One after one the four favourites in the guesses, dropped out of the race in unrelated circunstances. The resulting podium was one of the rarest in recent history. Really this was one round where, with hindsight, the best move had been to pass ;)
When I changed to this "negative" scoring system, I though that in some races could have a strategic challenge choosing between risk a guess or miss the round. Sadly, races have been fairly predictable in the last seasons, so it is possibly the only race with a clear negative score average since we use negatives.
Until now, it has never been a reasonable option to miss strategically a round. With FA and MS bizarrely out of first half of the grid, and with a likely wet race, missing had been a thinkable option (shame is I never trusted the idea of a wet race here!)
Only four people got *something* right about the podium. Even so, none of them got positives (or zeroes). Three of them gueesed De la Rosa and one guessed Button (but in third position).
an1res -1 D82 -1 AcuraF1 -1 Schummy -1 MAX -2 Apex -2 KWSN -2 Ric -2 Zawed -2 Estwald -2 estoril85 -2 Alapan -2 Jimmino -2 sek -2 Ghostrider -2 fisichella_2001 -2 THE HUMAN -2 WillieF1 -2 Makarias -2 shays -2 skylark68 -2 armonico -2 d_view7 -2 panzani -2 magicalonso -2 scheivlak -2 kismet -2 BERNIE -2Not a lot of changes in the classification as almost everybody got trounced, but a slight closing in top positions have happened, because of dnbn's miss and Schummy guessing De la Rosa.
Five rounds to go. If we have more chaotic races everything could happen. But certainly it's highly unusual to have more races like this. I would love to see another extraordinary race, though
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Good weeks to everyone!
