Welcome all to Week Forty-Three. This is the last three-event week, with MotoGP at Valencia, WRC in Spain, and Sprint Cup visiting Phoenix. Please pick ten drivers/riders up to a maximum of seven in any one event in a comment on this post before 6 AM BST Friday 9th November (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 | NASCAR | ||
| Abu Dhabi | Texas | ||
| 1 | Räikkönen | Johnson | |
| 2 | Alonso | Keselowski | |
| 3 | Vettel | Kyle B. | |
| 4 | Button | Kenseth | |
| 5 | Maldonado | Stewart | |
| 6 | Kobayashi | Bowyer | |
| 7 | Massa | Earnhardt | |
| 8 | Senna | Kurt B. | |
| 9 | di Resta | Harvick | |
| 10 | Ricciardo | Biffle |
An incident packed Formula One race that provided a win for Räikkönen after Hamilton’s McLaren conked out. Some argy-bargy caused by Perez led to contact that took out Grosjean (19th) and Webber (20th). After a fuel pump failure, Hamilton ended up 21st. Hulkenberg had terminal damage from contact with Force India team-mate, di Resta, as well as Senna, at the very first corner (24th).
Jimmie Johnson again took the pole and victory, this time after a hard battle with Keselowski. Gordon had made his way up to second at one stage of the race, but a green-flag stop for a puncture, and later contact with Kahne requiring repairs, left Jeff back in 14th. Hamlin had a quiet race finishing on the lead lap in 20th.
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Non-entries get 203 according to the 90% rule. The count-back tie-breaker rule does apply, with iomracer taking second, both he and Chris having two winning, two second-placed, and one third-placed picks, but iomracer had a fourth-placed pick.
Congratulations to RubberGoat on his sixth win of the season, with his strategy of picking the three NASCAR drivers that were doing best in the Chase points paying off with a strong victory.
All the NASCAR picks made finished top-twenty, which is more than can be said for the Formula One picks. Indeed, fifty-three selections were made from F1, scoring an average of 27·3 TMRG points, whilst the twenty-seven Sprint Cup selections returned an average of 31·5.
Leaderboard
| Pos | Pre | +/- | Name | Prior | Wk 42 | Total | Differences | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | Sebastian | 11374 | 304 | 11678 | 0 | - | |
| 2 | 2 | RubberGoat | 11177 | 320 | 11497 | 181 | 181 | |
| 3 | 3 | iomracer | 11152 | 308 | 11460 | 218 | 37 | |
| 4 | 4 | Maverick | 11113 | 294 | 11407 | 271 | 53 | |
| 5 | 5 | Chris W. | 11049 | 308 | 11357 | 321 | 50 | |
| 6 | 6 | Pat W. | 10992 | 287 | 11279 | 399 | 78 | |
| 7 | 7 | Drewe | 10923 | 252 | 11175 | 503 | 104 | |
| 8 | 8 | The Speedgeek | 10657 | 226 | 10883 | 795 | 292 | |
| 9 | 9 | Jackie | 9955 | 203 | 10158 | 1520 | 725 | |
| 10 | 10 | Matt | 9526 | 203 | 9729 | 1649 | 429 | |
| 11 | 11 | Ryan | 9030 | 203 | 9233 | 2445 | 496 | |
| 12 | 12 | Jay | 8816 | 203 | 9019 | 2659 | 214 | |
| 13 | 13 | James | 8747 | 203 | 8950 | 2728 | 69 | |
| 14 | 14 | New players | 8728 | 203 | 8931 | 2747 | 19 | |
No movement this week, with only Chris and Gavin out-scoring the next player up. Only three weeks left with three, two and one events.
This Week
Roster
· MotoGP – Valencia, Spain
· WRC – Catalunya, Spain
· NASCAR – Phoenix, USA
The deadline is 6 AM BST Friday 9th November (1 AM ET). Also remember the countdown widget rounds up on days.
Pick ten drivers/riders 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.
Click to open guide/links to this week’s events in new window.
Interesting – I made 126 points in NASCAR and F1. Though I rue not picking Kimi! Oh well, it was a calculated risk to gain a final advantage.
And I have to say, Kimi on the radio was the absolute highlight of the race. ‘Go away, I know what I am doing’.
Comment by Drewe — November 5, 2012 @ 11:36 pm
Rubbergoat pulls away from me a bit for 2nd place – congratulations. Going for a 5/5 split this week between WRC and MotoGP. I consider this somewhat risky since a crash fest in Spain would not be unexpected since a win there is the only meaningful prize left in WRC.
WRC:
1) Sebastian Loeb
2) Mikko Horvonen
3) Jari-Matti Latvala
4) Petter Solberg
5) Mads Ostberg (not usually fast on tarmac, but he really wants 3rd place in the Championship, which might inspire him)
MotoGP:
6) Dani Pedrosa
7) Jorge Lorenzo
8) Alvardo Bautista
9) Casey Stoner
10) Andrea Dovizioso
Comment by iomracer — November 6, 2012 @ 10:59 pm
No NASCAR this week. Picking Crutchlow instead of Latvala was marginal.
MotoGP:
Casey Stoner
Jorge Lorenzo
Dani Pedrosa
Andrea Dovizioso
Álvaro Bautista
Carl Crutchlow
WRC:
Sébastian Loeb
Dani Sordo
Mikko Hirvonen
Mads Østberg
Comment by Sebastian X — November 7, 2012 @ 5:23 pm
Jeez, I got a bit lucky last week. I was going to stay away from NASCAR but I think WRC is becoming just as random
MotoGP:
1) Lorenzo
2) Pedrosa
3) Stoner
4) Dovisioso
5) Bradl
6) Bautista
WRC:
7) Loeb
8) Hirvonen
NASCAR:
9) Jimmie Johnson
10) Brad Keselowski
Somebody is going to let me down big time this week.
Comment by rubbergoat — November 8, 2012 @ 6:53 am
And by the way, the reason why I didn’t pick Crutchlow is that if it wasn’t for the fact that BBC spend half their program on him, we would have barely noticed him save for a couple of good rides this year
Comment by rubbergoat — November 8, 2012 @ 6:55 am
MotoGP – Valencia, Spain
Stoner
Lorenzo
Pedrosa
Crutchlow
WRC – Catalunya, Spain
Loeb
Hirvonen
Solberg (p)
Latvala (win it or bin it Latvala…)
NASCAR – Phoenix, USA
Johnson
Biffle
Comment by Drewe — November 8, 2012 @ 6:57 am
· MotoGP – Valencia, Spain
Crutchlow
Lorenzo
Pedrosa
Stoner
Dovizioso
· WRC – Catalunya, Spain
Loeb
Hirvonen
Ostberg
· NASCAR – Phoenix, USA
Johnson
Kyle Busch
Think I need to pick something different so it may as well be NASCAR
Comment by Mav — November 8, 2012 @ 12:36 pm
MotoGP
Pedrosa
Lorenzo
Stoner
Dovizioso
Bautista (nearly nearly picked Rossi)
WRC
Loeb
Latvala
NASCAR
Keselowski
Johnson
Hamlin (won in Spring so maybe that’ll count for something)
Comment by Pat W — November 8, 2012 @ 5:53 pm
Mmm… It’s going to be close to catch up to Mav. Here goes…
MotoGP:
Pedrosa
Lorenzo
Stoner
Dovizioso
WRC:
Loeb
Latvala
Hirvonen
Petter Solberg
NASCAR:
Keselowski
Johnson
Comment by Chris W — November 8, 2012 @ 10:53 pm
MotoGP:
Stoner
Lorenzo
Dovizioso
Pedrosa
WRC:
Loeb
Hirvonen
Petter Solberg
NASCAR Cup:
JUUUUUUNIOR!!!!
Jimmie Johnson
Kyle Busch
Comment by The Speedgeek — November 9, 2012 @ 3:32 am
Junior fever huh?
Comment by Drewe — November 9, 2012 @ 3:36 am
Solberg is out on stage 2: http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/104124
This is why I hate picking WRC!!!
Comment by rubbergoat — November 9, 2012 @ 9:57 am