Race Report 4: Has there been a Sakhir/Sucky-er race than the Bahrain GP?

Ok so that pun probably doesn't work but the point is I can't really recall anything of interest from the most controversial GP of the last few years.

The race went ahead which caused a little surprise I must admit. With the now standard modern day news broadcasting less interested in actually bringing you fact laden news reports as much as splashing a dramatic doom seemed, end of days style tabloid gossip piece I was convinced we would be broadcast pictures of pit garages in rubble piles, burning pyres all over the track, cars turned over and no race taking place at all. However the race went ahead with almost no incident. I don't say this to argue in favor of the race taking place in future as it seems fairly unethical to take an international sporting event to a country in political unrest and claim you're not supporting the regime that has paid you to come over and put on a show. My point here is simply that it turned out to be just another storm of media hyperbole.

As I said above I can recall no action from the race whatsoever and I'm not going to put myself through it again so let's for once focus on the league and it's participants for once.

Firstly Alex scored nought, nul point, nada, zero, silch, bugger all. As I received no predictions. If this is erroneous please inform and correct me and I will adjust the scoreboard asap.

A very low scoring week this one as like fools we were all suckered in by Red Bulls slow start to the year and all of us predicted a Mclaren win only for Vettel to sneakily take the chequered flag and the glory of the top step of the podium. Alan WA, George, myself, Martin and Jack did score well for Hamilton's second on the grid whilst again no one picked out the fastest lap setter. I wonder whether anyone will get one of these before the season is over as, as a few people have pointed out, it really is a random, throw a dart at a dartboard type of guess these days. Perhaps my idea from last year to include a prediction of the first retirement would be worth introducing now. We could all score 10 points every week just by writing down Schumacher's name each race. Miaow!

So a very low scoring week. Jack top scored by some distance with 21 and Alex bottom with 0. This saw Jack return to the top of the table after initially topping the league in week 1. Still at the foot of the table is Martin but so many races still to run and many months before the business end of the season comes into sight.

Currently we seem to have a top 3 of Jack, Becx & Alan D. A little gap and then James, Alan WA & Simon. Finally there is a third group of 3 not to far back chasing us all down made up of George, Alex & Martin.

So that's enough for one of the duller races in recent times.

The League Table after 4 races

Week 4
	Predictor	Points
1	Jack	82
2	Becx	80
3	Alan D	79
4	James	70
5	Alan WA	67
=	Simon	67
7	George	59
8	Alex	57
9	Martin	40

Predictions for Spain to be delivered by 12/05/12