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What's the point(s)? Just another IRL cliffhanger

By John Oreovicz

Friday, October 23, 2009

By luck or design, the Indy Racing League's scoring system has created remarkably close championship battles, and for the fourth year in a row, the IndyCar Series title was not settled until the final lap of the season. Dario Franchitti edged his Target Chip Ganassi Racing teammate Scott Dixon, with Team Penske's Ryan Briscoe right in the mix as well. At about this time a year ago, I wrote a column in which I used point-scoring systems from several other forms of motorsport to determine whether ...

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