How to enter: Just submit your guess for what the pole time will be, and who you think will take pole.
Grid 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 ten guessers (closest to the actual pole position time) Score points F1 style, 25-18-15-12-10-8-6-4-2-1.
-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] 25 - 0.100 - 0.200 - 0.300 18 - 0.200 - 0.400 - 0.600 15 - 0.400 - 0.800 - 1.200 12 - 0.600 - 1.200 - 1.800 10 - 0.800 - 1.600 - 2.400 8 - 1.000 - 2.000 - 3.000 6 - 1.200 - 2.400 - 3.600 4 - 1.500 - 3.000 - 4.500 2 - 1.800 - 3.600 - 5.400 1 - 2.500 - 5.000 - 7.500The 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 18 0 front row starts in the previous five races 13 1 front row start in the previous five races 9 2 front row starts in the previous five races 6 3 front row starts in the previous five races 4 4 front row starts in the previous five races 3 5 front row starts in the previous five races
2013 standings
Three latest poles at Abu Dhabi: Year Driver Pole time (s) 2012 Hamilton 100.630 2011 Vettel 98.481 2010 Vettel 99.394 Driver values: Dri val Vett 3 Rosb 9 Webb 9 Hami 13 REST 18 2013 data: Time 2012 PP 2012 FL 2012 Q2 2013/2012 2013/12FL 2013/12Q2 GP Pole #2 (s) (s) (s) (s) (%) (%) (%) OZ Vett Webb 87.407 84.922 89.187 85.469 102.926 98.004 102.267 MAL Vett Mass 109.674 96.219 100.722 96.715 113.984 108.888 113.399 CHN Hami Räik 94.484 95.121 99.960 95.700 99.330 94.522 98.729 BAH Rosb Vett 92.330 92.422 96.379 93.209 99.900 95.799 99.057 ESP Rosb Hami 80.718 82.285 86.250 82.105 98.096 93.586 98.311 MON Rosb Hami 73.876 74.301 77.296 74.911 99.428 95.575 98.618 CAN Vett Hami 85.425 73.784 75.752 74.187 115.777 112.769 115.148 GB Hami Rosb 89.607 111.746 94.661 114.897 80.188 94.661 77.989 GER Hami Vett 89.398 ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ HUN Hami Vett 79.388 80.953 84.136 81.060 98.067 94.357 97.937 BEL Hami Vett 121.012 107.573 112.822 107.654 112.493 107.259 112.408 ITA Vett Webb 83.755 84.010 87.239 84.242 99.696 96.006 99.422 SIN Vett Rosb 102.841 106.362 111.033 106.665 96.690 92.622 96.415 KOR Vett Hami 97.202 97.242 102.037 97.767 99.959 95.262 99.422 JAP Webb Vett 90.915 90.839 95.774 91.501 100.084 94.927 99.360 IND Vett Rosb 84.119 85.283 88.203 85.435 98.635 95.370 98.460 ABU 100.630 103.964 100.901 USA 95.657 99.347 95.796 BRA 72.458 78.069 73.209My guess for Abu Dhabi is 99.581 s by Sebastian Vettel.