Let's see if we can get this going.

The idea: Guess the race result for each Grand Prix of the 2009 season before a car is on track.

The rules: You have from Monday before each race until Thursday, 23:59 GMT before each race to guess the top 8 finishers. All guesses made after the deadline will be discarded. Points will be awarded as follows:

• Driver correctly guessed - 1 point
• Driver and position correctly guessed - 3 points
• All 8 drivers correctly guessed, order incorrect - 10 bonus points
• All 8 drivers guessed in the correct order - 20 bonus points

You are free to modify your guess until the Thursday, 23:59 GMT deadline.

Results will be collected in a separate thread. At the end of the season the winner gets as many virtual hobnobs as he has points.

My guess for Australia:

1. Jenson Button - Brawn Mercedes
2. Kimi Räikkönen - Ferrari
3. Felipe Massa - Ferrari
4. Timo Glock - Toyota
5. Fernando Alonso - Renault
6. Mark Webber - Red Bull Renault
7. Sebastian Vettel - Red Bull Renault
8. Lewis Hamilton - McLaren Mercedes

Formula 1 2009 season thread

Fantasy F1 on Neowin?

Why not? It's just for fun.

It'll be fun I know, but you'll have to do all the point tracking on your own. By the way you might want to link to the official season thread too.

1. Barrichello - Brawn Mercedes
2. Felipe Massa - Ferrari
3. Timo Glock - Toyota
4. Kimi Räikkönen - Ferrari
5. Fernando Alonso - Renault
6. Robert Kubica - BMW Sauber
7. Jenson Button - Brawn Mercedes
8. Lewis Hamilton - McLaren Mercedes
9. Sebastian Vettel - Red Bull Renault
10. Nico Rosberg - Williams Toyota

I'll do the points tracking in an Excel spreadsheet.

1. Jenson Button - Brawn Mercedes
2. Felipe Massa - Ferrari
3. Rubens Barrichello - Brawn Mercedes
4. Lewis Hamilton - McLaren Mercedes
5. Fernando Alonso - Renault
6. Robert Kubica - BMW Sauber
7. Kimi Räikkönen - Ferrari
8. Nico Rosberg - WilliamsF1

1. Nick Heidfeld - BMW Sauber F1
2. Kimi Raikkonen - Ferrari
3. Robert Kubica - BMW Sauber F1
4. Lewis Hamilton - McLaren
5. Heikki Kovalainen - McLaren
6. Sebastian Vettel - Red Bull
7. Felipe Massa - Ferrari
8. Jenson Button - Brawn Mercedes

1. Barrichello - Brawn GP
2. Button - Brawn GP
3. Raikkonen - Ferrari
4. Vettel - Red Bull Racing
5. Massa - Ferrari
6. Kubica - BMW
7. Webber - Red Bull Racing
8. Hamilton - McLaren

1. Kimi Räikkönen - Ferrari
2. Sebastian Vettel - Red Bull
3. Fernando Alonso - Renault
4. Felipe Massa - Ferrari
5. Rubens Barrichello - Brawn
6. Robert Kubica - BMW
7. Jenson Button - Brawn
8. Heikki Kovalainen - McLaren

Ahh, why not. I suck at predictions but still, here they be:

1. Rubens Barrichello, Brawn Mercedes.
2. Felipe Massa - Ferrari.
3. Fernando Alonso - Renault.
4. Jenson Button - Brawn Mercedes.
5. Kimi Räikkönen - Ferrari.
6. Lewis Hamilton - McLaren Mercedes.
7. Robert Kubica - BMW Sauber.
8. Timo Glock - Toyota.

1. Felipe Massa - Ferrari
2. Rubens Barrichello - Brawn Mercedes
3. Kimi Räikkönen - Ferrari
4. Jenson Button - Brawn Mercedes
5. Fernando Alonso - Renault
6. Lewis Hamilton - McLaren Mercedes
7. Sebastian Vettel - Red Bull Renault
8. Mark Webber - Red Bull Renault

I just think we need to change the point system (unintentional irony). More points are needed to reflect on the probability of getting the order correct.

• Driver correctly guessed - 1 point
• Driver and position correctly guessed - 3 points
• All 8 drivers correctly guessed, order incorrect - 10 bonus points
• All 8 drivers guessed in the correct order - 20 bonus points

Thanks for the suggestion. First post edited accordingly.

+Mephistopheles : How can you not even have Barrichello in your top 8?

1. Rubens Barrichello
2. Fernando Alonso
3. Lewis Hamilton
4. Nico Rosberg
5. Jenson Button
6. Kimi Räikkönen
7. Heikki Kovalainen
8. Felipe Massa

It's the first race of the season. Technical gremlins are likely to hit. And Mr Barichello has often been the driver to be hit by technical gremlins (think back to his time at Ferrari).

I didn't include either of the BMW Saubers in my top 8 for the same reason.

i read today, that m.schumacher will be with ferrari in australia, which means a bad weekend and a certain dnf for raikkonen.

my guess for the race result is:

1. felipe massa - ferrari
2. rubens barrichello - brawn gp
3. jarno trulli - toyota
4. heiki kovalainen - mclaren
5. robert kubica - bmw
6. nelson piquet jr. - renault
7. lewis hamilton - mclaren
8. jenson button - brawn gp

I think Brawn are going to dominate, probably scoring a 1-2. Honestly I wouldn't like to guess the rest of the order though, testing times have been all over the chart, but I feel, sadly, that McLaren are gonna be struggling in the back end of the points, and that is if they have a problem free weekend

I can imagine a surprise turnaround because the likes of Button aren't used to having such a fast car and could easily make a disaster of the first corner.

Dam... I missed this... I will do it for the next race though!

Here are the results of this round:

1. Shibby - 9 points
2. mclaren2 - 8 points
3. Mephistopheles - 6 points
4. Martyn - 6 points
5. HiroProtagonist1984 - 5 points
6. Popcorned1 - 5 points
7. sundayx - 5 points
8. .mcman - 4 points
9. Fourjays - 3 points
10. brentaal - 3 points

Congratulations to Shibby. The next round of guesses starts tomorrow.

Thank you for playing.

cant believe that i collected 8 points.

more than felipe - who was today again better than his teammate - did today.

congrats 2 brawn gp and shibby from neowin

I believe I have 6 points.

No, 5 points. One more because of me making a typo in the results list. The point for Rosberg doesn't count since only the top 8 are counted - see first post.

hmm looks like the results have to be changed

trulli got DQ and hami got p3 now.

Indeed. Revised results:

1. Mephistopheles - 10 points
2. Shibby - 9 points
3. Martyn - 8 points
4. sundayx - 7 points
5. Popcorned1 - 7 points
6. HiroProtagonist1984 - 5 points
7. mclaren2 - 5 points
8. Fourjays - 3 points
9. brentaal - 3 points
10. .mcman - 2 points

Next time I'm going to wait for several hours after the race to compile the results...

ahh, that sucks... Can I protest?

you cant hehe but toyota decided to appeal against that decision!!!
that means the sporting court in paris will decide on that one too in their meeting on april the 14th.
together with the possibility that both cars of brawn gp might lose their points from race 1.

what a crazy season.

So I'm guessing all our points are "in holding" until after Paris Really, good race today, 'twas definitely worth getting up at 6am for - though it was a pain to then find out a few hours later that the results had changed, still 'twas definitely a good day to be a Brit

time to rewrite the results again! hamilton got excluded from the classement!

May want to make that several days

Aww. I'm moving down the points board,

The second revision of the results will come later. I don't have the spreadsheet here at work.

Here's the second (and hopefully final) revision of the results:

1. Mephistopheles - 9 points
2. Shibby - 8 points
3. Martyn - 7 points
4. sundayx - 6 points
5. HiroProtagonist1984 - 4 points
6. Popcorned1 - 4 points
7. mclaren2 - 4 points
8. brentaal - 3 points
9. Fourjays - 2 points
10. .mcman - 1 point