Predicament Predicitons - 2010 Belgian Grand Prix

[TomWazzleshaw]

With the Belgian Grand Prix this weekend the predicament predictions championship returns with a vengence.

Wizzie's predictions
2010 Belgian Grand Prix:
1. Hamilton
2. Webber
3. Sutil
4. Button
5. Alonso
6. Kubica
7. Massa
8. Rosberg
9. Kobayashi
10. Petrov

Pole: Vettel
Fastest lap: Sutil
First Retirement: Liuzzi/Schumacher
ROTR: Vettel (Throws away an easy win by binning it at Eau Rouge)
IIDOTR: Sutil
DBTMOTR: Liuzzi
Minor League Premiership (Driver): Kobayashi
Minor League Premiership (Team): Lotus

[Tealy]

Holiday tomorrow so early predicitons from me.

Tealy's predictions
2010 Belgian Grand Prix:
1. Hamilton
2. Webber
3. Vettel
4. Alonso
5. Sutil
6. Kubica
7. Button
8. Massa
9. Kobayashi
10. Rosberg

Pole: Vettel
Fastest lap: Sutil
First Retirement: Yamamoto
ROTR: Liuzzi
IIDOTR: Sutil
DBTMOTR: Liuzzi
Minor League Premiership (Driver): Kobayashi
Minor League Premiership (Team): Lotus

[CarlosFerreira]

Before I forget again...

Carlos' predictions
2010 Belgian Grand Prix:
1. Alonso
2. Webber
3. Sutil
4. Hamilton
5. Rosberg
6. Kubica
7. Massa
8. Button
9. Barrichello
10. Kobayashi

Pole: Webber
Fastest lap: Vettel
First Retirement: Schumacher
ROTR: Schumacher
IIDOTR: Kobayashi
DBTMOTR: Schumacher
Minor League Premiership (Driver): Kobayashi
Minor League Premiership (Team): Virgin

[Phoenix]

Oh, we've got F1 again? Thank God for that...
Phoenix's predictions:
1-Alonso
2-Button
3-Hamilton
4-Massa
5-Webber
6-Sutil
7-Kobayashi
8-Barrichello
9-Kubica
10-de la Rosa
Pole position: Alonso
Fastest lap: Hamilton
ROTR: Schumacher, perhaps?
IIDOTR: de la Rosa
DBTMOTR: Schumacher
MLPT: Lotus
MLPD: Kobayashi

[Dj_bereta]

1. Hamilton
2. Vettel
3. Webber
4. Button
5. Massa
6. Sutil
7. Rosberg
8. Barrichello
9. Kobayashi
10. Luizzi

Pole: Hamilton
Fastest lap: Webber
First Retirement: Alonso/Kubica
ROTR: Alonso
IIDOTR: Force India
DBTMOTR: Alonso
Minor League Premiership (Driver): Kobayashi
Minor League Premiership (Team): Lotus

[coops]

Coops' predictions
2010 Belgian Grand Prix:
1. Hamilton
2. Alonso
3. Webber
4. Vettel
5. Button
6. Massa
7. Barrichello
8. Schumacher
9. Rosberg
10. Kubica

Pole: Alonso
Fastest lap: Hamilton
First Retirement: Liuzzi
ROTR: Alonso (No amount of shouting on the radio slows Hamilton)
IIDOTR: Barrichello
DBTMOTR: Liuzzi
Minor League Premiership (Driver): Kobayashi
Minor League Premiership (Team): Lotus

[Jeroen Krautmeir]

Jeroen's Predictions

1) Vettel
2) Webber
3) Alonso
4) Petrov
5) Kobayashi
6) Hamilton
7) Kubica
8) Barrichello
9) Massa
10) Sutil

Pole: Vettel
Fastest lap: Webber
First Retirement: Liuzzi
ROTR: Indian Force
IIDOTR: Petrov
DBTMOTR: Liuzzi
Minor League Premiership (Driver): Petrov
Minor League Premiership (Team): Lotus

I missed out big in Hungary when I correctly predicted Vitaly for so many things.

[TomWazzleshaw]

4) Petrov

If that happens you can have the IIPOTR award

[Jeroen Krautmeir]

4) Petrov

If that happens you can have the IIPOTR award

OOO! Must win!

[RAK]

RAK's Predictions:

1) Hamilton
2) Webber
3) Vettel
4) Alonso
5) Button
6) Kubica
7) Massa
8) Petrov
9) Kobayashi
10) Barrichello

Pole: Hamilton
Fastest Lap: Alonso
First Retirement: Liuzzi
ROTR: Force India - for not managing to live up to their exceptional Spa-Francorchamps reputation
IIDOTR: Petrov
DBTMOTR: Schumacher
MLPD: Petrov
MLPT: Lotus

[Captain Hammer]

1st - Jenson BUTTON
2nd - Mark WEBBER
3rd - Felipe MASSA
4th - Lewis HAMILTON
5th - Robert KUBICA
6th - Vitaly PETROV
7th - Rubens BARRICHELLO
8th - Nico ROSBERG
9th - Michael SCHUMACHER
10th - Pedro DE LA ROSA

Pole - Lewis HAMILTON
Fastest Lap - Sebastian VETTEL
Rejet of the Race - Nico HULKENBERG (for running fifth on the final lap, but making a stupid passing attempt that never stood a chance of working and crashing, thus preventing him from getting out of Rejectdom)
Infinite Improbability - Michael SCHUMACHER
Deadbeatism - Sebastian VETTEL
Minor League (Drivers) - Vitaly PETROV
Minor League (Teams) - Virgin Racing

[Klon]

Klon's predictions
2010 Belgian Grand Prix
1. Hamilton
2. Webber
3. Barrichello
4. Alonso
5. Button
6. Kubica
7. Sutil
8. Hülkenberg
9. Rosberg
10. De La Rosa

Pole: Vettel
Fastest lap: De La Rosa
First Retirement: Glock
ROTR: Vettel (simply nowhere due to idiotic second lap maneuvre)
IIDOTR: Barrichello (a successful 300th race)
DBTMOTR: Vettel
Minor League Premiership (Driver): Hülkenberg
Minor League Premiership (Team): Lotus

[MinardiFan95]

MinardiFan's very rejectful predictions
2010 Belgian Grand Prix
1. Bloke with massive eyebrows (Alonso)
2. Lewis Waamilton
3. Canberra Milk Kid (Webber)
4. Felipe baby, stay cool, stay cool
5. Red Bull's number one driver (Vettel)
6. Rubens Blah-blah-blahrichello
7. Bobby K (Kubica)
8. Britney Spears (Rosberg)
9. Cowboyashi
10. Vitaly Petrol

Pole: Bloke with massive eyebrows
Fastest lap: Waamilton
First Retirement: Yamamoto
ROTR: A certain 7 times world champion who really shouldn't have made a comeback
IIDOTR: Blah-blah-blahrichello
DBTMOTR: A certain 7 times world champion who really shouldn't have made a comeback
Minor League Premiership (Driver): Cowboyashi
Minor League Premiership (Team): Fondmetal Team Malaysia

[FullMetalJack]

1. Button
2. Webber
3. Alonso
4. Barrichello
5. Liuzzi
6. Sutil
7. Kobayashi
8. Hulkenberg
9. Kubica
10. Petrov

Pole - Vettel
Fastest Lap - Hamilton
First Retirement - Di Grassi
ROTR - Merc (Double DNF)
IIDOTR - Liuzzi
DBTMOTR - Hamilton
MLPD - Kobayashi
MLPT - HRT

[shinji]

1. Fernando Alonso
2. Sebastian Vettel
3. Lewis Hamilton
4. Mark Webber
5. Jenson Button
6. Robert Kubica
7. Nico Rosberg
8. Kamui Kobayashi
9. Vitaly Petrov
10. Rubens Barrichello

Pole: Vettel
Fastest Lap: Hamilton
First Retirement: Yamamoto
ROTR: Massa
IIDOTR: Kovalainen
DBTMOTR: Massa
MLPD: Kobayashi
MLPT: Lotus

[Aerospeed]

Sorry, what does IIDOTR and DBTMOTR mean?

[shinji]

Sorry, what does IIDOTR and DBTMOTR mean?

Infinite Improbability Drive of the Race and Dead-Beat Team Mate of the Race.

[Aerospeed]

1. Webber
2. Hamilton
3. Button
4. Rosberg
5. Massa
6. Vettel
7. Kubica
8. Kobayashi
9. Buemi
10. Sutil

Pole: Webber
Fastest Lap: Webber
First Retirement: Di Grassi/Yamamoto
ROTR: Alonso (Gets his way by forcing Massa to let him pass... and crashes a lap later!)
IIDOTR: Rosberg
DBTMOTR: Schumacher
Minor League Premiership (Driver): Kobayashi
Minor League Premiership (Team): Lotus (obviously)

Correct me if I got the MLP wrong.

[dr-baker]

Minor League Premiership (Driver): Kobayashi
Minor League Premiership (Team): Toro Rosso

Correct me if I got the MLP wrong.

No problem over making mistakes but MLP are for those in their first full season so in terms of teams, these are Lotus, HRT and Virgin only.

[thehemogoblin]

1. Hamilton
2. Alonso
3. Sutil
4. Webber
5. Vettel
6. Button
7. Rosberg
8. Massa
9. Kubica
10. Liuzzi

Pole: Hamilton
Fastest lap: Sutil
First Retirement: Schumacher
ROTR: Schumacher
IIDOTR: Sutil
DBTMOTR: Schumacher
Minor League Premiership (Driver): Kobayashi
Minor League Premiership (Team): Lotus

[Ducktanian]

Dartanian's Predictions:
1. Vettel
2. Alonso
3. Hamilton
4. Webber
5. Button
6. Kubica
7. Barrichello
8. Kobayashi
9. Massa
10. Rosberg

Pole: Vettel
Fastest Lap: Alonso
First Retirement: Yamamoto
ROTR: Toro Rosso
IIDOTR: Webber (A Brilliant comeback drive after 'that' First-Lap incident.)
DBTMOTR: Luizzi
Minor League Premiership (Driver): Kobayashi
Minor League Premiership (Team): Lotus

[Aerospeed]

Minor League Premiership (Driver): Kobayashi
Minor League Premiership (Team): Toro Rosso

Correct me if I got the MLP wrong.

No problem over making mistakes but MLP are for those in their first full season so in terms of teams, these are Lotus, HRT and Virgin only.

Fixed! Thanks!

[Walsh_e]

1. Webber
2. Button
3. Kubica
4. Hamilton
5. Massa
6. Petrov
7. Barrichello
8. Alonso
9. Rosberg
10. Glock (you can only hope)

Pole: Webber
Fastest Lap: Webber
First Retirement: Schumacher
ROTR: Schumacher
IIDOTR: Tim O'Glock

[tristan1117]

tristan1117's predictions
2010 Belgian Grand Prix:
1. Vettel
2. Button
3. Kubica
4. Barrichello
5. Alonso
6. Schumacher
7. Massa
8. Webber
9. Sutil
10. De La Rosa

Pole: Webber
Fastest lap: Petrov
First Retirement: Kovaleinen
ROTR: Hamilton
IIDOTR: De La Rosa
DBTMOTR: Hulkenburg
Minor League Premiership (Driver): Kobayashi
Minor League Premiership (Team): Lotus

[Pieman]

1. Webber
2. Hamilton
3. Alonso
4. Button
5. Vettel
6. Kubica
7. Rosberg
8. Petrov
9. Schumacher
10. de la Rosa

Pole: Hamilton
Fastest lap: Webber
First Retirement: di Grassi
ROTR: Force India
IIDOTR: Petrov
DBTMOTR: Kobayashi
Minor League Premiership (Driver): Petrov
Minor League Premiership (Team): Lotus

[watka]

Looks like it will be a wet race weekend, exactly what I don't need when I'm leading the championship!

Watka's predictions
2010 Belgian Grand Prix:
1. Hamilton
2. Button
3. Webber
4. Sutil
5. Vettel
6. Rosberg
7. Alonso
8. Kubica
9. Hulkenberg
10. Schumacher

Pole: Hamilton
Fastest lap: Sutil
First Retirement: Petrov
ROTR: Massa
IIDOTR: Sutil
DBTMOTR: Liuzzi
Minor League Premiership (Driver): Hulkenberg
Minor League Premiership (Team): Lotus

[thalion]

Thalion's predictions
2010 Belgian Grand Prix:
1. Button
2. Vettel
3. Hamilton
4. Alonso
5. Webber
6. Kubica
7. Rosberg
8. Sutil
9. Kobayashi
10. Barichello

Pole: Vettel
Fastest lap: Liuzzi
First Retirement: Alguersuari
ROTR: Vettel (Throws away an easy win by binning it at Eau Rouge)
IIDOTR: Sutil
DBTMOTR: Massa
Minor League Premiership (Driver): Kobayashi
Minor League Premiership (Team): Virgin

[dr-baker]

Minor League Premiership (Driver): Kobayashi
Minor League Premiership (Team): Toro Rosso

Correct me if I got the MLP wrong.

No problem over making mistakes but MLP are for those in their first full season so in terms of teams, these are Lotus, HRT and Virgin only.

Fixed! Thanks!

You're welcome.

My predictions:

1. Button
2. Schumacher
3. Hamilton
4. Alonso
5. Webber
6. Vettel
7. Barrichello
8. Sutil
9. Petrol
10. Kubica

Pole: Vettel
Fastest lap: Schumacher
First Retirement: Vettel
ROTR: Vettel
IIDOTR: Schumacher
DBTMOTR: di Grassi
Minor League Premiership (Driver): Petrol
Minor League Premiership (Team): Lotus

[Bleu]

1. Vettel
2. Webber
3. Button
4. Hamilton
5. Barrichello
6. Sutil
7. Kubica
8. Rosberg
9. Kobayashi
10. Schumacher

Pole - Vettel
Fastest Lap - Alguersuari
First Retirement - Massa
ROTR - Ferrari
IIDOTR - Barrichello
DBTMOTR - Hülkenberg
MLPD - Kobayashi
MLPT - HRT

[Enforcer]

FP1 hasn't ended yet... no penalty

1. Alonso
2. Vettel
3. Webber
4. Hamilton
5. Massa
6. Kubica
7. Button
8. Rosberg
9. Kobayashi
10. Schumacher

Pole - Vettel
Fastest - Webber
First Retirement - Di Grassi
ROTR - Force India
IIDOTR - Schumacher
DBTMOTR - Schumacher (if I understand correctly, even if he finishes close to Rosberg, that he'll be -10 places in qualifying will rack him up a huge score)
MLPD - Kobayashi
MLPT - Lotus

[mario]

That is because the penalties only kick in if you fail to post your predictions before the end of FP2.
Anyway, the first practise session has been completely sodden and quite cold, so most of the teams have spent a sizeable amount of time in the garage. As such, it seems that the times from the session are pretty unrepresentative of what is actually going on.
Well, it will be interesting to see what the weather is like on Sunday - should it be dry, then I'd expect the usual suspects to dominate, but should it be wet, it should mix the grid up a fair bit.

1. Alonso
2. Vettel
3. Webber
4. Hamilton
5. Button
6. Kubica
7. Massa
8. Rosberg
9. Kobayashi
10. Sutil

Pole - Alonso
Fastest - Vettel
First Retirement - Di Grassi
ROTR - Schumacher
IIDOTR - Kobayashi
DBTMOTR - Schumacher (even without the effects of the penalty, I suspect that Rosberg would still end up a fair few places ahead of Schumacher).
MLPD - Kobayashi
MLPT - Virgin Racing

[P_Friesacher]

Wizzie's predictions
2010 Belgian Grand Prix:
1. Vettel
2. Hamilton
3. Alonso
4. Button
5. Sutil
6. Schumacher
7. Webber
8. Rosberg
9. Kobayashi
10. Massa

Pole: Vettel
Fastest lap: Hamilton
First Retirement: DiGrassi
ROTR: The weather
IIDOTR: Sutil
DBTMOTR: Hülkenberg
Minor League Premiership (Driver): Kobayashi
Minor League Premiership (Team): Lotus
no double points

[TomWazzleshaw]

FP1 hasn't ended yet... no penalty

Penalties are only enforced if predictions are posted after the conclusion of FP2 (So in about 2 hours)

(if I understand correctly, even if he finishes close to Rosberg, that he'll be -10 places in qualifying will rack him up a huge score)

I don't take penalities into account. If I did then it'll just mess the whole thing up.

[Waris]

Oh, how funny. You might not believe this, but I dreamed the other night that I was again late with this. If F1 Rejects gets into your dreams, you know your sanity is not what it used to be.

Oh well, thank goodness I'm not actually late and will therefore not incur my third consecutive penalty. (I'm just playing for the heck of it now anyway, since failures to post and posting late have rejectified my title chances.)

So, there we go with my Predictions:

1. Alonso
2. Button
3. Sutil
4. Hamilton
5. Barrichello
6. Webber
7. Vettel
8. Rosberg
9. Massa
10. Schumacher
Pole: Vettel
Fastest lap: Schumacher
First retirement: Liuzzi
ROTR: Liuzzi
IIDOTR: Schumacher
DBTMOTR: Liuzzi
Minor League Premiership (Drivers): Petrov
Minor League Premiership (Teams): Lotus

Not using double points.

Btw, this is based on the assumption that it will rain at some point during qualifying and/or the race.

[dr-baker]

DBTMOTR - Schumacher (if I understand correctly, even if he finishes close to Rosberg, that he'll be -10 places in qualifying will rack him up a huge score)

Bugger. I forgot about that penalty when I did my predictions (just to show how much thought goes into it...) so if he does indeed get second as I foolishly predicted, he will deserve the IIDOTR, which he would get based on performance so far this year... Only hope I have is that Schumacher's previous form at this track...

[P_Friesacher]

Wow - forgot about that, too. So perhaps him beating Rosberg to go on to P6 was a bit overoptimistic.

[DemocalypseNow]

1. KOBAYASHI KAMUI!!!!
2. Sutil
3. Webber
4. Petrov
5. Barrichello
6. Alonso
7. Buemi
8. Chandhok
9. Raikkonen
10. Arnoux

Pole: Kobayashi
Fastest lap: Kobayashi
First retirement: Schumacher
ROTR: Schumacher
IIDOTR: Kobayashi
DBTMOTR: Schumacher
Minor League Premiership (Drivers): Kobayashi
Minor League Premiership (Teams): HRT

[Jeroen Krautmeir]

1. KOBAYASHI KAMUI!!!!
2. Sutil
3. Webber
4. Petrov
5. Barrichello
6. Alonso
7. Buemi
8. Chandhok
9. Raikkonen
10. Arnoux

Pole: Kobayashi
Fastest lap: Kobayashi
First retirement: Schumacher
ROTR: Schumacher
IIDOTR: Kobayashi
DBTMOTR: Schumacher
Minor League Premiership (Drivers): Kobayashi
Minor League Premiership (Teams): HRT

WHAT???

[mario]

Wow - forgot about that, too. So perhaps him beating Rosberg to go on to P6 was a bit overoptimistic.

Well, I'd put Kobayashi in the top 10, and he went and binned it in qualifying, whilst Rosberg will be starting in 17th thanks to a gearbox change - and, for good measure, Webber has stuck it on pole whilst Alonso (who I predicted for pole) is stuck back in 10th place.
So, all in all, it hasn't been the best of days for me so far - here's hoping for a bit of rain tomorrow.

[Salamander]

I would've posted my predictions earlier, but my computer has decided to not work anymore, so I'm doing this from an internet cafe while I wait for it to be repaired. I know I'll get a humongous penalty, if not being disqualified outright, for being this outrageously late, but I think Kubica actually has a decent shot for once, and I won't be able to live with myself if he does win the one race where I didn't post my predictions. So, without further ado...

1. Kubica
2. Webber
3. Hamilton
4. Vettel
5. Massa
6. Button
7. Barrichello
8. Alonso
9. Sutil
10. Kovalainen (why not?)

Pole: Webber (obviously)
Fastest lap: Kubica
First retirement: Schumacher
ROTR: Schumacher
IIDOTR: Kubica
DBTMOTR: Petrov
Minor League Premiership (Drivers): Buemi
Minor League Premiership (Teams): Lotus