2010 Forum "Pick 'Em" Contest - Texas

[Tim Northcutt]

2010 Texas 550 “Pick ‘em” Contest
Texas Motor Speedway – Sat., June 5

DEADLINE FOR PICKS: Friday, June 4, at 6:45 p.m. (GMT). That is approx. 12:45 p.m. in Texas, when the first practice session begins

PLEASE Get them in Before the Deadline

-- The IRL’s next stop is Texas Motor Speedway’s 1.5-mile oval. This place has multiple racing lines and in the past has provided non-stop action, with competitors running two and three-wide at times during the event.

The race is 228 laps and 342 miles (550 km.)

Again…Please copy this template below and use it to place your Picks….

QUALIFYING PICKS:

1. The Pole Winner: (2 pts)

2. The Pole winner’s four-lap average speed (2 pts.)
Carry it out to the one-thousandth place like IRL Scoring does:

NOTE: IF you get BOTH #1 and #2 Correct/Closest, add 2 "Bonus Points"


3. The Driver With the Single Fast Lap (2 pts.)

4. The Single Fast Lap Speed (2 pts.)
Carry it out to the one-thousandth place like IRL Scoring does:

5. List the Pole Winner Again, plus the OTHER Five drivers (in order) who will earn spots on the "First Three Rows": (2 pts for each Driver in correct spot, 1 pt. For correct Driver, but wrong spot)

ROW ONE:
1.
2.

ROW TWO:
1.
2.

ROW THREE:
1.
2.

6. Slowest Qualifier (2 pts.)

7. Slowest Qualifier’s Speed (2 pts.)
Carry it out to the one-thousandth place like IRL Scoring does:

7. Driver who will “Just Miss” the Top Three Rows (7th Fastest) – 2 pts.

RACE PICKS:

1. The 2010 Texas 550 Winner (2 pts.)

2. The Top Five: (Please Repeat your "Winner" from #1)
(2 pts for every Driver and Place Correct, 1 pt. for Top 5, but incorrect place)
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

3. Driver who will run the Single "Fastest Lap" in the Race (2 pts.)

4. The Actual Speed of that Fastest Lap (2 pts)...
Carry it out to the one-thousandth place like IRL Scoring does:


5. Leader at the following Race Milestones (2 pts. each correct at the actual Milestone):

50 laps:

100 laps:

150 laps:

200 laps:

228 laps

4. First car out of Race (2 pts.)

5. Best "Mover" of the Race (from slowest starting spot to highest finish): (2 pts.)

6. "Backwards Fall from Grace" in the Race (from highest starting spot to worst finish): (2 pts.)

TIEBREAKER:

Pick the "Average Speed for the Race" (to the one-thousandth):


Good Luck in the Lone Star State this weekend!!!

[marcostraz]

QUALIFYING PICKS:

1. The Pole Winner: Ryan Briscoe

2. The Pole winner’s four-lap average speed: 215.476

3. The Driver With the Single Fast Lap: Ryan Briscoe

4. The Single Fast Lap Speed: 215.680

5. List the Pole Winner Again, plus the OTHER Five drivers:

ROW ONE:
1. Ryan Briscoe
2. Helio Castroneves

ROW TWO:
1. Scott Dixon
2. Dario Franchitti

ROW THREE:
1. Hideki Mutoh
2. Mario Moraes

6. Slowest Qualifier: Milka Duno

7. Slowest Qualifier’s Speed: 209.520

7. Driver who will “Just Miss” the Top Three Rows (7th Fastest): Tony Kanaan

RACE PICKS:

1. The 2010 Texas 550 Winner: Ryan Briscoe

2. The Top Five:
1. Ryan Briscoe
2. Scott Dixon
3. Mario Moraes
4. Helio Castroneves
5. Marco Andretti

3. Driver who will run the Single "Fastest Lap" in the Race: Marco Andretti

4. The Actual Speed of that Fastest Lap: 215.546

5. Leader at the following Race Milestones (2 pts. each correct at the actual Milestone):

50 laps: Helio Castroneves

100 laps: Ryan Briscoe

150 laps: Ryan Briscoe

200 laps: Scott Dixon

228 laps: Ryan Briscoe

4. First car out of Race: Milka Duno

5. Best "Mover" of the Race (from slowest starting spot to highest finish): Dan Wheldon

6. "Backwards Fall from Grace" in the Race (from highest starting spot to worst finish): Hideki Mutoh

TIEBREAKER:

Pick the "Average Speed for the Race": 172.399

[Daisy]

QUALIFYING PICKS:

1. The Pole Winner: (2 pts) Scott Dixon

2. The Pole winner’s four-lap average speed (2 pts.)
Carry it out to the one-thousandth place like IRL Scoring does: 214.388

NOTE: IF you get BOTH #1 and #2 Correct/Closest, add 2 "Bonus Points"


3. The Driver With the Single Fast Lap (2 pts.) Scott Dixon

4. The Single Fast Lap Speed (2 pts.)
Carry it out to the one-thousandth place like IRL Scoring does: 214.672

5. List the Pole Winner Again, plus the OTHER Five drivers (in order) who will earn spots on the "First Three Rows": (2 pts for each Driver in correct spot, 1 pt. For correct Driver, but wrong spot)

ROW ONE:
1. Scott Dixon
2. Dario Franchitti

ROW TWO:
1. Helio Castroneves
2. Ryan Briscoe

ROW THREE:
1. Tony Kanaan
2. Hideki Mutoh

6. Slowest Qualifier (2 pts.) Milka Duno

7. Slowest Qualifier’s Speed (2 pts.)
Carry it out to the one-thousandth place like IRL Scoring does: 210.002

7. Driver who will “Just Miss” the Top Three Rows (7th Fastest) – 2 pts. Raphael Matos

RACE PICKS:

1. The 2010 Texas 550 Winner (2 pts.) Helio Castroneves

2. The Top Five: (Please Repeat your "Winner" from #1)
(2 pts for every Driver and Place Correct, 1 pt. for Top 5, but incorrect place)
1. Helio Castroneves
2. Ryan Briscoe
3. Dario Franchitti
4. Will Power
5. Raphael Matos

3. Driver who will run the Single "Fastest Lap" in the Race (2 pts.) Dario Franchitti

4. The Actual Speed of that Fastest Lap (2 pts)...
Carry it out to the one-thousandth place like IRL Scoring does: 214.006


5. Leader at the following Race Milestones (2 pts. each correct at the actual Milestone):

50 laps: Dario Franchitti

100 laps: Scott Dixon

150 laps: Helio Castroneves

200 laps: Helio Castroneves

228 laps: Helio Castroneves

4. First car out of Race (2 pts.) Simona De Silvestro

5. Best "Mover" of the Race (from slowest starting spot to highest finish): (2 pts.) Alex Tagliani

6. "Backwards Fall from Grace" in the Race (from highest starting spot to worst finish): (2 pts.) Scott Dixon

TIEBREAKER:

Pick the "Average Speed for the Race" (to the one-thousandth): 189.373

[Whosyermon]

QUALIFYING PICKS:

1. The Pole Winner: Scott Dixon

2. The Pole winner’s four-lap average speed: 215.344

3. The Driver With the Single Fast Lap: Scott Dixon

4. The Single Fast Lap Speed: 215.721

5. List the Pole Winner Again, plus the OTHER Five drivers (in order) who will earn spots on the "First Three Rows":

ROW ONE:
1.Scott Dixon
2.Helio Castroneves

ROW TWO:
1.Ryan Briscoe
2.Tags

ROW THREE:
1. Dario Judd
2. Will Power

6. Slowest Qualifier: Is Milka entered? If not then, oh I see she is, Milka Duno

7. Slowest Qualifier’s Speed: Milka gets in with "No Time" and that is my prediction


7. Driver who will “Just Miss” the Top Three Rows :Marco Andretti

RACE PICKS:

1. The 2010 Texas 550 Winner: Ryan Briscoe

2. The Top Five:
1. Ryan Briscoe
2. Dario Judd
3. Ed Carpenter
4. Scott Dixon
5. Will Power

3. Driver who will run the Single "Fastest Lap" in the Race: Scott Dixon

4. The Actual Speed of that Fastest Lap: 210.121


5. Leader at the following Race Milestones:

50 laps: Scott Dixon

100 laps: Dario Judd

150 laps: Ryan Briscoe

200 laps: Ed Carpenter

228 laps: Ryan Briscoe

4. First car out of Race: Milka Duno

5. Best "Mover" of the Race: Simona

6. "Backwards Fall from Grace" in the Race: Helio Castroneves

TIEBREAKER:

Pick the "Average Speed for the Race": 184.333

[drewdawg727]

QUALIFYING PICKS:

1. The Pole Winner: (2 pts) Dario Franchitti

2. The Pole winner’s four-lap average speed (2 pts.): 214.987


3. The Driver With the Single Fast Lap (2 pts.) Dario Franchitti

4. The Single Fast Lap Speed (2 pts.): 215.100

5. List the Pole Winner Again, plus the OTHER Five drivers (in order) who will earn spots on the "First Three Rows": (2 pts for each Driver in correct spot, 1 pt. For correct Driver, but wrong spot)

ROW ONE:
1. Dario Franchitti
2. Helio Castroneves

ROW TWO:
1. Ryan Briscoe
2. Alex Tagliani

ROW THREE:
1. Mario Moraes
2. Will Power

6. Slowest Qualifier (2 pts.) Milka Duno

7. Slowest Qualifier’s Speed (2 pts.) : 211.000

7. Driver who will “Just Miss” the Top Three Rows (7th Fastest) – 2 pts. Tony Kanaan

RACE PICKS:

1. The 2010 Texas 550 Winner (2 pts.) Dario Franchitti

2. The Top Five: (Please Repeat your "Winner" from #1)
1. Dario Franchitti
2. Helio Castroneves
3. Scott Dixon
4. Ryan Briscoe
5. Marco Andretti

3. Driver who will run the Single "Fastest Lap" in the Race (2 pts.) Dario Franchitti

4. The Actual Speed of that Fastest Lap (2 pts)... 213,616


5. Leader at the following Race Milestones (2 pts. each correct at the actual Milestone):

50 laps: Dario Franchitti

100 laps: Helio Castroneves

150 laps: Ryan Briscoe

200 laps: Dario Franchitti

228 laps Dario Franchitti

4. First car out of Race (2 pts.) EJ Viso

5. Best "Mover" of the Race (from slowest starting spot to highest finish): (2 pts.) Bertrand Baguette

6. "Backwards Fall from Grace" in the Race (from highest starting spot to worst finish): (2 pts.) Raphael Matos

TIEBREAKER:

Pick the "Average Speed for the Race" (to the one-thousandth): 170.000

[Tim Northcutt]

The usual Housekeeping:

Season Totals After 7 of 18 Events:

1. drewdawg727 - 121 pts. (3 wins)
2. marcostraz - 104 pts. (1 win)
3. Daisy - 100 pts.
4. NaBUru38 - 91 pts. pts
5. Alwaysfirst - 84 pts. (1 win)
6. Yannick - 57 pts. (1 win)
7. NAC - 46 pts.
8. fieldofdreams79 - 15 pts. (1 win)
9. Dylan14 - 11 pts.

Contest Results By Event:

Sao Paulo - drewdawg
St. Pete - Alwaysfirst
Alabama - drewdawg
Long Beach - drewdawg
Kansas - marcostraz
Indy Pole -Yannick
Indy Race - fieldofdreams79
Texas - ?????
Iowa - ?????
Watkins Glen - ?????
Toronto - ?????
Edmonton - ?????
Mid-Ohio - ?????

Still having issues with my home computer, but I have to work tonight, so I'll be able to post the Quals results this evening.

[Tim Northcutt]

Cars are on the track...

Contest is Closed!

[Tim Northcutt]

Here are your Quals results:

marco had Briscoe on the Pole for 2 pts.

Whosyermon was closest ot the pole speed: Actual-215.273 Whosyermon-215.344 (nice pick!)

drewdawg had dario for the fast single lap for 2 pts.

marco was closest to the speed: Actual-215.629 marco-215.680 (nice pick!)

In the "Top Six," drewdawg had 4 pts and all others had 5 pts.

No one had Di Silvestro as the slowest

drewdawg was closest to the speed: Actual-211.289 drew-211.000

No one had Mutoh as the "Just Miss" and no one had a driver selected that made the top six to snag the 1 pt. option.

Results after Quals:

1. marcostraz - 9 pts.
2. drewdawg - 8 pts.
3. whosyermon - 7 pts.
4. Daisy - 5 pts.

Kinda disappointed in the lack of turnout here recently, especially with those hwo have been in for much of the first par tof the year...maybe they didn't realize texas was the week immediately following Indy...there was a gap of a weekend in the past until Milwaukee was pluged in for a couple of years there.

[marcostraz]

Pooooooooooooole Position!!!

[Yannick]

Well, I guess I had a bit of a bad day yesterday, not realizing that the Texas race was going to be on Saturday night with the qualifying on Friday night.
And when I logged on just a minute ago, I found out the hard way that I had arrived with my team transporter one day too late to qualify for the race. Duh.
My sponsors won't be amused by that I gotta tell ya.

That's especially tough business for a part time entrant...

;-)

My pick for the winner would have been Tony Kanaan.

[NaBUru38]

Oops, I forgot. This is a non-championship round for me then:

RACE PICKS:

1. The 2010 Texas 550 Winner (2 pts.): Scott Dixon

2. The Top Five: (Please Repeat your "Winner" from #1)
(2 pts for every Driver and Place Correct, 1 pt. for Top 5, but incorrect place)
1. Scott Dixon
2. Hélio Castroneves
3. Dario Franchitti
4. Will Power
5. Tony Kanaan

3. Driver who will run the Single "Fastest Lap" in the Race (2 pts.): Dario Franchitti

4. The Actual Speed of that Fastest Lap (2 pts): 214.214

5. Leader at the following Race Milestones (2 pts. each correct at the actual Milestone):

50 laps: Hélio Castroneves
100 laps: Scott Dixon
150 laps: Scott Dixon
200 laps: Dario Franchitti
228 laps: Scott Dixon

4. First car out of Race (2 pts.): Mario Romancini

5. Best "Mover" of the Race (2 pts.): Takuma Sato (didn't pick RHR, see?)

6. "Backwards Fall from Grace" in the Race (2 pts.): Ryan Briscoe

TIEBREAKER:

Pick the "Average Speed for the Race" (to the one-thousandth): 166.666mph

[Whosyermon]

I picked Ed Carpenter to be leading at 200 laps??

Somebody is trying to sabotage my first impression `round here... and I caught sight of him yesterday when I was shaving.

[Tim Northcutt]

Here are your race results:

marco and whosyermon both had Briscoe for 2 pts.

In the Top Five, whosyermon had 5 pts, Daisy had 2 pts, and all others had 4 pts.

No one had RHR for the Fast lap

marco was closest to the speed: Actual-215.685 marco-215.546

In the Milestones, Whosyermon had 4 pts and all others had 2 pts. each

No one had Howard as 1st out, but everyone but drewdawg had a DNF drver for 1 pt. each

No one had RHR as the Mover (24th to 7th)

No one had Moraes as the "Fall" (9th to 21st)

drewdawg was closest to the avg. speed: Actual-159.508 drew-170.000

Final Results for Texas:

1. marcostraz - 20 pts.
2. whosyermon - 17 pts.
3. drewdawg - 16 pts.
4. Daisy - 10 pts.

Nice win, marcostraz.

Iowa is in two weeks.

[Tim Northcutt]

Season Totals After 8 of 18 Events:

1. drewdawg727 - 137 pts. (3 wins)
2. marcostraz - 124 pts. (2 wins)
3. Daisy - 110 pts.
4. NaBUru38 - 91 pts. pts
5. Alwaysfirst - 84 pts. (1 win)
6. Yannick - 57 pts. (1 win)
7. NAC - 46 pts.
8. whosyermon - 17 pts.
9. fieldofdreams79 - 15 pts. (1 win)
10. Dylan14 - 11 pts.

Contest Results By Event:

Sao Paulo - drewdawg
St. Pete - Alwaysfirst
Alabama - drewdawg
Long Beach - drewdawg
Kansas - marcostraz
Indy Pole -Yannick
Indy Race - fieldofdreams79
Texas - marcostraz
Iowa - ?????
Watkins Glen - ?????
Toronto - ?????
Edmonton - ?????
Mid-Ohio - ?????

I'll post Iowa in about a week.

[marcostraz]

Yeees!!! My second win!!! I'm an oval master!!!

[Daisy]

Well, that was dissapointing.

[Whosyermon]

Originally Posted by marcostraz

Yeees!!! My second win!!! I'm an oval master!!!

Apparently one can win on ovals in qualifications.

[marcostraz]

Originally Posted by Whosyermon

Apparently one can win on ovals in qualifications.

I made more point than others in race too!!!

[Whosyermon]

Originally Posted by marcostraz

I made more point than others in race too!!!

Oh, I thought I tied you in race points after you clobbered me in Quals...