TMR Game 2011 – Week 35

Hello and welcome to TMR Game Week 35.

Ten weeks to go! This post accepts entries for these 3 events:

– F1 Singapore
– LMS Estoril
– NASCAR Cup New Hampshire

Housekeeping

Each week you pick 10 entries with a maximum of 7 of those coming from a single championship.
You can have any mix of races from those listed in this post, and you don’t have to use all of them.

See this page for the rules.

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Scores

Results

Week 34	MotoGP	IndyCar	NASCAR Cup
Points	Aragon	Motegi	Chicago
50	Stoner	Dixon	Stewart
40	Pedrosa	Power	Harvick
35	Lorenzo	Andretti	Earnhardt Jr
32	Simoncelli	Tagliani	Edwards
30	Spies	Servia	Keselowski
28	Bautista	Bourdais	Kurt Busch
26	Hayden	Hildebrand	Bowyer
24	Barbera	Franchitti	Newman
22	Crutchlow	Conway	Martin
20	Rossi	Sato	Johnson
	ALMS	DTM
Points	Laguna Seca	Oschersleben
50	#007 AMR	Ekstrom
40	#16 Dyson	Tomczyk
35	#20 Dyson	Mortara
32	#055 Level 5	Paffett
30	#63 Genoa	Vietoris
28	#06 CORE	Rockenfeller
26	#89 Intersport	Engel
24	#05 CORE	Molina
22	#37 Intersport	Jarvis
20	#911 Porsche	Coulthard

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Player Scores

Player	MotoGP	IndyCar	ALMS	DTM	NASCAR	Week 34
Sebastian X	125	114	90	57	–	386
RubberGoat	139	114	–	107	–	360
Sean	125	64	41	107	–	337
Felipe Gana	125	114	41	57	–	337
Pat W	125	64	91	40	8	328
Maverick	169	–	41	107	–	317
Startledbunny	85	64	51	57	48	305
Jackie	129	64	41	57	–	291
The Speedgeek	115	82	41	33	–	271
Dylanpt24	115	83	1	–	44	243
Ryan (80%)						194
Crooked Cap (80%)						194
James (80%)						194
Jay (80%)						194
Mike Rice (80%)						194

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Congrats to Sebastian! Gavin was a little way back in 2nd and then another fair chunk of points back Sean and Felipe are tied in 3rd.

Andy and Dylan had bad weeks.

Please see the results produced by Sebastian for a break-down driver by driver (I awarded an extra point for Rebellion #12 finishing 41st on laps completed, rather than something like 46th officially after it retired).

Leaderboard

Pos	Pre	+/-	Name	Prior	Wk 34	Total	+
1	1	0	Sean	8646	337	8983
2	2	0	Sebastian X	8573	386	8959	24
3	3	0	RubberGoat	8235	360	8595	364
4	5	1	Pat W	8172	328	8500	95
5	6	1	Felipe Gana	8158	337	8495	5
6	4	-2	The Speedgeek	8180	271	8451	44
7	7	0	Maverick	8112	317	8429	22
8	8	0	Jackie	8041	291	8332	97
9	9	0	Startledbunny	8025	305	8330	2
10	10	0	Ryan	7600	194	7794	536
11	11	0	Dylanpt24	7514	243	7757	37
12	12	0	The Crooked Cap	7205	194	7399	358
13	13	0	James	6726	194	6920	479
14	14	0	Jay	6257	194	6451	469
15	15	0	Mike Rice	5741	194	5935	516

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Sebastian’s big score this week brings him to just 24 points off Sean, it looks like we may have a fight on for the win!

Gavin’s pulling clear in 3rd.

After Andy passed me last week it was his turn to drop back this time, and Felipe took advantage as well. And Jackie is now under a bit of pressure from a certain rabbit.

Races This Week

F1 Singapore

The Singapore GP marks the beginning of the final sequence of ‘flyaways’ for the F1 teams, as they embark a schedule of 5 GPs in 8 weeks all across Asia, followed by a gruelling time-change to Brazil for the finale. The night race is rapidly becoming the annual sign that the season is coming to a close.

Singapore doesn’t seem to produce quite the same level of hitting-the-barrier unpredictability as most street races though it has been known to catch a few out, notably at the tunnel under the grandstand.

LMS Estoril

We’re in a run of 4 consecutive ACO-rules sportscar races split across various championships. This week we have the 6 Hours of Estoril in Portugal.

I don’t believe the LMS has ever visited Estoril before, as previously the Portuguese round was held at the modern Portimao circuit. Estoril was designed as a sister-track to the Circuit de Catalunya although it hasn’t moved with the times quite as much as its F1-hosting relative.

As an LMS-only race (no ILMC cars) the field is somewhat weaker than at Silverstone. The entry list is here (click ‘List des Engages’ for the current version).

NASCAR Cup New Hampshire

To Loudon once more, the summer event was won by Ryan Newman who was followed home by Tony Stewart and Denny Hamlin. Based on more recent results the momentum seems to be with the Kevin Harvick and Kurt Busch but as always with NASCAR, that could change at any race.

Good luck!