Cross-posted to the new boards. Feel free to post your picks on either, or both, depending on your level of paranoia. I promise I will check both...

...anyway, welcome to the final round of the IndyCar Pool! The rules, for the final time this season:

1. I will divide the ICS field into four groups, ordered (from best to worst) A, B, C, and D (and E and F for Indianapolis only). These groups will be determined by a combination of points, subjective observations, questionable analysis, shaky conclusions, and random guessing. They may (and will) change throughout the season as drivers do, but I will not attempt to separate oval and road course performance and groups.
2. Everyone who wants to play must select one driver per group per race (well, you don't have to do every race, or every group for that matter, but both are highly recommended!). The only restriction is that you cannot choose the same driver for two consecutive races. This applies even if I switch the groups around and you end up quite restricted in one group.
3. Points are quite simple: your points are the same as the combined ICS points for all four of your drivers. Highest at the end of the season may win a small prize.
4. Any tie will be broken in the favor of the competitor who scored the most points out of everyone in the most races. If that is also tied, the tiebreaker will be for the competitor with the most 2nds, 3rds, etc. If that is somehow also tied, the competitor with the highest single-race score will prevail.
5. Picks are due when qualifying starts. However, each competitor may, once during the season, submit their picks late (any time before the start of the pace laps). This will be tracked and can be found along with the results.
6. Rules are subject to change without notice!

For those of you that have forgotten, let's refresh your memory of the championship battle...

* 1 EarlofSpeed 1722
L 2 bmw_williams_13 1700

The "L" means that bmw can make his picks late this week-Earl cannot. For that matter, the rest of you should probably check you-know-where to make sure of your own status-if you've been reliably on time every week, no reason to let that late pass go to waste! Anyway, it's a tight championship battle, and there are plenty of battles for the lower positions as well, including for 3rd. Here are the groups by which the championship will be decided...

Group A
G. Rahal
S. Dixon
H. Castroneves
R. Briscoe
D. Franchitti

Group B
M. Andretti
J. Wilson
H. Mutoh
D. Patrick
D. Wheldon
T. Kanaan

Group C
E. Carpenter
A. Lloyd
R. Matos
R. Hunter-Reay
T. Scheckter
M. Moraes

Group D
J. Lazier
R. Doornbos
E. Viso
S. Fisher
M. Duno
M. Conway

Good luck, everyone!

Dixon,Patrick,Moraes,Fisher

Dixon
TK
Carp
Conweasel

Dixon, Kanaan, Scheckter, Fisher

A: Dixon
B: Wheldon
C: Moraes
D: Doornbos

Group A - R. Briscoe
Group B - M. Andretti
Group C - T. Scheckter
Group D - S. Fisher

going for 3rd! I promise to try and make all the races next year in the Pick'Em, to make bmw & Earl sweat it out

In honor of Dan Gurney and in the hopes that someone breaks those darn "ferreners'" hold on the racing, Hammer Down Racing has changed its name to All American Racers for this weekend and selects the following drivers:
Graham Rahal
Danica Patrick
Ed Carpenter
Sarah Fisher

God bless America!

Dixon
Mutoh
Carpenter
Conway

Dixon, Patrick, Sheckter, Fisher

I'm going all USA: G. Rahal, M. Andretti, E. Carpenter, S. Fisher

Dixon
Patrick
Moraes
Fisher