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 Japan-Suzuka: Year Driver Pole time (s) 2022 Verstappen 89.304 2019 Vettel 87.064 2018 Hamilton 87.760 2017 Hamilton 87.319 2016 Rosberg 90.647 Driver values: Dri val Vers 6 Sain 9 Hami 13 Lecl 13 Norr 13 Pere 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 Vers Sain 72.272 78.750 76.741 75.584 91.774 94.177 95.618 CAN Vers Hülk 85.858 81.399 ------ ------ 105.478 ------ ------ AUT Vers Lecl 64.391 64.984 63.720 62.939 99.087 101.053 102.307 GB Vers Norr 86.720 100.983 86.134 84.303 85.876 100.680 102.867 HUN Hami Vers 76.609 77.377 75.419 73.447 99.007 101.578 104.305 BEL Lecl Pere 106.988 104.297 119.765 101.252 102.580 89.332 105.665 NED Vers Norr 70.567 70.342 68.885 ------ 100.320 102.442 ------ ITA Sain Vers 80.294 80.161 79.651 78.887 100.166 100.807 101.784 SIN Sain Russ 90.984 109.412 ------ ------ 83.157 ------ ------ 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 95.246My guess for Japan is 89.557 s by Max Verstappen.
