As an addition to the above, you can edit any early predictions before qualifying as you see fit, but as soon as qualifying starts they're locked... and that's it!

1. M. Schumacher
2. S. Vettel
3. J. Button

I think these are it hehe

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I didn't think that the top three qualifiers usually finish in that order that often, that's why I had two sets of picks.

This should make that 5 point bonus a fairly rare occurrence.

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Oooooer....

So basically, you predict either the qualifying positions or the race result, and hope it's a boring procession!


Oh well, back into the routine...


1 Button
2 Barrichello
3 Vettel

Oh no, wait a minute, it's not 2009 anymore!

1) Hamilton
2) Button
3) De La Rosa

Rob has got it ........... and yes it will be a rarity ....... especially if you have to take into account grid penalties held over from the previous race. However I think this season it will be less of a rarity because of the lack of refuling. Hence the reason I suggested it 

Ergo ....... if you get the 123 for both quali and the race it's 35 points ....... if you only get the 123 for quali it's 5 points ....... etc.

Read above Rob's post !!! 
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See I actually thought Eno meant the way I suggested it. The way I see it, as the season runs on we all tend to start selecting the same drivers, as the grid tends stabilise and the results are generally predictable.
With this new low fuel quali it really will be the best cars at the front, so I figured, it would give people a chance to make up points where they usually wouldn't be able to without taking a big risk with predictions.
End of the day its what the masses want. I am not too fussed either way. This is why I started the topic 2 weeks early

1. Sebastian Vettel
2. Felipe Massa
3. Nico Hulkenberg

Todays autosport has a theoretical fastest single lap chart from a 90 second lap using Barca testing.
Out front is Mark webber. Followed by Hulkenberg, rosberg, schumacher and hamilton all in a very tight group. Then Barrichello, Massa, De la Rosa, sutil, Vettel, Buemi, Alonso, Button and Liuzzi.
All of these are grouped within 1.5 seconds. Webber appears to have maybe a 3 tenth gap on everyone else, then theres a further tiny gap from Hulk back to Alonso.
It might mean very little in the grand scheme of things, but Renault are a long way off that pack with Petrov being the quicker of the two, but Renault never got much low fuel running so not much to be seen there. Lotus and Virgin as expected are a long way back, with Lotus having the edge.

I think I said it elsewhere, but the Merc Diffusor is supposed to have brought 8 tenths of performance in the car after a test at rockingham. How much there is to that we'll find out..
The Mclaren thing is ingenious but very complicated to understand in terms of how it's legal. But fair play to them, this could be this years double diffusor. As Whitmarsh has said, teams will try and copy it, but it will be very difficult to do as they have had to have their tubs/chassis homologised for the year. So where mclaren implemented it into that, the others will have to work around it.

Hamilton
Schumi
Button

Hamilton
Rosberg
Button

Matt



Schumy, crashes out due to a driver not giving way or letting him through because no one is scared of him anymore (toothless old man is back guys, you can ignore him until he leaves with neck ache)...............But it wont be his fault of course

It's also taken away the challenging and fun, left, right, left down the hill.

Craig. wrote on Mar 12^th, 2010 at 9:49am:


Ah, but aren't you glad to see another set of Tilkesque slow, painful, dull corners ruining a nice bit of track?

OK, here goes...

1: Hamilton
2: Alonso
3: Button

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Craig. wrote on Mar 12^th, 2010 at 2:48pm:


Can I have your title now please? 

I updated my picks accordingly, and yes thats Nico Hulkenberg. Really looking forward to the race, hopefully its a good one.

Shoot, was so close to picking the top three. Where was my darkhorse?

Interesting session, what do we think?

Can someone (Craig) explain how fuel works this year. We have no refuelling, so the cars all start full. What happens in qualifying. Are they running with fumes in the tank and then filled up before the race. If so, then the grid will not really change for the rest of the year as far as I can see.

Matt

I heard also that those outside the top 10, will be allowed to start the race on new tires.

Any chance that could play into someone's strategy?

Sandbox a little, knowing you won't have to pit for a while longer?

Although it wouldn't make much sense trying to climb out of 11th or worse, just for the sake of a few laps.

But stranger things have happened.

this is going to be a looong and probably boring season.
None of the front running drivers are willing to take a risk to pass in fear of damaging the tyres.
Race was ok, unlucky for Vettel really the race was his.
Good job by Schumi, very consistant, that right now is all that matters, and I am looking forward to what he does when he's settled.

I blame the boring colour scheme for Button coming in 7th....


...Because white and day-glow is simply amazing 

Already talk of manditory 2nd pitstops. (what that'll do I have no idea)
Forcing teams to use a different set of tyres again,
Changing the compounds/ make up of the tyres to make them wear out quicker (as Whitmarsh said "had a safety car come out on lap 5, we all would have pitted for the harder tyres and run to the end on those with no issues")

The more they change things, the more they try to level the field, the more they try to standardise things, the worse it gets, and the more money it's costing everyone.
I really wish the FIA would leave things be. 2006/07/08 were all classic seasons, they all had overtaking, and the races in general were exciting bar a few exceptions.

As a secondary note from the weekend, as noted on BBC TV, Bernie has taken away the trackside passes of the drivers physio's. He claims the grid is already too packed for them to be there. The drivers have now set up protests by going off to their pit boxes till the last minute, until they get the passes back.

My question is, if its that busy, why is Rory Bremner (was it?) walking the grid taking the p*ss out of Jackie stewart, while someone important cant get on?

Craig. wrote on Mar 13^th, 2010 at 5:37am:



He raced, so how does that work then

Matt

FOM control pit/paddock passes, no idea why. But Bernie argues it is up to the teams to allocate their grid passes to who they want including physio's. The teams/drivers argue that the team only get the amount they need for the team themselves.

As for Chandok, apparently they changed the rules this past year to allow non runners to qualify. Dangerous and stupid considering Chandoks first run in an F1 car was quali and his 4th lap was the first lap of a race. how that makes sense i dont know.