Having predicted a win in Monaco for Button I lost a lot of points in the last round, however Turkey was good for me - scoring 5 points in total.

	Gonzalo	Alvaro	Me	Actual result
1st	Webber	Vettel	Vettel	Hamilton
2nd	Alonso	Alonso	Button	Button
3rd	Hamilton	Webber	Webber	Webber
4th	Vettel	Hamilton	Alonso	Schumacher
5th	Massa	Massa	Hamilton	Rosberg
6th	Kubica	Kubica	Rosberg	Kubica
Points	2	4	5

You may be surprised at how late I am posting this but unfortunately I wasn’t able to watch the race this weekend and unexpectedly didn’t have a lot of time to do any posting on Friday.  Barcelona was the first of many that I will miss this summer thanks to the fact that I will be working for TECS summer camps again this year.  This weekend I went to a training planning weekend with a number of other staff, which meant that we worked an awful lot, had quite a bit of fun and very little sleep.  We were also secluded away at one of the camp venues in the countryside so I didn’t hear anything about the result of the race till Monday morning.

I am a little upset that McLaren and Williams didn’t do so well, but in terms of the predictions I made against my students I did quite well….

	Gonzalo	Alvaro	Me	Actual result
1st	Alonso	Alonso	Hamilton	Webber
2nd	Hamilton	Vettel	Alonso	Alonso
3rd	Rosberg	Hamilton	Button	Vettel
4th	Massa	Massa	Vettel	Schumacher
5th	Button	Webber	Rosberg	Button
6th	Kubica	Rosberg	Massa	Massa
Points	3	2	5

After a break of a few weeks the next round of teacher vs student is upon me.  Unfortunately none of us submitted entries for Malaysia as we didn’t have classes that week but four of my students have given me predictions for the next race.  We were all at a disadvantage when we made them as we had to make them in our class on Tuesday without the benefit of having read much in the way of preview information or knowing about today’s free practice sessions.  I’m hoping to score more than 1 point this week and also that I’m not jinxing my drivers.  Ignacio, who unfortunately didn’t score any points last week was particularly wary as he felt he’d jinxed his Ferrari drivers in Australia!

So here they are:

	Gonzalo	Alvaro	Ignacio	Bea	Me	Actual result
1st	Hamilton	Alonso	Webber	Hamilton	Button	Button
2nd	Alonso	Vettel	Hamilton	Alonso	Vettel	Hamilton
3rd	Vettel	Hamilton	Alonso	Massa	Alonso	Rosberg
4th	Massa	Massa	De la Rosa	Vettel	Schumacher	Alonso
5th	Rosberg	Webber	Massa	Webber	Rosberg	Kubica
6th	Kubica	Kubica	Kovalainen	Kubica	Webber	Vettel
Points	2	2	3	2	6

This week all but 1 of my ‘J5′ students have submitted entries.

	Gonzalo	Alvaro	Ignacio	Bea	Me	Actual result
1st	Vettel	Alonso	Alonso	Alonso	Vettel	Button
2nd	Hamilton	Vettel	Webber	Hamilton	Alonso	Kubica
3rd	Alonso	Massa	Rosberg	Massa	Hamilton	Massa
4th	Massa	Hamilton	Hamilton	Button	Massa	Alonso
5th	Rosberg	Webber	Massa	Schumacher	Button	Rosberg
6th	Webber	Rosberg	Button	Rosberg	Webber	Hamilton
Points	4	3	0	3	1

Following Australia I’m appalled to see that Bea has managed to score better than me and that instead of going with my heart, which would have scored me at least 5 points I tried to be cautious and sensible instead.

First race predictions and points awarded. 

	Gonzalo	Alvaro	Me	Actual result
1st	Alonso	Alonso	Alonso	Alonso
2nd	Massa	Vettel	Vettel	Massa
3rd	Vettel	Massa	Button	Hamilton
4th	Button	Button	Schumacher	Vettel
5th	Rosberg	Webber	Massa	Rosberg
6th	Webber	Hamilton	Webber	Schumacher
Points	10	6	5

What is it?

The idea started as a little game in class a few weeks ago just before the start of the season.  Some of my teenage students are keen followers of F1 like myself so I thought it would be fun to have a mini predictions competition with them.  The challenging thing about this competition though is that our last class of the week is on a Thursday evening, this means we must all make our predictions without the benefit of knowing the results of the Friday practice sessions.  I’ve decided to start a separate blog page for it as it is easier to manage.  Also it will be easier to direct my students to this page to check their standings. 

How does it work?

We are going ‘old school’ with our predictions, and only choosing who we think will finish in the top 6 as these are really the only positions that count   For correctly predicting the winner you get 5 points, for correctly predicting any of the other 5 places you get 2 points and for a ‘near miss’ (predicting +/- 1 place) you get 1 point.  We’re not predicting qualifying positions as drivers don’t get points for qualifying so neither do we!