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Guess the Pole - Great Britain (Round 10) RULES UPDATE! [+Results]

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Sprint Races don't count for pole times!!! Repeat that over and over to yourself until it sinks in.

I just realized there is no rule around the winning time (it's more unsaid and understood by all), so I plan to make a a new Rule just before the "Rule 11" we voted on in 2019 (and I forgot to publish with this years rule set):
The wise sage of GTP wrote: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, GTP will use whatever official timed session the FIA uses to set the grid (example: FP2)
See below for the updated rules with 2 new rules added in places 11 and 13.

THE GTP RULES (Updated 2021)
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 from the database if you don't put in a time to 3 decimal places. You will also get an error if you misplace the colon and period in the time entry and your time will not be officially recorded.
2. You can change your time guess as many times as you wish prior to the cutoff time (start of the first free practice).
3. You can not edit your time after the deadline as the system will not allow the change.
4. Points payout uses the older F1 points format and consists of:
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 entered it into the database. 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.
11. The winning time will be taken from the official qualifying session used to set the grid for the first race. This means that if a sprint race is called, the qualification session used to set the grid for the sprint race will count as the pole time and the winning GTP time.
12. If an official qualification session is delayed or rescheduled (Saturday or Sunday), GTP will use the results of the official qualification session no matter when it is run (Friday, Saturday, or Sunday). If the session is red flagged, scrubbed, or cut 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, GTP will use whatever official timed session the FIA uses to set the grid (example: FP1, FP2, etc...).
13. In the case that during a race weekend, no timed session is used to set the grid (example: cars are placed in WDC points order), then the round of GTP will be null and void and no winner will be declared.

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Ok enough about the rules! Let's keep a stiff upper lip and carry on!

Ah, the British Grand Prix at Silverstone. The heart of the action where you can get a nice cuppa tea, a scone, and a chipping buddy whilst you watch the cars go 'round in living colour.
It's always been a good race and traditionally, it's always been the stormy season wherever I've lived and sure enough the power goes out and my DVR misses the whole damn thing while I'm out of town on some family holiday (followed by anger and cursing). Anyway,... the new track addition seems to have added a bit despite me not liking it very much. So it still manages to be a good race. Hopefully we will see a real fight for the lead instead of car dominance. And I think I've said enough...

Get your guesses in prior to the deadline!
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Round 9 - Formula 1 Pirelli British Grand Prix 2021, Silverstone Circuit, England - 16-18 July

Track Length: 5.891 Km (3.661 Miles)
Race Laps: 52 (306.227 Km)

2020 Pole time: Lewis Hamilton (Mercedes) 1:24.303

The deadline for entries is before the start of Friday First Free Practice (Friday 13:30 GMT / 14:30 BST) Yes FP1 is late and the Qualification session starts at 18:00 BST!!

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ENTER YOUR GUESS HERE: http://www.disturbthe.com/GTP/guess.php
(Send me a note if you need to register for the first time)

Other Links of Interest:
You can go to the following link to access the view users GTP guesses page:
http://www.disturbthe.com/GTP/allguesses.php

Official F1 Site
Silverstone Weather Forecast

Best of luck to you all!!
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I'm in and with the correct format this time ;)
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Okay, they seem to be _very_ slow.
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Star wrote: 2 years ago I'm in and with the correct format this time ;)
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Congrats @Star !!
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Thanks guys, that could be beginners luck of course ;)
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Still no point.
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This weeks winner is Star with a time 0.141 seconds away from Lewis Hamilton's FRIDAY Qualifying time of 1:26.134. Great job winning the round in only your second try Star!

The full results:

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Pts	Error	Guess	Player
10	00.141	1:26.275	Star
6	01.134	1:25.000	Picci
4	01.141	1:24.993	Minardi
3	01.213	1:24.921	MonteCristo
2	01.364	1:24.770	Mikosyko
1	01.468	1:24.666	John
0	01.546	1:24.588	Megallos
0	01.579	1:24.555	Mawerick
0	01.884	1:24.250	xcraigx
0	02.135	1:23.999	TomDA
0	02.678	1:23.456	ErwinGreven
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In the Accuracy Championship, Mawerick maintains his lead despite not scoring this week.

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Accuracy	Player
05.948	Mawerick
06.353	Picci
06.455	MonteCristo
08.000	John
08.860	xcraigx
21.061	Mikosyko
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In the Points Championship, Mawerick also maintains the lead, but Mikosyko gained a couple on him this week.

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Pts	Player
43	Mawerick
40	Mikosyko
38	Picci
30	MonteCristo
27	John
25	xcraigx
17	Megallos
14	Minardi
10	Star
8	Antonov
7	TomDA
1	FedBet57
0	ErwinGreven
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XcraigX wrote: 2 years ago This weeks winner is Star with a time 0.141 seconds away from Lewis Hamilton's FRIDAY Qualifying time of 1:26.134. Great job winning the round in only your second try Star!

The full results:

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Pts	Error	Guess	Player
10	00.141	1:26.275	Star
6	01.134	1:25.000	Picci
4	01.141	1:24.993	Minardi
3	01.213	1:24.921	MonteCristo
2	01.364	1:24.770	Mikosyko
1	01.468	1:24.666	John
0	01.546	1:24.588	Megallos
0	01.579	1:24.555	Mawerick
0	01.884	1:24.250	xcraigx
0	02.135	1:23.999	TomDA
0	02.678	1:23.456	ErwinGreven
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Congratulations @Mawerick :thumbsup: :bow:

For my win, I'd like to thank..... kidding ;)
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