Week Twenty-Nine

Welcome all to Week Twenty-Nine. Four to choose from this week, with NASCAR at Pocono, WRC in Finland, and an Indycar/ALMS double-header at Mid Ohio. Please pick ten drivers/sports-cars, no more than seven in one event, in a comment on this post before 6 AM BST Friday 3rd August (1 AM ET) (essentially late Thursday night).

Scores

Results – Top Tens

	Formula 1		MotoGP		NASCAR
	Hungaroring		Leguna Seca		Indianapolis
1	Hamilton		Stoner		Johnson
2	Räikkönen		Lorenzo		Kyle B.
3	Grosjean		Pedrosa		Biffle
4	Vettel		Dovizioso		Earnhardt
5	Alonso		Crutchlow		Gordon
6	Button		Hayden		Hamlin
7	Senna		Bradl		Newman
8	Webber		Bautista		Truex
9	Massa		Espargaro		Keselowski
10	Rosberg		Abraham		Stewart

Lewis Hamilton took pole and led all but eight laps, holding off the charging Kimi Räikkönen for the win.

Stoner passed Pedrosa for second early on, and at about two-thirds distance slipped by Lorenzo to then pull away for the win. Dovizioso and Crutchlow moved up to fourth and fifth after Spies crashed exiting the Corkscrew. Rossi had a high-speed crash locking his front when braking into the Corkscrew (15th).

At Indianapolis, Jimmie Johnson had the pace over the field, leading most the race and taking a seemingly comfortable win. Stewart qualified twenty-eighth, and struggled throughout the race to make progress, eventually scraping into the top-ten.

Player Scores

Non-entries get 292 according to the 90% rule. The tie-break count-back rule does not apply for either pair of equal totals, so we have two winners plus two players in third (with column-order led by time-of-entry).

Very well done indeed to iomracer and Drewe for high-scoring wins. iomracer has two previous wins, one outright and one tied. This is Drewe’s fifth win, four tied and an out-right win when he was equal on points (with iomracer) when the tie-break rule did apply.

Spies’s crash saw some rock-solid scores in MotoGP, with the two winning players taking a 1-2-3-4-5, also with Gavin and I picking the top-four. All our picks in F1 finished eighth or better.

Leaderboard

Pos	Pre	+/-	Name	Prior	Wk 28	Total	Differences
1	1		Sebastian	6925	361	7286	0	-
2	3	+1	RubberGoat	6856	361	7217	69	69
3	2	-1	Maverick	6881	324	7205	81	12
4	4		Chris W.	6839	292	7131	155	74
5	5		Pat W.	6756	349	7105	181	26
6	6		iomracer	6703	363	7066	220	39
7	8	+1	Drewe	6550	363	6913	373	153
8	7	-1	The Speedgeek	6559	292	6851	435	62
9	9		Jackie	6521	292	6813	473	38
10	10		Matt	6092	292	6384	902	429
11	11		Ryan	5596	292	5888	1398	496
12	12		Jay	5382	292	5674	1612	214
13	13		James	5313	292	5605	1681	69
14	14		New players	5294	292	5586	1700	19

RubberGoat regains the second-place he lost to Maverick last week. Chris unfortunately missed the week but hung onto fourth by a decreased margin. iomracer moved a few points closer to Pat. Drewe took seventh off The Speedgeek, with Andy also unfortunately missing his entry.

There are four events this week without as many obvious safe choices as the week just gone, so we may see a wider spread of points affecting positions on the leaderboard.

This Week

Roster

· WRC – Finland
· Indycar – Mid Ohio, USA
· ALMS – Mid Ohio, USA
· NASCAR – Pocono, USA

The deadline is 6 AM BST Friday 3rd August (1 AM ET). Also remember the countdown widget rounds up on days. Retired WRC entrants always get zero points.

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.

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