TMR Game – Week 23 – I Watch Too Much Racing

Welcome to Week 23 of the Too Much Racing Game!

Here are all the results from this week’s racing.

Quick-Start

Racing this week:

IndyCar – Watkins Glen, New York;

Sprint Cup – Daytona, Florida;

DTM – Norisring, Nuremberg;

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

The cutoff is Saturday 3rd July at 4.59am BST (British Summer Time = GMT+1), that’s 11.59pm Friday night US EDT.

For the full results from Week 22, 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.

On to the results!

Top Tens – Week 22

	Week 22	Formula 1	NASCAR Cup
	Points	Valencia	Loudon
1	50	Sebastian Vettel	Jimmie Johnson
2	40	Lewis Hamilton	Tony Stewart
3	35	Jenson Button	Kurt Busch
4	32	Rubens Barrichello	Jeff Gordon
5	30	Robert Kubica	Kevin Harvick
6	28	Adrian Sutil	Ryan Newman
7	26	Kamui Kobayashi	Clint Bowyer
8	24	Fernando Alonso	Dale Earnhardt Jr
9	22	Sebastien Buemi	Joey Logano
10	20	Nico Rosberg	AJ Allmendinger

Points Awarded – Week 22

Player	F1	N-Cup	Week 22
Burwellian	168	139	307
Sebastian	205	101	306
Startledbunny	204	93	297
RG	168	128	296
Jon Waldock	194	93	287
The Speedgeek	149	136	285
Jackie	185	98	283
Pat W	155	128	283
James	185	93	278
Sean	185	71	256
Dank	0	133	133

Well done Burwellian and Sebastian! Burwellian’s F1 and NASCAR carryover entry is a good one and routinely scores well in combined F1 and Cup weeks, this week it was good enough to win. Sebastian was just a point behind.
Once again for a Formula 1 and Cup week the scoring from top to bottom was very close, with Sean falling off the back slightly – just a slightly worse Cup score prevented him from matching James. Dank’s Cup-only carryover essentially means he’s just ticking over.

Sebastian’s challenge to James has gone in the former’s favour this week, there’s a long way to go yet though. I love these little sub-plots.

Overall Standings – Week 22

*Pos*	*Pre*	*+/-*	*Name*	*Prior*	*Wk 22*	*Total*	*Gap*
1	1	0	Sebastian	5358	306	5664	0
2	2	0	Pat W	5249	283	5532	132
3	3	0	The Speedgeek	5168	285	5453	211
4	4	0	RG	5154	296	5450	214
5	5	0	Sean	5050	256	5306	358
6	6	0	Jon Waldock	4999	287	5286	378
7	7	0	Startledbunny	4603	297	4900	764
8	8	0	James	4445	278	4723	941
9	9	0	Burwellian	4154	307	4461	1221
10	10	0	Jackie	3223	283	3506	2158
11	11	0	Dank	2291	133	2424	3240

Sebastian extends his lead a little, RG is challenging Speedgeek once more and Jon is looking to do the same with Sean. There are no position changes this week as the field essentially moves forward as one with such a tight week – it is vital to put in a respectable score in weeks like this to maintain a good strike rate.

Results sheets are available on the TMR drop.io.

Coming Up – Week 23

Three events this week:

IndyCar – Back to the road courses for the IndyCars with a visit to the classic Watkins Glen. www.indycar.com

Sprint Cup – A return to Daytona for the summer 400-mile race – let’s hope the track surface doesn’t fall apart this time. Go to nascar.com for more info.

DTM – The short street track of the Norisring in Nuremberg, usually fast and frantic. www.dtm.com

I think that’s everything, I’m a touch rushed this week (no time to look for a photo!), so let me know if you spot any errors.

11 thoughts on “TMR Game – Week 23”

In the James-Sebastian like-for-like challenge, we picked eight drivers in common. James also picked Clint Boyer (7th/26 points) and Juan Pablo Montoya (34th/1), totaling 27. I had Nico Rosberg (10th/20) and Kurt Busch (3rd/35), making 55. This gives me +28 on the week, moving me from ten behind to 18 ahead, with James at 4474 and myself at 4492.

It is the second week in a row bad luck has hit James in the late laps of the NASCAR, with Ambrose throwing away the win at Sears Point and Montoya losing a strong finish at Loudon.

DTM:

Timo Scheider
Gary Paffett
Mattias Ekström
Paul di Resta
Bruno Spengler
Jamie Green

IRL:

Will Power
Dario Franchitti
Ryan Briscoe
Justin Wilson

(Might have picked Kurt Busch for Daytona.)

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Scoring correction: Burwellian is this week’s winner, by one point over Sebastian who I’d originally scored as the winner of this week. Only Burwellian’s points were affected, I’d not copied a number correctly when I was rushing to get this out last night. Thanks to Sebastian for checking.

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NASCAR
Kevin Harvick
Jimmie Johnson
Jeff Gordon

INDYCAR
Scott Dixon
Dario Franchitti
Helio Casrtoneves
Will Power

DTM
Bruno Spengler
Gary Paffett
Paul Di Resta

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DTM: Bruno Spengler, Gary Paffett, Paul Di Resta, Timo Schnieder, Mattias Ekstrom, Jamie Green, Mike Rockenfella

IndyCar: Dario Franchitti, Helio Castroneves

NASCAR: Jimmie Johnson

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IndyCar
Justin Wilson
Scott Dixon
Dario Franchitti
Will Power
Ryan Briscoe

DTM
Gary Paffett
Paul di Resta
Mattias Ekstrom

Cup
Denny Hamlin
Jimmie Johnson

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Indycar
Justin WIlson
Will POwer
Ryan Briscoe

NASCAR
Juan Montoya
Tony Stewart
Dale Earnhardt Jr.

DTM
Bruno SPengler
Mattias Ekstrom
Gary Paffett
Timo Schieder

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Ugh. I think maybe my picks went to the Spam folder again.

IndyCar:
Will Power
Dario Franchitti
Ryan Briscoe
Alex Lloyd
Justin Wilson
Scott Dixon

DTM:
Gary Paffett
Timo Scheider
Martin Tomczyk
Paul di Resta

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Oops. Cut it close here. Just plain forgot. At least this time I made it.

IndyCar:

Will Power
Ryan Briscoe
Hélio Castroneves
Scott Dixon
Dario Franchitti
Justin Wilson
Ryan Hunter-Reay

DTM:

Bruno Spengler
Gary Paffett
Mattias Ekström

NASCAR:

Not picking on a plate week when I don’t have to

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Oh bummer, sorry, I was so knee deep in stats last night I forgot. Can you MAKE me do the predictions on a Wednesday evening after the quiz please Pat?

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