Race our writers! – Limitless chip produces results in F1 Fantasy at Japanese GP

Being able to select five of the top six finishers of the Japanese Grand Prix was always going to yield a bucketload of points in Fantasy F1, and it proved to be enough to see Igor Dobron move to the head of the Motorsport: Race our Writers featured league.

Dobron’s ‘norrisica’ squad has amassed an impressive 845 points from the opening three rounds and, utilising the Limitless chip – allowing a player to spend as much as they want on their team rather than being constrained by the $100million cost cap – made all the difference.

Max Verstappen, Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri finished in the podium places at Suzuka and all three were in Dobron’s team – although using the DRS boost on Norris meant some points were left on the table.

Team-mates George Russell and Andrea Kimi Antonelli were also selected, as well as the Mercedes squad itself, while McLaren also weighed in with 71 points.

Nour El Ghandour is just four points off the top spot, having the same team other than Charles Leclerc replacing Antonelli.

The highest score of the round was split between Danny Rowbotham, Samuel Weetch and Marti Costa, who all brought in a huge 293 points, all using their Limitless chip and having Verstappen as their DRS Boost.

In terms of the Motorsport.com writers themselves, F1 reporter Fil Cleeren was the big mover of the weekend, jumping up to second among his peers with a total for the round of 167 points.

However, Erwin Jaeggi remains the pick of the writers with ‘The Jaeggimeisters’ totalling 565 points, a lead of 22 points over Cleeren.

Japan was the first race of a triple-header and Bahrain is next up, check back on Motorsport.com from Wednesday where we will preview the next round of Race our Writers.

We will bring you ‘expert’ analysis from what two of our writers are doing with their respective teams and predict what alterations could improve your chances of progressing up the leaderboard.

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