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) 2014 Hamilton 113.860 2013 Hamilton 94.484 2012 Rosberg 95.121 2011 Vettel 93.706 2010 Vettel 94.558 Driver values: Dri val Hami 3 Rosb 4 Vett 13 REST 18 Late 2014 front rows: GP Pole #2 USA Rosb Hami BRA Rosb Hami ABU Rosb Hami 2015 data: Time 2014 PP 2014 FL 2014 Q2 2015/2014 2015/14FL 2015/14Q2 GP Pole #2 (s) (s) (s) (s) (%) (%) (%) OZ Hami Rosb 86.327 104.231 92.478 102.264 82.823 93.349 84.416 MAL Hami Vett 109.834 119.431 103.066 119.041 91.964 106.567 92.266 CHN 113.860 100.402 114.029 BAH 93.185 97.020 93.708 ESP 85.232 88.918 86.088 MON 75.989 78.479 76.354 CAN 74.874 78.504 75.054 AUT 68.759 72.142 68.974 GB 95.766 97.176 94.870 GER 76.540 79.908 77.109 HUN 82.715 85.724 83.310 BEL 125.591 110.511 126.609 ITA 84.109 88.004 84.560 SIN 105.681 110.417 105.825 JAP 92.506 111.600 92.950 RUS 98.513 100.896 98.338 USA 96.067 101.379 96.290 MEX ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ BRA 70.023 73.555 70.303 ABU 100.480 104.496 100.920
My guess for China is 93.346 s by Lewis Hamilton.