WELCOME GTP 2025!!
ROUND 1 DEADLINE is VERY EARLY FRIDAY 14th MARCH!
Holy Sh*t!! Is it time for F1 again? After the worlds longest season and what seems like an amazing short off season, it's time to start this bus back up and roll out. With all things F1 in the air, it's time to dig GTP up from out of the ground and re-animate it back to life. @MonteCristo took the Accuracy Championship and @Picci took the Points Championship last year. Can anyone take both crowns in 2025?
Here's where I could talk about pre-season testing, but why bother? Most years it tells us nothing, so why wax on about it endlessly? The first round Q1 sesson will be our best indicator on who is fast and who is not.
Instead, I direct you to the rules below in case you are new, or in case you need a refresher...
THE GTP RULES (Last updated in 2022)
1. Your guess must be entered in a 1:23.456 format (please use all 3 decimal places).
2. You can change your time guess as many times as you wish prior to the cutoff time (start of the first free practice).
3. You must not edit your time after the deadline as I will count any edit after the deadline time as a DNF. If you need to fix the grammar, please add another entry comment (unless you really want to change your entry time).
4. Points payout uses the older F1 points format and consists of:
1st = 10 Points (with a +10 point bonus for exact guess to the thousandths place for a total of 20 points)
2nd = 6 Points
3rd = 4 Points
4th = 3 Points
5th = 2 Points
6th = 1 Point
5. Any duplicate time guesses will score that place to the first person who entered it in this thread. The second person will finish one place down, etc...
(Example: If 3 people guess the winning time the same, the first place goes to the person with the earliest guess time, 2nd goes to the next guess time and third goes to the last. The next slowest unique time will score 4th place.)
6. If you edit your time and end up with a duplicate, the last time you entered a guess will be counted as your guess time used in rule 5 (regardless if you changed back to an earlier guess or not).
7. The Accuracy Championship is calculated based on how far your guess is from the actual pole time. Your total accuracy is a sum of all your guess differentials for the season. Often the Point Champ is different from the Accuracy Champ.
8. This year we will trial allowing each player to drop a round. If you miss a round or completely screw it up, your Accuracy score will be based on best of 23 rounds
9. In order to be considered for the Accuracy standings, you must enter a guess for 23 of the 24 qualifying events (aka rounds). You can miss up to a single round this year. However, if you miss multiple rounds, you will be dropped from the Accuracy Championship. (Often there are only a handful of players in the running at the end of the season.)
10. The deadline for guess entries is always the start of First Practice. Friday's for most rounds. Thursday for Monaco. Please note that many of the Asia/Pacific Rim races have deadlines late Thurs night or VERY early Friday morning relative to Europe and North America.
11. No username needed. Just enter a guess in the thread. Your board username will be your GTP player name.
12. The winning time will be taken from the official qualifying session used to set the grid for the first race of the weekend. This means that if a sprint race is called, the qualification session used to set the grid for the sprint race will count as the pole time and the winning GTP time. (I am hoping we will not need this rule much longer as Sprint races will go away as the gimmick they are.)
13. If an official qualification session is delayed or rescheduled (Saturday or Sunday), GTP will use the results of the official qualification session no matter when it is run (Friday, Saturday, or Sunday). If the session is red flagged, scrubbed, or cut short, GTP will use the final session of the official qualifying time used to set the grid (example: they only run Q1). However, if the session is cancelled and not rescheduled, GTP will use whatever official timed session the FIA uses to set the grid (example: FP1, FP2, etc...).
14. In the case that no timed session is used to set the grid (example: cars are placed in WDC points order), then the round of GTP will be null and void and no winner will be declared for that one race weekend. Additionally, the Accuracy Championship will be shortened by 1 round.
Please PM me if you have any issues or questions.
I will post a new thread for each round of the season for track information, results, comments, and discussion. Good Luck!
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Round 1 - Formula 1 Rolex Australian Grand Prix 2025, Albert Park, Melbourne - 14-16 March
Track Length: 5.278 Km (3.280 Miles)
Race Laps: 58 (306.124 Km)
# DRS Zones this year: 4
2024 Pole time: Max Verstappen (RedBull) 1:15.915
The deadline for entries is before the start of Friday First Free Practice (Friday 01:30 GMT& UK time / 21:30 Thursday EDT in USA)
Remember to put your guess in the thread with all edits complete prior to the deadline above.
Other Links of Interest:
Official F1 Site
Melbourne Weather Forecast
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Just a reminder to you western hemisphere folks, that Friday practice in Australia is actually late Thursday night. So get your guess in before it's too late!
Best of luck to you all!
2019 GTP Accuracy Champion 
