Welcome again to the 2020 Guess the Pole season! Winter has flown by very fast as usual.
As usual, the season opener is scored as a modified layout.
Due to the weird scheduling this season I'll allow guesses to the season opener here as default guesses for the Styrian GP the week after, but I'll as usual also post a new thread where you can make a new bespoke guess for Styria in case you want to make adjustments. Same procedure for the Silverstone races later on!
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 - 7.500
The 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
Five latest poles at Austria: Year Driver Pole time (s) 2019 Leclerc 63.003 2018 Bottas 63.130 2017 Bottas 64.251 2016 Hamilton 67.922 2015 Hamilton 68.455 Late 2019 front rows: GP Pole #2 JAP Vett Lecl MEX Vers Lecl USA Bott Vett BRA Vers Vett ABU Hami Vers Driver values: Dri val Vers 6 Vett 6 Lecl 9 Bott 13 Hami 13 REST 18 2020 data: Time 2019 PP 2018 PP 2017 PP 2020/2019 2020/2018 2020/2017 GP Pole #2 (s) (s) (s) (s) (%) (%) (%) AUT 0 63.003 63.130 64.251 STY 0 63.003 63.130 64.251 HUN 0 74.572 95.658 76.276 GB 0 85.093 85.892 86.600 LXX 0 85.093 85.892 86.600 ESP 0 75.406 76.173 79.149 BEL 0 102.519 118.179 102.553 ITA 0 79.307 79.119 95.554 2019 data: Time 2018 PP 2017 PP 2016 PP 2019/2018 2019/2017 2019/2016 GP Pole #2 (s) (s) (s) (s) (%) (%) (%) OZ Hami Bott 80.486 81.164 82.188 83.837 99.165 97.929 96.003 BAH Lecl Vett 87.866 87.958 88.769 89.493 99.895 98.983 98.182 CHN Bott Hami 91.547 91.095 91.678 95.402 100.496 99.857 95.959 AZE Bott Hami 100.495 101.498 100.593 102.758 99.012 99.903 97.798 ESP Bott Hami 75.406 76.173 79.149 82.000 98.993 95.271 91.959 MON Hami Bott 70.166 70.810 72.178 73.622 99.091 97.212 95.306 CAN Vett Hami 70.240 70.764 71.459 72.812 99.260 98.294 96.468 FRA Hami Bott 88.319 90.029 ------ ------ 98.101 ------ ------ AUT Lecl Hami 63.003 63.130 64.251 67.922 99.799 98.058 92.758 GB Bott Hami 85.093 85.892 86.600 89.287 99.070 98.260 95.303 GER Hami Vers 71.767 71.212 ------ 74.363 100.779 ------ 96.509 HUN Vers Bott 74.572 95.658 76.276 79.965 77.957 97.766 93.256 BEL Lecl Vett 102.519 118.179 102.553 106.744 86.749 99.967 96.042 ITA Lecl Hami 79.307 79.119 95.554 81.135 100.238 82.997 97.747 SIN Lecl Hami 96.217 96.015 99.491 102.584 100.210 96.709 93.793 RUS Lecl Hami 91.628 91.387 93.194 95.417 100.264 98.320 96.029 JAP Vett Lecl 87.064 87.760 87.319 90.647 99.207 99.708 96.047 MEX Vers Lecl 74.758 74.759 76.488 78.704 99.999 97.738 94.986 USA Bott Vett 92.029 92.237 93.108 94.999 99.774 98.841 96.874 BRA Vers Vett 67.508 67.281 68.322 70.736 100.337 98.809 95.437 ABU Hami Vers 94.779 94.794 96.231 98.755 99.984 98.491 95.974
My guess for Austria is 62.854 s by Lewis Hamilton.
