Moderator Tommy 12,619 Posted November 24, 2023 Moderator Share Posted November 24, 2023 Pole Position - Which driver will post the fastest lap in Q3? Charles Leclerc Podium - Which drivers will finish the Grand Prix in the top three positions? 1. Max Verstappen 2. Charles Leclerc 3. Carlos Sainz Random Driver - Predict the finishing position of this week's random driver, Daniel Ricciardo. 13th Bonus Question - Mercedes go into this weekend on 392 points with Ferrari breathing down their neck on 388. Which team will secure 2nd in the Constructors' standings this weekend? Ferrari Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subscriber RandoEFC+ 7,664 Posted November 24, 2023 Author Subscriber Share Posted November 24, 2023 @Whiskey @Coma @DeadLinesman @MUFC don't forget! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderator Tommy 12,619 Posted November 24, 2023 Moderator Share Posted November 24, 2023 @MUFC box, box. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coma 1,766 Posted November 24, 2023 Share Posted November 24, 2023 Pole Position - Which driver will post the fastest lap in Q3? Verstappen Podium - Which drivers will finish the Grand Prix in the top three positions? 1. Verstappen 2. Norris 3. Hamilton Random Driver - Predict the finishing position of this week's random driver, Daniel Ricciardo. P9 Bonus Question - Mercedes go into this weekend on 392 points with Ferrari breathing down their neck on 388. Which team will secure 2nd in the Constructors' standings this weekend? Mercedes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whiskey 1,192 Posted November 24, 2023 Share Posted November 24, 2023 On 22/11/2023 at 10:09, RandoEFC said: Predictions - Abu Dhabi Grand Prix We've made it to the season finale! Deadline for predictions is the start of qualifying on Saturday. @RandoEFC @Stan @MUFC @Tommy @nudge @Whiskey @The Palace Fan @Coma @DeadLinesman @OrangeKhrush Pole Position - Which driver will post the fastest lap in Q3? VER Podium - Which drivers will finish the Grand Prix in the top three positions? 1. VER 2. LEC 3. PER Random Driver - Predict the finishing position of this week's random driver, Daniel Ricciardo. P12 Bonus Question - Mercedes go into this weekend on 392 points with Ferrari breathing down their neck on 388. Which team will secure 2nd in the Constructors' standings this weekend? FER Fuck you pre season predictions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MUFC 1,503 Posted November 25, 2023 Share Posted November 25, 2023 On 22/11/2023 at 10:09, RandoEFC said: Predictions - Abu Dhabi Grand Prix We've made it to the season finale! Deadline for predictions is the start of qualifying on Saturday. @RandoEFC @Stan @MUFC @Tommy @nudge @Whiskey @The Palace Fan @Coma @DeadLinesman @OrangeKhrush Pole Position - Which driver will post the fastest lap in Q3? Charles Podium - Which drivers will finish the Grand Prix in the top three positions? 1. Max 2. Charles 3. Norris Random Driver - Predict the finishing position of this week's random driver, Daniel Ricciardo. 15 Bonus Question - Mercedes go into this weekend on 392 points with Ferrari breathing down their neck on 388. Which team will secure 2nd in the Constructors' standings this weekend? Ferrari Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subscriber RandoEFC+ 7,664 Posted November 25, 2023 Author Subscriber Share Posted November 25, 2023 Last minute adjustments made Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderator Tommy 12,619 Posted November 25, 2023 Moderator Share Posted November 25, 2023 Sainz out in Q1. @MUFC please don't leave me alone, I don't know what I'm doing. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Subscriber RandoEFC+ 7,664 Posted November 25, 2023 Author Subscriber Share Posted November 25, 2023 I went for Russell in 3rd instead of Hamilton at the last minute after seeing his pace in practice and Hamilton saying he thought he could miss Q3. I did flirt with the idea of going for Piastri but didn't. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MUFC 1,503 Posted November 26, 2023 Share Posted November 26, 2023 15 hours ago, RandoEFC said: I went for Russell in 3rd instead of Hamilton at the last minute after seeing his pace in practice and Hamilton saying he thought he could miss Q3. I did flirt with the idea of going for Piastri but didn't. Max aside your second and third are different from mine and Stan. My only hope is getting the podium correct, Ferrari winning the title and getting Ricciardo prediction right. Even that is a long shot after getting pole wrong. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subscriber RandoEFC+ 7,664 Posted November 27, 2023 Author Subscriber Share Posted November 27, 2023 Results - Season Predictions Let's get the final confirmation of these scores out of the way first. The only change after a pretty standard result in the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix was Charles Leclerc leap-frogging Carlos Sainz in the Ferrari Championship Battle. As everyone backed Leclerc to come out on top in this rivalry anyway, this makes no difference to the final result of the team-mate battles prediction category, but it does mean that @Stan and @DeadLinesman can both brag that they managed to call all ten of these match-ups correctly, so well done to them! The only things that would have altered these scores involved one of the bottom four teams scoring a podium finish or Ocon, Magnussen or Zhou overturning their team-mate battles and none of those things happened, so last weekend's "provisional" scores for the season-long predictions stand and are no longer provisional. Moving on then, to... Results - Abu Dhabi Grand Prix The last Grand Prix of the season sees seven out of ten competitors end up on the exact same score of 15 with exactly half of the predictions correct, with a rare instance of no 2 point consolation prizes being given out this weekend. Qualifying saw as many as three people diverge from the herd of Verstappen backers. I deliberately avoid the word "gamble" here as Ferrari actually have as many pole positions as Red Bull since the winter break. However, the triple world champion delivered the goods on this occasion and started everyone apart from @MUFC, @Tommy and @DeadLinesman off with 5 points. Race day saw everyone return to the safety of a VER top-step finish so it's a full row of green here with the Dutchman dominating another Grand Prix. @Stan, @MUFC, @Tommy, @nudge, @Whiskey and @DeadLinesman all backed this up with Leclerc in 2nd place. @RandoEFC was the only person to back Russell for a podium finish after his impressive pace in Practice and was relieved to pick up 5 points here. Backers of Sergio Perez to finish 2nd or 3rd could perhaps consider themselves unfortunate as his mistake overtaking Norris scuppered his chances. Particularly heartbreaking for @Stan and @Whiskey whose VER-LEC-PER combination could so easily have bagged them 20 points for a perfect top three as the race entered its final stint. Onto the random driver, @RandoEFC was the only one to nail Ricciardo's finishing position of 11th, picking up 5 vital points in his bid to ward off a last minute assault on his position at the top of the prediction league. The field went 50/50 on the bonus question about whether Mercedes or Ferrari would come out on top in their season-long tussle for 2nd in the Constructors' standings, and this one was in the balance too in the last few laps of the race. It was the Silver Arrows who just clung on thanks to Russell's second podium finish of the season, yielding another 5 points for @RandoEFC, @The Palace Fan, @Coma, @DeadLinesman and @OrangeKhrush. Here's what all of that does for the final standings. Results - F1 Prediction League 2023 After a series of underwhelming races, @RandoEFC pulls out his best performance since Japan to secure the Drivers' Championship with a final margin of 19 points. @Stan holds on for 2nd place ahead of @MUFC, who took a few gambles this weekend in an attempt to nick the title, but would still have missed out by 1 point with a fully perfect weekend due to @RandoEFC's 25 points. The rest of the table pretty much cancel each other out with so many people scoring 15 points. The only change to the final results sees @DeadLinesman pip @Tommy for 8th place. The Constructors' standings see Ferrari hold on to the top spot by 4 points, despite being outscored by closest rivals Red Bull in the final Grand Prix. An excellent set of pre-season predictions from @Stan and @nudge was essential in seeing them over the line. Despite both drivers hitting the joint-lowest score of the final race weekend, Aston Martin hold on to 3rd place ahead of Alpine and Mercedes. Thanks everyone for joining in this season! I'll do a little season summary soon in all likelihood! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subscriber nudge+ 15,328 Posted November 27, 2023 Subscriber Share Posted November 27, 2023 f @Stan we did it, we are world champions! Kinda gutted I missed that one race, could have probably finished in P2 or P3 overall... Thanks for running this, @RandoEFC! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Stan 18,386 Posted November 27, 2023 Administrator Share Posted November 27, 2023 Yessss @nudge winners Quality write-ups @RandoEFC and thanks for running it! I was genuinely excited at how it was all going to unfold at the end. That 5-sec penalty for Perez denied me extra points! But it's all about the team . About time Ferrari won something! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderator Tommy 12,619 Posted November 27, 2023 Moderator Share Posted November 27, 2023 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subscriber RandoEFC+ 7,664 Posted November 27, 2023 Author Subscriber Share Posted November 27, 2023 9 minutes ago, Stan said: Quality write-ups @RandoEFC and thanks for running it! I was genuinely excited at how it was all going to unfold at the end. That 5-sec penalty for Perez denied me extra point! But it's all about the team . About time Ferrari won something! I was genuinely more excited and enthralled in the last race of the season than almost any other actual race this season because of the predictions league . 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whiskey 1,192 Posted November 27, 2023 Share Posted November 27, 2023 NO NO NO @RandoEFC THIS IS NOT RIGHT. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subscriber nudge+ 15,328 Posted November 27, 2023 Subscriber Share Posted November 27, 2023 15 minutes ago, Whiskey said: NO NO NO @RandoEFC THIS IS NOT RIGHT. THEY TOUCH, MARTIN!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subscriber RandoEFC+ 7,664 Posted November 27, 2023 Author Subscriber Share Posted November 27, 2023 On 24/02/2023 at 18:14, Coma said: It would be interesting to have two people pair up for this season and contribute points as a team, just like in the real F1. Each pair of predictors will have a team name so you could award a "constructor champion" at the end of the season as well. Teams could be selected randomly. Credit to Coma by the way for suggesting the idea of a Constructors Championship which I definitely think added a different fun aspect this year. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MUFC 1,503 Posted November 27, 2023 Share Posted November 27, 2023 @RandoEFC - Good work and a high level of commitment you've contributed over the season. In the title fight I was round third from bottom all season yet bizarrely went into the final race with a shot at the title. @Tommy We were bottom literally all season yet had an outside chance going into the final race. Not bad as the other teams were sniggering at us in the paddock all season. @RandoEFC @Coma - Even so we are on different teams. The 3 of us share one thing in common this season. The 3 of us are part of the exclusive 30 club. As in on different weekend on a single occasion we managed to hit 30 points. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderator Tommy 12,619 Posted November 27, 2023 Moderator Share Posted November 27, 2023 I still feel like I let us down. But I went with a bit of a different strategy in the last race, to maybe get something out of it. But it didn't work out. Sainz let me down. Oh and yea, @RandoEFC thanks for running this and congrats on your win. And congrats to @nudgeand @Stan. Finally bringing a title back to Maranello. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OrangeKhrush 298 Posted November 28, 2023 Share Posted November 28, 2023 i feel like an Alpine, huff and puff but nothing much. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeadLinesman 5,938 Posted November 28, 2023 Share Posted November 28, 2023 @RandoEFCi take full responsibility for that 0 weekend before moving teams. Next year WE GO AGAIN. @Tommy commiserations….. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderator Tommy 12,619 Posted November 28, 2023 Moderator Share Posted November 28, 2023 My predictions were fine. It's the drivers who drove wrong! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Stan 18,386 Posted November 28, 2023 Administrator Share Posted November 28, 2023 22 minutes ago, Tommy said: My predictions were fine. It's the drivers who drove wrong! @MUFC are you going to take this? In-fighting doesn't bode well for next season Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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