Right well another interesting race. Red Bull just had too much in the end for Mercedes. The end of the race has people talking but to me the main problem is team orders and they're always going to exist so there is always going to be something we don't like about the sport. Vettel did what a World Champion does and went and won the race no matter what, I'm happy for him to disobey team orders as I feel it should always be a race to the finish. Webber paid the price for being naive despite his experience and Rosberg cemented himself as the #2 driver at Mercedes for not having the balls to pass Hamilton. That's the difference between Vettel and Alonso and Webber and Rosberg, the former are ruthless and will dictate it on their terms and as a result are world champions and the best in the field. The other 2 are arse-kissers and happy to play ball which is why they are number 2 in their team. Webber should have known better and if the roles were reversed people would be applauding Mark, tendency in British fans to give the best German driver the stick. Nearly all the famous world champions have pulled a stunt or done something people don't like, whether it be Schumacher, Senna, Prost, Hill, Vettel, Alonso, Hamilton, Hakkinen. It's almost the trademark of world champions as they will go that extra step, they will dare to get themselves into trouble to win the title, that's what it takes.
Anyway plenty of shuffling about in the table so here's the update:
1) mcfcnorthstand 162
2) ManCitizens 156
3) bluestevei 153
4) Akai 145
5) the cookie monster 143
6) brian the blue 141
7) TaxiforCreaney 135
8) Rosler1985 132
9) Southbanken 130
10) AntonDonJuan 129
11) jay_mcfc 125
12) Ell-ano 122
13) The Flash 119
T14) manc73 117
=) Joe Currygan 117
=) happychappy 117
T17) SWP's Back 116
=) chaz1337 116
19) rickmcfc 114
20) gazinho 112
21) MCFC-alan88 103
22) blue cigar 101
T23) mancity dan 100
=) MCFCPassion 100
T25) simonmdm 98
=) kippaxwarrior 98
=) BimboBob 98
28) MCFC1993 97
29) bluesmith 94
T30) City Raider 90
=) bluestew66 90
=) JoeMercer'sWay 90
33) the goats backside 84
34) No6 77
35) BoyBlue_1985 75
36) Scareye 74
37) Feed-The-Goat 72
38) leighton 66
39) chris 61
40) simonr555 61
41) Rorz88 58
42) sjk2008 56
43) Bluemoon dan 52
44) Blueto 51
45) Shadz69 47
46) tilbz 37
47) SambaMike 33
48) mcfcfaz 30
I've closed entries now we have a nice round 48 teams. That means I can organise the F1 Cup and once again it's going to be in Champions League style with a Group Stage then knockout matches as opposed to the Golf Cup which is straight knockout. That means we will have 8 groups of 6 teams, the top 2 from each group will go into the Last 16 stage. The races chosen for each round of the tournament are as follows:
F1 Cup Calendar
Group Stage
Matchday #1-China: 14/04/13.
Matchday #2-Monaco: 26/05/13.
Matchday #3-Canada: 09/06/13.
Matchday #4-Britain: 30/06/13.
Matchday #5-Germany: 07/07/13.
Knockout Stages
Last 16-Belgium: 25/08/13.
Quarter-Final-Italy: 08/09/13.
Semi-Final-Japan: 13/10/13.
Final-Brazil: 24/11/13.
You have been numbered by the order in which I have you written down in my spreadsheet, which bar the odd exception means you are in the order you entered the competition. Using the random number generator the groups are as follows:
Group A: Shadz69, Rosler1985, The Flash, ManCitizens., chaz1337, BoyBlue_1985.
Group B: Rorz88, Ell-ano, bluestevei, blue cigar, Feed-The-Goat, SambaMike.
Group C: Bluemoon dan, chris, simonr555, Scareye, JoeMercer'sWay, rickmcfc.
Group D: Southbanken, bluesmith, manc73, happychappy, jay_mcfc, No6.
Group E: The cookie monster, mancity dan, SWP's Back, leighton, mcfcnorthstand, Joe CurryGan.
Group F: AntonDonJuan, mcfcfaz, Akai, kippaxwarrior, simonmdm, sjk2008.
Group G: tilbz, TaxiforCreaney, bluestew66, Blueto, gazinho, BimboBob.
Group H: MCFC1993, brian the blue, the goats backside, City Raider, MCFCPassion, MCFC-alan88.
First round of fixtures will be announced in the next couple of weeks.
