Silverstone - F1 Prediction League (Round 8)

The British Grand Prix is here! Amid disputes and reports of growing discontent from Red Bull and Ferrari, we head to Silverstone for the 47th race held on the circuit. Only Monza and Monaco have played host to more races. 

Last year Webber ran an excellent race and won a vital victory in the championship battle, robbing Alonso of 7 points. Can Webber repeat his form or will Vettel dominate in the other Red Bull?

With a number of fantastic results from various high ranked people in the prediction league, the pack are closing in.

MetalGatherer in only their third race pulled off an amazing weekend, predicting Vettel and Red Bull across the board which turned out to be perfect.

Just a quick round-up of the standings so far:

 

This was updated on the 28/06/2013.

For other F1 prediction league articles, please go to: http://formulaoneanalysis.blogspot.co.uk/p/blog-page.html

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Random Category for Silverstone

Which driver will come closest to completing the Triple?

 

The Triple refers to the same result across qualifying, race and the fastest lap, this doesn't have to be first place, it could be fifth or fourteenth. 

The following drivers are off-limits: Sebastian Vettel (the championship leader), Charles Pic, Van der Garde, Bianchi and Chilton (the four teams driving for Caterham and Marussia). This is in order to take away the five obvious picks, which will make this category far more interesting.

The score will be calculated on the difference away from the middle number (ordered sequentially) so if three different people picked three different drivers the scoring would be as follows:

Driver - Qualifying - Race - Fastest Lap - Score

Massa    8th - 10th - 15th (10 - 8 = 2 | 15 - 10 = 5 |  2 + 5 = 7)

Sutil       6th - 9th - 10th (9 - 6 = 3 | 10 - 9 = 1 |  3 + 1 = 4)

Alonso   5th - 2nd - 6th (5 - 2 = 3 | 6 - 5 = 1 |  3 + 1 = 4)

There are several tie-breaks. 

• The first tie-break will be how far the race position is from the middle number, in Sutil's case it is the middle number (9th) where Alonso's race (2nd) is 3 away from the middle number. 
• Should there still be a tie, this applies to the qualifying position. 
• Finally the ultimate race position will be the deciding factor, the closest to the lead the better.

Given the tie-breakers above, Sutil will win on TB1.

Points will be allocated based on the following:

1st - 3 points

2nd and 3rd - 2 points

4th, 5th and 6th - 1 point

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As before, post your picks in the following format -

Qualifying: 

Race:

Constructors:

Random:

Picks are due by Thursday 27th June 23:59 GMT.

Good luck all!