Ten position penalties are ignored if and only if they are due to disciplinary reasons.
Deadline:
Full entry is accepted only for entries submitted/edited before the start of first free practice.
Guesses entered or edited after first free practice will get a penalty in the form of an added time gap between the guess and the pole time: 0.100 s for "Default" tracks, 0.400 s for "Modified Layout" tracks, 0.900 s for "New" tracks.
Final deadline is whenever I choose to register the entries; typically Friday evening CET. But always after first free practice. In case of me being absent and not able to register the entries in time, the absolute final deadline is the start of Saturday practice.
Scoring rules
-The best eight guessers (closest to the actual pole position time) Score points F1 style, 10-8-6-5-4-3-2-1.
-Precision points are given to every participant whose guess was sufficiently close the actual pole position time according to this list:
<-----------Time offsets-----------> Pts Default Modified Layout New Track [s] 10 - 0.050 - 0.100 - 0.150 8 - 0.100 - 0.200 - 0.300 6 - 0.200 - 0.400 - 0.600 5 - 0.400 - 0.800 - 1.200 4 - 0.600 - 1.200 - 1.800 3 - 0.800 - 1.600 - 2.400 2 - 1.200 - 2.400 - 3.600 1 - 2.000 - 4.000 - 6.000The first race of the season counts as a Modified Layout unless it's brand new.
A track that wasn't used the previous season also counts as a Modified Layout.
A track that hasn't been used for the previous five seasons counts as a New Track.
-Driver Points are given for correctly guessing the driver to take pole position. The amount of points given depends on the current value of the driver, according to this list:
Pts Recent qualifying results 5 0 front row starts in the previous five races 4 1 front row start in the previous five races 3 2 front row starts in the previous five races 2 3-5 front row starts in the previous five races
2008 standings after Canada
[b]Three latest poles at France: Year Driver Pole time (s)[/b] 2007 Massa 75.034 2006 M Schumacher 75.493 2005 Alonso 74.412 [b]Driver values: Dri val[/b] Mass 2 Kubi 3 Räik 3 Alon 4 Hami 4 Kova 4 REST 5 [b]2008 data: Time 2007 2007 fastest 2008/2007 GP Pole #2 (s) pole(s) race lap (s) (%) [/b] OZ Hami Kubi 86.714 86.072 85.235 100.746 MAL Mass Räik 95.748 95.043 96.701 100.742 BAH Kubi Mass 93.096 92.652 94.067 100.479 ESP Räik Alon 81.813 81.421 82.680 100.481 TUR Mass Kova 87.617 87.329 87.295 100.330 MON Mass Räik 75.787 75.726 75.284 100.081 CAN Hami Kubi 77.886 75.707 76.367 102.878 FRA 75.034 76.099 GB 79.997 80.638 GER ------ ------ ------ HUN 79.674 80.047 EUR ------ ------ ------ BEL 105.994 108.036 ITA 81.997 82.871 SIN ------ ------ ------ JAP 85.368 88.193 CHN 95.908 97.454 BRA
My guess for France is 75.569 s by Lewis Hamilton.
