So there I was transferring files for both the 2008 Driver Rankings and my own devised alternate F1 scoring scheme from my laptop to the family room iMac, updating them, and transferring them back to the laptop. It all seemed to go really smoothly.

Until I went to add in last weekend’s IRL results. - Sure I had two seperate files named “Alt-F1″ and “2008 Driver Rankings” but they both had the same content. Content that showed me the results of all this year’s Grands Prix - but nothing else.

Yes I’ve accidently overwritten and blown away all the race results and driver ranking calculations for the last seven months!!

So I guess the posted July rankings will be the last ones for this year…

In the last month seven more drivers qualified to be included in the overall SPEED BLOG RANKINGS which rate drivers from NASCAR, Formula One, IndyCar, NHRA Drag Racing and World Rally against each other’s relative performances.

World Rally ace Mikko Hirvonen stays on the top again this month, while for the first time this year a NASCAR driver, Kyle Busch, breaks into the Top 10.

The Top 10 at the end of July are:

1. Mikko Hirvonen (Rally)
2. Sebastian Loeb (Rally)
3. Scott Dixon (IndyCar)
4. Helio Castroneves (IndyCar)
5. Tony Schumacher (NHRA)
6. Lewis Hamilton (F1)
7. Feliepe Massa (F1)
8. Kimi Raikkonnen (F1)
9. Robert Kubica (F1)
10. Kyle Busch (NASCAR)

At the half-way point of the season 135 different drivers from Formula One, Indycar, NASCAR, NHRA drag racing, and the World Rally Championship have qualified to be included in The Speed Blog driver rankings.

World Rally driver Mikko Hirvonen maintains the top spot for another month, but the gap to second placed Indycar racer Scott Dixon is closing fast.

Here’s the Top 10 standings at the end of June.

1. Mikko Hirvonen (WRC)
2. Scott Dixon (IRL)
3. Sebastian Loeb (WRC)
4. Helio Castroneves (IRL)
5. Robert Kubica (F1)
6. Fellipe Massa (F1)
7. Dan Wheldon (IRL)
8. Kimi Raikkonen (F1)
9. Tony Schumacher (NHRA)
10. Chris Atkinson (WRC)

Kyle Busch is the top ranked NASCAR driver at #13 on the list.

Once again World Rally ace Mikko Hirvonen stays at the top of our overall driver rankings for another month with his preformance on the Sardinian Rally continuing a run of strong finishes.

The Speed Blog Ranking list compares drivers from World Rally, F1. NASCAR, IndyCar and NHRA based on the number of top ten finishes and the avearge finishing position.

The Top 10 Drivers at the end of May 2008 were:

1. Mikko Hirvonen (WRC)
2. Helio Castroneves (IRL)
3. Scott Dixon (IRL)
4. Lewis Hamilton (F1)
5.  Sebastian Loeb (WRC)
6. Robert Kubica (F1)
7. Chris Atkinson (wrc)
8. Kimi Raikkonen (F1)
9. Tony Schumacher (NHRA)
10. Kyle Busch (NASCAR)

Finnish rally ace Mikko Hirvonen stays at the top of our combined driver rankings chart for a second month. By the end of April a total of 116 drivers from NASCAR, FI, IRL, NHRA and WRC have qualified for inclusion in the ranking calculations. Thsi month the rankings are dominated by World Rally and IndyCar drivers, and for the first time since we started the month by month rankings in early 2007, no NASCAR drivers make the list.

The Top 10 Drivers at the end of April 2008 are

1. Mikko Hirvonen (WRC)
2. Chris Atkinson (WRC)
3. Sebastian Loeb (WRC)
4. Helio Castroneves (IRL)
5. Scott Dixon (IRL)
6. Tony Kannan (IRL)
7. Kimi Raikkonen (F1)
8. Dan Wheldon (IRL)
9. Jason Line (NHRA)
10. Dani Sordo (WRC)

Ashley Force’s (NHRA) and Danica Patrick’s (IRL) historic wins in April placed them at #18 and #23 respectively.