Win F1 race tickets in the 2011 Predictions Championship
Predictions Championship
20th March 2011, 18:40 by Keith Collantine 58 Comments »
Mark Webber, Lewis Hamilton, Silverstone, 2010
Three-day grandstand tickets to the 2012 British Grand Prix are the top prize in the 2011 F1 Fanatic Predictions Championship.
And there’s F1 DVDs and highly-coveted, ultra-desirable F1 Fanatic mugs to be won at every race weekend.
Join in the Predictions Championship and play against thousands of other F1 Fanatic readers.
A few changes have been made to the Predictions Championship this year, including:
- You have to register with an F1 Fanatic account to play. This will prevent the problem of people typing in their user names incorrectly. Get your F1 Fanatic account here if you don’t have one.
- You will now receive a confirmation email after making your prediction.
Thanks to Ian Haycox for making the changes to the code.
See below for a full list of the prizes confirmed so far and make your predictions for the Australian Grand Prix.
The prizes
There are prizes to be won in every race plus grand prizes for the overall winners at the end of the season.
Whoever gets the highest overall score throughout the year will win a pair of grandstand tickets for the 2012 British Grand Prix.
Here are the prizes in full:
Grand prize: Two grandstands tickets to the 2012 British Grand Prix
The person who scores the most points over the whole season will win two grandstand tickets to the 2012 British Grand Prix at Silverstone.
The grand prize winner will receive tickets to all three days of the event with reserved seating for the race.
The winners will have tickets for the Becketts grandstand which offers views of the spectacular, high-speed Becketts complex plus part of the new infield section of the track which saw so much action in the 2010 race.
Second place prize: An F1 painting of your choice
The second place finisher will win an F1 painting by Rob Ijbema.
You get to choose which F1 driver, present or past, will feature in the painting. Or you can pick one of the other motor racing paintings on Rob’s site Car-a-day.
More prizes to come!
Further prizes for the highest-scoring players will be announced later this year.
Race winners prize: A pair of F1 DVDs
Duke Video are supplying the prize for the player who gets the highest score in each round.
Each race winner will get to pick any two from the following three new Duke motor racing DVDs:
Race runners-up prize: F1 Fanatic mugs
The second place finisher in each race will win an official F1 Fanatic mug.
See here for more details on F1 Fanatic merchandise:
How to enter
You have until the start of free practice three on Saturday to make your predictions for each round.
A reminder will be posted on the site after free practice two on Friday as well as on Twitter.
Each player may predict the pole sitter, the pole position lap time and the top five finishers in the race. See below for the rules in full.
You need to log in using an F1 Fanatic account to make your prediction.
The sign-up process is quick and easy: Get your F1 Fanatic account here and read more about registering here.
Enter your pole position lap time prediction in the following format: MM:SS.ccc For example, for a lap of one minute, 25.386 seconds enter 01:25.386
After submitting your prediction you will receive an email to the address you created your F1 Fanatic account with confirming your entry. If this does not happen, or you are concerned your prediction has not been received, please get in touch using the contact form.
Make your predictions
Competition terms and conditions
1. Maximum one entry per household.
2. The competition is not open to employees, friends or family of F1 Fanatic, Silverstone Circuit, Duke Video or Car-a-Day.
3. Predictions will open up to one week before the start of final practice on the Saturday of a Grand Prix weekend and will be promoted on the front page of F1 Fanatic before closing prior to the start of final practice.
4. In each round players are invited to predict (a) who will be on pole position and (b) what the top five finishers will be (five different drivers).
5. Players score points in each round as follows:
a. Correctly naming the pole sitter: 2 points
b. Correctly naming one/two/three/four/five driver/s who finish in the top five: 1/2/3/5/8 points
c. Correctly predicting where one/two/three/four/five driver/s finish: 2/6/14/24/40 points
6. Whoever scores the most points in every race counting towards the Formula 1 World Championship wins the grand prize.
7. In the event of a tie on points the winner will be determined by who came closest to predicting the pole position time correctly. If that fails to produce a winner the editor will choose a means of deciding who has won.
8. Predictions must be entered using the form above. If you have trouble submitting your entry via the form please contact F1 Fanatic via email and send your prediction using the contact form.
9. In the event of a dispute the editor’s decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into.
10. No cash alternative is offered for any of the prizes.
11. Grand Prix tickets: Children must be accompanied by an adult. Accommodation and transport to the venue not included.
12. Players who have won prizes will be notified by email within seven days of each Grand Prix. DVD and mug prizes will be despatched within 28 days of that email being sent. Grand Prix tickets will be despatched once they are available.
Don’t miss a single round of the F1 Fanatic Predictions Championship. Subscribe to F1 Fanatic using RSS, email or Twitter: Click here for more information.
Follow the Predictions Championship
The results will be posted on the Tuesday after each Grand Prix.
You can find the latest championship standings, statistics and predictions form for the next round via the links below (or head to Community > Predictions Championship in the menu):
- F1 Fanatic Predictions Championship
- F1 Fanatic Predictions Championship standings
- F1 Fanatic Predictions Championship race-by-race statistics
Unlap competition winners
Here are the winners of the F1 Fanatic Unlap competition:
First place: Aren Stockmans, Belgium
Runners-up: Ewan Thomson, UK; Shawn Meagher, USA; Daniel Martinez, France; Carl Leo, UK; James Newnham, UK
Image © Red Bull/Getty images
mcmercslr said on 20th March 2011, 18:54
No idea who to put where. Going to have to wait for friday practice first before I can get any Idea who to place in what position
wasiF1 said on 21st March 2011, 1:50
Same here as still we haven’t seen the lap time of all the teams.Who knows who have how much sand in their car.
BasCB said on 21st March 2011, 10:01
You can put up your prediciton as a “banker lap” now and change it afterwards!
irishlad said on 20th March 2011, 18:54
Good to see the prediction championship back again, its going to be hard to predict the first race.
sw6569 said on 20th March 2011, 19:03
I think I have a good idea where the teams are right now (roughly). The main question mark is over Mclaren. Not going to make any choices until friday practice methinks!
Prizes look great – especially the mug!
Sush Meerkat said on 20th March 2011, 21:38
Ancient Chinese proverb, “does tea taste faster in F1fanatic mug?”
BasCB said on 21st March 2011, 10:56
LOL
Damon said on 20th March 2011, 19:14
OMG!!! It’s already time?!?!
This got me by surprise. Hell yeah!!
Rob Ijbema’s paintings are fantastic. If I won the Championship, I’d ask for a painting showing Ayrton Senna in a 1992 Marlboro McLaren chased by Alex Zanardi in his 1998 Target Chip Ganassi Reynard.
J-Canada said on 20th March 2011, 21:12
Last year I won one of his paintings, very cool. I selected one of Vettel!
George said on 20th March 2011, 19:40
And so it begins.
Maciek said on 20th March 2011, 20:01
Thanks for running this again Keith! You just can’t have this much fun for free anywhere else on the internet : )
By the by – what’s the tie-break procedure if more than one person has the highest points total at the end of the year? Maybe a Murray Walker impersonation duel?
RIISE said on 20th March 2011, 23:28
I’m fairly sure the predicted pole lap times might separate that unlikely event.
Solo said on 21st March 2011, 11:33
Actually i think the person who gets the exact lap time of the pole position should get a small present too. Just think about it. Is very hard to actually predict the exact lap time. Most times probably no one gets it right.
Getting that right should at least require some reward instead of just being something to determine the winner in case of tie.
Philonso said on 24th March 2011, 17:36
seconded. The odds of getting it bang on are at least a thousand to one (if the range of times are about a second). If not a prize at least a mention in the round-up?
Philonso said on 20th March 2011, 20:05
It’s so tempting just to start predicting away! I have to tell myself to wait till after friday practice or ill do something rash like predict hamilton on pole
Calum said on 20th March 2011, 20:07
I’m just going to say I’ll need lots of rain on Sunday!
HounslowBusGarage said on 20th March 2011, 20:17
OK. Easy peasy, I reckon.
That’s Perez on pole. Fernando in first, Sutil in second and thomeone elthe in third . . .
newnhamlea1 said on 20th March 2011, 20:25
Keith!? you’ve just butchered my surnmame almost as badly as david croft.
Its newnham not nenham. Thanks for the competition though, you can’t argue with free stuff.
newnhamlea1 said on 20th March 2011, 20:34
And i’ve just butchered the word surname. egg. on. face.
Keith Collantine said on 20th March 2011, 20:51
Very sorry, thought I’d put Newnham. Fixed it now!
newnhamlea1 said on 20th March 2011, 20:53
no problemo.
polishboy808 said on 20th March 2011, 20:39
Wow, I wasn’t ready for this. It seems so early, really caught me off guard! Just 4 more days until we see these cars on tv for the first time…. So anxious!
BasCB said on 21st March 2011, 8:28
LOL, I felt the same right before it turned to the joyous feeling of the season really getting started!
You really pulled a great one with the prizes this year Keith. I hope I do a bit better this year and win something.
Arrrang said on 20th March 2011, 21:00
I think that it will be more fun and try to guess now. WEB ALO BUT ROS HEI but I am pretty sure I’m wrong
Just hope that my Pole time predict will be close to the real one. My dream result would be ALO WEB ROS MAS HEI BUT… Like all of you I just can’t wait to see the P1! And the timezone isn’t a problem for me right now. Anybody plans to watch all the practices, quali, race live (just like me)? 
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Ben Needham said on 20th March 2011, 21:06
Excellent – thanks so much for running this feature Keith – it is brilliant to have such an age old concept enhanced with real F1 themed prizes. Your work is very much appreciated and the site is always my first port of call when I log in to the PC!
Onto the predictions! It is always very tough to predict the first race so I based mine on how we left off last year to an extent. In terms of performance I think Mercedes and McLaren may have swapped places with regard to last year, so I expect Schumacher or Rosberg on the podium.
BUT – even if I can guess the performance accurately (which I sorely doubt!) – Melbourne always throws up mayhem. Thus, my prediction – the unpredictable!
Ben Needham said on 20th March 2011, 21:12
Also… I made my predictions, submitted and then wrote a comment, scrolled back up and pressed submit again…
I received two confirmation e-mails… surely this means I could’ve submitted 2 different predictions… just thought i’d make you aware!
Keith Collantine said on 20th March 2011, 21:15
Only received one prediction from your username, so I doubt you could exploit it this way. Will look into it.
Ben Needham said on 20th March 2011, 21:24
Just to clarify – I didn’t even contemplate submitting two – just wanted to make sure there wasn’t a bug that hadn’t been picked up on. Apologies!
RIISE said on 20th March 2011, 23:30
You didn’t wait for Practice!!!!
Although just a hunch if you submit it twice will it update the entry to the latest one submitted?
damonsmedley said on 21st March 2011, 5:36
I think that would be a good idea. Sometimes I’ve predicted too early, thinking I wouldn’t have another chance to get online before the race, but then it has turned out I could have made a more accurate prediction after FP2.
BasCB said on 21st March 2011, 9:55
I was wondering about that Keith. In the testing we were able to change it, that was pretty good.
Keith Collantine said on 21st March 2011, 8:59
No that’s OK, always good to know if there’s a problem. As Ian pointed out I’d just forgotten this improvement had been made!
ianhaycox said on 21st March 2011, 8:53
Because of the requirement to login you can now enter your predictions early and come back and change the prediction right up to the deadline.
So each time you submit a prediction you will receive a confirmation email for the updated prediction.
Ian
Keith Collantine said on 21st March 2011, 8:55
Good point – I forgot to reflect that in the rules, have updated them now.
BasCB said on 21st March 2011, 9:57
Great, thanks Ian. Lovely work there!
sato113 said on 20th March 2011, 21:12
wow, thanks for organising these goodies Keith! i’m sure everyone is getting excitied now!