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The French Grand Prix is on the 1st of July. Pick submissions close on the 29th of June prior to the start of the 1st Friday practice session at 10:00 local time (08:00 GMT).

Go ahead and submit your picks here then come back and paste your picks on this thread let the rest know why you think this pick is the right one.

Please note: Results for USA will be sent out by Thursday.

Good luck!

Thank you for submitting your picks for the race of France

The picks you have entered are:

Winner: Fernando Alonso
Second: Lewis Hamilton
Third: Felipe Massa
Fourth: Heikki Kovalainen
Fifth: Nick Heidfeld
Sixth: Kimi Raikkonen
Seventh: Mark Webber
Eighth: Jarno Trulli

Pole: Lewis Hamilton

It's gonna rain on raceday!

Winner: Fernando Alonso

Second: Lewis Hamilton

Third: Felipe Massa

Fourth: Nick Heidfeld

Fifth: Kimi Raikkonen

Sixth: Robert Kubica

Seventh: Mark Webber

Eighth: Alex Wurz

Pole: Lewis Hamilton

Tough to pick between the first three.

Winner : Felipe Massa
Second : Lewis Hamilton
Third : Fernando Alonso
Fourth : Kimi Raikkonen
Fifth : Nick Heidfeld
Sixth : Giancarlo Fisichella
Seventh : Mark Webber
Eighth : Nico Rosberg

Pole : Felipe Massa

Pole : Fernando Alonso


Winner : Felipe Massa

Second : Fernando Alonso

Third : Mark Webber

Fourth : Jarno Trulli

Fifth : Robert Kubica

Sixth : Lewis Hamilton

Seventh : Heikki Kovalainen

Eighth : David Coulthard

The picks you have entered are:

Winner: Felipe Massa - Hearts: I believe in a Ferrari surprise this round

Second: Fernando Alonso - Spades: Fight Fernando!

Third: Lewis Hamilton - Clubs: I don't see a win, but no way he would miss a podium finish

Fourth: Kimi Raikkonen - Diamonds: See I am getting clever at this game, I chose the 4 aces in the first places

Fifth: Heikki Kovalainen - Hopefully a good show from Renault at this home race

Sixth: Nick Heidfeld - Doing a nice season so far

Seventh: Robert Kubica - Not sure how he will do on his return, but just behind Heidfeld sounds about right

Eighth: Nico Rosberg

Pole: Fernando Alonso - The fastest man!

Edit: style

Oh Goody Goody,

no one has picked Lewis.

So here's my picks:

Pole: Lewis
First: Lewis
Second: Kimi
Third: Felipe
Fourth: Fernando
Fifth: Kubica
Sixth: Nick
Seventh: Nico
Eighth: who else: David C.!

Hope to chortle with glee on race day!

Jim watt

Picks for the round of France..................

1st} Lewis Hamilton(three in a row........... )
2nd} Felipe Massa(where's Kimi............? )
3rd} Fernando Alonso(getting more rattled with each race........ )
4th} Kimi Raikkonen(can I go back to McLaren, please? )
5th} Nick Heidfeld(still the best of the rest..........again! )
6th} Giancarlo Fisichella(.............................. ...........................)
7th} Mark Webber(gotta' get Red Bull some points during the year......... )
8th} Nico Rosberg(this week's pick for 8th place)

And for pole position...........Lewis Hamilton

Winner: Fernando Alonso
Second: Felipe Massa
Third: Kimi Raikkonen
Fourth: Lewis Hamilton
Fifth: Heikki Kovalainen
Sixth: Mark Webber
Seventh: Nick Heidfeld
Eighth: Nico Rosberg
Pole: Fernando Alonso

Never had time to put in my picks this week. Same miserable result, albeit slightly less pathetic than Indy...

Hero to zero in the space of 7 days.

cmlean wrote:Hero to zero in the space of 7 days.

Story of my life

Oongka, drake tungsten and ipah top scored this round with 50 points. Well done.
This was the highest individual score so far this season.
5 players managed to pick all 8 drivers.
The average score was 32.62, also the highest so far this season, just 0.02 points above the average for the Round of Malaysia.

We have a 3-way tie this round, Oongka and drake tungsten submitted picks for this round while ipah had picks carried over from the previous round.
Oongka was the earlier of the two to submit picks for this round. So Congratulations to Oongka, you have won a NewsOnF1 Compact Smart Digital Clock with Alarm.

Oongka managed to pick all 8 of the top 8 finishers with 2nd, 5th, 6th and 8th in their exact finishing place. Picking Lewis Hamilton for pole earned Oongka 2 additional points and scored a bonus 10 points for picking 8 and 2nd on the grid!
drake tungsten managed to pick 7 of the top 8 finishers with 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 5th in their exact finishing place. Picking Felipe Massa for pole earned drake tunsten 4 additional points and scored a bonus 6 points for picking 7 and Pole!
ipah managed to pick 8 of the top 8 finishers with 5th, 6th and 8th in their exact finishing place. Picking Felipe Massa for pole earned ipah 4 additional points and scored a bonus 10 points for picking 8 and Pole!


Please give us your comments on how you've managed such a stunning pick!
All other players can contribute here as well. We'd love to hear from you.

The Meanest leaps from 6th place to take the lead following the round of France (The Meanest scored the 4th highest score in that round), Jimmy drops to second place 7 points behind with Armin in 3rd a further 2 points behind. Magda is 4th ahead of Pikkermans while Boyle and Hayama are tied in 6th place.
A number of big movers this round notably aabc01, ScrapDealer, Texancow and Kokoshka.


The Overall Top 20 is available here

The France Top 200 is available here

The Popularity Picks for the round of France is available here

Results for individuals and groups are being sent.

Good luck in the next round of Britain.

Well done Oongka, drake tungsten and ipah for getting such a high score.

Well done The Meanest for getting into the lead.

I would be good to hear from those at the champagne end of this competition.

Southernman wrote: I would be good to hear from those at the champagne end of this competition.

We get the cork in this deal