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 USA-Austin: Year Driver Pole time (s) 2023 Leclerc 94.723 2022 Sainz 94.356 2021 Verstappen 92.910 2019 Bottas 92.029 2018 Hamilton 92.237 Driver values: Dri val Norr 6 Lecl 9 Pias 9 Vers 9 Pere 13 REST 18 2024 data: Time 2023 PP 2022 PP 2021 PP 2024/2023 2024/2022 2024/2021 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 Vers Pere 88.197 88.877 89.304 ------ 99.235 98.760 ------ CHN Vers Pere 93.660 ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ MIA Vers Lecl 87.241 86.841 88.796 ------ 100.461 98.249 ------ EMI Vers Pias 74.746 ------ 87.999 74.411 ------ 84.940 100.450 MON Lecl Pias 70.270 71.365 71.376 70.346 98.466 98.450 99.892 CAN Russ Vers 72.000 85.858 81.399 ------ 83.859 88.453 ------ ESP Norr Vers 71.383 72.272 78.750 76.741 98.770 90.645 93.018 AUT Vers Norr 64.314 64.391 64.984 63.720 99.880 98.969 100.932 GB Russ Hami 85.819 86.720 100.983 86.134 98.961 84.984 99.634 HUN Norr Pias 75.227 76.609 77.377 75.419 98.196 97.221 99.745 BEL Lecl Pere 113.754 106.988 104.297 119.765 106.324 109.067 94.981 NED Norr Vers 69.673 70.567 70.342 68.885 98.733 99.049 101.144 ITA Norr Pias 79.327 80.294 80.161 79.651 98.796 98.960 99.593 AZE Lecl Pias 101.365 100.203 101.359 101.218 101.160 100.006 100.145 SIN Norr Vers 89.525 90.984 109.412 ------ 98.396 81.824 ------ 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 USA is 93.464 s by Lando Norris.
