The wait is over! It's the first race of the year, and also round 1 of our race-by-race mini-predicition competition.
For clarification of how it works, and the scoring, please see here.

For this race we'd like you to predict:

1- Pole Position (driver)
2- Race Victory (driver)
3- Slowest time in qualifying (driver)
4- Which constructor will finish the race in 7th place.
5- Will ANY car from the 3 new teams (Virgin/Lotus/HRT) finish the race? (Yes/No)

Tie Breaker :
Predict the Pole Position time (to 3 decimal places, just like the real timing)

Entries close at midnight, Thursday 11th March

All results will be taken from the official FIA classification, and if there are any changes due to appeals etc, the results of the competition will be adjusted to take these into account

Please submit your answers by replying to this thread, and Good Luck everyone!

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Edit : Here are the results of the prediction competition for Bahrain:

Two people each got 3 questions correct : Aerodynamics and Startledbunny, who both got Q2, Q3 and Q5 correct.
Startledbunny won the tiebreaker though, so wins this round of the competition.
Congratulations and 3 points to Startledbunny.

Aerodynamics is our runner up, scoring 2 points.

6 people got 2 questions correct - Saltire, Str8y, Maverick, Pitmonster, StevenRoy and PatW.
Closest of these on the tiebreaker was StevenRoy, who therefore gets the final point for 3rd place.

Sadly Spenny didn't get any of the questions right, while Saltire has the record for being furthest out on the tie-breaker: 22 seconds.

Here's how we all did:


Thanks everyone for taking part, and look out for the next round in about a week or so.

Here goes with the first 5 questions. I'll do the tie-breaker after I've seen what last years pole time was.

1- Pole Position (driver) - Alonso
2- Race Victory (driver) - Alonso
3- Slowest time in qualifying (driver)- is this just a name? Di Grassi
4- Which constructor will finish the race in 7th place. Renault
5- Will ANY car from the 3 new teams (Virgin/Lotus/HRT) finish the race? - yes, do I have to say who?

Pole last year was Jarno Trulli, 1:33.431 however that was on race-starting fuel levels.
Fastest time in all of the qualifying sessions was Vettel in Q2 with 1:32.474.
How will that be affected by the technical changes for 2010?

1- Pole Position (driver) Vettel
2- Race Victory (driver) Vettel
3- Slowest time in qualifying (driver) DiGrassi
4- Which constructor will finish the race in 7th place. Mercedes
5- Will ANY car from the 3 new teams (Virgin/Lotus/HRT) finish the race? (Yes/No) Yes

Tie Breaker :
Predict the Pole Position time
1m39.222

1- Pole Position (driver) Alonso
2- Race Victory (driver) Vettel
3- Slowest time in qualifying (driver) Kovalinen
4- Which constructor will finish the race in 7th place. Sauber
5- Will ANY car from the 3 new teams (Virgin/Lotus/HRT) finish the race? (Yes/No) Yes

Tie Breaker :
Predict the Pole Position time (to 3 decimal places, just like the real timing)
1m 32.874 sec

Oh crap no Pole position is 1m 31.874 sec!!! I hate mornings

1- Pole Position (driver) Massa
2- Race Victory (driver) Button
3- Slowest time in qualifying (driver) Senna
4- Which constructor will finish the race in 7th place. Williams
5- Will ANY car from the 3 new teams (Virgin/Lotus/HRT) finish the race? (Yes/No) Yes

Tie Breaker :
Predict the Pole Position time (to 3 decimal places, just like the real timing) 1m 34.826

Pole time 1:32.072

Hi Pitmonster, can we have another prediction question?

6- How many laps will the winner put on the slowest runner?

I'm keeping the mini quiz at 5 questions but will definitely use that one in a future race, thanks for the suggestion

Pole Position: Fernando Alonso
Race Winner: Lewis Hamilton
Slowest Qualifier: Karun Chandhok
Constructor in 7th: Mercedes
New team finisher: Yes

Pole time: 1:42.431

Pole Position: Lewis Hamilton
Race Winner: Jenson Button
Slowest Qualifier: Lucas DiGrassi (HRT will not complete a successful qualifying lap)
Constructor in 7th: Toro Rosso
New team finisher: No

Pole time: 1:32.631

1- Pole Position: Rosberg
2- Race Victory: Alonso
3- Slowest time in qualifying: Chandok
4- Which constructor will finish the race in 7th place: BMW
5- Will ANY car from the 3 new teams (Virgin/Lotus/HRT) finish the race? Yes

Tie Breaker, Predict the Pole Position time: 1m 35.796

1- Pole Position - Alonso
2- Race Victory - Hamilton
3- Slowest time in qualifying - Chandhok
4- Which constructor will finish the race in 7th place - Williams
5- Will ANY car from the 3 new teams (Virgin/Lotus/HRT) finish the race? - Yes

Tie Breaker :
Predict the Pole Position time - 1:34.123

1- Pole Position (Alonso)
2- Race Victory (Alonso)
3- Slowest time in qualifying (Chandhok)
4- Which constructor will finish the race in 7th place. (Williams)
5- Will ANY car from the 3 new teams (Virgin/Lotus/HRT) finish the race? (Yes)

Tie Breaker, Predict the Pole Position time:1m 43.753

Sorry I want to change my pole time:

1m 37.965 sec

Thanks I will stick to this one