"Cato Batista" 02/07/2016 3:43:42 ID #955

Ladies and Gentlemen,

A nice Sunday drive for ROS to claim his 5th win of the season. VET, effective on race day as always was an unchallenged second with the flying PER advancing 4 grid positions to seize his second podium of the last 3 GPs. RAI should be happy with 4th, he had a 5 seconds penalty on top of dealing with an underperforming Ferrari (at least was much better on race trim for both drivers). HAM couldn't do better than 5th, he was lost to sort out some software issues that affected both his and ROS’s Mercedes during the race (as well as RAI’s) , but turns out Nico was able to figure out the procedure to operate some of the 26 controls in his steering wheel to correct it. The World Champion, same as Kimi, desperately asking for radio instructions to solve the problem (denied by their engineers since it’s banned by FIA). We learn today that to drive modern F1s you need a degree in computing. BOT had a lonely race to sixth place. It was not the exciting race everybody was expecting: no first corner carnage,  nobody crashed, no SCs or VSCs, no mayhem. This guys are all extraordinary drivers, too much actually!.

I must say our CFA results were quite amazing. This forecast was so challenging that I can’t find 2 similar driver selections among the 23 participants, and despite this we had our collective best score of the season! Lorenzo came ahead of the pack edging Fredrik by the minimum difference (13 points to 12) by hitting the 1-2-4-5 positions, being this only the second time this year one of us reaches that mark (Tim was the first with 4 triples in China). Next came Curro, Lou, Luis, and Tim with 11 points from 3 triples (Fernando also 3 triples, 10 points). With 197 total points and 44 golds we bettered our previous best outing in China (186p, 43 triples). Our point average was 8.5, again better than the 7.9 from China. Twenty one of us played safe placing ROS first, nine more had VET in second, 5 of you collected full points with RAI in 4th same as with BOT in sixth, only 3 bet for HAM in fifth, but only of us, rookie Luis had PER in third to correctly forecast the three podium finishers. The point spread was huge thanks to Uwe and Joe throwing caution to the wind and giving VET his full support for an against the odds win and placing both Red Bull in the top 6. Their gamble ended up in disaster, they got 4 & 3 points respectively.

Tim (75p) still doesn’t miss a beat and now has taken a huge 5 point margin on top of the charts always chased by Manbos (70p) and Maria (69p). Rodrigo and the upcoming Curro follow just behind (68p), and now Lorenzo appears in 5th tied with Rocco/Joe Jr and Sebastian (67p). Danny and Hector (66p) are closing the top 10. The vast majority of the CFA founding members are having an awful season: looking at the wrong side of the table 7 of the 8 last positions are in the hands of our most experienced colleagues...the other a 3-times Champion. Say no names.

Our next engagement comes in 2 weeks for the Austrian GP 01-03 July.

Let’s take a quick break and get ready to resume, this is only going to get better!

Cheers

Cato