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 - 7.500
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 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
Five latest poles at China: Year Driver Pole time (s) 2013 Hamilton 94.484 2012 Rosberg 95.121 2011 Vettel 93.706 2010 Vettel 94.558 2009 Vettel 96.184 Late 2013 front rows: GP Pole #2 JAP Webb Vett IND Vett Rosb ABU Webb Vett USA Vett Webb BRA Vett Rosb Driver values: Dri val Hami 6 Vett 6 Rosb 9 Ricc 13 Webb 13 REST 18 2014 data: Time 2013 PP 2013 FL 2013 Q2 2014/2013 2014/13FL 2014/13Q2 GP Pole #2 (s) (s) (s) (s) (%) (%) (%) OZ Hami Ricc 104.231 87.407 89.274 96.194 119.248 116.754 108.355 MAL Hami Vett 119.431 109.674 99.199 96.190 108.896 120.395 124.162 BAH Rosb Hami 93.185 92.330 96.961 92.746 100.926 96.106 100.473 CHN 94.484 96.808 95.078 ESP 80.718 86.217 81.001 MON 73.876 76.577 75.988 CAN 85.425 76.182 87.649 AUT ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ GB 89.607 93.401 90.990 GER ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ HUN 79.388 84.069 79.778 BEL 121.012 110.756 108.296 ITA 83.755 85.849 83.977 SIN 102.841 108.574 102.905 JAP 90.915 94.587 91.290 RUS ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ USA 96.338 99.856 97.065 BRA 86.479 75.436 86.161 ABU 99.957 103.434 100.473
My guess for China is 96.977 s by Lewis Hamilton.
