OK guys, thanks for partaking in the opening round. After forgetting to update my guesses to take the safety car into account you can rest assured I'm not in it to win it but to be a fair (if a bit slow at posting the results) referee.
The championship will be calculated thusly:
Guesses will have points awarded in descending order based on the number of entrants. Then to spice things up (and cheer Bernie up in the absence of a satisfying normally aspirated screaming engines), medals will be awarded for the closest 3 guesses in each category for each round. Gold worth 3pts, Silver 2pts and Bronze 1pt. Each round will be decided on a cumulation of these points and whoever has most points at the end of the season will be crowned GERCOP champion 2014.
The race results:
2013 FQL: 1:27.407 (in Q3 by Sebastian Vettel - Red Bull Racing-Renault)
2013 FRL: 1:29.274 (on lap 56 by Kimi Räikkönen - Lotus-Renault)
2013 TRT: 1:30:03.225 (Kimi Räikkönen - Lotus-Renault)
2014 FQL: 1:30.775 (in Q1 by Daniel Ricciardo - Red Bull Racing-Renault)
2014 FRL: 1:32.478 (on lap 19 by Nico Rosberg - Mercedes)
2014 TRT: 1:32:58.710 (Nico Rosberg - Mercedes)
Making the GERCOP pace:
FQL: +3.368
FRL: +3.204
TRT: +125.485
Given the addition of the safety car versus last year's time the race pace over the GP distance seems pretty impressive from the 2014 cars considering the fastest lap times are quite a way off the 2013 cars in similar conditions in FP and Qual. The extra weight of the cars and the harder tyres seem to be contributing factors in lap time. The fastest lap of the whole weekend (1:29.375 by Rosberg in FP3) was still almost 2 seconds slower than last year's FQL. On a track with at least 3 heavy brake harvesting zones Albert Park should have been one of the stronger tracks for the new high output ERS setup.
Full results:
Name Category Guess Closeness Position Tenmantaylor FQL -3.795 6 Tenmantaylor FRL -3.59 17 Tenmantaylor TRT -147.744 11 F. Scaramanga FQL -3.047 4 F. Scaramanga FRL -2.086 2 F. Scaramanga TRT -81.607 5 rodlamas FQL -5.256 14 rodlamas FRL -2.217 5 rodlamas TRT -69.607 2 Wattoroos FQL -4.472 11 Wattoroos FRL -2.718 9 Wattoroos TRT 181.901 12 mark f1 FQL -5.295 15 mark f1 FRL -2.35 6 mark f1 TRT -72.949 3 Wlleiotl FQL -2.417 2 Wlleiotl FRL -1.024 1 Wlleiotl TRT 52.546 1 Makarias FQL -2.874 3 Makarias FRL -3.169 13 Makarias TRT 389.226 15 Iranie FQL -3.472 5 Iranie FRL -2.204 3 Iranie TRT 142.511 10 scheivlak FQL -1.292 1 scheivlak FRL -2.997 10 scheivlak TRT 209.082 13 Estwald FQL -4.155 9 Estwald FRL -3.545 16 Estwald TRT 114.515 8 M2000-5 FQL -5.551 16 M2000-5 FRL -3.373 14 M2000-5 TRT -137.075 9 LB FQL -3.9 7 LB FRL -2.217 6 LB TRT -113.72 7 Anderis FQL -5.58 17 Anderis FRL -2.386 7 Anderis TRT 492.515 17 Brawn BGP 001 FQL -4.649 13 Brawn BGP 001 FRL -3.022 12 Brawn BGP 001 TRT 74.515 4 Costaz FQL -4.568 12 Costaz FRL -3.004 11 Costaz TRT 474.515 16 Grayson FQL -4.368 10 Grayson FRL -2.454 8 Grayson TRT 324.515 14 kismet FQL -4.034 8 kismet FRL -3.438 15 kismet TRT -96.193 6
FQL: So everyone thought the cars would be faster in Qual trim, no doubt influenced by the pace witnessed at Bahrain in the final test. Scheivlak shows the way in qual trim with the least ambitious but most accurate guess.
FRL: The race lap guesses were a little more accurate and Wlleiotl goes even closer to just shy of a second out.
TRT: Wlleiotl seals the race weekend with the most accurate race time change guess and never being off the podium in the medals.
Round 1 points and medals:
Name Accum. Pos. Points Medals Wlleiotl 4 17 8 F. Scaramanga 11 16 2 Iranie 18 15 1 LB 20 14 rodlamas 21 13 2 mark f1 24 12 1 scheivlak 24 11 3 Brawn BGP 001 29 10 kismet 29 9 Makarias 31 8 1 Wattoroos 32 7 Grayson 32 6 Estwald 33 5 Tenmantaylor 34 4 M2000-5 39 3 Costaz 39 2 Anderis 41 1
Championship Standings after round 1:
Wlleiotl 25 F. Scaramanga 18 Iranie 16 rodlamas 15 scheivlak 14 LB 14 mark f1 13 Brawn BGP 001 10 Makarias 9 kismet 9 Wattoroos 7 Grayson 6 Estwald 5 Tenmantaylor 4 M2000-5 3 Costaz 2 Anderis 1
So great start and well done to Wlleiotl for almost triple crowning the first ever round GERCOP and taking a commanding lead in the championship 
Malaysia next where I hope to get time to do some organising of results spreadsheets and presentation in the forum.
Remember, the more people join the more points available to help those who missed the first round and want to catch up!
Edited by Tenmantaylor, 22 March 2014 - 10:07.
