You should notice a couple things here. Firstly there are a lot of half points about the place, because each 5 lap race is worth half points. A win at Australia or Malaysia would count for 12.5 rather than 25, so that each week of racing is worth the same. The race at Montreal was 25% (18 laps), and worth full points. Silverstone and Austin were both 5 lap races, but the coming race at Spa is 25%.
Secondly, we have something of a Constructors Championship overlay to proceedings. Everybody has been paired up into teams, and across both Championships DiF and the gang of commentators are keeping track of how these teams are doing. So there’s an easy to get to table for those that are interested in this side of things.
Finally, those with italicised names are already through to the finals!
OnlineAssassin77
WOO YEAH! I actually got some points! :D
dimjim94
So yeah, my chances of qualifying are rather slim now…
teflon
Fairly slim, yeah, but if you get the podium finish which you’ve been threatening to, then you’d still be in for a very good shout of leapfrogging a few people.
Ro6afc11
Now see, I’m getting conflicting vibes. DiF says I’ve qualified but my name is not italicised. No worry though, I shall be trying to do the best I can at Spa regardless. Week 3 was excellent for me but I’m taking nothing for granted.
teflon
I may have my italics a bit wrong, but we’ll come back to that.
My working was that you would get 0 points. Then in the somewhat unlikely instance that Camdaz, Topgearsam, MJB, Keaneplay and JamboGT are the 1st to 5th finishers in that order, they would all have over 21.5 points which you have.
DiF may have been working on half points still, when Spa is full points for 25%. Even so, it’d be incredibly unlikely for you to drop out at this point.
Similarly, there are 9 people that can overhaul my 4th place, with 7 able to overhaul me simultaneously, were I to retire, and Sitorimon has 6 people that could pass hit tally simultaneously. Neither of us should be italicised, but I didn’t do those particular calculations until just now.
None of us would be absolutely 100% safe, even if the odds are very slim! So, just pick up a couple points if you can. :)
Ro6afc11
Thanks teflon. That makes total sense. I think some assumptions have to be made to think I’m totally safe and as mentioned will be looking to get a few more points on the board to be on the safe side.
Death_In_Flamez
Sorry Rob I have messed up on that one. Don’t know what was happening with my calculations. You can still be knocked out yes. I’m just over the borderline.
Death_In_Flamez
Tef isn’t safe either as you correctly pointed out.
freezebug2
Doesn’t that just sum our Austin race thoughts up perfectly at the very end when Ash typed the word “Jesus” in the text chat…..he spoke for us all haha.
Ro6afc11
Sorry to be a pedant but I think the Red Bull constructor points are incorrect. I have 21.5 points and MJB has 11 making a total of 32.5 rather than the 29.5 shown. The error has occurred in the Canada results which have carried down as 7 instead of 10 :)
Death_In_Flamez
Ro6 have you forgotten your penalty that was revoked at Canada? :P
0-SPaRTiBuS-0
damn that looks like a lot of fun, missing out big time by the looks of it!