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		<title>2008 Driver Rankings &#8211; Oops</title>
		<link>http://thespeedblog.com/2008-driver-rankings-oops/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Aug 2008 22:58:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Porter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;s IRL results. &#8211; Sure [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2008 Driver Rankings &#8211; July</title>
		<link>http://thespeedblog.com/2008-driver-rankings-july/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2008 01:43:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Porter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;s relative performances.
World Rally ace Mikko Hirvonen stays on the top again this month, while for the first time this year a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2008 Driver Rankings &#8211; June</title>
		<link>http://thespeedblog.com/2008-driver-rankings-june/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 18:45:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Porter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2008 Driver Rankings &#8211; May</title>
		<link>http://thespeedblog.com/2008-driver-rankings-may/</link>
		<comments>http://thespeedblog.com/2008-driver-rankings-may/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2008 22:36:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Porter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2008 Driver Rankings &#8211; April</title>
		<link>http://thespeedblog.com/2008-driver-rankings-april/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2008 01:11:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Porter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2008 Driver Rankings &#8211; March</title>
		<link>http://thespeedblog.com/2008-driver-rankings-march-2008/</link>
		<comments>http://thespeedblog.com/2008-driver-rankings-march-2008/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Mar 2008 23:34:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Porter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Finnish rally ace Mikko Hirvonen leaps to the top of our combined driver rankings chart at the end of March. So far a total of 91 drivers from NASCAR, FI, IRL, NHRA and WRC have qualified for inclusion in the ranking calculations with all series being represented in the Top 10 this month.

The Top 10 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2008 Driver Rankings &#8211; Jan/Feb</title>
		<link>http://thespeedblog.com/2008-driver-rankings-janfeb/</link>
		<comments>http://thespeedblog.com/2008-driver-rankings-janfeb/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2008 22:12:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Porter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Once again we&#8217;ll be posting our own cross-series drivers rankings as the season progresses. However  this year we&#8217;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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wrapping up 2007  &#8211; Overall Driver Rankings</title>
		<link>http://thespeedblog.com/wrapping-up-2007-overall-driver-rankings/</link>
		<comments>http://thespeedblog.com/wrapping-up-2007-overall-driver-rankings/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Dec 2007 21:24:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Porter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been way too long since I managed to post anything here on The Speed Blog, but I have definite plans for this blog during the 2008 season. Instead of trying to keep up and report on teh races (as there are lots of online resources that already do that) we&#8217;ll be focusing on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Speed Blog Driver Rankings &#8211; September 2007</title>
		<link>http://thespeedblog.com/speed-blog-driver-rankings-september-2007/</link>
		<comments>http://thespeedblog.com/speed-blog-driver-rankings-september-2007/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Oct 2007 01:45:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Porter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By the end of September, 146 drivers from ChampCar, IndyCar, Formula One, NASCAR, NHRA, and World Rally have qualified for inclusion in The Speed Blog Driver Rankings.

After several months at the top, this month Jeff Gordon is bumped by team-mate Jimmie Johnson while Ferrari F1 driver Felipe Massa and World Rally star Marcus Gronholm drop [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Speed Blog Driver Rankings &#8211; August 2007</title>
		<link>http://thespeedblog.com/speed-blog-driver-rankings-august-2007/</link>
		<comments>http://thespeedblog.com/speed-blog-driver-rankings-august-2007/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Sep 2007 16:45:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Porter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By the end of August the total number of drivers who had qualified to be included in The Speed Blog Overall Driver Ranking calculations had reached 140.
The current Top 10 Ranked drivers are:

Jeff Gordon (NASCAR)
Jimmie Johnson (NASCAR)
Scott Dixon (IRL)
Denny Hamlin (NASCAR)
Dario Franchetti (IRL)
Lewis Hamilton (F1)
Tony Stewart (NASCAR)
Fernando Alonso (F1)
Tony Kannan (IRL)
Felippe Massa (F1)

Positions are calculated based [...]]]></description>
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