Can you predict the top five finishers and the pole sitter in this year’s British Grand Prix?
We’ve got tickets to next year’s British Grand Prix to be won as the grand prize in this year’s Predictions Championship.
Enter your predictions now below.
The earlier problem with the prediction form has been fixed
- F1 Fanatic Predictions Championship standings
- F1 Fanatic Predictions Championship race-by-race statistics
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. (Please note this DVD is in PAL format).
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
This prize is supplied by 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, the pole position lap time and the top five finishers in the race. See below for the rules in full.
Enter your pole position lap time prediction in the following format: MM:SS.ccc – e.g. for a lap of one minute, 25.386 seconds enter 01:25.386
Please try to pick an original and distinctive user name – something a bit more descriptive than just a first name and use the same name for every race you enter.
[motorracingleague entry=4]
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 came closest to predicting the pole position time correctly. 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 above. If you have trouble submitting your entry via the form please notify me and send your prediction using the contact form.
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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Macca (@macca)
9th July 2010, 15:47
When I enter my prediction I used to get a list of everyone who had already entered but now that no longer comes up. Is this meant to happen or is it not working for me?
svetlio
9th July 2010, 15:49
It’s the same for me
TomD11
9th July 2010, 16:10
That’s happened to me too
rob@cacox
10th July 2010, 3:38
List came up for me.
Make sure you enter the correct time format.
SS:MM.000
LAK
9th July 2010, 15:49
Same here, I didn’t get the list with everyone’s predictions either
verstappen
9th July 2010, 15:49
same here
Will try again later
sabatino
9th July 2010, 15:56
i cannot make prediction !
Nitpicker
9th July 2010, 15:58
Well have a think about it. If you’re still struggling then just make something up.
tobinen
9th July 2010, 16:09
………….ditto
fordsrule
9th July 2010, 16:16
Did my prediction go through? when I hit submit it reloaded the page.
EGC
9th July 2010, 16:17
Here the same…
Hajnr
9th July 2010, 16:48
here the same… it’s not first time, someone should fix that problem…
HounslowBusGarage
9th July 2010, 16:30
I don’t think the page is calling itself correctly on Submit. There should be hidden value on the form page that allows the page to call itself again, recognise the value and then display something like “Thanks for your predictions . . ” plus the predictions so far. But it looks as though the form page isn’t rolling through with hidden value, info isn’t being recorded and so the page represents itself as though it’s your first visit.
Butzi73
9th July 2010, 16:39
Hey Keith,
There was no kind of acknowledgment that my submission was accepted. Are we getting our predictions in?
THanks!
BrawnGPstefan
9th July 2010, 17:12
not sure if anything is going through but my prediction is-
Vettel- Pole & 1st / Webber- 2nd / Hamilton 3rd / Alonso 4th / Button 5th
Macca (@macca)
9th July 2010, 17:21
Mine was…
Name – Macca25
Pole Time – 01:29.716
Pole – Mark Webber
1st – Mark Webber
2nd – Sebastian Vettel
3rd – Fernando Alonso
4th – Lewis Hamilton
5th – Robert Kubica
tobinen
9th July 2010, 17:13
don’t panic!!! Hopefully they’ll be in. Or not!
IDR (@idr)
9th July 2010, 17:48
IDR
01:30.500
WEB
ALO
VET
HAM
ROS
IDR (@idr)
9th July 2010, 18:13
I forgot Pole
IDR
01:30.500
WEB
WEB
ALO
VET
HAM
ROS
Guilherme Teixeira
9th July 2010, 17:53
Well, same here…
Name: Guilherme Teixeira
Pole time: 1:30.261
Pole: Vettel
1st: Vettel
2nd: Webber
3rd: Hamilton
4th: Alonso
5th: Button
Franton
9th July 2010, 17:56
Nope, didn’t come up with entries for me either.
Franton
9th July 2010, 22:27
I’ve now submitted through the feedback form. The normal entry page just doesn’t seem to be working.
Keith Collantine (@keithcollantine)
9th July 2010, 17:56
I’m looking into why some of you have had difficulty making your predictions. It seems to be working for some but not others.
If you’re concerned your prediction has not been received please send it in via the contact form as described in the rules:
https://www.racefans.net/credits-and-contacts/contact-f1fanatic/
Please do not post predictions in the comments.
perveze7
9th July 2010, 20:28
had problem with the form , hence sent predictions by contact.
mateuss
9th July 2010, 21:44
I sent my predictions via the contact form.
miguelF!
9th July 2010, 23:01
is this problem going to give you more trouble? i dont know how many predictions you ve got to process but if the system isnt automatic if it is too much trouble i wouldn mind not to have this weekend this game
Keith Collantine (@keithcollantine)
9th July 2010, 23:48
The problem appears to have been solved.
Many thanks to Ian, who wrote the code which runs the predictions, who noticed a problem which had arisen as a result of the recent design changes.
I’ve submitted a test prediction which has worked. If you have any further problems please let me know.
If you have already sent your prediction via email you may resubmit them using the form if you wish.
Apologies for the inconvenience everyone.
Keith Collantine (@keithcollantine)
9th July 2010, 23:55
Since posting this about a dozen predictions have been posted within a few minutes so it looks like it’s working again now.
Cyclops
9th July 2010, 18:56
Same here, sent the predictions again via contact form just to be sure.
scunnyman
9th July 2010, 20:16
i’ve done the predictions via the contact sheet too. I wonder if the problem with the predictions submission is connected to the site update.
I know it’s pretty petty but i hope you get my prediction so i have a chance of staying up the top of the list.
It’s fun doing the predictions.
GQsm
9th July 2010, 20:27
The page doesn’t load correctly prior to submitting my prediction – error from IE8 below, although it won’t accept my prediction in chrome or firefox 3.0 either.
When I make my prediction, I get the same error except my prediction is tagged onto the end of the URI as variables. End result is I can’t submit so will use the contact form.
Webpage error details
User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0; .NET CLR 2.0.50727)
Timestamp: Fri, 9 Jul 2010 19:13:21 UTC
Message: Object expected
Line: 830
Char: 1
Code: 0
URI: https://www.racefans.net/2010/07/09/make-your-british-grand-prix-predictions-to-win-f1-prizes/
I also found the following error 4 times in the chrome developer tools console
“Unable to post message to http://googleads.g.doubleclick.net. Recipient has origin https://www.racefans.net.”
Steph90 (@steph90)
9th July 2010, 20:44
I must be stupid with the prediction I’ve done. The entire time I thought ‘no don’t be daft’ . If only I had an ocotpus with me
Nathan Bradley
9th July 2010, 20:55
Ditto, Steph, an octopus called Paul would be nice!
Nathan
P.S. Have sent my predictions in via contact form as well.
Einar AI
9th July 2010, 21:10
just cause the system isnt working:
EinarAI
Pole: Vettel
Pole Time: 1:30.123
1. Hamilton
2. Button
3. Vettel
4. Alonso
5. Webber
Cyclops
9th July 2010, 22:18
Keith asked NOT to post your predictions in comments.
scunnyman
10th July 2010, 0:10
thanks Keith and Ian for fisixing the problem
Jon Fitzgibbons
10th July 2010, 0:51
NOOOOOO, I can’t select Yamamoto for the pole position!!! (This is sarcastic, if you hadn’t guessed).
rmac923
10th July 2010, 1:18
No surprises this weekend. Red Bulls, McLarens and Alonso in the Top-5.
Tim
10th July 2010, 4:01
looks like some people were looking at last year’s fast lap to come up with their pole times. They say the new section adds over ten seconds to the lap time. Also the way that Mercedes ran today in P2, maybe they fixed their low fuel/fresh tire problem?
Lachie
10th July 2010, 4:07
My prediction is very much not how I want the race to turn out (eg. I don’t have Button featuring anywhere) but I’m choosing to play the old reverse psychology angle.
GalTrack
10th July 2010, 7:21
Hi,
How come we can’t choose Sakon Yamamoto for P1, and not even in the first 5th for the race! How can we get a full score, then?
:-)
Keith Collantine (@keithcollantine)
10th July 2010, 8:00
Because the competition was opened before HRT changed their driver line-up.
Cyclops
10th July 2010, 7:55
Thanks for fixing the form mate, predictions posted, hopefully this will be a good round just enough to keep me in top 10 ;)
Dorian
10th July 2010, 8:20
Keith, how come we can’t see your predictions mate? we could last year if I remember correctly
ZanteX
10th July 2010, 10:13
I couldn’t submit my predictions last night so I did it via the contact form and I wasn’t online when it started working again, hope they’re not forgotten :o
I can see the list now and they are not there, hopefully Keith will enter them after the weekend.
Mike "the bike" Schumacher
10th July 2010, 11:03
Same thing for me, entered my predictions through contact form but cant see them on the list.
I hope to god you’ve entered them keith i’m doing well at the moment.
Electrolite
10th July 2010, 11:30
Yep, same with me
Arun Srini
10th July 2010, 10:14
woah.. so many ppl still having faith in schumacher
Staffan
10th July 2010, 12:11
it wasn’t working for me yesterday so now my prediction isn’t in then? :(
Hajnr
10th July 2010, 14:05
SimonF1 gratulation 1:29.615 Vettel :) NICE!
calum
10th July 2010, 14:47
prediction:
1st: Hamilton (qualified 4th)
2nd: webber (qualified 2nd
3rd: vettel (qualified pole)
4th: alonso (qualified 3rd)
Correct people wrong order… if i could predict agian id say:
1st: Vettel
2nd: Hamilton
3rd:webber
4th alonso
…let the race begin :)
sato113 (@sato113)
10th July 2010, 17:59
where is my prediction? i used the form and it worked as always… but i’m not there!