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[Bjorn]

Well this is embarrassing. The winner of this experimental round of the Provisional Pole Game appears to be... Me!

Seeing as I was probably the only one who fully understood the rules and had access to all the stats it's only fair that I be disqualified, so the win is shared by lukywill, WillieF1 and Czesc clap:

The result
Poleman: Barrichello (6)
Lowman: M Schumacher (14)

The scores

lukywill		15

WillieF1		15

Czesc			15

Viss1			14

arcsine			12

nichotj			12

d_view7			10

garth_b			10

Makarias		10

KWSN - DSM		10

Jimmino			10

skylark68		9

Estwald			9

scheivlak		8

fullcourseyellow	8

Brutom			8

TT6			8

Prostfan		7

Ric Bol			6

Marcel Schot		6

None of these got the 5 point correct driver bonus. I seem to recall someone guessed M Schumacher as Lowman, but he must have changed that. Too bad 5 points in this round would have been valuable ;)

Just for fun, here are the scores as they would have been if everyone had posted these guesses for every race throughout the year:

arcsine			203

nichotj			203

lukywill		196

Viss1			172

d_view7			171

skylark68		169

garth_b			163

Ric Bol			161

Makarias		157

KWSN - DSM		157

Marcel Schot		153

scheivlak		153

Estwald			153

WillieF1		147

fullcourseyellow	147

Brutom			146

Prostfan		145

TT6			140

Jimmino			136

Czesc			113

Another tie, but this time fairly understandably since the top two posted exactly the same guesses

Here are all the Polemen of the year:

Alonso		4 (Malaysia 9, San Marino 4, Spain 6, Hungary 5)

R Schumacher	3 (Austria 7, Canada 14, France 15)

Barrichello	3 (Great Britain 18, Germany 5, Japan 6)

Gene		1 (Italy 14)

Panis		1 (Europe 9)

Raikkonen	1 (United States 8)

Trulli		1 (Brazil 7)

Fisichella	1 (Monaco 7)

Montoya		1 (Australia 5)

So congratulations to Alonso, the Poleman of 2003

And the Lowmen:

Webber		2 (Austria 15, United States 12)

Wilson		2 (Europe 6, Germany 10)

da Matta	2 (Spain 10, Monaco 4)

Frentzen	2 (Malaysia 6, Hungary 7)

Verstappen	1 (France 19)

Firman		1 (Canada 16)

Raikkonen	1 (Australia 14)

M Schumacher	1 (Japan 14)

Alonso		1 (Italy 13)

Pizzonia	1 (Brazil 10)

Panis		1 (Great Britain 9)

Fisichella	1 (San Marino 7)

3 way tie, decided by how far these guys dropped between qualifying sessions, with Webber getting a whopping total of 27 places! So Webber gets the dubious honour of being this year's Lowman.

Well that's it from me, see you next year!

[Czesc]

To quote myself from the game thread:

1. Räikkönen 4

And since this is experimental...

2. M. Schumacher 18

I haven't changed that and nobody else has either so it's still there. I demand 5 points more

[Bjorn]

Oh wow I'm sorry you're right. What can I say, I'm really really tired

Not sure what happened, this is all calculated automatically in Excel, and when I pasted the results over you had 10 points, but now you have 15 Anyway, it's corrected, so we have a 3 way tie

[Czesc]

Tied first place. And the Lowman guessing Champion

[Prostfan]

Isn't Trulli lowman? From 1 to 20?

[Estwald]

Originally posted by Prostfan
Isn't Trulli lowman? From 1 to 20?

That is what I thought as well

[Bjorn]

2. Who will have the lowest provisional starting position at the end of his run?

Neither Trulli nor Ralf finished their runs so they are simply ignored. This was stated in the original thread, although I didn't mention aborted runs precisely. When I said than DNQs would be ignored I was thinking more about drivers who crashed during their run. But this rule applies in this case too.

[Jimmino]

Thanks, looking forward new season

[Marcel Schot]

Originally posted by Bjorn
Marcel Schot 6

The game obviously is good if I finish last

[garth_b]

This will be interesting next year as firstqual and second qual will be run in the same session. You will have to be quick to change your guesses between sessions!

[Jimmino]

Originally posted by garth_b
This will be interesting next year as firstqual and second qual will be run in the same session. You will have to be quick to change your guesses between sessions!

Don´t worry, qualification format will remain same.

[WillieF1]

First Place! I like this game! It's much better than all the other games that I suck in!

[skylark68]

Fascinating and strangely, I think I understod it! Look forward to it next year. Thanks Bjorn!