2012 Formula One Season

[tubeguru]

Re: Chinese GP qualifying.

Can I change my picks please?

[Root]

I'm sure you're not the only one who would change them if they could! That qualifying was brilliant though.

[tubeguru]

Don't say too much for now - some people won't be watching it until later.

[moley]

Mercedes front row.

Vettel is 11th.

I'm sorry but if I hadnt seen it and didnt want to know the result of qualifying then I wouldnt be looking in a 2012 formula 1 season thread.

I also wouldnt look at the news, turn on the radio, read twitter or look at THIS THREAD.

[tubeguru]

You radical.

[hopeful traveller]

We all expect this of stupid common people, don't we?

[Root]

A third winner from a third different team in the first three races. This is getting impossible to predict. It was a cracking race in many ways, particularly with the battle for 2nd-3rd-4th-5th-etc. It would have been even better if they were going for the victory, but Rosberg was dominant at the front. Unsurprisingly, none of us predicted a victory for him.

Sam and scrxisi jointly won this round, both scoring 120 points. It's a conspiracy! Garion is still in the lead overall. The results are in the usual place.

[tubeguru]

I have decided to write a BASIC program to choose my drivers for future races. It's impossible to choose using logic and form, so I'm going to allow my program to do it for me.

Standby for the result of my first run ...

[Sam]

Mercedes front row.

Vettel is 11th.

I'm sorry but if I hadnt seen it and didnt want to know the result of qualifying then I wouldnt be looking in a 2012 formula 1 season thread.

I also wouldnt look at the news, turn on the radio, read twitter or look at THIS THREAD.

Where's Dudey?

[Root]

Reminder: the Bahrain GP starts tomorrow. Or at least it looks that way.

[tubeguru]

As promised, I have written a BASIC program to automate my picks for me. I don't hold out much hope of gaining on the leaders following my Bahrain selections, but we'll see.

[Root]

What criteria does your BASIC program use when making its picks?

[tubeguru]

It just picks a random number between 1 and 25 (except 13) and offers it to me for each position. To save time, I got the program to ask me if that number had been chosen before, repeating that driver if it had.

I did consider being all clever and only allowing the program to choose the obvious potential possibilities. But I can't be arsed, so it just goes random. Hence Hulkenberg to win.

[Root]

Just to let you all know, I'm holding back on the scores until I know whether Rosberg is going to get a penalty.

[hopeful traveller]

He's not. Nor is Hamilton, Perez or Alonso.