1) RULE CHANGE! Previously, players entering a round after first free practice didn't get a driver guess registered. This has been replaced with a time penalty added to the gap between the guess and the actual pole time.
2) F1 rule change! Cars taking part in Q3 now won't be allowed to refuel after it, which may mean that the poles may be taken with significantly different fuel levels than last year. Furthermore, the whole TC shebang is now banned, which might slow down the cars a bit. On the other hand the teams have been developing the cars to go faster...
3) Does anyone know of any track layouts that have been modified for this season? If you do know of any such changes, I'd be grateful if you could tell me here! Valencia and Singapore will be totally new of course.
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 if and only if they are due to disciplinary reasons.
Deadline:
Full entry is accepted only for entries submitted/edited before the start of first free practice.
Guesses entered or edited after first free practice will get a penalty in the form of an added time gap between the guess and the pole time: 0.100 s for "Default" tracks, 0.200 s for "Modified Layout" tracks, 0.300 s for "New" tracks.
Final deadline is whenever I choose to register the entries; typically Friday evening CET. But always after first free practice. In case of me being absent and not able to register the entries in time, the absolute final deadline is the start of Saturday practice.
Scoring rules
-The best eight guessers (closest to the actual pole position time) Score points F1 style, 10-8-6-5-4-3-2-1.
-Precision points are given to every participant whose guess was sufficiently close the actual pole position time according to this list:
<-----------Time offsets-----------> Pts Default Modified Layout New Track [s] 10 - 0.050 - 0.100 - 0.150 8 - 0.100 - 0.200 - 0.300 6 - 0.200 - 0.400 - 0.600 5 - 0.400 - 0.800 - 1.200 4 - 0.600 - 1.200 - 1.800 3 - 0.800 - 1.600 - 2.400 2 - 1.200 - 2.400 - 3.600 1 - 2.000 - 4.000 - 6.000The 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 5 0 front row starts in the previous five races 4 1 front row start in the previous five races 3 2 front row starts in the previous five races 2 3-5 front row starts in the previous five races
2007 final standings
[b]Late 2007 front rows: GP Pole #2[/b] ITA Alon Hami BEL Räik Mass JPN Hami Alon CHN Hami Räik BRA Mass Hami [b]Three latest poles at Australia: Year Driver Pole time (s)[/b] 2007 Räikkönen 86.072 2006 Button 85.229 2005 Fisichella 88.279 (Q2) [b]Driver values: Dri val[/b] Hami 2 Alon 3 Mass 3 Räik 3 REST 5 [b]2008 data: Time 2007 2007 fastest 2008/2007 GP Pole #2 (s) pole(s) race lap (s) (%) [/b] OZ 86.072 85.235 MAL 95.043 96.701 BAH 92.652 94.067 ESP 81.421 82.680 TUR 87.329 87.295 MON 75.726 75.284 CAN 75.707 76.367 FRA 75.034 76.099 GB 79.997 80.638 GER ------ ------ ------ HUN 79.674 80.047 EUR ------ ------ ------ BEL 105.994 108.036 ITA 81.997 82.871 SIN ------ ------ ------ JAP 85.368 88.193 CHN 95.908 97.454 BRA
My guess for Australia is 86.555 s by Lewis Hamilton.
