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#1 Makarias

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Posted 03 November 2023 - 23:15

NEW CIRCUIT
6201 metres long, says Wikipedia.
The other great attraction in Las Vegas is Davante Adams who is 1.85 m long.
With tripled time spans, feel free to guess much more wrong than me.

 

 

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

2023 standings
 

Five latest poles at Las Vegas:
NEW CIRCUIT!

Driver values:
Dri  val
Lecl   6
Vers   6
Norr  13
Pias  13
Russ  13
Sain  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     ------     ------
JPN  Vers  Pias   88.877   89.304   ------   ------    99.522     ------     ------
QAT  Vers  Russ   83.778   ------   80.827   ------    ------    103.651     ------
USA  Lecl  Norr   94.723   94.356   92.910   ------   100.389    101.951     ------
MEX  Lecl  Sain   77.166   77.775   75.875   ------    99.217    101.701     ------
BRA  Vers  Lecl   70.727   71.674   68.372   ------    98.679    103.444     ------
LVE                    0   ------   ------   ------    ------     ------     ------
ABU                    0   83.824   82.109   95.246                                

My guess for Las Vegas is 89.244 s by Max Verstappen.


Edited by Makarias, 03 November 2023 - 23:16.


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#2 rodlamas

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Posted 08 November 2023 - 13:47

Lando Norris 88.888



#3 milestone 11

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Posted 10 November 2023 - 14:02

Where to go? I've seen two different predictions, 1:34 and 1:23, someone's wrong.

#4 KWSN - DSM

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Posted 10 November 2023 - 14:55

And by forecasts we may need to add wettish to the equation.



#5 mark f1

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Posted 15 November 2023 - 05:37

Verstappen 91.123



#6 scheivlak

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Posted 15 November 2023 - 09:11

Verstappen 93.856



#7 jimjimjeroo

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Posted 15 November 2023 - 14:04

92.222 Lando!



#8 DutchQuicksilver

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Posted 15 November 2023 - 18:26

90.972 Max Verstappen

#9 Anderis

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Posted 15 November 2023 - 18:58

Verstappen 94.500



#10 LB

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Posted 16 November 2023 - 04:08

92.900 Norris



#11 M2000-5

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Posted 16 November 2023 - 12:34

Oh well...

 

90.135 Leclerc



#12 tourister46a

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Posted 16 November 2023 - 13:20

92.292 Verstappen



#13 alekracing

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Posted 16 November 2023 - 21:02

91.369 Leclerc



#14 KWSN - DSM

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Posted 16 November 2023 - 21:04

92.711 - Perez



#15 Bleu

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Posted 16 November 2023 - 21:10

1.31.333 Leclerc



#16 GTA

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Posted 16 November 2023 - 21:49

92.016 CL



#17 Makarias

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Posted 16 November 2023 - 23:48

I'm changing my laptime guess to 92.843 s, still Verstappen.



#18 Brawn BGP 001

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Posted 17 November 2023 - 02:18

91.293 Norris



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Posted 17 November 2023 - 04:06

verstappen 92.615

Edited by milestone 11, 17 November 2023 - 04:06.