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Latest News 26 / 02 / 2023 20 / 11 / 2022 13 / 11 / 2022 30 / 10 / 2022 23 / 10 / 2022 09 / 10 / 2022 02 / 10 / 2022 I've slightly changed the weightings of Alfa/Alpine/Haas to reflect their current performance. 11 / 09 / 2022 04 / 09 / 2022 28 / 08 / 2022 31 / 07 / 2022 24 / 07 / 2022 10 / 07 / 2022 You can still enter a new team even if you missed all the previous races - you'll get a late starter bonus to help you get going. 03 / 07 / 2022 You can still enter a new team even if you missed all the previous races - you'll get a late starter bonus to help you get going. 20 / 06 / 2022 You can still enter a new team even if you missed all the previous races - you'll get a late starter bonus to help you get going. 12 / 06 / 2022 You can still enter a new team even if you missed all the previous races - you'll get a late starter bonus to help you get going. I've slightly increased the weightings of the Mercedes pair as their woes seem to be continuing. 29 / 05 / 2022 You can still enter a new team even if you missed all the previous races - you'll get a late starter bonus to help you get going. 22 / 05 / 2022 You can still enter a new team even if you missed all the previous races - you'll get a late starter bonus to help you get going. 10 / 05 / 2022 24 / 04 / 2022 I've slightly reduced the weightings of Norris / McLaren because they're doing particularly well at the moment. 10 / 04 / 2022 27 / 03 / 2022 I decided not to change the weightings again for now. Let's see how the next couple of races go. 20 / 03 / 2022 I have made some quick changes to the weightings - Haas seem much stronger than I expected and McLaren/Aston much weaker. I might tweak them again after Saudi. 13 / 03 / 2022 12 / 12 / 2021 05 / 12 / 2021 21 / 11 / 2021 You can still enter a new team even if you missed all the previous races - you'll get a late starter bonus to help you get going. 14 / 11 / 2021 You can still enter a new team even if you missed all the previous races - you'll get a late starter bonus to help you get going. 07 / 11 / 2021 You can still enter a new team even if you missed all the previous races - you'll get a late starter bonus to help you get going. 24 / 10 / 2021 You can still enter a new team even if you missed all the previous races - you'll get a late starter bonus to help you get going. 26 / 09 / 2021 You can still enter a new team even if you missed all the previous races - you'll get a late starter bonus to help you get going. 26 / 09 / 2021 You can still enter a new team even if you missed all the previous races - you'll get a late starter bonus to help you get going. 12 / 09 / 2021 You can still enter a new team even if you missed all the previous races - you'll get a late starter bonus to help you get going. 05 / 09 / 2021 You can still enter a new team even if you missed all the previous races - you'll get a late starter bonus to help you get going. 29 / 08 / 2021 You can still enter a new team even if you missed all the previous races - you'll get a late starter bonus to help you get going. 01 / 08 / 2021 You can still enter a new team even if you missed all the previous races - you'll get a late starter bonus to help you get going. 18 / 07 / 2021 You can still enter a new team even if you missed all the previous races - you'll get a late starter bonus to help you get going. 15 / 07 / 2021 04 / 07 / 2021 You can still enter a new team even if you missed all the previous races - you'll get a late starter bonus to help you get going. 27 / 06 / 2021 You can still enter a new team even if you missed all the previous races - you'll get a late starter bonus to help you get going. 20 / 06 / 2021 You can still enter a new team even if you missed all the previous races - you'll get a late starter bonus to help you get going. 06 / 06 / 2021 You can still enter a new team even if you missed all the previous races - you'll get a late starter bonus to help you get going. 23 / 05 / 2021 You can still enter a new team even if you missed all the previous races - you'll get a late starter bonus to help you get going. 09 / 05 / 2021 You can still enter a new team even if you missed all the previous races - you'll get a late starter bonus to help you get going. 02 / 05 / 2021 You can still enter a new team even if you missed the first three races - you'll get a late starter bonus to help you get going. 18 / 04 / 2021 You can still enter a new team even if you missed the first two races - you'll get a late starter bonus to help you get going. The weightings for Alpine have increased because they've been a bit shit. 28 / 03 / 2021 You can still enter a new team even if you missed the first race - you'll get a late starter bonus to help you get going. 21 / 03 / 2021
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The Oscars 2009 - Sunday 25th FebruaryJust a bit of fun - my tips for the Oscars and who I'd have voted for if I could. I promise I won't change my predictions after the winners are announced! I must admit I haven't been following things as closely as usual this year so they might be all wrong ... don't go betting on my predictions! And if you do, don't use Betfair. Betfair recently gave away 9 grand of my winnings to someone pretending to be me and they claim they have no liability - they are even refusing to provide details of the crime to the police! They are a bunch of crooks and your money is not safe in their hands. Previous years' tips: 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008.
Best PictureNominees: My prediction: Slumdog Millionaire. My opinion: Kung Fu Panda, with second place going to In Bruges. Was I right? Yay!
Best Leading ActorNominees: My prediction: Oh lawks, I'm having trouble with this one. The bookies think Mickey Rourke but I'm plumping for Sean Penn. My opinion: Not sure. Maybe Tom Wilkinson for RocknRolla. Was I right? Yes! Beat the bookies on that one.
Best Leading ActressNominees: My prediction: A two-horse race between Streep and Winslet and hard to pick a winner - I'll plump for Kate Winslet. My opinion: Meryl Streep. Was I right? Yes!
Best Supporting ActorNominees: My prediction: This is the Helen Mirren of the year - it can't go anywhere but Heath Ledger, sadly. My opinion: Brad Pitt, Burn After Reading. Was I right? Yep, but that one was easy.
Best Supporting ActressNominees: My prediction: Well, I've got a hunch on Viola Davis, but I'm going to ignore it and plump for Penelope Cruz. My opinion: Amy Adams. Was I right? Yes
Best DirectorNominees: My prediction: Danny Boyle for Slumdog Millionaire. My opinion: David Fincher. Was I right? Yes again.
Best Animated FeatureNominees: My prediction: Wall-E. My opinion: Kung Fu Panda. Was I right? Yes
Best Original ScreenplayNominees: My prediction: Milk. My opinion: In Bruges. Was I right? Yes!
Best Adapted ScreenplayNominees: My prediction: It's the wrong winner, but I reckon it'll go to Slumdog Millionaire. My opinion: Benjamin Button. Was I right? Yes, sadly. Slumdog's a really good movie, but the screenplay was very much a weak link.
Best CinematographyNominees: My prediction: Slumdog Millionaire. My opinion: I agree, Slumdog. Was I right? Yes
Best Art DirectionNominees: My prediction: Benjamin Button. My opinion: The Spirit. I'm quite surprised that Slumdog Millionaire wasn't nominated in this category. Was I right? Yes
Best Special EffectsNominees: My prediction: Benjamin Button. My opinion: All three of these deserve to win, but the originality gives the edge to Benjamin Button. I think I would've kicked The Dark Knight off the list and replaced it with Hancock. Was I right? Yes, that makes me feel slightly better about The Golden Compass shockingly "winning" this award last year.
Overall resultsTwelve right from twelve predictions! Not quite sure how that happened, but I got them all right! Annoyingly, it's the only year I haven't been able to bet on them, because of the Betfair fiasco ... bugger!
The Bernard Matthews AwardWhat was 2008's Turkey of the Year? Well, I haven't seen a lot of bad movies this year - nothing got below a 2 all year, which is a first. Quantum of Solace wasn't totally awful, but deserves a mention here as it fell so far below expectations, as did Street Kings. I'm sure there were worse movies, but I'm going to give the turkey trophy to Twilight for achieving the impossible and making a vampire movie boring. But if you want to see a truly horrible movie, see if you can find a copy of Auto Recovery - that movie was so impossibly bad that I couldn't face sitting through it to review it.
Highlights of the YearThe movie industry continues to churn out quality stuff. Surprise of the year was probably Death Race - that movie had no right to be as good as it was. The same goes for You Don't Mess With the Zohan, which proved Adam Sandler is still learning and getting better. The Liam Neeson thriller Taken was undoubtedly the sleeper hit of the year - I must get around to reviewing it... Other movies that tickled my viewing pleasure-muscles this year and deserve your attention are Son of Rambow, RocknRolla, Burn After Reading, The Orphanage, Hancock and The Incredible Hulk. And if you haven't seen Tropic Thunder yet, go and rent it just so you can laugh heartily at Tom Cruise as a lardy baldy-man. Priceless.
Coming up in 2009The movie highlight of 2009 has to be the new Star Trek movie. Simon Pegg as Scotty - surely it can't go wrong... can it? With the unfortunate news of Spy Hunter hitting more problems, at least we have Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen to look forward to - that'll be an effects-fest if nothing else - then there's Watchmen, which is surely going to be brilliant, the Da Vinci Code sequel Angels & Demons, then the year rounds off with Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes, featuring both Robert Downey Jr and my current favourite Mark Strong. I can't wait. |
