Pickem Results - Silverstone Championship leader: BDunnell

[Abo]

Stupid question, where can I view the pickems results?

[cos]

http://www.motorsportforums.com/pickems/calendar.php?series=btcc

[VkmSpouge]

Wow! I finished last in race two! :D

[SEATFreak]

I din't feel I did well but I feel I am up on the last two years in the first race of the opening meeting at Brands Hatch.

I was 23rd for race 1 but was 55th last year and way down in 93rd in 2006.

Not so good for races 2 and 3. My best for race 2 was last year when I got 21st. This year I was 31st and was way down in 67th in 2006. And as for race 3 by best was 12th in 2006 because I was 58th this year and 88th last year.

Should do better at Rockingham. I was 80th, 40th and 61st last year for rounds 4,5 and 6.

[DazzlaF1]

43rd, 4th and 64th, not bad me thinks

[Mp3 Astra]

Just a note that the order is Race 1, 3 and 2. Not sure why.

[MattL]

Just a note that the order is Race 1, 3 and 2. Not sure why.

No, I'm not sure either! Apologies for not posting that these were online. Got caught up in other things post-BH!

[Captain VXR]

1 52 and 9 not bad i suppose :)
3rd in championship must be a fluke because im normally like 169th in the championship :)

[SEATFreak]

I cannot seem to access the championship standings because a page comes up saying "The webpage cannot be found" but I suspect I am not that good in the championship standings.

Incidentally what are the points based on for the championship standings? The total of the Championship Points? The "Championship Points" column beside "Race Points" goes up in increments of 2. For race 1 I got 180, for race 2 I got 170 and 143 for race 3. Totting those up it comes to 493.

I don't know where that places me but I suspect those like Phil H who seem to get lots of winners (green) and lots of correct placings (yellow) will have a lot more than me. I suspect I will be no higher than about 20th.

[Mark]

My fault there. You should be able to access the championship standings now.

[SEATFreak]

Your forgiven. :)

Actually I am glad I had to wait. Good things come to those who wait. And looking at my position, which is 37th, I am really in not that bad a place after the first 3 rounds of the season. Opportunity for improvement. Plus I think more importantly it is all about progressing steadily; pacing yourself and not to worry when a race doesn't go according to the selection you chose. Race 3 didn't go well for me but I am comfortable with the other two.

For those who take it quite seriously like I do, no good being too high too early. I think you can sort of feel you have put pressure on yourself to try to maintain the good form. And I think it is that pressure that can lead you to begin to lag behind in the standings.

No such pressure I think can exist if you just take things nice and easy and not to rush.

Also I think if you look closely at the standings theirs few pairs of placings that are several points apart. I am level with AndySpeed but only one behing jack marsh and Wasted Talent. So I think it is very possible to make good ground fairly quickly at this point in the season. It looks like the gap betwen 6th and 7th is the largest in the standings.

[Phil H]

Wow, im winning!

[SEATFreak]

Wow, im winning!

Do you have any particular tactic or just do what I do and go for it?

A third place for race 1 and a win for race 2 is a great achievement for a brand new season.

[Phil H]

Just guessing!

[Mark]

Your forgiven. :)

Actually I am glad I had to wait. Good things come to those who wait. And looking at my position, which is 37th, I am really in not that bad a place after the first 3 rounds of the season. Opportunity for improvement. Plus I think more importantly it is all about progressing steadily; pacing yourself and not to worry when a race doesn't go according to the selection you chose. Race 3 didn't go well for me but I am comfortable with the other two.

For those who take it quite seriously like I do, no good being too high too early. I think you can sort of feel you have put pressure on yourself to try to maintain the good form. And I think it is that pressure that can lead you to begin to lag behind in the standings.

No such pressure I think can exist if you just take things nice and easy and not to rush.

Also I think if you look closely at the standings theirs few pairs of placings that are several points apart. I am level with AndySpeed but only one behing jack marsh and Wasted Talent. So I think it is very possible to make good ground fairly quickly at this point in the season. It looks like the gap betwen 6th and 7th is the largest in the standings.

Sometimes it seems like pickems is just random chance, but yet when you look through the results in some series you say the same people being highly placed or winning time and again, so there is definitely a skill to it!

BTCC is probably the hardest pickems because although there are 30 scored events there are only 10 chances to make your picks, and picking three races where one of them is a reverse grid isn't easy. If the driver your picking for 1st crashes in the first race you could lose points for 3 events!

A lot of people seem to just pick according to the results of the last race, just look at F1, after Australia, everyone picked Hamilton, after Malaysia, everyone picked Raikkonen. But they were wrong both times!

[Mark]

There was a slight bug in the system which meant that points were not correctly allocated for 8th position. The results have now been recalculated, so go back and check, although it won't have made a big difference as points in 8th are small.

[Robinho]

25th, 65th and 1st, and actually dropped a place overall, very random, especialy when my picks for 1st and 2nd didn't even finish in the points in the round i won!

[VkmSpouge]

Last in the second two races at Rockingham...I might as well try drawing names out of a hat it'll be better than my picking. At least it came good in race one.

[SEATFreak]

14th, 17th & 42nd for Rockingham. Don't seem to be dramatically heading in either direction (up or down - I am one of only 4 members to hold his place; your another Vkm.), which is good. But I can see I didn't do as well at correctly predicting the actual correct placings.

Natually theirs points awared to those who get a driver in the top 8, it appears how much depends on how close you get to that paticular place, but the scoring system for correct placings goes 10-9-8-7-6-5-4 & 3.

At Brands Hatch I correctly predicted Matt Neal to finish 3rd in race 3 and DT 4th in race 1. Which obbviously earned me 8pts and 7pts respectively.

But at Rockingham I correctly predicted Tom Onslow Cole to finish 7th and Turks 6th. Which only gave me 4pts and 5pts respectively.

Which is why one aim is to emulate only four others on that score. CaptainVXR, SuperDave2008, COD and VIKI006. They are the only members to get 3 in sucession so far.

[thompp]

Wow - shot up to 16th overall after that!

[Eurotech]

31st 64th and 15th - Pretty Consistent..............

75th Overall because I was on holiday for the choosing for 'The Rock' (Shame).........

[SEATFreak]

Disastrous for me. I started of OK with a 24th but in the final 2 I got a 51st and a 66th (second bottom).

I am at a loss to explain. I only didn't put Jase in the top 8 because I expected the Leons to do as well as they did to at Brands and The Rock. Not because I didn't want him to finish in the top 8 or do well.

[Eurotech]

Up 7 places after Donington,

Things are looking up after all!

[Mp3 Astra]

I've never lead the championship before, and I've never won a race. Killed two birds with one stone! :D

[SEATFreak]

I have won a race before; even if I haven't led the Championship before.

The first time was race 2 at Brands Hatch in 2006 and race 2 at, ironically, at Thruxton last year when they went to Hampshire the first of the two times. My previous best was a 4th at Oulton last year when I came 4th. Imagine my delight when when I saw for the first time just now I havce come 3rd in race 3.

However on the downside, had DT come second I would have had 39 race points which would have put me top because not only did I correctly predict Jase to win, I also correctly predicted, and for the second time, Giovanardi would come 3rd and Neal to come 4th, having correctly predicted Tom Onslow Cole would come 7th. Effectively the top 4 would have been spot-on with another correct Top 8 finish for Cole.

Still I am up 8 places in the Championship to 20th.

[Fordfan]

Wow! I won one round, finished 2nd in another and moved up to 2nd overall. I'm so far up the table I'm getting a nose bleed. ;)

[mattie007]

I actually won a round! 3rd overall!

[Les]

dropped 9 places.... sad really as I picked TOC but not high enough!!!

[SEATFreak]

Can I just ask....who is confident going to Croft?

I reckon in places I am. I am not really confident, strangely, about Tom Onslow Cole being third and am now starting to regret a little picking him as low down as third considering how he raced at Thruxton. Nor am I as confident about my 4th placement for DT now as I was at the time. He has been 4th three times but I don't think it likely a 4th will be achieved at any time for the third meeting in a row.

But I am confident Jase ought to keep up the utterly sensational performance he put in, in race 3 at Thruxton and come, not first, but second. I also have Jackson as top Independent. The circuit seems to suit the 320si better than the petrol Leon in starting as last season proved.

[Mp3 Astra]

Race two of Snetterton is missing for me.

[Les]

crikes I won race 1!!!
race 2 results are in race 3 box and race 3 is missing I think

[Gobber]

Son of Gobber drops two places.........so does his pop! Will I ever catch him up?

[Eurotech]

a second place in oulton Race 2 sees Eurotech move up 5 places to 44th

[AndySpeed]

I can only view the pickem results for Round 22... :confused:

[Abo]

same here!

[Matty]

Ditto.

Although I've just noticed I came 1st in the 1st race at Oulton :D

[matt5964]

me too...

[SEATFreak]

Massively dissapointed that I didn't put any works SEAT in the top 8. Reason being I did everything as correst as I believed. I looked at Oulton and made an informed decision based on that.
Problem is my beloved SEAT team are so unpredictable ad inconsistent.

In terms of any two results they can be as different as chalk and cheese two; despite dominating qualifying both times.
Last time out at Outon they dominated qualifying but in race 3 neither finished in the top 8 because Jase finished 9th and DT finished 16th. This time they dominate qualifying and they do much better.

Still, you live and learn.

[AndySpeed]

I would love to discuss this further with you SEATFreak but I can't go revealing my tactics now can I? ;)

[SEATFreak]

I would love to discuss this further with you SEATFreak but I can't go revealing my tactics now can I? ;)

Yeah. I just saw the result for round 22 and I am very impressed. A massive well done and a congrats thrown in for good measure to ya' mate. The top 4 absolutely correct. I just cannot recall a time when it last happened.

Alexmateo, djarumdudley and KILHOHMUNNS got the top 3 right for rounds 1, 5 and 17 respetively but nobody has got as many in the top 8 as 4 before.

You are of course one of the top Pickers being 4th in the standings an just about 3pts shy of Mattie007. I don't know if your good for the championship but I think is any of the three above you have more than one bad race I am sure you could be in with a shout.

Anyone care to offer what possible odd you could give Andy for winning the Championship?

[Eurotech]

Alexmateo is my bet - lead the championship from rd 2!

[SEATFreak]

Alexmateo is my bet - lead the championship from rd 2!

1. Alexmateo 4480
2. AndySpeed 4416

You would have to say that the gap could get unasailable if Alex has a better weekend in the competition than Andy. But Andy did win 2 of the Knockhill races. I don't think that has ever been achieved before.

On my situation I am over the moon I am up to 15th (a rise of 2 places). I am higher than more experienced members that I have always wanted to be and emulate. VkmSpunge for example is down in 27th. The utterly great mine of information and experience that is BDunnell is down in 36 (down 1 place). I hope to only improve on my situation.

[KILOHMUNNS]

Blimey!

A first and a second (I'll gloss over the last place :D ) this weekend. Best ever result and pushed me into the top ten.

Shame I started the season so slowly.

[SEATFreak]

A 4th for me for race 1!!

That puts me for the first time this season in the areas that span 2nd to 9th! I am now 10th overall in the standings!! :D :up:

[Mark]

Everyone from 18th place downwards is now out of the championship hunt.

[SEATFreak]

Everyone from 18th place downwards is now out of the championship hunt.

How? What is the basis for the points system for the competition?

It is just that in 10th in the standings I am clearly well in the hunt then if everyone from 18th+ is out of the competition.

[Mark]

How? What is the basis for the points system for the competition?

It is just that in 10th in the standings I am clearly well in the hunt then if everyone from 18th+ is out of the competition.

You get 250 points for a win. With 3 races to go that's a total of 750 points up for grabs. Therefore everyone who is more than 750 points behind by this stage no longer has a mathematical chance of being the winner.

If you look on the championship table then those who have their points shaded in dark blue are out of contention.

[mattie007]

Still in 6th and a win in the second race!
Still got a chance!

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[Alexamateo]

Alexmateo is my bet - lead the championship from rd 2!

Seeing as how I have no wins, I'm strokin' my way to the Championship. :D
(Hey!, Isn't that why Nascar has the chase!) :eek:

Seriously, I think I am leading here because I pick based on drivers results and past races etc. I dont have a vested interest as a fan. In the Nascar pickem's where I am a fan, I'm mired in 12th. I'm sure its because I let being a fan influence my picks, I'll pick Dale Jr to win way more often than I should, and won't pick Kyle Busch to win because I can't stand him (naturally he has the most wins. :dozey: )

In any event Good Luck to my fellow competitors this weekend, AndySpeed's gonna be tough to beat, and Lodekka and c8nay have an outside shot. I don't think anyone else has a real shot to win.

Good Luck to everyone :) Love the pickem's Mark!

[AndySpeed]

In any event Good Luck to my fellow competitors this weekend, AndySpeed's gonna be tough to beat, and Lodekka and c8nay have an outside shot. I don't think anyone else has a real shot to win.

Good Luck to everyone :) Love the pickem's Mark!

Good luck to you too! It would be unfortunate to lead it for so long and then lose it at the end but I'll try my hardest!

[mattie007]

Can't believe I forgot to post my last pickems. Was in with a shout aswell! BOO!

[VkmSpouge]

Well Erkut didn't win, I guess that means I didn't either :p :

[MattL]

Congratulations to Alexamateo - 2008 BTCC Pickems champion!

[Alexamateo]

Congratulations to Alexamateo - 2008 BTCC Pickems champion!

As Elvis would say, "Thank ya,.....Thank ya very much!


:bounce: :champion: :p imp: :s mokin: :wave:

[VX_Rules]

Joint 10th for first season isnt too bad is it?

[AndySpeed]

Pipped by my nemesis at the last, by a point. I'm inconsolable.

Congrats Alexamateo, btw!

[Les]

15th overall - mega result for me and 2 wins :) :) :)

now if I was to pick with my head and not my heart I wonder where I would have ended up

[Eurotech]

40th is really rubbish but when you think that I missed two rounds and its my first season - it gets better.

Best Result - 2nd
Worst Result - 63rd

Congrats to Alexmateo and Cheers to Mp3Astra who I passed in the last race!

[KILOHMUNNS]

Blimey 7th overall this year!!

Not bad considering I was 60th after the second meeting. I decided to pick with my head this year and it seems to have worked.

[Mihai]

Congrats Alexmateo :up:

I leave my kingdom in good hands. http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g202/gr8link/orn/00.gif

[SEATFreak]

15th overall - mega result for me and 2 wins :) :) :)

now if I was to pick with my head and not my heart I wonder where I would have ended up

Much worse of.

I am happy with 30th.

[Wasted Talent]

Can someone explain why I have no points for races one and two at Brands Hatch, even though I entered and got points for the third race(applies to seven others....)??

ta

Wasted Talent

[MattL]

Errr....no. Will try and sort it out. Good spot!

[Wasted Talent]

Errr....no. Will try and sort it out. Good spot!

Thanks

WT

[MattL]

Sorted. It was an error on my part when I tried to run the Thruxton race 3 results - I recalculated Brands race 3 instead.

The bad news for you is that as you didn't actually enter the Brands pickems, you lose the points that you had mistakenly received for r3 at Brands Hatch. Thanks for pointing it out though!

[Eurotech]

Finally I got a race win! race 1 at croft, yay :D

[mattie007]

Argh!!

Every season I miss a round!

[jimakos]

Really bad in Silverstone :(
Hope better in next events!!

[MattL]

Congratulation to themo, who is the 2009 champion, just pipping Lodekka.

[themo]

Congratulation to themo, who is the 2009 champion, just pipping Lodekka.

Thank you Mattl,very tight at the top and all down to the last race of the season as it should be.

[VkmSpouge]

Well done, Themo.

I got 18th place and I won a round! ^^

[Allyc85]

Nice one Themo!

Im being a muppet and cant see a link to the results to see where I finished lol.

[Chris2k6]

Well 14th overall and 1 round win, am happy with that! :D

Gonna try more series next season, not just btcc

[Eurotech]

I ended 34th - better than last season and I finally took my first win this season :) (its just a shame I missed the last 3 rounds down to errr.. "budget problems" ;) )

[MattL]

The first BTCC 2010 Pickems thread is now available - start making your choices!...

[BDunnell]

What happens now if another driver is confirmed at Triple Eight? Will the list in the pickems for Thruxton be altered accordingly?

[MattL]

Fabrizio Giovanardi is now available to select - to change your selection, repeat the process and your earlier selection will be overridden.

[Alfa Fan]

If there happens to be an unexpected entry tomorrow will we be allowed to update picks at all or is 5 minutes before start of FP1 a strict deadline?

[MattL]

The Pickem thread will close at 0930 tomorrow. Should there be confirmation of any new drivers between the time I arrive at the circuit and 0930, they'll be added to the list and available to select!

[Superdave08]

Looking forward to the result - I think I did ok!!

[MattL]

There will be a slight delay in calculating the results from Thruxton I'm afraid. Should be able to do it within the next couple of days!

[MattL]

Thruxton pickem results are now online!

Congratulations to ready2rock and reidy_fan who took the wins (two and one respectively!). ready2rock leads the championship.

Full results: http://www.motorsportforums.com/pickems/champ.php?series=btcc

[Superdave08]

Thruxton pickem results are now online!

Congratulations to ready2rock and reidy_fan who took the wins (two and one respectively!). ready2rock leads the championship.

Full results: http://www.motorsportforums.com/pickems/champ.php?series=btcc

Gutted I was nearly there, I blame Steven Kane lol
I am happy with 2nd in the league tho :-)

[Eurotech]

I'm actually really happy to have ended the first event in 22nd, this is my third season and this acts as proof that I'm always improving :)

[Captain VXR]

3rd in round 1 :D

Did crap in the others

[ready2rock]

Only just got online and round to checking this, and didnt expect to see that! :)
Now, watch it all go to pot :D

[Langdale Forest]

Pickem results for rounds 4 and 5 are online already :)

[MattL]

Results from Rockingham are online. Congratulations to Lousada (twice!) and Fordfan, who won today's races.

ready2rock still leads the championship.

http://www.motorsportforums.com/pickems/champ.php?series=btcc

[Fordfan]

Blimey!! :D I won a round! :champion:

[Matty]

Bugger, I forgot to enter this one

[Lousada]

I won, brilliant :D

[MattL]

Brands Hatch results online. Winners were Wasted Talent, Allyc85...oh and me! ready2rock STILL leads the championship!

[Wasted Talent]

Brands Hatch results online. Winners were Wasted Talent, Allyc85...oh and me! ready2rock STILL leads the championship!

Bum, Chilton being excluded from race two cost me dear - Chilton, Onslow-Cole as my 1st and 2nd pics was looking pretty when they crossed the line
:( :( :(

WT

[ready2rock]

im not sure how im still top, bet it wont last much longer!

[Allyc85]

Mixed results for me this weekend with first, second and then 34th in the last race lol.

[Eurotech]

darn, missed out brands due to taking part in the Duke of Edinburgh's award over the weekend. oh well, i'll bounce back at Oulton :)

[MattL]

Congratulations to AndySpeed (twice) and tradin paint who won today's Oulton Park pickems. ready2rock still leads the championship, despite losing the lead between races!

[RMLCruzeing82]

33rd place and my first go at this im pleased with that :D

[reidy_fan]

2 race wins for me today, getting dizzy as i am not used to being this high up in the table

[MattL]

Congratulations to today's winners: Fordfan, Superdave08 and Neil J.

ready2rock takes the title of 2010 BTCC Pickems champion after sitting atop the table for much of the season! Well done!

Thanks to all who took part and see you all again next year.

Full results are here: http://www.motorsportforums.com/pickems/champ.php?series=btcc

[Mark]

Well done! :champion:
Extraordinary performance to never be off the top of the championship table after any of the race meetings!

[reidy_fan]

still dizzy as I havent finished that high up ever, just missed the podium, okay I know in years gone by there was over 100 regulars doing the btcc pickems so perhaps it is a bit like Dave Newsham winning the clios. well done to all that entered

[Neil J]

Congratulations to today's winners: Fordfan, Superdave08 and Neil J.

ready2rock takes the title of 2010 BTCC Pickems champion after sitting atop the table for much of the season! Well done!

Thanks to all who took part and see you all again next year.

Full results are here: http://www.motorsportforums.com/pickems/champ.php?series=btcc

Thankyou.

And thanks to all those that took part. Well done ready2rock !

[Allyc85]

Woohoo 6th place, not bad at all :)

Congratulations to ready2rock!

[ready2rock]

Wow! Thanks!
I didn't expect that to happen when i decided to give a full season a go :P

[themo]

Congrats ready2rock on taking the title off me,Excellent picks by you.