TWPC 2009 GP2 Predictions - FINAL RESULTS

[Mekola]

GP2 Series finished its fifth season at Portimão with their champion Nico Hülkenberg showing another win, and the victory of Luca Filippi did in weird circumstances. With this, we begin the final report of 2009 Two Worlds Prediction Competiton, starting with the result of Portimão round PLUS the ones of the Championships Round:

Results of the Weekend - GP2 Round # 10 Portimão (19-20/09/2009)

Poleman = Vitaly Petrov

Race 1 (19/09/2009)
Winner = Nico Hülkenberg
2nd place = Luca Filippi
3rd place = Lucas Di Grassi
4th place = Vitaly Petrov
5th place = Roldán Rodr�*guez
6th place = Kamui Kobayashi
7th place = Davide Valsecchi
8th place = Andreas Zuber
Fastest lap = Luca Filippi

Race 2 (20/09/2009)
Winner = Luca Filippi
2nd place = Javier Villa
3rd place = Dani Clos
4th place = Álvaro Parente
5th place = Diego Nunes
6th place = Giedo Van der Garde
Fastest lap = Luca Filippi

Results of the 2009 GP2 Two Worlds Prediction Competition - Round # 10 Portimão (20/09/2009)

1 - 9 points = JB-F1 (GL), Zonked (LI)
3 - 8 points = chunterer (TT), Emi (TN), kamikaze666 (CB), nano de turdera (LT), osc@r (LT), sauber11 (TT)
9 - 7 points = Mekola (VT), runshaw (TT), Trueno naranja (TN)
12 - 6 points = brucelok2003 (TT), Ignacio.R (LT), kerrmanningjarv (TT), Robbe (TT), Roberto.R (LT), Sammyed (VT), Sidney Watkins (CB), TOLEMAN HART (LA), WSR Fan (TT)
21 - 5 points = Adri_tifosi (TT), maximiliano puig (LT), panter188 (TN)
24 - 4 points = Stevo_AlonsoF1 (GL)
25 - 3 points = Albeckinho (TT)
26 - 0 points = Greimito (LI), Peralta (TT)

2009 GP2 Series Championship Final Standings (20/09/2009)

Drivers Championship
Champion = Nico Hülkenberg
2nd place = Vitaly Petrov
3rd place = Lucas Di Grassi
4th place = Romain Grosjean
5th place = Luca Filippi
6th place = Pastor Maldonado
7th place = Giedo Van der Garde
8th place = Álvaro Parente

Teams Championship
Champion = ART Grand Prix
2nd place = Barwa Addax Team
3rd place = SuperNova Racing
4th place = Fat Burner Racing Engineering
5th place = iSport International
6th place = DAMS
7th place = Piquet GP
8th place = Telmex Arden International

Results of the 2009 GP2 Two Worlds Prediction Competition - Championship Round (20/09/2009)

1 - 17 points = Bleu (TT), Speedworx (GL)
3 - 16 points = joaquin (LT), Jorge Molinari (LA), kerrmanningjarv (TT), maximiliano puig (LT), pericu (TT), sauber11 (TT)
9 - 15 points = Adri_tifosi (TT), GoGo (LT), Mekola (VT), nano de turdera (LT), Sedicivalvole (LT), SERGIOPINAR (TN), Sev (TT), Zonked (LI)
17 - 14 points = Alex K (TT), brucelok2003 (TT), JB-F1 (GL), OJB (TT), Posti (CB), WSR Fan (TT)
23 - 13 points = Albeckinho (TT), chunterer (TT), Ignacio.R (LT), osc@r (LT), peska (LI), revngo (LI), Roberto.R (LT), Sammyed (VT), Stevo_AlonsoF1 (GL)
32 - 12 points = BMWFAN (CB), Emi (TN), kamikaze666 (CB), runshaw (TT), TOLEMAN HART (LA)
37 - 11 points = Sidney Watkins (CB), Trueno naranja (TN)
39 - 10 points = Robbe (TT)
40 - 2 points = Rodrigouy (TN)

Congratulations to JB-F1 (GL) and Zonked (LI) for winning the last round of the season, and for "outsiders" Bleu (TT) and Speedworx (GL) who were the best ones predicting final positions of both 2009 GP2 Drivers and Teams Championships. Mentions to pericu (TT), who with Speedworx were the only who predicted Hülkenberg as GP2 Champion.
Observations:
R10 Portimão:
- Robbe (TT): Posted Di Grassi twice (3rd and 6th) in his R1 predictions, so these parts of it weren't valid.
- Peralta (TT): His predictions were only for Pérez for the win, but is very vague, so can't put a spot on it to validate.
- Greimito (LI): Sent predictions after deadline, so they weren't valid for this round.

With all round results cleared, we present...

The FINAL STANDINGS of the 2009 GP2 Two Worlds Prediction Competition (20/09/2009) !!!

1 - 104 points = kamikaze666 (CB)
2 - 101 points = runshaw (TT)
3 - 99 points = sauber11 (TT)
4 - 98 points = JB-F1 (GL)
5 - 96 points = Sammyed (VT)
6 - 95 points = Ignacio.R (LT), Mekola (VT), Roberto.R (LT)
9 - 94 points = maximiliano puig (LT)
10 - 92 points = chunterer (TT)
11 - 90 points = Emi (TN), nano de turdera (LT)
13 - 89 points = Adri_tifosi (TT)
14 - 88 points = revngo (LI), Sidney Watkins (CB), WSR Fan (TT)
17 - 87 points = TOLEMAN HART (LA)
18 - 85 points = Sedicivalvole (LT), Stevo_AlonsoF1 (GL)
20 - 84 points = brucelok2003 (TT), Zonked (LI)
22 - 83 points = Albeckinho (TT)
23 - 79 points = osc@r (LT)
24 - 77 points = pericu (TT)
25 - 76 points = Posti (CB), Robbe (TT)
27 - 69 points = BMWFAN (CB), Sev (TT)
29 - 67 points = peska (LI)
30 - 64 points = GoGo (LT), joaquin (LT), kerrmanningjarv (TT)
33 - 57 points = Senna4ever (CB)
34 - 54 points = Bubu (TH)
35 - 49 points = Greimito (LI)
36 - 48 points = panter188 (TN)
37 - 38 points = Bleu (TT)
38 - 32 points = Ruth (LA)
39 - 29 points = melendi (TH)
40 - 24 points = SERGIOPINAR (TN), Trueno naranja (TN)
42 - 22 points = Speedworx (GL)
43 - 20 points = OJB (TT)
44 - 16 points = Jorge Molinari (LA)
45 - 14 points = Alex K (TT)
46 - 13 points = Quique (VT)
47 - 11 points = Croc (TT)
48 - 8 points = Taprobane (TT)
49 - 5 points = Lam Pak (TT)
50 - 2 points = Rodrigouy (TN)
51 - 0 points = Carballedo (CB), Peralta (TT)

Final Forum Standings after the definition of the Competition (20/09/2009)

1º Ten-Tenths.com Forum - 451 points
2º Los-Tuercas.com.ar Forum - 421 points
3º ClubF1.es Forum - 369 points
4º F1Live.com Forum - 288 points
5º GlobalF1.net Forum - 205 points
6º Velocidad-TotalF1.com Forum - 204 points
7º TuercasNews.com Forum - 188 points
8º F1Latam.com Forum - 135 points
9º Thef1.com Actuality Forum - 83 points

Unexpected at the start, climbed up slightly and reached the top on the penultimate round to finally reach the title. Ladies and gentlemen, we welcome kamikaze666 as the new Champion of 2009 GP2 Two Worlds Prediction Competition! The glory is yours!!!
Merry congrats to Ten-Tenths, who earned another new Forums Championship with great support to the series.
And now the prize: for being the best Ten-Tenths player of the year, runshaw earned the yearly subscription to Ten-Tenths Forum, kindly provided by their staff. Congratulations, and enjoy it!

Users can revise the accuracy of their predictions with more detail at this direction:
http://perso.wanadoo.es/gp2twpc/2009GP2TWPC.zip

Defined the final standings, it's turn to show the general stats of the season, a report about the progress of the forums, and the WINNING ATTITUDE ACHIEVEMENTS of our concursants of the Competition of this year.

[Mekola]

Ramblings about forum progressions in the 2009 GP2 Two Worlds Prediction Competition:

Ten-Tenths: Ten-Tenths proved to be again the core forum of GP2 TWPC, albeit this year had more than a half contenders than last year. Also had to battle with stronger contenders from other forums, with runshaw, their best scorer, as runner-up in the Championship, and only other two, sauber11 and chunterer, finishing in top ten positions. Alas, they have one of the highest scorers in a round, in the figure of Bleu, for the Championships Round. Nonetheless, their number of participants were constant and with this earned with some ease Forums Championship, clinching another title to their fame...

Los Tuercas: Despite another year with no Argentinian presence at all, but with races televised on Argentina, this forum mantained almost the level of previous season... They manage to have a base of around 7-8 concursants and ensure the vicechampionship. Ignacio.R and Roberto.R, whose positions were equal to the milimeter, and maximiliano puig could also enter in the top ten positions of the final standings. Great thanks for Los Tuercas for all the attention to the Competition done all over the year.

ClubF1: This Spanish forum did a leap forward, despite mantaining about the same base as last year. They have the Competition champion, kamikaze666 (who entered as sancho-kun in 2008) and had also a good performance from Sidney Watkins. Surprisingly, they had no round winners this season.

F1-Live: Entering in both Spanish and English forums, it had a compact group of four players. Two of them were round winners, and fortunately all of them showed consistency. revngo was their best player of this year.

GlobalF1: This year, the presence of this forum was more tiny than previous years; showed capabilities but lacked on presence. Only two regular contenders of the year, whose best one was JB-F1, who also was one of the highest scorer in a round, at the Championship predictions. We hope they could gain some interest next term.

VT-F1: Another forum with two regular players around the year, with surprisingly Sammyed as the best concursant. He was also the only round winner of the forum. But the best thing of it is that the forum could revive from its vegetative form this year and now roses happily.

TuercasNews: The newcomers of the year did a discrete job on their debut. With also two regular concursants, they can't have the "reminders" (last day round reminders) as other forums due to lack of MPs. But despite that they did a good job, with Emi as their best player.

F1Latam: This forum continued with their tiny presence, with only one regular, with an occasional second player. TOLEMAN HART was the best of them, mainly by his consistence.

Thef1.com Actuality forum: The forum with less presence on the Competition, with occasional no presences in some rounds. melendi was a round winner, but it was Bubu, also by consistence, who was the best player of the year.

In an aftermath, the season showed a sensible decline in the number of players, perhaps this form of predictions competition lost some of its fame, or perhaps because the series isn't new now. That's a problem that didn't affect GP2 TWPC only, but also our "rival" GP2 Pickems of Motorsport.com Forum. Moreover, the rounds sometimes were hardly predictable, with many surprising polemans, winners, and fastest lap scorers. Fortunately, it was TV presence in Latin America, so people of forums of those latitudes could see the races during the year. But after all, we have to show gratitude to many users who trusted and put consistence to participate in this Competition.

About 2010, Ten-Tenths, Los Tuercas, ClubF1, GlobalF1 and VT-F1 are ensured to continue; the rest will be put in consideration. Alas, we're opened to new forums to join - If you are in a forum where is interest on GP2 Series and want our Prediction Competition running there, give notice to us!

On a last note, we'll consider to do GP2 Asia Prediction Competition again, probably at Ten-Tenths and GlobalF1, but have to ensure if the rest of the forums could be interested or not to be in, because it will run in the winter time (summer for these of Southern Hemisphere), when F1 world is normally in the inter-season.

[Mekola]

2009 GP2 TWPC GENERAL STATS:

Competition Champions:

Competition Champion: kamikaze666 (CB) with 104 puntos
Forums Champion: Ten-Tenths.com Forum with 451 puntos

Best concursant of ClubF1: kamikaze666 with 104 points
Best concursant of Ten-Tenths: runshaw with 101 points
Best concursant of GlobalF1: JB-F1 with 98 points
Best concursant of Velocidad-TotalF1: Sammyed with 96 points
Best concursants of Los Tuercas: Ignacio.R and Roberto.R with 95 points (*)
Best concursant of TuercasNews: Emi with 90 points
Best concursant of F1-Live: revngo with 88 points
Best concursant of F1Latam: TOLEMAN HART with 87 points
Best concursant of Thef1: Bubu with 54 points

(*) They gained the same quantity of points in each round and in general, so the recognizement is ex-aequo.

Round Entries:

Drivers Champ Round: 41 (TT14, LT08, CB04, TN04, GL03, LI03, LA02, VT02, TH01)
R01 Barcelona: 38 (TT13, LT08, GL03, CB03, LI03, VT03, LA02, TN02, TH01)
R02 Montecarlo: 37 (TT13, LT08, CB05, GL02, LI02, TH02, VT02, TN02, LA01)
R03 Istanbul Park: 35 (TT12, LT07, CB04, LI03, GL02, LA02, TH02, VT02, TN01)
R04 Silverstone: 36 (TT10, LT08, CB05, LI03, GL02, LA02, TH02, VT02, TN02)
R05 Nürburgring: 35 (TT10, LT08, CB05, LI04, GL02, LA02, VT02, TN02, TH00)
R06 Hungaroring: 32 (TT10, LT05, CB05, LI04, GL02, LA02, VT02, TN02, TH00)
R07 Valencia: 33 (TT10, LT07, CB04, LI04, GL02, VT02, TN02, LA01, TH01)
R08 Spa-Francorchamps: 35 (TT10, LT07, CB04, LI04, VT03, GL02, LA02, TN02, TH01)
R09 Monza: 35 (TT10, LT07, CB06, LI04, GL02, VT02, TN02, LA01, TH01)
R10 Portimao: 27 (TT10, LT05, TN03, GL02, CB02, LI02, VT02, LA01, TH00)

Round Winners:

R01 Barcelona: pericu (TT) with 13 points
R02 Montecarlo: joaquin (LT) with 16 points
R03 Istanbul Park: melendi (TH) with 14 points
R04 Silverstone: Greimito (LI) with 14 points
R05 Nürburgring: runshaw (TT) with 12 points
R06 Hungaroring: JB-F1 (GL) with 10 points
R07 Valencia: osc@r (LT) and Sev (TT) with 12 points
R08 Spa-Francorchamps: Sammyed (VT) and Stevo_AlonsoF1 (GL) with 10 points
R09 Monza: Sedicivalvole (LT) with 12 points
R10 Portimao: JB-F1 (GL) and Zonked (LI) with 9 points
Drivers Champ Round: Bleu (TT) and Speedworx (GL) with 17 points

Competition Leaders after each round:

R01 Barcelona: pericu (TT) with 13 points, Los-Tuercas.com.ar Forum with 44 points
R02 Montecarlo: pericu (TT) with 27 points, Los-Tuercas.com.ar Forum with 95 points
R03 Istanbul Park: maximiliano puig (LT) with 34 points, Ten-Tenths.com Forum with 131 points
R04 Silverstone: maximiliano puig (LT) with 45 points, Ten-Tenths.com Forum with 177 points
R05 Nürburgring: maximiliano puig (LT) and runshaw (TT) with 52 points, Ten-Tenths.com Forum with 221 points
R06 Hungaroring: runshaw (TT) with 61 points, Ten-Tenths.com Forum with 254 points
R07 Valencia: runshaw (TT) with 68 points, Ten-Tenths.com Forum with 296 points
R08 Spa-Francorchamps: runshaw (TT) with 75 points, Ten-Tenths.com Forum with 323 points
R09 Monza: kamikaze666 (CB) with 84 points, Ten-Tenths.com Forum with 357 points
Final Standings: kamikaze666 (CB) with 104 points, Ten-Tenths.com Forum with 451 points

Hall of Fame:

2004 F3000 TWPC Champion: Daisy (TT) with 89 points
2005 GP2 TWPC Champion: DanFlag (TT) with 121 points
2006 GP2 TWPC Champion: knowlesy (TT) with 116 points
2007 GP2 TWPC Champion: Mekola (VT) with 95 points
2008 GP2 Asia TWPC Champion: pericu (TT) with 56 points
2008 GP2 TWPC Champion: SpiritCrusher (GL) with 93 points
2009 GP2 Asia TWPC Champion: OJB (TT) with 68 points
2009 GP2 TWPC Champion: kamikaze666 (CB) with 104 points

and now... see the
2009 GP2 TWPC WINNING ATTITUDE ACHIEVEMENTS:

Orange Prize: Ten-Tenths Forum
Lemon Prize: Thef1 Forum
Best Forum Presentation: Ten-Tenths
Best Forum Spirit: Los Tuercas
Best Forum Communications: Ten-Tenths
Rookie of the Season: Emi (TN)
Most Friendly/Welcoming Forum: ClubF1
Best Engineered Forum: Ten-Tenths
Best Forum Strategists: Ten-Tenths
Best Forum Support: Ten-Tenths
Most Improved Driver of the Season: JB-F1 (GL)
Overtaking Manoeuvre of the Season: kamikaze666 (CB) to runshaw (TT) in Monza round
Best Prediction Style: Bleu (TT) and Speedworx (GL) in Championships Round
Best Forum Marketing: VT-F1
Special Mentions to: All GP2 people, professionals and fans, who followed this Competition.

And a Special Acknowledgement to all 52 concursants who entered at this Competition through this season. We might see again with the 2010 GP2 Two Worlds Prediction Competition. Be seeing all you!

Happy Motoring, and GOOD SHOW!

Note: For identify reasons, is used the following code, that denotes which forum is used by each concursant to participate here:
(CB) ClubF1.es Forum
(GL) GlobalF1.net Forum
(LA) F1Latam.com Forum
(LI) F1-Live.com Forum
(LT) Los-Tuercas.com.ar Forum
(TH) Thef1.com Actuality Forum
(TN) TuercasNews.com Forum
(TT) Ten-Tenths.com Forum
(VT) Velocidad-TotalF1.com Forum

[kerrmanningjarv]

Thanks a lot Mekola, what a brilliant job you do . I'm relatively happy with my position considering I missed 3 mid-season rounds (Great Britain, Germany and Hungary) although that's my fault so I'm not complaining about it!

Look forward to pitting my wits against you all again in 2010, if not in the 2009-10 Asia Series!

[runshaw]

Thanks Mekola! I don't understand what my prize is though?! What does a subscription to ten-tenths give me?

[bella]

runshaw - http://tentenths.com/forum/faq.php?faq=sub_faq_header

[runshaw]

so have I got this then bella? I can't see anything thats changed! Maybe i'm just a bit thick