Chase field for the 2013 TNRC

Well, after nearly a year off, I figured I might as well post something again...so it's the resurrection of my points standings which I haven't bothered with since early 2011. You'll have to make do with just the races though as I haven't updated qualifying.

A rundown then since it's been so long:
- Both titles for 26 rounds use an old V8 Supercar points system which only awarded the top 17 finishers (72, 60, 51, 45, 39, 36, 33, 30, 27, 24, 18, 15, 12, 9, 6, 3, 1).

- Once the Chase guys are set, those 12 use the old CART points (20, 16, 14, 12, 10, 8, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1). The remaining drivers use the V8 points, but these 12 are excluded from them (hypothetically, the 'winner' of a Chase race who isn't in the Chase could have actually finished 13th on the track).

- Half points given if a race doesn't reach 75% distance (yes, I'm going with the F1 rules on that).

- Bonus points for wins are 4 x however many you start the Chase with (except 11th and 12th, just like the real Chase). If a Chase guy wins a Chase race, they get an additional point (so 21 instead of 20).

- Top 10 Drivers after 26 rounds get 4 bonus points per round they clinched (eg: Jimmie was in after race 22, so he gets an additonal 16 points when the Chase started...not counting wins. Kyle gets 12 and Kenseth gets 8).

Right, so to the points after Richmond and it's a little different to the actual standings as you can see:
1 - Kyle Busch, 780 points (4 wins)
2 - Jimmie Johnson, 778 points (4 wins)
3 - Matt Kenseth, 678 points (5 wins)
4 - Carl Edwards, 643 points (2 wins)
5 - Kasey Kahne, 640 points (2 wins)
6 - Clint Bowyer, 621 points
7 - Kevin Harvick, 613 points (2 wins)
8 - Joey Logano, 610 points (1 win)
9 - Kurt Busch, 585 points
10 - Jeff Gordon, 568 points

To the wild cards then where, even if I did dock points for what happened at Richmond, Truex still makes it in as the gap to the next person in line (Greg Biffle...he was 94 points behind Martin at the end of the race) is substantial.

WC 1 - (11th) Martin Truex Jr, 547 points (1 win)
WC 2 - (14th) Ryan Newman, 468 points (1 win)

So here is the adjusted tallies as before the race at Chicagoland began:
1 - Jimmie Johnson, 32 points
=2 - Kyle Busch, 28 points
=2 - Matt Kenseth, 28 points
=4 - Carl Edwards, 8 points
=4 - Kasey Kahne, 8 points
=4 - Kevin Harvick, 8 points
7 - Joey Logano, 4 points
=8 - Clint Bowyer, 0 points
=8 - Kurt Busch, 0 points
=8 - Jeff Gordon, 0 points
=8 - Martin Truex Jr, 0 points
=8 - Ryan Newman, 0 points

I shall try to keep this up-to-date for the rest of the season.