Thread: Picks for Australia 2007

I figured I would kick start the Australia talk.

I think there are two strategies for the first few races of the season. The "Go for gold" strategy and the "Play it safe" strategy.

Going for gold is easy. Take the best driver/car combo you can guess and spend the cash. Knowing what F1 is like, this could reap huge rewards or leave you with little points that cost you 60 million.

I think I may favour the play it safe strategy. I'm thinking a middle of the pack driver(DC?) and a real cheap newcomer(Kovalainen?).
This will leave enough room for a stab at a top team chassis and pretty good engine.
Or maybe a pricey driver and a middle of the pack chassis? So many options!
At leas I can feel better about this all getting much easier once all the teams have worked out their kinks.

Cheers

Last season I went all out and spent the big $$$. This season there is a bigger challenge with all the driver changes and budget. Should make it nice and interesting. I'm thinking some of the lesser known guys could turn out to be some good picks but also risky. I'm going to have to look over last seasons mid-pack guys to figure out who I think will shine early. Still gonna have to drop the big $$ for the first race and go Kimi/Ferarri and maybe Kubica for my other driver. Maybe I'll get luck and finish 2nd again this season. Maybe even 1st!!

Thanks Kareem! Now to go put right what's all wrong

Hey. I never claimed I was right. That's just my theory. I wasn't even top ten in last year's league.
Maybe you want to undo the right your wronged?.. or other way around..

You know with Toyota's budget you'd think they would get it together. I'd like to say they could be a good lower $$ pick but I'm just not sold. Also I think DC needs to show what he's got this year or he may not be back another season. It's not all his fault but the trend for younger drivers may be too much for Red Bull to keep him around. Oh well. I still think I'm gonna toss away a few big bucks on race 1 and see where everyone shakes out. Maybe next race I'll have a better idea of who I think is going to be a reliable points winner for me

I think DC is will hang out in F1 as long as he wants with Red Bull. They're all about the publicity and DC is probably the best remaining spokesperson left in F1. Red Bull would be foolish to let him go.
I think he's well past his championship hopeful days, but he's still a good driver and a good face to represent a team.
He'll probably be my middle of the pack pick. Always brings the car home.

That's true about DC. I settled on Kimi and Hamilton, BMW and Ferrari as my picks. I'm just too hesitant to go with Ferrari as my engine supplier due to there being 6 in the field and 4 of them going to STR and Spyker. Trying to minimize my cost and risk this season but who knows.

Originally Posted by kareem

Hey. I never claimed I was right. That's just my theory. I wasn't even top ten in last year's league.
Maybe you want to undo the right your wronged?.. or other way around..

Hehe, I'll give it another look now and see whether the wrong was right or the right is wrong

My picks were terrible for the season opener!! I scored 1 point.
All my doubts about Kimi in his first race for Ferrari were misplaced. So much for my "return driver" theory.

mavericks picked the perfect race for the maximum 42 points. Amazing!

What am I going to do for Malaysia now? hmmm