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[D82]

Guess the Le Mans is back in its third consecutive year. 2008 was an unforgettable race and most people think this year will be even closer. But will it be close in GtLM too? Let the statistics answer: The gap between the winner and runner-up in 2007 was 4 points and in 2008 it was 1,5!

Of course one mustn't forget the prestigious 'Grand Prix d'Atlas 24' too, waiting for its second owner! Can anybody beat Scheivlak's 2008 record of 117/245 points? Can anyone get more than 200 points? All to be answered in,

Guess the Le Mans 2009!

This is the first part of the game. Here, you will guess the pole time. The "Guess the race" topic is also opened here. Your final score will be the sum of these two. The player with the highest score will be 2009 GtLM champion!


Scoring Rules:

Scoring rules for GtLM Pole is directly taken from Makarias' famous GtPole game. As we are not much familiar with guessing about Le Mans, I decided to use the "new layout" offset format. So, our rules are as follows:

- Participants who guess the right pole car will earn extra 5 points.

- The best eight guessers (closest to the actual pole position time) will 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 the list below:

Time offsets
Pts [s]
10 - 0.150
8 - 0.300
6 - 0.600
5 - 1.200
4 - 1.800
3 - 2.400
2 - 3.600
1 - 6.000

Recent Poles:

Year Pole Time Car Drivers
2008 198.513 Peugeot 908 Lamy/Sarrazin/Wurz
2007 206.344 Peugeot 908 Bourdais/Lamy/Sarrazin
2006 210.466 Audi R10 TDI Capello/Kristensen/McNish
2005 214.715 Pescarolo-Judd Bouillon/Collard/Comas
2004 212.838 Veloqx Audi Davies/Herbert/Smith
2003 212.843 Bentley Capello/Kristensen/Smith
2002 209.905 Infineon Audi Capello/Herbert/Pescatori
2001 212.429 Infineon Audi Aiello/Capello/Pescatori

Posting format is as follows (example only) :

Car 666 - 212.121

This year we have only one test before qualifying sessions and it's on Wed. 10th. Don't forget the follow the practice results if you want to have a more precise guess.

Here's the entry list with car numbers on the left column.

Bon chance à tous!


Deadline for entries is one hour before the start of the first qualifying
Thursday 11th, 1800H local time (GMT+1 I suppose)

Edited by D82, 07 June 2009 - 16:36.

[Frogman]

Car 8 - 200.183

[Makarias]

Car 1 - 197.047

[scheivlak]

Car 8 - 197.797

[Victor_RO]

Car 1 - 199.950

[D82]

Car 1 - 202.020

Edited by D82, 11 June 2009 - 12:34.

[KWSN - DSM]

Car 8 - 197.711

[dank]

Car 1 - 198.247

[D82]

The qualifying sessions are over. #8 Peugeot scored the fastest time, and it's 202.888 seconds - four seconds slower than last year.

Time to go to the race thread now, to post your guesses for the race.

[Makarias]

I'm having a proper annus horribilis in Bets & Games