WRX Prediction Competition

[MissClarrpz]

WRX Prediction Competition

I thought I would run a prediction competition for WRX and if I get a heat races's worth of entrants it’ll be worth it.

The rules are (relatively) simple.
1. Pick 2 DRIVERS and a TEAM.
2. These picks must be from the different teams. Ie. DRIVER A must be from team D, DRIVER B from team E and your TEAM pick is team F.
3. A TEAM is 2 drivers from team F. For 3 car entries I will use regular season entrants unless otherwise specified by you (you'll see why in a bit). The 3rd driver is part of team F so cannot be used as DRIVER A or DRIVER B.
4. You score points based on where your DRIVERS finish in their individual races. It doesn't matter how many cars are in an individual race, the winner will always get 5. This is how points get scored:

Finish	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	DNF (Q1-4)	DNF (SF/F)	DNS
Points	5	4	3	2	1	0	1	0	0

5. You lose points on how far apart the drivers in your TEAM are in the 4 qualification sessions. For every second the drivers in your TEAM are apart you lose 1 point. I will add up the 3 smallest gaps between your TEAM's drivers across the four heats to find this result. For example, if it totals between 10.000 and 10.999 seconds, you will lose 10 points.
6. If your TEAM does not have 2 cars finish 3 heats I will multiple by 1.5 or 3 to get the 3 race total.
7. The maximum you can lose is capped at 50 points (not including what you can gain).
8. If your TEAM cannot get 2 cars to finish in any session you lose the maximum of 50 points.

Making changes:
9. You can change your position of DRIVER A, DRIVER B and TEAM once each.
10. They can be changed separately, together or not at all.
11. Changing the 2 drivers that score in your TEAM counts as swapping your team.
12. As it is not possible to swap a driver/team in then back out, if a driver/team does not enter the full season then you cannot pick them (unless you sub then out after round 1 or in at round 10).
13. An exception is for drivers being replaced (such as Jérôme Grosset-Janin being replaced by Liam Doran who was then replaced by Anton Marklund). That driver just gets swapped in your pick with his/her replacement automatically.
14. If a full season entrant driver/team pulls out or misses a round and you fail to use/cannot use your change a random swap will be made and you will lose your ability to swap the DRIVER/TEAM that was changed.
15. If you pick a non-permanent entrant, they miss a round and you fail to use/cannot use your swap then a random swap is made AND you lose 25 points.
16. If a driver moves to a different team and this breaks rule 2, the DRIVER will be swapped with the driver they are replaced by at their previous team. If they are not replaced their previous teammate will be your new DRIVER. If they do not have a teammate a new random DRIVER will be picked.

A word of advice. Just pick full season entrants and you can't be docked points.

17. For late entries, for every round you miss you lose 50 points.
18. The last entry must be before Q1 Race 1 is set to begin. This is FRIDAY 5th APRIL at 16:30 local (GMT+4). This will be 13:30 UK time due to daylight saving. If Q1 starts earlier than anticipated the entry deadline also moves back. Also I'm going off local time so if my maths is wrong it will be corrected.

Entry list here. For clarity GCK has 2 different teams.

Most of the rules are for me in case drivers or teams drop out.

Template to enter:
Driver A:
Driver B:
Team:

Template to make a swap:
I want to swap my Driver A/Driver B/Team which is _____ with: _____

[MissClarrpz]

Example from last year at South Africa. These are the points scored:

Kristofferson	27
Seb Loeb	23
Tim Hansen	20
Solberg	20
Ekstrom	19
Kev Hansen	19
Eriksson	15
Bakkerud	13
Baumanis	13
Gronholm	13
Scheider	13
Timerzyanov	12
Chicherit	12
Markund	11
Larsson	11
Demoustier	11
Munnich	10
Bennet	4

And the points lost:

Peugeot: Hansen-Hansen	5
Peugeot: Timmy-Loeb	2
Peugeot: Kevin-Loeb	6
VW	6
Audi	3
GCK	5
GRX	3
Olsberg	1
Munnich Motorsport	17

[MissClarrpz]

I might as well start off with my prediction as well. I won't make any changes all season so hopefully this turns out good.

Driver A: Timo Scheider
Driver B: Rokas Baciuška
Team: Team Hansen

[Silhuette]

Drivers: Bakkerud and Timmy Hansen
Team: Hansen Peugeot

[MissClarrpz]

Originally Posted by Silhuette

Drivers: Bakkerud and Timmy Hansen
Team: Hansen Peugeot

Unfortunately Timmy Hansen is in Team Hansen. You need to change Timmy or your team (or both). Best of luck

[Silhuette]

Fine, make it Team Hansen then.

[BertMk2]

I'll have a stab with these:

Bakkerud
Markland

Team Hansen MJP

[SnoodyMcFlude]

Bakkerud
Nitiss
Team Hansen

[MANU MATADOR]

Nitiss
Raymond
Hansen Mjp

[MissClarrpz]

Rd 1 - Abu Dhabi

The points table looks like this:

MissClarrpz	26
BertMk2	24
Silhuette	19
MANU MATADOR	16
SnoodyMcFlude	15

(Silhuette - I randomly changed your team from Hansen MJP to GCK before the weekend to follow rule 2)

This is how many points each driver scored.

Kevin Hansen	27
Niclas Gronholm	24
Timo Scheider	23
Anton Marklund	19
Janis Baumanis	19
Krisztián Szabo	17
Timmy Hansen	15
Liam Doran	14
Timur Timerzyanov	14
Guerlain Chicherit	13
Cyril Raymond	12
Pal Try	12
Andreas Bakkerud	11
Guillaume De Ridder	10
Reinis Nitiss	10
Rokas Baciuska	9
Oliver Bennet	5

And this is how many each team lost:

GRX (Timer, Gron)	4
Hansen MJP	6
GCK	7
GCK Academy	9
RX Cartel	17
GRX (Gron, Nitiss)	27
GRX (Timer, Nitiss)	34
STARD	50

Anyone is still welcome to join but with a 50 point penalty. Anyone already entered can make a joker change if they want before Q1 in Barcelona. Best of luck.

[MissClarrpz]

Rd 2 - Barcelona

Here's the points table:

	Rd 2	Total
Silhuette	48	67
BertMk2	27	51
SnoodyMcFlude	36	51
MissClarrpz	22	48
MANU MATADOR	28	44

SnoodyMcFlude - I randomly changed Reinis Nitišs to another GRX driver, Niclas Gronholm
MANU MATADOR - I randomly changed Reinis Nitišs to another GRX driver - Timur Timerzyanov

This is how many points each driver scored this week:

Timmy Hansen	30
Kevin Hansen	23
Andreas Bakkerud	21
Niclas Gronholm	20
Janis Baumanis	19
Cyril Raymond	18
Timo Scheider	15
Timur Timerzyanov	15
Liam Doran	14
Rokas Baciuska	12
Anton Marklund	11
Guerlain Chicherit	11
Guillaume De Ridder	11
Krisztián Szabo	11
Chris Hoy	11
Oliver Bennet	10
Jani Paasonen	8
Tamás Kárai	7
Knapick	1

And how much each team lost:

GCK	3
Hansen MJP	5
RX Cartel	5
GCK Academy	6
GRX	6
STARD	38

[MissClarrpz]

Rd 3 - Spa

Here's the points table:

	Rd 3	Total
SnoodyMcFlude	46	97
Silhuette	29	96
BertMk2	36	87
MANU MATADOR	29	73
MissClarrpz	20	68

SnoodyMcFlude - I changed Niclas Gronholm to Joni Wiman
MissClarrpz - I changed Rokas Bacuska to Francois Duval

This is how many points each driver scored this week:

Joni Wiman	26
Andreas Bakkerud	25
Timur Timerzyanov	24
Janis Baumanis	20
Liam Doran	19
Anton Marklund	16
Timmy Hansen	16
Kevin Hansen	15
Timo Scheider	15
Pal Try	13
Krisztián Szabo	12
Oliver Bennet	12
Cyril Raymond	10
Guerlain Chicherit	10
Guillaume De Ridder	10
Francois Duval	10
Mattias Ekstrom	10
Enzo Ide	10
Knapick	6
Grégoire Demoustier	6

And how much each team lost:

GRX (Timer, Wiman)	1
GCK Academy	3
RX Cartel	4
Hansen MJP	5
STARD	7
GCK	12

[wallslammer]

Rd5 Norway
Driver1:kevinhansen
Driver2:andreasbakkerud
Team:gckacademy

[wallslammer]

Originally Posted by MissClarrpz

WRX Prediction Competition

I thought I would run a prediction competition for WRX and if I get a heat races's worth of entrants it’ll be worth it.

The rules are (relatively) simple.
1. Pick 2 DRIVERS and a TEAM.
2. These picks must be from the different teams. Ie. DRIVER A must be from team D, DRIVER B from team E and your TEAM pick is team F.
3. A TEAM is 2 drivers from team F. For 3 car entries I will use regular season entrants unless otherwise specified by you (you'll see why in a bit). The 3rd driver is part of team F so cannot be used as DRIVER A or DRIVER B.
4. You score points based on where your DRIVERS finish in their individual races. It doesn't matter how many cars are in an individual race, the winner will always get 5. This is how points get scored:


5. You lose points on how far apart the drivers in your TEAM are in the 4 qualification sessions. For every second the drivers in your TEAM are apart you lose 1 point. I will add up the 3 smallest gaps between your TEAM's drivers across the four heats to find this result. For example, if it totals between 10.000 and 10.999 seconds, you will lose 10 points.
6. If your TEAM does not have 2 cars finish 3 heats I will multiple by 1.5 or 3 to get the 3 race total.
7. The maximum you can lose is capped at 50 points (not including what you can gain).
8. If your TEAM cannot get 2 cars to finish in any session you lose the maximum of 50 points.

Making changes:
9. You can change your position of DRIVER A, DRIVER B and TEAM once each.
10. They can be changed separately, together or not at all.
11. Changing the 2 drivers that score in your TEAM counts as swapping your team.
12. As it is not possible to swap a driver/team in then back out, if a driver/team does not enter the full season then you cannot pick them (unless you sub then out after round 1 or in at round 10).
13. An exception is for drivers being replaced (such as Jérôme Grosset-Janin being replaced by Liam Doran who was then replaced by Anton Marklund). That driver just gets swapped in your pick with his/her replacement automatically.
14. If a full season entrant driver/team pulls out or misses a round and you fail to use/cannot use your change a random swap will be made and you will lose your ability to swap the DRIVER/TEAM that was changed.
15. If you pick a non-permanent entrant, they miss a round and you fail to use/cannot use your swap then a random swap is made AND you lose 25 points.
16. If a driver moves to a different team and this breaks rule 2, the DRIVER will be swapped with the driver they are replaced by at their previous team. If they are not replaced their previous teammate will be your new DRIVER. If they do not have a teammate a new random DRIVER will be picked.

A word of advice. Just pick full season entrants and you can't be docked points.

17. For late entries, for every round you miss you lose 50 points.
18. The last entry must be before Q1 Race 1 is set to begin. This is FRIDAY 5th APRIL at 16:30 local (GMT+4). This will be 13:30 UK time due to daylight saving. If Q1 starts earlier than anticipated the entry deadline also moves back. Also I'm going off local time so if my maths is wrong it will be corrected.

Entry list here. For clarity GCK has 2 different teams.

Most of the rules are for me in case drivers or teams drop out.

Template to enter:
Driver A:
Driver B:
Team:

Template to make a swap:
I want to swap my Driver A/Driver B/Team which is _____ with: _____

Rd5 Norway
Driver1:kevinhansen
Driver2: andreasbakkerud
Team: GCKACADEMY

[wallslammer]

Rd 6
Driver1:kevin Eriksson
Driver2:kjetil Larson
Team:team Hansen MJP

[MissClarrpz]

A bit behind on points tables so here they are.

Rd 4 - Silverstone

MissClarrpz: Francois Duval didn't attend so was randomly swapped for Guillaume De-Ridder.

Driver points

Timmy Hansen	28
Andreas Bakkerud	25
Anton Marklund	20
Liam Doran	19
Timo Scheider	19
Krisztián Szabo	18
Joni Wiman	17
Kevin Hansen	16
Oliver Bennet	15
Timur Timerzyanov	14
Guerlain Chicherit	12
Janis Baumanis	12
Jani Paasonen	12
Mark Higgins	12
Cyril Raymond	10
Knapick	9
Guillaume De Ridder	7

Team points

GCK	1
Hansen MJP	2
STARD	3
GRX (Timer, Wiman)	7
RX Cartel	7
GCK Academy	16

Points Table

	Rd 4 points	Total
Silhuette	52	148
SnoodyMcFlude	40	137
BertMk2	43	130
MANU MATADOR	22	95
MissClarrpz	24	92

Rd 5 - Norway

MissClarrpz: Swap Guillaume De-Ridder for Rokas Bacuska
SnoodyMcFlude: Joni Wiman did not attend so swap for Niclas Gronholm
wallslammer: Receive the worst points anyone scored from each round to start off with (Rd 1 - 15 from SnoodyMcFlude, Rd 2 - 22 from MissClarrpz, Rd 3 - 20 from MissClarrpz and Rd 4 - 22 from MANU MATADOR) so start with 79.

Driver points

Niclas Gronholm	29
Kevin Hansen	23
Timmy Hansen	20
Janis Baumanis	18
Liam Doran	18
Kevin Abbring	17
Timo Scheider	17
Timur Timerzyanov	17
Andreas Bakkerud	16
Cyril Raymond	16
Guerlain Chicherit	14
Oliver Bennet	14
Jani Paasonen	12
Guillaume De Ridder	11
Krisztián Szabo	9
Rokas Baciuska	7
Anton Marklund	0

Team points

GCK Academy (Baciuska, Raymond)	2
Hansen MJP	2
GRX	4
RX Cartel	5
GCK Academy (Raymond, De Ridder)	7
STARD	9
GCK Academy (Baciuska, De Ridder)	15
GCK	50

Points table

	Rd 5 points	Total
SnoodyMcFlude	43	180
BertMk2	14	144
Silhuette	-14	134
MANU MATADOR	31	126
MissClarrpz	22	114
wallslammer	32	111

Rd 6 - Sweden

wallslammer: Swap Kevin Hansen, Andreas Bakkerud and GCK Academy for Kevin Eriksson, Kjetil Larson and Team Hansen. No more swaps allowed and from round 7 your original drivers and teams will be in place for the remainder of the season

Driver Points

Kevin Hansen	28
Sebastian Eriksson	26
Reinis Nitiss	20
Niclas Gronholm	19
Kevin Abbring	18
Andreas Bakkerud	16
Timmy Hansen	16
Anton Marklund	15
Janis Baumanis	15
Kevin Eriksson	15
Cyril Raymond	13
Rokas Baciuska	13
Jonathan Pailler	12
Fabien Pailler	12
Jere Kalliokoski	11
Guillaume De Ridder	10
Krisztián Szabo	10
Timo Scheider	10
Kjetil Larsen	10
Philip Gehrman	10
Guerlain Chicherit	9
Liam Doran	9
Oliver Bennet	7
Timur Timerzyanov	7
Ulrik Linnemann	6

Team points

OMSE (Sebastian, Kevin)	2
STARD	5
GCK	11
GCK Academy (Baciuska, Raymond)	11
GRX (Timerzyanov, Gronholm)	11
Hansen MJP	15
RX Cartel	16
OMSE (Sebastian, Ulrik)	18
GRX (Gronholm, Nitiss)	20
OMSE (Ulrik, Kevin)	20
GCK A (Baciuska, De Ridder)	26
GCK A (Raymond, De Ridder)	38
GRX (Timerzyanov, Nitiss)	50

Points table

	Rd 6 points	Total
SnoodyMcFlude	20	200
BertMk2	16	160
Silhuette	21	155
MANU MATADOR	5	131
MissClarrpz	8	122
wallslammer	6	117

Silhuette, BertMk2, SnoodyMcFlude and MANU MATADOR can still swap any drivers or teams if you want to as your joker choice.

[Silhuette]

Please change my team to GRX.

[MissClarrpz]

Rd 7 - Canada

wallslammer: Swap back from Kevin Eriksson, Kjetil Larson and Team Hansen to Kevin Hansen, Andreas Bakkerud and GCK Academy

Driver Points

Andreas Bakkerud	27
Timur Timerzyanov	23
Niclas Gronholm	21
Guerlain Chicherit	20
Janis Baumanis	20
Anton Marklund	18
Cyril Raymond	16
Liam Doran	15
Rokas Baciuska	15
Kevin Hansen	14
Krisztián Szabo	14
Timmy Hansen	12
Timo Scheider	12
Guillaume De Ridder	11
Oliver Bennet	10
Jani Paasonen	8

Team Points

GCK Academy	5
GRX	6
Hansen MJP	6
GCK (Chicherit, Baciuska)	9
RX Cartel	9
GCK (Baciuska, Marklund)	10
STARD	12
GCK (Chicherit, Marklund)	41

Points Table

	Rd 7 points	Total
SnoodyMcFlude	42	242
BertMk2	39	199
MANU MATADOR	33	164
Silhuette	-2	153
wallslammer	36	153
MissClarrpz	21	143

[MissClarrpz]

Rd 8 - France

Silhuette: Swap GCK to GRX

Driver Points

Timmy Hansen	25
Anton Marklund	23
Niclas Gronholm	22
Andreas Bakkerud	21
Rokas Baciuska	21
Kevin Hansen	18
Timo Scheider	17
Toomas Heikkinen	17
Guillaume De Ridder	15
Liam Doran	14
Fabien Pailler	14
Jani Paasonen	13
Janis Baumanis	13
Cyril Raymond	12
Timur Timerzyanov	11
Jonathon Pailler	11
Matvey Furazhkin	11
Krisztián Szabo	10
Oliver Bennet	10
Knapick	10
Guerlain Chicherit	9

Team Points

GCK (Chi, Mark)	2
GRX (Gron, Timur)	2
GRX (Gron, Topi)	2
GRX (Topi, Timur)	2
Hansen MJP	3
RX Cartel	3
GCK (Chi, Bac)	5
GCK (Bac, Mark)	5
STARD	12
GCK Academy	15

Points Table

	Rd 8 points	Total
SnoodyMcFlude	40	282
BertMk2	41	240
MANU MATADOR	20	184
Silhuette	44	197
MissClarrpz	35	178
wallslammer	24	177

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Rd 9 - Latvia

No team or driver changes (first time this year!)

Driver Points

Andreas Bakkerud	23
Timmy Hansen	23
Niclas Gronholm	22
Timur Timerzyanov	20
Kevin Hansen	19
Krisztián Szabo	17
Reiniss Nitiss	17
Anton Marklund	16
Liam Doran	16
Rokas Baciuska	16
Timo Scheider	13
Guillaume De Ridder	12
Janis Baumanis	12
Guerlain Chicherit	11
Cyril Raymond	9
Oliver Bennet	9
Matvey Furazhkin	9
Robin Larsson	8
Pal Try	6

Team Points

GCK (Bac, Mark)	3
GRX (Gron, Timur)	3
GRX (Nit, Timur)	5
GRX (Gron, Nit)	6
RX Cartel	6
GCK (Chi, Bac)	7
GCK Academy	7
GCK (Chi, Mark)	8
Hansen MJP	8
STARD	16

Points Table

	Rd 9 points	Total
SnoodyMcFlude	37	319
BertMk2	31	271
Silhuette	43	240
wallslammer	35	212
MANU MATADOR	21	205
MissClarrpz	21	199

Despite winning for the 5th time Silhuette still sits in 3rd. Unless something bizzare happens in Cape Town, SnoodyMcFlude looks set for the championship especially as BertMk2 has a near identical line up. You both still can change any of your drivers or team. In fact everyone bar wallslammer can still change most or all of their line up.

[SnoodyMcFlude]

Originally Posted by MissClarrpz

RUnless something bizzare happens in Cape Town

Cue Bakkerud taking out Gronholm and a Hansen in practice, breaking all 3 cars for the weekend

Think I'll stick with my picks, they've been averaging pretty well

[MissClarrpz]

As Rokas isn't racing I'll change that to Anton Marklund. And as I can change my team I'm going to swap Hansen MJP with GCK Academy. Go big or go home!

[Silhuette]

Congratulations SnoodyMcFlude!

Virtually spraying you and Bert with bubbly stuff.

[Silhuette]

Hi @MissClarrpz! Just wanted to say I enjoyed last years prediction competition. Would be fun if you would be able to do it again this year

[MissClarrpz]

Yeah. I'd be happy to run it now I know at least one person enjoyed it. I'll try and simplify the rules as well as they were probably a bit complicated last season.

[SnoodyMcFlude]

Yeah I quite enjoyed it...although that may only be because I did well

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