Tour of FIM

[Schummy]

In these days the Giro di Italia(?) is running through Italy (obviously) (and visiting racing circuits, BTW) (this succession of parenthesis is bad style), and in two months time we will have the Tour de France. The three big tours are exciting events.

Probably, in case someone is reading this, that someone is wondering how this nonsense is going to relate with bike racing. First of all they use (motorless) bikes in those Tours; secondly in the next paragraph I'll introduce the prober bike racing element.

I have thought (so to speak) that it could be interesting (let's define "interesting" another day) to have a time-aggregate classification in FIM GPs, just as they do in cycling.

Ok, in rallying they do the same, but we know rallying is not proper racing at all , it is rather more like slot racing . So come back to cycling, err... bike racing.

Time-aggregation has the big difficulty that one DNF means an automatic exclusion of the classification. So I have thought a scheme of non-counting worst results. I have "decided" to drop the worst half of results, meaning the worst (n-1)/2 results if n is odd, and the worst (n-2)/2 if n is even. So more than 50% of results are retained.

In each race, a difference in (whole) seconds respect the winner is done. Then we drop the worst results and we sum the rest. It will be the total time for the rider.

For example, Rossi has done so far:
QAT 3"
SPA 0"
TUR 19"
CHI 3"
FRA 54"

We drop TUR and CHI, and so his total time is 6". Stoner's time is 0", so Rossi is now 6 seconds behind Stoner. Easy? Probably not, but I have tried it.

Well, anyway, the classifications are as follows:

              0"  10"  20"  30"  40"  50"  60"
MotoGP:
              |
Stoner     0" <CS>
Rossi      6" |  <VR>
Pedrosa   23" |           <DP>
Melandri  38" |                  <MM>
Vermeulan 48" |                          <TE>
Elias     53" |
              |

250cc:
              |
Lorenzo   0"  <JL>
Dovizioso 0"  <AD>
Bautista  4   | <AB>
Angelis   9"  |   <AA>
              |

125cc:
              |
Pesek    0"   <LP>
Talmacsi 1"   |<GT>
Corsi    1"   |<SC>
Faubel   6"   |  <HF>
Gadea    8"   |   <SG>
              |
              0"  10"  20"  30"  40"  50"  60"