Mid-Ohio Scores

Hello Internet! Guido here with a Scoring Indy score post. This week, we dive into the scores from the Honda Indy 200 at Mid-Ohio.Be warned ye who enter here. We're venturing into uncharted waters. Let's get to it!


2014 Honda Indy 200 at Mid-Ohio Scores

Finish	Driver	Grid	Led	Completed	A.R.P	Race Score	RSWC Points
1	Dixon	22	45	90	7.68	105.03	10
2	Bourdais	1	38	90	1.79	76.52	6
3	Hinchcliffe	17	2	90	5.77	78.37	8
4	Munoz	4	0	90	4.76	56.43	2
5	Rahal	7	0	90	5.02	57.54	4
6	Power	6	0	90	7.61	49.07	1
7	Kimball	20	0	90	11.23	61.77	5
8	Briscoe	19	0	90	11.08	57.46	3
9	Pagenaud	9	0	90	9.21	42.10
10	Hunter-Reay	5	2	90	9.52	33.28
11	Montoya	11	0	90	10.16	37.64
12	Newgarden	2	3	90	4.84	30.13
13	Conway	12	0	90	12.83	29.04
14	Aleshin	13	0	90	13.13	27.07
15	Wilson	8	0	90	13.63	15.71
16	Hawksworth	18	0	90	16.48	23.52
17	Huertas	10	0	90	10.91	16.80
18	Sato	21	0	89	17.97	19.61
19	Castroneves	15	0	86	19.27	5.67
20	Saavedra	14	0	24	9.25	7.68
21	Kanaan	3	0	0	21.00	3.03
22	Andretti	16	0	0	22.00	1.52

Observations

- Did you note the uncharted waters? There's Scott Dixon up there riding the Scoring Indy Bump (I mentioned him in the preview) all the way to the first-ever score of over 100 since I've been tracking these things (2012). We'll break his drive down below in "A Word on Dixon and Max Scores."

- The Scoring Indy Bump also benefited one Graham Rahal. His bump-ification was perhaps not as great as Dixon's, but a P5 finish with a 57.54 is exactly what Rahal needed to move positively toward next season.

- Now a word about the nature of racing at Mid-Ohio. There's a reason that so many drivers have an Average Running Position so close to their finishing position. That reason is that Mid-Ohio is technical and unforgiving. All of the anomalies and disparities between the two are based on strategy.

A Word on Dixon and Max Scores

Let's get esoteric!

- The way that I've set up this little quantitative system of ours, a driver earns exactly 100 points for winning a race from the pole and leading every lap.

- This means that it is technically possible (although quite difficult) to achieve a Race Score of more than 100 points, as is evident by Dixon's performance above.

- Now, because the set bench mark is not a maximum, and because part of the score calculation is based on positions gained over the course of the race, the maximum score for each event is dependent on the number of entries.

- The maximum score for would therefore be achieved by a car starting last, finishing first, and leading every lap. For a 22 car field, this number is 131.82. For 25, it jumps up to 132.00. And, if a driver were to somehow pull off this feat at the Indy 500, with its 33 car field, that driver would score a whopping 132.32.

- Now, for reference, this is (as I said before) the only score of over 100 that's been achieved since I started tracking Race Scores. There has, however, been a score of exactly 100. That occurred at the 2012 Detroit Grand Prix, and was driven by one Scott Dixon. Anyone have any questions about whether Dixie's an all-timer now?

Hall of Averages

For those of you keeping track at home, here are the average scores for the full-timers, the part timers, and the 20 Car composite, as well as the RSWC Table:

Full Time

Driver	Average Score
Power	59.99
Castroneves	49.66
Dixon	48.35
Kanaan	46.03
Pagenaud	43.67
Hunter-Reay	43.53
Kimball	42.38
Briscoe	41.15
Bourdais	39.02
Montoya	38.37
Wilson	37.64
Hawksworth	34.68
Hinchcliffe	34.09
Andretti	33.59
Munoz	32.74
Rahal	31.03
Aleshin	29.78
Huertas	28.62
Newgarden	27.28
Saavedra	22.96
Sato	20.46

Part Time

Driver	Average Score	Races
Karam	65.51	1
Hildebrand	48.16	1
Carpenter	47.41	4
Tagliani	45.08	1
Villeneuve	43.73	1
Davison	41.47	1
Servia	40.23	4
Conway	31.50	11
Bell	31.26	1
Plowman	25.36	2
Filippi	18.35	4
Mann	14.76	1
Montagny	12.75	1
Lazier	4.15	1

The 20 Car

Driver	Average Score
The 20 Car	35.75

RSWC Table

Driver	Points	Difference
Castroneves	60	--
Power	52	-8
Hunter-Reay	47	-13
Dixon	46	-14
Kimball	39	-21
Montoya	35	-25
Pagenaud	32	-28
Kanaan	31	-29
Bourdais	26	-34
Hinchcliffe	26	-34
Munoz	22	-38
Conway	20	-40
Hawksworth	18	-42
Wilson	17	-43
Rahal	17	-43
Aleshin	16	-44
Carpenter	15	-45
Andretti	14	-46
Newgarden	14	-46
Huertas	12	-48
Briscoe	11	-49
Sato	9	-51
Karam	5	-55
Saavedra	3	-57
Servia	2	-58
Busch	1	-59

Stay Tuned

Next week, we'll preview the ABC Supply Wisconsin 250, my home race; and get geared up for the home stretch of the IndyCar season! Be sure to follow me @ScoringIndy on Twitter for all the updates! See you next week!!

-- Guido