jameshans92: Clear win for Ionutf1fanatic in Predictions Championship

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No-one matched Ionutf1fanatic’s score in the German Grand Prix round of the Predictions Championship.

Their winning haul of 19 points earns them an eBook of the 1973 Autocourse annual.

Three players tied for second place on 17 points, but the wet qualifying session meant the pole position time time-breaker wasn’t quite as close as usual.

Journeyer claimed the second-place prize of a Grand Prix Heroes DVD on the pole position time tie-breaker ahead of Czhihong, who wins an F1 poster from PJ Tierney. Mateuss also tied on 17 points.

Chrissylyn retains a 16-point lead in the championship standings with a total of 92 so far. But with ten races left to go there is still a maximum of 500 points to be won.

Fernando Alonso was the narrow favourite to win with 30.3% of players picking the Ferrari driver – just three more than those who went for Sebastian Vettel. Vettel was the favourite to take pole position, picked by nearly 40% of players.

See the updated points standings in full here:

Updated Predictions Championship standings

Here are the five highest-scoring predictions for the last race:

F1 Fanatic Predictions Championship 2012 - Germany

Player	Pole Time	Pole	1.	2.	3.	4.	5.	Points
Ionutf1fanatic	01:19.573	HAM	ALO	HAM	RAI	BUT	VET	19
Journeyer	01:25.432	VET	ALO	BUT	ROS	HAM	VET	17
mateuss	01:14.666	HAM	ALO	HAM	RAI	PER	VET	17
czhihong	01:20.888	HAM	ALO	HAM	RAI	WEB	VET	17
Metallion	01:16.000	ALO	ALO	HAM	RAI	VET	BUT	13

Remember you can make your predictions for all the remaining rounds of the season below and edit them whenever you like up until the start of each qualifying session.

2012 F1 Fanatic Predictions Championship overall prizes

Grand prize: Two grandstands tickets to the 2013 British Grand Prix

The person who scores the most points over the whole season will win two grandstand tickets to the 2013 British Grand Prix at Silverstone.

The grand prize winner will receive tickets to all three days of the event with reserved seating for the race.

Buy British Grand Prix tickets via the Silverstone website or call the ticket hotline on 0844 3728 300

Second place prize: An F1 painting of your choice

The second place finisher will win a Formula 1 painting by Rob Ijbema.

You get to choose which F1 driver, present or past, will feature in the painting.

Or you can pick one of the other motor racing paintings on Rob’s site:

Car-a-day

Runner-up prize: Racecar Engineering subscriptions

The five players with the next highest scores (positions three to seven) will each win a year’s subscription to Racecar Engineering magazine.

Racecar Engineering is the world’s leading motorsport technology magazine. Every issue is packed with in-depth features, interviews and analysis from Formula One, Le Mans and all forms racing and rallying.

Exclusive offer: save up to £33 when you subscribe to Racecar Engineering

Runner-up prize: Autocourse calendars

The five players with the next highest scores (positions eight to 12) will each win a 2013 Autocourse calendar.

The Autocourse Grand Prix calendar contains images taken during the season of all the major players competing in the Formula One World Championship.

The images are high resolution and taken by one of the world’s leading Grand Prix photographers, the calendar is printed on art quality paper and comes with a stiffened backing board and shrink wrapped for protection.

Autocourse Grand Prix calendar

More prizes to be announced

Further prizes will be announced during the season.

2012 F1 Fanatic Predictions Championship race prizes

Race winner’s prize: Autocourse eBooks

The highest scorer in each race will win an Autocourse eBook. The 1971 edition will be the first prize up for grabs, and later players will have the chance to win 1972 to 1976 editions.

The Autocourse eBooks are faithful reproductions of the original annuals in digital form. The colour, clarity of images and text have been improved to modern standards, but the content remains in original format.

Autocourse has become the definitive record of Formula One racing the world over and early editions are collector’s items, which regularly trade for hundreds of pounds.

The 1971 Autocourse eBook is available from www.autocourse.com for £19.99 with free postage/packing to UK customers.

First runner-up prize: Grand Prix Heroes DVD

The second-placed player in each race will win their choice of one of Duke Video’s new Grand Prix Heroes DVDs (pictured top).

Videos are available on such famous F1 figures as Niki Lauda, James Hunt, Mika Hakkinen, Jackie Stewart, Mario Andretti, Emerson Fittipaldi, Jody Scheckter, Ronnie Peterson, Peter Revson and Frank Williams.

Duke Video

Second runner-up prize: F1 posters by PJ Tierney

PJ Tierney F1 posters The third-placed player in each race will win one of PJ Tierney’s excellent unofficial Formula 1 posters.

You can view PJ’s posters along with his other work on his website:

PJ Tierney

How to enter

To enter, predict the pole sitter and the top five finishers in the race. You can also enter a prediction for the pole position lap time – this may be used as a tie-breaker.

Enter your pole position lap time prediction as follows: MM:SS.ccc

For example, for a lap of one minute, 23.456 seconds you would enter 01:23.456

You need to log in using an F1 Fanatic account to make your prediction.

If you haven’t got one yet the sign-up process is quick, simple and entirely free: sign up here now.

After entering your prediction, you will receive an email confirming your entry. If this does not happen, or you are concerned your prediction has not been received, please get in touch using the contact form.