Index 2011

FOOTBALL
Season 2010/11
08.01 FA Cup Third Round: Ronnie f*cking Radford, Immortalised
10.01 Club-by-club half-time verdict
24.01 Berbatov hits another treble
16.02 Rooney reduces Manchester United's title rivals to one
27.02 Carling Cup: Martins benefits from last-minute Arsenal mix-up
04.04 Rooney banned for hat-trick rant as Manchester United move in on title
16.04 FA Cup Semis: Manchester City and Stoke City end their long wait
03.05 Chelsea eye chance to take title lead
14.05 FA Cup Final: Toure strikes as Manchester City end their barren run
19.05 Survival Sunday calculations
24.05 Birmingham and Blackpool drop in dramatic finale
31.05 Swans soar after Sinclair hat-trick
Season 2011/12
06.08 The Championship 2011/12
13.08 The Premier League 2011/12
30.08 Manchester clubs make big early impression
20.12 All eyes on Manchester at the halfway stage
Euro 2012
25.03 All to easy for England in Cardiff
03.06 England escape with draw against Swiss
02.09 Deutschland uber alles
06.09 Narrow win edges England closer
07.10 Rooney sees red as England qualify
11.10 Scotland slump out while Irish enjoy the rub of the green
16.11 Ireland exorcise playoff hoodoo
02.12 Finals draw
FIFA
01.06 Blatter gets four more years
30.07 World Cup 2014: England draw both Euro hosts
11.11 FIFA were wrong in poppy wrangle
Copa America
01.07 Argentina hope home advantage ends 18-year wait
25.07 Suarez and Forlan fire Uruguay to victory

CRICKET
End of Ashes series 2010/11
03.01 England win Ashes series after handing out another thumping
07.01 Statistics show England dominance
05.02 Australia win the One-Dayers. No one notices.
Cricket World Cup
18.02 Group A preview
18.02 Group B preview
19.02 Full results
02.03 Record-breaker O'Brien helps incredible Ireland beat bungling England
11.03 Bangladesh defeat leaves England hopes on a knife edge
20.03 England progress against Windies as Aussie run ends
30.03 Co-hosts battle for world crown
02.04 Dhoni leads India to World Cup glory
Summer 2011
26.05 England face finalists in tough summer schedule
09.07 England scrape Sri Lanka series wins
23.08 England whitewash India to seal number one spot
04.11 Pakistan cricket scam puts ICC in the dock

FORMULA 1 2011
19.04 Hamilton halts Vettel's speedy start
31.05 Vettel streaks clear as Hamilton snaps
14.06 Senna-sational
10.07 Alonso seals Silverstone win but Red Bull retain control
29.07 BBC breaks the chain
04.08 Button excels in the wet again
13.10 Vettel completes the inevitable: stats
29.11 Team-by-team review

RUGBY WORLD CUP
08.09 Preview: Can New Zealand hold their nerve?
09.09 Complete results and fixtures
01.10 England break Scotland's brave hearts
09.10 England flop to France - Wales, Wallabies and All Blacks advance
15.10 New Zealand face yet another French test
24.10 New Zealand end 24 years of hurt

WORLD SNOOKER
15.04 Odds against Robertson and the Rocket
25.04 Selby breezes into the quarters
01.05 Trump fairytale faces Final test
01.05 Higgins holds his nerve to win fourth Crucible title

OLYMPICS/ATHLETICS/SPORTS PERSONALITY
21.04 BOA backs down in funding wrangle
18.05 Detailed torch route announced
28.07 One year to go
04.09 Mo Farah flies to join Greene with gold
22.12 Manx Missile Cavendish odds-on for SPOTY prize

NON-SPORTS COVERAGE
MEDIA
27.01 Gray and Keys over-step the line in NewsCorp's annus horribilis
01.04 Ah, tits! Daily Sport goes bust
25.05 Superinjunction farce leaves Giggs exposed
06.07 How low can the News of the World go?
19.07 Murdoch empire starts to fall apart
27.10 Private Eye still packs a punch at 50

POLITICS
May elections
21.02 AV debate divides opinion
05.05 Full results: AV referendum and English councils
05.05 Full results: Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland
07.05 UK rejects AV as Lib Dems crumble
Party conferences
21.09 Fighting talk from the Lib Dems has come too late
30.09 Miliband still struggling to make an impression
06.10 Cat fight overshadows Conservative conference
Other events
14.01 Miliband makes his breakthrough in Oldham
21.01 Resignation season
04.03 Barnsley Central destroys last remnants of Clegg's credibility
21.03 MPs back Libya action but confusion reigns over Resolution 1973
23.03 Osborne will not be judged on this Budget
08.08 London's burning
15.10 Fox falls on his sword
17.12 Labour relief at Feltham result

MUSIC
14.05 Eurovision: Azerbaijan surprise leaves Britain feeling Blue
20.06 Glastonbury and the Hyde Park hiatus
04.07 Glastonbury and Hyde Park: Mud, sweat and beers
26.12 Merry Christmas to the Military Wives

MISCELLANEOUS
11.02 Best foot forward
09.04 Grand National: McCain legacy continues with Ballabriggs victory
27.04 25 years on, Chernobyl continues to cast its shadow
27.04 The alternative Royal Wedding
09.06 Gannin' alang the Scotswood Road
11.11 Remembrance Day, lest we forget
31.12 Index 2011

F1 2011: Team-by-team review

1 RED BULL-RENAULT 650 points
1 Sebastian Vettel (Ger) 392 (11 wins)
3 Mark Webber (Aus) 258 (1 win)
RED BULL and Vettel did in 2011 exactly what they had threatened to do in 2010 by utterly dominating their respective championships. While their 2010 victories came in spite of reliability issues and driver error, this year Vettel was seemingly on a one-man mission to break as many records as he could. Twice, the 24-year-old German went on a streak of winning five races out of six on his way to becoming the youngest double world champion.
Vettel notched up 11 Grand Prix wins and achieved more pole positions in a single season (14) than anyone previously, beating Nigel Mansell's record from 1992. Vettel also beat Mansell's record of leading more Grand Prix laps (739) in a single season in F1 history. Even with the proviso that this was a longer F1 season than most in the past, this was still a huge achievement.
Team-mate Webber had a less happy time with Vettel's imperious performance in qualifying converting into a race-day record that the Australian was simply powerless to match. In 19 Grand Prix, Webber out-qualified Vettel just three times, and he also had a better final result on only three occasions. The last of these came in Webber's solitary Grand Prix win of the season at the final race in Brazil but, while the victory did at least promote him into third place in the championship by a single point, the feeling remains that 2010 was Webber's last chance of ultimate glory.

2 McLAREN-MERCEDES 497
2 Jenson Button (Gbr) 270 (3 wins)
5 Lewis Hamilton (Gbr) 227 (3 wins)
McLAREN was the only team able to hold a light to the dominant Red Bull on a consistent basis with the two drivers racing to three wins each. That is pretty much, however, where the similarities to the respective campaigns of Button and Hamilton end.
Considering their parity in totalling their race wins, that Hamilton finished 43 points behind his team-mate is not inconsiderable - but then that is what happens to drivers who get into too many tangles. Indeed, Hamilton was involved in six incidents with Ferrari's Felipe Massa alone in a season-long spat which seemingly developed from a grouchy rivalry to outright hostility.
Hamilton's race day problems also negated a strong qualifying performance in which he beat Button in 13 of the 19 sessions. But what Button lacked on a Saturday, he more than made up for on Sundays, generally staying out of trouble and recording a series of highly impressive results in the second half of the season. In a low point, the Frome flyer suffered consecutive retirements in the British and German GPs in mid-season but, after that, he finished off the podium only once more in the remaining nine races. Even then, that was a fourth-placed finish in Korea and it all contributed to a runners-up finish in the drivers' championship.
Considering that this season could have so easily been a Red Bull whitewash, Button can reflect positively on an excellent campaign. Meanwhile, Hamilton needs to get his head sorted out, though there were signs that he is finally doing exactly that in much-improved late-season performances in Korea and Abu Dhabi.

3 FERRARI 375
4 Fernando Alonso (Spa) 257 (1 win)
6 Felipe Massa (Bra) 118

FERRARI suffered another dispiriting campaign with just one win all season coming courtesy of Alonso after he took advantage of an uncharacteristic Red Bull error in the pits at Silverstone. Indeed, his team mate Massa failed even to appear on the podium once - and his fifth-placed finishes in the Grand Prix in Malaysia, Europe, Britain, Germany and Abu Dhabi were the height of his attainment. Massa was also out-qualified by Alonso on 15 out of 19 occasions, the second worst record in the paddock, and so it was no surprise to see Ferrari warn the Brazilian that the 2012 season represent his last chance at Maranello.

It must be said, though, that Massa's performance was possibly closer to the natural ability of this Ferrari model. Alonso seemed at times to outperform his team and, after a slow start, the Spaniard finished on the podium in four races out of five in a mid-season purple patch. That is all it proved to be, however, and there were only three further podium finishes followed in the last nine races.

Nevertheless, this still gave him a creditable total of nine top-three placings in the campaign as a whole but Alonso will demand so much more of his team next season as he looks to beat Vettel in the race to become F1's youngest ever triple world champion, a record currently held by Ayrton Senna. 

4 MERCEDES 165

7 Nico Rosberg (Ger) 89
8 Michael Schumacher (Ger) 76

While German giants MERCEDES went backwards in a season that many expected them to up their game, one thing did not change - Nico Rosberg's dominance of seven-time former world champion Michael Schumacher. Rosberg out-qualified his more illustrious compatriot on no fewer than 16 occasions out of 19, the best record of any driver against his team-mate in the paddock.
It is a shame then that, unlike last season when the younger German scored three podium finishes, Rosberg was unable to make it into the top-three once this season. Nevertheless, Rosberg still outscored Schumacher and finished in the points in all but one of the last 12 races.
Just like last season, Schumacher improved as the season went on, and he can at least boast that he got the team its best result of the year with a weather-assisted fourth-placed finish in Canada. But that result is rather counter-balanced by a poor record of five retirements in the season. Schumacher will turn 42 years old in January and perhaps it is time that he realises that he will never be the champion he once was. For a start, the Mercedes team still has far too much work to do to catch the top three.

5 RENAULT 73
10 Vitaly Petrov (Rus) 37

11 Nick Heidfeld (Ger) 34

18 Bruno Senna (Bra) 2
After the first two hectic races, it looked as if the two RENAULT drivers were going to challenge those top three teams - or at least appear prominently in the skirmish behind Red Bull. Petrov and Heidfeld had one podium apiece in Australia and Malaysia respectively but, after that bright start, the big points pretty much dried up. A smattering of eighth- to tenth-placed finishes for both men meant the Renault team was always likely to end up topping the mid-table battle - but, in the end, it was a close call and only secured by four points.
In that respect, Bruno Senna's two points for ninth place at Monza - though not decisive - were hugely welcome after he replaced Heidfeld in the team for the second half of the season. However, some encouraging performances from Ayrton's nephew went unrewarded in terms of points - and so it is perhaps easy to understand why Lotus Renault has chosen to pair Petrov with 2007 world champion Kimi Raikkonen instead for next season.

6 FORCE INDIA-MERCEDES 69
9 Adrian Sutil (Ger) 42
13 Paul di Resta (Gbr) 27
Button and Hamilton may steal the headlines at McLaren but there was a third British driver on the circuit who impressed in his rookie season at FORCE INDIA. Scot Paul di Resta opened his account with two points from the opening two races in Australia and Malaysia before a tough, pointless eight-race spell followed despite him regularly out-qualifying his more experienced team-mate Sutil. Credit must go to di Resta, then, for the way he turned it around to score in six of the last nine races.
German Sutil also improved as the campaign went on with only four points finishes in the first 11 races but five top-ten placings in the last eight Grand Prix, including ninth, eighth and sixth in the last three races. If only the Force India team could put a full season of form together - but, then, it was always said by legendary BBC commentator Murray Walker that if is the longest word in F1.
Having enjoyed a bright start in 2010 that faded, 2011 went the opposite way with a flurry of points at the end as Force India gave Renault a bit of a fright. The driver line-up for 2012 has yet to be confirmed but hopes will be higher of further improvement whoever takes the seats.

7 SAUBER-FERRARI 44
12 Kamui Kobayashi (Jpn) 30
16 Sergio Perez (Mex) 14
20 Pedro de la Rosa (Spa) 0
Following an inauspicious opening weekend in Australia, in which both drivers were disqualified after the race for technical infringements, SAUBER soon settled into the expected mid-table role, picking up points here and there.
Unsurprisingly, the majority of them came from Japan's Kobayashi, a driver whose aggressive style in the middle of the pack during the last two years has earned him plenty of plaudits. At Monaco this season, Kobayashi was at his best and finished fifth, the highlight of six successive points finishes in the first part of the season. Sadly, he was not able to continue this run and he scored points just three times in the last 12 races.
While Kobayashi enjoyed his best weekend in Monte Carlo, team-mate Perez - the first Mexican in F1 for 30 years - suffered a nasty crash in the tunnel, missing that race and the one which followed in Canada. Away from that, though, Perez's form was mildly impressive with six points finishes and season-best seventh place at Silverstone enough for Sauber to hold off Toro Rosso in the Constructors' championship. The two drivers' reward for their efforts is a seat each for the 2012 campaign.

8 TORO ROSSO-FERRARI 41
14 Jaime Alguersuari (Spa) 26

15 Sebastien Buemi (Swi) 15

With a combined age of 44, the TORO ROSSO team has an enjoyable refreshing take on its driver line-up. Spaniard Alguersuari and Switzerland's Buemi lined up for their second full season together and improved on their effort from last year with more than three times as many points.
Indeed, on four separate occasions - in Canada, Hungary, Italy and Korea - both drivers finished a race in the top ten together, though it was also the case that certain circuits, such as Malaysia, Spain and Germany, favoured neither man. A low point came at Spa, the only race in which both cars retired, but in two of the four races which followed, in Italy and Korea, the fast-improving Alguersuari finished in a season-high of seventh. Buemi's best finishes were two eighth places in Australia and Hungary as Toro Rosso fell just three points short of matching Sauber.

9 WILLIAMS-COSWORTH 5

17 Rubens Barrichello (Bra) 4

19 Pastor Maldonado (Ven) 1

After an incredible 19 seasons, it looks like it could be farewell to Rubens Barrichello. The Brazilian has raced in 322 Grand Prix, more than any other driver in F1 history, and driven enough miles to go around the world twice. His support to Michael Schumacher at Ferrari and, later, to Jenson Button in their season at Brawn GP has resulted in Barrichello being portrayed as a right-hand man but he enjoyed plenty of moments in the sun himself.
Only four men - Schumacher, Alain Prost, Ayrton Senna and Fernando Alonso - have finished on the podium more times, and only Schumacher has finished more races in any points scoring position. In all, Barrichello won 11 Grand Prix and enjoyed a memorable maiden win, at the 123rd attempt, at the German GP in 2000, having started in 18th.
Sadly, in perhaps WILLIAMS' worst-ever season, the team was never going to provide him with a race-winning car for this particular campaign. But, as game as ever, Barrichello still recorded successive ninth-placed finishes in Monaco and Canada to finish on four points. Aged 26, Maldonado is closer to the start of his motor racing career and the Venezuelan will hopefully benefit in the long run from being in the same team as Barrichello. The Williams car did little to help this rookie and, though he managed to pick up his first F1 point in Singapore, three retirements from the last four races meant a hugely disappointing season closed at its lowest ebb. 

10 TEAM LOTUS-RENAULT 0
21 Jarno Trulli (Ita)
22 Heikki Kovalainen (Fin)
28 Karun Chandhok (Ind)
For the second year running, TEAM LOTUS finished as the best of the back-markers while failing to get on the board. The experienced line-up of Trulli and Kovalainen failed to score for a second season in a row but a smattering of 13th- and 14th-placed finishes throughout almost provides some vague veneer of respectability.
Still, Trulli's race-winning antics at Renault in 2004 and Kovalainen's two years at McLaren in 2007-08 now seem to belong to a parallel universe. The two drivers can only hope that a change of name to Caterham and more Malaysian investment can make their ride more competitive in 2012.

11 HRT-COSWORTH 0
23 Vitantonio Liuzzi (Ita)
26 Daniel Ricciardo (Aus)
27 Narain Karthikeyan (Ind)
HRT recovered from another embarrassing opening weekend to avoid the indignity of finishing last in the Constructors' championship after Liuzzi's 13th place finish following the torrential rain in Canada.
First, thought, it was a case of deja vu as, for the second year running, the Spanish team's cars arrived at the opening Grand Prix without any pre-season testing - and it showed. Liuzzi and Karthikeyan both finished outside of the re-instated 107% qualifying threshold and failed to qualify. Thankfully, that never happened again but the second race was only modestly better with a double retirement in Malaysia.
Little did anyone expect then that Liuzzi would haul HRT off the bottom but, with this in the bag, the team was seemingly content to amble its way through the rest of the races. Perhaps the arrival of Pedro de la Rosa for 2012 will encourage a little more from this perennial minnow.

12 VIRGIN-COSWORTH 0
24 Jerome d'Ambrosio (Bel)
25 Timo Glock (Ger)
A change to Russian backers failed to bring a change of fortune to the VIRGIN team as it finished 2011 exactly in the same place as it had finished 2010 - beaten by HRT to the bottom of the table and without a single point. There was no surprise that Glock out-qualified his rookie team-mate d'Ambrosio on a regular basis but the Belgian youngster had the last laugh, finishing in 14th - one place ahead of the German in the team's best performance in Turkey.
Russian manufacturer Marussia has further increased their stake in the team and apparently secured its status until 2014. Consequently, the Virgin racing cars will carry the Marussia name from 2012 onwards with Glock joined by another F1 rookie, Charles Pic. A finish at least above HRT for next year is a must.

F1 2011 SEASON RESULTS

PODIUMS

Australian GP (Pole: Sebastian Vettel)

1 Sebastian Vettel (Ger) Red Bull-Renault

2 Lewis Hamilton (Gbr) McLaren-Mercedes

3 Vitaly Petrov (Rus) Renault

Malaysian GP (Pole: Sebastian Vettel)

1 Sebastian Vettel (Ger) Red Bull-Renault

2 Jenson Button (Gbr) McLaren-Mercedes

3 Nick Heidfeld (Ger) Renault

Chinese GP (Pole: Sebastian Vettel)

1 Lewis Hamilton (Gbr) McLaren-Mercedes

2 Sebastian Vettel (Ger) Red Bull-Renault

3 Mark Webber (Aus) Red Bull-Renault

Turkish GP (Pole: Sebastian Vettel)

1 Sebastian Vettel (Ger) Red Bull-Renault

2 Mark Webber (Aus) Red Bull-Renault

3 Fernando Alonso (Spa) Ferrari

Spanish GP (Pole: Mark Webber)

1 Sebastian Vettel (Ger) Red Bull-Renault

2 Lewis Hamilton (Gbr) McLaren-Mercedes

3 Jenson Button (Gbr) McLaren-Mercedes

Monaco GP (Pole: Sebastian Vettel)

1 Sebastian Vettel (Ger) Red Bull-Renault

2 Fernando Alonso (Spa) Ferrari

3 Jenson Button (Gbr) McLaren-Mercedes

Canadian GP (Pole: Sebastian Vettel)

1 Jenson Button (Gbr) McLaren-Mercedes

2 Sebastian Vettel (Ger) Red Bull-Renault 

3 Mark Webber (Aus) Red Bull-Renault

European GP (Valencia) (Pole: Sebastian Vettel)

1 Sebastian Vettel (Ger) Red Bull-Renault

2 Fernando Alonso (Spa) Ferrari

3 Mark Webber (Aus) Red Bull-Renault

British GP (Pole: Mark Webber)

1 Fernando Alonso (Spa) Ferrari

2 Sebastian Vettel (Ger) Red Bull-Renault

3 Mark Webber (Aus) Red Bull-Renault

German GP (Pole: Mark Webber)

1 Lewis Hamilton (Gbr) McLaren-Mercedes

2 Fernando Alonso (Spa) Ferrari

3 Mark Webber (Aus) Red Bull-Renault

Hungarian GP (Pole: Sebastian Vettel)

1 Jenson Button (Gbr) McLaren-Mercedes

2 Sebastian Vettel (Ger) Red Bull-Renault

3 Fernando Alonso (Spa) Ferrari

Belgian GP (Pole: Sebastian Vettel)
1 Sebastian Vettel (Ger) Red Bull-Renault
2 Mark Webber (Aus) Red Bull-Renault
3 Jenson Button (Gbr) McLaren-Mercedes

Italian GP (Pole: Sebastian Vettel)
1 Sebastian Vettel (Ger) Red Bull-Renault
2 Jenson Button (Gbr) McLaren-Mercedes
3 Fernando Alonso (Spa) Ferrari

Singapore GP (Pole: Sebastian Vettel)
1 Sebastian Vettel (Ger) Red Bull-Renault
2 Jenson Button (Gbr) McLaren-Mercedes
3 Mark Webber (Aus) Red Bull-Renault

Japanese GP (Pole: Sebastian Vettel)
1 Jenson Button (Gbr) McLaren-Mercedes
2 Fernando Alonso (Spa) Ferrari
3 Sebastian Vettel (Ger) Red Bull-Renault

Korean GP (Pole: Lewis Hamilton)
1 Sebastian Vettel (Ger) Red Bull-Renault
2 Lewis Hamilton (Gbr) McLaren-Mercedes
3 Mark Webber (Aus) Red Bull-Renault

Indian GP (Pole: Sebastian Vettel)
1 Sebastian Vettel (Ger) Red Bull-Renault
2 Jenson Button (Gbr) McLaren-Mercedes
3 Fernando Alonso (Spa) Ferrari

Abu Dhabi GP (Pole: Sebastian Vettel)
1 Lewis Hamilton (Gbr) McLaren-Mercedes
2 Fernando Alonso (Spa) Ferrari
3 Jenson Button (Gbr) McLaren-Mercedes

Brazilian GP (Pole: Sebastian Vettel)
1 Mark Webber (Aus) Red Bull-Renault
2 Sebastian Vettel (Ger) Red Bull-Renault
3 Jenson Button (Gbr) McLaren-Mercedes

F1 2011 FINAL STANDINGS

World Drivers' Championship

1 Sebastian Vettel (Ger) Red Bull-Renault 392 (11 wins)

2 Jenson Button (Gbr) McLaren-Mercedes 270 (3 wins)
3 Mark Webber (Aus) Red Bull-Renault 258 (1 win)
4 Fernando Alonso (Spa) Ferrari 257 (1 win)

5 Lewis Hamilton (Gbr) McLaren-Mercedes 227 (3 wins)

6 Felipe Massa (Bra) Ferrari 118

7 Nico Rosberg (Ger) Mercedes 89
8 Michael Schumacher (Ger) Mercedes 76

9 Adrian Sutil (Ger) Force India-Mercedes 42
10 Vitaly Petrov (Rus) Renault 37

11 Nick Heidfeld (Ger) Renault 34

12 Kamui Kobayashi (Jpn) Sauber-Ferrari 30

13 Paul di Resta (Gbr) Force India-Mercedes 27
14 Jaime Alguersuari (Spa) Toro Rosso-Ferrari 26

15 Sebastien Buemi (Swi) Toro Rosso-Ferrari 15
16 Sergio Perez (Mex) Sauber-Ferrari 14

17 Rubens Barrichello (Bra) Williams-Cosworth 4

18 Bruno Senna (Bra) Renault 2

19 Pastor Maldonado (Ven) Williams-Cosworth 1

Nine drivers failed to score: (20 Pedro de la Rosa (Spa) Sauber-Ferrari, 21 Jarno Trulli (Ita) Lotus-Renault, 22 Heikki Kovalainen (Fin) Lotus-Renault, 23 Vitantonio Liuzzi (Ita) HRT-Cosworth, 24 Jerome d'Ambrosio (Bel) Virgin-Cosworth, 25 Timo Glock (Ger) Virgin-Cosworth, 26 Daniel Ricciardo (Aus) HRT-Cosworth, 27 Narain Karthikeyan (Ind) HRT-Cosworth, 28 Karun Chandhok (Ind) Lotus-Renault).

Constructors' Championship

1 Red Bull-Renault (Aut) 650

2 McLaren-Mercedes (Gbr) 497

3 Ferrari (Ita) 375

4 Mercedes (Ger) 165

5 Renault (Gbr) 73

6 Force India-Mercedes (Ind) 69

7 Sauber-Ferrari (Swi) 44
8 Toro Rosso-Ferrari (Ita) 41

9 Williams-Cosworth (Gbr) 5

There were three teams (10 Lotus-Renault (Mal), 11 HRT-Cosworth (Spa), and 12 Virgin-Cosworth (Rus)) which failed to score.

F1 2011: Vettel completes the inevitable

F1 2011 SEASON RESULTS

PODIUMS

Australian GP (Pole: Sebastian Vettel)

1 Sebastian Vettel (Ger) Red Bull-Renault

2 Lewis Hamilton (Gbr) McLaren-Mercedes

3 Vitaly Petrov (Rus) Renault

Malaysian GP (Pole: Sebastian Vettel)

1 Sebastian Vettel (Ger) Red Bull-Renault

2 Jenson Button (Gbr) McLaren-Mercedes

3 Nick Heidfeld (Ger) Renault

Chinese GP (Pole: Sebastian Vettel)

1 Lewis Hamilton (Gbr) McLaren-Mercedes

2 Sebastian Vettel (Ger) Red Bull-Renault

3 Mark Webber (Aus) Red Bull-Renault

Turkish GP (Pole: Sebastian Vettel)

1 Sebastian Vettel (Ger) Red Bull-Renault

2 Mark Webber (Aus) Red Bull-Renault

3 Fernando Alonso (Spa) Ferrari

Spanish GP (Pole: Mark Webber)

1 Sebastian Vettel (Ger) Red Bull-Renault

2 Lewis Hamilton (Gbr) McLaren-Mercedes

3 Jenson Button (Gbr) McLaren-Mercedes

Monaco GP (Pole: Sebastian Vettel)

1 Sebastian Vettel (Ger) Red Bull-Renault

2 Fernando Alonso (Spa) Ferrari

3 Jenson Button (Gbr) McLaren-Mercedes

Canadian GP (Pole: Sebastian Vettel)

1 Jenson Button (Gbr) McLaren-Mercedes

2 Sebastian Vettel (Ger) Red Bull-Renault 

3 Mark Webber (Aus) Red Bull-Renault

European GP (Valencia) (Pole: Sebastian Vettel)

1 Sebastian Vettel (Ger) Red Bull-Renault

2 Fernando Alonso (Spa) Ferrari

3 Mark Webber (Aus) Red Bull-Renault

British GP (Pole: Mark Webber)

1 Fernando Alonso (Spa) Ferrari

2 Sebastian Vettel (Ger) Red Bull-Renault

3 Mark Webber (Aus) Red Bull-Renault

German GP (Pole: Mark Webber)

1 Lewis Hamilton (Gbr) McLaren-Mercedes

2 Fernando Alonso (Spa) Ferrari

3 Mark Webber (Aus) Red Bull-Renault

Hungarian GP (Pole: Sebastian Vettel)

1 Jenson Button (Gbr) McLaren-Mercedes

2 Sebastian Vettel (Ger) Red Bull-Renault

3 Fernando Alonso (Spa) Ferrari

Belgian GP
1 Sebastian Vettel (Ger) Red Bull-Renault
2 Mark Webber (Aus) Red Bull-Renault
3 Jenson Button (Gbr) McLaren-Mercedes

Italian GP1 Sebastian Vettel (Ger) Red Bull-Renault
2 Jenson Button (Gbr) McLaren-Mercedes
3 Fernando Alonso (Spa) Ferrari

Singapore GP
1 Sebastian Vettel (Ger) Red Bull-Renault
2 Jenson Button (Gbr) McLaren-Mercedes
3 Mark Webber (Aus) Red Bull-Renault

Japanese GP
1 Jenson Button (Gbr) McLaren-Mercedes
2 Fernando Alonso (Spa) Ferrari
3 Sebastian Vettel (Ger) Red Bull-Renault

REMAINING CALENDAR

16 October Korean GP (Yeongam)

30 October Indian GP (Greater Noida)

13 November Abu Dhabi GP (Yas Island)

27 November Brazilian GP (Sao Paulo)

F1 2011 STANDINGS

World Drivers' Championship

1 Sebastian Vettel (Ger) Red Bull-Renault 324

2 Jenson Button (Gbr) McLaren-Mercedes 210
3 Fernando Alonso (Spa) Ferrari 202
4 Mark Webber (Aus 194

5 Lewis Hamilton (Gbr) McLaren-Mercedes 178

6 Felipe Massa (Bra) Ferrari 90

7 Nico Rosberg (Ger) Mercedes 63
8 Michael Schumacher (Ger) Mercedes 60

9 Vitaly Petrov (Rus) Renault 36

10 Nick Heidfeld (Ger) Renault 34

11 Adrian Sutil (Ger) Force India-Mercedes 28
12 Kamui Kobayashi (Jpn) Sauber-Ferrari 27

13 Paul di Resta (Gbr) Force India-Mercedes 20
14 Jaime Alguersuari (Spa) Toro Rosso-Ferrari 16

15 Sergio Perez (Mex) Sauber-Ferrari 13

16 Sebastien Buemi (Swi) Toro Rosso-Ferrari 13

17 Rubens Barrichello (Bra) Williams-Cosworth 4

18 Bruno Senna (Bra) Renault 2

19 Pastor Maldonado (Ven) Williams-Cosworth 1

Nine drivers have yet to score: (20 Pedro de la Rosa (Spa) Sauber, 21 Jarno Trulli (Ita) Lotus-Renault, 22 Heikki Kovalainen (Fin) Lotus-Renault, 23 Vitantonio Liuzzi (Ita) HRT-Cosworth, 24 Jerome d'Ambrosio (Bel) Virgin-Cosworth, 25 Timo Glock (Ger) Virgin-Cosworth, 26 Daniel Ricciardo (Aus) HRT-Cosworth, 27 Narain Karthikeyan (Ind) HRT-Cosworth, 28 Karun Chandhok (Ind) Lotus-Renault).

Constructors' Championship

1 Red Bull-Renault (Aut) 518

2 McLaren-Mercedes (Gbr) 388

3 Ferrari (Ita) 292

4 Mercedes (Ger) 123

5 Renault (Gbr) 72

6 Force India-Mercedes (Ind) 48

7 Sauber-Ferrari (Swi) 40
8 Toro Rosso-Ferrari (Ita) 29

9 Williams-Cosworth (Gbr) 5

There are three teams (Lotus-Renault (Mal), Virgin-Cosworth (Rus) and HRT-Cosworth (Spa)) which have yet to score.

F1 2011: Button excels in the wet again

JENSON BUTTON celebrated his 200th Grand Prix with a brilliant victory in wet weather in Hungary but Sebastian Vettel still extended his Drivers' Championship lead again.

Button finished ahead of Vettel and third-placed Fernando Alonso at the Hungaroring in Budapest as McLaren made it two wins in seven days before the four-week summer break.

Lewis Hamilton, who had won on the previous weekend in Germany, was a little unlucky to finish fourth after some great wheel-to-wheel action with Button.

But Hamilton's chances were ultimately destroyed when he received a drive-through penalty after spinning and inadvertently forcing Paul di Resta to take evasive action.

Force India driver di Resta eventually finished seventh, recording his best result so far in a very creditable rookie season for the Scot.

It was Button who took the main honours for Britain, though, winning in conditions which were similar to his maiden Grand Prix victory. That was also in Hungary back in 2006.

Button clearly relishes wet conditions as shown by his only other success this season in torrential weather in Canada.

Meanwhile, the Frome Flyer has made it a stated aim to win the rest of the races this year and close the gap on defending title-holder Vettel.

However, even if Button was successful in this highly unlikely feat, the 23-year-old German will still win a second crown if he continues to finish consistently in the points.

For, Vettel now has 234 points, 85 points ahead of his team-mate Mark Webber, who is on 149. Hamilton is three points further behind in third on 146 points with Alonso only just behind him on 145.

Button is fifth on 134 points, exactly 100 behind Vettel, after consecutive failures to finish at Silverstone and in Germany.

Of course, what is far more likely than Button's dream is that all of the top five drivers will win Grand Prix during the course of the rest of the season.

In doing so, none of them will be able to take maximum points and so none of them will be able to mount a serious challenge to Vettel.

But Button, of all the drivers, can hardly complain about Vettel taking the title on account of his early form.

Remember, Button won his 2009 title largely on the strength of winning six of the first seven races.

Nevertheless, it is significant that Red Bull's early dominance has now been clearly eroded. The team has won only one of the last five races which contrasts sharply with Vettel's run of five wins from the first six races.

And so, while Red Bull remain confident of both titles, McLaren and Ferrari can be satisfied with their recent efforts in closing the gap.

Effectively, all of the major teams will go into the break feeling positive in some way. By contrast, though, the four weeks off come at a bad time for the BBC.

The reason being that this recess acts almost as an awkward precursor to the broadcaster's coverage of only every other race from next season after last week's deal with Sky.

Certainly, there will be a lot more four week gaps from F1 on the BBC in 2012 and, unsurprisingly, the fans are still not one bit happy about it.

F1 2011 SEASON RESULTS

PODIUMS

Australian GP (Pole: Sebastian Vettel)

1 Sebastian Vettel (Ger) Red Bull-Renault

2 Lewis Hamilton (Gbr) McLaren-Mercedes

3 Vitaly Petrov (Rus) Renault

Malaysian GP (Pole: Sebastian Vettel)

1 Sebastian Vettel (Ger) Red Bull-Renault

2 Jenson Button (Gbr) McLaren-Mercedes

3 Nick Heidfeld (Ger) Renault

Chinese GP (Pole: Sebastian Vettel)

1 Lewis Hamilton (Gbr) McLaren-Mercedes

2 Sebastian Vettel (Ger) Red Bull-Renault

3 Mark Webber (Aus) Red Bull-Renault

Turkish GP (Pole: Sebastian Vettel)

1 Sebastian Vettel (Ger) Red Bull-Renault

2 Mark Webber (Aus) Red Bull-Renault

3 Fernando Alonso (Spa) Ferrari

Spanish GP (Pole: Mark Webber)

1 Sebastian Vettel (Ger) Red Bull-Renault

2 Lewis Hamilton (Gbr) McLaren-Mercedes

3 Jenson Button (Gbr) McLaren-Mercedes

Monaco GP (Pole: Sebastian Vettel)

1 Sebastian Vettel (Ger) Red Bull-Renault

2 Fernando Alonso (Spa) Ferrari

3 Jenson Button (Gbr) McLaren-Mercedes

Canadian GP (Pole: Sebastian Vettel)

1 Jenson Button (Gbr) McLaren-Mercedes

2 Sebastian Vettel (Ger) Red Bull-Renault 

3 Mark Webber (Aus) Red Bull-Renault

European GP (Valencia) (Pole: Sebastian Vettel)

1 Sebastian Vettel (Ger) Red Bull-Renault

2 Fernando Alonso (Spa) Ferrari

3 Mark Webber (Aus) Red Bull-Renault

British GP (Pole: Mark Webber)

1 Fernando Alonso (Spa) Ferrari

2 Sebastian Vettel (Ger) Red Bull-Renault

3 Mark Webber (Aus) Red Bull-Renault

German GP (Pole: Mark Webber)

1 Lewis Hamilton (Gbr) McLaren-Mercedes

2 Fernando Alonso (Spa) Ferrari

3 Mark Webber (Aus) Red Bull-Renault

Hungarian GP (Pole: Sebastian Vettel)

1 Jenson Button (Gbr) McLaren-Mercedes

2 Sebastian Vettel (Ger) Red Bull-Renault

3 Fernando Alonso (Spa) Ferrari

REMAINING CALENDAR

28 August Belgian GP (Spa)

11 September Italian GP (Monza)

25 September Singapore GP (Singapore)

9 October Japanese GP (Suzuka)

16 October Korean GP (Yeongam)

30 October Indian GP (Greater Noida)

13 November Abu Dhabi GP (Yas Island)

27 November Brazilian GP (Sao Paulo)

F1 2011 STANDINGS

World Drivers' Championship

1 Sebastian Vettel (Ger) Red Bull-Renault 234

2 Mark Webber (Aus 149

3 Lewis Hamilton (Gbr) McLaren-Mercedes 146

4 Fernando Alonso (Spa) Ferrari 145

5 Jenson Button (Gbr) McLaren-Mercedes 134

6 Felipe Massa (Bra) Ferrari 70

7 Nico Rosberg (Ger) Mercedes 48

8 Nick Heidfeld (Ger) Renault 34

9 Vitaly Petrov (Rus) Renault 32

10 Michael Schumacher (Ger) Mercedes 32

11 Kamui Kobayashi (Jpn) Sauber-Ferrari 27

12 Adrian Sutil (Ger) Force India-Mercedes 18

13 Sebastien Buemi (Swi) Toro Rosso-Ferrari 12

14 Jaime Alguersuari (Spa) Toro Rosso-Ferrari 10

15 Sergio Perez (Mex) Sauber-Ferrari 8

16 Paul di Resta (Gbr) Force India-Mercedes 8

17 Rubens Barrichello (Bra) Williams-Cosworth 4

Ten drivers have yet to score: (18 Pedro de la Rosa (Spa) Sauber, 19 Jarno Trulli (Ita) Lotus-Renault, 20 Vitantonio Liuzzi (Ita) HRT-Cosworth, 21 Pastor Maldonado (Ven) Williams-Cosworth, 22 Jerome d'Ambrosio (Bel) Virgin-Cosworth, 23 Heikki Kovalainen (Fin) Lotus-Renault,  24 Timo Glock (Ger) Virgin-Cosworth, 25 Narain Karthikeyan (Ind) HRT-Cosworth, 26 Daniel Ricciardo (Aus) HRT-Cosworth, 27 Karun Chandhok (Ind) Lotus-Renault).

Constructors' Championship

1 Red Bull-Renault (Aut) 383

2 McLaren-Mercedes (Gbr) 280

3 Ferrari (Ita) 215

4 Mercedes (Ger) 80

5 Renault (Gbr) 66

6 Sauber-Ferrari (Swi) 35

7 Force India-Mercedes (Ind) 26

8 Toro Rosso-Ferrari (Ita) 22

9 Williams-Cosworth (Gbr) 4

There are three teams (Lotus-Renault (Mal), Virgin-Cosworth (Rus) and HRT-Cosworth (Spa)) which have yet to score.

F1 2011 Special: BBC breaks the chain

FORMULA ONE fans will have to fork out £487 to watch every race live in 2012 after today's carve-up by Bernie Ecclestone, the BBC and Sky.

The new seven-year deal allows Skysports to cover all the races while the BBC will only show 10 from each season and post-race highlights of any Grand Prix not shown live.

Unsurprisingly, the decision has resulted in a huge backlash on social media sites and even on the SkySports website itself.

Meanwhile, a blog by the BBC's Head of F1, Ben Gallop, has already attracted over 2500 comments, none of which seem to be in any way positive.

On the blog, Mr Gallop attempts to rationalise the decision by confirming that the races at Monaco and Silverstone, as well as the season finale, will still be shown on free-to-air television.

But his suggestion that the BBC is "sharing the coverage" in "partnership" with Sky simply pays pointless lip-service to the viewer.

For, while Sky is able to tell the whole story of a season from next year, the BBC's narrative will be continually interrupted. As one commenter states below the line: "It will be like reading every other page of a book."

Further on, Mr Gallop also states the BBC has chosen to make this deal because of the necessary cut-backs which it has to make.

"The bare facts speak for themselves," he wrote. "The BBC needs to save money.

"Given the financial circumstances in which we find ourselves, we believe this new deal offers the best outcome for licence-fee payers."

But that comment ignores the fact that, since the BBC regained coverage of F1 from ITV three years ago, it has gone from strength to strength.

The viewer experience has been enhanced by various features including the driver tracker, the screening of practice sessions and the introduction of a post-race forum

Consequently, viewing figures for F1 are at a ten-year high this season as exciting races are overseen by a BAFTA-award winning team, no less.

Indeed, if those were the circumstances for a prime-time entertainment show, would the BBC have been so quick to target it for cost-cutting?

Certainly, this cull is an odd way to reward the likes of presenter Jake Humphrey, his side-kick Eddie Jordan, and commentators Martin Brundle and David Coulthard for their excellent coverage.

But, of course, it is the viewers unable or unwilling to pay for Sky who will suffer most.

Admittedly, shooting down the blog by Mr Gallop is a little like shooting the messenger and undoubtedly a large share of the blame must be laid at the door of Formula One Management chief Mr Ecclestone.

Just two months ago after the Turkish GP, Mr Ecclestone seemed to rule out a bid from Sky when the rights were due to be renewed in 2013.

He said: "Sky is doing an incredible job but if you look at their audience figures they are nowhere...It would be almost impossible for teams to find sponsors. That would be suicidal."

But that appears now to have been a bare-faced lie from Mr Ecclestone and the feeling persists that he has done this for the benefit of his bank balance only.

Apparently, the teams were not even consulted on the matter but, if they had been, it seems inevitable there would have surely been some major representations.

Perhaps more than in any other sport, the teams rely on their sponsors to meet their running costs.

Any chance of sponsors pulling out due to a dwindling viewership and a lack of exposure would set off alarm bells.

That definitely would have been the case if Sky's F1 coverage is anything like their previous failure to make inroads into motorsport with the dreadful uninteresting A1 GP series.

So, in short, the worst case scenario could be a falling viewership leading to sponsors potentially pulling out meaning teams actually going under.

And what exactly is there to like about any of that?

F1 2011: Alonso seals Silverstone win but Red Bull retain control

FERNANDO ALONSO ended a nine-month wait for his 27th career win in Formula One with victory in the British Grand Prix at a revamped Silverstone circuit.

Alonso took advantage of a poor pit-stop by Sebastian Vettel to finish ahead of the German and the other Red Bull driver Mark Webber.

The win at Silverstone came on the 60th anniversary of Ferrari's first triumph there and moved Alonso up to third in the Drivers' Championship standings, ahead of McLaren pair Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button.

However, Red Bull and defending champion Vettel remain well in control of their destiny after the 23-year-old continued his season-long run of finishing either first or second in a race.

Indeed, stretching the record back further, Vettel has finished either first or second in 13 of the last 14 Grand Prix. The exception was in Korea last October when he retired.

For the record, Vettel, on 204 points, now leads team-mate Webber by 80 points at the top of the Drivers' Championship.

And, in another exciting finish, last year's British GP winner Webber was catching Vettel in the closing stages of this year's race.

But the Australian, who made his infamous outburst about being a "number two driver" at Silverstone, was denied a chance of second place once Red Bull imposed team orders going into the last lap to avoid a collision between the pair.

Race winner Alonso now has 112 points with Hamilton and Button both on 109 after a poor weekend for McLaren at their home Grand Prix.

After an unseemly public spat with Red Bull over the use of exhausts to generate downforce, the McLarens were two seconds off the pace in qualifying as Button finished fifth and Hamilton was well down in 10th.

Hamilton responded from the start and drove an excellent race to answer some of his recent critics, at one stage running second.

However, with ten laps to go, Hamilton was asked by his team to conserve fuel and so he had no answer when the two Red Bulls streamed past him.

Nevertheless, the 2008 champion continued to impress by just managing to hold off Ferrari's Felipe Massa in a dramatic last few corners in the battle for fourth.

Hamilton may reflect, though, that it was almost in spite of his team that he gained those 12 points, not because of them, and this race will have done little to diffuse rumours that he would prefer a seat elsewhere.

Button also has a right to be unhappy with his team after a pit-stop cock-up. The 2009 champion was forced to retire at the exit of the pit lane having been released from his second stop without a wheel nut in the front-right tyre.

It was the latest in a long line hard-luck story for Button who has never even appeared on a podium at the British GP in 12 attempts.

And the Frome Flyer must have felt a million miles away from the thrill of winning a race on the very last lap, as he had done in a fantastic drenched and rain-delayed Canadian GP four weeks ago.

Vettel returned to the inconsistencies of last year by running wide and letting Button through in Montreal but, of course, he still finished second.

The German then led the European Grand Prix in Valencia virtually from lights to chequered flag as he further increased his stranglehold on the Championship in the run-up to Silverstone.

Back to the British GP and, like Button, the third home driver in this year's race, Paul di Resta, can blame a pit-stop clanger for his finishing position of a lowly 15th in the Force India.

Scottish F1 rookie di Resta had impressed in qualifying sixth but, on his second stop, he was greeted at the garage with the tyres of his team-mate Adrian Sutil.

The time spent finding and uncovering his own tyres plunged di Resta into the pack and sadly lost him any chance of recording a result worthy of his stunning qualifying performance.

F1 2011 SEASON RESULTS

PODIUMS

Australian GP (Pole: Sebastian Vettel)

1 Sebastian Vettel (Ger) Red Bull-Renault

2 Lewis Hamilton (Gbr) McLaren-Mercedes

3 Vitaly Petrov (Rus) Renault

Malaysian GP (Pole: Sebastian Vettel)

1 Sebastian Vettel (Ger) Red Bull-Renault

2 Jenson Button (Gbr) McLaren-Mercedes

3 Nick Heidfeld (Ger) Renault

Chinese GP (Pole: Sebastian Vettel)

1 Lewis Hamilton (Gbr) McLaren-Mercedes

2 Sebastian Vettel (Ger) Red Bull-Renault

3 Mark Webber (Aus) Red Bull-Renault

Turkish GP (Pole: Sebastian Vettel)

1 Sebastian Vettel (Ger) Red Bull-Renault

2 Mark Webber (Aus) Red Bull-Renault

3 Fernando Alonso (Spa) Ferrari

Spanish GP (Pole: Mark Webber)

1 Sebastian Vettel (Ger) Red Bull-Renault

2 Lewis Hamilton (Gbr) McLaren-Mercedes

3 Jenson Button (Gbr) McLaren-Mercedes

Monaco GP (Pole: Sebastian Vettel)

1 Sebastian Vettel (Ger) Red Bull-Renault

2 Fernando Alonso (Spa) Ferrari

3 Jenson Button (Gbr) McLaren-Mercedes

Canadian GP (Pole: Sebastian Vettel)

1 Jenson Button (Gbr) McLaren-Mercedes

2 Sebastian Vettel (Ger) Red Bull-Renault 

3 Mark Webber (Aus) Red Bull-Renault

European GP (Valencia) (Pole: Sebastian Vettel)

1 Sebastian Vettel (Ger) Red Bull-Renault

2 Fernando Alonso (Spa) Ferrari

3 Mark Webber (Aus) Red Bull-Renault

British GP (Pole: Mark Webber)

1 Fernando Alonso (Spa) Ferrari

2 Sebastian Vettel (Ger) Red Bull-Renault

3 Mark Webber (Aus

REMAINING CALENDAR

24 July German GP (Nuerburg)

31 July Hungarian GP (Budapest)

28 August Belgian GP (Spa)

11 September Italian GP (Monza)

25 September Singapore GP (Singapore)

9 October Japanese GP (Suzuka)

16 October Korean GP (Yeongam)

30 October Indian GP (Greater Noida)

13 November Abu Dhabi GP (Yas Island)

27 November Brazilian GP (Sao Paulo)

F1 2011 STANDINGS

World Drivers' Championship

1 Sebastian Vettel (Ger) Red Bull-Renault 204

2 Mark Webber (Aus) Red Bull-Renault 124

3 Fernando Alonso (Spa) Ferrari 112

4 Lewis Hamilton (Gbr) McLaren-Mercedes 109

5 Jenson Button (Gbr) McLaren-Mercedes 109

6 Felipe Massa (Bra) Ferrari 52

7 Nico Rosberg (Ger) Mercedes 40

8 Nick Heidfeld (Ger) Renault 34

9 Vitaly Petrov (Rus) Renault 31

10 Michael Schumacher (Ger) Mercedes 28

11 Kamui Kobayashi (Jpn) Sauber-Ferrari 15

12 Adrian Sutil (Ger) Force India-Mercedes 10

13 Jaime Alguersuari (Spa) Toro Rosso-Ferrari 9

14 Sergio Perez (Mex) Sauber-Ferrari 8

15 Sebastien Buemi (Swi) Toro Rosso-Ferrari 8

16 Rubens Barrichello (Bra) Williams-Cosworth 4

17 Paul di Resta (Gbr) Force India-Mercedes 2

Nine drivers have yet to score: (18 Pedro de la Rosa (Spa) Sauber, 19 Jarno Trulli (Ita) Lotus-Renault, 20 Vitantonio Liuzzi (Ita) HRT-Cosworth, 21 Jerome d'Ambrosio (Bel) Virgin-Cosworth, 22 Heikki Kovalainen (Fin) Lotus-Renault, 23 Pastor Maldonado (Ven) Williams-Cosworth, 24 Timo Glock (Ger) Virgin-Cosworth, 25 Narain Karthikeyan (Ind) HRT-Cosworth, 26 Daniel Ricciardo (Aus) HRT-Cosworth).

Constructors' Championship

1 Red Bull-Renault (Aut) 328

2 McLaren-Mercedes (Gbr) 218

3 Ferrari (Ita) 164

4 Mercedes (Ger) 68

5 Renault (Gbr) 65

6 Sauber-Ferrari (Swi) 33

7 Toro Rosso-Ferrari (Ita) 17

8 Force India-Mercedes (Ind) 12

9 Williams-Cosworth (Gbr) 4

There are three teams (Lotus-Renault (Mal), Virgin-Cosworth (Rus) and HRT-Cosworth (Spa)) which have yet to score.