To enter, send an email message to f1pp@motorsport.com (or simply reply to this posting), with your predictions for the top 10 of the Drivers' Championship (including the number of wins for each driver), and the top 6 of the Constructors' Championship. Please format the entry as follows (note spaces after the position codes, and the colon separating the number of wins from the driver's name). IF YOU PICK FEWER DRIVERS OR TEAMS OR LESS THAN 16 WINS, YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO SCORE FULL POINTS. Winner picks beyond 16 will be discarded at the director's discretion.
Name: Joe Racefan Scores-To: joe@race.fan.com D1. Gounon: 5 D2. Panis: 4 D3. Martini: 3 D4. Gachot: 2 D5. Zanardi: 1 D6. Simtek: 1 D7. Blundell D8. Verstappen D9. Fittipaldi D10. Katayama C1. Pacific C2. Simtek C3. Ligier C4. Larrousse C5. Jordan C6. Minardi
We will provide WWW access to the scoring reports; stay tuned for details. Scoring summaries will be posted to rec.autos.sport.info after each race.
Points are scored according to a somewhat complex formula: basically, for each right-on pick you score 200-140-100-80-60-50-40-30-20-10 for drivers and 200-120-80-60-40-20 for constructors, with each "off" score being the right-on score divided by (1 + # positions off). Each correctly predicted victory scores 25 points, down from last year's 30. Intermediate standings (posted after every race) will have the Drivers' and Constructors' points pro-rated for the number of races completed so far.
[Note: no points scored by substitute drivers (such as Verstappen and Herbert for Lehto, or Coulthard and Mansell for Senna in 1994, or Blundell for Mansell in 1995), will be added to your primary driver's score for F1PP scoring.]
146 players took part in the 1994 competition, up strongly from the 71 in 1993 and 35 in 1992. Barry Byford claimed the top honours with 1173.2 points, followed by William White and Jim Sankey.
Here are Barry's picks and his scores:
Drivers:
1. [ 1.] Schumacher Wins: 6 [ 8] 200.0 + 180 points
2. [ 2.] Hill 4 [ 6] 145.0 + 120
3. [ 0.] Senna 3 [ 0] 0.0 + 0
4. [ 7.] Brundle 1 [ 0] 22.5 + 0
5. [ 5.] Alesi 1 [ 0] 70.0 + 0
6. [ 3.] Berger 0 [ 1] 13.8 + 0
7. [ 4.] Hakkinen 1 [ 0] 10.0 + 0
8. [23.] Lehto 0 [ 0] 0.0 + 0
9. [ 0.] Herbert 0 [ 0] 0.0 + 0
10. [ 6.] Barrichello 0 [ 0] 2.0 + 0
Total 763.2
1. [ 1.] Williams 200.0 points
2. [ 2.] Benetton 130.0
3. [ 4.] McLaren 40.0
4. [ 3.] Ferrari 30.0
5. [ 0.] Lotus 0.0
6. [ 5.] Jordan 10.0
Total 410.0
TOTAL POINTS: 1173.2
Due to the tragic death of Ayrton Senna at San Marino, the accuracy of all the picks was reduced from 1993, but the top scorers were still uncannily accurate. But the year before Gerard Ashok scored 1472.5 points (adjusted for 1994 scoring scheme)!
Here are the currently known team/driver combinations for 1995:
Arrows-Hart Inoue, Morbidelli
Benetton-Renault Herbert, Schumacher
Corse Forti-Ford Diniz, Moreno
Ferrari Alesi, Berger
Jordan-Peugeot Barrichello, Irvine
Larrousse-Ford Comas, ?
Ligier-Honda Brundle/Suzuki, Panis
McLaren-Mercedes Hakkinen, Mansell
Minardi-Ford Badoer, Martini
Pacific Lotus-Ford Gachot, ?
Sauber-Ford Frentzen, Wendlinger
Simtek-Ford Noda/Schiattarella, Verstappen
Tyrrell-Yamaha Katayama, Salo
Williams-Renault Coulthard, Hill
Picks are due in the f1pp@motorsport.com mailbox by 12:01 am EST on 24 March 1994, the first day of practice for the 1995 season, at the Brazilian GP. If you submit two entries, the later one will be used. Any incomplete entries will have the remaining drivers and/or teams arbitrarily assigned by the administrator.