Dave Ofori came out on top in a low-scoring third round of the F1 Fanatic Predictions Championship.
He correctly named Sebastian Vettel as the race winner with Nico Rosberg third and Robert Kubica fourth to net 17 points on Sunday.
But J-Canada still leads the running to win tickets to the 2011 British Grand Prix. See below for the full championship standings.
Dave wins a copy of “The Lotus Story” four-disc DVD box set from Duki Video. Runner-up Paris wins a painting of Vettel supplied by Motorsport in Print.
Paris tied on 11 points with Kirby Masterman but came closer to predicting Mark Webber’s pole position time of 1’49.327 correctly. The only other person to achieve a double-digit score in this round was abeed, with ten.
That helped keep J-Canada ahead in the overall Predictions Championship standings but with 50 points to be won at every round there’s still a long way to go in the contest.
You can see the championship table in full below. To find your name quickly you can search this page using Ctrl-F (PC) or Cmd-F (Mac).
Predictions for the Chinese round will open next week. When they are open it will be announced in the daily round-up and there will be a reminder on the website on Friday.
Don’t miss a single round of the F1 Fanatic Predictions Championship. Subscribe to F1 Fanatic using RSS, email or Twitter: Click here for more information.
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. 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.
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.
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theRoswellite
6th April 2010, 17:19
As the competition shows…..it is much more difficult to predict the exact finishing order… than one might expect. (This comes from someone in 412 place, and probably not moving up.)
theRoswellite
6th April 2010, 17:21
…see, I can’t even read the results correctly…436 place!
Franton
6th April 2010, 17:44
Sigh 13 points and joint 355. Unless I get very lucky in the next couple races, may as well give up now.
bobo
6th April 2010, 18:44
I don’t think so, Keith has designed this so that consistent scoring adds up. If you keep on scoring you’ll move up the table over time.
Damon
6th April 2010, 17:45
The new scoring kinda killed the game. Unless you predict the finishing order (which is so random to do), the few points you can score for predicting top-5 finishers are irrelevant. :(
Keith, WHY OH WHY???
Keith Collantine (@keithcollantine)
6th April 2010, 18:16
We’ve got over 2,000 players and there’ll be more by the end of the year. If it was easy to score points we’d just end up with loads of people on the same score.
But this is partly the effect of having high scores in the first round (look how many people were in double figures at Bahrain) and lower scores in the second two rounds. Over the rest of the season I expect the picture will change.
K
6th April 2010, 23:23
Surely the winner should get proportionally more, the system should value winners more or we’ll end up with people aiming for fifth place just to score points for the championship rather than going for the win ;)
Pink Peril
7th April 2010, 1:15
That means Massa is leading the tipping then ;)
Gilvan
6th April 2010, 17:59
Keith, is there a way for me to check what was my prediction for Australia and Malaysia? See I am putting it on a spreadsheet so I can keep track of it. Nickname is IguessF1.
Keith Collantine (@keithcollantine)
6th April 2010, 18:18
Yes, just go back to the entry page for each round and click on ‘Show Predictions’.
Gilvan
6th April 2010, 18:28
I tried that but everytime it only shows Bahrain, even though I am looking at the entry pages for Australia and Malaysia.
Sorry for the trouble.
Keith Collantine (@keithcollantine)
6th April 2010, 19:25
Ah, in that case no I’m afraid not.
JProc
6th April 2010, 18:08
Joint 1645 place 3 points from Bahrain forgot to enter Australia and 1 from Malaysia. :D
TommyB
6th April 2010, 18:15
hanalou sure did nail the result in the first race. They’ve scored no points since the race and are still 3rd in the table! :P
bob
6th April 2010, 18:25
With no Mclarens and Ferraris in TOP5 this was very unpredictable GP
ThePink Bengal
6th April 2010, 18:38
Only five points so far but at least I’ve gotten in the points in every race. I’m hoping that consistency will be the key to my ultimate victory :P
phoros
6th April 2010, 18:40
12 points and 436th on the list. Not bad assuming I wasn’t predicting Bahrain GP. Great fun!
George
6th April 2010, 18:45
Only one point that race, qualifying ruined it for me
Icthyes
6th April 2010, 18:53
Joint 58th but way off the lead!
Bellof
6th April 2010, 19:12
89th place steady scoring nice little 9 in last round but its soo close one decent result anyone can move towards the front a bit like f1 2010
claudio
6th April 2010, 19:17
The only time I had ever won this kind of game was for purely patriot reasons (it was about predictions on World Cup). I wouldn´t rationally bet like I did, but I was in a foreign country and I felt it would be very embarrassing if I bet against my own country. I tried to be reasonable about my guessing in this championship, but I only scored 15 miserable points. Time to be patriotic! Go Massa, Barrichello, Grassi and Senna! :)
Sirko
6th April 2010, 19:36
Finally in top-20.
Ciaran
6th April 2010, 20:19
Still 4th place! Pretty good :D
slr
6th April 2010, 22:35
“Pretty good” is an understatement.
João Pedro CQ
6th April 2010, 20:20
Wow, I’m 436th place tied up with more than 100 people. That’s quite impressive for the ammount of luck I usually have……..
walrus
6th April 2010, 21:13
I thought I got Vettel and Rosberg in the right order of finish too, then why did I score only 8? Am I not getting the scoring system? Please help me out..
Flying Wombat
6th April 2010, 21:59
Up from 500 and something last time out to 355th. Slowly but surely I’m climbing… ;-)
slr
6th April 2010, 22:34
Thank you Vettel for salvaging me a point. I’m still happy with 194th. Hopefully I can stay in the top 200, by the end of the season.
US Williams Fan
6th April 2010, 22:38
749th place! I’m movin on up…… to the East Side.
ball
6th April 2010, 22:50
for the grand prix in melbourne was unable to leave a prediction due to being on holiday, in future can you take the previous predictions from the previous race and apply them to the current race.
walrus
6th April 2010, 23:06
Oh I see.. 2 for the two top five finishers and 6 for the correct order. :-)
Cheers Fanatics!
Pink Peril
7th April 2010, 1:19
Joint 1005th – just think of the dizzying heights I could have reached if I’d not forgotten to put my Australian tips in!
abeed
7th April 2010, 1:42
yeah!! i got the only double digit!! :D
wasiF1
7th April 2010, 2:09
I had two back to0 back non- finish, didn’t score any points in the last two rounds.
Mike
7th April 2010, 5:41
Joint 43rd, but my brain is like the HRT, unlikely to score…
SO I am very happy at the moment :D:D:D
Anyone notice how the top 2 or 3 are way ahead? Bahrain earned some people a lot of points eh?
Varun Mehta
7th April 2010, 7:14
Sometimes it’s just not possible to log in to make predictions between end of Friday practice and start of Saturday practice (I assume that’s when most people do). Would it be possible to have a default list that is automatically entered if a person hasn’t done so himself?
Ronman
7th April 2010, 9:27
ranked 1005, no progress. will try one more time before i quit… gambling was never my Forte
Puffy
7th April 2010, 10:32
I tried to enter my predictions via my cell phone since I was in the middle of a game reserve, but alas, it doesn’t seem to have worked. :( Ah well, always the next race to catch up :)
STRFerrari4Ever
7th April 2010, 11:28
Wow I jumped from absolutely nowhere to joint 126th :D bring on China last year I’m sure I was in joint lead at China or I scored the joint best at China! Hopefully the same will happen.
STRFerrari4Ever
7th April 2010, 11:33
And here’s the evidence
https://www.racefans.net/2009/04/22/chinese-gp-predictions-results/
Osvaldas
7th April 2010, 12:30
Yeeeee, I’m joint 506th:DDD
PeterG
7th April 2010, 13:25
Wow, in my race for ultimate victory and grandstand ticket I actually lost 100+ places 8)
But I am very pleased with the effort of the team and we are improving every day so I am confident we will score points in China and make a big step forward for sure.
Keith Collantine (@keithcollantine)
7th April 2010, 15:22
One prediction that had been entered manually had been missed, that’s now been added in so you may have seen a change in your ranking.
bazik
8th April 2010, 1:09
Again i must say, ALL this posts about the predictions are NOT being posted on the RSS feed, please fix it!
verstappen
8th April 2010, 8:15
Yes! VER +500
(give or take a few)