Topic: 🏁🏎️ Sportsbet.io🏁 FORMULA 1 2023 Season🏁🏎️Prediction Pool Discussion Thread - page 67. (Read 22020 times)

Have to admit I still haven't wrapped my head around this format. All I can say is I'm just waiting for results to put in picks -- Superbru doesn't even seem to care about Sprint either though so I'm most likely not changing my thoughts for Qatar. But yes, not missing my precious EBPs today, 2 points is the min I need now that I slipped to 9th.

I see some still picking Sainz and Perez in the prediction contest for fastest lap. I'm not moved =D

I thought only 3 Sprint races this year like the last one but I see that are now 2 more other Sprint races.I honestly am not a big fan of them,I am a classic when it comes to F1 and I don't like this new format compared to the normal qualifying that we have on most races here.

For the Superbru,we have time until before 19 PM European time which is the official time of the qualifying which will be held today,so people should not forget to place their picks before it or they will lose very important vital 2 EBP points at this point of the season.

This is a reminder for everyone who has a question mark in his mind about when to make predictions to get EBP. On the weekends with sprint races the deadline still doesn't change on Superbru. It is still until the start of qualifying.

In Qatar the qualifying is tomorrow unlike the usual as the sprint race is on Saturday. By the way among the remaining races we will have 2 more race weeks with sprint races which are United States and Sao Paulo. The same format will be valid for them as well on Superbru for now.

I completely forgot that we have the last Sprint race of the tournament.It means we have to put our predictions before the "official qualifying" which is exactly tomorrow and the Sprint race on Saturday.I have completely forgotten which counts in Superbru,the Sprint or the Friday qualifying anyway I will make sure to put my predictions on tomorrow morning after seeing at least one Friday free practice session so I can judge which cars to put on the top 10 as for the podium now it remains totally unpredictable with McLaren and Ferrari also doing good.

There is only a day left for Qatar race weekend to be underway.    This time we are going to have a sprint race also. It would be quite nice to watch more events at this weekend because we had a one-week break before this race week. But one thing seems already very likely that Verstappen would get a very dominant win here just as he got such win in Suzuka.

The Singapore weekend was a big failure for Red Bull and Verstappen. Since then Verstappen has been making an extra effort to make up for that result.

Verstappen said that he was going to target to finish the remaining races with at least a time gap of 20 seconds. It was 19 seconds in Suzuka and I expect him to do what he said here also.

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I don't think Adidas is that much into the fashion nowadays but maybe it is just me who don't follow fashion a lot.If they come to F1 I don't think that will make an impact though in terms of performance of the car but they can do a lot of impact in the budget from the marketing they will get visibility and this can be good for the budget of that team.

I can't wait for the 2026 season though where Audi will enter F1 and Hyundai/KIA have expressed their desire to be part of the F1 not in a so distant future.This season is already over and the next one doesn't look that promising either.

For real ? Adidas could enter F1 ? That would be a serious change and I think it would be a positive one. I can already imagine the car having the stripes of Adidas and a black and white color that should be eye candy for the fans.

As Formula 1's getting more watchable huge brands have also started to race each other for entering Formula 1 as well. I hope that the design of Adidas' car wouldn't be as bad as their jerseys. It will be quite interesting to see a clothing brand entering this sport and giving its name to the team as well. Teams are spending a huge amount of money for the development of their cars. Therefore Adidas had better allocate a huge deal of money if they want to do nice things in Formula 1.

Small news, rumor.

The next naming of the Alpha Tauri (they will change the name) can be...



Adidas.


 

Well, it's still time and 6 races are a lot. 
Maybe, we'll get some surprises or you'll get 2 podiums right in a row and you are back in Top 10. An issue to watch can be engine penalties because on some tracks, I expect some drivers to take an engine change, where getting 10 places grid penalty can definitely make a difference.
It's really close and we need to make good predictions every round. 

That is true, but positions are not changing to often and it is only with one or two points.
What can make a big difference is if someone catches big surprise for pole position winner or for podium places.
I am not sure we are going to see big changes in next 6 races, but I do hope I will go up.
Next race in Qatar should be interesting one.

Even though there 6 races left for the season to finish everyone is still very close to each other. Mosala(vd309) is maintaining his advantage by the extra points he won. An extra good or bad week that a person in top 10 have can be decisive for the rest of the season. It is really sad that there is a 1 week break before the Qatar Grand Prix.

When I look from my point of view 14th place isn't good for me at all. After winning this pool last year I was hoping to be in top 3 this season as well.

Ty.

Like someone who decides to make a big bet and leave the second most consistent driver in F1 out of the top 10.  It worked.

But in pool it took half a second to win, when an "obvious" had to be added to the "formula."

Second time, Yellow Cap Winner, so 

Yes, it's really interesting to see how our predictions are very close. Right now, it looks like just particular positions can make a big difference because most drivers are set for top 10 and we don't have many accidents (except Perez  ).

Same here, I'm in the bottom 10% this week despite doing nothing really wrong.
I even had Norris on podium but on the wrong position (3rd, while he finished 2nd) and in Superbru, that doesn't make any difference compared to if he ended up position 10 because I needed Perez on podium as well to get +2 podium points but Perez dropped the ball once again... 
Quite embarassing performance from Perez by puting Magnussen from the track and some more stupid stuff like overtaking during box exit...


Shows how close our pool still is. 1 or 2 very good / very bad predicted races can really make a difference if people end up position 5 or position 15 on Superbru and we've still 6 races to go. Today's race was very close from a prediction perspective (most participants between 13 and 15 points) and we still had some position changes in Superbru. In a much more chaotic race or in case someone can get a correct podium, it's quite possible to make up 4 or more points in a single race.
Next race is in 14 days (Quatar), where we will have Sprint again. So, make sure to get in you picks in time. 



I'm looking forward especially to Las Vegas Grand Prix. It's a new track but could have similar results like Monza, since it seems to be a very fast track.

I also had Perez for the podium but it looks like he is a burned card if we keep using him for the podiums in these last upcoming races of the pool.He can be a factor,a bad factor or a good one depending on how he behaves in these last remaining races.The only big problem we have with him it is that we don't know how he will behave,that lame attempt to overtake a much slower car in a point where it was not desperately needed as soon after that he had two straights to easily surpass that car and this shows that he was not concentrated at all during this Japanese race.

The upcoming races are ones where usually Redbull have been great and maybe he will recover there so I am really doubtful about him but I guess I will have to stick to him for the podiums and whatever comes comes.

I must also admit that it was a quite boring race. We didn't see any action for taking the lead. The only thing we saw was the start. But Verstappen defended Piastri - Norris duo amazingly that he didn't even let a little action happen at the beginning. Norris could have overtaken him considering his strong start but it didn't happen. 

Even for podium there wasn't an exciting competition. Piastri and Norris were so comfortable about that. Leclerc said that he could have overtaken one of the McLaren drivers earlier but his pace wasn't good enough to do that.

Perez was really disappointing. I picked him for podium but he had to retire the car especially after that nonsense overtake attempt. I guess he couldn't focus on the race today.

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Lol...  I've already given up and stopped caring tbh.  I'll still make my picks if I remember or if I'm not lazy.    It's been fun playing and talking with you guys about F1.

As for the Japanese GP, it was good til the part when Verstappen had a huge gap vs Norris.  That's when I stopped paying attention as it was kinda getting boring.

Yeah in the pool the results surprised me as there were a couple of persons that were not at all in the bigger prize spots and now just because of a race I see them tailing me just 1 point behind while ahead the top guys got another point of advantage from me and am now 2.5 points behind them although I think that was the gap even before the race.

I never thought to see such a performing McLaren today but I am happy about them and the best radio message was Sainz regarding the Mercedeses saying "they are using my trick against me" although they could not implement it very well letting Russell DRS to keep Sainz behind which didn't happen.