This year's Singapore GP was the first without a Safety Car, ending 14 grands prix of slowdowns and showing how unpredictable the race was.
That unpredictability extended to Pit Wall Predictions, presented by Gulf, as our free-to-play game had a low-scoring Sunday.
Did you beat the average, and how did The Strategist score in Singapore? We dive into how this week's PWP worked out.
Find out your results
See how you fared against other fans in the latest round of Pit Wall Predictions, presented by Gulf.
Q1 & Q2: What lap will Alex/Franco make his first stop?
Our two cars started on the same tyre this weekend, but Alex and Franco made their pit stops at very different points in the race.
Albono's early trip to the pits came on Lap 11, just slotting him into the Lap 11-20 bracket and scoring 60.8% of players points.
Franco, however, went much later and stopped on Lap 29, which just 25.7% predicted.
The Strategist expected early stops for both drivers, and picked up just five points from Alex here.
Q3: Which Williams Racing driver will pit first?
Alex was the first medium-equipped driver to make a pit stop, and only the second in the field to swap his tyres.
The Strategist seemed to think that Franco being the first to pit in Baku meant the same would happen in Singapore, losing out on points here.
Don't be upset if you didn't score either; just 39.2% got this 50-50 question right.
Q4: When the first Williams Racing driver pits, where will they pit from?
Alex dropped back in the opening lap to be stuck behind slower cars at this tough-to-pass track, sitting in P15 when our pit wall called him in.
That meant that the P11-P15 option was the correct call for this question, as 47.8% predicted.
The Strategist, however, went for P6-P10, along with 49.2% of players, and received no points.
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Q5: How many pit stops will our drivers make between them?
Singapore turned into a standard one-stop race without any Safety Car interventions this year.
Both Franco and Alex made just one pit stop, meaning 30% of you scored five points here, including The Strategist.
Q6: How many SC periods will there be?
Even though Singapore's history of Safety Car stoppages was well established, 2024's run of Safety Car-free races also played a factor in this question.
The Strategist thought there'd be one appearance, but 9.6% of players correctly believed in the 20 drivers to stay out of trouble for another race this year.
Q7 & Q8: At the end of the race, how close will Alex/Franco’s gap be?
Unfortunately for us, Alex didn't finish the race in Singapore, marking his first DNF since Canada.
If you got this right, you're one of only 0.1% of pessimistic players to score points.
Franco's race was spent glued to either side of Sergio Perez's car, and he crossed the line just behind the Mexican driver.
If you chose 0.1-2.5 secs here, that's five more points to you and 45.4% of players who backed Franco pushing forwards in his racecraft.
The Strategist chose 0.1-2.5s for both answers, meaning that's five points gained for their faith in Franco.
The Strategist's Score: 3/8 – As we head to the final quarter of 2024, The Strategist had hoped for better in Singapore.
Yet it wasn't a high-scoring round so our Guru actually scored more than the majority of players.
10 points for a 2/8 score was the most common result for players this week, as 31.7% found out.
No Pit Wall Perfection badges went out over the weekend, but one lucky player somehow picked their way to a 7/8 finish and netted 35 points.
Three players have created a gap to the chasing pack at the head of the leaderboard, but only one sits atop the pile as PWP 2024 hots up.
It's another fall back for The Strategist, though, who drops to P10 from P8 after Singapore with 340 points to their name.
Can they redeem themselves before the season finale with next month's tripleheader? Pit Wall Predictions, presented by Gulf, will return for the USGP.
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