Ok, seeing as I'm a Heikki fan... The race begins if Kovalainen is ever ahead of Grosjean, for whatever reason (retirement, pitting, overtake, etc). Should this not happen then the chequered flag starts the race. Tables will be updated after this race.
If the race ends and nobody can point to a case of Kovalainen getting ahead, then yep, it's the chequered flag. "Finish" is enough to complete the race, but if people could try and include a lap or something (edit it in later if you like) to make things clear if it isn't pretty obvious, that'd be helpful.
I certainly wouldn't mind, I've certainly found I haven't had the time to do it justice really (this weekend's thread will be up shortly), so some new blood would be good. Would be nice if we could make it into a bigger thing, it seems to have died off as the season's gone on, down to around 8 taking part regularly.