The road to Malaysia

Just to recap, here's the current F1 points situation going into Malaysia:

Drivers:

Jenson Button: 10 or 0
Rubens Barrichello: 8 or 0
Lewis Hamilton: 6, 5 or 10
Timo Glock: 5, 4 or 0
Fernando Alonso: 4, 3 or 8
Nico Rosberg: 3, 2 or 0
Sebastien Buemi: 2, 1 or 6
Sebastien Bourdais: 1, 0 or 5
Adrian Sutil: 0 or 4
Nick Heidfeld: 0 or 3
Giancarlo Fisichella: 0 or 2
Jarno Trulli: 0 or 6
Mark Webber: 0 or 1

The first number is the points they have now. If the FIA appeals court reverses Trulli's penalty, as they should, then Trulli will return to third place and everyone else will be knocked down one spot. If, on the other hand, all the teams using the new diffusor are disqualified, then everyone goes up four spots with the Brawn, Williams and Toyota cars being eliminated.

So amusingly enough, Sebastien Buemi has 1-6 points; he has two now, will drop to one if Trulli is reinstated on the podium, but goes all the way to the podium himself if the FIA decides against the diffusor as that eliminates everyone except Hamilton and Alonso.

In other words, one of these was the podium for the race you watched last weekend:

1. Jenson Button
2. Rubens Barrichello
3. Jarno Trulli

or

1. Jenson Button
2. Rubens Barrichello
3. Lewis Hamilton

or

1. Lewis Hamilton
2. Fernando Alonso
3. Sebastien Buemi

And you don't know that yet, even though the race was last Sunday.

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And no, this isn't an April Fool's post. It's just to remind you what a fucking joke it is that we won't know the results of the previous GP until after the next one. New viewers, welcome to F1!