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
2025 standings
Five latest poles at China: Year Driver Pole time (s) 2024 Verstappen 93.660 2019 Bottas 91.547 2018 Vettel 91.095 2017 Hamilton 91.678 2016 Rosberg 95.402 Late 2024 front rows: GP Pole #2 BRA Norr Russ LVE Russ Sain QAT Vers Russ ABU Norr Pias Driver values: Dri val Norr 6 Russ 6 Pias 9 Sain 13 Vers 13 REST 18 2025 data: Time 2024 PP 2023 PP 2022 PP 2025/2024 2025/2023 2025/2022 GP Pole #2 (s) (s) (s) (s) (%) (%) (%) OZ Norr Pias 75.096 75.915 76.732 77.868 98.921 97.868 96.440 CHN 0 93.660 ------ ------ ------ ------ JPN 0 88.197 88.877 89.304 BAH 0 89.179 89.708 90.558 SAU 0 87.472 88.265 88.200 MIA 0 87.241 86.841 88.796 EMI 0 74.746 ------ 87.999 ------ MON 0 70.270 71.365 71.376 ESP 0 71.383 72.272 78.750 CAN 0 72.000 85.858 81.399 AUT 0 64.314 64.391 64.984 GB 0 85.819 86.720 100.983 BEL 0 113.754 106.988 104.297 HUN 0 75.227 76.609 77.377 NED 0 69.673 70.567 70.342 ITA 0 79.327 80.294 80.161 AZE 0 101.365 100.203 101.359 SIN 0 89.525 90.984 109.412 USA 0 92.330 94.723 94.356 MEX 0 75.946 77.166 77.775 BRA 0 83.405 70.727 71.674 LVE 0 92.312 92.726 ------ ------ QAT 0 80.520 83.778 ------ ------ ABU 0 82.595 83.445 83.824My guess for China is 92.865 s by Oscar Piastri.
