2012 Bet 'Em IndyContest - Texas round 7

[NaBUru38]

Hello, folks! Welcome to the Texas round 7 of the 2012 Bet 'Em IndyContest. This is the single cookie-cutter race of the season, and the first after Las Vegas.

You must pick six different drivers for the six bets:

o- Polesitter ($ 300)
o- Fast Six ($ 100)
o- Win ($ 1,000)
o- Podium ($ 300)
o- Top 5 ($ 100)
o- Top 10 ($ 30).

The stakes for Texas are:

o- 2 to 1: Briscoe, Castroneves, Dixon, Franchitti.
o- 5 to 1: Hunter-Reay, Hinchcliffe, Kanaan, Power, Rahal, Sato.
o- 10 to 1: Andretti, Barrichello, Hildebrand, Pagenaud, ServiÃ*.
o- 20 to 1: Carpenter, Kimball, Tagliani, Viso, Wilson.
o- 50 to 1: Bourdais, Figueiredo, Filippi, Jakes, Newgarden.
o- 100 to 1: Conway, De Silvestro, Legge, Saavedra.

Current standings after round 6:

1st - Daisy: $ 38,500
2nd - Mythoughtsareracing: $ 25,540
3rd - WAT: $ 23,000
4th - NaBUru38: $ 18,400
5th - Marcostraz: $ 14,110
6th - Chiana: $ 5,400
7th - Flyin Ryan: $ 2,900
8th - Barnett: $ 2,400

Place your bets before the first practice on Thursday 7 June. And also remember to place your bets on the AJ Foyt Oval Trophy special stage as well. Good luck!

[NaBUru38]

These are Daisy's bets:

o- Polesitter: Franchitti
o- Fast Six: Hinchcliffe
o- Win: Dixon
o- Podium: Andretti
o- Top 5: Carpenter
o- Top 10: Conway

[GAMEOFGUTS21]

o- Polesitter: Dixon
o- Fast Six: Hinchcliffe
o- Win: Briscoe
o- Podium: Power
o- Top 5: Hinchcliffe
o- Top 10: Kimball

[mythoughtsareracing]

o- Polesitter Power
o- Fast Six Kanaan
o- Win Dixon
o- Podium Franchitti
o- Top 5 Hinchcliffe
o- Top 10 Carpenter

[NaBUru38]

Hello, Gameofguts21! Welcome to Ten-Tenths and the Bet 'Em IndyContest.

You must pick six different drivers, so you can't repeat Hinchcliffe for the Fast Six and top 5. Please pick another driver for any of the bets.

[NaBUru38]

My bets:

o- Polesitter: Franchitti
o- Fast Six: Kanaan
o- Win: Castroneves
o- Podium: Dixon
o- Top 5: Hinchcliffe
o- Top 10: Kimball

[GAMEOFGUTS21]

Originally Posted by NaBUru38

Hello, Gameofguts21! Welcome to Ten-Tenths and the Bet 'Em IndyContest.

You must pick six different drivers, so you can't repeat Hinchcliffe for the Fast Six and top 5. Please pick another driver for any of the bets.

That's cool.

o- Polesitter: Dixon
o- Fast Six: Hinchcliffe
o- Win: Briscoe
o- Podium: Power
o- Top 5: Kanaan
o- Top 10: Kimball

[marcostraz]

o- Polesitter: Scott Dixon
o- Fast Six: Marco Andretti
o- Win: Alex Tagliani
o- Podium: Dario Franchitti
o- Top 5: Graham Rahal
o- Top 10: Ryan Briscoe

[NaBUru38]

WAT, everyone else, please hurry up! Place your Texas bets before Friday 8, 12:00 Eastern (16:00 UTC).

[HaydenFan]

o- Polesitter: Ryan Briscoe
o- Fast Six: Ryan Hunter-Reay
o- Win: Marco Andretti
o- Podium: Dario Franchitti
o- Top 5: James Hinchcliffe
o- Top 10: Mike Conway

[W.A Trichlorostyrene]

o- Polesitter ($ 300): Franchitti
o- Fast Six ($ 100): Newgarden
o- Win ($ 1,000): Dixon
o- Podium ($ 300): Kanaan
o- Top 5 ($ 100): Tagliani
o- Top 10 ($ 30): Conway(I always bet on him and he always loses. Oh well.)

(I wish Bourdais, Bia and Filippi were racing this week-end, too. Don't care that much about Saavedra though)

(BTW... No such things as "fast 6s" on ovals...)

[NaBUru38]

Yeah, Daisy reminded me. It's the first three rows as usual.

[NaBUru38]

So, these are the results of the 2012 Texas Indy 500:

o- Polesitter: Tagliani (20 to 1)
o- Fast Six: Tagliani (20 to 1), Franchitti (2 to 1), Rahal (5 to 1), Dixon (2 to 1), Power (5 to 1), Hinchcliffe (5 to 1)
o- Win: Wilson (20 to 1)
o- Podium: Wilson (20 to 1), Rahal (5 to 1), Briscoe (2 to 1)
o- Top 5: Wilson (20 to 1), Rahal (5 to 1), Briscoe (2 to 1), Hinchcliffe (5 to 1), Hildebrand (10 to 1)
o- Top 10: Wilson (20 to 1), Rahal (5 to 1), Briscoe (2 to 1), Hinchcliffe (5 to 1), Hildebrand (10 to 1), Pagenaud (10 to 1), Castroneves (2 to 1), Power (5 to 1), Tagliani (20 to 1), Jakes (50 to 1)

The optimal bets were Tagliani for the pole and $ 6,000, Power / Hinchcliffe for the Fast Six and $ 500, Wilson for the win and $ 20,000, Rahal for the podium and $ 1,500, Hildebrand for the top 5 and 1,000, and Jakes for the top 10 and $ 1,500, totalling an unlikely high $ 30,500.

Nobody picked Tagliani for the pole. Only Daisy and Gameofguts21 hitted the Fast Six: Hinchcliffe for $ 500. Nobody picked Wilson for the win, or any of the race bets. Nobody picked Rahal or Briscoe for the podium either. Mythoughtsareracing, NaBUru38 and HaydenFan chose Hinchcliffe for the top 5 and earned $ 500, whereas Marcostraz went for rahal and alse got $ 500. Only Marcostraz chose correctly a top 10 finisher: Briscoe for merely $ 60.

So here's the 2012 Bet'Em IndyContest results at Texas.

1st - Marcostraz: 0 + 0 + 0 + 0 + 0 + 500 + 60 = 560
2nd - Daisy: 0 + 500 + 0 + 0 + 0 + 0 = 500
2nd - Gameofguts21: 0 + 500 + 0 + 0 + 0 + 0 = 500
2nd - Mythoughtsareracing: 0 + 0 + 0 + 0 + 500 + 0 + 500
2nd - NaBUru38: 0 + 0 + 0 + 0 + 500 + 0 = 500
2nd - HaydenFan: 0 + 0 + 0 + 0 + 500 + 0 = 500
7th - WAT: 0 + 0 + 0 + 0 + 0 + 0 = 0

Too many bets on the Ganassis paid very badly. Marcostraz hitting Jakes' first top 10 finish in his IndyCar career gave him the win. WAT again failed to score. Meanwhile, the rest of just just earned $ 500

Current standings after Texas round 7:

1st - Daisy: $ 39,000
2nd - Mythoughtsareracing: $ 26,040
3rd - WAT: $ 23,000
4th - NaBUru38: $ 18,900
5th - Marcostraz: $ 14,670
6th - Chiana: $ 5,400
7th - Flyin Ryan: $ 2,900
8th - Barnett: $ 2,400
9th - Gameofguts21: 500
9th - HaydenFan: 500

As the oldest active purpose-built motorsport course of the world and a classic of American open-wheel racing, the Milwaukee IndyFest next week will score extra points, like Long Beach. See you there!