Guide and Links Week Twenty-Four

The MotoGP order was mixed up a little bit at Silverstone with the problems of the Tech 3 riders and Spies looking more in form. The circus moves onto Assen for the Dutch Grand Prix, an event Spies won last year.

The DTM visits the temporary circuit in Nuremburg known as the Norisring. It is where Hitler used to hold his big rallies, now with grandstand seating up on the podium with the track passing in front of it. It seems the BMWs are up to speed so all the usual suspects from recent seasons are worth consideration. Last year was a wet race. I have come to the working theory that DTM has more passing in races on the international-type tracks like Hockenheim or Spielberg, but little over-taking on the local tracks such as this one.

Kentucky is another 1·5 mile oval which featured its first Sprint Cup event last year, won by Kyle Busch. Thus it will be very difficult to call the event.

With MotoGP having such obvious choices and DTM being safer to call than a typical NASCAR race, I would think Kentucky be best eschewed. Avoiding bad weeks is generally the best way forward in this game.

MotoGP links:

2012 Points/Results Table (Wikipedia anchored link)
2011 Points/Results Table (Wikipedia anchored link)
2011 Assen Report
2010 Assen Report
2009 Assen Report

DTM links:

2012 Points/Results Table (Wikipedia anchored link)
2011 Points/Results Table (Wikipedia anchored link)
2010 Points/Results Table (Wikipedia anchored link)
2011 Norisring Result
2010 Norisring Result
2009 Norisring Result

NASCAR links:

Entry List (Page usually turns up by Tuesday.)
2012 Championship points-table
2012 Championship results-table (Wikipedia anchored link)
2011 Championship points-table
2011 Championship points-table without Chase (Can be used to access drivers’ stats pages)
Driver stats page (Brad Keselowski) (Use the ‘SELECT DRIVER’ menu towards the top-right to reach the other driver-pages)
2011 Kentucky Result

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