After this weekend's near wash out in Japan, it's time to revisit the rules. We need a rule 11 to account for the potential doomsday scenario of a delayed or cancelled Qualification session. What are the other rules? Let's review:
Therefore Rule 11 should read (as we have already practiced):THE GTP RULES (In effect since 2017)
1. Your guess must be entered in a 1:23.456 format (please use all 3 decimal places). This is not so much as a rule as the fact you will get an error if you don't put in a time to 3 decimal places.
2. You can change your time guess as many times as you wish prior to the start of the first free practice time.
3. You can not edit your time after the deadline as the system will not allow the change.
4. Points payout CHANGED IN 2017 and is:
1st = 10 Points (with a +10 point bonus for exact guess to the thousandths place for a total of 20 points)
2nd = 6 Points
3rd = 4 Points
4th = 3 Points
5th = 2 Points
6th = 1 Point
5. Any duplicate time guesses will score that place to the first person who guessed it. The second person will finish one place down, etc...
(Example: If 3 people guess the winning time the same, the first place goes to the person with the earliest guess time, 2nd goes to the next guess time and third goes to the last. The next slowest unique time will score 4th place.)
6. If you edit your time and end up with a duplicate, the last time you entered a guess will be counted as your guess time used in rule 4 (regardless if you changed back to an earlier guess).
7. The Accuracy standings are calculated based on how far your guess is from the actual pole time. Your total accuracy is a sum of all your guess differentials for the season. Often the Point Champ is different from the Accuracy Champ.
8. In order to be considered for the Accuracy standings, you must enter a guess for each round. If you miss a round, the accuracy total can not be calculated. (Often there are only a handful in the running at the end of the year.)
9. The deadline for guess entries is always the start of First Practice. Friday's for most rounds. Thursday for Monaco. Please note that many of the Asia/Pacific races have deadlines late Thurs night or VERY early Friday morning relative to Europe and North America.
10. Please PM me if you do not have a username and password and want to join the game.
Here's where your input counts! Do we want to cancel GTP for that week? Do we allow FP2 or FP3 to count for the fastest times if the FIA use them to set the grid? Please use the voting buttons above.11. If an official qualification session is delayed or rescheduled (Sunday), GTP will use the results of the official qualification session no matter when it is run. If the session is run short, GTP will use the final session of the official qualifying time used to set the grid (example: they only run Q1). However, if the session is cancelled and not rescheduled... (see voting options)
A: Use whatever timed session the FIA sanctions as the time used to set the grid.
B: Cancel GTP for the week/round if no official qualification (Q1, Q2, etc..) session is run.
Of course, it will be cancelled if no timed sessions are run either Friday, Saturday, or Sunday as there would be no way to get a timing order. I realize that having zero timed sessions leading up to a race is slim to none, but it could be possible.
Share your thoughts in the comments!
2019 GTP Accuracy Champion 
