Fantasy F1 2010

Do you remember the old Formula 1 days? You know those ones where you pretty much knew who would win, it’ll be Schumacher, Hakkinen or perhaps (if it was a really bad year) Irvine.

Well, in 2010 those days have gone. They’ve disappeared like your pension. They’ve disappeared like using brand new plastic bags each time you’re shopping. And they’ve made it a whole of a lot more fun.

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, on Neptune, with your fingers in your ear saying la la la la la…. You know what’s been occurring in the off season. The Chin has returned to take on the new ones, in a Hon, Bra, sorry Mercedes.

It’s just too exciting a prospect to miss, and in only a couple of short weeks all of the kids (and Rubens and Mark) will be out to rough up the old man.

Then, you have Lotus and Virgin returning too. And possibly Senna…and well…absolutely anything can happen. All we need is Rossi to pack in MotoGP and Loeb to stop rallying and the Fantasy would be complete. But, I’m totally settling for what we’ve got.

And so, after spending time at the CERN institute, crunching the numbers and spending months and months trying to make sense of the new pack, I’m here to officially launch our new Fantasy F1 Competition. With added new rules and rankings. Mike’s got his pivot tables running, so here we go:

You can only enter the competition up to the Thursday evening before the first race. You must enter by adding your comments to this post and you have to do the following:

Select 1 Chassis
Select 3 Drivers
And you have only £280 to spend:

The prices:

Team
Mclaren £100
Mercedes £100
Red Bull £100
Ferrari £90
Williams £70
Renault £70
Force India £70
Toro Rosso £65
Lotus F1 £60
Virgin £50
Sauber £70

Drivers
Jenson Button £100
Lewis Hamilton £100
Michael Schumacher £99
Nico Rosberg £89
Sebas Vettel £99
Mark Webber £98
Felipe Massa £98
Fernando Alonso £98
Rubens Barrichello £97
Nick Hulkenberg £96
Robert Kubica £97
Vitaly Petrov £50
Adrian Sutil £60
Viantonio Liuzzi £45
Sebas Buemi £80
Jamie Alguersuari £60
Jarno Truli £65
Heikki Kovalainen £65
Bruno Senna £50
Jose Marie Lopez £50
Timo Glock £65
Lucas Di Grassi £50
Pedro De La Rosa £65
Kamui Kobayashi £75

So, for instant, I’m picking

1)    Schumacher £99
2)    Liuzzi £45
3)    Force India £70
4)    Di Gassi £50

That means I’ve spent £264 of my budget. Phew!

Clear as mud? Excellent. Get those calculators out and pick your team. The winner, as Alex will know, gets a prize and it’s a right laugh!

If you’re still not to speed on all that’s been happening this winter, check out our super-professional podcast.

And lets count down to the first race – I can’t wait!

And now for the disclaimer – this is a home made project – so Chris, Gareth and Mike don’t bear any responsibility for mistakes, inaccuracies or anything that goes wrong throughout the season – we’re all here to have some fun :)