Nine players tied in Predictions Championship
Predictions Championship
The incredibly close 2012 championship continues to make life difficult in the Predictions Championship.
Nine players tied with a highest score of just 11 points in the European Grand Prix.
This meant the pole position time tie-breaker had to be used to decide the winners and the margins were very fine indeed. Overall winner HoolyF1 was just five-thousandths of a second off predicting Sebastian Vettel’s pole position time correctly – only one other player (Staryeyed85) got closer.
Abreeden took second (0.084s off) and Aleanza third (0.102s away). Commiserations to the other six, particularly CarinaF1, who was only 0.162s off winning a prize.
HoolyF1 is our first winner of a 1973 Autocourse eBook. Abreeden and Alelanza win a Grand Prix Heroes video from Duke Video and an F1 poster from PJ Tierney respectively.
Bigginf1, Mirceapert, MZS16, Lidia53 and Zopyrion also tied for the top score.
The result gives Chrissylyn a three-point lead at the top of the standings over ButtonUp09 and Carpy3. But with the championship leader only on 75 points and a maximum of 600 still to be won, even players who haven’t joined in yet can get in the hunt for overall honours.
It seems most players took not of Vettel’s scorching fast sector times on his in-lap at the end of final practice and correctly picked him for pole – over 70% did so.
But Fernando Alonso was only the fifth-highest pick for victory, chosen by 7.2% of players. Vettel was favoured to win a third consecutive race at Valencia by 45.3%.
See the updated points standings in full here:
Here are the nine highest-scoring predictions for the last race:
F1 Fanatic Predictions Championship 2012 - Europe
| Player | Pole Time | Pole | 1. | 2. | 3. | 4. | 5. | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| bigginf1 | 01:37.521 | VET | ALO | HAM | RAI | WEB | BUT | 11 |
| abreeden | 01:38.002 | VET | ALO | RAI | GRO | HAM | WEB | 11 |
| CarinaF1 | 01:37.924 | VET | VET | ALO | SCH | WEB | BUT | 11 |
| alelanza | 01:37.984 | VET | ALO | HAM | HUL | WEB | MAL | 11 |
| mirceapert | 01:37.743 | VET | VET | HAM | SCH | WEB | ALO | 11 |
| mzs16 | 01:37.687 | VET | VET | RAI | WEB | BUT | HUL | 11 |
| lidia53 | 01:37.000 | VET | VET | RAI | SCH | HUL | ROS | 11 |
| HoolyF1 | 01:38.091 | VET | VET | RAI | ALO | WEB | GRO | 11 |
| zopyrion | 01:37.000 | RAI | SCH | RAI | ALO | ROS | HUL | 11 |
Remember you can make your predictions for all the remaining rounds of the season below and edit them whenever you like up until the start of each qualifying session.
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.
- Buy British Grand Prix tickets via the Silverstone website or call the ticket hotline on 0844 3728 300
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, and later players will have the chance to win 1972 to 1976 editions.
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.
First runner-up prize: Grand Prix Heroes DVD
The second-placed player in each race will win their choice of one of Duke Video’s new Grand Prix Heroes DVDs (pictured top).
Videos are available on such famous F1 figures as Niki Lauda, James Hunt, Mika Hakkinen, Jackie Stewart, Mario Andretti, Emerson Fittipaldi, Jody Scheckter, Ronnie Peterson, Peter Revson and Frank Williams.
Second runner-up prize: F1 posters by PJ Tierney
The third-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:
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.
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Lin1876 (@lin1876) said on 26th June 2012, 12:12
3 points. I haven’t been out of single figures since Australia, yet I’m still less than a race away from taking the lead! What a mad season we have…
BasCB (@bascb) said on 27th June 2012, 6:52
I feel pretty much like that @lin1876, its been another 4 points for me now, I am a point behind you in the standings but still only 36 points from the leader in the standings!
PJ (@pjtierney) said on 26th June 2012, 12:15
@Aleanza
Contact me here with your address and which in-stock A3 poster you’d like to have :)
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PJ (@pjtierney) said on 26th June 2012, 12:16
Or @alelanza even, the tagger didn’t work.
alelanza (@alelanza) said on 28th June 2012, 3:09
Awesome, will do, thanks!
Enigma (@enigma) said on 26th June 2012, 12:28
Happy with 10 points for predicting Vettel on pole, Raikkonen in 2nd and Hulkenberg in 5th.
BasCB (@bascb) said on 27th June 2012, 6:53
You are making strides in the championship battle with that kind of success!
hey (@hey) said on 26th June 2012, 12:57
I remember by VET-VET-ALO-HAM-GRO-MSC was looking excellent on the 34th lap…
hey (@hey) said on 26th June 2012, 12:59
4 points for that. Lol. Never mind. Excellent race.
Girts (@girts) said on 26th June 2012, 13:00
@hey Similar story here. Let’s just blame Pirelli, FIA and Karthikeyan.
Mallesh Magdum (@malleshmagdum) said on 26th June 2012, 13:25
@girts karthikeyan? Hw does he come into this?
Girts (@girts) said on 26th June 2012, 13:38
@malleshmagdum That was just a clumsy joke. I actually like Karthikeyan. In F1, backmarkers often get blamed when something goes wrong, for instance, one of the leading drivers has lost time behind some backmarker in race or qualifying. There are a lot of other examples like Vettel vs Karthikeyan after the Malaysian GP, Ferrari’s attacks towards the small teams or Webber’s inability to accept his fault after the spectacular collision with Kovalainen at Valencia in 2010.
Mallesh Magdum (@malleshmagdum) said on 26th June 2012, 15:41
have been following Karthikeyan since 2005. I started following F1 bcz of KAR. Having won a race in every series he ever entered, He entered F1 on merit, but sadly never got a good car. Now, he is well past his prime
sato113 (@sato113) said on 26th June 2012, 16:54
I almost got lucky. i had vet on pole with grosjean winning the race (which he would have done) and vet 2nd, ham 3rd, webber 4th.
i think
Mallesh Magdum (@malleshmagdum) said on 27th June 2012, 0:44
@sato113 i had VET, GRO VET HAM ALO PER….barring Perez, I was in for a major haul until the Renault alternators gave way!
Max Jacobson (@vettel1) said on 27th June 2012, 16:26
@sato113 – if Vettel had remained in the race along with Grosjean Vettel would’ve won; his pace was untouchable
sato113 (@sato113) said on 27th June 2012, 23:48
@vettel1 yes perhaps but i think the renault was only slighlty less quick in free air (ie. not behind hamilton) and the lotus has better tyre deg. it would have been closer.
Dimitris 1395 (@) said on 26th June 2012, 12:57
Only Vettel on pole this time. For a moment, I had put Webber on fourth but I changed it to Alonso…
alexf1man (@alexf1man) said on 26th June 2012, 12:59
@keithcollantine 2012, not 2011. And I got 6 more valuable points – although Grosjean, Vettel and Hamilton cost me dearly on Sunday (not Saturday).
Fer no.65 (@fer-no65) said on 26th June 2012, 13:04
I’m so rubbish at this…
Yobo01 (@yobo01) said on 26th June 2012, 13:20
7 points, not bad.
I picked Schumacher for 3rd place and it was looking quite difficult after quali, but in the end it was the right choice. I was close with Hulkenberg. I put him fourth :(
Mallesh Magdum (@malleshmagdum) said on 26th June 2012, 13:28
@yobo01 I had initially put Hulk in 5th, but dropped him and put Perez. BAD DECISION!
gabal (@gabal) said on 26th June 2012, 13:29
Man, I was looking good for 20+ points 2 laps before end. 4 drivers in top 5 and 3 in right place. And then Maldonado had his moment with Hamilton so all I got from the race were 4 points. Oh well, nobody is running away with the prediction championship this year anyway…
Joey-Poey (@joey-poey) said on 26th June 2012, 13:32
*bangs head on table*
I had Vettel, Hamilton AND Grosjean listed to finish in the top 5.
AndrewTanner (@andrewtanner) said on 26th June 2012, 13:58
@joey-poey Bad luck that!
AndrewTanner (@andrewtanner) said on 26th June 2012, 13:59
381st. Destroying the table there!
Only 5 points behind @mattht though…
callum (@095cal) said on 26th June 2012, 14:16
How do i see how many points i have got?
BasCB (@bascb) said on 27th June 2012, 6:58
you go to the link to the “Updated Predictions Championship standings” (in the article above the table with the winners), there it’s easiest to use the search function to find your name in the list (some 2000 names!) @095cal
necrodethmortem (@necrodethmortem) said on 26th June 2012, 14:25
My VET-RAI-GRO-HAM-ALO prediction looked pretty good until that safety car came along…
HoolyF1 (@hoolyf1) said on 26th June 2012, 14:42
This is by far my greatest moment as an F1 Fanatic member…. :)
BasCB (@bascb) said on 27th June 2012, 6:59
We have a winner. Congratulations @hoolyf1!
HoolyF1 (@hoolyf1) said on 27th June 2012, 12:52
Cheers :)
andae23 (@andae23) said on 26th June 2012, 15:18
8 races and I haven’t even predicted the winner correctly once!