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[kismet]

Hi!


Ha! Yes, it's really me - a new and improved me, now with work ethic and stuff.


Here are the correct answers for round 2:

[SIZE=3][B]F1 Pools 2008: Malaysia (Round 2) - Duel Outcomes[/B] [/SIZE]  



[B]Qualifying:[/B] 

1 	BMW – McLaren					2 (worth 1.52 points)		

2	Ferrari – Williams			1 (1.10 points)

3	Renault – Red Bull 			X (1.24 points)

4	Toyota – Honda					1 (1.55 points)

5	Force India – Super Aguri	X (1.79 points)

6	Toro Rosso – Renault			2 (1.86 points)



[B]Race:[/B] 

7	BMW – McLaren					X (1.55 points)	

8	Ferrari – Williams			X (1.76 points)

9	Renault – Red Bull 			X (1.17 points)

10	  Toyota – Honda					X (1.28 points)

11	Force India – Super Aguri	X (1.38 points)

12	Toro Rosso – Renault			2 (1.69 points)

Maximum score possible for the round was 17.90 points which means that this was yet another difficult-but-not-impossible round. That said, this is the fifth year I'm running this game and no one's ever posted a 100 % correct guess so keep that in mind when comparing your score to what was possible.



Results
And the winner is... Czesc who qualifies on the front row, rockets off the start line past polesitter 1george, then controls the race at the front and, in the end, wins rather comfortably. Moanaman continues from where he left off a week ago and produces another podium-worthy performance, this time on second place. Third place goes to paranoik0 who narrowly beats 1george to the flag. Raj completes the top 5. Congratulations! Job well done and all that.



Meanwhile, a bit further back, some of the game's past greats continue to have bad starts to their seasons. It's too early to throw in the towel, but at this rate, there's going to be some serious lost ground to be made up for later in the season...

Here are the full results:

[SIZE=3][B]F1 Pools 2008: Malaysia (Round 2) - Results[/B] [/SIZE]		  



[B]						Qual	Race	Total[/B] 

1	Czesc 			7,21	5,69	12,90

2	Moanaman 	6,31	5,38	11,69

3	paranoik0 	5,41	5,59	11,00

4	1george 	7,83	3,07	10,90

5	Raj 			3,03	7,14	10,17

6	Frank Booth 	6,10	3,83	9,93

7	an1res 			4,52	5,38	9,90

8	garth_b 	5,41	4,34	9,76

9	ville 			5,41	4,21	9,62

10	kismet 			5,66	3,83	9,48

11	Makarias 	3,86	5,59	9,45

12	f1dave 			2,34	7,07	9,41

13	LB 			5,41	3,83	9,24

14	rodlamas 	4,17	4,31	8,48

15	D82 			2,34	5,79	8,14

16	Apex 			5,41	2,45	7,86

17	Estwald 	4,52	3,24	7,76

18	Crazy Canuck 	2,34	5,38	7,72

19	SkorbiF1 	3,86	3,83	7,69

20	Xig 			1,24	5,69	6,93

21	fisichella_2001 3,86	2,86	6,72

22	skylark68 	3,90	2,72	6,62

23	snark 			2,34	4,24	6,59

24	Alapan 			1,10	5,38	6,48

25	dnbn 			2,34	4,00	6,34

25	KWSN - DSM 	2,34	4,00	6,34

27	shays 			1,10	4,41	5,52

28	Barty 			2,34	2,93	5,28

29	scheivlak 	3,86	1,28	5,14

And what does all this excitement mean in terms of the overall standings? It means that after two rounds, Moanaman with his two podium finishes is in the lead, albeit a narrow one. 1george with his record of a podium and an almost-podium is right up there in second place. Thanks to their consistency, these two have managed to pull a bit of a gap to the rest of the field but the season is young and all that. As some of us have already found out (unfortunately!), it's quite easy to lose ten points in one move if things go spectacularly wrong.

Here are the full championship standings after round 2:

[SIZE=3][B]F1 Pools 2008: Overall Standings After Round 2[/B] [/SIZE]  



[B]Current	Previous  Change				Total[/B]	

   1		3		+2			Moanaman 	23,41

   2		2		0			1george 	22,76

   3		3		0			SkorbiF1 	19,41

   4		8		+4			Frank Booth 	19,10

   5		15		+10			Czesc 			18,79

   6		11		+5			Raj 			18,62

   7		6		-1			D82 			18,52

   8		1		-7			shays 			17,45

   9		5		-4			skylark68 	17,17

   10		12		+2			garth_b 	16,76

   11		7		-4			KWSN - DSM 	16,59

   12		10		-2			Estwald 	16,24

   13		9		-4			Xig 			15,55

   14		15		+1			LB 			15,14

   15		18		+3			f1dave 			15,07

   16		25		+9			paranoik0 	14,86

   17		21		+4			kismet 			14,83

   18		14		-4			rodlamas 	14,59

   19		24		+5			an1res 			14,34

   20		15		-5			Crazy Canuck 	13,62

   21		29		+8			ville 			13,38

   22		20		-2			Apex 			13,34

   23		25		+2			Makarias 	13,31

   24		13		-11			Alapan 			12,76

   25		19		-6			fisichella_2001 12,34

   26		23		-3			dnbn 			11,66

   27		21		-6			scheivlak 	10,48

   28		25		-3			snark 			10,45

   29		-		new			Barty 			 5,28

   30		25		-5			MattFoster 	 3,86

Let me know if you think I've made a mistake somewhere along the way. I try to be careful but you kind of become blind to your mistakes when there's nothing to check the results against...

I'll post the new guessing thread in a day or few. I won't do it right now as it would only be buried among all the results/voting threads.

The season's long and nothing's lost yet, so no giving up, people! See'ya all on round 3!

[noikeee]

Seems like this is a really random game - I went from 2nd last to 3rd best in a week.

[kismet]

I think we've just had two sort of random races so far. I suspect the usual suspects will migrate towards the top of the pile as the season progresses - they always do...

[Moanaman]

Holy Random Picks Batman!

[garth_b]

10th season to date! It should be all down hill from here.

[1george]

Originally posted by Moanaman
Holy Random Picks Batman!

Before to falling down and began to fight hard for the 25th place, the only logical explanation to score more than 20 points after the second race is to have and ride a Vespa.

Congrats to Moanaman (obviously a not sincere ones, you prevent me to be the leader , you'll pay for it ) and a sincere ones to kismet for the very entretaining game.