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Okay...it's that time of year once more. Apologies for the delay...it's
caught me out as it's normally the week *after* my birthday and not the
weekend before.

Please post your predictions for the GP in Australia before the start
of P1 on 06/03/2026. 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 (Melbourne) 06/03/2026 12:30 AEDT
Las Vegas 05/03/2026 18:30 PDT
Austin 05/03/2026 20:30 CDT
West Coast USA 05/03/2026 18:30 PDT
East Coast USA 05/03/2026 21:30 EDT
Ireland/Portugal/UK 06/03/2026 01:30 GMT
Central Europe 06/03/2026 02:30 CET
Most of Arabia 06/03/2026 04:30 AST
Oman/UAE 06/03/2026 05:30 GST
China 06/03/2026 09:30 CST
Japan/Korea 06/03/2026 10:30 JST
Perth 06/03/2026 09:30 AWST
Adelaide/Darwin 06/03/2026 12:00 ACDT Melbourne/Canberra/Sydney 06/03/2026 12:30 AEDT
New Zealand 06/03/2026 14:30 NZDT
Ukraine 06/03/2026 03:30 EET
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Pole position: VER

P1: VER
P2: NOR
P3: HAM
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Pole position: Leclerc

P1: Russell
P2: Piastri
P3: Norris
--
Mark Jackson - https://mark-jackson.online/
The "i" in "LLM" stands for intelligence.
- Daniel Stenberg
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Mark <mpconmy@gmail.com> writes:

Okay...it's that time of year once more. Apologies for the delay...it's caught me out as it's normally the week *after* my birthday and not the weekend before.

Please post your predictions for the GP in Australia before the start
of P1 on 06/03/2026. Times for various timezones appear below, but
the cutoff is start of practice.

Pole position: RUS
P1: LEC
P2: RUS
P3: PIA

Cheers!
Phil
--
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.
-- NotSanguine on SoylentNews, after Eugen Weber in /The Western Tradition/
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Pole position: LEC

P1: LEC
P2: RUS
P3: HAM
--
...hovering like a fly waiting for the windshield on the freeway...rCY
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On 3/2/2026 09:33, Mark wrote:

Okay...it's that time of year once more. Apologies for the delay...it's caught me out as it's normally the week *after* my birthday and not the weekend before.

Please post your predictions for the GP in Australia before the start
of P1 on 06/03/2026. Times for various timezones appear below, but
the cutoff is start of practice.

Pole: RUS

P1: LEC
P2: PIA
P3: RUS
--

Intelligence is no guarantee against being dead wrong.
--Carl Sagan
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On 2026-03-02 8:33am, Mark wrote:

Okay...it's that time of year once more. Apologies for the delay...it's caught me out as it's normally the week *after* my birthday and not the weekend before.

Please post your predictions for the GP in Australia before the start
of P1 on 06/03/2026. Times for various timezones appear below, but
the cutoff is start of practice.

Pole position:

P1:
P2:
P3:

Pole: LEC
P1: LEC
P2: HAM
P3: RUS
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On 2026-03-02 10:33 a.m., Mark wrote:

Okay...it's that time of year once more. Apologies for the delay...it's caught me out as it's normally the week *after* my birthday and not the weekend before.

Please post your predictions for the GP in Australia before the start
of P1 on 06/03/2026. Times for various timezones appear below, but
the cutoff is start of practice.

Pole: LEC

P1: NOR
P2: LEC
P3: RUS
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Pole position: VER

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

P1: LEC
P2: RUS
P3: VER
--
Sir Tim
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On 3/2/2026 10:33 AM, Mark wrote:

Okay...it's that time of year once more. Apologies for the delay...it's caught me out as it's normally the week *after* my birthday and not the weekend before.

Please post your predictions for the GP in Australia before the start
of P1 on 06/03/2026. Times for various timezones appear below, but
the cutoff is start of practice.

Pole position:

P1:
P2:
P3:

Pole Position: Russell

P1 Hamilton
P2 Russell
P3 LeClerc
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In article <10o4al7$18b79$3@dont-email.me>, Mark <mpconmy@gmail.com> wrote:

Okay...it's that time of year once more. Apologies for the delay...it's caught me out as it's normally the week *after* my birthday and not the weekend before.

Please post your predictions for the GP in Australia before the start
of P1 on 06/03/2026. Times for various timezones appear below, but
the cutoff is start of practice.

Pole position: LEC

P1: HAM
P2: LEC
P3: VER

Thanks again for running the pool! This season is going to be *mental*! :-D
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Pole position: RUS

P1: RUS
P2: VER
P3: HAM

Sreekumar
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Posting for ceg...

Pole position: RUS

P1: RUS
P2: NOR
P3: VER

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On 3/03/2026 4:33 am, Mark wrote:

Okay...it's that time of year once more. Apologies for the delay...it's caught me out as it's normally the week *after* my birthday and not the weekend before.

Please post your predictions for the GP in Australia before the start
of P1 on 06/03/2026. Times for various timezones appear below, but
the cutoff is start of practice.

Pole position: RUS

P1: RUS
P2: VER
P3: ANT
--
Shaun.

"Humans will have advanced a long, long way when religious belief has a cozy little classification
in the DSM"
David Melville.
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Mark <mpconmy@gmail.com> wrote:

Please post your predictions for the GP in Australia before the start
of P1 on 06/03/2026. Times for various timezones appear below, but
the cutoff is start of practice.

Pole position:

P1:
P2:
P3:

I have:

Entrant Pole 1 2 3
Mark VER VER NOR HAM
Mark Jackson LEC RUS PIA NOR
Phil Carmody RUS LEC RUS PIA
D Munz LEC LEC RUS HAM
Hornplayer9599 RUS LEC PIA RUS
Eric LEC LEC HAM RUS
User8270 LEC NOR LEC RUS
Martin Harran VER PIA VER HAM
Sir Tim RUS LEC RUS VER
Carl Keehn RUS HAM RUS LEC
scole LEC HAM LEC VER
Sreekumar A RUS RUS VER HAM
ceg RUS RUS NOR VER
Shaun RUS RUS VER ANT
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Thanks for running the Pool again, Mark.

Pole position: LEC
P1: LEC
P2: RUS
P3: VER
--
JohnM
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Posting for mairsz...

Pole position: VER

P1: VER
P2: RUS
P3: HAM

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On 3/2/26 07:33, Mark wrote:

Okay...it's that time of year once more. Apologies for the delay...it's caught me out as it's normally the week *after* my birthday and not the weekend before.

Please post your predictions for the GP in Australia before the start
of P1 on 06/03/2026. Times for various timezones appear below, but
the cutoff is start of practice.

Pole - LEC

P1 - LEC
P2 - VER
P3 - RUS
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Pole position: RUS

P1: RUS
P2: LEC
P3: VER


PS: Perhaps we could run a parallel pool with the last positions,
including DNS and DNF... I would say:

P22: STR
P21: ALO
P20: BOT
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Mark <mpconmy@gmail.com> wrote:

Okay...it's that time of year once more. Apologies for the delay...it's caught me out as it's normally the week *after* my birthday and not the weekend before.

Please post your predictions for the GP in Australia before the start
of P1 on 06/03/2026. Times for various timezones appear below, but
the cutoff is start of practice.

Pole position:

P1:
P2:
P3:

I tend to be a little more relaxed about the deadline for the first
round...but there's still time in any case.

I have:

Entrant Pole 1 2 3
Mark VER VER NOR HAM
Mark Jackson LEC RUS PIA NOR
Phil Carmody RUS LEC RUS PIA
D Munz LEC LEC RUS HAM
Hornplayer9599 RUS LEC PIA RUS
Eric LEC LEC HAM RUS
User8270 LEC NOR LEC RUS
Martin Harran VER PIA VER HAM
Sir Tim RUS LEC RUS VER
Carl Keehn RUS HAM RUS LEC
scole LEC HAM LEC VER
Sreekumar A RUS RUS VER HAM
ceg RUS RUS NOR VER
Shaun RUS RUS VER ANT
JohnM LEC LEC RUS VER
mairsz VER VER RUS HAM
a425couple LEC LEC VER RUS
EB5AGV RUS RUS LEC VER
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On 2026-03-02, Mark <mpconmy@gmail.com> wrote:

Okay...it's that time of year once more. Apologies for the delay...it's caught me out as it's normally the week *after* my birthday and not the weekend before.

I also forgot because... it is my 60th birthday today... meaning I have
been watching F1 for about 50 years. My dad introduced me in 1976 (actually, now I write this, I remember watching in b&w, and we got colour TV in 1976.)

Anyway. I have been avoiding all F1 news the last months, so I have no idea what is happening :-)

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

-peter

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durian <durian@invalid.com> wrote:

On 2026-03-02, Mark <mpconmy@gmail.com> wrote:

Okay...it's that time of year once more. Apologies for the delay...it's
caught me out as it's normally the week *after* my birthday and not the
weekend before.

I also forgot because... it is my 60th birthday today... meaning I have
been watching F1 for about 50 years. My dad introduced me in 1976 (actually, now I write this, I remember watching in b&w, and we got colour TV in 1976.)

Anyway. I have been avoiding all F1 news the last months, so I have no idea what is happening :-)

I'm not sure you're any less the wiser for not having watched!

Happy birthday - I'll be 54 as of Monday...
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On 3/5/2026 10:52 AM, durian wrote:

I also forgot because... it is my 60th birthday today... meaning I
have been watching F1 for about 50 years. My dad introduced me in
1976 (actually, now I write this, I remember watching in b&w, and we
got colour TV in 1976.)

Youngster!

I started following F1 in 1962. The first race I actually watched would
almost certainly been Monaco on ABC, but I don't remember the year.

Just reactivated my subscription to Apple TV. We'll see how *that* goes.
--
Mark Jackson - https://mark-jackson.online/
The "i" in "LLM" stands for intelligence.
- Daniel Stenberg
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On 2026-03-05, Mark <mpconmy@gmail.com> wrote:

durian <durian@invalid.com> wrote:

On 2026-03-02, Mark <mpconmy@gmail.com> wrote:

Okay...it's that time of year once more. Apologies for the delay...it's
caught me out as it's normally the week *after* my birthday and not the
weekend before.

I also forgot because... it is my 60th birthday today... meaning I have
been watching F1 for about 50 years. My dad introduced me in 1976 (actually,
now I write this, I remember watching in b&w, and we got colour TV in 1976.) >>
Anyway. I have been avoiding all F1 news the last months, so I have no idea >> what is happening :-)

I'm not sure you're any less the wiser for not having watched!

ha, probably not :-) We'll see what it looks like after this weekend.

Happy birthday - I'll be 54 as of Monday...

Thanks!
-peter
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On 02/03/2026 15:33, Mark wrote:

Pole position: Charles Leclerc
P1: Charles Leclerc
P2: Lando Norris
P3: Lewis Hamilton
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On 6/03/2026 4:52 am, durian wrote:

On 2026-03-02, Mark <mpconmy@gmail.com> wrote:

Okay...it's that time of year once more. Apologies for the delay...it's
caught me out as it's normally the week *after* my birthday and not the
weekend before.

I also forgot because... it is my 60th birthday today... meaning I have
been watching F1 for about 50 years. My dad introduced me in 1976 (actually, now I write this, I remember watching in b&w, and we got colour TV in 1976.)

Anyway. I have been avoiding all F1 news the last months, so I have no idea what is happening :-)

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

-peter

Happy Birthday Peter! I'll be 65 in a month or two but I've only been watching F1 since the late 80s.
--
Shaun.

"Humans will have advanced a long, long way when religious belief has a cozy little classification
in the DSM"
David Melville.
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Pole position: NOR

P1: NOR
P2: PIA
P3: RUS

Reading the replies here I feel like the young one at 52. :)


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On 2026-03-02 07:33, Mark wrote:

Okay...it's that time of year once more. Apologies for the delay...it's caught me out as it's normally the week *after* my birthday and not the weekend before.

Please post your predictions for the GP in Australia before the start
of P1 on 06/03/2026. Times for various timezones appear below, but
the cutoff is start of practice.

Pole position: Russell

P1: Russell
P2: Piastri
P3: Antonelli

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Mark <mpconmy@gmail.com> wrote:

Okay...it's that time of year once more. Apologies for the delay...it's caught me out as it's normally the week *after* my birthday and not the weekend before.

Please post your predictions for the GP in Australia before the start
of P1 on 06/03/2026. Times for various timezones appear below, but
the cutoff is start of practice.

Pole position:

P1:
P2:
P3:

I have:

Entrant Pole 1 2 3
Mark VER VER NOR HAM
Mark Jackson LEC RUS PIA NOR
Phil Carmody RUS LEC RUS PIA
D Munz LEC LEC RUS HAM
Hornplayer9599 RUS LEC PIA RUS
Eric LEC LEC HAM RUS
User8270 LEC NOR LEC RUS
Martin Harran VER PIA VER HAM
Sir Tim RUS LEC RUS VER
Carl Keehn RUS HAM RUS LEC
scole LEC HAM LEC VER
Sreekumar A RUS RUS VER HAM
ceg RUS RUS NOR VER
Ar LEC LEC NOR HAM
Shaun RUS RUS VER ANT
JohnM LEC LEC RUS VER
mairsz VER VER RUS HAM
a425couple LEC LEC VER RUS
EB5AGV RUS RUS LEC VER
durian VER VER NOR HAM
Hugh NOR NOR PIA RUS
Alan Baker RUS RUS PIA ANT
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durian <durian@invalid.com> wrote:

On 2026-03-02, Mark <mpconmy@gmail.com> wrote:

Okay...it's that time of year once more. Apologies for the delay...it's
caught me out as it's normally the week *after* my birthday and not the
weekend before.

I also forgot because... it is my 60th birthday today... meaning I have
been watching F1 for about 50 years. My dad introduced me in 1976 (actually, now I write this, I remember watching in b&w, and we got colour TV in 1976.)

I went to my first motor race in 1952 or 53 - 500cc F3. A youngster called Stirling Moss wiped out the opposition!
Bits of some GPs were available on TV during the fifties (B&W of course)
but the first GP I actually went to was in 1964 at Brands Hatch.
IrCOm 87, and claim to be the rCLoldest memberrCY :-)
--
Sir Tim
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On 2026-03-05 6:05 p.m., Hugh Johnson wrote:

Pole position: NOR

P1: NOR
P2: PIA
P3: RUS

Reading the replies here I feel like the young one at 52. :)

I might have everyone beat. I'm 44.
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In article <10on3ur$3igtc$1@dont-email.me>, User8270 <usenet.8270@protonmail.ch> wrote:

On 2026-03-05 6:05 p.m., Hugh Johnson wrote:

Pole position: NOR

P1: NOR
P2: PIA
P3: RUS

Reading the replies here I feel like the young one at 52. :)

I might have everyone beat. I'm 44.

I'm 45, so yup - you've got me beat.
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