Once again we’ll be posting our own cross-series drivers rankings as the season progresses. However this year we’ll be making a slight change to the way we calculate the overall ranking, by focusing more on average finishing positions within individual series rather than normalizing across all series.
To qualify a driver must score a Top 10 finish in F1, IndyCar (ChampCar), NASCAR, World Rally, or make it to the final of an NHRA event.
Top 10 Drivers by the end of February 2008 are:
- Robert Hight (NHRA)
- Mikko Hirvonen (WRC)
- Kyle Busch (NASCAR)
- Gigi Galli (WRC)
- Petter Solberg (WRC)
- Tony Stewart (NASCAR)
- Ryan Newman (NASCAR)
- Jari-Matti Latvala (WRC)
- Sebastian Loeb (WRC)
- Greg Anderson (NHRA)
Paul Frere, the celebrated racing driver and journalist, has died at the age of 91. The Belgian never fully recovered from an accident at the end of 2006 while he was road testing a Honda Civic Type-R at the old Nurburgring in Germany. Frere, 89 at the time, suffered a shattered pelvis, several broken ribs and punctures to both lungs.
Frere competed in 11 Grands Prix after winning the non-championship Grand Prix des Frontieres at Chimay in 1952. He was taken on by Ferrari and in 1956 finished second to Peter Collins in a Lancia-Ferrari at the Belgian Grand Prix. In addition to this in 1960 he shared a Ferrari 250TR with Olivier Gendebien to win the Le Mans 24 Hours.
Frere was also a celebrated automotive and race reporter and contributed to magazines all over the world. He published a number of books.
From Autosport.com and GrandPrix.com
Posted in
Couch,
NASCAR by Alan Porter on
February 18th, 2008
Ryan Newman (#12) takes the Daytona 500 emerging from a caution filled stop-start last twenty lap sprint to snatch victory on the last lap ahead of team mate Kurt Bush (#2), a charging Tony Stewart (#20) and the dominant Kyle Bush (#18).
This is the first Daytona 500 victory for the Penske Dodge team, and combined with the strong showing of the Gibbs Toyota team may be an indication that the domiance of the Hendricks Chevrolet team is on the wane.
Overall a fun race, with a great finish, but not one for the ages.
Posted in
Couch,
NASCAR by Alan Porter on
February 17th, 2008
At the three quarter mark Kyle Busch (#18) is still out front as the second caution of the race is thrown for debris. Clint Bower (#07) was challenging. Greg Biffle (#16) wins the race off pit road and takes the lead ahead of Busch with a resurgent Tony Stewart (#20) back up to third. Kurt Busch (#2) runs fourth with the ever present Dale Jr (#88) in fifth as we wait to go green.
Posted in
Couch,
NASCAR by Alan Porter on
February 17th, 2008
At the half way mark Kyle Busch (#18) is back in the lead with Jeff Gordon (#24) challenging. Ryan Newman (#12) is up to third with Dale Earnhardt Jr (#88) and an out of sequence Kurt Busch (#2) also up at the front. After an 80th lap caution the field is once more bunched up.
At this stage there has been plenty of passing with numerous lead changes. The new cars seem to be able to maneouvre around teh track with Kyle Bush in particular running different lines, sometimes even changing mid corner. Busch is probably the most impressive runner at the moment, but may be being a little over agressive for this stage of the race.
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