Nicolle wins family bragging rights as well the top prize
THE top prize of £200 and the winner’s trophy made 2022 a memorable year for Jean-Luc Nicolle in the Guernsey Press’s ever-popular Fantasy Formula One competition.
As he explained, though, that was not the only version he emerged victorious in.
‘We do one within our family, all of us who want to enter, and my dad keeps track of it, updates the spreadsheet after each race and posts the graph of how we are doing to the group chat,’ Nicolle said.
‘I do not get anything from the family one for winning it, though, other than bragging rights.’
Nicolle’s team, which he called Bucket, came first out of 496 entries in the charity fund-raising competition published in the Guernsey Press and organised by Jamie Doggart, from which this year’s proceeds went to Help A Guernsey Child.
His winning total was 766 points, just seven ahead of second-placed team Yaris, selected by Tony McDade, with John’s Jalopies, picked by John Hart, third a further 14 points back.
‘We have entered the competition quite a few times now and I don’t think I’ve done brilliantly before, although it’s not like I’ve gone from the bottom to the top,’ said 19-year-old Nicolle, for who F1 is his main sporting interest.
‘Looking back at it, myself and the guy who came second kept switching places at the top and I think I only won it by seven points, so it was close.’
His prizes came courtesy of Whiteway Motors, who sponsor the competition in association with Guernsey Petroleum Distributors, who are celebrating their 60th year trading in the island.
‘We have got a good working relationship with Andre at Whiteway Motors and he introduced us to the Fantasy F1 concept and it made perfect sense for us to be involved because it raises our profile as much as it does Andre and raises the profile of motorsport,’ said Mat Broughton, who has been with GPD for 30 years.
