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
2009 standings
[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 China: Year Driver Pole time (s)[/b] 2008 Hamilton 96.303 2007 Hamilton 95.908 2006 Alonso 104.360 [b]Driver values: Dri val[/b] Butt 3 Hami 3 Räik 3 Trul 3 Barr 4 Mass 4 REST 5 [b]2009 data: Time 2008 2008 fastest 2009/2008 GP Pole #2 (s) pole(s) race lap (s) (%) [/b] OZ Butt Barr 86.202 86.714 87.418 99.410 MAL Butt Trul 95.181 95.748 95.366 99.408
My guess for China is 95.803 s by Jenson Button.
