[Pasha Paterson]

True, I didn't consider the 80-point maximum on S2. Wouldn't it be better for those people, though, to have a shot at winning the split 2 race, vs. getting ~60 points for being at the tail of the split 1 race? Hmm.
Either way. As you say, it doesn't take very long for the folks who do well in S2 races to get their rating up into S1 anyway.