Rookie win for Peteris in Singapore Predictions round

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Peteris (@Spicais666) racked up the highest score in the Singapore round of the Predictions Championship.

It was a particularly impressive win given this was his first appearance in the championship after he joined the site on Friday. Correctly predicting the pole sitter and the top four finishers earned Peteris 31 points and a prize of a 1975 Autocourse eBook.

A two-way tie for second and third place was won by @Toddbarden, who moves up to fourth in the championship and claimed a Grand Prix Heroes DVD as a prize. Third place and a PJ Tierney F1 poster was won by Fernando (@Alonso2012).

Sebastian Vettel was the overwhelming favourite for pole position, picked by two-thirds of players, but he was beaten to it by Lewis Hamilton. However over half correctly picked Vettel to win the race.

@Zantex remains in the lead of the championship and pulled a further point ahead. See the updated points standings in full here:

Here are the predictions and scores for the nine highest-scoring players in this race:

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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.

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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16 comments on “Rookie win for Peteris in Singapore Predictions round”

  1. @Alonso2012

    Congrats :)

    Some posters are sold out, but feel free to pick any in-stock A3 poster and I’ll send it out when I can: http://shop.pjtierney.net/

    You can send me your address via the contact form.

  2. It’s not just Hamilton’s championship hopes that took a hit when his gearbox failed on Sunday. My HAM VET ALO BUT DIR prediction was looking pretty good with Hamilton leading (ok, Maldonado had still to retire), but now I scored a paltry 7 points. Cruel luck ;-)

    1. I had the same prediction but I correctly predicted Hamilton for pole.

      1. I did have Hamilton for pole, and then I changed it to Vettel after FP3 :-(

    2. Yiiiiipppiiiiiieeeeeeeeeeeeeee !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
      That was my 1st prediction & won 19 points… :) :) :)

  3. I am so chuffed with this result and now my standing overall. Consistency does seem to be key in F1, watch out @Zantex coming to get you

  4. @spicais666 Latvia wins! Congratulations, PÄ“teri!

  5. @keithcollantine I still have not received my DVD from the Monaco round.

  6. First time I forgot to make my predictions, remembered two minutes after Q1 was underway :(

  7. Damn, forgetting to put in my prediction was quite costly! I’ve dropped 40 places :/

  8. Absolutely thrilled to be in the top nine this week!

  9. Gah, if Hamilton hadn’t retired I would have been on for a good score :(

  10. Shame I forgot to make predictions this weekend :(

  11. 194th aint so bad considering I didnt enter 6 rounds

  12. 326th. Yay?

    4 points. A stunning weekend from me yet again. Vettel let me down badly and Di Resta bagging 5th scuppered things.

    1. Beat you! I got into 242nd with 8 points!

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