The first race of the season => Precision time spans doubled! Guesses within four seconds off the actual pole time score precision points!
The whole qualifying shebang looks vastly different from last year, and new technical regulations will also affect the pole times. Intriguing, intriguing.
How to enter: Just submit your guess for what the pole time will be, and who you think will take pole.
Ten position penalties are ignored (only) if they are due to disciplinary reasons.
Deadline: posting/editing before the start of first free practice is very recommended.
Submitting an entry after the start of first free practice means that your entry may be ignored entirely (Final deadline will be whenever I choose to register the entries = rather randomly), and will ALWAYS mean that your driver guess will be ignored.
Scoring rules
2005 final standings
[b]Three latest poles at Bahrain: Year Driver Pole time (s)[/b] 2005 Alonso 92.054 (Q2) 2004 M Schumacher 90.139 [b]Driver values: Dri val[/b] Alon 2 Mont 2 Butt 4 Fisi 4 Räik 4 RSch 4 REST 5 [b]Late 2005 front rows: GP Pole #2[/b] ITA Mont Alon BEL Mont Räik BRA Alon Mont JPN RSch Butt CHN Alon Fisi [b]2006 data: Time 2005 2005 fastest pp2006/pp2005 GP Pole #2 (s) pole(s) race lap (s) (%) [/b] BAH 92.054 91.447 MAL 95.090 95.483 OZ 88.279 85.683 RSM 82.994 81.858 EUR 90.081 90.711 SPA 76.602 75.641 MON 76.281 75.842 GB 79.905 80.502 CAN 75.217 74.384 USA 70.625 71.497 FRA 74.412 76.423 GER 74.320 74.873 HUN 79.882 81.219 TUR 86.797 84.770 ITA 81.054 81.504 CHN 94.012 93.242 JPN 106.106 91.540 BRA 71.988 72.268My guess for Bahrain is 92.206 s by Michael Schumacher.