Brand new track! The precision points spans are tripled, so you need to be within six seconds off the pole time to score precision points.
http://www.racingcircuits.net/ has a track map etc.
The track is 5417 m long. Here's a list of what the lap times would be for some different average speeds around the track, and the average pole lap speeds so far this year:
Speed [km/h] Time/track 198 1'38.491 207 1'34.209 216 1'30.283 225 1'26.672 226.17 OZ '04 214.40 MAL '04
How to enter: Just submit your guess for what the pole time will be, and who you think will take pole.
Deadline: post/edit before the start of first free practice.
Here are the scoring rules.
Here are the 2004 standings so far.
Three latest poles at Malaysia (for lack of old Bahrain poles) :
[b]Year Driver Pole time[/b] 2003 Alonso 1'37.044 2002 M Schumacher 1'35.266 2001 M Schumacher 1'35.220
2004 so far:
[b]GP Pole(s) 2003(s) 2004-2003(s) 2004/2003(%)[/b] OZ 84.408 87.173 -2.765 96.828 MAL 93.074 97.044 -3.970 95.909My guess for Bahrain is 1'30.951 by Michael Schumacher.