[Formula 1] Guess the Result: Race 3: China

[+Frank B. Subscriber²]

Hello and welcome to round two of 'Guess the Result'.

The idea: Guess which 8 drivers will finish in the points at the next Formula 1 Grand Prix.

The rules: You have from today, Monday, April 13th until Thursday, April 16th, 23:59 GMT to pick your top 8. All guesses made after the deadline will be discarded. Points are 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.

The standings after round two are:

1. Shibby - 19 points
   
2. Martyn - 17 points
   
3. Popcorned1 - 16 points
   
4. Mephistopheles - 15 points
   
5. sundayx - 13 points
   
6. HiroProtagonist1984 - 10 points
   
7. Fourjays - 9 points
   
8. OrangesOfCourse - 9 points
   
9. mclaren2 - 8 points
   
10. brentaal - 7 points
    
11. Nicholas-c - 6 points
    
12. .mcman - 5 points
    
13. Frank Fontaine - 5 points
    
14. sn00pie - 3 points
    
15. Crazysah - 3 points
    

My guess for the Chinese GP:

1. Rubens Barichello
   
2. Timo Glock
   
3. Jenson Button
   
4. Robert Kubica
   
5. Sebastian Vettel
   
6. Felipe Massa
   
7. Nico Rosberg
   
8. Mark Webber
   

Edited April 16, 2009 by Mephistopheles

[Subject Delta]

1: Button

2: Trulli

3: Barrichello

4: Rosberg

5: Glock

6: Vettle

7: Massa

8: Raikkonen

[DarkyDan]

1: Button

2: Webber

3: Barrichello

4: Vettel

5: Glock

6: Alonso

7: Hamilton

8: Raikkonen

[Martyn]

1. Jenson Button

2. Rubens Barichello

3. Felipe Massa

4. Niko Rosberg

5. Timo Glock

6. Jarno Trulli

7. Lewis Hamilton

8. Fernando Alonso

[JoeC]

1. Button

2. Trulli

3. Barrichello

4. Vettel

5. Rosberg

6. Massa

7. Webber

8. Hamilton (before he gets penalised and DQ'ed :p)

[sundayx Veteran]

1. Button

2. Barrichello

3. Trulli

4. Glock

5. Heidfeld

6. Rosberg

7. Hamilton

8. Massa

[Shibby]

1. Button
   
2. Barrichello
   
3. Trulli
   
4. Vettel
   
5. Glock
   
6. Rosberg
   
7. Webber
   
8. Massa
   

I think things have been pretty hard to guess this season.

[brentaal]

1. Button
   
2. Vettel
   
3. Barrichello
   
4. Rosberg
   
5. Trulli
   
6. Glock
   
7. Alonso
   
8. Heidfeld
   

[Dark_ph0enix]

23:01 here in the UK - Very nearly forgot to do this :)

1. Button

2. Vettel

3. Barichello

4. Rosberg

5. Hamilton

6. Glock

7. Trulli

8. Alonso

[OrangesOfCourse]

China 2009:

1: Jenson Button - Brawn-Mercedes

2: Jarno Trulli - Toyota

3: Rubens Barrichello - Brawn-Mercedes

4: Timo Glock - Toyota

5: Nico Rosberg - Williams-Toyota

6: Robert Kubica - BMW Sauber

7: Lewis Hamilton - McLaren Mercedes

8: Felipe Massa - Ferrari

[+Frank B. Subscriber²]

23:01 here in the UK - Very nearly forgot to do this :)

1. Button

2. Vettel

3. Barichello

4. Rosberg

5. Hamilton

6. Glock

7. Trulli

8. Alonso

Thursday isn't over yet. There are still 17 1/2 hours left as I am typing this.

[FlibbyFlobby]

Better to start late than never, so here's my guess for China 2009:

1. Button

2. Glock

3. Vettel

4. Trulli

5. Rosberg

6. Hamilton

7. Webber

8. Kubica

[Dark_ph0enix]

Thursday isn't over yet. There are still 17 1/2 hours left as I am typing this.

I've been running around like a maniac since Friday, so I'm kinda losing track of the days - I honestly thought when I posted that last night, that it was Thursday night :)

[simonlang]

1. Felipe Massa - Scuderia Ferrari

2. Jenson Button - Brawn GP

3. Sebastian Vettel - Redbull

4. Robert Kubica - BMW

5. Rubens Barrichello - Brawn GP

6. Lewis Hamilton - McLaren

7. Fernando Alonso - Renault

8. Kimi Raikkonen - Scuderia Ferrari

brawngp cant win every race. :)

[Mike]

1. Button

2. Trulli

3. Vettel

4. Heidfeld

5. Glock

6. Hamilton

7. Alonso

8. Kubica

[Popcorned1]

1. Jenson Button

2. Jarno Trulli

3. Rubens Barrichello

4. Timo Glock

5. Lewis Hamilton

6. Nick Heidfeld

7. Nico Rosberg

8. Mark Webber

[StealMySoda]

1. Barrichello

2. Massa

3. Glock

4. Rosberg

5. Alonso

6. Hamilton

7. Raikonen

8. Heidfeld

Button will crash :)

[Nicholas-c Veteran]

1: Button

2: Heidfield

3: Massa

4: Hamilton

5: Barrichello

6: Trulli

7: Glock

8: Raikkonen

Don't let me down guys!

[Shibby]

Better hurry, the free practice starts in a bit!

[Nicholas-c Veteran]

Better hurry, the free practice starts in a bit!

Too late now either way :p

[Crazysah]

1: Button

2: Kubica

3: Massa

4: Barrichello

5: Trulli

6: Glock

7: Heidfeld

8: Raikkonen

BTW - Free practice only starts in 11 minutes. I just checked. So this will count.

[Nicholas-c Veteran]

The rules: You have from today, Monday, April 13th until Thursday, April 16th, 23:59 GMT to pick your top 8. All guesses made after the deadline will be discarded.

^^ *cough* :p

[+Frank B. Subscriber²]

Here are the results:

Result of Race 3: China

1. DarkyDan - 8 points
   
2. Mephistopheles - 7 points
   
3. ziadoz - 7 points
   
4. mclaren2 - 6 points
   
5. Mike - 6 points
   
6. Nicholas-c - 6 points
   
7. JoeC - 5 points
   
8. Shibby - 5 points
   
9. HiroProtagonist1984 - 5 points
   
10. Popcorned1 - 5 points
    
11. StealMySoda - 5 points
    
12. Frank Fontaine - 4 points
    
13. Martyn - 4 points
    
14. sundayx - 4 points
    
15. brentaal - 4 points
    
16. OrangesOfCourse - 4 points
    

Crazysah's guess came in after the deadline and was hence discarded.

Cumulative result after race 3:

1. Shibby - 24 points
   
2. Mephistopheles - 22 points
   
3. Martyn - 21 points
   
4. Popcorned1 - 21 points
   
5. sundayx - 17 points
   
6. HiroProtagonist1984 - 15 points
   
7. mclaren2 - 14 points
   
8. OrangesOfCourse - 13 points
   
9. Nicholas-c - 12 points
   
10. brentaal - 11 points
    
11. Frank Fontaine - 9 points
    
12. Fourjays - 9 points
    
13. DarkyDan - 8 points
    
14. ziadoz - 7 points
    
15. Mike - 6 points
    
16. JoeC - 5 points
    
17. StealMySoda - 5 points
    
18. .mcman - 3 points
    
19. sn00pie - 3 points
    
20. Crazysah - 3 points
    

Congratulations go to DarkyDan, winner of this round and to Shibby who's leading the overall standings. Join us again for Guess the Result: Race 4: Bahrain!