Welcome all to Week Twenty-Seven. We have a trio of events, with F1 at Hockenheim, Indycar in Edmonton, ALMS at Mosport, and no NASCAR! Please pick ten drivers/sport-cars, no more than seven in one event, in a comment on this post before 6 AM BST Friday 20th July (1 AM ET) (essentially late Thursday night).
Scores
Results – Top Tens
| MotoGP | NASCAR | ||
| Mugello | Loudon | ||
| 1 | Lorenzo | Kahne | |
| 2 | Pedrosa | Hamlin | |
| 3 | Dovizioso | Bowyer | |
| 4 | Bradl | Earnhardt | |
| 5 | Rossi | Keselowski | |
| 6 | Crutchlow | Gordon | |
| 7 | Hayden | Johnson | |
| 8 | Stoner | Harvick | |
| 9 | Barbera | Biffle | |
| 10 | Bautista | Newman |
In the first couple of corners, Lorenzo took the lead off the fast-starting Pedrosa, and kept it to the end. Stoner had handling problems all weekend. He raced with the ultra-hard rear tyre, starting to climb the field later in the race before a diversion through the gravel knocked him back again. Spies slid down the order in the race for no explained reason (11th).
Kasey Kahne took his second victory of the year in New Hampshire, just managing to stay ahead of Hamlin, the latter having had to climb through the field after a strategy blunder. Stewart (12th), Kenseth (13th), Edwards (18th), and Ambrose (19th) all finished on the lead-lap.
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Non-entries get 236 according to the 90% rule.
Top congratulations to Chris on his third outright win of the season. There were also strong scores by Maverick and myself. All three of us picked the same trio of New Hampshire specialists. The MotoGP was a bit more mixed up than expected but all choices finished top-eleven, as indeed all the NASCAR selections made finished top-nineteen.
Leaderboard
| Pos | Pre | +/- | Name | Prior | Wk 26 | Total | Differences | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | Sebastian | 6309 | 300 | 6609 | 0 | - | |
| 2 | 2 | RubberGoat | 6248 | 292 | 6540 | 69 | 69 | |
| 3 | 3 | Maverick | 6234 | 304 | 6538 | 71 | 2 | |
| 4 | 4 | Chris W. | 6218 | 311 | 6529 | 80 | 9 | |
| 5 | 5 | Pat W. | 6175 | 274 | 6449 | 160 | 80 | |
| 6 | 6 | iomracer | 6084 | 288 | 6372 | 237 | 77 | |
| 7 | 7 | Jackie | 6009 | 236 | 6245 | 364 | 127 | |
| 8 | 8 | Drewe | 5966 | 268 | 6234 | 375 | 11 | |
| 9 | 9 | The Speedgeek | 5933 | 262 | 6195 | 414 | 39 | |
| 10 | 10 | Matt | 5580 | 236 | 5816 | 793 | 379 | |
| 11 | 11 | Ryan | 5084 | 236 | 5320 | 1289 | 496 | |
| 12 | 12 | Jay | 4870 | 236 | 5106 | 1503 | 214 | |
| 13 | 13 | James | 4801 | 236 | 5037 | 1572 | 69 | |
| 14 | 14 | New players | 4782 | 236 | 5018 | 1591 | 19 | |
It was a fairly narrow range of scores on the week, resulting in no changes in overall order, although some of the gaps have closed up. We have a couple of three-event weeks coming up, then a few busy weeks with up to seven, except for week-thirty which is NASCAR-only at Watkins Glen.
This Week
Roster
· Formula One – Hockenheim, Germany
· Indycar – Edmonton, Canada
· ALMS – Mosport, Canada
The deadline is 6 AM BST Friday 20th July (1 AM ET). Also remember the countdown widget rounds up on days.
Pick ten drivers/sports-cars to a maximum of seven from any one event.
The points system is
50-40-35-32-30-28-26-24-22-20-19-18-17-16-15-14-13-12-11-10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-2-2-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1.
Click to open guide/links to this week’s events in new window.
Congrats Chris, you called Spies spot on, thank heavens nobody else seems to have noticed Stefan Bradl
So, Week 27… time to get aggressive in pursuit of Sebastian I think.
ALMS
#6
#16
#055
INDYCAR
Ryan Hunter-Reay
Helio Castroneves
Will Power
F1
Alonso
Webber
Vettel
Hamilton
Comment by Mav — July 17, 2012 @ 12:27 am
F1:
1) Fernando Alonso
2) Mark Webber
3) Sebastian Vettel
4) Lewis Hamilton
5) Kimi Raikkonen
Indy:
6) Ryan Hunter-Reay
7) Helio Castroneves
8) Scott Dixon
ALMS:
9) #6 Luhr/Graf
10) #16 Dyson/Smith
Comment by iomracer — July 17, 2012 @ 2:39 pm
Yeah, another shocking performance by Spies. I assumed his mysterious lack of pace early season was behind him. Is there something we are not being told?
A lot of weeks left with some busy weeks amongst them, and not that many points between us. My aim is to look for safe and consistant to try to stay ahead, but an unlucky week or two can easily wipe out the advantage.
ALMS:
#6 Muscle Milk (Luhr/Graf)
#16 Dyson (Dyson/Smith)
Formula One:
Sebastian Vettel
Mark Webber
Fernando Alonso
Kimi Räikkönen
Lewis Hamilton
Nico Rosberg
Indycar:
Will Power
Ryan Hunter-Reay
I did look at past results for the Level 5 cars, which suggest one will do well, but not which one! I did consider Massa, who did quite well last time at Hockenheim apart from pesky team-orders, and I wonder if Franchitti’s recent bad results have been most about rotten luck, but then maybe it is better to pick someone luckier.
Comment by Sebastian X — July 17, 2012 @ 5:07 pm
The one I don’t pick, as a general rule
Comment by Mav — July 17, 2012 @ 7:59 pm
F1:
Sebastian Vettel
Mark Webber
Fernando Alonso
IndyCar:
Scott Dixon
Helio Castroneves
Will Power
ALMS:
#6 Pickett HPD
#16 Dyson Lola-Mazda
#20 Dyson Lola-Mazda
#37 Conquest Morgan-Nissan
A little frustrating to be playing so poorly that I’m still behind somebody who hasn’t been playing for 4-5 weeks…
Comment by The Speedgeek — July 19, 2012 @ 4:16 am
Tricky Week.
F1:
1) Alonso
2) Vettel
3) Webber
4) Hamilton
5) Raikkonen
6) Rosberg
ALMS:
7) #6 Muscle Milk (Luhr/Graf)
8) #16 Dyson (Dyson/Smith)
IndyCar:
9) Will Power
10) Ryan Hunter-Reay
Comment by rubbergoat — July 19, 2012 @ 11:24 am
I need to make something of this week to make up lost ground.
F1
Alonso
Webber
Vettel
Schumacher (yes really)
IndyCar
Hunter-Reay
Power
Dixon
Servia
ALMS
#7 Muscle Milk Pickett HPD
#16 Dyson Lola Mazda
I want to pick another ALMS instead of the the Schumacher gamble, but Level 5 can’t ever seem to decide which car to race until the last minute, and the Conquest car keeps retiring whenever I watch it. Maybe the LMPC guys will get a top 4 or 5 but which one?
Comment by Pat W — July 19, 2012 @ 5:46 pm
Formula 1:
Raikkonen
Hamilton
Webber
Vettel
Alonso
Schumacher (He is so down on his luck recently, I am gambling this one)
Indycar:
Power
Dixon
ALMS:
#6 Muscle Milk (Luhr/Graf)
#16 Dyson (Dyson/Smith)
Comment by Drewe — July 19, 2012 @ 10:42 pm
Woot! That kind of makes up for a mediocre week last week.
F1:
Seb Vettel
Mark Webber
Fernando Alonso
Felipe Massa
Kimi Raikkonen
Romain Grosjean
Lewis Hamilton
Going deep on F1 picks. Weather looks nice and rather temperate so the field should be pretty evened out as far as tire performance, I feel. DiResta and Perez were hard to cut based on the numbers I had.
ALMS:
#6 Muscle Milk
Still the only seriously reliable pick in sports cars.
Indycar
Will Power
Helio Castroneves
This field was pretty close all around. In the end it was my sort-of-made-up-statistic of ‘weighted finishing position’ that won it for these two. It calculates an expected finishing position based on their performances over the last two seasons and at the particular venue in the past. Dixon, Pagenaud and Franchitti were axed.
Good luck!
Comment by Chris W — July 20, 2012 @ 12:01 am
What is wrong with mediocre weeks? I have had little else.
I go back over comparable results with some consideration to previous results for the venue. The problem with Indycar is that with the new cars and engines, and the split between ovals and non-ovals, there are not that many directly comparable results. I tend to be more venue-specific with NASCAR, whereas when Pat launched the Too Much Racing Game in 2010, I intially thought an oval is an oval is an oval, and had to learn better.
Comment by Sebastian X — July 20, 2012 @ 8:13 pm
You might have thought IndyCar would have had a look at other series before screwing up its engine change regulations… but no.
Comment by Mav — July 22, 2012 @ 12:22 pm
Well despite the entry list, only one of them is actually running this weekend. Fortunately for me, it’s the #055.
Comment by Mav — July 22, 2012 @ 2:11 pm