Topic: 🏁🏎️ Sportsbet.io🏁 FORMULA 1 2023 Season🏁🏎️Prediction Pool Discussion Thread - page 100. (Read 22011 times)

ESPN shown at the official transmission for Q2 that they had done the same timing, Verstappen and Leclerc. Obviously the official results leave a difference.

Did anyone made Leclerc pole position prediction in Superbru website?
It was sure a surprise to me, but this was a nice comeback for Ferrari and Leclerc winning pole position, he seems to like Azerbaijan Grand Prix very much as this is not his first time making good results here.
Carlos Sainz was fourth place that was another great result but qualifications are different from actual race.
I still think team one of the Red Bull team members will win the race, but odds change now in Leclerc favor, Verstappen still have lowest odds:


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In only watched the Q3 and it was truly surprise by the pace of the Ferrari, i didnt expect that, and it was not a one lap thing, it was really good pace.

Lets see if in the race they can maintain this one.

One thing to notice its this can be a lie, because maybe they were the only team to catch the correct set up with only one practice, so lets see if the rest of the field in the coming days with more data change this.

And we have the results of the qualifying session! Q3 was pretty exciting to watch and Leclerc did a brilliant work there by taking the pole position. It looks like Leclerc took advantage of the long break really well. Before the last tries Verstappen and Leclerc were so close to each other. But while Leclerc was improving his time Verstappen couldn't do better than him. This is a big step forward by Leclerc.

However I still can't trust Ferrari much because they can still make simple mistakes during the race and make the race unbearable for Leclerc.  

Ferrari seem to have made good use of the break and have caught up with RedBull on the city circuit, at least Leclerc, Sainz doesn't seem to be doing so well this season or is not in form. Probably nobody tipped Leclerc for pole position 🤣

As for Ferrari themselves, it's just not enough what they do with all the money, if it continues like this it will soon be 20 years since the last world championship title (Kimi 💪).

^  I predicted the usual suspects with Verstappen, Perez and Alonso.  Going to the fourth to 10th spots is where it starts getting greasy but I got Russell and Hamilton, then Sainz, Leclerc, Norris, Stroll and Hulkenburg.  I'm not really sure if I should put Norris and Hulkenburg in there but whatever.  Hard to choose between them and Gasly, Bottas, Ocon and Albon.  :/ 


Ok wait...  So I already made my picks a couple of hours ago.  How many more points do I get if I stick with until race day? 

Anyway, any spots that stick out from a betting perspective?

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The race weeks consisting of sprint also are really very exciting. I predicted Perez to win the race by taking a little risk in my Superbru predictions. If I predict it correctly this would make me climb the leaderboard by a few places.

For all the people here that don't know the sprint race has changed some things and that is the Early Brew Points you get if you put your predictions before today at Qualifying at 15:00 European time as this count as the starting Qualification for Superbru while in reality for F1 this is only made to dictate the places of the cars,how will they start tomorrow in the Sprint race as it will be fun to have such a race in such a twisty and technical track like this one in this weekend,so people do not forget to put your predictions before 15.00 PM European time today or you lose a precious 2 points.

Yes, probably it's still not updated and / or got copied unreviwed into the draft as it's a new procedure, so I'll submit my prediction ahead of Friday's qualifying.

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Just a quick question (don't know if it's suited better here or in Sportsbet.io's topic): are you planning to add boosted odds for F1 bets as well at some point?
Would be a nice feature to have boosed odds for F1 as well. 

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Already done and I'll change it ahead of qualifying after FP1. 
But after only 1 FP session, it'll be difficult to make a good prediction.
At least it's adding some excitement for our predictions, too.
And teams will need to find out about possible setup issues quickly, maybe it'll add some randomness for going into qualifying if some teams have a bad setup and can't change it due to lack of data, where normally much more free practice is done.

They had their good times when Michael Schumacher was driving for them, money was flowing and everything was great.
Dont forget that Ferrari has by far most constructors and engine titles from all other teams in history, and they are one of the first who started formula one.

Just make your predictions early and dont worry about it
I sometimes cant open leaderboard in Superbru, they are always doing some maintanence work and they are slow updating results, but I dont know any better alternative.
And dont forget to make forum predictions for F1 Prediction Contest.

Don't forget to put in your predictions for the Azerbaijan Grand Prix this weekend on Superbru
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I also found it a bit confusing, but maybe the "Tip" at the bottom is still from last year and they forgot to change it?

This year the sprint races are different from last year, there was a change, the pole position for Sunday will be held on Friday, the pole position for the sprint race will be held on Saturday morning, so I think it will be important to place your bet on Friday before the qualifying in the Superbru to get the bonus points.

I hope i understand the rule changes correct.

Sprint Shootout

Honestly, Superbru's description doesn't make much sense.
First part marked in red means, we need to make our predictions before qualifying (Friday) to get Early Bru Points, second part marked in red means, we need to make our predictions before sprint race (Saturday) to get Early Bru Points. 
I'm confused because it's contradictory...
Maybe it's best if we assume to get in our picks before qualifying (Friday) since it's always about Early Bru Points to be submitted before qualifying (which will determine race grid positions on Sunday).

I think after a lot of years, and when i say a lot of years, are a lot of years, since 2008 Ferrari its no longer reliable for any, no matter the kind.

They always bluff and say, yes we worked on bla bla bla, and when the time to show comes, they always lack, so i dont trust them anymore, plus the only time when they really come with a super engine.... well you know that engine was a pure fraud to the rules.

I also don't have a favourite for the race yet and how well the teams have worked in the meantime, especially Ferrari should have worked hard in the break, am still very undecided about my tip. I'll probably give my tip after the first practice and go with my gut feeling. Mercedes could be an insider's tip, even though they had big problems with bouncing/porpoising last year.


I checked Superbru and here's what it says about sprint races for bonus points.


So with the sprint races it will be a bit harder to guess the pole position.

There have been some news like Red Bull will bring new updates to the car for the Azerbaijan GP. If the car gets even faster than this I just can't imagine how much ahead they can be against their rivals. Verstappen is already a driver with great skills and we all know what he can do with a this much fast car already. For now it seems like this is his season again unless we see a big improvement from the other teams.

I hope to see Ferrari starting to do something by this race. Because they made a horrible start unlike my expectation from them. The big change in the team made me more hopeful about their future but for now the feeling is only a disappointment. By the way I hope Ferrari replace Xavi with someone else. I'm afraid he is really bad with calls for the drivers. We have witnessed especially Leclerc's complaining to him many times due to being bad at making decisions in crucial moments.

I received an email just now about F1 qualifying from Superbru, and it's definitely Friday. Yes, I came to the forum immediately to say it, how nice am I? Or how worryingly misprioritised with my Wednesday heh heh.

No idea how things will change, read the email but not much registered on my morning brain, so I'm going to do a wee bit of research later tomorrow to see if I can make good on my current Superbru standing.

Noticed I got 3 poles right, but not a single Fastest Lap so far. This needs to change.

Is it really Saturday for qualifying? It's a little bit confusing because as far as I know, F1 is planning changes where a sprint race weekend will look different now:

Friday
FP1
Qualifying for race
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Saturday
Qualifying for sprint race
Sprint race
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Sunday
Race

For normal weekends, it's FP 1 and 2 on Friday, FP3 and Qualifying on Saturday and race on Sunday for weekends, where no spring is taking place and last season,
For previous weekends, it's FP 1 and qualifying for sprint race on Friday, FP3 and sprint race on Saturday, where sprint races will determine grid positions for the race and and race will be hold on Sunday for sprint weekends.

It's not sure which format will be applied, as far as I know, teams are voting tomorrow (and it's likely to be a new format described above (Qualifying for Spring and Race will be different)).
It's a little bit confusing but I believe we will see qualifying on Friday evening, where FP2 is placed normally.  
Teams want to intruduce a separate qualifying for race and sprint race because if a sprint race determines starting grid positions, it's always a procession as drivers won't risk much to crash out and start the race from behind. By separating sprint and race, drivers can risk more to avoid a bad starting grid position due to a sprint race crash.
I assume, SuperBru is not updated yet but make sure to get your predictions in early.  

I don't think any team can get past Red Bull in this season. However I hope them to get close to Red Bull a little at least.


It says in the tip on Superbru website like this:




Besides the time of the qualifying session to start is indicated like this on the website:

Saturday 29 April 16.30



I think that we won't lose any points if we change them before Saturday.

They sure had enough time to fix a couple of things,as it is almost one month that we are without racing and not only Mercedes all the teams had enough time to improve their cars.No matter these claims it will be only the track that will tell if teams have indeed improved and Mercedes is much faster as they claim.I doubt they would have improved as much as they claim as Redbull has been quiet from some time meaning they keep their head down and they also upgrade their car just like other teams are doing.

The track is a great one to be used as an indicator to check teams performance as one lap is well over 1 minute and 30 seconds if I recall correctly,being one of the longest tracks of the calendar,it will make sure to see the true power of the cars if they have indeed improved or not.