2014 GRIF Formula One Prediction Game

[zgr]

01. Hamilton
02. Rosberg
03. Ricciardo
04. Bottas
05. Vettel
06. Alonso
07. Magnussen
08. Massa
09. Raikkonen
10. Vergne
11. Button
12. Hülkenberg
13. Sutil
14. Kyvat
15. Guiterrez
16. Grosjean
17. Maldonado
18. Perez

Bonus: 31 (Hamilton)

[The Grimeloid]

1- Hamilton
2- Ricciardo
3- Alonso
4- Massa
5- Bottas
6- Vettel
7- Button
8- Hulkenberg
9- Magnussen
10- Vergne
11- Sutil
12- Raikkonen
13- Grosjean
14- Kvyat
15- Perez (DNF)
16- Rosberg (DNF)
17- Gutierrez (DNF)
18- Maldonado (DNF)

BONUS: Hamilton would be 67 points ahead.

[RobertRacer]

1. Rosberg
2. Bottas
3. Massa
4. Ricciardo
5. Button
6. Vettel
7. Alonso
8. Magnussen
9. Räikönnen
10. Hülkenberg
11. Perez
12. Kwjat
13. Grojean
14. Vergne
15. Sutil
16. Gutierrez
17. Kobayashi
18. 2nd Caterham Driver
19. Maldonado (Retire)
20. Hamilton (Retire)

Bonus: -33 (33 points for Rosberg)

Edit:

I just wanted to erase the ''''. And because I don't want that BBA will ignore my post, new post down. (Safety first )

[Bouncebackability]

HAM
ROS
BOT
RIC
MAS
VET
BUT
ALO
HUL
MAG

RAI
PER
SUT
VER
KVY
GRO
MAL
GUT

3 Points

[RobertRacer]

1. Rosberg
2. Bottas
3. Massa
4. Ricciardo
5. Button
6. Vettel
7. Alonso
8. Magnussen
9. Räikönnen
10. Hülkenberg
11. Perez
12. Kwjat
13. Grojean
14. Vergne
15. Sutil
16. Gutierrez
17. Kobayashi
18. 2nd Caterham Driver
19. Maldonado (Retire)
20. Hamilton (Retire)

Bonus: -33 (33 points for Rosberg)

[ivaneurope]

1. Hamilton
2. Rosberg
3. Ricciardo
4. Alonso
5. Bottas
6. Vettel
7. Massa
8. Button
9. Räikönnen
10. Magnussen
11. Hülkenberg
12. Vergne
13. Kvyat
14. Perez
15. Sutil
16. Grosjean
17. Gutierrez
18. Maldonado
19. Merhi or whoever gets the second seat
20. Kobayashi

Bonus 21 points for Hamilton

[Mad Dan]

1 Hamilton
2 Rosberg
3 Bottas
4 Massa
5 Ricciardo
6 Alonso
7 Vettel
8 Button
9 Raikkonen
10 Magnussen
11 Perez
12 Hulkenberg
13 Kvyat
14 Vergne
15 Kvyat
16 Sutil
17 Gutierrez
18 Maldonado
19 Kobayashi
20 Other Caterham if present

Hamilton 31 points before Rosberg

[SGroe]

01 ROS
02 HAM
03 MAS
04 RIC
05 BUT
06 BOT
07 VET
08 ALO
09 MAG
10 HUL
11 PER
12 RAI
13 VER
14 GRO
15 KVY
16 SUT
17 GUT
18 MAL

BONUS 31

[XYY]

Sgroe, have you understood the bonus question wrong or have I understood it wrong? We both predict ROS as 1st and HAM as 2nd, yet you say 31+ for Hamilton.

[Bouncebackability]

There was nothing to say your bonus had to match the rest of your prediction

[XYY]

Ok so my +3 for Hamilton makes perfect sense if I predict 1. Rosberg and 2. Hamilton?

[DuklaLiberec]

Hamilton
Rosberg
Bottas
Ricciardo
Vettel
Button
Massa
Alonso
Vergne
Räikkönen

Magnussen
Hülkenberg
Kvyat
Gutierrez
Grosjean
Perez
Sutil
Maldonado

If the caterhams turn up (unlikely) I will ignore them in the results.

Hence both Caterhams are omitted from my prediction.

[ACM]

ACM, be ready! I will fight!

Bring it.

Hamilton
Rosberg
Massa
Bottas
Button
Alonso
Ricciardo
Vettel
Hulkenberg
Magnussen
Perez
Räikkönen
Vergne
Kvyat
Gutierrez
Sutil
Grosjean
Maldonado

Bonus: 31

[SGroe]

Sgroe, have you understood the bonus question wrong or have I understood it wrong? We both predict ROS as 1st and HAM as 2nd, yet you say 31+ for Hamilton.

I think, both of us understand the bonus question ...

[XYY]

Ok, thanks! I was just curious

[1nsane]

Oops, the race is this weekend, I almost forgot.

1. Rosberg
2. Hamilton
3. Bottas
4. Ricciardo
5. Vettel
6. Massa
7. Alonso
8. Perez
9. Button
10. Räikkönen

11. Kvyat
12. Hülkenberg
13. Magnussen
14. Vergne
15.Grosjean
16. Sutil
17. Maldonado
18. Gutierrez

Bonus: +3

(Although I hope that RobertRacer's prediction happens, where Maldonado does some sniper move and manages to take Hamilton out.. )
Edit: And my prediction was safe by 3 minutes.

[RobertRacer]

I predict Maldonado's 19th (without the Caterhams 17th) place + retiring right.

[Bouncebackability]

In the end, Hamilton's championship lead came under little threat from Rosberg, but would SGroe hold on to his 11 point lead in the same way.

Unlike Hamilton, SGroe didnt end the season with another win, but one of his main rivals, XYY came through to score an impressive 33 points, with 6 spot on guesses, sharing the winning spoils with ACM, who claimed his second ever win.

However SGroe acheived a 4th place and 28 points to secure the title by 10 points over XYY, who recovered 2nd place from me at the last race.

It proved quite tricky to guess all the positions, as the winning total was only 50% higher than the previous round despite almost twice the points available. And Rosbergs troubles didnt help matters, although this helped The Grimeloid to score the final bonus question of the season.

Many thanks to all 23 that took part over the year, a special congratulations to SGroe and Mad Dan for getting the most spot on guesses in a year, and a special thanks to 1nsane, XYY, SGroe, ACM, YoNnie and DuklaLiberec for taking part in all 19 rounds!

Well done SGroe

A full break down on all the results and stats is in the attached spreadsheet (.zip)

[RobertRacer]

@BBA: You did my points wrong. I predicted Maldonado on Place 17 and Gutierrez on Place 16. You stole me 4 points!

[DuklaLiberec]

Huh, I think I'll stay at 5th place... As the first season it's not bad But I have chance for 4th

Hear! Hear! I'm absolutely satisfied with my final position despite a couple of bad patches I have to go through.

Many thanks to all 23 that took part over the year, a special congratulations to SGroe and Mad Dan for getting the most spot on guesses in a year, and a special thanks to 1nsane, XYY, SGroe, ACM, YoNnie and DuklaLiberec for taking part in all 19 rounds!

It was a great pleasure indeed, I hope I'll also manage to do so next season and achieve an even better position in the end.

[Bouncebackability]

@BBA: You did my points wrong. I predicted Maldonado on Place 17 and Gutierrez on Place 16. You stole me 4 points!

You changed them around for no reason, so I followed the rules. I thought the edit was only to remove/add the Caterhams

[Mad Dan]

Thanks for doing this again BBA
I'm glad I had enough luck to pick 39 spot on guesses maybe if I took part in all races I'd have had more points . It was fun anyway .
Hope you can continue doing this for 2015 as well .

[YoNnie]

Hmm.. So I'm the biggest loser at this predictions? Well.. No matter what place I have, it was fun to predict the races Special thanks to BBA who was leading this project and to you guys, with who I had little battle
However, the 2015 season isn't so far in the time...

[ACM]

...sharing the winning spoils with ACM, who claimed his second ever win.

With both of them happening on Yas Marina Circuit. It must be my lucky track.

[SGroe]

I also want to thank BBA for organizing the prediction game.

It was an exciting battle with XYY for 1st place.
It is great to see my name on top.
Congratulations to the other Top3 finishers.