Originally Posted by
Kayce
Every lap the top two riders score points, each lap the amount of points increase. Lap one is 1,0 Lap two is 2,1 lap three 3,2 etc. Similar to a tempo but increased points, so an early flyer does not work out usually.
I've seen them a lot of different ways, and commonly it's only the first person across gets points, and it increases by one each lap. A lot of officials like that way because it's easy to score. It's a terrible race though, because it's often pretty much over fairly early. I like the way you describe better, and have also seen it where the points go deeper with every sprint, e.g.:
First Sprint: 1
Second Sprint: 2,1
Third sprint: 3,2,1
Fourth sprint: 5,3,2,1
etc., with sprints not every lap.