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Promising in testing - lacklustre in the race:

First reprimand:

Will Hamilton make it into Q3?:

Will Massa carry his recent form into Melbourne?:

First bungled pit-stop:

Boring race or exciting?:

First collision will be between:

Pole Position:

Winner:

Top 3:

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Promising in testing - lacklustre in the race:
Williams

First reprimand:
Kimi (assuming 'reprimand' covers everything - as usual he'll be done for speeding in the pits before he reaches the track)

Will Hamilton make it into Q3?:
Yes

Will Massa carry his recent form into Melbourne?:
Much of it

First bungled pit-stop:
I've been programmed to say McLaren

Boring race or exciting?:
Exciting

First collision will be between:
Hippies and Melbourne authorities

Pole Position:
Vettel

Winner:
Vettel

Top 3:
Vettel
Button
Webber

But I hope not.

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Klaus Kinski: making me question my heroes since January 2013

Promising in testing - lacklustre in the race: Force India

First reprimand: Maldonado

Will Hamilton make it into Q3?: Yes

Will Massa carry his recent form into Melbourne?: Yes

First bungled pit-stop: Webber

Boring race or exciting?: Exciting

First collision will be between: Vettel and Vernge

Pole Position: Hamilton

Winner: Hamilton

Top 3: Hamilton, Rosberg, Button

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minus Vettel

Promising in testing - lacklustre in the race:
Sauber

First reprimand:
Bottas

Will Hamilton make it into Q3?:
No, P11.

Will Massa carry his recent form into Melbourne?:
No. He'll suffer all weekend with reliability issues and scrape into Q2

First bungled pit-stop:
McLaren - Perez

Boring race or exciting?:
Excitedly boring.

First collision will be between:
Pic and Glock

Pole Position:
Webber

Winner:
Button

Top 3:
Button Webber Vettel

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Warning: The above post may contain sarcasm.

Promising in testing - lacklustre in the race: Ferrari

First reprimand: Perez

Will Hamilton make it into Q3?: Yes

Will Massa carry his recent form into Melbourne?: Yes

First bungled pit-stop: Sauber

Boring race or exciting?: Exciting

First collision will be between: Perez Webber

Pole Position: Hamilton

Winner: Vettel

Top 3: Vettel Raikkonen Button

Promising in testing - lacklustre in the race: Sauber

First reprimand: Pastor Maldonado

Will Hamilton make it into Q3?: Yes

Will Massa carry his recent form into Melbourne?: Hopefully

First bungled pit-stop: Force India

Boring race or exciting?: Exciting

First collision will be between: Mark Webber & Sergio Perez

Pole Position: Jenson Button

Winner: Jenson Button

Top 3: Jenson Button, Sebastian Vettel, Fernando Alonso

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"I don't make mistakes, I make prophecies that immediately turn out to be wrong."

Quite strange, before Brazil everyone counted Button out of everything. Now every guess has him on top 3?

Very funny.

Anyway:

Promising in testing - lacklustre in the race: Mercedez

First reprimand: Vettel

Will Hamilton make it into Q3?: Yes

Will Massa carry his recent form into Melbourne?: No

First bungled pit-stop: Mclaren - Perez

Boring race or exciting?: Exciting

First collision will be between: Gros if he is in F1 if not then Perez

Pole Position: Jenson Button

Winner: Jenson Button

Top 3: Jenson Button, Sebastian Vettel, Fernando Alonso

Are they dumping quali in favour of starting in alphabetical order?

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Klaus Kinski: making me question my heroes since January 2013

Promising in testing - lacklustre in the race: Toro Rosso

First reprimand: Maldonado

Will Hamilton make it into Q3?: Yes

Will Massa carry his recent form into Melbourne?: Yes

First bungled pit-stop: Mclaren

Boring race or exciting?: Exciting

First collision will be between: Bottas, Grosjean

Pole Position: Vettel

Winner: Vettel

Top 3: Vettel Button Hamilton

Promising in testing - lacklustre in the race: Lotus - got a sneaky feeling that they may sink back into the midfield.

First reprimand: Gutierrez - for having outrageous eyebrows

Will Hamilton make it into Q3?: Yes

Will Massa carry his recent form into Melbourne?: Nope - but Melbourne has not really been a happy hunting ground for him in the past anyway.

First bungled pit-stop: Webber conveniently has a slow stop when ahead of Vettel.

Boring race or exciting?: Exciting - they don't do boring down under

First collision will be between: Sergio Perez, trying to make up for a poor qualifying punts Nico Rosberg into turn 3 on the first lap.

Pole Position: Vettel

Winner: Jenson Button

Top 3: Jenson Button, Sebastian Vettel, Fernando Alonso

Extras:

First Person to moan about the tyres: Webber
First person in the wall in practice: Gutierrez


Going out on a limb here...

Qualy Prediction:

1-Vettel, 2-Button, 3-Webber, 4-Alonso, 5-Hamilton, 6-Maldo, 7-Rosberg, 8-Hulk, 9-Perez, 10-Raikkonen 11-Lotus #2, 12-Bottas, 13-Massa, 14-Di Resta, 15-Force India #2, 16-Ricciardo, 17-Pic, 18-Vergne, 19-Gutierrez, 20-Glock, 21-Caterham #2, 22-Marussia #2.

Race

1-Button, 2-Vettel, 3-Alonso, 4-Hamilton, 5-Maldo, 6-Hulk, 7-Raikkonen, 8-Massa, 9-Lotus #2, 10-Bottas

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#ANYONEBUTVETTEL2013

Pick 10 Competition 2013: Current Championship Standing = 21st with 597 points
Pick 10 Podiums: USA 2012 - 1st Place with 205 points

Promising in testing - lacklustre in the race: Lotus. Not everyone who competed at the front this year will be able to do so again. I predict Lotus will be the one team who really falls bac.

First reprimand: One of the Caterham drivers will get fined for speeding in the pits, but a reprimand? Hmm... Maybe Maldonado.

Will Hamilton make it into Q3?: Yes. He'll qualify P6, but will struggle to hold onto that in the race.

Will Massa carry his recent form into Melbourne?: Ish. He'll get through to Q3 and finish top six.

First bungled pit-stop: Perez will get his taste of things to come.

Boring race or exciting?: So-so.

First collision will be between: Rosberg will qualify 8th, make a sluggish start from dirty line, and get hit. Not sure who by though. Potentially Grosjean/Kobayashi/whoever is driving second Lotus.

Pole Position: Vettel

Winner: Vettel

Top 3: Vettel, Button, Webber

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I don't follow F1 so I don't know what I'm talking about

Promising in testing - lacklustre in the race: Mercedes/Lotus

First reprimand: Maldonado

Will Hamilton make it into Q3?: Just

Will Massa carry his recent form into Melbourne?: No

First bungled pit-stop: Mclamity

Boring race or exciting?: Exciting

First collision will be between: Perez, Hamilton

Pole Position: Vettel

Winner: Alonso

Top 3: Alonso, Vettel, Perez

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Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.

Someone should come up with point system for this, and create a spreadsheet with our answers and a prize should be given to those who score the most.

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Warning: The above post may contain sarcasm.

Promising in testing - lacklustre in the race: Sauber.

First reprimand: One of the rookies for speeding in the pitlane. Let's say... Gutierrez.

Will Hamilton make it into Q3?: Yes.

Will Massa carry his recent form into Melbourne?: Yes.

First bungled pit-stop: McLaren.

Boring race or exciting?: Somewhere in-between. Not dull, but not a classic.

First collision will be between: Maldonado and Hulkenberg

Pole Position: Vettel

Winner: Vettel

Top 3: Vettel, Button, Alonso

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Currently cheering for: Felipe Massa; Nico Hulkenberg; Romain Grosjean; Felipe Nasr. Oh, and of course, the Toronto Maple Leafs

Promising in testing - lacklustre in the race: Mercedes

First reprimand: Grosjean

Will Hamilton make it into Q3?: No

Will Massa carry his recent form into Melbourne?: Yes

First bungled pit-stop: Alonso

Boring race or exciting?: BORING

First collision will be between: Perez & Grosjean

Pole Position: Massa

Winner: Massa

Top 3: Massa, Webber, Raikkonen

Promising in testing - lacklustre in the race: Caterham

First reprimand: Max Chilton

Will Hamilton make it into Q3?: Just

Will Massa carry his recent form into Melbourne?: No

First bungled pit-stop: Williams

Boring race or exciting?: Exciting

First collision will be between: Chilton and Pic

Pole Position: Sergio Perez

Winner: Jenson Button

Top 3: Button, Alonso, Perez

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Jenson Button & Williams F1 Team supporter!

Good idea

Anyone else think of other predictions?

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Feel free to add your own - this will be bumped on 18th March

Promising in testing - lacklustre in the race: Force India

First reprimand: Grosjean

Will Hamilton make it into Q3?: Yes

Will Massa carry his recent form into Melbourne?: No

First bungled pit-stop: McLaren

Boring race or exciting?: Exciting

First collision will be between: Grosjean & Perez

Pole Position: Button

Winner: Vettel

Top 3: Vettel, Webber, Button

Promising in testing - lacklustre in the race: Williams

First reprimand: Perez

Will Hamilton make it into Q3?: Yes

Will Massa carry his recent form into Melbourne?: Yes

First bungled pit-stop: McLaren

Boring race or exciting?: Exciting

First collision will be between: Vettel & Perez

Pole Position: Alonso

Winner: Alonso

Top 3: Alonso, Button, Massa

Promising in testing - lacklustre in the race:

Mercedes (as always) at the front end, and Caterham in the midfield.

First reprimand: Maldonado

Will Hamilton make it into Q3?: Yes

Will Massa carry his recent form into Melbourne?: Yes. He'll be close to Alonso, but may not actually beat him.

First bungled pit-stop: Marussia

Boring race or exciting?: Exciting

First collision will be between: Perez and Massa. Massa has always defended hard, Perez will be over eager to prove himself.

Pole Position: Vettel

Winner: Button

Top 3:

Button
Alonso
Vettel

Promising in testing - lacklustre in the race: Merc

First reprimand: Chilton or Bottas for blocking in quali

Will Hamilton make it into Q3?: Yes

Will Massa carry his recent form into Melbourne?: Yes

First bungled pit-stop: Marussia or Williams

Boring race or exciting?: decent

First collision will be between: Grosjean on Hammy or Alonso

Pole Position:Perez

Winner: Perez if Dry Button if changeable.

Top 3:Perez, Button, Seb.

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Disclaimer: The above post maybe tongue in cheek.

"I thought I'd get your theories, mock them, then embrace my own. The usual."

Promising in testing - lacklustre in the race: Merc

First reprimand: Chilton for blocking

Will Hamilton make it into Q3?: Just. He'll be around about P10

Will Massa carry his recent form into Melbourne?: Maybe. Depends on the car

First bungled pit-stop: Merc on Hamilton

Boring race or exciting?: Boring. I think RB will be quick and the Macca's will be too far back

First collision will be between: A torro rosso and a williams. I'll go for Vergne and Bottas

Pole Position: Vettel

Winner: Vettel

Top 3: Vettel . Button . Alonso

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Forza Fernando !

Promising in testing - lacklustre in the race: Lotus GP

First reprimand: Grosjean

Will Hamilton make it into Q3?: Yes!!!

Will Massa carry his recent form into Melbourne?: Definitely

First bungled pit-stop: Mclaren....

Boring race or exciting?: Exciting

First collision will be between: Perez & Vettel

Pole Position: Perez

Winner: Webber

Top 3: Webber, Alonso, Button

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Promising in testing - lacklustre in the race: Mercedes

First reprimand: One of the rookies for speeding out of pitlane as soon as FP1 starts.

Will Hamilton make it into Q3?: Yes

Will Massa carry his recent form into Melbourne?: Yes

First bungled pit-stop: Sauber

Boring race or exciting?: Exciting

First collision will be between: Vettel and Webber...lets see some sparks flying at RBR

Pole Position: Raikkonen

Winner: Button

Top 3: Button, Raikkonen, Alonso

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Jenson Button
Kimi Raikkonen
Romain Grosjean
Nico Hulkenburg

Being specific, so I look dead smart next March, innit.

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I remember when this website was all fields.

Promising in testing - lacklustre in the race: Williams

First reprimand: Maldonado

Will Hamilton make it into Q3?: Nope.

Will Massa carry his recent form into Melbourne?: Yes

First bungled pit-stop: Lotus

Boring race or exciting?: Exciting

First collision will be between: Vergne and Gutierrez

Pole Position: Vettel

Winner: Vettel

Top 3: Vettel Perez Alonso

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