Week Thirty-Eight

Welcome all to Week Thirty-Eight. Just the three this week, including Formula One (Suzuka), WRC (France) and NASCAR (Talledega). Please pick ten drivers up to a maximum of seven in any one event in a comment on this post before 6 AM BST Friday 5th October (1 AM ET) (essentially late Thursday night).

Drewe’s Performance Charts

Drewe is keeping these charts and tables up to date after each week’s results come in. In the last week he has added a chart visually representing the form of each player against the average, across the season based on the previous five weeks, so please do have a look at that (full-screen may give the best view).

Click to open Performance Charts in new window.

Scores

Results – Top Tens

	MotoGP		WEC		DTM		NASCAR
	Aragón		Bahrain		Valencia		Dover
1	Pedrosa		#1  Audi		Farfus		Keselowski
2	Lorenzo		#2  Audi		Tambey		Gordon
3	Dovizioso		#21 Strakka		Ekström		Martin
4	Crutchlow		#12 Rebellion		Albuquerque		Johnson
5	Spies		#13 Rebellion		Rockenfeller		Edwards
6	Bautista		#49 Pecom		Spengler		Truex
7	Rea		#23 Signatech		Frey		Kyle B.
8	Rossi		#44 Starworks		Priaulx		Hamlin
9	Abraham		#32 Lotus		Werner		Bowyer
10	Espargaro		#26 Signatech		Green		Logano

Lorenzo took the initial lead, but Pedrosa did not take too long to pass him, and then pulled away for the victory. Bradl passed Spies for third, but very soon after crashed (19th). Dovizioso and Crutchlow were in close battle the whole race (both overhauling Spies), with only 0&middot137 between them at the line.

In Bahrain, it was an Audi hybrid one-two, with the #1 car beating the #2 by a couple of laps, after the latter was delayed by over-heating rear-brakes, and nose-changes necessitated by failing headlights. The #12 Rebellion lost a third-place finish due to having to stop to change one of its race-numbers. The #7 Toyota had taken the lead after a few laps, but needed to stop for an electrical fault concerning the lighting behind the number panels. They had recovered to third, but retired after they tangled with the Strakka (24th).

After struggling for grip, the highest placed Mercedes in qualification was fourteenth, and with Spengler only managing twelve, it was to be a mixed up result. Farfus won from pole. I do not know why Scheider retired (17th). Paffett was given a stop/go for spinning Hand’s BMW on lap one, and eventually retired with damage from that contact (18th).

The last leg of the NASCAR turned into a fuel strategy battle, with Johnson having to surrender the lead to save fuel, as well as Kyle Petty and Hamlin needing to make late splash-and-dashes, giving victory to Keselowski. Harvick finished 13th. Kahne had been top-five late in the race but had to pit with a loose right front wheel (15th). Biffle was 16th. Kenseth suffered a broken track-rod (35th).

Player Scores

You might want to try full-screen (F11), or click here to open table-image in a new window.

Non-entries get 225 according to the 90% rule.

Many congratulations to Chris for his fourth outright win of the season (plus two joint wins), achieved with the inspired pick of Keselowski giving him three winners. Well done to me for running Chris close, helped by my choice of Ekström. Very unfortunately, Andy the Speedgeek picked the absent Stoner, which I only noticed after the deadline.

We all picked both Audis, the Toyota, Lorenzo and Pedrosa, thus we were all hit by the Toyota’s retirement.

Leaderboard

Pos	Pre	+/-	Name	Prior	Wk 37	Total	Differences
1	1		Sebastian	9720	328	10048	0	-
2	2		Maverick	9580	310	9890	158	158
3	3		RubberGoat	9555	311	9866	182	24
4	4		iomracer	9529	313	9842	206	24
5	5		Pat W.	9435	281	9716	332	126
6	6		Chris W.	9383	331	9714	334	2
7	7		Drewe	9300	305	9605	443	109
8	8		The Speedgeek	9201	250	9451	597	154
9	9		Jackie	8709	225	8934	1114	517
10	10		Matt	8280	225	8505	1443	429
11	11		Ryan	7784	225	8009	2039	496
12	12		Jay	7570	225	7795	2253	214
13	13		James	7501	225	7726	2322	69
14	14		New players	7482	225	7707	2341	19

No changes in order. My second place on the week does no harm to my lead. Things are close between Maverick, RubberGoat, and iomracer, with a lot to play for. Chris’s win leaves him breathing down Patrick’s neck. Despite the gaps, there is still time for Drewe and The Speedgeek to make progress.

With only eight weeks left, taking some gambles will be tempting, but they do go wrong a lot more often than they go right, and getting into eight weeks of such risks may not be pretty. I would suggest being very selective with deliberately different choices.

This Week

Roster

· Formula 1 – Suzuka, Japan.
· WRC – France
· NASCAR – Talledega, USA

The deadline is 6 AM BST Friday 5th October (1 AM ET). Also remember the countdown widget rounds up on days.

Pick ten drivers up to a maximum of seven in 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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