Joshua Fernandes takes the plaudits because the first-ever chief of the Motorsport: Race our Writers league after a wonderful opening weekend of the F1 Fantasy competitors.
Having deployed the ‘Further 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 principle 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 crew 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 ‘Further DRS’ chip positioned on Norris – however with Albon given the common 2x DRS enhance.
Alexander Albon, Williams
Photograph by: Zak Mauger / Motorsport Pictures
Norris’ victory in a moist/dry race in Melbourne meant anybody selecting the McLaren man of their crew was going to profit, particularly with these ‘Further DRS’ factors on provide, and Lina Barbisch used the identical technique to spherical out the Race our Writers podium from spherical one with a formidable 310 factors.
Issues weren’t as ‘merely pretty’ for our pool of writers participating 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 collection of McLaren (71) and Mercedes (67) as his crew pairing.
F1 author Jake Boxall-Legge could have spent too lengthy writing the most recent subject of his weekly Tech Tuesday e-newsletter and never sufficient time poring over his F1 Fantasy crew as he scored a stunningly unhealthy -47 factors, with Gabriel Bortoleto, Isack Hadjar, Jack Doohan and Racing Bulls all returning destructive scores for his ‘The Blurt of Groups’ outfit.
Examine again on Motorsport.com later within the week for our F1 Fantasy preview forward of the Chinese language Grand Prix.
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Mark Mann-Bryans
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