Make your United States GP predictions to win prizes

Predictions Championship

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F1 is back in America and this weekend’s race could determine the outcome of the world championship.

A podium finish for Sebastian Vettel could be enough for him to clinch his third world championship, while Fernando Alonso desperately needs to turn the tables on his rival.

But victory went to Lotus in Abu Dhabi and McLaren may also keep the championship contenders from claiming the first victory at the Circuit of the Americas.

Who do you think will win? Make your predictions below and you could be in with a chance of winning prizes this weekend. And of course the F1 Fanatic Predictions Championship is moving into its final stages as well with some bigger prizes to be won.

Remember this is the first of two back-to-back races – you can also make your predictions for the Brazilian Grand Prix finale 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.

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:

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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12 comments on “Make your United States GP predictions to win prizes”

  1. Traverse Mark Senior (@)
    16th November 2012, 23:28

    Qualifying: Vettel bags pole position.
    Race: Jenson crashes into Alonso on the first lap (at turn 3), Hamilton suffers yet another DNF (due to two cars simultaneously smashing into him) and Vettel wins by a mile and clinches his third consecutive WDC.

  2. Mathematically, I could still win the predictions championship… :)

  3. Well this is too hard.
    Pole time is a really tricky one to guess.

    I just hope its a bit of a crazy race actually.

  4. leaveit2weaver
    17th November 2012, 5:29

    webber gets pole (because he is actually a good driver and is pole a lot of the time) but loses it off of the start to his “team mate” (who he pits to let pass, of course for the good of the team). Really wish he had better starts…
    *heart* aussie grit

  5. Hello, I just recently discovered this website and I must say I like it a lot. I really want to make a prediction for this new US Grand Prix, but I wondered, me living in continental Europe, if I would be eligible to win and receive all the prizes it might yield me? Maybe a bit of a silly and selfish question, but I would really like to know; imagine I predict the top 5 and pole time spot on, party all weekend, to ultimately be slammed in the face afterwards coz of me not being British and all…

    1. @sutil2013 Welcome the site! There are no restrictions on entry based on where you live (it would say in the terms and conditions if there were).

      1. All welcome on here Adrian no matter where you live enjoy

        1. Ok, that’s great! Thanks for the warm welcome!

  6. Predict this is the pre-last race ever for HRT

    1. Probably yes. Have to see them qualify first though. I have the idea that they know their cars wont last the full race and we can expect accidents again if they give it a go. I think they will opt to deliberately not qualify within 107%, maybe even on strong advice of Bernie. He cant afford another warm up lap pit box fiasco again. Dont forget they will have to show up at Brasil too, with the same worn parts fitted to the car. It wont be without reason that they do so few laps in free practice. Sad, but true I think.

  7. Vettel for pole but winner? I choose Alonso because I have no idea so select my favorite driver.

  8. Vettel pole and win I reckons.

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