From 103rd to first: SaloolaS leads the Predictions Championship

27th May 2009, 7:00 by Keith Collantine 38 Comments »

Three faces appeared before SaloolaS in a dream...

Three faces appeared before SaloolaS in a dream...

SaloolaS nailed the Monaco Grand Prix prediction, getting the pole sitter and top three correct, and zoomed straight to the top of the championship.

Last year’s leader Dougie is relegated to second in a tie with wasiF1 who, like SaloolaS, was ranked 103rd after the first round. Here’s the rankings in full.

The prizes

First place prize

  • An original F1 painting by Rob Ijbema
  • Five F1 DVDs from Duke Video: “Formula One 1970: The uncrowned champion”, “Formula Villeneuve: A tribute to Gilles Villeneuve”, “The World’s Greatest F1 Cars”, “Champion: Hill” and “Nine Days in Summer”
  • £60 to spend on F1 merchandise at Onpole.com

3x Runners-up prizes

  • Copies of “Lotus Goes Turbo” DVDs from Duke Video
  • £30 to spend on F1 merchandise at Onpole.com

F1 Fanatic Predictions Championship standings

Other big climbers this week were TommyB (up 55 places to 12th), Journeyer (up 63 places to 16th), Mandev Theorem (up 89 places to 23rd) and JackB (up 134 places to 43rd).

Name Rank Total China Bahrain Spain Monaco
SaloolaS 1 105 5 25 15 60
Dougie 2 95 10 50 25 10
wasiF1 2 95 5 50 20 20
brouard21 4 90 10 35 35 10
Rahzam 4 90 5 25 25 35
PawelF1 6 85 5 50 20 10
ianhaycox 7 80 0 60 10 10
mar-E-o 7 80 25 25 10 20
Michel S. 7 80 10 25 25 20
Owen G 7 80 5 25 25 25
PJA 7 80 5 35 35 5
gazzap 12 75 5 50 10 10
J-Canada 12 75 10 20 35 10
Robert 12 75 0 50 20 5
TommyB 12 75 10 10 20 35
benno 16 70 10 15 35 10
Journeyer 16 70 5 10 20 35
McFan 16 70 5 25 35 5
SamS 16 70 10 25 20 15
sas 16 70 10 20 25 15
simonrs 16 70 10 15 35 10
theo 16 70 10 25 25 10
ajokay 23 65 10 35 10 10
Cliffery 23 65 10 25 20 10
Dorian 23 65 5 25 20 15
F14EVA 23 65 5 20 35 5
Fer no.65 23 65 10 15 20 20
greg76 23 65 10 50 0 5
hamz0rs 23 65 10 15 25 15
Juha 23 65 10 10 35 10
Mandev Theorem 23 65 0 10 20 35
NEEVO 23 65 10 20 25 10
Paul 23 65 0 50 0 15
Pete Walker 23 65 10 35 15 5
Wesley 23 65 0 25 35 5
C J Kinniburgh 36 60 10 25 25 0
Chua 36 60 25 15 10 10
Dave M 36 60 5 25 20 10
ecion 36 60 5 30 0 25
James_mc 36 60 10 10 35 5
Jess 36 60 10 50 0 0
Mikeman 36 60 0 25 35 0
Richard Evans 36 60 10 25 15 10
StrFerrari4Ever 36 60 25 25 10 0
ValveGuy 36 60 0 25 25 10
Andrew White 46 55 10 20 15 10
AndyM 46 55 5 25 20 5
Bigbadderboom 46 55 10 25 0 20
Biggles209 46 55 0 10 35 10
Dank 46 55 10 15 10 20
dmw 46 55 5 25 25 0
GDalcin 46 55 10 10 25 10
JackB 46 55 15 0 5 35
Kayleigh 46 55 0 10 20 25
Mandan 46 55 10 35 10 0
Nathan89 46 55 10 25 10 10
Nayanesh 46 55 25 10 15 5
Oxley_K 46 55 10 25 10 10
Raceaddict 46 55 15 10 15 15
sacco 46 55 0 35 15 5
Siwongo 46 55 5 25 20 5
Timdoug 46 55 0 15 20 20
TomD11 46 55 10 15 20 10
YeaMon 46 55 0 25 10 20
Amjad Elyyat 65 50 0 25 25 0
Andy 65 50 5 25 20 0
Flying Wombat 65 50 5 0 25 20
Keith Collantine 65 50 5 20 20 5
Nirupam 65 50 0 15 15 20
Ozzi 65 50 10 25 10 5
Pankit 65 50 5 25 10 10
RedGreen 65 50 10 25 10 5
RJK224 65 50 0 25 0 25
Seedy001 65 50 5 25 5 15
Steve_P 65 50 10 10 20 10
Ted Tofield 65 50 0 50 0 0
Toadette81 65 50 10 15 10 15
Tristan 65 50 10 20 5 15

Here are the results in full:

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It’s still early days in our championship battle. With a maximum of 60 points up for grabs at each round anyone in the top 103 could be leading after the Turkish Grand Prix.

Housekeeping: Entries for ‘Johnny Legg’ and ‘JohnnyLegg’ combined as ‘Johnny Legg’; Entries for ‘djdaveyp’ and ‘djdaveyp85′ combined as ‘djdaveyp’; Entries for ‘The CableGuy60′ and ‘TheCableGuy60′ combined as #The CableGuy60′.

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