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(Created on 21st February 2010)

Vote #134

The following question was presented:

I'm down near L.A. with Mr. O after watching the Auto Club 500 at California Speedway in Fontana. We're then off to Vegas to watch the races there next weekend. This week's vote question is who will win the Busch/Edwards sweepstake? If you're interested, here's the very complicated rules - we picked 2 drives who are approximately equal that we knew would be racing in all three events (Kyle Busch and Carl Edwards). These are randomly assigned for the first two races for a $5 bet. If one person is winning after the first two races (i.e. $10 up) then they loser gets to choose which driver they want for the last race which has a $10 stake. If it's tied going into the last race, the drivers will again be allocated randomly. Basically, the most anyone can win is $20 and that would take two random wins and your opponent making the wrong decision. Confused?.... just pick an answer.

Results:

Rag was the clear winner with 75% of the votes selected from the following:

Rag (75%)
Mr. O. (25%)
Neither - tied and you're both losers (0%)

Graphic of Results:

Pre-Result Discussion

Rag
20:09:26
21st February 2010

May I say that the first of these three events proved to be very exciting as Busch and Edwards swapped places several times near the end with Edwards finally coming out on top. Really useless information for you as you don't know whether Mr. O or myself drew Edwards in this first race. Suffice it to say that one of us is $5 in the lead at the minute.

Analysis:

Many thanks for the vote of confidence, however, the majority of voters seem to be missing the simple fact that I never have and never will win anything in Las Vegas. Unfortunately two of the three races that were covered in this wager were in Las Vegas which means that I lost 2 - 1 or by $10. Interestingly Edwards was the winning driver in all three races - something that neither Mr O or myself would have predicted going into this. I did think that Edwards would win the Fontana race, but I thought Busch would win both of his home track races.

I do actually think the correct answer to this vote is that we are both losers and I base this on the actual wagers we put at the sports book. I bet on Montoya to win, given that I follow him and Mr O picked his teammate Jamie McMurray based on the fact that he's had a good start to the season and there were good odds on him. “Teammate” is probably not a term being used by these two drivers at the minute given that they took each other out on lap 93 and left Mr O and myself with two worthless betting slips ..... at least he won the $10 from me.