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 USA-Austin: Year Driver Pole time (s) 2013 Vettel 96.338 2012 Vettel 95.657 Driver values: Dri val Rosb 3 Hami 3 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 Hami Ricc 113.860 94.484 96.808 95.078 120.507 117.614 119.754 ESP Hami Rosb 85.232 80.718 86.217 81.001 105.592 98.858 105.223 MON Rosb Hami 75.989 73.876 76.577 75.988 102.860 99.232 100.001 CAN Rosb Hami 74.874 85.425 76.182 87.649 87.649 98.283 85.425 AUT Mass Bott 68.759 ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ GB Rosb Vett 95.766 89.607 93.401 90.990 106.873 102.532 105.249 GER Rosb Bott 76.540 ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ HUN Rosb Vett 82.715 79.388 84.069 79.778 104.191 98.389 103.681 BEL Rosb Hami 125.591 121.012 110.756 108.296 103.784 113.394 115.970 ITA Hami Rosb 84.109 83.755 85.849 83.977 100.423 97.973 100.157 SIN Hami Rosb 105.681 102.841 108.574 102.905 102.762 97.335 102.698 JAP Rosb Hami 92.506 90.915 94.587 91.290 101.750 97.800 101.332 RUS Hami Rosb 98.513 ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ USA 96.338 99.856 97.065 BRA 86.479 75.436 86.161 ABU 99.957 103.434 100.473
My guess for USA is 100.642 s by Lewis Hamilton.
