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10 'n' Pole players, post your picks for the 12th race of the season in Italy.

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The deadline for submitting the picks is the start of Saturday practice. That is at 11:00 Italian time (09:00 GMT).

Good luck

Here are my picks for the Round of Italy '15

Winner: Nico Rosberg
Second: Lewis Hamilton
Third: Sebastian Vettel
Fourth: Valterri Bottas
Fifth: Felipe Massa
Sixth: Kimi Raikkonen
Seventh: Daniil Kvyat
Eighth: Romain Grosjean
Ninth: Max Verstappen
Tenth: Nico Hulkenberg
Pole: Nico Rosberg

It is time for Nico to step up and pull some points back in the chase for the World Drivers Championship.

Am I right or wrong?

Just been reading up on possible penalties for Monza.

The Red Bull Formula 1 team is planning to take a strategic engine penalty hit at the Italian Grand Prix, according to team principal Christian Horner.

With power circuit Monza next up, Horner feels the team would be best served swapping engines there and taking sacrificial penalties as he believes the following race in Singapore gives Red Bull a chance of repeating its podium result from the similarly twisty Hungaroring.

Asked whether Ricciardo would require a new engine at Monza, Horner replied: "I'm fairly certain we'll be taking new engines with both cars.

source: autosport.com

It'll be all about the engines. Madness that Lotus can be on the podium last race and struggle to make this one.

Winner: Lewis Hamilton
Second: Nico Rosberg
Third: Felipe Massa
Fourth: Sebastian Vettel
Fifth: Valterri Bottas
Sixth: Romain Grosjean
Seventh: Nico Hulkenberg
Eighth: Daniel Ricciardo
Ninth: Sergio Perez
Tenth: Kimi Raikkonen
Pole: Lewis Hamilton

Not too surprised Red Bull might want to tactically swap engines but it's a shame for the racing that we've reached a stage where teams are deliberately taking penalties because it makes more sense than trying to win/score as many points as possible.

CM Lean & Thaddeus: we seem to be the last of the mohicans here. I agree with you both that engines -- engines -- engines (or as F1 prefers "power units" [will SOMEBODY please explain to FOM that public relations refers to a specific group (people who follow F1) and that relations means having a conversation with, not dictating to) end of rant.

me picks:
1. Lewis
2. his team-mate Nico something or other
3. Seb Vettel in a red car
4. Kimi in another one
5. NICO HULKENBERG an actual racer in a Force India machine with a MERC engine (I mean, power unit)
6. Dan Ricciardo with a French power unit (said to be Renault)
7. another Danny with another said to be Renault
9. poor old Pastor Maldonado in a LOTUS[?]
10. poor old Valeri in a Williams with a MERC

pole: Lewis, of course.

Congratulations to the 10 'n' Pole winners for the Round of Italy 2015

P Pts Player Country
1 76 pat United Kingdom
2 68 RacyTracy United Kingdom
3 67 indie3128 Australia
4 66 chitra dharmapal-bhote India
5 65 Patrese Hong Kong
5 65 PJSuperstar Australia
5 65 George United Kingdom
8 64 Armin Australia
9 62 DansRB10 Australia
9 62 DreamR1der Sweden

10 'n' Pole Standings after the Round of Italy 2015

P Pts Player Country
1 697 Binny Australia
2 693 JTodd United States
3 683 Armin Australia
4 681 dumacher Australia
4 681 RENZOCO Peru
4 681 Joe United States
7 675 Orange Peel United Kingdom
8 672 weltmeistercz Czech Republic
9 671 Beno Australia
10 670 Burner Australia

Next: Round 13 Singapore GP September 20 2015

A small glitch in the results posted.
My initial calculations were done with Vettel starting out of position 2 and Kimi out of 3. Most would not notice.
This has now been rectified and updated results resent to all players.