2011 Aussie GP qualy contest. prize to the winner

Kicking the new season off right with an uber contest with a great piece of real Ferrari racing stuff.

Post your best guess for the top 10 qualy times and driver and whoever is closest wins a very special item which I will of course ship for free to the winner wherever they are on earth that does not have an ongoing war or conflict preventing shipping. The more precise with your guesses, the better!

Grand prize is a original high compression Ferrari racing piston (forged not cast like stock) made by Borgo. It is identical to those run by Ferrari in the Lemans spec 308 motor of the early 70s. These are incredibly rare and I happen to have 9 so I can part with 1.

A little help for you guys

Vettel's pole time last year was 1.23.919 and the top ten were all within about 1.3 seconds. Remember we have a couple things really slowing everyone down this year. Pirelli themselves have stated on multiple occasions that their tires are a good 1-2 seconds slower and we have bit less downforce on the cars. My guess is P1 will be somewhere in the mid 1.24s.
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I'll make it easier. Simply post the order of top 10 and add the times if you want. I was considering tabulating all the times making it so even if a person perhaps had the order correct, if their times were completely off I would deduce their result and average the two to make a winner. So if a person had the times very close yet the order off I would deduce a mathematical winner. Too complicated and not relevant as the order alone.

 

One week to qualifying!

 

cutoff will be 1 hour prior to qualifying

 

Which driver will get that ONE good key lap that those soft tires are really good for and who will completely hose their tires either by accident or just at the wrong time. Schu owns his car this year, he will do well in it so long as he can make good decisions regarding the tires.


Albert park is sort of a cross between Monaco and Interlagos as I see it. Not really a super high-speed straight type place but it is important to know this is one of the few track where the qualy lap of the 2010 cars was indeed half a second quicker than the 2004 cars. So say medium heavy downforce is important and top speed is not terribly important.


Still deciding on the order.......

 

Jeez where are you hearing/finding this stuff? I read dozens of sites every day. English, German, etc and haven't seen that.


I read in interview he did after the first Barcelona test where he said something like that, but that was well before their upgrade pack. Everyone I have heard since has placed MB in the top 3 directly against Ferrari.


Found the interview. Hulk says nothing of the sort but rather he was talking about how the car was prior to upgrades and how Brawn said the car was missing a second. Lastly, Hulk cannot be sure how effective the upgrades were because he just doesn't know. He clearly states at the end to not write-off Mercedes and has zero opinion regarding their positioning due to the upgrades not showing enough quantifiable information for him but he did say they were the top of the midfield teams.

http://www.motorsport-aktuell.com/automobil/formel-1-nico-huelkenbergs-grosse-f1-team-analyse-teil-2-3549826.html

 

This is sort of how I was thinking of doing it:

5 points for each driver chosen in the correct spot with a correct P1 choice getting 6 points. If a driver is chosen and is 1 spot from the choice one has, they will be given 2 points unless the driver in question grabs P1, then they will be given 3 points. No points for being more than 1 spot away.

Example:

fchatter's picks: Actual:

Hamilton Vettel 3 points
Vettel Hamilton 2 points
Rosberg Rosberg 5 points
Webber Perez 0 points
Button Webber 2 points



The best possible outcome is 51 points.

 

my picks:

1. Vettel
2. Alonso
3. Webber
4. Schumacher
5. Rosberg
6. Massa
7. Heidfeld
8. Hamilton
9. Alguersuari
10. Petrov

 

Hulk saw the car Rosberg was driving Wednesday which was the day prior to it receiving upgrades which I think is mainly why he cannot quantify where the car is now. He is the only one seeing it this way. No biggie.

The above article he rates MB as the front of the middle pack runners yet incredibly strangely he rates Mclaren and Renault as top 4 teams. Mclaren could be in a few races, but I can't see how Renault is even close due to all the issues they are having with the exhaust system they are running.