Make your Malaysian Grand Prix predictions now to win F1 prizes

Predictions Championship

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It’s time to make your predictions for the second round of 2012.

Will McLaren repeat their Melbourne success? Can anyone keep them from pole position? Can Mercedes bounce back from their point-less start to the season?

We’ve got a great selection of prizes for the whoever can make the best predictions.

And this weekend an Autocourse eBook and some F1 artwork will go to the players who make the top two predictions. At the end of the year the player with the highest score will winBritish Grand Prix tickets.

But to be in with a chance to win you’ve got to get your predictions in before the start of qualifying.

So what are you waiting for? Make your prediction below.

How to enter

To enter, predict the pole sitter and the top five finishers in the race. You can also enter a prediction for the pole position lap time – this may be used as a tie-breaker.

Enter your pole position lap time prediction as follows: MM:SS.ccc

For example, for a lap of one minute, 23.456 seconds you would enter 01:23.456

You need to log in using an F1 Fanatic account to make your prediction.

If you haven’t got one yet the sign-up process is quick, simple and entirely free: sign up here now.

After entering your prediction, you will receive an email 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.

Enter your predictions

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2012 F1 Fanatic Predictions Championship overall prizes

Grand prize: Two grandstands tickets to the 2013 British Grand Prix

The person who scores the most points over the whole season will win two grandstand tickets to the 2013 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.

Second place prize: An F1 painting of your choice

The second place finisher will win a Formula 1 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:

Runner-up prize: Racecar Engineering subscriptions

The five players with the next highest scores (positions three to seven) will each win a year’s subscription to Racecar Engineering magazine.

Racecar Engineering is the world’s leading motorsport technology magazine. Every issue is packed with in-depth features, interviews and analysis from Formula One, Le Mans and all forms racing and rallying.

Runner-up prize: Autocourse calendars

The five players with the next highest scores (positions eight to 12) will each win a 2013 Autocourse calendar.

The Autocourse Grand Prix calendar contains images taken during the season of all the major players competing in the Formula One World Championship.

The images are high resolution and taken by one of the world’s leading Grand Prix photographers, the calendar is printed on art quality paper and comes with a stiffened backing board and shrink wrapped for protection.

More prizes to be announced

Further prizes will be announced during the season.

2012 F1 Fanatic Predictions Championship race prizes

Race winner’s prize: Autocourse eBooks

The highest scorer in each race will win an Autocourse eBook. The 1971 edition will be the first prize up for grabs.

The Autocourse eBooks are faithful reproductions of the original annuals in digital form. The colour, clarity of images and text have been improved to modern standards, but the content remains in original format.

Autocourse has become the definitive record of Formula One racing the world over and early editions are collector’s items, which regularly trade for hundreds of pounds.

  • The 1971 Autocourse eBook is available from www.autocourse.com for £19.99 with free postage/packing to UK customers.

Runner-up prize: F1 posters by PJ Tierney

The second-placed player in each race will win one of PJ Tierney’s excellent unofficial Formula 1 posters.

You can view PJ’s posters along with his other work on his website:

Rules

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, Car-a-Day, Icon Publishing or Chelsea Magazines.
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 is 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. Grand Prix tickets will be despatched once they are available.

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    34 comments on “Make your Malaysian Grand Prix predictions now to win F1 prizes”

    1. putting Maldonado 5th, hope it works out! :)

    2. Any news regarding DRS Zone at Malaysia GP ?

    3. okay, I’m trying now (honestly, I wasn’t trying before) so I should get 50 points this weekend :/

    4. Lewis, Schuey, Jense, Seb, Grosjean

    5. I got 1.Lewis, 2.Schumey, 3.jenson, 4.kimi & 5.Seb. But that was before i heard about the 5 place grid drop for kimi ggggrrrrr!!!!

      1. @scribbler You can still change your prediction, up until Qualifying :)

        1. Nah I Still think he has a chance. Plus im lazy and can’t be ***** ;-)

    6. He got destroyed last weekend, but I’m going for Lewis still. Then Vettel, Rosberg, Button and Webber

    7. Alonso, mschumacher,kimmi, button, rosberg. Because it will rain

      1. i wish that too

    8. Button Lewis Vettel Rosberg Schui….remember you saw it first here !!!

    9. Lewis, Schumy, Button, Vettel, Alonso…

    10. Lewis, Vettel, Button, Alonso, Rosberg
      Hopefully Webber doesn’t end up winning..

      1. And the reason for not wanting Webber to win?

    11. Lewis and Mclaren front row and race because I hate Mclaren and all associated with them so hope I bring them all the bad luck I bring sports teams and individuals I predict to win. The 2 of them coming together would be awsome and hopefully destabalise Mclaren until my beloved Ferrari can challenge again possibly as early as the turn of the 22nd century.

    12. Keeping the same old wishfull strategy… Come on Schumi!

    13. Can’t really go against Lewis this week. Especially after practise. Think he is too determined to let anyone past. Jenson will complete a Mclaren 1-2 in my opinion. I want to say Schuey to grab a podium, but I think the Red Bull will be too strong. So Vettel 3rd and Schumacher 4th. Even with that 5 place penalty, Kimi will have another strong race and finish 5th. Webber/Rosberg/Grosjean/Alonso may spoil the party though. :)

    14. I got nothing,totally oblivious ….

    15. Good lord I’m awful at this :(

      Rosberg for pole?

      1. There should be a competition of who is the most awesomely awful.

    16. Went conservative after only 7 points in Melbourne. I’ve gone for 2 Mclarens, 2 Red Bulls and a Mercedes (NR, but may still change that).

    17. alyn.thompson@aabservices.co.uk
      24th March 2012, 0:05

      Lewis surely.

    18. Kind of funny that myself and 4 others in the comments have Schumacher splitting Lewis and Button for 1st and 3rd respectively.

    19. qualifying I think will be hami on pole, with jenson schumacher and nico all very close in 2nd-4th

      race I see jenson coming through to win with vettel 2nd. I’m going to say schumacher 3rd just because I hope he gets a podium and we all know he is the rainmeister

    20. yep, that is going to be what could throw a spanner in the works.
      Rain,
      with Vettel moaning about his car “I would love the car to be a bit more predictable and stable”
      i am not sure if he will be able to fend off some of the lower ranking drivers,
      personally i think this is going to be a shocker when the rain comes down,
      how many outsiders make better decisions will depend on how they finish.
      Hamilton Button Ricciardo Webber Alonso
      seeing any of the lower teams in the top 5 will be a shakeup,
      they can do it with the right strategy.

    21. Just guessing I swear I stress about this all week (and I don’t stress about anything)

    22. Dammit!! The site won’t let me enter predictions (2nd week in a row!)
      Firefox 10.0.2 (nothing else other than script sentry, and everything has been enabled and multiple refreshes.)

      Anyway, here’s my pred’s for everyone to see:
      Race: Malay
      PoleT: 1:40.2
      Pole: Vettel
      P1: Button
      P2: Ham
      P3:Vettel
      P4: Alonso
      P5: Kimi

    23. sid_prasher (@)
      24th March 2012, 7:08

      Going with Rosberg on pole and Button for win…until i change it again. Just cant decide which way it might go.

    24. Hamilton,Button,Webber,Roseberg,Kimi

    25. Button to win. High chance the rain is going to scupper things up and I trust him more than most in the wet. I stuck Schumacher on the podium. Fingers crossed!

      1:36.077 pole time.

    26. again, like in oz, I can’t enter the competition for some reason.

    27. Well so far so good for me with pole-sitter, would have been damn close to pole time as well if Hamilton hadn’t locked-up in the last corner. HAM, BUT, VET, RAI, WEB for the race.

    28. Well, I’ve nailed down 2 points already for this week. Thank you Lewis, for the pole win. Now I just need … Hamilton, Button, Vettel, Alonso, Webber for a perfect score! Easy stuff!

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