
3rd Baumgartner (Bullett) +19.366s (No Change)
4th R Schumacher (Absolut Neo) +21.887s (Up 1)
5th Barrichello (Lipe) +25.424s (Up 7)
6th Bruni (Roj) +30.563s (Up 13)
7th Sato (Mithras) +37.508s (Up 7)
8th Salo (Biggie Little) +43.444s (Up 14)

9th Frentzen (Figo) +51.068s (Up 8)
10th Heidfeld (Shadow) +55.877s (No Change)
11th Verstappen (Jae) +1m00.521s (Up 5)
12th Da Matta (Grandprix) +1m05.004s (Up 8)
13th De La Rosa (Virtuoso) +1m06.454s (Up 2)
14th Button (Der Nazi) +1m15.834s (Down 6)
15th M Schumacher (Notorious Biggles) +1m18.002s (Up 3)
16th Firman (DW) +1m35.699s (Down 15)
17th Panis (Foreman) +1m47.585s (Up 4)
18th Villeneuve (Mike Swade) -1lap (Down 9)
19th Coulthard (Azul) -1lap (Down 6)

DNF

Montoya (Afrojoe) Oil leak/fire
Raikkonen (Ineedsleep) Transmission
Fisichella (Badgerman) Puncture

Drivers Championship

1= Salo 11pts
1= R Schumacher 11pts
3= Pizzonia 10pts
3= Sato 10pts
5th Pantano 8pts
6= Baumgartner 7pts
6= Barrichello 7pts
8th Panis 5pts
9th Button 4pts
10th Bruni 3pts
11th Heidfeld 2pts

Constructors Championship

1st Renault 17pts
2nd Jaguar 13pts
3rd B.A.R. 12pts
4= MG F1 11pts
4= Williams 11pts
6th Minardi 7pts
7th Toyota 5pts
8th Sauber 2pts

Fastest Lap: 1m43.599s Bruni - Lap Record

THE PREDICTION CHAMPIONSHIP

Again, 11 of the 21 have entered predictions and here are the results:

1st Der Nazi 10pts (10pts)
2nd Badgerman 8pts (8pts)
3rd Roj 6pts (7pts)
4th Biggie Little 5pts (6pts with a Tie Breaker difference of +2.004s)
5th Azul 4pts (6pts with a Tie Breaker difference of +4.254s)
6th Ineedsleep 3pts (5pts with a Tie Breaker difference of +2.361s)
7th Absolut Neo 2pts (5pts +2.619s)
8th Virtuoso 1pt (5pts +3.345s)

9th Jae (5pts +3.422s)
10th Notorious Biggles (4pts +3.252s)
11th Foreman (4pts +3.546s)

The Championship standings look like this:

1st Der Nazi 20pts
2nd Badgerman 9pts
3rd Mike Swade 8pts
4th Virtuoso 7pts
5= Ineedsleep 6pts
5= Roj 6pts
7= Foreman 5pts
7= Biggie Little 5pts
9= Azul 4pts
9= Jae 4pts
9= Absolut Neo 4pts
12th Notorious Biggles 0pts

The next round is Brazil. The posts will be up on the usual times. Saturday will see the Brazilian preview and prediction thread. The following Saturday will see the Qualifying and the Wednesday after that will be the Race.

Yay! Barrichello did quite well, kept himself out of trouble and Renault is top in the constructor's championship :)

Firman?

you replace cars with jelly?

I tell you not to sell formula 1 cars on ebay.

You bastardo, I sell you fase on ebay.

11th? Bah. Thats not good enough! :D

Grandprix wrote:
> R Schumacher is showing some consistency with a 4th place finish.

w00t!

> DNF
> Montoya (Afrojoe) Oil leak/fire

*Slaps Montoya with a wet fish*

// removes happy head

Oh Bumblebees. (Scowls - why do I feel this may be the first of many)

Transmission AGAIN!!

I'm sure we've had this problem before :(

// replaces happy head.


OR

Poor thing, his transmission failed. Oh well I'm positive things will improve.

:D

5th=
Nice.

That is sweet. I knew my man could pull through in the wet, he has had the experience after all.

The main thing was to stay on the track which I managed and climbing up to 17th isn't bad and the same is to be said with Da Matta.
                                                                         
Be great to get a good start in Brazil.

Damn you to hell, Juan Pablo.

At least i got some po9nts, and am still leading the championship. from 22nd on the grid to finish 8th, not bad at-all. bring on brazil!