Week Thirty

Welcome all to Week Thirty. Just one event to choose from, that being NASCAR Sprint Cup at Watkins Glen. Please pick seven drivers in a comment on this post before 6 AM BST Friday 10th August (1 AM ET) (essentially late Thursday night).

Scores

Results – Top Tens

	WRC		Indycar		ALMS		NASCAR
	Finland		Mid Ohio		Mid Ohio		Pocono
1	Loeb		Dixon		#6 Muscle Milk		Gordon
2	Hirvonen		Power		#16 Dyson		Kahne
3	Latvala		Pagenaud		#055 Level 5		Truex
4	Solberg		Bourdais		#37 Conquest		Keselowski
5	Østberg		Hinchcliffe		#95 Level 5		Stewart
6	Tänak		Kannan		#52 PR1		Newman
7	Rantanen		Briscoe		#06 CORE		Edwards
8	Ketomaa		Andretti		#8 Merchant		Bowyer
9	Prokop		Hildebrand		#27 Dempsey		Smith
10	Ogier		Tagliani		#9 RSR		Ambrose

As usual, Sébastian Loeb drove only as fast as he needed to for victory. Novikov rolled on stage five, injuring his co-driver’s back, and re-started on Saturday to finish 36th. Atkinson was running top-ten when he misheard a pace-note, getting stuck on a tree-stump to lose sixteen minutes, and then hit a rock on stage nine, also needing to make use of super-rally rules (39th).

Scott Dixon took a record fourth victory at Mid Ohio in a caution-free race with fuel strategy and sharp pit-stops. Castroneves had an engine-penalty ending up only 16th. Hunter-Raey had his engine give out (24th).

The Muscle Milk Pickett HPD took another convincing win. Towards the end, the #20 Dyson was running fifth, but dropped to 13th very late on.

Jimmie Johnson looked in command of the rain-delayed Pocono race until sliding into Kenseth at a re-start. Johnson fell to 14th and Gordon took the lead, with the result called when precipitation resumed.

Player Scores

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Non-entries get 277 according to the 90% rule.

Congratulations to me, and also to Andy for a strong-scoring week. Commiserations to Chris, who picked the winners but was hit by the most bad luck.

There were a lot of points to be had in WRC with a number of players picking the top-five or top-four finishers. A lot of players were hit by Castroneves and Hunter-Reay having a bad weekend in Mid Ohio. There were also good scores to be had in ALMS for being brave with the P2 favourites, but no one took huge advantage of that, perhaps wisely with the inherent risks.

Leaderboard

Pos	Pre	+/-	Name	Prior	Wk 29	Total	Differences
1	1		Sebastian	7286	383	7669	0	-
2	2		RubberGoat	7217	357	7574	95	95
3	3		Maverick	7205	334	7539	130	35
4	5	+1	Pat W.	7105	347	7452	217	87
5	4	-1	Chris W.	7131	308	7439	230	13
6	6		iomracer	7066	337	7403	266	36
7	7		Drewe	6913	352	7265	404	138
8	8		The Speedgeek	6851	377	7228	441	37
9	9		Jackie	6813	277	7090	579	138
10	10		Matt	6384	277	6661	1008	429
11	11		Ryan	5888	277	6165	1504	496
12	12		Jay	5674	277	5951	1718	214
13	13		James	5605	277	5882	1787	69
14	14		New players	5586	277	5863	1806	19

Patrick gains a place on Chris for fourth place. I extend my lead by a few points with my first win for ages, and Speedgeek’s strong week has him gain ground on those ahead.

This might be a week of sizable points-variation with the uncertainties of Sprint Cup on a road course, followed by some busy weeks.

This Week

Roster

· NASCAR – Watkins Glen, USA

The deadline is 6 AM BST Friday 10th August (1 AM ET). Also remember the countdown widget rounds up on days.

Pick seven drivers.

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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