NOTE: Heavily modified track for this year! See http://www.racingcircuits.net/ for some track maps to make comparisons. See also http://www.hockenheimring.de/ (dunno if it's any useful, but still).
The track will be classified as heavily modified for scoring purposes, which means that your guess should be at most 2.000 seconds away from the actual pole time to score precision points.
Simple rules: just submit your guess for what the pole time will be, and who you think will take pole. Deadline: post/edit before the start of first free practice.
Here are the scoring rules.
Current standings are here
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Background info for Germany:
2001 pole: J P Montoya; 1'38.117
2000 pole: D Coulthard; 1'45.697
1999 pole: M Häkkinen; 1'42.950
2002 so far:
*Australia pole time of 1'25.843 was 1.049 seconds faster than, or 98.793% of, the 2001 pole time: 1'26.892.
*Malaysia pole time of 1'35.266 was 0.046 seconds SLOWER than, or 100.048% of, the 2001 pole time: 1'35.220.
*Brazil pole time of 1'13.114 was 0.666 seconds faster than, or 99.097% of, the 2001 pole time: 1'13.780.
*San Marino pole time of 1'21.091 was 1.963 seconds faster than, or 97.636% of, the 2001 pole time: 1'23.054.
*Spain pole time of 1'16.364 was 1.837 seconds faster than, or 97.651% of, the 2001 pole time: 1'18.201.
*Austria pole time of 1'08.082 was 1.480 seconds faster than, or 97.872% of, the 2001 pole time: 1'09.562.
*Monaco pole time of 1'16.676 was 0.754 seconds faster than, or 99.026% of, the 2001 pole time: 1'17.430.
*Canada pole time of 1'12.836 was 2.946 seconds faster than, or 96.113% of, the 2001 pole time: 1'15.782 (track slightly modified for 2002)
*Europe pole time of 1'29.906 was 14.946 seconds slower than, or 119.939% of, the 2001 pole time: 1'14.960 (track "slightly" modified for 2002, useless comparison, eh)
*British pole time of 1'18.998 was 1.449 seconds faster than, or 98.199% of, the 2001 pole time: 1'20.447
*French pole time of 1'11.985 was 1.004 seconds faster than, or 98.624% of, the 2001 pole time: 1'12.989
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My guess for Germany is 1'21.603 by Michael Schumacher. Hopefully a better estimate than what I came up with for Nürburgring
Good luck!
Michael S. 1:18.775
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