Brand new track! Guesses within SIX seconds off the actual pole time will score precision points. Also note that the guessing deadline for this race is strictly at the start of Friday first free practice, which also is slightly earlier than usual... Or actually almost two weeks later than any previous GP, but you know what I mean.
The track is 5451 metres long and is drawn by Herman Tilke and it's wonderful and we must all praise it and blah blah blah. http://www.racingcircuits.net/ provides a pic of the layout.
How to enter: Just submit your guess for what the pole time will be, and who you think will take pole.
Ten position penalties are ignored if they are due to disciplinary reasons.
Deadline: post/edit before the start of first free practice.
Two late entries per participant and season are allowed, not at new or changed track layouts though. For late entries, the absolute deadline is the start of Q1.
Here are the scoring rules.
Here are the 2004 standings so far.
Three latest poles at Italy:
[b]Year Driver Pole time[/b] 2003 M Schumacher 1'20.963 2002 Montoya 1'20.264 2001 Montoya 1'22.216
2004 so far:
[b]GP Pole(s) 2003(s) 2004-2003(s) 2004/2003(%)[/b] OZ 84.408 87.173 -2.765 96.828 MAL 93.074 97.044 -3.970 95.909 BAH 90.139 ------ ------ ------ RSM 79.753 82.327 -2.574 96.873 SPA 75.022 77.762* -2.740 96.476 MON 73.985 75.259 -1.274 98.307 EUR 88.351 91.523 -3.172 96.534 CAN 72.275 75.529 -3.254 95.692 USA 70.223 71.670 -1.447 97.981 FRA 73.698 75.019 -1.321 98.239 GB 78.233 81.209 -2.976 96.335 GER 73.306 75.167 -1.861 97.524 HUN 79.146 81.688 -2.542 96.889 BEL 116.232 ------ ------ ------ ITA 80.089 80.963 -0.874 98.920 *Old layoutMy guess for China is 1'32.343 by Michael Schumacher.