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It's back to the boring desert track again...with all to play for.

Please post your predictions for the GP in Abu before the start
of P1 on 05/12/2025. Times for various timezones appear below, but
the cutoff is start of practice.

Pole position:

P1:
P2:
P3:

There is a web page here where you can see the points/predictions as
they stand as well as looking at past competitions/scoring systems:

http://www.conmy.co.uk/f1/f1.cgi

Track (Yas Island) 05/12/2025 13:30 GST
Las Vegas 05/12/2025 01:30 PST
Austin 05/12/2025 03:30 CST
West Coast USA 05/12/2025 01:30 PST
East Coast USA 05/12/2025 04:30 EST
Ireland/Portugal/UK 05/12/2025 09:30 GMT
Central Europe 05/12/2025 10:30 CET
Most of Arabia 05/12/2025 12:30 AST
Oman/UAE 05/12/2025 13:30 GST
China 05/12/2025 17:30 CST
Japan/Korea 05/12/2025 18:30 JST
Perth 05/12/2025 17:30 AWST
Adelaide/Darwin 05/12/2025 20:00 ACDT Melbourne/Canberra/Sydney 05/12/2025 20:30 AEDT
New Zealand 05/12/2025 22:30 NZDT
Ukraine 05/12/2025 11:30 EET
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Pole position: VER

P1: VER
P2: PIA
P3: NOR

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On 12/1/2025 03:20, Mark wrote:

It's back to the boring desert track again...with all to play for.

Please post your predictions for the GP in Abu before the start
of P1 on 05/12/2025. Times for various timezones appear below, but
the cutoff is start of practice.

Pole: VER

P1: VER
P2: NOR
P3: PIA
--

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--Carl Sagan
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Pole position: PIA

P1: PIA
P2: VER
P3: NOR
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Pole position: PIA

P1: VER
P2: PIA
P3: NOR


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Pole position: VER

P1: VER
P2: NOR
P3: PIA

Sreekumar
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Mark <mpconmy@gmail.com> writes:

It's back to the boring desert track again...with all to play for.

Please post your predictions for the GP in Abu before the start
of P1 on 05/12/2025. Times for various timezones appear below, but
the cutoff is start of practice.

Pole position: PIA
P1: VER
P2: PIA
P3: NOR

Cheers,
Phil
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We are no longer hunters and nomads. No longer awed and frightened, as we have gained some understanding of the world in which we live. As such, we can cast aside childish remnants from the dawn of our civilization.
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On 2025-12-01 2:20am, Mark wrote:

It's back to the boring desert track again...with all to play for.

Please post your predictions for the GP in Abu before the start
of P1 on 05/12/2025. Times for various timezones appear below, but
the cutoff is start of practice.

Pole position:

P1:
P2:
P3:

Going to have to throw some chaos into this prediction because that's
the only way I'll get onto this podium:

Pole: PIA

P1: VER
P2: HAD
P3: ALB

To top off the season, the two McLarens will snatch defeat from the jaws
of victory by taking each other out in Turn 1.
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In article <10gjmk8$160mj$2@dont-email.me>, Mark <mpconmy@gmail.com> wrote:

It's back to the boring desert track again...with all to play for.

Please post your predictions for the GP in Abu before the start
of P1 on 05/12/2025. Times for various timezones appear below, but
the cutoff is start of practice.

First of all, thanks for running the pool Mark, it's been fun!

OK, my final prediction for 2025:

Pole position: NOR

P1: VER
P2: PIA
P3: RUS
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In article <N6rXQ.89879$qGHb.9511@fx15.ams4>, Eric <nawww@afraidnot.org> wrote:

To top off the season, the two McLarens will snatch defeat from the jaws
of victory by taking each other out in Turn 1.

This is genuinely very, very likely...
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On 12/2/2025 1:16 AM, scole wrote:

In article <N6rXQ.89879$qGHb.9511@fx15.ams4>, Eric <nawww@afraidnot.org> wrote:

To top off the season, the two McLarens will snatch defeat from the jaws
of victory by taking each other out in Turn 1.

This is genuinely very, very likely...

Bring it!

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Pole position: PIA

P1: NOR

P2: PIA

P3: VER
--
Sir Tim
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On 2025-12-01, Mark <mpconmy@gmail.com> wrote:

It's back to the boring desert track again...with all to play for.

Please post your predictions for the GP in Abu before the start
of P1 on 05/12/2025. Times for various timezones appear below, but
the cutoff is start of practice.

Hm, if I predict "the obvious" I will at best keep my place
in the standings, and never win it. So, maybe I should do a YOLO,
or FOMO, or whatever prediction :-)

Pole position: VER

P1: VER
P2: RUS
P3: LEC

(Okay, this one is wishfull thinking)
-peter

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Pole: VER

P1: VER
P2: RUS
P3: HAM
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Pole position: Piastri

P1: Piastri
P2: Verstappen
P3: Norris
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Every human society must justify its inequalities.
- Thomas Piketty
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On 12/1/25 01:20, Mark wrote:

It's back to the boring desert track again...with all to play for.

Please post your predictions for the GP in Abu before the start
of P1 on 05/12/2025. Times for various timezones appear below, but
the cutoff is start of practice.

a425 will go with

Pole VER
1st VER
2nd PIA
3rd NOR
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On 01/12/2025 09:20, Mark wrote:

Pole position: Lando Norris

P1: Lando Norris
P2: Max Verstappen
P3: George Russell
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Pole: VER

P1: VER
P2: NOR
P3: PIA
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On 12/1/2025 4:20 AM, Mark wrote:

It's back to the boring desert track again...with all to play for.

Please post your predictions for the GP in Abu before the start
of P1 on 05/12/2025. Times for various timezones appear below, but
the cutoff is start of practice.

Pole position:

P1:
P2:
P3:

As this has been a disastrous year for me, I'm going for all the gusto
with this one.

Pole Position: Charles LeClerc

P1: Lewis Hamilton
P2: Charles LeClerc
P3: Lando Norris.

One can dream
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Pole position: VER

P1: VER
P2: NOR
P3: PIA


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Pole position: NOR

P1: NOR

P2: VER

P3: PIA
--
JohnM
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Pole position: NOR

P1: PIA
P2: VER
P3: NOR (for the WDC)
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On 2025-12-01 01:20, Mark wrote:

It's back to the boring desert track again...with all to play for.

Please post your predictions for the GP in Abu before the start
of P1 on 05/12/2025. Times for various timezones appear below, but
the cutoff is start of practice.

Pole position: Piastri

P1: Piastri
P2: Norris
P3: Verstappen

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