Who’s going to take pole position for the first race of 2010? Who will finish in the top five?
Predict that right and you could win an F1 DVD box set and join the running for the grand prize in the F1 Fanatic Predictions Championship – tickets to the 2011 British Grand Prix.
But you have to enter before final practice starts on Saturday morning at 8am so make your predictions now!
If you’ve not decided who you think will finish in the top five this weekend have a look at our Friday practice analysis to help make that crucial call:
- Bahrain Grand Prix free practice 2 analysis
- Bahrain Grand Prix free practice 1 analysis
- Bahrain Grand Prix free practice 2 times
- Bahrain Grand Prix free practice 1 times
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The prizes
This year we’re giving away a pair of prizes every race weekend.
On top of that at the end of the year the top 12 finishers all get prizes – and whoever scores the highest overall will be going to the 2011 British Grand Prix. Here are the prizes in full:
Grand prize: Two grandstands tickets to the 2011 British Grand Prix
The person who scores the most points in the 2010 F1 Fanatic Predictions Championship will win grandstand tickets to the 2011 British Grand Prix at Silverstone.
This is the first time we’ve offered F1 race tickets as a prize at F1 Fanatic and I hope you all agree it’s a fitting reward for the F1 expert who can best predict who will be on top in 2010.
The grand prize winner will receive tickets to all three days of the 2011 British Grand Prix with reserved grandstand seating for the race.
Second place prize: An F1 painting of your choice
The second place finisher in the championship will win an F1 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 Car-a-day.
Runners-up prizes: Autocourse 2010-2011
The ten players who finish in third to 12th positions in the championship will win a copy of the 2010-2011 edition of Autocourse.
The highly respected journal of Formula 1 and other major international four-wheeled racing series is published at the end of every season.
This year the publication marks its 60th anniversary edition.
NB. 2009 edition cover used for illustration
Race winners prize: The Lotus Story DVD Box Set
Duke Video are supplying the prize for the player who gets the highest score in each round.
With the Lotus name returning to F1 in 2010 what better prize than a DVD box set showing the history of this great team. This four-disc set “The Lotus Story” chronicles Lotus’s participation in F1 from the company’s beginning in 1948 up to its F1 withdrawal in 1994.
Duke are also offering a special promotion exclusive to all F1 Fanatic readers – whenever you order from them you can get 15% off using the promotional code F1Fanatic at the checkout.
Race runners-up prize: F1 race winner print
The second place finisher in each race will win a 40x35cm print of the race winner from Motorsport in Print.
How to enter
Entries will open in the week before every race. You have until the start of free practice three on Saturday to make your predictions.
You can post your predictions for the first race now below or wait until nearer the deadline. A reminder will be posted on the site after free practice two on Friday.
Each player may predict the pole sitter and the top five finishers in the race. See below for the rules in full.
Please try to pick an original and distinctive user name – something a bit more descriptive than just a first name. We had a lot of very similar entries last year!
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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, Duke Video, Motorsport in Print, Car-a-Day or Icon Publishing Ltd.
3. Predictions will open up to one week before the start of final practice on the Saturday of a Grand Prix weekend and will be promoted on the front page of F1 Fanatic before closing prior to the start of final practice.
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 accumulate 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 over the 19 races from round one (Bahrain) to 19 (Abu Dhabi) wins the grand prize.
7. In the event of a tie on points the winner will be determined by who picked the most race winners correctly, then second places finishers and so on. 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 or e-mailled to competition@f1fanatic.co.uk
9. Once a prediction has been made it cannot be altered.
10. In the event of a dispute the editor’s decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into.
11. No cash alternative is offered for any of the prizes.
12. Grand Prix tickets: Children must be accompanied by an adult. Accommodation and transport to the venue not included. Event date TBC.
13. Players who have won prizes will be notified by email within seven days of each Grand Prix. Lotus DVDs and F1 paintings will be despatched within 28 days of that email being sent. Grand Prix tickets will be despatched once they are available. Autocourse books will be despatched once they are published.
Squinky
12th March 2010, 23:01
HAM ALO HAM VET SCH HUL
Squinky
12th March 2010, 23:02
er…. that didn’t work. there’s no boxes! (thought the system had changed…) woops!
Guilherme Teixeira
12th March 2010, 23:07
Keith, I made my prediction on the previous article using my company computer, thus I can’t see the predictions here at home… I’m just worried, there’s nothing wrong with my prediction, right? Just in case, here it is:
Pole: Lewis Hamilton
1st: Fernando Alonso
2nd: Lewis Hamilton
3rd: Felipe Massa
4th: Michael Schumacher
5th: Nico Rosberg
Mike
13th March 2010, 5:29
err smiler note, I’m currently looking at the empty boxes… yet I did mine yesterday, I imagine they are still there for others to see,
I put my name as MikeMonkey if anyone can confirm it for me… please?
I can’t actually remember what I picked…. Sutil was in 5th I know that much…
Mike
13th March 2010, 6:10
never mind, tried to enter again, said something about duplicate! yay!
zplol
12th March 2010, 23:39
Guilherme Teixeira HAM ALO HAM MAS SCH ROS 2010-03-12 13:41:13
damonsmedley
12th March 2010, 23:42
There should be an option after you have predicted to see if anyone predicted exactly the same as you. That would be interesting!
damonsmedley
13th March 2010, 5:42
I mean there shoud be a button/option that says something like; “see who predicted the same as you” or something. This would be better than sifting through thousands of entries.
fordsrule (@fordsrule)
12th March 2010, 23:44
I just submitted my predictions, do I have to post them here to? and I also just signed up :D My user name is fordsrule.
fordsrule (@fordsrule)
12th March 2010, 23:45
I was using the name “Matt” before, which is why I said my user name was fordsrule, as I thought it would still say my comment was from Matt.
George
12th March 2010, 23:47
Dont let me down Felipe!
Andrew White
12th March 2010, 23:48
Thanks for the reminder Keith! I planned to leave my prediction till after practice and then nearly forgot!
Rodolfo Sandzer
12th March 2010, 23:55
GO MASSA!!!
Cotrim
13th March 2010, 0:01
Pole: Fernando Alonso
1st: Fernando Alonso
2nd: Lewis Hamilton
3rd: Jenson Button
4th: Rubens Barrichello
5th: Nico Rosberg
Patrickl
13th March 2010, 1:29
Lol, we don’t have much to go on right now.
Nick
13th March 2010, 4:44
go Ferrari
ivz
13th March 2010, 5:10
If anyone can predict pole and all 5 places in correct order they must be psychic! lol
Shery
13th March 2010, 5:15
i forgot it too.thanks for the reminder keith
The_Pope
13th March 2010, 6:38
Holy crap. Almost 1,700 entries!
BNK Racing
13th March 2010, 6:55
predictons done with an hr to spare! let me be the first (i think) to give huge congrats to keith Nand the f1fanatic team on the amount of followers and entries this yr for the predictions! im not counting but im guessin its a lot more than the australian gp in 09 lol. the coverage and articles you have provided since you have took this on as a full time job has been remarkable! see u all in the quali live blog…practice 3 is just too early…
Vincent1972
13th March 2010, 7:07
Second that The_Pope! 1,769 as of this post! Keith will be very busy tallying the results after the race! :) F1 Fanatics is really one of the top sites for F1. Hope Keith receives a plenty of ads to compensate his dedication to the site!!!
wasiF1
13th March 2010, 7:28
1,769! Is huge.
“Hope Keith receives a plenty of ads to compensate his dedication to the site”
How can we help him?
verstappen
13th March 2010, 7:26
SCH
SCH
ALO
ROS
VET
MAS
Thought of it just in time. Very difficult this year. Because McLaren also looks very good, but… but…
verstappen
13th March 2010, 7:31
just like Mike above I tried to enter again afterreloading the article, to be sure it is entered, but got no error message about duplicates?
Slovenia
13th March 2010, 7:33
Pole:Hamilton
1st.Alonso
2nd.Massa
3rd.Schumi
4th.Vettel
5th.Hamilton
Chris
13th March 2010, 7:49
This is so hard. Decided not to put Red Bulls in the top 5 after their reliability issues yesterday, but I honestly have no idea who will finish where!
yelrom
13th March 2010, 7:56
Go Webber!! :D
Gurpz
13th March 2010, 9:31
Couldn’t submit my entry before FP3 (for some reason?) so I’ve added below:
Pole:Massa
1st.Schumacher
2nd.Alonso
3rd.Rosberg
4th.Massa
5th.Button
And1star
13th March 2010, 9:49
Pole: Robert Kubica
1st: Felipe Massa
2nd: Nico Rosberg
3rd: Lewis Hamilton
4th: Michael Schumacher
5th: Robert Kubica
I couldn’t send my prediction? A mistake or something that I didn’t remark?
Calum
13th March 2010, 12:30
Not many picked Vettel for pole.
George
13th March 2010, 12:32
I changed my mind after their reliability problems yesterday, if only he’d broken down I would have gotten it right :(
GerardP
13th March 2010, 12:43
Odd, when I cut&paste I see 1749 entries, not 1769?
From these predictions:
Pole: Hamilton; but we know already it is Vettel
Race:
1st Alonso
2nd Hamilton
3rd Massa
4th Button
5th Schumacher
Will be an interesting race tomorrow.
Mouse_Nightshirt
13th March 2010, 19:23
Wahey! Vettel on pole – off to a good start then :)
bettyhiam
13th March 2010, 19:49
Vettel — right through to the World Champ title. I am not a Vettel fan but the boy is quick! McLaren don’t have a good car, and I’m not convinced about Ferrari either. Schumacher will outrace Rosberg; Nico starts well but bottles it. Drives fast but does not RACE, there is a difference.
BasCB
14th March 2010, 20:21
Well maybe the politics this year will be about the drivers protesting for not having their Phisios on the grid
moustafa
25th March 2010, 16:41
massa & alonso can do it for ferrari
maison en Thailande
21st November 2011, 5:51
You could not be more right!