Current Contest Standings Weekly Scores Overall Scores Other Contest News Congratulations to our latest WEEKLY WINNER -- JOANNE YOUNG of Salisbury, MD (Race #11 - Darlington)! JoAnne has won a FREE Oil & Filter Change gift certificate courtesy of Preferred Automotive in Georgetown (which will be mailed to all winners). Prizes will alternate each week all season long. Good luck with your Week #12 picks - CHARLOTTE (Coca-Cola 600 on May 26th)! If you played the Checkered Flag Challenge last year, you will still need to create a new account. Accounts do not carry over year-to-year. Weekly prizes will be mailed, so please be sure your mailing address is accurate when creating your account.

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It's easy to play. Each week, you'll pick 4 drivers, one from each bracket. Then you'll also pick a Wild Card Bonus Driver from the entire field. But pick your Bonus Driver carefully, because once you've used a driver, you won't be able to choose him as your Bonus Driver again.

Every Monday after a race, we'll give you points based on how your drivers finished and tally the points. The top scoring player each week* will receive the Weekly Prize: a free oil change or a free full hand car wash from Preferred Automotive in Georgetown!†

But don't stop at the weekly prizes; we'll keep tallying your scores after that. The person with the most points at the end of the first half of the NASCAR Sprint Cup season** will receive the Grand Prize: Two tickets to the September 2013 Sprint Cup race at Dover International Speedway!

After awarding the first-half grand prize, we'll reset everyone's scores and Wild Card Bonus Drivers, and give you another chance to win into the fall.

* - Checkered Flag Challenge players are only allowed to win ONE (1) Weekly Prize for the length of the contest. If the top scoring player has already won a Weekly Prize, the prize will move down to the next highest scoring person who has NOT won a Prize Pack.
† - Prize alternates week to week at Preferred Automotive's discretion, not winner's choice. Prize valued at $39.95.
** - The second half of the season begins with the NASCAR Sprint Cup Race at New Hampshire Motor Speedway on July 14th.
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When you view each week's Checkered Flag Challenge entry form, you'll see four brackets of drivers; 10 drivers in each of the first three brackets, and 20 drivers in the 4th bracket. The drivers are listed in order of their current Sprint Cup standings (using the final standings from the previous year for the first race), so the first bracket is the top 10 drivers, the second bracket is drivers #11-20, and so on. Think of it as putting together your own NASCAR team for the week - you'll choose one driver from each bracket, and then hope that each driver was the best choice from among the drivers available.

You'll also need to pick your Wild Card Bonus Driver. For this pick, you'll be able to choose any driver from the entire NASCAR Sprint Cup field. But remember, you can only choose a driver as your Wild Card Bonus Driver once for the entire contest. Once you use a driver, their name will not appear as a choice for future Wild Card Bonus Drivers.


Your points are determined by where the drivers you pick finish in that week's race. We will score the drivers who race in that week's Sprint Cup race starting with 43 points for finishing first, subtracting 1 point for each successive position, down to 1 point for finishing last. If the driver you pick is in the race, he will get anywhere from 43 points to 1 point. If he does not make the race, he gets zero points. (Note: This scoring is regardless of whether the driver is competing for a Sprint Cup championship. If they race in a Sprint Cup race, you can earn points for picking him/her.)

As an example, let's say one of the drivers you picked this week was Jimmie Johnson. If Jimmie Johnson wins this week's race, you'll earn 43 points, plus points based on how the other drivers you picked finished! And if you also happened to pick Jimmie as your Wild Card Bonus Driver this week, you'd score another 43 points for that pick! That's a whole lot of points available each and every week!

Several important notes about scoring:

• NASCAR awards drivers bonus points for winning the race, leading a lap or leading the most laps. We do NOT award these bonus points in the Checkered Flag Challenge.
• Scoring is based on the drivers you pick, not on team or car number. You will only receive points based on how the drivers you pick fare. If there is a substitute driver on a team for any given week, that substitute driver is credited with the points he wins, NOT the driver who usually drives that car.
• Our scoring method does not factor in whether a driver is competing for a Sprint Cup championship. If a driver races in a Sprint Cup race, you can earn points for picking him/her. (This note pertains to the NASCAR rule that drivers can only earn points in one series. If a Nationwide Series driver races in a Sprint Cup race, they do not earn Sprint Cup points. But you will still earn Checkered Flag Challenge points if you pick them.)