Joshua Fernandes takes the plaudits because the first-ever chief of the Motorsport: Race our Writers league after a nice opening weekend of the F1 Fantasy competitors.
Having deployed the ‘Additional DRS’ chip on race winner Lando Norris, Fernandes bagged 3x factors for the person who took the chequered flag on the season-opening Australian Grand Prix.
Teaming Norris up with McLaren as one of many two constructors was the primary tactic that noticed Fernandes amass an unrivalled 326 factors for the weekend.
Having additionally put loads of religion within the underperforming Haas squad, Fernandes took only a mixed 24 factors from Oliver Bearman, Esteban Ocon and the workforce itself.
Amelia Worrall’s ‘Good I hope 2025’ squad sits simply 13 factors off the lead, with the identical quintet of drivers chosen and the ‘Additional DRS’ chip positioned on Norris – however with Albon given the common 2x DRS increase.
Alexander Albon, Williams
Picture by: Zak Mauger / Motorsport Pictures
Norris’ victory in a moist/dry race in Melbourne meant anybody selecting the McLaren man of their workforce was going to profit, particularly with these ‘Additional DRS’ factors on provide, and Lina Barbisch used the identical technique to spherical out the Race our Writers podium from spherical one with a powerful 310 factors.
Issues weren’t as ‘merely beautiful’ for our pool of writers collaborating on this season’s fantasy sport.
Ruben Zimmermann, editor of Motorsport.com Germany, set the tempo with 158 factors, a rating constructed primarily on his choice of McLaren (71) and Mercedes (67) as his workforce pairing.
F1 author Jake Boxall-Legge could have spent too lengthy writing the most recent problem of his weekly Tech Tuesday publication and never sufficient time poring over his F1 Fantasy workforce as he scored a stunningly unhealthy -47 factors, with Gabriel Bortoleto, Isack Hadjar, Jack Doohan and Racing Bulls all returning detrimental scores for his ‘The Blurt of Groups’ outfit.
Test again on Motorsport.com later within the week for our F1 Fantasy preview forward of the Chinese language Grand Prix.
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