US
US-FIN
Geocaching F1 Grand Prix Cache
All geocaching
F1 and other racing fans,
Welcome to the first annual geocaching US-FIN F1Grand Prix.
The goal of this cache is to race 8
F1 car travel bugs from Austin, TX USA to Keimola,
Finland
(cache name: “Bensaa Suonissa”.
Waypoint GCJYB4).
There will be several races
included in the Grand Prix race.
1)
Fastest to reach the
finish line
2)
Shortest route to the
finish line
3)
Points race to the
finish line
The race, moving the travel
bug, takes place according to agreed standard geocaching
rules.
Please move only one car at time per geocacher.
Please do your best to move the
travel bug towards its goal line.
The race car drivers
are as follows :
-
Keke Rosberg
(TBGQDD)
-
Mika Salo (TBGZ1F)
-
Mika Hakkinen (TBGW1W)
-
JJ Lehto
(TBH09X)
-
Kimi Raikkonen
(TBGR5E)
-
Leo Kinnunen (TBH0K4)
-
Harri Toivonen
(TBGRZQ)
-
Mikko Kozarowitzky
(TBGXV9)
All the cars are named after
past or current Finnish F1 drivers. Pick your favorite and get him
moving.
After all travel bugs
have moved out, the cache will function as a regular cache.
Fastest
car race
The winner is the car that takes
the shortest time from the moment “F1 Grand Prix” cache (way point here) came
online to when the car is logged at “Bensaa Suonissa” cache (GCJYB4).
Shortest
route race
The winner is the car that takes the
shortest route in kilometers between each cache the car is
logged in on its way from “F1 Grand
Prix” cache to “Bensaa Suonissa” cache (GCJYB4).
The
points race
F1 cars, travel bugs, will be
awarded points along the race according the following criteria.
1)
Picture of the F1 car
(travel bug) taken on any road race track surface along the route (10 points)
2)
Picture of the F1 car
(travel bug) taken on a surface of track used for F1 race (25 points)
3)
Picture of the F1 car
(travel bug) taken on top of any race car (except a formula open wheel type of
race car body) (10 points)
4)
Picture of the F1 car
(travel bug) taken on top of any formula open wheel type of race car body (20
points)
5)
Picture of the F1 car
(travel bug) taken with any licensed race car driver (expect FIA licensed) (30
points)
6)
Picture of the F1 car
(travel bug) taken with a FIA licensed race car driver (50 points)
7)
Picture of the F1 car
(travel bug) taken on top of any past or present F1 car (100 points)
8)
Picture of the F1 car
(travel bug) taken with any past or current F1 driver (except a world champion)
(250 points)
9)
Picture of the F1 car
(travel bug) taken with any past or current world champion F1 (500 points)
Amendment to the points rule as of
Aug 26/04:
Any worth while of picture of the F1
car (travel bug) that makes the owner of the cache to laugh, will be awarded
points
according to the mood of the owner
:-)
Please post your picture and relevant
information related to the picture on the geocache.com site.
I will keep track
of the points race and the location of the race cars
(see table below).
Thank you for your
participation on this first annual geocaching F1
US-FIN Grand Prix.
Current
location and standing in the points race
|
Car/Travel bug
|
Location
|
Dist. Traveled
|
Points
|
Comments
|
|
Keke Rosberg (TBGQDD)
|
Nashville, TN
|
1206.43 km
|
10 points
|
Still stuck in Nashville :-(
|
|
Mika
Salo
(TBGZ1F)
|
Darmstadt, Germany
|
8557.31 km
|
0 points
|
New leader of the race.
Made it on the other side of the pond to Germany !!!
|
|
JJ
Lehto
(TBH09X)
|
Chicago, IL
|
1350.20 km
|
0 points
|
Still
taking a break in Chicago
|
|
Mika
Hakkinen (TBGW1W)
|
Austin , TX
|
36.36 km
|
10 points
|
Can't get
off from the starting grid :-(
|
|
Kimi Raikkonen (TBGR5E)
|
San
Antonio, TX
|
139.66 km
|
0 points
|
Going bit wrong
direction :-)
|
|
Leo
Kinnunen (TBH0K4)
|
Austin, TX
|
358.16 km
|
0 points
|
Unfortunaly he is back to Austin :-(
|
|
Harri Toivonen (TBGRZQ)
|
Seattle, WA
|
4250.66 km
|
0 points
|
Going North to Washington. 2nd in distance
race.
|
|
Mikko Kozarowitzky (TBGXV9)
|
Las Vegas, NV
|
2129.35 km
|
0 points
|
Going
around the westward way.
|
Cache
in Keimola by VesaK / Liimes.
Updated
03/26/05
ver. 5.2 FP