The general game concept is quite simple: You have simply to guess which driver/s will end up during the race weekends with some nice penalties.....
Game concept and scoring
Each player has 10 credit points which he can freely allocate to the drivers for each race weekend. You can place all your credit points on one driver, but you can also give up to 10 drivers per weekend points. These points will be multiplied then with the penalties the drivers received during the race weekend (see the table under penalty points) and the value of the driver (based on the driver's penalty record in the last 12 months).
You can also guess that no penalties will be applied to any driver during the weekend or during the race. If you do so, then you cant allocate any points to any driver of course. If you are right you will receive a certain amount of points, while everyone else (if the weekend prediction turns out to be correct) who went for drivers will end the round without a score. If you are wrong though then you will end up without any points for this round.
Penalty Points
All sorts of driver penalties will count (even if it wasnt really a drivers mistake). Exceptions are
- Gearbox and engine penalties
- Breach of the parc ferme rules
- Technial infringments (particulary with DSQs)
Points | Penalty ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1 | Fines 2 | Reprimands, 2-places-grid-penalty 3 | 3-places-grid-penalty 5 | 5-places-grid-penalty, 5-seconds-penalty 10 | 10-places-grid-penalty, 10-seconds-penalty 20 | 20-places-grid-penalty, 20-seconds-penalty, Drive-Through-Penalty 30 | 30-seconds-penalty, Stop-and-go-penalty, Quali DSQ 50 | Race DSQ/ban ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Should the FIA come up with a grid/time penalty which is not listed in this table, the same logic will apply as with the penalties below (e.g. 4-places-grid-penalty = 4 points). Penalty points will apply for the race where the driver breached the rules and not where he had to take the penalty (e.g. a collision in Race 1 awarded with an grid penalty for Race 2 will count for Race 1)
'No penalty' option
As the FIA has decided to give the drivers a bit more leeway this year this option might be a bit more attractive for 2017. If you believe that the stewards will have no work the whole weekend you can simply submit a entry 'no penalties - weekend'. If you believe that the race will pass off without any penalties then submit 'no penalties - race'. Of course, if the whole weekend was the correct answer then those who went for the race will receive their points as well.
The score for the whole weekend to be penalty free will start off with 1000. It increases every weekend by 50 until a race weekend happens to be without penalties, then it will be reset back to 1000. The same applies for the race, with the start score being 500.
The scores for the Austrian GP are
no penalties - weekend 1400 no penalties - race 850
Driver values
The driver value is based on the penalties the drivers received in the last 12 months (i.e last 20 races). Every driver will have a start value which will depend on his penalty points from the previous season. For every race without a penalty the value increases by 1 point. If the driver gets a penalty his value will decrease by the amount of penalty points he got for this race devided by 10 (e.g. a 10-seconds-penalty would decrease the driver's value by 1 point). The values will be rounded in the end. The driver value can not fall under 1 point.
The start value will depend on how many penalty points the driver received in 2016. The formula is 10-(penalty points last year/10). This is done to give good rookies a chance to close up a bit quicker to the other drivers in this list.
Alonso 29 Verstappen 28 Ericsson 28 Ricciardo 27 Grosjean 27 Hamilton 26 Massa 25 Raikkonen 24 Hulkenberg 24 Bottas 23 Wehrlein 23 Palmer 22 Sainz 21 Magnussen 19 Ocon 19 Perez 17 Stroll 17 (Button 17) Vettel 16 Vandoorne 15 Kvyat 13 (Giovinazzi 11)
Rules
- You have to submit your guess until the start of the first practice for every race weekend.
- If you are failing to submit your guess until the deadline, your most recent entry from the previous races will count
- Submitting guesses with fractions (e.g. 2.5, 4.25, 6.33) is not allowed.
- You can change from race to race your entry as much as you want to.
- You can edit your entry as often as you want, but just until the deadline.
- In case of an driver change in F1 before the deadline your points will not be transfered to the drivers replacement. So amend your entry in this case.
- If this driver change will be after the deadline your points will be transfered just for this race to your drivers replacement. Unless your driver scored already in that race weekend penalty points (for example during practice) and will be replaced after that.
- In case of an tie the player with the best single result (then 2nd best, etc.) will be the winner. If there is stil a tie after that then the one who had the most wins will be champion (then most 2nd places, etc.).
Most valueable drivers in 2017
Score P-Points Penalty#Race
1. Perez 742 35 4
2. Vettel 642 32 2
3. Raikkonen 572 22 2
4. Kvyat 510 30 1
5. Hulkenberg 353 16 2
6. Wehrlein 225 10 2
7. Magnussen 209 11 2
8. Sainz 170 8 2
9. Grosjean 163 6 2
10. Palmer 137 6 2
11. Hamilton 130 5 1
12. Vandoorne 104 9 2
(13. Button 57 3 1)
14. Ricciardo 42 2 1
15. Ericsson 27 1 1
16. Bottas 24 1 1
17. Ocon 17 1 1
18. Stroll 13 1 1
(19. Giovinazzi 10 1 1)
Championship standings
This is one of the very few games on this board where you have stil realistic chances to win the title even if you are not entering from the first race on, so new entries are always very welcome 
Deadline: First practice
