One rule change for this season: Final and absolute deadline for entries each round is the start of first free practice for the GP.
As usual, the season premiere is scored as a "mofified 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 and only if they are due to disciplinary reasons.
Deadline:
Entries are accepted only if they are submitted/edited before First Free Practice.
Entries that are edited after the beginning of First Free Practice but before I have registered the entries will be ignored.
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 final standings after Brazil
[b]Late 2008 front rows: GP Pole #2[/b] ITA Vett Kova SIN Mass Hami JAP Hami Räik CHN Hami Räik BRA Mass Trul [b]Three latest poles at Australia: Year Driver Pole time (s)[/b] 2008 Hamilton 86.714 2007 Räikkönen 86.072 2006 Button 85.229 [b]Driver values: Dri val[/b] Hami 2 Mass 3 Räik 3 Kova 4 Trul 4 Vett 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 Mass Hami 98.989 ------ ------ ------ BEL Hami Mass 107.338 105.994 108.036 101.268 ITA Vett Kova 97.555 81.997 82.871 118.974 SIN Mass Hami 104.801 ------ ------ ------ JAP Hami Räik 78.404 85.368 88.193 91.842 CHN Hami Räik 96.303 95.908 97.454 100.412 BRA Mass Trul 72.368 71.931 72.445 100.608
My guess for Australia is 88.259 s by Felipe Massa.
