NOTE:  I will be on holiday during the last week of June and the first 2
weeks of July.  I will check my electronic mail periodically, but during
this time the processing of picks will not be as prompt as it usually is.


Picks for the Grand Prix of France are due by midnight Wednesday 29 June
U.S. Eastern Daylight time (Thursday 30 June 4:00:00 AM Universal Time/GMT).

Here's how to participate in F1 Pick6:

1) Before each race, decide which drivers you think will finish in the 1st to
   6th spots in the race.

2) Send a mail message with your picks to the following address:

        winalski@adserv.enet.dec.com

   or, if you have access to the World-Wide Web, you can submit your picks
   using the automated form whose URL is:

        http://essi.essi.fr/Pick6/pick6

   The advantage of using the automated form is that it takes care of
   formatting and sending the mail message for you.

3) Here is the format for a Pick6 entry.  I process the entries automatically
   using a program, so please try to adhere to the format below.  While I
   don't mind doing a small amount of editing of the picks, running this
   competition isn't my full-time job.  I therefore reserve the right to
   reject picks that are not in the proper format.

   a) Your mail message should say Pick6 in the Subject: field.

   b) The body of the message must contain a line with "Player:" followed by
      your name.

   c) The body of the message should contain a line with "ReplyTo:" followed
      by your Internet Email address.  This line is optional, but it helps
      the processing programs to correctly send you a reply acknowledging your
      picks.  Use your COMPLETE Internet mail address.

   d) The body of the message should contain a line with "Race:" followed by
      the *country* (NOT the track or the city) whose GP the pick is for.
      This line is optional, but it helps assure that I register the pick for
      the correct race.  Here are the race names the program recognizes:

	Brazil		Pacific		San Marino	Monaco
	Spain		Canada		France		Great Britain
	Germany		Hungary		Belgium		Italy
	Portugal	Europe		Japan		Australia

   e) The body of the message must contain your picks, one per line, in order
      from first to sixth place.  Each pick is a position number followed by
      the last name of a driver.  Please be careful and try to spell the
      driver's names correctly (Schumacher caused a lot of trouble last year).
      The last names that the program recognizes are these (more will be
      added later if necessary):

      Benetton:  Lehto, Schumacher	 Ferrari:  Alesi, Berger
      Footwork:  Fittipaldi, Morbidelli	 Jordan:   Barrichello, Irvine
      Larrousse: Beretta, Comas		 Ligier:   Bernard, Panis
      Lotus:     Herbert, Zanardi	 McLaren:  Brundle, Hakkinen
      Minardi:   Alboreto, Martini	 Pacific:  Belmondo, Gachot
      Sauber:    DeCesaris, Frentzen	 Simtek:   Brabham, Montermini
      Tyrrell:   Blundell, Katayama	 Williams: Coulthard, Hill

   f) Everything is case-insensitive.  Comment lines start with a '#'
      character.  Everything from the '#' to the end of the line is ignored.

   g) Even if you don't include a Race: line, please indicate somewhere, either
      in the subject line or a comment, which race your pick is for.  That helps
      me assign the picks to the correct race when there are two races a week
      apart (e.g., France and Great Britain).

   h) Picks must be unconditional:  things like "I pick Mansell for first
      unless he isn't racing in which case I pick Prost" are not allowed.

   i) You can't pick a driver for more than one position in a single pick.

   Here is an example Pick6 entry:

	Subject: Pick6

	#
	# Here are my picks for the GP of Brazil
	#

	Race: Brazil
	Player: J. M. Balestre
	ReplyTo: napoleon@ffsa.fia.org

	1. Comas
	2. Alesi
	3. Prost
	4. Suzuki
	5. Andretti
	6. Mansell

4) Picks are due by Midnight U.S. Eastern time zone time of the Wednesday
   preceding the race.  This is Thursday 05:00:00 Universal Time/GMT.  We
   choose this time so that those who have access to early practice and
   qualifying information won't have an unfair advantage over those who don't.
   To make it absolutely unambiguous exactly when a pick is received, I go by
   the time at which it is delivered to my electronic mailbox.  Picks arriving
   after this time may be allowed or disallowed at the discretion of the
   organizer (Paul Winalski).  You may send in picks as far in advance of a
   race as you wish, and you may change your pick as many times as you wish,
   up to the deadline.  The last pick received and allowed will be the one
   that is used.

   If you fail to send in a pick for a race, or if your pick arrives too late
   to be counted, your pick for the last race will be used again, but it will
   only be carried over once (e.g., if you fail to enter a pick for race #3,
   race #2's pick will be used, but if you fail to enter again, race #2's
   pick will not be use dfor race #4).

5) Players score points for each race based on how well their picks match
   the actual race results.  For each driver that you picked, you score points
   based on where the driver finished versus where you predicted he'd finish:

	didn't finish in the top 6			 0 points

	finished exactly where predicted		10 points
	finished 1 place off from where predicted	 6 points
	finished 2 places off from where predicted	 4 points
	finished 3 places off from where predicted	 3 points
	finished 4 places off from where predicted	 2 points
	finished 5 places off from where predicted	 1 point

   Your total score for a race is the sum of the points scored for each
   driver in your pick.

   For example, if you picked Prost to come in 3rd and he did finish 3rd,
   you'd score 10 points, but if he finished 5th, you'd score 4 points.

6) The F1 Pick6 Champion will be the player who scores the most total points
   over the season.  All 16 Grands Prix will count towards the total.