Parsloes 1928 nearly 495 Posted October 11, 2010 With the modern GPs and the emphasis on getting in the top eight, it's often spoken that around eight points is what you need to make it into around 8th. And history shows that benchmark usually holds up... Looking back in time at the 1982 Overseas Final at the peerless White City Stadium one can see a quite remarkable stat. FOURTH place that afternoon went to Dennis Sigalos with just EIGHT points!! :shock: Has any rider EVER scored less in ANY indiv. meeting to finish as high as 4th..?! I really can't imagine there has... And has there EVER been so concertinaed a score-card: with Sigalos 4th with 8 (tying on eight with FOUR others!) and the unlucky Chris Morton finishing 15th. on five: yes three points less, 11 places lower!!!! Anyone now of any other meeting which turned out with a pattern of scoring like this..?! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
chunky 6,108 Posted October 11, 2010 You know, it's funny that you posted that; I'm also fascinated by things like this. Does anyone know what the lowest WINNING total has been in a regular 16-man, 20-heat, individual meeting? I believe that there was an 11-point winning score at Wolverhampton's Olympique (handicap meeting) one year. Even with league scores, I seem to remember a case where a team's top scorer had something like 7, and the lowest had 5... Steve Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mickthemuppet 976 Posted October 11, 2010 Andreas Jonsson won the Grand Prix on Saturday yet only scored 4 points from his first three rides,.Is this the lowest winner of a GP after three rides Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
salty 2,202 Posted October 11, 2010 Chris Harris very nearly won the Gp with just 7 points from his programmed rides. In fact after 4 rides he only had 4 points. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Parsloes 1928 nearly 495 Posted October 12, 2010 Andreas Jonsson won the Grand Prix on Saturday yet only scored 4 points from his first three rides,.Is this the lowest winner of a GP after three rides Hmm, but that's GPs... We were talking about proper indiv meetings!!!! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Robbie B 262 Posted October 12, 2010 (edited) Here another strange one. In 1980 Wimbledon beat Eastbourne in a challenge match, at Plough Lane 49-29. The Wimbledon riders only scored two bonus points in the meeting, while the Eastbourne riders scored three bonus points. Strange or what. Heat details 1 STEFAN SALOMONSSON, Gordon Kennett, LARRY ROSS, Steve Naylor (4-2) 2 RUDY MUTS, Dave Kennett, Eric Dugard, DAVE BREWER (f,exc) (7-5) 3 ROGER JOHNS, Veijo Tuorieniemi, PETER JOHNS, Paul Woods (f) (11-7) 4 COLIN RICHARDSON, Kai Niemi, MUTS, Dugard (15-9) 5 G.Kennett, R.JOHNS, Naylor, P.JOHNS (17-13) 6 ROSS, D.Kennett, SALOMONSSON, Niemi (21-15) 7 RICHARDSON, Woods, MUTS, Tuorieniemi (25-17) 8 SALOMONSSON, MUTS, Naylor, Dugard (30-18) 9 R.JOHNS, Niemi, D.Kennett, P.JOHNS (33-21) 10 ROSS, Woods, SALOMONSSON, Tuorieniemi (37-23) 11 RICHARDSON, G.Kennett, MUTS, D.Kennett (exc 2 mins) (41-25) 12 ROSS, Niemi, Tuorieniemi, P.JOHNS (ret) (44-28) 13 RICHARDSON, R.JOHNS, G.Kennett, D.Kennett (49-29) Dave Brewer was taken to hospital, after his first race fall. Edited October 12, 2010 by Robbie B Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
chunky 6,108 Posted October 12, 2010 Another fascinating individual meeting was the Continental S/F of the 1956 World Championship in Warsaw. Nine riders - over half the field - scored double figures; I doubt if that's ever been beaten. Scores were : 01 - Florian Kapala.....................13 02 - Edward Kupczynski.............12 03 - Janusz Suchecki.................11 04 - Edmund Nazimek................11 05 - Marian Kaiser......................11 06 - Hugo Rosak........................10 06 - Tadeusz Teodorowicz...........10 06 - Mieczyslaw Polukard...........10 06 - Wlodzimierz Swendrowski....10 10 - Josef Kysilka........................5 11 - Richard Janicek....................4 11 - Rudolf Havelka......................4 11 - Miloslav Spinka.....................4 11 - Karel Polak...........................4 15 - Jaroslav Machac....................1 16 - Alois Jarolim.........................0 Steve Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DW 11 Posted October 15, 2010 Used to love this sort of stuff when Bryan Seery did the stats in the SS Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ian 24 Posted October 15, 2010 Used to love this sort of stuff when Bryan Seery did the stats in the SS I once had a long chat with Bryan Seery after a match at, I think, Oxford. This was back in the pre-pocket-calculator days and he used arithmetic to compile "Seery's Statistics". If I remember he was a former maths teacher. Is he still around? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
