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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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Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
Yo ho ho and a deja vu - Pirates 3's another Pirates 2.
Johnny Depp again effortlessly steals the show as the charismatically camp Jack Sparrow, as he has done in every episode of this overtly unamerican series. I say unamerican because apart from Depp himself, who's practically an honorary brit as it is, there are virtually no septics in the cast at all - unusual for a Disney film. Keira Knightley, Orlando "hambo" Bloom, Geoffrey Rush, Jack Davenport, Chow Yun-Fat, Bill Nighy, Mackenzie Crook, Kevin McNally - nary a yankee between them. For landlubbers this side of the pond, that gives things a homely feel, but with a huge budget to boot - something of a new experience for us limeys.
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End is exactly as you would expect. Great fun, not to be taken seriously, it's perfect brain-off entertainment held together by Johnny Depp's central creation and sublime special effects. The only reason it doesn't get a maximum five is because it's just too similar to the previous one. Arrr. I enjoyed this film: I think the average moviegoer will enjoy it: Testosterone Satisfaction Rating: - lots of family-friendly swashbuckling. To enjoy this film you should: watch the second one first.
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It's nearly summer again and the Pirates wheel rumbles on. Whether this instalment is to your liking will depend heavily
on your opinion of its predecessors. Many viewers who enjoyed the first Pirates of the Caribbean
found 
The colossal bag of booty spent on the movie has the happy consequence of some quite stunning special effects. It seems like the Oscars
have only just passed, but this is already an early contender for 2007 Visual Effects. The key to good effects is blending
them with the live action - and for once they've achieved it even in the headlining set pieces. Not since
Good fun is what it's all about. From the first scenes containing some rather adult jokes - subtly done so the kids won't
notice - we're tickled throughout. Whether it's the monkey monkeying around or the painfully obvious screenplay gags,
a smile is never far away. Even the surreal scene containing multiple Jack Sparrows was amusing - though this is a
Marmite scene that many viewers will dislike. Fans of the series will be pleased to notice the wide-open ending -
though the near-three-hour running time will leave your bum cheeks hoping that Pirates 4 is some way off. Fortunately
there's always something happening and it always looks fantastic - and top marks to director Gore Verbinski for
giving his pirates crappy teeth - now there's a detail that confirms the unamericanness of it all!
