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It's a double header, and at the same track. Will your predictions be the same this time round? Obviously the results aren't in from Sunday, but I should get them all published and released at the appropriate time. In the meantime, let's get voting in for THIS Sunday's race. Here's your blank slate:

Voting closes when FP3 ends on Saturday

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Pole:
Fastest lap:
First retirement:
Reject of the Race:
Infinite Improbability Drive of the Race:
Deadbeat Teammate of the Race:
Number of Safety Cars:
How Far Back:

Reject of the Race - our race-by-race award for what was the most gloriously terrible thing during the race.
Infinite Improbability Drive of the Race - the opposite, what was the feel-good result that we vote on?
Deadbeat Teammate of the Race - who was the most mathematically behind their teammate?
Number of Safety Cars - virtual ones don't count.
How Far Back - the person who finishes last, how many laps behind will they be?

You can also bag a bonus point for coming up with the funniest alternative race title. I'm the judge so I don't do it.



My predictions are as follows:

1. Valtteri Bottas
2. Max Verstappen
3. Alexander Albon
4. Carlos Sainz Jr.
5. Sergio Perez
6. Lando Norris
7. Lance Stroll
8. Kimi Räikkönen
9. George Russell!
10. Charles Leclerc

Pole: Valtteri Bottas
Fastest lap: Valtteri Bottas
First retirement: Lewis Hamilton (basically the only retirement with overheating problems)
Reject of the Race: Lewis Hamilton (doesn't cover himself with glory over the radio or in interviews. Distracted and causes some kind of big controversy, then doesn't even finish and blames the team or something)
Infinite Improbability Drive of the Race: Valtteri Bottas (absolutely dominated)
Deadbeat Teammate of the Race: Lewis Hamilton
Number of Safety Cars: 2
How Far Back: 2 laps

Good luck everyone :dance:
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2020 Austrian Grand Prix 2: Electric Boogaloo

1. Hamilton
2. Bottas
3. Verstappen
4. Albon
5. Perez
6. Norris
7. Leclerc
8. Sainz
9. Stroll
10. Vettel

Pole: Hamilton
Fastest lap: Hamilton
First retirement: Ocon
Reject of the Race: Ferrari. The upgrades! They do nothing.
Infinite Improbability Drive of the Race: Perez (betting on an outside chance of a podium here)
Deadbeat Teammate of the Race: Vettel
Number of Safety Cars: 2
How Far Back: 2 laps
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2020 Helmut Marko's Therapy Grand Prix

1. Bottas
2. Verstappen
3. Hamilton
4. Sainz
5. Leclerc
6. Norris
7. Albon
8. Perez
9. Ricciardo
10. Stroll

Pole: Bottas
Fastest lap: Bottas
First retirement: Ocon
Reject of the Race: Vettel
Infinite Improbability Drive of the Race: Russell
Deadbeat Teammate of the Race: Vettel
Number of Safety Cars: 1
How Far Back: 2 LAPS
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The 2020 Polystyrian Grand Prix

1. Hamilton
2. Bottas
3. Verstappen
4. Albon
5. Sainz
6. Norris
7. Leclerc
8. Vettel
9. Russell
10. PErez

Pole: Hamilton
Fastest lap: Verstappen
First retirement: Grosjean
Reject of the Race: Haas' break-by-banana peel system
Infinite Improbability Drive of the Race: Russell
Deadbeat Teammate of the Race: Vettel
Number of Safety Cars: 2
How Far Back: 2l
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2020 Styremark Grand Prix

1. Hamilton
2. Bottas
3. Verstappen
4. Albon
5. Perez
6. Sainz
7. Leclerc
8. Stroll
9. Ricciardo
10. Vettel

Pole: Hamilton
Fastest lap: Verstappen
First retirement: Norris
Reject of the Race: Haas
Infinite Improbability Drive of the Race: Perez
Deadbeat Teammate of the Race: Latifi
Number of Safety Cars: 2
How Far Back: 1
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2020 Aust... wai... wha... okay...?
1. Bottas
2. Hamilton
3. Verstappen
4. Albon
5. Leclerc
6. Vettel
7. Norris
8. Sainz
9. Pérez
10. Stroll

Pole: Bottas
Fastest lap: Hamilton
First retirement: Grosjean
Reject of the Race: The race for its epically boring results
Infinite Improbability Drive of the Race: Russell
Deadbeat Teammate of the Race: Latifi
Number of Safety Cars: 2
How Far Back: 1
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The 2020 Deja Vu GP of South Eastern Greater Germany

1. Bottas
2.Hamilton
3. Verstappen
4.Sainz
5. Perez
6. Albon
7. Stroll
8. Leclerc
9. Vettel
10. Norris

Pole: Hamilton
Fastest lap: Hamilton
First retirement: Grosjean
Reject of the Race: Vettel
Infinite Improbability Drive of the Race: Perez
Deadbeat Teammate of the Race: Latifi
Number of Safety Cars: zero
How Far Back: 1 lap
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I barely keep on top of how the Predicament Prediction points work, but I'll wager I didn't score too many - except that my predictions for second and third actually finished first and second, so that should probably count for something. Anyway,

The 2020 "Arnold Schwarzenegger was born here, don't you know, because he told us once at the start of the TV coverage in the ITV days" Grand Prix

And hence, this is given in the style of Arnie's films...

1. Terminator Hamilton
2. Total Bottas Recall
3. The Running Leclerc
4. Kindergarten Cop Verstappen
5. Predator Vettel
6. Albon The Barbarian
7. Sainz Junior
8. Eraser Ricciardo
9. Batman & Norris
10. Last Action Pérez

Pole: Terminator Hamilton 2: Judgement Day
Fastest lap: Terminator Hamilton 3: this sequel wasn't very good
First retirement: True Grosjean Lies
ROTR: The continued existence of Formula 1.5 and how tedious that's getting, as normal service will be resumed this time round... won't it?
IIDOTR: Russell All The Way
DBTMOTR: End Of Stroll
Number of Safety Cars: one, and one only
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The Von Trapped in Groundhog day GP of Stiermark

1. Albon
2. Norris
3. Verstappen
4. Bottas
5. Hamilton
6. Leclerc
7. Sainz
8. Perez
9. Vettel
10. Stroll

Pole: Bottas
Fastest lap: Albon
First retirement: Raikkonen
Reject of the Race: whatever they call the Minardis these days
Infinite Improbability Drive of the Race: Norris
Deadbeat Teammate of the Race: Vettel
Number of Safety Cars: 2
How Far Back: 1 lap
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To be honest, I'm putting in about as much effort to come up with a title as Vettel is in his driving...

1. Bottas
2. Hamilton
3. Verstappen
4. Albon
5. Sainz Jr.
6. Perez
7. Norris
8. Leclerc
9. Stroll
10. Vettel

Pole: Bottas
Fastest lap: Hamilton
First retirement: Grosjean (more brake issues for Haas)
Reject of the Race: Haas
Infinite Improbability Drive of the Race: Sainz Jr.
Deadbeat Teammate of the Race: Latifi
Number of Safety Cars: 1
How Far Back: 2 laps
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2020 Lichtenstein Grand Prix (Well, if Imola can be in San Marino, and Dijon can be in Switzerland, and Nürburgring can be in Luxembourg, and Donington Park can be in Europe.... Oh wait, one of them doesn't fit...)

1. Bottas (whenever there have been two consecutive races in the same country, you have always had the same winner. Just ask Jones, Schumacher or Hill. But will using the same track twice in succession break the pattern? My guess is... clearly no.)
2. Verstappen
3. Hamilton
4. Leclerc
5. Sainz
6. Norris
7. Albon
8. Vettel
9. Kyvat
10. Ricciardo

Pole: Hamilton
Fastest lap: Bottas
First retirement: Romain Grosjean
Reject of the Race: Red Bull and/or Honda
Infinite Improbability Drive of the Race: Bottas
Deadbeat Teammate of the Race: Latifi
Number of Safety Car: two
How Far Back: one lap down
MLP: Latifi
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2020 Steiermark? Wohl Eher Tomatenmark Grand Prix

1. Bottas
2. Hamilton
3. Verstappen
4. Pérez
5. Stroll
6. Norris
7. Kvyat
8. Vettel
9. Sainz
10. Leclerc

Pole: Hamilton
Fastest lap: Verstappen
First retirement: Albon
Reject of the Race: Renault
Infinite Improbability Drive of the Race: Ricciardo
Deadbeat Teammate of the Race: Gasly
Number of Safety Cars: 0
How Far Back: 2
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2020 "Here We Go Again" Styrian Grand Prix

1) Hamilton
2) Bottas
3) Verstappen
4) Perez
5) Sainz
6) Albon
7) Norris
8) Leclerc
9) Stroll
10) Vettel

Pole: Hamilton
Fastest Lap: Verstappen
First Retirement: Latifi
ROTR: Haas
IIDOTR: Perez
DBTMOTR: Stroll
SCs: 1
How Far Back: 1
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The "no styremarks on those curbs, lads" grand prix 2020

1) Hamilton
2) Bottas
3) Verstappen
4) Sainz
5) Albon
6) Norris
7) Leclerc
8) Raikonnen
9) Stroll
10) Vettel

Pole: Hamilton
Fastest Lap: Bottas
First Retirement: Grosjean
ROTR: Ferrari
IIDOTR: Norris
DBTMOTR: Grosjean
SCs: 2
How Far Back: 2
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The "Run to the Styrian Hills, Ferrari!" grand prix 2020

1) Hamilton
2) Bottas
3) Verstappen
4) Albon
5) Norris
6) Leclerc
7) Sainz
8) Perez
9) Stroll
10) Raikkonen

Pole: Bottas
Fastest Lap: Verstappen
First Retirement: Grosjean
ROTR: David Croft
IIDOTR: Leclerc
DBTMOTR: Grosjean
SCs: 1
How Far Back: 2
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Guess I'd better count up those scores again!

The winner of the 2020 Predicament Predictions championship will be announced soon!

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Can you include the scores from here too or not? https://f1rejectsbackup.forumotion.com/ ... rial-forum
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Can do, no worries. Also hi Baker! Good to see you again :)
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Rob Dylan wrote:Can do, no worries. Also hi Baker! Good to see you again :)

Good to see you too!
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The results are in! Without further ado, how did everyone do in Austria 2?

Results
1. Enforcer 20
2. RAK 19
- Pacific Edge 19
- Francis23 19

5. Fetzie 18
- Psyclepath 18
7. dinizintheoven 17
8. mario 14
- Klon 14
10. yannicksamlad 13
11. CaptainGetz12 11
- UncreativeUsername37 11
- WeirdKerr 11*
14. dr-baker 10
15. Rob Dylan 9

My records of 2017 are patchy, but this is Enforcer's debut win if I'm not mistaken, after four seasons in the championship (since I've been running it). Congratulations, your hard work has finally paid off! EDIT: found that Enforcer did in fact win the 2017 Russian GP (with double points) and the 2017 Hungarian GP (joint with two others). So this is in fact their first win outright without double points!

And so, that concludes our original run of the 2020 Predicament Predictions Championship. The standings for the season are as follows:

Standings
1. Francis23 31
2. Enforcer 28
3. Pacific Edge 28

4. RAK 27
5. Psyclepath 26
6. Fetzie 26
7. dinizintheoven 26
8. Klon 24
9. yannicksamlad 24
10. CaptainGetz12 22
11. mario 20
12. UncreativeUsername37 20
13. WeirdKerr 17.67
14. dr-baker 16
15. Rob Dylan 14
16. pi314159 8
17. bleu 7
18. East Londoner 7
19. CarloSpace 6
20. rachel1990 0
21. This Could Be You 0

Coming out of nowhere, Francis23 has come first after our first three official Forum rounds of the championship are over. And they won it despite missing Australia! While it remains officially unofficial, Francis23 is our unofficial winner of the 2020 season. Good job!


So from now on, I'm going to count up the temporary forum results in a separate thread. Watch this space, those who took part, your efforts shall not be in vain!

See you all in 2021 :dance:
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As the 2019 season podium finisher, I did awful. But I always seem to start awful, peak over the summer, then hold on for dear life towards the end of the season. A 3-round season barely gave me a chance to get going!
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dr-baker wrote:As the 2019 season podium finisher, I did awful. But I always seem to start awful, peak over the summer, then hold on for dear life towards the end of the season. A 3-round season barely gave me a chance to get going!
Who knows, maybe you'll end up winning the 2020 Rival Series Vicissitude Predictions (RSVP) Championship, the new official rival temporary forum Predicament Predictions championship. There's all to play for!
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Rob Dylan wrote:
dr-baker wrote:As the 2019 season podium finisher, I did awful. But I always seem to start awful, peak over the summer, then hold on for dear life towards the end of the season. A 3-round season barely gave me a chance to get going!
Who knows, maybe you'll end up winning the 2020 Rival Series Vicissitude Predictions (RSVP) Championship, the new official rival temporary forum Predicament Predictions championship. There's all to play for!

I've got a funny feeling that I'm guaranteed a podium position there as a minimum!
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