Who’s going to win the Brazilian GP? Make your podium and pole predictions
16th October 2009, 19:26 by Keith Collantine 59 Comments »
Can Rubens Barrichello win at home?
With the field covered by less than a second in practice for the Brazilian Grand Prix it’s going to be harder than ever to predict the result of this race.
But that won’t stop us trying! Name who you think will be on pole position, and who will be the top three in the race, below:
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
Here’s how the game works:
1. Predictions have to be made before the beginning of final practice on Saturday.
2. Only one set of predictions per person.
3. You have to predict (a) Who will be on pole position and (b) What the top three finishers (three different drivers) will be.
4. Players score:
a. ten points for correctly guessing the pole sitter
b. ten points for naming one of the top three in their correct position, 25 for naming two of the top three and 50 for naming the whole top three correctly
c. five points for correctly naming any other driver in the top three (but not in the correct position)
5. Predictions must be entered as described below and either posted in a comment below or emailled to competition-at-f1fanatic.co.uk
6. Whoever scores the most points over the 15 races from round three (China) to 17 (Abu Dhabi) wins the grand prize.
7. In the event of a tie the winner will be determined by who picked to most race winners correctly, then second places finishers and so on.
8. In the event of a dispute the editor’s decision is final.
9. For the purposes of the competition the pole sitter is the driver who starts the original race from pole position. The race classification is that issued by the FIA.
This competition has closed
steph90 said on 16th October 2009, 19:40
I’ve taken a slight gamble. May as well, not in the hunt. Maybe should have put Webber there…
DomPrez said on 16th October 2009, 19:57
there isnt a gamble in the sport that can help me now….i just want to see if i can finaly get a prediction right… 2 chances to go and i dont feel the best about this on either :S
DomPrez said on 16th October 2009, 20:00
its becoming increasingly dificult to seperate my ‘wants’ from my ‘probably’s
i can wait for the mercedes powerplant to finaly fail…let the conspiracy theories roll!
Brawn said on 16th October 2009, 19:58
Want Webber to win… but went with Vettel cos i think he’s gonna go for broke. Button for the title
mfDB said on 16th October 2009, 22:47
I think Mark will move aside for Vettel if it comes down to it….
mp4-19b said on 16th October 2009, 20:01
Who’s leading? Saloolas or Dougie? And I’m out of the hunt
steph90 said on 16th October 2009, 20:07
SaloolaS isn’t it?
Willian Ceolin said on 16th October 2009, 20:05
I think Vettel wins at Interlagos. Barrichello is not very good at home, but he should go to the podium too.
ianhaycox said on 16th October 2009, 20:09
I predict,
6 ‘That will do’
4 ‘Has he done enough’
4 ‘Here he comes’
and a couple of ‘Will this be OK’ (possibly rhetorical)
Igo said on 16th October 2009, 20:14
3 ‘That’s not what he wanted’
25 ‘…From…From…’
3 ‘He’s lighting up the timing screens’
100 ‘Jenson Button is world champion’
steph90 said on 16th October 2009, 20:16
I feel a bit sorry for Legard now, but you did miss ‘on a charge’ and ‘never mind that’.
Patrickl said on 16th October 2009, 20:20
Someone should write an automated “Legard commentator”.
Or maybe they already did … *hums twilight zone theme*
Igo said on 16th October 2009, 21:17
It will be easy for the game makers to do the commentary and make it realistic. Just get Legard to do his 7 phrases and add in the driver/constructors name.
Platine said on 17th October 2009, 0:15
More than one “Trulli train” is probably at about evens.
sato113 said on 16th October 2009, 21:59
‘the Brawns out in the sunshine.’
manatcna said on 16th October 2009, 23:59
This is key!
Nik said on 17th October 2009, 0:31
And:
4 ‘But what about this now!?’
7 Interruptions of Brundle
kallan said on 17th October 2009, 0:53
it’s a real frustration
matt said on 17th October 2009, 1:20
What about “… is making a move.”
Platine said on 17th October 2009, 12:34
and why does he say “yesterDAY”, not ‘yesterday’ like all other english speakers.
and why is he a f1 commentator when he has no clue about either F1 or commentating?
John H said on 17th October 2009, 14:40
Is this gonna be good enough?
James said on 16th October 2009, 20:44
I’ve made a prediction, but Christ, I have no idea who will grab it. Closest race weekend in a very long time here!
Just for laughs I was tempted to put Badoer on Pole, with Badoer 1st, Piquet 2nd and Bourdais 3rd. Stranger things have happened, havent they?
ILoveVettel said on 16th October 2009, 21:24
Yes, the sky may fall on your head
James said on 16th October 2009, 21:40
Not something to say whilst I’m watching FlashForward =| lol
mfDB said on 16th October 2009, 22:49
My friend is on that show! Nice to see it mentioned here. Are you in the states? Europe?
James said on 16th October 2009, 23:40
Europe, streaming the latest episode. But shhhhh… I didnt tell you that!
mfDB said on 16th October 2009, 23:45
Nice!!! It’s a pretty good show. Glad to see it’s making a presence over there.
Saloolas said on 17th October 2009, 13:39
Great series
Haytham Hawamdeh said on 16th October 2009, 21:20
button will win, even though vittel have the pole
i think his engine will blow up
hamilton will be 2nd or 3rd
and long live mercedes
viva hamilton
Haytham Hawamdeh said on 16th October 2009, 21:25
something fishy is out there
some prediction is odd
even mine
Mike "the bike" Schumacher said on 16th October 2009, 21:45
Why has Vettel done 27 and 45 laps in the practises with no more engines left?
Steph90 said on 16th October 2009, 21:55
It was wet, high altitude and he may feel an attacking philosophy is what will keep him in the hunt.
Patrickl said on 17th October 2009, 8:46
He has plenty engines left. Most of them are just not very new anymore.
Steph90 said on 16th October 2009, 22:03
From autosport.com
James said on 16th October 2009, 22:23
Interesting. I wonder if Mark would pull over for Seb if the call came? Or, perhaps this is comment is in light of his future with Red Bull – perhaps he has been bought out of his contract, with Kimi taking his place?
It’s gonna be an epic race… and I’ll be missing it as I’ll be working :’(
mfDB said on 16th October 2009, 22:50
Yes, he will.
mm said on 16th October 2009, 22:52
Ehh whats happened to the table… i’m seeing:
mmck BUT
Steve_P BAR
mmck BAR
Steve_P BAR
mmck BUT
Steve_P HAM
mmck HAM
Steve_P BUT
Lenny VET VET HAM BAR 2009-10-16 22:48:37
Based on my prediction I’m Presuming it should be:
mmck BUT BAR BUT HAM
Steve_P BAR BAR HAM BUT
Lenny VET VET HAM BAR 2009-10-16 22:48:37
mm said on 16th October 2009, 22:53
I think its happened as we have identical times stamps – so it’s got confused (what are the chances!?)
2009-10-16 22:49:34
mm said on 16th October 2009, 22:58
If this is running off a MySQL database – simply going into the database (using something like phpmyadmin) and changing the date should fix the problem.
Presuming this is a bug, the code amendment needed is either on submit it should check pre-existing time stamps and if already existing add a second to the submitted time and recheck – or give all submissions a unique reference no/code – or ideally it just finish listing all user content before grabbing the next set of info. It’s most likely being caused by some sloppy loops being used in the code – where instead “foreach” in php is probably a better solution for what is trying to be achieved.
ianhaycox said on 17th October 2009, 10:23
It’s a known bug, fixed in the latest version.
The problem was a missing ORDER BY field to order entry id’s before the timestamp.
steph90 said on 17th October 2009, 10:29
That actually happened to me last week, wow the odds on that happening 2 races in a row
PKeith Collantine said on 17th October 2009, 1:16
Should be fixed now, sorry about that!
F1Fan said on 17th October 2009, 2:19
The RBR is again the fastest car here. Whoever said they are lacking mechanical grip … well, not any more. They were flying today in sector-2.
I see several people have picked Webber to win this. It’s not happening. Vettel should win the race, Webber **should** come in 2nd, that is if he doesn’t crash again, then I like Lewis to get 3rd. I think the Brawns will struggle in Q and will have to come from behing at the start. Don’t see the latter happening.
I think we are going to Abu-Dabbi w/ the WDC still undecided.
Patrickl said on 17th October 2009, 8:45
You are assuming it wil be an easy 1-2 for Red Bull and then indeed Webber won’t be allowed to win.
Webber can win if Vettel is not right behind him.
StrFerrari4Ever said on 17th October 2009, 3:08
I’m choosing an unlikely one but i feel Vettel will win it and Buemi if he can stay out of trouble and continue his strong place can get on the podium aswell as Webber an all Red Bull podium
TommyB said on 17th October 2009, 14:21
All Red Bull podium would be great! I’m worried for Webber, He may be on for a good race and he won’t let Vettel go for his title
nomeg1 said on 17th October 2009, 6:56
Must be wrong, nobody has the same score ! Ha !