Well, well well… very nice of you to show your face again William.

First of all I must humbly apologize for completely bailing on you guys mid way through the chase.  The truth of the matter is that burning the candle at both ends with work and family and fun (blogging) finally caught up with me and I was knocked off my feet with a nasty bout of pneumonia.  After a 3 week hiatus from my life I found myself scrambling to get work and family back on track.  Then at work I was moved into a different department, requiring a lot of my time (overtime) and blogging took a back seat. By the time I had any free time to do that sort of thing, the chase was long over and Christmas was upon us.  I made a new years resolution to update the blog, but got swept up into the facebook revolution and honestly thought you all would have forgotten about it.   I was encouraged by the revival of the Trifecta this weekend by Hotfootlori and felt I had to make my re-appearance.

It has bothered me that I never finished this thing so here you have the break down of the final 4 weeks.  Thanks again to all who participated. 

photogr-------------34
williamwilman----34
volfan69------------36
IowaGirl------------36
Tezgm99------------38
Dave_in_Indy------40
JayJayDean---------40
jbroomy-------------44
SharplyBlunt-------48
HotfootLori---------50
Forensic2------------62
 

...down into the short chute the roar, still with no clear cut leader yet, although positions continue to jockey around… (week 8 update)
 

volfan69---------------38
IowaGirl---------------38
photogr-----------------40
williamwilman--------40
Dave_in_Indy---------42
Tezgm99---------------42
JayJayDean------------46
jbroomy----------------46
HotfootLori------------50
SharplyBlunt-----------52
Forensic2---------------60

…into the final turn they go and again all the position are up for grabs but a leader is starting to emerge…oh  it seems that Williams foot has slipped off of the accelerator (week 9 update)

photogr-------------30
volfan69------------34
IowaGirl------------38
Tezgm99-----------42
Dave_in_Indy-----46
JayJayDean--------46
jbroomy------------48
HotfootLori--------48
williamwilman----48
Forensic2-----------54
SharplyBlunt-------62

 
And here they come to the line.  It’s a three way battle for the lead. This is going to be close folks (in the true spirit of NASCAR manipulation).  And the winner is!!!!

 
photogr-----------34 (tiebreaker 420)
volfan69----------34 (tiebreaker 250)
IowaGirl----------34(tiebreaker 201)
JayJayDean------38
Tezgm99---------42
williamwilman—44(tiebreaker 380)
jbroomy-----------44(tiebreaker 300)
Dave_in_Indy----44(tiebreaker 0)
HotfootLori-------56(10 point penalty)
Forensic2----------58(tiebreaker 521)(20 point late penalty)
SharplyBlunt------58(tiebreaker 323)

 The tie-breaker was, to refresh your memory, the distance in points between 1st and 12th in the standings.  The actual number was 580

 Nice job photogr.  You hung out around the lead for the entire chase including setting the lowest recorded score in week 6.  You’re easily the winner, although it came right down to the wire.  Thanks again for participating everyone, and for being patient with me in this post.