2022 British Grand Prix - Predicament Predictions!

[Rob Dylan]

Super happy Tuesday everyone, because it's time to open up the latest Predicament Predictions round for Silverstone! With the holidays coming up soon it will give me some time to catch up on these threads and start counting up the scores. But in the meantime, we're in the UK for the tenth round of the season. If Hamilton doesn't win here he extends his longest winless streak - are you going to bet against that happening?

As always, here is your blank slate. The cut-off before penalties are applied is the end of FP3 (because there's no sprint race apparently?). If you have any questions about the rules, just message me or check out the Bahrain thread from round 1 of this year's competition.


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Pole:
Fastest lap:
First retirement:
Reject of the Race:
Infinite Improbability Drive of the Race:
Deadbeat Teammate of the Race:
Last Place:
How Far Back:




I predict a British driver will win in Silverstone, but that it will be George.

1. George Russell
2. Max Verstappen
3. Charles Leclerc
4. Lewis Hamilton
5. Fernando Alonso
6. Lance Stroll
7. Lando Norris
8. Sergio Perez
9. Daniel Ricciardo
10. Guanyu Zhou

Pole: Max Verstappen
Fastest lap: Max Verstappen
First retirement: Valtteri Bottas (blow-up)
Reject of the Race: Pierre Gasly (he sits last almost all race and gets a blue flag ignoring penalty)
Infinite Improbability Drive of the Race: Pirelli punctures causing chaos
Deadbeat Teammate of the Race: Carlos Sainz Jr.
Last Place: Nicholas Latifi
How Far Back: 2 laps

Good luck everyone

[rachel1990]

2022 overhyped and yet the same result again gp


1. Max Verstappen
2. Sergio Perez
3. Carlos Sainz
4. Danny Ric
5. Lewis Hamilton
6. K-Mag
7. Pierre Gasly
8. Lance Stroll
9. Fernando Alonso
10. Lando Norris

Pole: Max Verstappen
Fastest lap: Max Verstappen
First retirement: Charles Leclerc
Reject of the Race: Leclerc's engine. Again
Infinite Improbability Drive of the Race: Danny Ric
Deadbeat Teammate of the Race: Mick Schumacher
Last Place: Latifi
How Far Back 2 laps

[Fetzie]

Silverstone innit?

1. Verstappen
2. Hamilton
3. Russell
4. Perez
5. Leclerc
6. Norris
7. Alonso
8. Gasly
9. Sainz
10. Magnussen

Pole: Verstappen
Fastest lap: Perez
First retirement: Latifi
Reject of the Race: Sky F1 Hamilton Love-Ins
Infinite Improbability Drive of the Race: Russell
Deadbeat Teammate of the Race: Ricciardo
Last Place: Stroll
How Far Back: +2

[Alextrax52]

2022 Revenge of Max Verstappen GP

1: Verstappen
2: Leclerc
3: Sainz
4: Hamilton
5: Perez
6: Russell
7: Norris
8: Alonso
9: Bottas
10: Ocon

Pole: Verstappen
Fastest Lap: Verstappen
First Retirement: Vettel
ROTR: Aston Martin
IIDOTR: Hamilton by beating Perez on merit
DBTMOTR: Latifi
Last place: Latifi
How far back: 1 lap

[Bleu]

Lewisteria Fail Grand Prix

1. Verstappen
2. Leclerc
3. Russell
4. Sainz
5. Norris
6. Bottas
7. Alonso
8. Ocon
9. Gasly
10. Zhou

Pole: Leclerc
Fastest lap: Sainz
First retirement: Hamilton
Reject of the Race: Perez
Infinite Improbability Drive of the Race: Norris
Deadbeat Teammate of the Race: Hamilton
Last Place: Latifi
How Far Back: 1 lap

[Klon]

2022 Ferrari Lives? Grand Prix

1. Leclerc
2. Sainz
3. Verstappen
4. Hamilton
5. Pérez
6. Russell
7. Ricciardo
8. Alonso
9. Bottas
10. Vettel

Pole: Leclerc
Fastest lap: Verstappen
First retirement: Ocon
Reject of the Race: AlphaTauri
Infinite Improbability Drive of the Race: Ricciardo
Deadbeat Teammate of the Race: Norris
Last Place: Latifi
How Far Back: 2

[IceG]

2022 British F1 Grand Prix

1. Sainz
2. Russell
3. Norris
4. Hamilton
5. Pérez
6. Alonso
7. Ricciardo
8. Bottas
9. Vettel
10. Schumacher

Pole: Leclerc
Fastest lap: Verstappen
First retirement: Ocon
Reject of the Race: Verstappen
Infinite Improbability Drive of the Race: Schumacher
Deadbeat Teammate of the Race: Stroll
Last Place: Latifi
How Far Back: 2

[mario]

1. Verstappen
2. Leclerc
3. Perez
4. Sainz
5. Hamilton
6. Russell
7. Alonso
8. Vettel
9. Norris
10. Bottas

Pole: Verstappen
Fastest lap: Perez
First retirement: Schumacher
Reject of the Race: Alpha Tauri
Infinite Improbability Drive of the Race: Alonso
Deadbeat Teammate of the Race: Stroll
Last Place: Latifi
How Far Back: 2 laps

[RAK]

2022 Revenge of Cornelius Horan Grand Prix

1) Verstappen
2) Leclerc
3) Sainz
4) Hamilton
5) Perez
6) Russell
7) Alonso
8) Norris
9) Bottas
10) Ricciardo

Pole: Leclerc
Fastest Lap: Verstappen
First Retirement: Stroll
ROTR: Alpha Tauri
IIDOTR: Albon
DBTMOTR: Ocon
LP: Latifi
HFB: 2 laps

[Enforcer]

2022 Let's overhype Merc in Practice *again* Grand Prix

1. Leclerc
2. Verstappen
3. Sainz
4. Hamilton
5. Perez
6. Russell
7. Norris
8. Ricciardo
9. Alonso
10. Vettel

Pole: Leclerc
Fastest lap: Perez
First Retirement: Schumacher
ROTR: The Protestors
IIDOTR: Norris
DBTMOTR: Latifi
LP: Latifi
HFB: 2 laps

[CarloSpace]

1. Leclerc
2. Sainz Jr
3. Verstappen
4. Hamilton
5. Russell
6. Norris
7. Ocon
8. Ricciardo
9. Bottas
10. Tsunoda

Pole: Leclerc
Fastest lap: Verstappen
First retirement: Stroll
Reject of the Race: Pérez
Infinite Improbability Drive of the Race: Norris
Deadbeat Teammate of the Race: Zhou
Last Place: Latifi
How Far Back: 1 lap

DOUBLE POINTS

[Aerond]

We race as one publicocrap GP 2022

1. Sainz
2. Hamilton
3. Leclerc
4. Verstappen
5. Norris
6. Alonso
7. Russell
8. Perez
9. Vettel
10. Ricciardo

Pole: Sainz
Fastest lap: Verstappen
First retirement: Zhou
Reject of the Race: Ocon
Infinite Improbability Drive of the Race: Norris
Deadbeat Teammate of the Race: Ocon
Last Place: Latifi
How Far Back: 1 lap

[Batty]

1. Max Verstappen
2. Charles Leclerc
3. Sergio Perez
4. Lewis Hamilton
5. Carlos Sainz
6. George Russell
7. Valtteri Bottas
8. Fernando Alonso
9. Sebastian Vettel
10. Lance Stroll

Pole: Charles Leclerc
Fastest lap: Max Verstappen
First retirement: Kevin Magnussen
Reject of the Race: McLaren
Infinite Improbability Drive of the Race: Williams
Deadbeat Teammate of the Race: Pierre Gasly
Last Place: Mick Schumacher
How Far Back: 1

[Hermann95]

1) Verstappen
2) Leclerc
3) Sainz
4) Perez
5) Hamilton
6) Russell
7) Alonso
8) Norris
9) Albon
10) Vettel

Pole: Verstappen
Fastest Lap: Verstappen
First Retirement: Stroll
ROTR: Haas
IIDOTR: Albon
DBTMOTR: Ocon
LP: Latifi
HFB: 1 laps

[yannicksamlad]

The 2022 Tyre Temperature GP of GB

1. Max Verstappen
2. Sergio Perez
3. Charles Leclerc
4. Lewis Hamilton
5. George Russell
6. Lando Norris
7. Fernando Alonso
8. Esteban Ocon
9. Lance Stroll
10. Valtteri Bottas

Pole: Charles Leclerc
Fastest lap: Max Verstappen
First retirement: Mick Schumacher
Reject of the Race: Daniel Ricciardo
Infinite Improbability Drive of the Race: Lance Stroll
Deadbeat Teammate of the Race: Daniel Ricciardo
Last Place: Alex Albon
How Far Back: 2 laps

[dr-baker]

2022 UK(rainian) Grand Prix

1. Verstappen
2. Leclerc
3. Russell
4. Hamilton
5. Sainz
6. Perez
7. Norris
8. Ocon
9. Alonso
10. Gasly

Pole: Verstappen
Fastest lap: Perez
First retirement: Jo Guanhu
Reject of the Race: Verstappen
Infinite Improbability Drive of the Race: Mercedes
Deadbeat Teammate of the Race: Latifi
Last Place: Latifi
How Far Back: 1 lap

[Londoner]

2022 Empire Grand Prix

1. Verstappen
2. Leclerc
3. Sainz
4. Perez
5. Russell
6. Bottas
7. Hamilton
8. Norris
9. Ocon
10. Alonso

Pole: Verstappen
Fastest lap: Verstappen
First retirement: Schumacher
ROTR: Haas
IIDOTR: Logan Sargeant
DBTMOTR: Zhou
Last place: Latifi
How far back: 1 lap

Double points please

[tommykl]

2022 This Is Going To Cause Huge Traffic Jams Around Town Grand Prix

1. Leclerc
2. Verstappen
3. Sainz
4. Pérez
5. Russell
6. Hamilton
7. Norris
8. Bottas
9. Ocon
10. Zhou

Pole: Leclerc
Fastest lap: Verstappen
First retirement: Schumacher
ROTR: Alonso
IIDOTR: Ferrari
DBTMOTR: Ricciardo
Last place: Latifi
How far back: 2 laps

[pi314159]

1. Verstappen
2. Leclerc
3. Hamilton
4. Perez
5. Russell
6. Sainz
7. Bottas
8. Norris
9. Alonso
10. Vettel

Pole: Verstappen
Fastest lap: Russell
First retirement: Schumacher
Reject of the Race: Alpha Tauri
Infinite Improbability Drive of the Race: Vettel
Deadbeat Teammate of the Race: Latifi
Last Place: Latifi
How Far Back: 2 Laps

[Rob Dylan]

And the results are in! Two of you correctly predicted the winner, and another two predicted ROTR, but for the rest of it, it was free for all. A bunch of strange outcomes in almost all the awards means that this was a low-scoring round, especially for this year when the numbers have been quite high all around. But the result is that the championship leader Aerond takes his second win of the season with 15 points.

The double points users did not thrive, unfortunately. Predicting something normal, they were let down by the craziness of the Silverstone race and didn't take very many points. That could prove crucial further down the road. On that note, don't forget to use your double points this year - we've had very few users of it.

Results
1. Aerond 15
2. IceG 13
3. CarloSpace 12*
- Londoner 12*
5. Enforcer 11
6. pi314159 10
7. Fetzie 9
8. rachel1990 8
- mario 8
- RAK 8**
- Batty 8
- Hermann95 8
13. Rob Dylan 7
- Freeze-O-Kimi 7
- Klon 7
- yannicksamlad 7
- dr-baker 7
18. tommykl 6
19. Bleu 5

*used double points
*funniest alternative race title


With Aerond winning, that obviously means he extends his championship lead over RAK and IceG, the latter of which is looking ever stronger as a championship contender this year. Here are the full standings after ten rounds.


Updated Standings
1. Aerond 142
2. RAK 132
3. IceG 131
4. dr-baker 126
5. tommykl 124
6. Klon 120
7. Enforcer 120
8. mario 117
9. Fetzie 112
10. rachel1990 112
11. Hermann95 105
12. Batty 103
13. Rob Dylan 102
14. CarloSpace 102
15. pi314159 93
16. Bleu 87
17. Londoner 78
18. yannicksamlad 74
19. Freeze-O-Kimi 32
20. dj_vicious 22
21. Miguel98 22
22. Frogfoot9013 22
23. DigitDan7 20
24. Aislabie 14
25. CaptainGetz12 14
26. Vassago 12
27. mash 7

See you in Austria for the count!