The circuit guide says that the track is 5473.5 metres long, whereas Forix claims that it's 5416 metres long. Confusing! According to the first link the lap time is estimated at some 97 seconds, which would give an average speed of some 201 km/h. We can compare this with this year's poles for Hungary (194.954 km/h) and France (207.714 km/h).
Here is a comparison between the two track lengths found and the average speeds for some lap times:
time 5473.5 5416 (s) (km/h) (km/h) 93 211.9 209.7 94 209.6 207.4 95 207.4 205.2 96 205.3 203.1 97 203.1 201.0 98 201.1 199.0 99 199.0 196.9 100 197.0 195.0
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 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 Hungary
[b]Three latest poles at Europe-Valencia: Year Driver Pole time (s)[/b] NEW CIRCUIT! [b]Driver values: Dri val[/b] Hami 2 Kova 3 Mass 3 Kubi 4 Räik 4 Webb 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 Räik Mass 76.449 75.034 76.099 101.886 GB Kova Webb 81.049 79.997 80.638 101.315 GER Hami Mass 75.666 ------ ------ ------ HUN Hami Kova 80.899 79.674 80.047 101.538 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 Europe is 97.656 s by Lewis Hamilton.
