Sprint Cup Challenge - Circuit 1
MODIFY TEAM
Overview
To make driver trades via the Internet, click the appropriate navigational link on the Contest website, login using your username and password (if you haven't already done so), make your trades as needed within the constraints of your team's current value plus your cash reserve, submit the trades and record the confirmation number you receive for them.
Trades are also accepted via toll-free number or voice mail (866-918-RACE) and fax (314-991-1564).
Deadlines and Race Schedule
During the Contest, trades must be made each week by the green flag. Once a race starts, including a race start under caution, no additional trades will be allowed. If a race start is postponed to a new date, the deadline for trades will be on the new date at the green flag. For the race schedule, click here.
The first deadline for making trades during the Contest is February 21, 2010, at the green flag.
Before the Contest begins (until the green flag on Sunday, February 14, 2010), all trades are free and unlimited.
In the event that a race starts and then is postponed to another date, regardless of whether or not the laps from the original race date count as official race laps, no additional trades will be allowed prior to the re-start of the race. In the event that a race is postponed until after the end of the Contest, the race will be removed from the Contest's race schedule.
Trades
Up to 4 trades can be made before each race. When trading drivers, you may not exceed the value of your team's current salary plus your cash reserve. Driver salaries are updated beginning February 22, 2010 and every two races thereafter. Click here to review the schedule for updated driver salaries.
To determine the number of trades used for each race week, your driver lineup from the previous race is compared to your driver lineup at the green flag for the current week's race. The difference in drivers determines the number of trades used. For example, if your previous race lineup included Jeff Gordon, and on Tuesday you trade Jeff Gordon for Tony Stewart, on Wednesday you trade Tony Stewart for Jimmie Johnson, on Thursday you trade Jimmie Johnson for Mark Martin, on Friday you trade Mark Martin for Matt Kenseth, on Saturday you trade Matt Kenseth for Kevin Harvick, and on Sunday morning before the race you trade Kevin Harvick for Kurt Busch, only 1 trade would be used for the week.
In the event that a race is postponed until after the end of the Contest, all driver lineups will revert to the previous race lineup and no trades will have been used.
Trade Costs
For each trade made via the website during the Contest, a trade token is required. Trade tokens cost $2 each.
All unused Sprint Cup Challenge • Circuit 1 trade tokens will transfer to Sprint Cup Challenge • Circuit 2. All unused Sprint Cup Challenge • Circuit 2 trade tokens are non-refundable and non-transferable.
Before the Contest begins (until the green flag on Sunday, February 14, 2010), all trades are free and unlimited.
SCORING
Overview
Teams are ranked within their league and overall by averaging the number of team points per race. The best 14 race weeks are used to determine standings.
Scoring System
Points are awarded to your team for each race based on the Sprint Cup Points that are awarded to each of your drivers based on their race finish and laps led.
Teams are ranked within their league and overall by averaging the number of team points per race. The team with the highest race average is first and the team with the lowest race average is last. An accumulated total is not used.
After the 5th race, your lowest weekly total will be dropped before determining standings. After the 6th race, your 2 lowest weekly totals will be dropped, and after the 7th race, your 3 lowest weekly totals will be dropped. Beginning with the 8th race, your 4 lowest weekly totals will be dropped each week before determining your team's average race points and standings.
If your driver is penalized by NASCAR, your team will not lose the corresponding Sprint Cup Points.
Only Sprint Cup Points from the listed races are used. A driver's Sprint Cup Points are added to your weekly team totals only during the week(s) that he is on your team.
Previous points by a driver before he was on your team do not count.
