Losers Team scores: Belgian grand prix

While the FIA was giving out half scores – pah! – the Losers League gave out loads of full-blooded double scores because (a) we are generous and wise and ever so fabulous, and (b) it was a default DRS (Double Race Scores) grand prix so we had to do it because that's how the League works.

August has seen some changes in the F1 Losers League. This race introduces Fast Forecasts, in which teams can make low-risk predictions. We have also introduced a disruptive new results tool Break Assist, which spells trouble for your team if you don't score enough points.

Good job we have these new additions because there wasn't much to talk about at the shortest grand prix in history. 

Read on for the Losers Teams scores for Belgium, all newly formatted to make everything so much more transparent.

BIGGEST LOSERS IN BELGIUM

Let's have a look at the highest scoring Losers Teams at the Belgian grand prix.

• Thanks to yet another Pitlane Punt success, Team Name score first place and 272 points, the second highest points haul of the season so far.
• In joint second place are Clean Trolls with 104 points, who, er, lapped up points when Perez slid into barriers on the formation lap.
• Also in second with 104 points are Mancunian Badboy Racing, bolstered by a wise Ejector Seat deployment.
• Haas once again delivered for WereDrivingInReverse and Thomas's Tractors, who scooped 84 and 77 points respectively.
• Thanks to their Fast Forecast success (see below) Tractors nudged above Back of the shed, who find themselves in a still-impressive 6th place in Belgium.
  
  

TEAM ACTIONS IN BELGIUM

DRS: 

• Belgium was a default DRS race, and every team opted for double scores. Multiples all round! Have a read about the future of DRS and the launch of brand new Boost Buttons.

Pitlane Punts:

• League leader Team Name scored with the Hungry Hungry Yuki Punt, who stuffed his face during the Belgian grand prix lull, saying "I had an espresso to wake me. I had a sandwich and some soup. I am quite full now." A feast of 200 DRS-doubled points for Team Name.
• Mancunian Badboy Racing and HAASN'T A CHANCE lost the Geunther's Plucky Sluggards Punt. A loss of 10 and 30 point stakes respectively.
• HAASN'T A CHANCE also lost out in spectacular fashion with the Russell Hustle Punt, with the Williams man taking his first F1 podium. Luckily, HAASN'T has a second chance to land the punt at the Netherlands grand prix.
• Pierre Ghastly failed with the Ocon Odds-On Punt. A 30 point stake lost in the wind.
• There are several ongoing Punts yet to pay out. Team Name and Murraylivesforeverinourhearts are waiting for animal action with the Wildlife Wager. And numerous teams are desperately waiting on Bottas news so they can win the (now closed) Merc Merk Punt.

Fast Forecasts:

• Thomas's Tractors got an almost-win with the Qualifying Forecast, with Tsunoda finishing 15th rather than the predicted 16th. 5 points to Thomas.
• HAASN'T A CHANCE, who really went all-in this race, lost three Fast Forecasts. Russell didn't qualify 16th, Ocon didn't finish 11th, and Tsunoda lost zero places trundling behind the safety car on the opening lap. Not even close: minus-15 points to CHANCE.
• For similar farcical opening lap reasons, VroomDoom lost 5 points for predicting Bottas would lose places on lap one.

Ejector Seats: 

• Mancunian Badboy Racing gave their team a good shake in time for the Belgian race, dumping Leclerc for Mazepin and ditching Aston Martin for Alfa Romeo. With double scores taken into account, this earned them 16 extra points in Belgium. Long may that continue.

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PODIUM OF SHAME

Which teams forgot how to score in Belgium? Which teams are bringing shame upon our family and certainly won't get invited to our autumnal hummus roast round the back of Sainsbury's next month?

• Panda Pops limped to 23rd place, hit by another zero score for a resurgent (and lucky) Williams team.
• Murraylivesforeverinourhearts found themselves in 24th, with Gasly and Leclerc doing them no favours at all.
• In last place in Belgium was It’s a trap Lando!, whose team members failed to reach a double digit score. Ouch. Which brings us to... 

Break Assist: 

For teams with lower race scores, the stakes are now much higher with the introduction of Break Assist.

• The random team forced to play a Fast Forecast is NEEEOOOOWWWW, who will be predicting an 11th place race result for Russell at the Netherlands grand prix.
• Next, we're randomly picking Cruthers Car Co. to play the Romeo Oh Romeo Pitlane Punt at the Netherlands race.
• And for coming dead last, It’s a trap Lando! get an Ejector Seat launched whether they like it or not. Sorry, Lando!, you've lost Gasly. We're replacing him with Leclerc.

LOSERS TEAM SCORES IN BELGIUM

1st	Team Name	272
2nd	Clean Trolls	104
3rd	Mancunian Badboy Racing	104
4th	WereDrivingInReverse	84
5th	Thomas's Tractors	77
6th	Back of the shed	76
7th	Fernando Analonso	72
8th	Gunther's Gonna Get Ya	72
9th	Tardi Minardi	66
10th	Haas Beens	62
11th	LockedDownLosers	62
12th	VroomDoom	61
13th	Not good on the BENds	56
14th	Lou-sers	52
15th	Nikita Mazepimp	52
16th	The Pit Lockers	44
17th	HAASN'T A CHANCE	41
18th	Pierre Ghastly	40
19th	NEEEOOOOWWWW	30
20th	The Tour de France is Better	30
21st	Steady Jordan	28
22nd	Cruthers Car Co.	26
23rd	Panda Pops	24
24th	Murraylivesforeverinourhearts	22
25th	It’s a trap Lando!	18

MORE POINTS

Here are the Race points for Belgium.

And here's how it's affected the Standings.

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WHAT'S NEXT?

As we publish this, we're launching the Lucky Spanner, a self-destruct button for hopeless Losers Teams. Our next two races are Netherlands on September 5th and Italy on September 12th. Look out for our new points element Sprint Fail in Italy. And then on September 15th, every team gets a fourth Ejector Seat.