Can you predict the top five finishers in the Spanish Grand Prix?
There are prizes to be won if you can including F1 DVDs for the best race prediction and F1 race tickets for the season champion.
You now have until the start of qualifying on Saturday to enter your predictions. After you submit your predictions you can continue to edit them up to the deadline.
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 qualifying 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
[motorracingleague entry=6]
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 be promoted on the front page of F1 Fanatic before closing prior to the start of qualifying.
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.
See the current championship standings:
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.
2011 Spanish Grand Prix
Mel (@mel)
20th May 2011, 15:44
Go Redbull!!!
Shem (@shem)
20th May 2011, 15:49
Viva Alonso!!!
Ell (@ell)
20th May 2011, 16:32
Pole: Mark Webber
1st: Lewis (i am a mclaren fan)
2nd: Mark Webber
3rd: Fernando Alonso
4th: Sebastian Vettel
5th: Jenson Button
unnnooocc
21st May 2011, 7:19
Pole: Webber
1st: Webber
2nd: Vettel
3rd: Alonso
4th: Hamilton
5th: Massa (presuming he gets his tyres going)
damonsmedley (@damonsmedley)
21st May 2011, 7:47
Pole Time: 01:19.592 (about 4 tenths up on last year)
Pole: Mark Webber
Position 1: Mark Webber (I really hope so!)
Position 2: Lewis Hamilton
Position 3: Fernando Alonso
Position 4: Sebastian Vettel
Position 5: Jenson Button
Palle (@palle)
21st May 2011, 7:26
Brave guess
damonsmedley (@damonsmedley)
21st May 2011, 8:55
I think that applies to all 3 of us! :P
toddjamin (@toddjamin)
20th May 2011, 16:46
vetel sticks it on pole but has a problem in the race, then webber is unstoppable.
Mlracing (@mlracing)
20th May 2011, 18:02
Hopefully some sort of miracle happens: from a boring race to a unpredictable one leaving smiles on all f1 fans.
F1Sidewinda (@f1sidewinda)
20th May 2011, 19:00
Can’t post, telling me my time input for P1 is incorrect, its probably me!
Palle (@palle)
21st May 2011, 7:28
You have to follow the format: 1:20.000 or what ever time You believe in.
It has to be a : and a dot .
Sushi Meerkat (@sushi-meerkat)
21st May 2011, 10:21
Thats my Pole Position time for every race, I’m not a film critic so I can’t be bothered to use the power of decimal points!.
F1Sidewinda (@f1sidewinda)
20th May 2011, 19:02
It was me I’m an eejit
RIISE (@riise)
20th May 2011, 21:43
Vettel Pole, then cruises to victory. I’m not going to try and be different, it’s inevitable, regardless of Webber’s FP times.
BBT
21st May 2011, 9:07
Well look at all of the people that have been fastest in FP2 other than Vettel. None of them have got pole this year.
I fear you could be correct. The support for Webber is wishful thinking but you never know, it is one on Webbers better tracks, but I still expect Vettel (by 0.2 ahead).
Hamilton could be a dark horse.
neracer (@neracer)
20th May 2011, 22:32
hoping that webber’s feeling confident cos he drives better when he is and therefore might outqualify vettel. hoping that hamilton will win but have resigned myself to a boring season dominated by red bull. failing that, would love to see rosberg achieve his first win but think there’d have to be some kind of major pile up at the front for that to happen. enjoy.
Uncle Bob
21st May 2011, 0:06
One of the more boring tracks, I’ll give this one a miss.
sato113 (@sato113)
21st May 2011, 3:25
the race?
mcmercslr
21st May 2011, 0:06
Did my predictions monday after turkey so I can’t forget like last time
Pink Peril (@pink-peril)
21st May 2011, 1:02
Keith, any chance of having the table of everyone elses predictions put back up?
damonsmedley (@damonsmedley)
21st May 2011, 9:58
Yes. I used to enjoy comparing my predictions with my Twitter friends. ;)
mitchibob (@mitchibob)
21st May 2011, 1:42
Fingers crossed to be runner up again. Need another mug so I’ve got one for home as well as for the office. Quality piece, and holds a veritable bucket load of tea!
Palle (@palle)
21st May 2011, 7:30
;-) Not envious at all.
Rob Wilson (@rob-wilson)
21st May 2011, 3:13
I’ve given up on predicting what i hope will happen and this time gone for the inevitable.
US Williams Fan
21st May 2011, 3:27
Think that the timer is a bit off – shows that there is nearly 12 hours left from my computer….. which would be well after qualifying. Either way – I’ll make my predictions around 6 am Saturday morning EST.
Good Luck Everyone!
HounslowBusGarage (@hounslowbusgarage)
21st May 2011, 8:19
Hmm. I think you’re right. It’s set to expire at 3pm UK time on Saturday. Should make predicting the Pole sitter a bit easier!
wlodek
21st May 2011, 8:41
yes, you are right, looks like prediction deadline expires after Qualifying finishes.
i guess its mistake and will be corrected soon. ???
BBT
21st May 2011, 9:08
I’ll enter mind after qualifying then. I bet I still get pole wrong :-)
Keith Collantine (@keithcollantine)
21st May 2011, 9:22
Have fixed that so it’s showing the correct time now.
ed24f1 (@ed24f1)
21st May 2011, 9:22
Are the race results based on over the line results, or do they consider any protests?
bosyber (@bosyber)
21st May 2011, 9:41
That would mean we might have to wait for a month to know, wouldn’t it, if someone doesn’t get the EBD working and decides to instead complain about all teams using it.
ZanteX (@zantex)
21st May 2011, 12:34
Keith, in the confirmation e-mail it still says:
“You can amend your predictions at any time before the start of practice three at this page”.
Should be before the start of qualifying.
Keith Collantine (@keithcollantine)
21st May 2011, 12:45
Thanks I’ll look into that.
verstappen (@verstappen)
21st May 2011, 12:44
First two seem easy, but then… Will Alonso pull it off to become third in his home Grandprix? The McLaren’s also look strong all weekend and then you have good old Schumacher, good performance last year here and looking good in FP3.
I guess the slightest hint of his old self is enough for me to put the old man in my predictions, while I vow to never fall for it again when the results are published. Ah the routine..
f199player (@f199player)
21st May 2011, 22:21
couldn’t choose between vettel and webber for pole, went with webber at first then decided with vettel and just missed out on the pole time by 0.003secs.