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 old F1 style, 10-8-6-5-4-3-2-1.
-Precision points are given to every participant whose guess was sufficiently close to 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 - 6.000
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 - 6.000
The 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
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
2010 standings
Three latest poles at Turkey:
Year Driver Pole time (s)
2009 Vettel 88.316
2008 Massa 87.617
2007 Massa 87.329
Driver values:
Dri val
Vett 2
Webb 2
Kubi 4
Rosb 4
REST 5
2010 data:
Time 2009 PP 2009 FL 2009 Q2 2010/2009 2010/09FL 2010/09Q2
GP Pole #2 (s) (s) (s) (s) (%) (%) (%)
BAH Vett Mass 114.101 93.431 94.556 92.474 122.123 120.670 123.387 (New layout for 2010)
OZ Vett Webb 83.919 86.202 87.706 84.783 97.352 95.682 98.981
MAL Webb Rosb 109.327 95.181 96.641 93.784 114.862 113.127 116.573
CHN Vett Webb 94.558 96.184 112.592 95.130 98.309 83.983 99.399
ESP Webb Vett 79.995 80.527 82.762 79.954 99.339 96.657 100.051
MON Webb Kubi 73.826 74.902 75.154 74.514 98.563 98.233 99.077
TUR 88.316 87.579 87.016
CAN ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------
EUR 99.498 98.683 98.076
GB 79.509 80.735 78.119
GER ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------
HUN 81.569 81.931 80.358
BEL 106.308 107.263 104.503
ITA 84.066 84.739 82.955
SIN 107.891 108.240 106.197
JAP 92.160 92.569 90.341
KOR ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------
BRA 79.576 73.733 80.638
ABU 100.948 100.279 99.695
My guess for Turkey is 86.186 s by Mark Webber.
, interesting stuff, and hopefully helpful too.
