The draw for round 4 has now been made. If you're lucky enough to still be in the competition, check out who you're up against here.

Thanks to an early suggestion by SIDDY, along with some positive feedback, I am today able to launch a trial knockout competition. Hopefully, this will add a bit of interest to those teams that are not doing quite so well in the league.

The format is simple:

• The knockout competition will operate over the final 13 races of the 2009 F1 season, so the first round will be Spain.
• Every team has been entered into the first round draw.
• The draw for every round is completely random.
• The second round draw will only contain 4096 teams (a factor of 2), so some teams have been given a bye through round one.
• Each match will have only one winner.
• In the event of a tie in the final, the tiebreaker will be used to decide the winner.
• In the event of a tie in any other round, the away team will go through to the next round.

As pointed out in this comment, I had made a mistake with the scoring of the Australian qualifying results. I had awarded points for the Toyota drivers, cars and engines as if they had finished 19th and 20th. I should have awarded zero points for these because they were disqualified.

Thank you to swedishchef2003 for spotting the error, reporting it and finally testing my fix. Please continue to shout if you notice any scoring problems on the site.

Well, that's it. You've created your teams and entered your leagues... now its time to sit back and enjoy the season. And just hope that you made the right choices!

!!! ENTRIES ARE NOW CLOSED !!!

You can no longer enter new teams or edit existing teams and you can now view the teams of other users. You can still enter your existing teams into leagues, but this ability will be removed on Friday 17th April 2009 at 23:59 GMT. Also at this time, if you have created a league that has less than 2 teams entered, that league will be deleted.

This site is experiencing an amazing popularity boom for the 2009 F1 season. We already have 4 times more teams entered this season than in 2008. This is great news!

I would be very grateful if you could help fund this impressive growth by contributing to the ever increasing server costs of the site. With the additional users comes an increase in bandwidth requirement, so I need to move up to the next package level provided by eUKhost.

Please use this Chipin widget to contribute in any way you can. This site is FREE and will always remain free, so any small amount you can afford will be gratefully received.

In recent weeks, theres has been a flurry of comments on this site. In an attempt to keep all comments in one location, I am launching a new forum. I've split the forum up into various categories, so hopefully there should be somewhere to post any of your questions, comments or discussions. I'll also keep you updated with my plans for the site, using the announcements section.

Please visit the new forum, start a new thread, and enjoy...

Ian

It's that time of year again... get your thinking caps on and select your team for the 2009 Fantasy Formula 1 competition. You can also set up your own league so that you and your friends can compete against each other.

The deadline for entries into the Fantasy Formula 1 2009 Championship is Friday 27th March 23:59 GMT.

If you are new to this Fantasy Formula 1 game, first you will need to create a user account. It's quick and simple and just requires you to enter a user name and a valid email address. Once registered, you can begin creating your leagues and teams completely free of charge. I would definately recommend that you read through all of the instructions and check out the component prices first though.

If you've played in previous years, you can login and then Create your team now. If you ran your own league last year, all the teams have been removed, but you can use the same league again.

Don't forget that you can also add your league table to your own website, blog or forum using a simple piece of code. Read how to do this.

The 2008 Formula One season is now over. Congratulations to Lewis Hamilton on a great championship victory. Commiserations to Filipe Massa who celebrated for roughly 10 seconds before realising the Hamilton had finished 5th and claimed the title. I'm sure you'll all agree that it has been a thrilling season, filled with the usual controversy but some much appreciated overtaking.

Congratulations to Trev Torpy, a Building Services Engineer from Jersey in the Chanel Islands, whose team Red H Racing 3 were the winners of an extremely close fought 2008 Fantasy Formula 1 competition. Red H Racing 3 were right up there all season, along with Michael F1A, Historical Ponage and Mac Attack, who all finished on the same points.

You can now add your fantasy formula 1 league table to any website just by inserting a small piece of HTML code. Visit http://www.jonathanhadden.com/ff1.php to see this new feature in action.

A huge thanks to jopn for helping me test this new feature.

The look of the table should fit in with your site automatically and it can be further customised using CSS.

To include your league (or any other league) on your website, just copy and paste the following code into your HTML:

< script type="text/javascript" src="http://fantasyf1game.net/leaguefeed/xyz">< /script>