IndyCar Takes It to the Streets (of Toronto), Volume I

Hello Internet! The first chapter of The Hobbit happened all up over Scoring Indy Central from Monday to Wednesday. I had a lovely time seeing friends, both old and new. However, the Writing Cave doubles as our guest room. As you can imagine, this led to putting together the weekend's spreadsheets at a much slower pace than I'd have liked. Because of that, I'll be posting Race 1 now, and then over the next two days I'll be posting scores and observations from Race 2 along with an entire post devoted to looking at our little experiment: the Race Score World Championship.  Everything's set to go now, so let's get this number party started.


Toronto Race 1 Scores

Finish	Driver	Qualifying	Grid	Laps Led	Completed	A.R.S	RSWC Points
1	Dixon	6	5	14	85	75.73	25
2	Bourdais	2	2	20	85	71.73	18
3	Franchitti	1	1	20	85	64.74	15
4	Andretti	11	10	0	85	62.15	12
5	Kanaan	4	4	0	85	51.32	4
6	Castroneves	8	7	0	85	51.74	6
7	Conway	20	20	0	85	59.82	10
8	Hinchcliffe	14	13	0	85	52.39	8
9	Pagenaud	13	12	0	85	42.90
10	de Silvestro	22	22	0	85	47.40	2
11	Wilson	9	8	0	85	30.06
12	Jakes	5	15	0	85	27.48
13	Carpenter	23	23	0	85	43.37	1
14	Viso	15	14	0	85	35.40
15	Power	3	3	29	84	39.64
16	Saavedra	24	24	0	84	31.05
17	Tagliani	17	17	0	84	23.32
18	Hunter-Reay	7	6	0	83	15.17
19	Vautier	21	21	0	83	17.88
20	Rahal	18	18	0	82	12.19
21	Kimball	16	16	2	72	16.89
22	Briscoe	10	9	0	64	5.67
23	Newgarden	19	19	0	34	1.14
24	Sato	12	11	0	32	1.14

Observations

- This was, in my opinion, the more strictly entertaining of the two races. You had it all: on track battles between Dixon, Power, and Bourdais; tire degradation; pit strategy; and (best of all) last lap controversy between Power and Franchitti (tonight we're gonna party like it's 2011).

- Mike Conway decided to take a break from destroying worlds in qualifying, but he figured something out BIG TIME in the race, vaulting himself from P20 to P7 and proving that he matters in the Race Score World Championship. I'll explain in the RSWC-centric post tomorrow.

- This was a very "even" race with bunches of scores in the 60s and 50s.

- Ed Carpenter. One point. Get some.

Race 1 Prediction Review

- #2inTO Prediction 1) Hondas take minimum 2 podium spots.

- VERDICT - Yes they do. The Chipster seems to be on to something...

- #2inTO Prediction 2) The standing start goes off without much of a hitch.

- VERDICT - No. No, it does not. I blame Brian Barnhart. I don't actually blame Brian Barnhart. I just wanted to say it one more time...

- 1 for 2 on Race 1. Let's see if we can improve with the Sunday race.

RSWC After Race 1

Driver	RCWC Points	Points Back
Castroneves	122	0
Dixon	114	-8
Hunter-Reay	109	-13
Andretti	92	-30
Kanaan	78	-44
Sato	76	-46
Pagenaud	72	-50
Franchitti	72	-50
Hinchcliffe	63	-59
Newgarden	55	-67
Wison	53	-69
Conway	53	-69
Kimball	43	-79
Viso	31	-91
Power	29	-93
Carpenter	29	-93
Bourdais	26	-96
Rahal	23	-99
Servia	18	-104
Munoz	12	-110
Jakes	8	-114
de Silvestro	8	-114
Tagliani	7	-115
Hildebrand	4	-118
Allmendinger	4	-118
Briscoe	1	-121

- We'll save the observations for the upcoming RSWC post, but it suffices to say that our little experiment is starting to get interesting.

Ok friends, that's all for now. Keep an eye on @ScoringIndy on Twitter for posting updates over the next couple days.

Until then!

-- Guido