Week Thirty-Nine

Welcome all to Week Thirty-Nine. Four on offer this week, including Formula One (Korea), MotoGP (Motegi), WEC (Fuji), and NASCAR (Charlotte). Please pick ten drivers/riders/sports-cars up to a maximum of seven in any one event in a comment on this post before 6 AM BST Friday 12th October (1 AM ET) (essentially late Thursday night).

Drewe’s Performance Charts

Do visit Drewe’s fine charts and tables to see such as the Full Year Difference Chart and Form Guide, which Drewe is updating every week.

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Scores

Results – Top Tens

	Formula 1		WRC		NASCAR
	Suzuka		France		Talledega
1	Vettel		Loeb		Kenseth
2	Massa		Latvala		Gordon
3	Kobayashi		Hirvonen		Kyle B.
4	Button		Neuville		Ragan
5	Hamilton		Østberg		Smith
6	Räikkönen		Tänak		Biffle
7	Hulkenberg		Novikov		Keselowski
8	Maldonado		Atkinson		Kvapil
9	Webber		Prokop		Newman
10	Ricciardo		Chardonnet		Burton

Vettel took pole and a straightforward victory in Japan. Di Resta had his clutch break at the start (12th). Perez ended up in the gravel with what might have been a move around the outside of the hairpin, or a failure to hold it together after putting a wheel off at the previous turn (22nd). Alonso caught his right-rear against Räikkönen’s front-wing before the first corner, with the resultant puncture causing the Ferrari to spin off and stall (23rd). Rosberg’s exit in 24th was a byproduct of Grosjean hitting Webber in the second turn.

In France, Loeb won the rally, and his tenth title. On Saturday, Solberg had a disagreement with a telegraph pole, returning on Sunday (26th). Sordo looked good for fifth or sixth when on Sunday his power-steering died (rtd.).

The race at Talledega was tedious until the last lap, when Stewart tried to block Michael Waltrip, with the accident that contact caused triggering a twenty-five car pile-up that left the track looking like the aftermath of World War Three. The officials had to sort out the order from when the yellow was thrown, leaving Hamlin 14th and Bowyer 23rd. See the mayhem here.

Player Scores

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Non-entries get 238 according to the 90% rule.

Big congratulations to Andy The Speedgeek for an excellent sixth win of the season, with his choice of Massa paying dividends. Well done also to iomracer, who gained a strong score with his knowledge of WRC leading him to get the top-four in France. Having picked Webber and Rosberg, I imagine Gavin would happily strangle Grosjean.

As has been the case so frequently this season, one of our bankers, on this occasion Alonso, had a stinker, which effect has led to hardly any very high scores this year, but it is relative scoring that counts.

Leaderboard

Pos	Pre	+/-	Name	Prior	Wk 38	Total	Differences
1	1		Sebastian	10048	276	10324	0	-
2	2		Maverick	9890	267	10157	167	167
3	4	+1	iomracer	9842	308	10150	174	7
4	3	-1	RubberGoat	9866	264	10130	194	20
5	5		Pat W.	9716	297	10013	311	117
6	6		Chris W.	9714	274	9988	336	25
7	7		Drewe	9605	266	9871	453	117
8	8		The Speedgeek	9451	310	9761	563	110
9	9		Jackie	8934	238	9172	1152	589
10	10		Matt	8505	238	8743	1481	429
11	11		Ryan	8009	238	8247	2077	496
12	12		Jay	7795	238	8033	2291	214
13	13		James	7726	238	7964	2360	69
14	14		New players	7707	238	7945	2379	19

iomracer gains third-place from RubberGoat, and is now threatening Maverick for second.

This Week

Roster

· Formula 1 – Yeongam, South Korea.
· MotoGP – Motegi, Japan
· WEC – Fuji, Japan
· NASCAR – Charlotte, USA

The deadline is 6 AM BST Friday 12th October (1 AM ET). Also remember the countdown widget rounds up on days.

Pick ten drivers/riders/sports-cars 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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