2006 Forum "Pick 'Em" Contest - Homestead

[Tim Northcutt]

Just got back in from a week at Sebring...

Here is your new "Pick 'Em" Contest template for Homestead.

Works the same as it has for the past two years.

Enjoy the new season and the best of luck to all of you

[Tim Northcutt]

2006 Toyota Indy 300 “Pick ‘em” Contest
Homestead-Miami Speedway – Sun., March 26

DEADLINE FOR PICKS: Friday, March 24, at 3:30 p.m. (GMT) or approx. 10:30 a.m. on Friday, March 24, in Miami…That will allow me to compile my Scoring Sheets for the weekend…

PLEASE Get them in Before the Deadline

-- The 2006 Season Opener….the 1.5-mile variable-degree-banked oval that produced a great finish last year, and will serve as a great kickoff for the new season

The event is 200 laps and 300 miles

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 Fast Lap 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. 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.

5. Slowest Qualifier (2 pts.)

6. Pick Top Dallara Qualifier (2 pts)

7. Pick Top Panoz Qualifier (2 pts)



RACE PICKS:

1. The 2006 Toyota 300 Winner at Homestead (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:

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):

[drdisque]

QUALIFYING PICKS:

1. The Pole Winner: Dan Wheldon

2. The Pole Winner's Fast Lap Speed (2 pts.)
Carry it out to the one-thousandth place like IRL Scoring does:217.895

ROW ONE:
1. Dan Wheldon
2. Sam Hornish Jr.

ROW TWO:
1. Helio Castroneves
2. Scott Dixon

ROW THREE:
1. Tony Kanaan
2. Dario Franchitti

5. Slowest Qualifier (2 pts.): P.J. Chesson

6. Pick Top Dallara Qualifier (2 pts): Dan Wheldon

7. Pick Top Panoz Qualifier (2 pts): Buddy Rice



RACE PICKS:

1. The 2006 Toyota 300 Winner at Homestead (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. Tony Kanaan
3. Scott Dixon
4. Sam Hornish Jr.
5. Vitor Meira

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

4. The Actual Speed of that Fastest Lap (2 pts)...
Carry it out to the one-thousandth place like IRL Scoring does: 216.780


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

50 laps: Dan Wheldon

100 laps: Scott Dixon

150 laps: Sam Hornish Jr.

200 laps: Helio Castroneves

4. First car out of Race (2 pts.): P.J. Chesson

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

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

TIEBREAKER:

Pick the "Average Speed for the Race" (to the one-thousandth): 149.864

[Flavinha]

QUALIFYING PICKS:

1. The Pole Winner: (2 pts) Sam Hornish Jr.

2. The Pole Winner's Fast Lap Speed (2 pts.)
Carry it out to the one-thousandth place like IRL Scoring does: 217.648

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

3. 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. Sam Hornish Jr.
2. Scott Dixon

ROW TWO:
1. Helio Castroneves
2. Dan Wheldon

ROW THREE:
1. Tony Kanaan
2. Vitor Meira

5. Slowest Qualifier (2 pts.): P.J. Chesson

6. Pick Top Dallara Qualifier (2 pts): Sam Hornish Jr.

7. Pick Top Panoz Qualifier (2 pts): Buddy Rice



RACE PICKS:

1. The 2006 Toyota 300 Winner at Homestead (2 pts.): Dan WHeldon

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. Dan Wheldon
2. Sam Hornish Jr.
3. Helio Castroneves
4. Scott Dixon
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)...
Carry it out to the one-thousandth place like IRL Scoring does: 215.791


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

50 laps: Sam Hornish Jr.

100 laps: Dario Franchitti

150 laps: Dan Wheldon

200 laps: Dan Wheldon

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

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

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

TIEBREAKER:

Pick the "Average Speed for the Race" (to the one-thousandth):213.176

[Tim Northcutt]

2006 Toyota Indy 300 “Picks"

QUALIFYING PICKS:

1. The Pole Winner: (2 pts)

Sam Hornish

2. The Pole Winner's Fast Lap Speed (2 pts.)
Carry it out to the one-thousandth place like IRL Scoring does:

217.914

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

3. 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. Sam Hornish
2. Dan Wheldon

ROW TWO:
1. Helio Castroneves
2. Scott Dixon

ROW THREE:
1. Tony Kanaan
2. Dario Franchitti

5. Slowest Qualifier (2 pts.)

P. J. Chesson

6. Pick Top Dallara Qualifier (2 pts)

Sam Hornish

7. Pick Top Panoz Qualifier (2 pts)

Scott Sharp

RACE PICKS:

The 2006 Toyota 300 Winner at Homestead (2 pts.)

Dan Wheldon

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. Dan Wheldon
2. Sam Hornish
3. Tony Kanaan
4. Helio Castroneves
5. Vitor Meira

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

Dan Wheldon

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

216.847

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

50 laps: Sam Hornish

100 laps: Helio Castroneves

150 laps: Dan Wheldon

200 laps: Dan Wheldon

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

Paul Dana

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

Bryan Herta

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

Ed Carpenter

TIEBREAKER:

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

148.055

[Tim Northcutt]

The cars have been on the track for nearly 30 minutes....

Unfortunately, this weekend is now closed.

[drewdawg727]

haha i like how i ask about the pick 'ems and wind up missing them
oh well
good luck everyone

[marcus]

Oh Dang !!!!!!!!!!!!

I honestly thought the season kicked off next weekend

I have been grously under prepared for all forms of motorsport this year.

Oh well I will join in at Round 2

[Tim Northcutt]

I am going to calculate scores for Qualifying in a few minutes....

But I wanted to apologize to Drewdawg and marcus for not getting the cntest posted before I left for Sebring.....

I was very busy working for a motorsports consulting group that I am a member of, and I was getting the final pieces together on a new International Sports car Manufacturers Association (ISCMA)that has been formed, and I had to release the news to the media.

We still have some work to do, but this new orgainization is an unprecedented step in this industry to bring constructors together as a unified group to ensure the future of that portion of motorsports.

I'm excited about it...I have builders from the USA and the UK involved thus far (they have formed an Executive Committtee to set fees, etc.) with inquiries from Germany, the USA, Japan, and South America that are interested in possibly joining.

I'll post results in a few....but I wanted others who were interested in our contest to know that I am sorry that I did not get the "Pick 'Ems" contest posted until I returned from Sebring this week...You deserve more than 48 hours notice to enter...and I feel badly about not giving you more time to enter.

Tim Northcutt

[Tim Northcutt]

Here are the results after Qualifying:

Tim and Flavinha has Hornish on the Pole for 2 points each.

Tim also was closest to the Qualifying time...I had 217.9 and Hornish was 218.5.

Since I hit both, I got two bonus points.

In the Top Six, Dr, Disque had 5 pts. with four of the six and Kanaan in the correct spot.

Flavinha had 6 pts with four of the six and Hornish and Kanaan in the correct spots.

Tim had 7 pts with four of six correct, and three (Hornish, Dixon, Kanaan) all in the correct spots on the grid.

All three had Chesson as the slowest qualifier for 2 pts.

Flavinha and Tim both had Hornish as the Top Dallara for 2 pts.

No one had Danica as the Top Panoz qualifier.

Totals after Qualifying:

1. Tim N. -- 17 pts.
2. Flavinha -- 12 pts.
3. DrDisque -- 11 pts.

Good Luck tomorrow....

It should be a wild race!!!! Very Competitive!!!

[marcus]

Not your fault Tim , I have been sitting on my hands doing nothing the last few days I should have logged on and entered my picks

P.S Thanks for running the comp again this year

P.P.S what your working on sounds very interesting , good luck

[jock25]

I'm disappointed as I missed out this time round (and you can't give Tim any head start!).

But if that is the reason then there is no need to apologise! Sounds like tremendous fun and very exciting... now where is that "green with envy" emoticon...

[Tim Northcutt]

Here are your Results for this weekend

Tim N. & Flavinha both had Wheldon as the winner for 2 pts.

Flavinha had 5 pts, with 4 of the 5, Tim had 4 pts. with 3 of the 5 and DrDisque had 3 pts with 3 of the 5.

No one had Dixon with the fast lap, and Flavinha was closest to the actual speed of 216.264 by a very close margin to DrDisque...(.473 to .516)

Tim and Flavinha picked up 4 pts each with Hornish at 50 laps and Wheldon at 200 laps, and DrDisque scored points at lap 150 with Hornish for 2 pts.

Since everyone qualified, I counted Paul Dabna, Ed Carpenter, Buddy Rice and Danica as 1st out...I've done that in the past, so this is consistent. Tim and Flavinha both got two points

The best "mover" was Wheldon., from 6th to 1st (accordint ot the IRL charts)...no onne had him.

The "Fall," based on qualifying, was Danica - 3rd to 20th. although I would have counted kanaan, since he did fall the most of those who started (4th to 11th)

DrDisque was closest to the average speed of 167 mph....

Final totals:

1. Tim - 29 pts.
2. Flavinha - 27 bpts.
3. DrDisque - 18 pts.

See you next week at St.Pete.

ENTER!!!!!

[jhansen]

Intriguing project Tim. Good luck.