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Austria Results

Following their win in Canada, f1world take a 1-2 to jump up to second place in the league behind league leaders cliptheapex.
Amelia takes seventh place for sportsbabble.

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Pos user         forum   zdkf1 points  forum points
1  redfrog       f1world      67           25
2  pdk           f1world      56           18
3  bls           not606       55           15
4  tranquilchaos ja606        55           12
5  wehateowls    garagistasf1 52           10
6  sardaor       cliptheapex  52            8
7  amelia        sportsbabble 51            6
8  lyria         grandprix    48            4
9  dreggsf1      f1onboard    44            2
10 teabagyokel   cliptheapex  41            1

scores for also rans from sportsbabble:

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23 stairs
20 sco

League table
Pos_Forum__________Points
1___cliptheapex_____196
2___f1world_________126
3___grandprix_______107
4___not606___________94
5___ja606____________92
6___garagistasf1_____59
7___sportsbabble_____57
8___f1onboard________31
9___f1technical______29
10__v2_______________17


Individual championship
Not606's jb still leads the way on 364 points.
Teabagyokel from cliptheapex remains in second place on 342 points.
Lawrence from grandprix is still third on 332 points.
The best player from sportsbabble is sco in 17th place on 288 points (same score as me ).


Quali trophy
Only f1world's pdk got close enough to the actual pole time to earn 2 points, which propels her into the lead.
11 other players got within 1% of the actual pole time for 1 point.
Here's the overall top 10:

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pos user           forum      points
1  pdk             f1world      7
2  pob             various      7
3  greenlantern101 cliptheapex  7
4  andykarter      f1world      6
5  jb              not606       6
6  bls             not606       6
7  chelseamf       ja606        6
8  teabagyokel     cliptheapex  6
9  wehateowls      garagistasf1 5
10 sardaor         cliptheapex  5

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Race recap:
Another 1-2 for Mercedes, but unusually Rosberg wins on merit ahead of Hamilton in second place. (With no disrespect intended towards Rosberg, him beating Hamilton in a direct battle is rare.)
Ferrari's Vettel loses third place to the Williams of Massa after a problem in the pits. Bottas in the second Williams takes fifth with some good overtakes. Raikkonen in the other Ferrari has a weekend to forget, qualifying poorly and then crashing scarily on the opening lap taking out Alonso:

Hulkenburg continues the momentum of his win at the 24 hours of Le Mans last week with a good sixth place in his Force India. His teammate Perez came 9th. Force India will use their new b-spec car from the next race.
Maldonado took 7th again in his Lotus after some hairy moments behind Verstappen's Toro Rosso who eventually came 8th:


Ricciardo had a good race to 10th place in the Red Bull, coming through the field due to a poor qualifying exacerbated by grid penalties and a 5 second time penalty for using more than his season's power unit allocation. We're not even at the halfway point of the season, so many more grid penalties and time penalties are likely to hit the Renault engined Red Bulls and Toro Rossos as well as the Honda engined McLarens.