CHANGED TRACK LAYOUT
The final chicane that has served us poorly since 2007 will now be bypassed and the lap ends in a rather old school style with some fast right handers. Hurrah!
Time spans doubled, according to tradition and rules alike.
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
2023 standings
Five latest poles at Spain: Year Driver Pole time (s) 2022 Leclerc 78.750 (Old layout) 2021 Hamilton 76.741 2020 Hamilton 75.584 2019 Bottas 75.406 2018 Hamilton 76.173 Driver values: Dri val Alon 6 Vers 6 Pere 9 Lecl 13 Russ 13 REST 18 2023 data: Time 2022 PP 2021 PP 2020 PP 2023/2022 2023/2021 2023/2020 GP Pole #2 (s) (s) (s) (s) (%) (%) (%) BAH Vers Pere 89.708 90.558 88.997 87.264 99.061 100.799 102.801 SAU Pere Alon 88.265 88.200 87.511 ------ 100.074 100.862 ------ OZ Vers Russ 76.732 77.868 ------ ------ 98.541 ------ ------ AZE Lecl Vers 100.203 101.359 101.218 ------ 98.859 98.997 ------ MIA Pere Alon 86.841 88.796 ------ ------ 97.798 ------ ------ EMI ---- ---- ------ 87.999 74.411 73.609 ------ ------ ------ MON Vers Alon 71.365 71.376 70.346 ------ 99.985 101.449 ------ ESP 0 78.750 76.741 75.584 CAN 0 81.399 ------ ------ ------ ------ AUT 0 64.984 63.720 62.939 GB 0 100.983 86.134 84.303 HUN 0 77.377 75.419 73.447 BEL 0 104.297 119.765 101.252 NED 0 70.342 68.885 ------ ------ ITA 0 80.161 79.651 78.887 SIN 0 109.412 ------ ------ ------ ------ JAP 0 89.304 ------ ------ ------ ------ QAT 0 ------ 80.827 ------ ------ ------ USA 0 94.356 92.910 ------ ------ MEX 0 77.775 75.875 ------ ------ BRA 0 71.674 68.372 ------ ------ LVE 0 ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ABU 0 83.824 82.109 95.246
My guess for Spain is 75.415 s by Max Verstappen.
