[Official] Chinese Grand Prix - Predictions Contest 2019 - Round 3 of 21 - Results

[Born Racer]

Congratulations to championship leader smellysocks, who extends his lead marginally, with a win by 4 points. Thanks to everyone for taking part, especially new entrant TrapezeArtist, who will probably usually find the going easier than in the first round.

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Remember to get these in before qualifying.

Chinese Grand Prix Results

1. Hamilton
2. Bottas
3. Vettel
4. Verstappen
5. Leclerc
6. Gasly
7. Ricciardo
8. Pérez
9. Räikkönen
10. Albon

Qualifying
1. Bottas
2. Hamilton
3. Vettel

Fastest lap: Gasly
Fastest pit stop: Red Bull
Weather: Dry
formula1.com Driver of the Day: Albon
Driver of the Grand Prix: Albon
Team of the Grand Prix: Mercedes
Rate the Grand Prix: 4

Analysis

We were somewhere between Australia and Bahrain in terms of exact finish positions predicted at 7/80 (versus 3/80 for Australia and 15/80 for Bahrain).

The person with the highest exact number of these was crmalcolm with 3, while smellysocks and I drew on the number of top 10 drivers predicted in any order (with 8). Albon managed to save my result when it looked like he wouldn't after FP3, as I was the only one to pick him.

Despite Räikkönen and Pérez getting a top 10 finish both in Bahrain and here, only 4 people predicted the Finn in their top 10, while no-one went for the Mexican.

Collectively, we did even worse at qualifying predictions than in Bahrain. There, only 2 people got anyone in the top three qualifying positions correctly. This time, it was just one - crmalcolm for Vettel in 3rd.

Despite Red Bull getting fastest pit stop in all three races so far, only half the entrants had them down for that result, while Mercedes, who have also taken all 3 Team of the Grand Prix polls, only had 2 people pick them.

Unsurprisingly, no-one predicted the average Rate the Grand Prix score of 4, nor Albon's success in both driver polls.

Chinese Grand Prix Predictions Contest Results

1. smellysocks 84
2. crmalcolm 80
3. Born Racer 78
4. wolfhound 77
5. ApexTurtle 73
6. Born Racer Fan 72
7. Notso Swift 69
8. TrapezeArtist 65

Winners so far this season

Australia: smellysocks
Bahrain: ApexTurtle
China: smellysocks

Championship standings after Round 3 of 21

1. smellysocks 253
2. ApexTurtle 226
3. crmalcolm 225
4. Born Racer 224
5. Born Racer Fan 218
6. wolfhound 212
7. Notso Swift 207
8. gert 108
9. TrapezeArtist 65