2018 Formula 1 time capsule.

[F1Guy]

Just under 2 weeks to go for the first round in Australia. Get your predictions in for the 2018 season.

Thread will be locked prior to the start of FP1 in Australia, and will reopen after season's end.

Let's have a minimum of 5, and a maximum of 10 quantifiable predictions for the season please.



Link to last years thread below.

http://tentenths.com/forum/showthread.php?t=149775

[mattt]

1. Verstappen will beat Ricciardo
2. Ricciardo will leave red bull for Mercedes
3. Sainz will replace him at Red Bull
4. Leaving Bottas to go to Renault
5. Red bull will finish 2nd in WCC
6. Red bull will be 2nd and 4th in the WDC
7. Alonso and Raikkonen will both retire from F1 at the end of the season.
8. Sirotkin will trounce Stroll

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[stripedcat]

1. Hamilton will be WDC again.
2. Vettel will be second again.
3. Mercedes will win the WCC again.
4. Ferrari will be runner-up in the WCC again.
5. I think Riccardio will beat Verstappen in the Red Bull team, but only just. It'll be tight.
6. They'll be two wet weather races this season.
7. Kimi will retire by the end of the season, and Verstappen will take his place at Ferrari.
8. The French Grand Prix at Paul Ricard will burn the retinas of everyone's eyes as those multi coloured run-off areas are too colourful!
9. The Honda engine will be terrible - again. Many blow-ups predicted.
10. Martin Brundle will say : "An F1 car is like an upside down aeroplace wing with all its downforce" 3 times over this season.
11. I think that Bottas will win 4 times over the season.

[chillibowl]

1. tactical engine usage will keep MV in the WDC hunt.
2. long shot but as a result, MV will win the WDC.
3. Sochi GP will be canceled.
4. Alonso will win a race.
5. Stroll will outscore Sirotkin
6. despite some solid races, Sauber will finish last in the constructors.
7. Force India will be forced to bench one of their drivers as punishment.
8. LH and VB will collide on track at least twice.
9. Kimi will be pushed out or leave on his own accord mid season.
10. BE will find a way to cause more trouble...hopefully by acquiring a team!

[karting]

1. Torro Rosso will beat McLaren
2. Only 3 races will be won by someone other than Mercedes
3. Ricciardo will replace Bottas
4. Le Clerc will replace Kimi
5. Every single driver will use more than 3 engines and incur penalties
6. Ericsson will be beaten comprehensively by Le clerc
7.Force India will punish a driver

[crmalcolm]

1. A Mercedes driver will cause the other to crash out of a race.
2. Vettee will complain on the radio about a Red Bull driver's actions.
3. Verstappen will overtake Ricciardo on at least 4 different tracks.
4. Kubica will take part in a race weekend.
5. Alonso will get a podium.
6. Force India will qualify in the top 5 at Silverstone.
7. Renault cars will suffer more engine failures than the teams they supply.
8. A McLaren will be classified in every race.
9. A Toro Rosso will lose a wheel during a race.
10. A driver will tie a flag to his halo after a race.

[Skam85]

1. Ricciardo will win a non-attritional race.
2. Vettel will win his 5th WDC.
3. Bottas will not retain his Mercedes seat.
4. Leclerc will show flashes, but ultimately be given a second year at Sauber, with Kimi staying at Ferrari into 2019.
5. There will be a complete overreaction on a wet race, with multiple unnecessary red flag periods, causing outrage from the drivers, especially Lewis, who gets on the radio and says "just let us race man".
6. There will be a 'near miss' saved by the halo, causing it to be publicly praised by Jean Todt.
7. Alonso will not win a race, but finish second a couple of times.
8. Ericsson will be closer to Leclerc than expected.
9. Ocon will outscore Perez.
10. Sainz and Hulkenberg will be the most exciting teammate battle of the year on track.

[Go Harder.]

1. Grosjean will complain about brake problems
2. Alonso will win a race
3. Stroll will be gone after the season
4. Newey will quit F1
5. Kimi will win a race
6. There will be problems (failures) with the HyperSoft
7. Max will cause at least 2 major accidents
8. Force India will find new owners
9. McLaren will find a title sponsor
10. Ross Brawn will have some good ideas to improve F1, but the FIA will sit on its hands

[S griffin]

1) Vettel will challenge for the title again
2) Leclerc will be in the points at least five times
3) Bottas will leave Merc
4) New teams will enter for 2019 (I'm dreaming!)
5) Kimi will win a race
6) Renault will regularly be in the points
7) Force India will challenge the top teams
8) McLaren improve, but don't get a podium
9) Gasly will score more points than Hartley
10) Sirotkin will score more points than Stroll

[MissClarrpz]

1. Riccardo will take the fight to Max but...
2. Only after announcing he will leave for Mercedes
3. Baku will have a massive accident and have a chicane/permanent slow zone put in or race not restarted because of it (depends when in the weekend as to what happens)
4. Stroll and Sirotkin will crash one another out twice. Before they do it again...
5. Kubica will replace Sirotkin for at least 1 race
6. A Japanese fan will have a detailed halo of their F1 car hat and it will be cool
7. New weekend format will be proposed. Most will be against it except Hamilton
8. The world champion will be the only one not to receive an engine penalty
9. 21 safety car periods in total
10. I will make 10 predictions

[dsg]

1. Hamilton will win the WDC
2. Ferrari will win the WCC
3. There will be 5 wet race starts
4. Russia will be cancelled (or boycotted?)
5. Ricciardo will go to Ferrari at season's end
6. Kimi will retire at season's end
7. Hamilton and Bottas will collide at least once
8. Kimi and Verstappen will collide at least once
9. Verstappen and Ricciardo will collide at least once
10. I think it will be a good and interesting season

[Greem]

1. Hamilton will win his 5th WDC
2. International sanctions against Russia will cripple at least one team and cause the race to be run as the Eurasian Grand Prix in another country
3. At least one member of this forum will get suspended or banned
4. Ferrari will lodge a technical complaint against Mercedes which will be upheld by the FIA
5. Mercedes will counter-complain but the FIA will throw it out
6. McLaren will fail to complete more than a third of the races
7. Silverstone will be a glorious, sunny weekend and the race will be brilliant (here's hoping)
8. Liberty will continue tinkering with the race meeting format
9. One team will announce their intention to leave F1
10. Alonso will win at Le Mans, and announce a full time move to the WEC

[steve_r]

1. Ferrari, Haas and Alfa Romeo will all announce that they will leave F1 to join forces with Bernie Ecclestone and setup their own rival single-seater series
2. Hamilton will be involved in a non-F1 road traffic accident
3. Kubica will start at least one race
4. Hulkenburg will, at long last, get a podium finish
5. Hamilton and Vettel will collide at least twice
6. Bottas will win at least 4 races
7. Alfa Romeo will only score points in two races maximum
8. Raikonnen will sign on with Ferrari for at least one more year
9. Alonso will retire from F1 after another season ruined by mechanical breakdowns

[Mekola]

1. Max Verstappen will be a title contender.
2. The Halo will be questioned, probably its use could have a contradiction about his pros, specially about his cons.
3. Mercedes superiority will be adamant, despite Red Bull and Ferrari rivalries.
4. Honda will have a brilliant season with Toro Rosso.
5. Red Bull could make a Honda move for 2019 even during the season.
6. At least one world champion will retire this season.
7. We could have a Brazilian driver during the season, even as a Friday practice driver.
8. We could see a F1 driver swapping to Formula E, or backwards also.
9. Robert Kubica could have his chance to do, at least, one more F1 race.
10. Lando Norris will debut in F1 with McLaren throughout this year.

[chillibowl]

Originally Posted by MissClarrpz

6. A Japanese fan will have a detailed halo of their F1 car hat and it will be cool

it would be so cool and where can i buy one?

hands down best prediction so far for 2018!

[skells22]

1. a car will roll.
2. a new world champion
3. new race winner
4 3 red flags due to weather
5. a pile up

[TrapezeArtist]

1. Mercedes will win the Manufacturers Championship
2. Mercedes will be the only team to not incur engine penalties for using too many engines (but only with one car)
3. Alonso will get at least one podium
4. Raikkonen and Bottas will collide at least once
5. Sauber will be last in the championship
6. Williams will be next to last (very sad!)
7. A driver will be trapped in his car by the halo
8. Verstappen will win 3 races
9. I'll run out of ideas before I get to 10.

[rustyfan]

01. Hamilton will be crowned the 2018 World Champion.
02. Bottas will just pip Vettel to finish second in the championship.
03. Mercedes will win the constructor's championship, naturally - but Red Bull will finish second!
04. Ricciardo and Verstappen will have a close fight all year, both winning races.
05. The stars will align and Alonso will finish a race on the podium.
06. Ocon and Perez will give Force India more crash related headaches this year.
07. Haas will score a surprise podium.
08. Gasly will win the internal Toro Rosso fight.
09. Both Sauber drivers will score points.
10. Someone will flip. For real this time, not half-baked like Wehrlein last year

[F1Guy]

1) Alonso will podium at least twice this season.
2) Toro Rosso will be the first team to get an engine penalty.
3) Hamilton will win the FiA pole position trophy.
4) Daniel Ricciardo will win the Monaco GP.
5) Fastest lap times will be broken at every race.
6) Alfa Romeo will finish last in the championship.
7) Hamilton will win the WDC, before the final round.
8) Bottas will be at Mercedes next season.
9) Ricciardo will sign with Renault for 2019.
10) Raikkonen will remain at Ferrari.

[BSchneiderFan]

1) My blood will boil over because people are using “podium” as a verb.

[Razzzor]

1. Vettel WDC by a small margin after a Merc engine failure because they keep running it to the extreme in quali. Everyone undeservedly hates on Vettel just like they did Nico... who continues to undeservedly get hated on because he hasn't dropped off the planet.

2. Bottas disappoints Merc enough for them to sign Ocon for 2019 before seasons end. Then Bottas wins a race and Ocon crashes into Perez.

3. Kimi fails to win a race again, but takes pole for Monaco. Much like Schumi's last season. Oh and another year goes by with the world still in the dark over Schumi's condition.

4. Leclerc trounces Ericsson but Ferrari are still too pu--y to replace Kimi, who stays with the team until 2025 before it's revealed he was in a gay "daddy-issues" relationship with Arrivabene. Both are fired.

5. Alonso wins WEC races, but fails to take the title, it's another season of battling over 7th in F1. Hartley beats him in Australia but Fred plays it down and starts talking about the the Indy 500.

6. Honda are more reliable than Renault, with Gasly and Hartley good solid drivers re-signing for 2019. Hartley says "I'm just enjoying life and having a good time" while taking bicycling holiday photos with his cute gf.

7. Sirotkin beats Stroll in points, but finish 2nd to last in Constructors. The media continue to harp on about Kubica who finally disappears after not getting the drive in 2019. He tries FE, re-united with his old team mate, but isn't quick enough anymore.

8. The Verstappen/Ricc relationship sours after another incident of aggressive driving from MV resulting in Ricc in the gravel and Ricc sick of being beaten by a team mate. But nowhere else to go so he stays at RB another season for 2019.

9. Both RB drivers win at least 1 race but the Renault is an unreliable POS by seasons end and Verstappen runs his mouth worse than Alonso. He's ****ed that Ocon gets the 2019 Merc seat... which blossoms into a big 2020's decade of rivalry to match Prost/Senna and helps F1 stay relevant.

10. I barely watch the Japanese GP because Bathurst is far more exciting, which SM wins by the way but has the T8's all over his ass. He joins the Nascar programme in 2019. Dummybrell screws up JW's Bathurst race.

[marcel82]

1. Hamilton will be WDC
2. Vettel will win more races
3. Ricciardo will be the better Red Bull driver.
4. Mclaren will be beaten by Toro Rosso
5. Alfa Romeo will catch Williams by the end of the season
6. Perez and Ocon will be allowed to race each other in Melbourne, but not beyond that.
7. Haas will be a regular Q3 team
8. Both Raikkonen and Alonso retire after this one.
9. Alonso's Toyota will retire during the night at Le Mans with some sort of problem.
10. Halo will become a common and widely excepted driver excuse for any form of incident on track

[gert]

1. Bottas will more races than in 2017, but will still be replaced for 2019.
2. Raikkonen wins at least one race.
3. Both Sainz and Hulkenberg (finally) will get a podium finish this year
4. A Red Bull car will be disqualified from the race results
5. Ericsson will score at least one point
6. Perez will score more points than Ocon
7. McLaren will finish in the top 5 in the Constructors Championship
8. There will be a winner who does not drive for Mercedes, Ferrari or Red Bull.

[Born Racer]

As usual, the following do not even necessarily represent the views of this poster, but I have more fun with it if I stick my neck out.

1. Vettel will win the championship.
2. But Hamilton will have more wins.
3. A driver will be replaced at least once (it always seems to happen!).
4. Alonso will win a race.
5. Red Bull will only win one race.
6. Williams will be last in the championship.
7. Renault will beat Force India.
8. Leclerc will score at least a point on at least 4 occasions.
9. Both Ben Edwards and David Croft will continue to say "Lights out and away we go".
10. I will look back at the end of the season and spot that two or three of these were right.