Congratulations to 2022 world champion BTCC frog on winning the opening round of the longest ever predictions contest season. Running him close was rookie elianne, on what was a stunning debut.
Bahrain Grand Prix Predictions Contest Results and championship standings after Round 1 of 24
1. BTCC frog - 125
2. elianne - 120
3. Born Racer - 113
4. Gnussi - 112
5. Beau2 - 109
6. smellysocks - 106
7. steve_r - 102
8. TrapezeArtist -93
9. wolfhound - 92
10. Notso Swift - 91
11. Teretonga - 76
12. crmalcolm - 74
13. Aysedasi - 64
14. TCT - 46
What happened in Bahrain
Note that all percentages below are to two decimal points.
The person who had the most drivers in the top 10 was TrapezeArtist, who managed to get them all.
crmalcolm and TCT had the fewest drivers in the top 10 - 7 each, which was still creditable.
The person who had the most drivers in their correct finishing positions was elianne, with a brilliant 5/10 (the entire podium - Verstappen, Pérez and Sainz - and Piastri in 8th and Stroll in 10th).
The person with the fewest was TCT - who didn't get any.
The most predicted top 10 driver who didn't finish in the top 10 was Ricciardo - with 9/14 (or 64.29% picking him).
The least predicted top 10 driver who did finish in the top 10 was Stroll - with 2 (14.29% - elianne and TrapezeArtist) picking him, both in his correct finishing position of 10th, incidentally.
smellysocks was the only person who got all top 3 in qualifying right.
Fastest lap: 11/14 or 78.57% got this right.
Fastest pit stop: 1 (crmalcolm) or 7.14% got this right.
Weather: 100% got this right.
formula1.com Driver of the Day: 1 (smellysocks) or 7.14% got this right.
Driver of the Grand Prix: 3 or 21.43% got this right.
Team of the Grand Prix: 6 or 42.89% got this right.
Rate the Grand Prix: No-one got this right. Incidentally, no-one predicted a score lower than a 6.
Number of finishers: Just BTCC frog and I (14.29%) got this right.
Number of pit stops: 100% got this right (nonetheless the points available for this will change in future - please see the bottom of this post).
Number of safety cars or virtual safety cars deployed: Only BTCC frog (7.14%) got this right.
Number of penalties given: No-one got this right.
Bahrain Grand Prix Results
1. Verstappen
2. Pérez
3. Sainz
4. Leclerc
5. Russell
6. Norris
7. Hamilton
8. Piastri
9. Alonso
10. Stroll
Qualifying
1. Verstappen
2. Leclerc
3. Russell
Fastest lap: Red Bull
Fastest pit stop: Ferrari
Weather: Dry
formula1.com Driver of the Day:Sainz
Driver of the Grand Prix: Sainz
Team of the Grand Prix: Red Bull
Rate the Grand Prix: 4 (mode and mean, rounded down from 4.12503226).
Number of finishers: 20
Number of pit stops: 2
Number of safety cars or virtual safety cars deployed: 0
Number of penalties given: 0
Bahrain Grand Prix Predictions Contest Results and championship standings after Round 1 of 24
1. BTCC frog - 125
2. elianne - 120
3. Born Racer - 113
4. Gnussi - 112
5. Beau2 - 109
6. smellysocks - 106
7. steve_r - 102
8. TrapezeArtist -93
9. wolfhound - 92
10. Notso Swift - 91
11. Teretonga - 76
12. crmalcolm - 74
13. Aysedasi - 64
14. TCT - 46
Note
Please also note that following Round 1, I decided to make the number of points available for the correct number of pit stops 3 instead of 2. This was just an oversight on my part that it wasn't 3 in the first place, I think. It aligns better with other scores and think it is a worthy amount for this prediction, which requires a bit of thought put into the strategy.
Predictions for Jeddah are now open:
https://tentenths.com/forum/showthre...01#post4200301