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
2024 standings
Five latest poles at Japan-Suzuka: Year Driver Pole time (s) 2023 Verstappen 88.877 2022 Verstappen 89.304 2019 Vettel 87.064 2018 Hamilton 87.760 2017 Hamilton 87.319 Late 2023 front rows: GP Pole #2 LVE Lecl Vers ABU Vers Lecl Driver values: Dri val Vers 3 Lecl 4 Sain 13 REST 18 2024 data: Time 2022 PP 2021 PP 2020 PP 2023/2022 2023/2021 2023/2020 GP Pole #2 (s) (s) (s) (s) (%) (%) (%) BAH Vers Lecl 89.179 89.708 90.558 88.997 99.410 98.477 100.205 SAU Vers Lecl 87.472 88.265 88.200 87.511 99.102 99.175 99.955 OZ Vers Sain 75.915 76.732 77.868 ------ 98.935 97.492 ------ JPN 0 88.877 89.304 ------ ------ CHN 0 ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ MIA 0 86.841 88.796 ------ ------ EMI 0 ------ 87.999 74.411 ------ MON 0 71.365 71.376 70.346 CAN 0 85.858 81.399 ------ ------ ESP 0 72.272 78.750 76.741 AUT 0 64.391 64.984 63.720 GB 0 86.720 100.983 86.134 HUN 0 76.609 77.377 75.419 BEL 0 106.988 104.297 119.765 NED 0 70.567 70.342 68.885 ITA 0 80.294 80.161 79.651 AZE 0 100.203 101.359 101.218 SIN 0 90.984 109.412 ------ ------ USA 0 94.723 94.356 92.910 MEX 0 77.166 77.775 75.875 BRA 0 70.727 71.674 68.372 LVE 0 92.726 ------ ------ ------ ------ QAT 0 83.778 ------ 80.827 ------ ABU 0 83.445 83.824 82.109My guess for Japan is 88.156 s by Max Verstappen.
