TMR Game – Week 18 – I Watch Too Much Racing

Welcome to Week 18 of the Too Much Racing Game!

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I wasn’t able to watch either of this week’s eligible races as the ALMS went on until 4am and the DTM was on at the same time as the MotoGP. The GP was moderately good – the first half featured a great battle between Rossi and Lorenzo but after halfway or thereabouts when it had been settled, I lost interest in the whole thing. I spent much of the weekend watching qualifying from Indy which was fun especially in the closing stages of each day, and I plan to write about that later in the week.

[Photo: American Le Mans Series at Laguna Seca; via Picapp]

Quick-Start

Racing this week:

IndyCar – Indianapolis 500;

F1 – Turkish GP;

WRC – Rally Portugal;

NASCAR Sprint Cup – Coca-Cola 600, Charlotte;

Usual restrictions apply, pick up to 10 drivers, no more than 7 from one race.

The cutoff is Saturday 29th May at 4.59am BST (British Summer Time = GMT+1), that’s 11.59pm Friday night US EDT.

For the full results from Week 17, read on.

How To Enter

1. Reply to this post.

2. List up to 10 drivers, with no more than 7 from a single event.

3. Send your entry before the stated deadline. You can make as many changes as you like until the closing point, I’ll take your last entry.

Most weeks feature 2 or 3 races, some weeks may have more than that and some may only have one. There’s not a rule stating you have to choose a driver in each race, any combination of up to 10 drivers is accepted.

Admin

Just a short note if you missed it last week, I updated the Game section of the site which now contains an overview of the rules.

On to the results!

Top Tens – Week 17

	Week 17	DTM	ALMS
	Points	Valencia	Laguna Seca
1	50	Mattias Ekstrom	Brabham / Pagenaud / Franchitti
2	40	Bruno Spengler	Gidley / Graf / Maassen
3	35	Alexandre Premat	Tucker / Bouchut / Wilkins
4	32	Timo Scheider	Sutherland / Weickardt / Marcelli
5	30	Paul di Resta	Bergmeister / Long
6	28	Mike Rockenfeller	Muller / Hand
7	26	Gary Paffett	Beretta / Gavin
8	24	Miguel Molina	Melo / Bruni
9	22	Jamie Green	Sharp / van Overbeek
10	20	Susie Stoddart	Magnussen / O’Connell

Note on the DTM: 2nd-placed Martin Tomczyk was excluded for a pitstop irregularity when the team fitted a tyre from the wrong set.

Note on the ALMS: A few of the fancied runners didn’t make the full 6 hours so some of us are going to pay!

Points Awarded – Week 17

	Player	DTM	ALMS	Week 17
1	Sebastian	128	270	398
2	The Speedgeek	94	288	382
3	James	138	206	344
4	Jackie	155	181	336
5	Sean	96	232	328
6	RG	150	142	292
7	Pat W	122	157	279
8	Startledbunny	119	147	266
9	Jon Waldock	144	117	261
10	Burwellian	0	0	0
11	Dank	0	0	0

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Wow, what a round for Sebastian and Speedgeek! Both had the three drivers who finished 1st and 2nd in the ALMS race, so 150 for the win and 120 for the 2nd place. Shows just how important it is to get those sportscar picks right – and how damaging it is when your picks don’t make the full distance, as happened to the Intersport and Drayson cars and to a lesser extent the Dyson. Startledbunny chose a couple of Corvette GT2 guys alongside the race winners and they secured top ten finishes overall, taking advantage of the thin prototype field and the attrition.

Nobody was hit by the Tomzcyk exclusion, nobody picked him.

Overall Standings – Week 17

Pos	Pre	+/-	Name	Prior	Wk 17	Total
1	2	1	Sebastian	3944	398	4342
2	3	1	The Speedgeek	3918	382	4300
3	1	-2	Pat W	3980	279	4259
4	4	0	Sean	3843	328	4171
5	6	1	RG	3764	292	4056
6	7	1	James	3708	344	4052
7	5	-2	Jon Waldock	3779	261	4040
8	9	1	Startledbunny	3263	266	3529
9	8	-1	Burwellian	3408	0	3408
10	10	0	Jackie	2140	336	2476
11	11	0	Dank	1795	0	1795

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This week really shook up the order!

Sebastian has taken a clear lead and The Speedgeek jumps into second position. Well done to both! I drop from 1st to 3rd, 83 points behind the leader. Sean is in a gap between 3rd and 5th and seems to be secure there for now but isn’t all that far back.

RG and James move ahead of Jon, James scoring the highest among the midfield runners. The three are still bunched together though.
Startledbunny has caught and passed Burwellian, who wasn’t around to make an entry last week.

Full results sheets are available on the TMR drop.io, the Total Driver page on the Data file won’t have been updated but isn’t relevant to the game.

Coming Up – Week 18

This week we have four events:

IndyCar – This is big race of the IndyCar season, the Indianapolis 500. Qualifying was at the weekend, here is the starting grid.

Formula 1 – Turkish GP at Istanbul Park.

WRC – Rally de Portugal. Here is the entry list (link to the PDF on left of page).

Sprint Cup – Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte. nascar.com for more info.

I think that’s everything, any questions just ask in the comments, good luck and enjoy one of the best motorsport weekends of the whole year!

13 thoughts on “TMR Game – Week 18”

Noooo!! I’ve fallen back. Very bad times.

Sebastian Vettel
Jenson Button
Mark Webber
Fernando Alonso

Dario Franchitti
Will Power
Helio Castroneves

Sebastian Loeb

Kevin Harvick
Jimmie Johnson

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Blimey, I did okay last week which was a very nice surprise 🙂

I’ll pick my F1 drivers just and do the others when I’ve had a look through who’s who.

Formula One
Sebastian Vettel
Lewis Hamilton
Fernando Alonso
Mark Webber
Michael Schumacher

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How would you have scored Tomzcyk? Zero for DSQ or 13 points for 17th/last place? He did start the race.

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He was excluded from the results, so it would be zero.
This reminds me, I didn’t copy over the points penalty section of the rules. They were available in this post but I never added them to the Game rules.

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Ah, yes, rule 8. Presumably, the mathematical formula is only for when a points deduction is used as punishment. Am I right in deducing that this calculation means a driver picked could actually end up with a negative score, if the calculated penalty is higher than the TMR points for the driver’s finishing position? (Or if he is docked points and position.)

(I can not remember which junior series it was but a driver won it with two rounds to spare, and at the penultimate round was, in a rare possibly unprecedented punishment, docked points for a misdemeanor. He was still in a position of not being able to be caught as his nearest rival had not done well, but the team-owner threatened not to run him at the last round just in case.)

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Indycar

Dario Franchitti
Will Power
Helio Castroneves

WRC

Sebastien Loeb
Sebastien Ogier
Mikko Hirvonen

Mark Webber
Sebastian Vettel
Robert Kubica

NASCAR

Kevin Harvick

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F1: Fernando Alonso, Sebastian Vettel, Mark Webber
WRC: Sébastien Loeb
IndyCar: Hélio Castroneves, Scott Dixon, Dario Franchitti
Cup: Kyle Busch, Denny Hamlin, Jimmie Johnson

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F1:
Mark Webber
Sebastian Vettel

WRC:
Sebastien Loeb

Indy:
Helio Castroneves
Will Power
Ryan Briscoe
Dario Franchitti
Scott Dixon

Cup:
Denny Hamlin
Kurt Busch

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That’s correct because a position penalty would account for any changes in points. I reasonably sure only NASCAR does the post-race points penalties because they don’t tend to alter finishing positions after the race. I’m not aware that series penalises a position and then also deducts points, but it I suppose it is possible to get a negative score.

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