Week Twenty-Eight

Welcome all to Week Twenty-Eight. Three events again, including Formula One in Hungary, MotoGP stateside at Leguna Seca, and NASCAR at Indianapolis. Please pick ten drivers/riders, no more than seven in one event, in a comment on this post before 6 AM BST Friday 27th July (1 AM ET) (essentially late Thursday night).

Scores

Results – Top Tens

	Formula 1		Indycar		ALMS
	Hockenheim		Edmonton		Mosport
1	Alonso		Castroneves		#6 Muscle Milk
2	Button		Sato		#16 Dyson
3	Räikkönen		Power		#37 Conquest
4	Kobayashi		Rahal		#055 Level 5
5	Vettel		Tagliani		#20 Dyson
6	Perez		Franchitti		#9 RSR
7	Schumacher		Hunter-Reay		#05 CORE
8	Webber		Briscoe		#06 CORE
9	Hulkenberg		Wilson		#25 Dempsey
10	Rosberg		Dixon		#01 Extreme

Alonso took pole in a wet qualification, and did enough in the race to hold that advantage to the flag. Vettel finished second, but was bumped to fifth with a post-race penalty for leaving the track when passing Button. Massa (12th) and Grosjean (18th) both broke their front-wings at the start, probably with the subsequent debris causing Hamilton’s rear puncture, leading to a possibly tactical retirement late in the race (24th).

Castroneves held off Sato in a caution-free race at Edmonton. There were ten-grid-spot penalties aplenty, with Dixon’s for using a sixth engine when the season-allocation is five, plus Hunter-Reay, Power and Servia all making strategic engine changes, due to concerns about the spate of high-mileage engine blow-ups this season, combined with just how difficult passing at the following Mid Ohio will be. Servia had a mechanical issue in the race (24th).

Despite some re-occurrence of the electronic issues suffered in the previous round plus a pit-lane penalty, the Muscle Milk Pickett HPD still had enough in hand to beat Dyson to the victory. For the second race in a row, Level 5 only started the race with one of their two cars.

Player Scores

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Non-entries get 276 according to the 90% rule. Gavin, Drewe and I are all joint-fourth as the count-back tie-break rule did not separate us, with column order thus dictated by order of entry.

Many congratulations to Andy The Speedgeek for a very fine win, being the only player to have all ten choices finish top-ten in results, and eight of those top-five; this makes it four wins plus a joint-win for Andy. All of the rest of us were caught out by the six-points-only scores of Hamilton or Servia. Both of the bottom-two players have a right to feel hard done by, as Chris picked all three winners, and Pat had nine of his selections finish top-ten.

Clearly, it was the week to go longer on ALMS picks with all the five cars variously picked by us finishing top-five at Mosport.

Leaderboard

Pos	Pre	+/-	Name	Prior	Wk 27	Total	Differences
1	1		Sebastian	6609	316	6925	0	-
2	3	+1	Maverick	6538	343	6881	44	44
3	2	-1	RubberGoat	6540	316	6856	69	25
4	4		Chris W.	6529	310	6839	86	17
5	5		Pat W.	6449	307	6756	169	83
6	6		iomracer	6372	331	6703	222	53
7	9	+2	The Speedgeek	6195	364	6559	366	144
8	8		Drewe	6234	316	6550	375	9
9	7	-2	Jackie	6245	276	6521	404	29
10	10		Matt	5816	276	6092	833	429
11	11		Ryan	5320	276	5596	1329	496
12	12		Jay	5106	276	5382	1543	214
13	13		James	5037	276	5313	1612	69
14	14		New players	5018	276	5294	1631	19

Maverick gains second-place from RubberGoat and makes a significant inroad in points on my lead. Speedgeek’s win gives him a two-place gain to seventh, whilst Drewe retains eighth, losing a place to Andy but gaining over Jackie.

We are past halfway in weeks and about halfway in points (with early weeks being quiet and the busiest weeks to come). In my opinion, seeking steady progress is still the best strategy, with it best to save lateral gambles (that so usually backfire) until the very late weeks if needed.

This Week

Roster

· Formula One – Hungaroring, Hungary
· MotoGP – Leguna Seca, USA
· NASCAR – Indianapolis, USA

The deadline is 6 AM BST Friday 27th July (1 AM ET). Also remember the countdown widget rounds up on days.

Pick ten drivers/riders 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.

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