Parc Fermé
Rules

Parc Fermé is the season prediction championship. Before every race in six championships, you make five calls. After the flag, the official classification settles them. Every round is worth 100 points, in every championship, so a Formula 1 weekend and a NASCAR weekend are the same size.

Every call has exactly one official answer. Nothing you are asked needs a judgment after the race, so there is nothing to argue about.

Three headline calls at 25 points, one chaos call at 15, one detail call at 10. The headline calls are the podium, or the class winners where a championship races in classes. The chaos call in every championship is how many cars fail to finish. The detail call is where the pole sitter finishes where a series publishes its grid, the fastest lap where it does not, and the winning margin for IMSA.

A podium call with the right name on the wrong step scores 10. Nothing else has partial credit. Podium picks must be three different names.

A round appears ten days before its race. Your calls can go in the moment it does and can change as often as you like until the race starts. At the start they lock. Nobody, in any league, can see anyone else's calls before that moment; after it, everyone in your league sees everyone's, and the places you went your own way are marked.

The championship tables weight the big ones: the Daytona 24, Sebring and Petit Le Mans at 1.5×, and the Indianapolis 500, the Daytona 500 and the 24 Hours of Le Mans at 2×. Weights count toward the championship table only. Your rank is built from the unweighted score, so nominating the biggest race of the weekend is not automatically the right move.

Results come from the official classification, read from the timing feed where a series publishes one and entered by hand where it does not, then checked and settled by a person. A car that starts and is not running at the flag has failed to finish, whatever the series calls it. A car still running many laps down is a finisher. A car that never starts is not counted.

If a race is stopped before half its scheduled distance, the round is voided and nobody moves. At half distance or more the official classification stands. If a driver is replaced after calls lock, your call is the car, and it scores against that entry whoever is in the seat.

A round's entry list is everyone who has taken part in that championship this season. It only grows, so a regular who misses one race is still there the week they return, and a substitute stays on the list once they have raced. You are free to call a driver who turns out not to start. That is your risk.

Each championship has its own season table, and every round you enter counts toward it. Your rank is separate: one nominated round a week feeds it, and the full rules for how it moves are on the rank page.