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
