Jimfaekillie wins the 2010 Predictions Championship
Predictions Championship
Lewis Hamilton, Sebastian Vettel, Jenson Button, Abu Dhabi, 2010
Jimfaekillie has won the 2010 F1 Fanatic Predictions Championship.
He claims the grand prize of two tickets to the 2011 British Grand Prix weekend, with seats opposite new pit and paddock complex, overlooking the new start grid.
Details of all 12 championship prize winners plus the two race prize winners and the final championship standings can be found below.
Jimfaekillie is our Grand Prize winner having amassed a total of 194 points.
After becoming one of the few people to achieve a maximum points score in the Suzuka round, he staved off a late rally by J-Canada, who took 32 points off him in the last two races to end up four points adrift.
Congratulations to Jimfaekillie, who will be watching all three days of next year’s British Grand Prix at the Silverstone track with a friend.
Championship top 25
| Player | Points | |
| 1 | jimfaekillie | 194 |
| 2 | J-Canada | 190 |
| 3 | Arpi_ | 176 |
| 3 | chiliching | 176 |
| 5 | kmk | 173 |
| 6 | flyingcave | 170 |
| 6 | S-D | 170 |
| 8 | Chris Pratt | 169 |
| 9 | KeirdreF1 | 167 |
| 10 | Carina Gascoine | 166 |
| 10 | scunnyman | 166 |
| 12 | nicko029 | 164 |
| 12 | LucaBadoerFan | 164 |
| 12 | rascalb | 164 |
| 15 | CyclopsPL | 163 |
| 15 | Tom Hitchings | 163 |
| 17 | Bullfrog | 162 |
| 18 | Romain from Grenoble | 160 |
| 19 | Biggles209 | 159 |
| 19 | Owen G | 159 |
| 21 | als | 156 |
| 22 | PJA | 154 |
| 22 | Scalextric | 154 |
The second place prize goes to J-Canada who wins an F1 painting supplied by Rob Ijbema.
He can pick an F1 driver for a portrait or select a painting of his choice from Rob’s site Car-a-day.
The runners-up prize go to the next ten highest points-scorers. They have all won copies of the new 2010-2011 edition Autocourse, which will be sent to them once it has been published.
And with three players tied for 12th place the Abu Dhabi pole position time tie-breaker had to be used to pick who came out on top. Commiserations to LucaBadoerFan and rascalb who narrowly missed out on a prize.
The ten “Autocourse” winners are: Arpi_, Chiliching, KMK, Flyingcave, S-D, Chris Pratt, KeirdreF1, Carina Gascoine, scunnyman and nicko029.
And we have two winners for this weekend’s round as usual. The best prediction for the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix was made by F1WithMySon, who wins a Lotus DVD boxset supplied by Duke Video.
The race runner-up was Matt Clinch, who wins two F1 T-shirts supplied by Unlap. The pole position tie-breaker had to be used again hear, and Matt clinched it (sorry) by just 0.01s over J-Canada.
Thanks for playing!
Over 3,600 people played in the 2010 F1 Fanatic Predictions Championship. Thank you all for joining in, do let us know how your season went in the comments below.
And thanks again to Silverstone, Rob Ijbema, Icon Publishing, Duke Video and Unlap for supplying the biggest and best ever selection of prizes for the F1 Fanatic Predictions Championship.
View the F1 Fanatic Predictions Championship standings in full
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sato113 (@sato113) said on 18th November 2010, 12:51
my championship fell apart mid season with poor unreliability! 80th out of a couple of thousands aint too bad tho.
Dan Thorn (@dan-thorn) said on 18th November 2010, 12:59
298th with 99 points, disappointed. Those couple of no scores really cost me!
Thanks to Keith and all involved for running this and congrats to the winners. I’ll try and come back stronger next year!
Fixy (@fixy) said on 18th November 2010, 13:29
Out of 3866 isn’t bad though!
damonsmedley (@damonsmedley) said on 18th November 2010, 14:42
I was a few place above you Dan! But I missed two rounds which was very foolish of me. Does anyone know how the scoring works?
Thanks for this fun little competition Keith! :)
mattclinch (@mattclinch) said on 18th November 2010, 13:00
wooooo! t-shirts! thanks keith, great championship run throughout the year. thanks for all your effort and the prizes.
Ned Flanders (@ned-flanders) said on 18th November 2010, 13:01
Congrats to Jimfaekillie… luck so and so!
I was 224th… I really got into this towards the end of the season, but inexplicably forgetting to make my predictions for the Brazilian GP cost me badly. With the Big 5 drivers locking the top 5 positions in the race, it’s safe to assume I missed out on some big points there
BasCB said on 18th November 2010, 13:40
The same with me, I let my wishes dictate my predictions to much, instead of cold bloudedly choosing Vettel for pole at each track and getting the usual suspects for the podium.
Highest score was 11 points in a single race, so i must improve there for next year.
jimfaekillie said on 18th November 2010, 15:59
I am indeed a very lucky so and so!!!!!
As others have said, many thanks to Keith for running the competition and for doing such a great job with the site all year. Also for arranging an absolutely fantastic prize – I can’t wait!
Maciek said on 18th November 2010, 17:40
Big time congratulations to you! Bravo! and, yeah giant kudos to Keith for the competition. Also, I’m sparing a thought for J-Canada. 4 points – ouch. I only ended up two little, measly perfect scores behind you so, you know, like watch out next year. Seriously – congrats.
Austin said on 18th November 2010, 18:15
Congrats Jim, Great predictions.
Whats your secret? ;-) I’m very jealous of you. If your stuck for somebody to go with, I might be available :-) I live near to you in the next town, if you still live there.
Congrats to the other winners too, well done. Hopefully I do better myself next year.
A note to Keith, any chance of making it a little easier for everyone by having us predict only the podium positions and using the same points system as F1, as once your behind after few races you have no chance of catching up.
Spectator said on 18th November 2010, 23:02
first half of the season went well for me on quallyfying terms i would have made a better job but so would evrybody make anyway 24th for the SPECTATOR aka miguelpereira
TrueF1Grit (@truef1grit) said on 18th November 2010, 13:03
I was late starting and felt I was already out when I only entered 1 out of the first 5 races.
PJA said on 18th November 2010, 13:06
Joint 22nd this year considering the number of people who took part I am pleased with that, although it is down on my place of fifth last year.
Thanks to Keith for running the Championship and congratulations to all the winners.
Damon said on 18th November 2010, 13:40
Congrats to the winners!
I’m 45th with 144 points, which means I’m awesome. I missed one round. My highest position was 28th.
I love this game! It adds a whole new dimention to watching races and a spices it up a whole lot!
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KEITH,
One stat that we need, would be to asses the predictability of each race, as is shown by the mean point score in each race.
The races where the mean scores where the highest were the most predictable ones, and the most unpredictable races were those with the lowest scores. This comparison would be very interesting!
[The calculation would have to only include, say, 100 highest scores of each race, as to eliminate the influence of "Opts" scores, varying number of participants and varying number of joke predictions (which also typically lead to 0pt scores). This would also make the calculation a lot easier.]
claudioff said on 18th November 2010, 20:28
Nice Idea Damon;
I am also a stat freak, so I have some numbers that might interest you. Let´s suppose that someone could predict exactly the grid (as some players, myself included, had done sometimes in this championship) and use this as a race prediction. How many points he/she would get?:
01) Bah: 16
02) Mel: 5
03) Sep: 7
04) Sha: 5
05) Bar: 13
06) Mon: 24
07) Ist: 7
08) Mtl: 13
09) Val: 6
10) Sil: 5
11) Hoc: 9
12) Hun: 9
13) Spa: 7
14) Mon: 19
15) Sin: 21
16) Suz: 13
17) Koe: 4
18) Int: 5
19) Yas: 11
Total: 199
Boring races implies in race result equals the starting grid. Or, in other words, high scores (50). We can conclude, therefore, that, apart Monaco (24, big surprise), we had a very not predictable championship.
Damon said on 19th November 2010, 10:58
That’s also interesting, but you don’t need prediction scores for that stat. ;)
nicko029 said on 18th November 2010, 14:04
I want to thank Keith once again for the prize! Cheers mate!
wasiF1 said on 18th November 2010, 14:06
Congratulation to the top 3.It was fun.
sami said on 18th November 2010, 14:11
very bad results due to the late start, and as long as i am mercedes fan, i did the same as my team, start concentrating on the new season early.
Now i am waiting the new season to see how i will perform.
scunnyman (@scunnyman) said on 18th November 2010, 14:12
if only i hadn’t made a name mistake a few rounds ago then i would have finished 5th, but i am still proud of finishing 10th out of the thousands that took place, and scoring points in every round.
And congrats to Jimfaekillie who managed to win from down the pack unlike Alonso.
Looking forward to next season now
Guilherme (@the_philosopher) said on 18th November 2010, 14:33
Just missed the top 25!
I guess there is no shame in finishing 26th out of more than 3000 players though! If only I hadn’t registered with the wrong username in Spa, I’d have finished 20th!
Thanks again Keith, I’ll be looking forward to improve next year!
Keith Collantine (@keithcollantine) said on 18th November 2010, 15:28
Should have a username system in place for next year to put an end to that. I’m sorry it wasn’t possible to do it during this year but there simply wasn’t time.
Damon said on 19th November 2010, 11:22
I like it as it is. You cannot babysit everybody in all domains of life, if someone can’t take care of their own business then it’s their problem.
That’s life.
It’s better not making people used to all things being done for them.
John H said on 19th November 2010, 16:44
harsh Damon, harsh!
Icthyes (@icthyes) said on 18th November 2010, 14:34
Congratulations to the winners!
Failed to finish in the Top 100 but inconsistency cost me dear.
George said on 18th November 2010, 17:58
Just beat you by two points icth, would have been well in the top 100 if I hadn’t missed two races :(
sheep said on 18th November 2010, 15:07
Points in every race :D
Not high points though… :(
Oh well, congratz to the winners!
jOSEPH robert said on 18th November 2010, 16:54
hello fellow 100th place finnisher
ps, I pretty much cried when I realised I missed the deadline for suzuka!
rascalb said on 18th November 2010, 15:12
Shame that I missed out on the Autocourse book by that little.
Keith, do you have a spare piece of paper with F1 written on it that I can use for my prize?
But anyway, thanks for running the championship again this year. Hopefully I can pick even better next year and actually make the cut.