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 - 7.500The 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
2017 standings
Five latest poles at Japan-Suzuka: Year Driver Pole time (s) 2016 Rosberg 90.647 2015 Rosberg 92.584 2014 Rosberg 92.506 2013 Webber 90.915 2012 Vettel 90.839 Driver values: Dri val Hami 6 Vett 6 Räik 9 Stro 13 Vers 13 REST 18 2017 data: Time 2016 PP 2016 FL 2016 Q2 2017/2016 2017/16FL 2017/16Q2 GP Pole #2 (s) (s) (s) (s) (%) (%) (%) OZ Hami Vett 82.188 83.837 88.997 84.605 98.033 92.349 97.143 CHN Hami Vett 91.678 95.402 99.824 96.118 96.097 91.840 95.381 BAH Bott Hami 88.769 89.493 94.482 90.039 99.191 93.953 98.590 RUS Vett Räik 93.194 95.417 99.094 95.337 97.670 94.046 97.752 ESP Hami Vett 79.149 82.000 86.948 82.159 96.523 91.030 96.336 MON Räik Vett 72.178 73.622 77.939 74.043 98.039 92.608 97.481 CAN Hami Vett 71.459 72.812 75.599 73.076 98.142 94.524 97.787 AZE Hami Bott 100.593 102.758 106.485 102.520 97.893 94.467 98.120 AUT Bott Vett 64.251 67.922 68.411 66.228 94.595 93.919 97.015 GB Hami Räik 86.600 89.287 95.548 89.243 96.991 90.635 97.038 HUN Vett Räik 76.276 79.965 83.086 82.660 95.387 91.804 92.277 BEL Hami Vett 102.553 106.744 111.583 106.999 96.074 91.907 95.845 ITA Hami Stro 95.554 81.135 85.340 81.498 117.772 111.969 117.247 SIN Vett Vers 99.491 102.584 107.187 103.020 96.985 92.820 96.574 MAL Hami Räik 90.076 92.850 96.424 93.046 97.012 93.417 96.808 JAP 0 90.647 95.118 90.714 USA 0 94.999 99.877 96.255 MEX 0 78.704 81.134 78.972 BRA 0 70.736 85.305 71.238 ABU 0 98.755 103.729 99.382My guess for Japan is 87.764 s by Lewis Hamilton.
