>>I had heard that they used 1st round position as the starting points for the finals last year... these results carry over the earlier rouds points. Not sure what is up with that, but doesn't seem to change the top three.


Actually last year they carried the points of the qualifier races with them and there was some upset about that. When I read you comment that this year they would use the final qualifier position as start of the gold cup I thought that they ahd changed the system to open up the series and as a reply to some of the upset.

It appears that they are using the old system still. To bad, because now the fight is less interesting. Anybody out of the top 5 is now out of the game and even the 13 points difference between numbers 1 and 2 is alot.

Only the fight for 3rd is now interesting

Beside when do they allow a second strike-out ? At 10 races ?

Anybody knows ?

Wouter