Reigning champ Makarias made a late charge to claim a huge victory as Daniel Carlsson came into the top eight with two stages to go. Retirement of three aces made this a relatively lower scoring round than what we were getting used to by now. Behind Makarias, Schuting Star finished second with Ric Bol and StickShift sharing the third spot on the podium.
In the championship things are extremely close! Schuting Star regains the lead with IMHO a single point behind and Ric Bol and Makarias reenacting last year's battle tied in third just three points behind the leader!
Stage by Stage graph (94kb)
Awarding points for each guess gives the following expected result:
1. Loeb 132 (9.67%)
2. Solberg 116 (8.5%)
3. Gronholm 109 (7.99%)
4. Martin 58 (4.25%)
5. Duval 43 (3.15%)
=. Gardemeister 43 (3.15%)
7. Rovanpera 37 (2.71%)
8. Atkinson 20 (1.47%)
9. Kresta 10 (0.73%)
10. Galli 5 (0.37%)
11. Panizzi 3 (0.22%)
=. H.Solberg 3 (0.22%)
13. Tuohino 2 (0.15%)
=. Schwarz 2 (0.15%)
15. Stohl 1 (0.07%)
=. Carlsson 1 (0.07%)
Results:
1. Makarias (10/0/8/0/10/0/8/10) 46
B. LazyBot (10/0/10/0/10/0/8/0) 38
2. Schuting Star (10/0/6/0/8/6/8/0) 38
B. AverageBot (10/0/8/0/8/0/10/0) 36
3. Ric Bol (10/0/8/0/10/0/8/0) 36
=. StickShift (10/0/8/0/10/0/8/0) 36
5. LB (10/0/8/0/10/6/0/0) 34
=. KWSN - DSM (10/0/8/0/8/0/8/0) 34
7. Marcel Schot (10/0/6/4/0/8/5/0) 33
8. TT6 (8/0/6/0/8/0/8/0) 30
9. IMHO (10/0/8/0/10/0/0/0) 28
10. mikko-ville (4/0/5/0/8/0/10/0) 27
=. race addicted (8/0/0/5/8/0/6/0) 27
12. dnbn (6/0/8/0/6/0/6/0) 26
13. Jimmino (10/0/6/0/0/0/8/0) 24
14. Moanaman (10/2/0/0/0/5/6/0) 23
15. arcsine (6/0/6/0/0/0/8/0) 20
Overall standings after 6/16 rounds:
B. AverageBot 264
1. Schuting Star 253
2. IMHO 252
3. Ric Bol 250
=. Makarias 250
5. dnbn 245
6. StickShift 236
B. LazyBot 228
7. Marcel Schot 227
8. LB 225
9. TT6 217
10. race addicted 206
11. Moanaman 202
12. KWSN - DSM 194
13. mikko-ville 192
14. Jimmino 166
15. TheKanisteri 144
16. arcsine 142
17. Apex 114
18. babbel 95
19. Ickx 25
20. FordFan 23
* = did not compete in all rounds
The bots
We have 2 bots playing with us. LazyBot guesses the current championship standings, taking into account only those drivers who are entered into the rally. AverageBot guesses the average guess of all participants, as shown above.
Rules
The rules are fairly simple. All you have to do is predict the top 8 for the upcoming rally in the simple format of
your username/dvr1/dvr2/dvr3/dvr4/dvr5/dvr6/dvr7/dvr8
Scoring is done on a 10-8-6-5-4-3-2-1 basis.
10 points scored if your driver finishes in the position predicted, 8 points if your selection finishes 1 place away (i.e. 1st or 3rd when you said second), all the way down to 1 point if your selection finishes 7 places away. No points will be awarded if your selection finishes outside the points positions or if he retires from the rally.
A 20 point bonus will be awarded if you get them all correct, so you can in theory score 100 in each round.
Results will be posted at the end of each rally as soon as possible (can be an hour, can be 2 days, depending on whether I'm near a computer).
Entries must be in before the start of the first stage of the rally.
Turkey
Post your Entries below. The rally starts on Thursday, June 02, 2005 at 19:00 local time (GMT+2).
Entry list
while I lost those points as Tuohino dropped to ninth 
