TMR Game 2011 – Week 39 – I Watch Too Much Racing

Hello and welcome to a downbeat TMR Game Week 39.

6 weeks to go. This post accepts entries for these 3 events:

– MotoGP Sepang
– DTM Hockenheim
– NASCAR Cup Talladega

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.

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Scores

Results

RIP Dan Wheldon. Obviously the IndyCar race was abandoned and so no points have been awarded.

Spies and Lorenzo were ruled out of racing in the MotoGP due to injuries after crashing in practice and warm-up.

Not a good week.

	Week 38	Formula 1	NASCAR Cup	MotoGP
	Points	Yeongam	Charlotte	Phillip Island
1	50	Vettel	Kenseth	Stoner
2	40	Hamilton	Kyle Busch	Simoncelli
3	35	Webber	Edwards	Dovizioso
4	32	Button	Kahne	Pedrosa
5	30	Alonso	Ambrose	Edwards
6	28	Massa	Harvick	de Puniet
7	26	Alguersuari	Allmendinger	Hayden
8	24	Rosberg	Stewart	Elias
9	22	Buemi	Hamlin	Capirossi
10	20	di Resta	Newman	Abraham

Player Scores

Player	F1	MotoGP	NASCAR	Week 38
RubberGoat	215	98	–	313
Sebastian X	187	117	–	304
Sean	187	117	–	304
Jackie	176	117	–	293
Maverick	152	82	50	284
Pat W	152	117	1	270
The Speedgeek	157	82	–	239
Felipe Gana	147	82	–	229
Startledbunny	112	32	68	212
Dylantpt24	50	50	94	194
Ryan (80%)				155
Crooked Cap (80%)				155
James (80%)				155
Jay (80%)				155
Mike Rice (80%)				155

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Well done Gavin, a great F1 score there, the only one to pick 6 F1 drivers and they all finished in the top six!

The combination of the IndyCar no-score and the withdrawal of two front-running MotoGP riders made for some strange scores and a wide spread between players. It meant our championship protagonists tied despite initially picking differently.

Please see the score-by-score results produced by Sebastian.

Leaderboard

Pos	Pre	*+/-*	Name	Prior	Wk 38	Total	+
1	1	0	Sebastian X	9914	304	10218
2	2	0	Sean	9901	304	10205	13
3	3	0	RubberGoat	9539	313	9852	353
4	6	2	Maverick	9419	284	9703	149
5	5	0	Pat W	9421	270	9691	12
6	4	-2	Felipe Gana	9450	229	9679	12
7	7	0	The Speedgeek	9362	239	9601	78
8	8	0	Jackie	9259	293	9552	49
9	9	0	Startledbunny	9237	212	9449	103
10	10	0	Dylanpt24	8575	217	8792	657
11	11	0	Ryan	8448	155	8603	189
12	12	0	The Crooked Cap	8053	155	8208	395
13	13	0	James	7574	155	7729	479
14	14	0	Jay	7105	155	7260	469
15	15	0	Mike Rice	6589	155	6744	516

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We know the season is closing soon when the top players break 10,000 points..

Mav and Felipe switch places with me sitting in the middle.

Races This Week

MotoGP Sepang

If the Hondas have a power advantage they’ll surely love the long straights of Sepang. Note that Lorenzo will be missing this race as well so don’t pick him. No word on Spies yet, so it may be prudent not to pick him.

DTM Hockenheim

~~The penultimate race of the season and the final race in Europe. I think it totally bizarre to end the season outside Germany let alone outside Europe but that is what they are doing.~~ Apparently this is the final race, that makes more sense..

NASCAR Cup Talladega

Talladega scares me after the events of last weekend. NASCAR pack racing is at least a little safer at lower speeds but it isn’t something I’ll be rushing to watch.

Coming Soon

To aid your planning these are the remaining races this season:

Week 40 – F1 Indian GP, NASCAR Cup Martinsville

Week 41 – MotoGP Valencia, NASCAR Cup Texas

Week 42 – F1 Abu Dhabi GP, ILMC Zhuhai 6 Hrs, NASCAR Cup Phoenix

Week 43 – NASCAR Cup Homestead-Miami

Week 44 – F1 Brazilian GP

13 thoughts on “TMR Game 2011 – Week 39”

It was terrible news about Dan Wheldon. I did not realise that Las Vegas was such a high-sided oval. Dario Franchitti has complained in the past about the unsuitability of Texas for Indycar because of the steep banking.

I presume Spies will be OK. I may drop him later as news emerges.

MotoGP:
Casey Stoner
Dani Pedrosa
Ben Spies
Andrea Dovizioso
Marco Simoncelli

DTM:
Bruno Spengler
Martin Tomczyk
Mattias Ekström
Mike Rockenfeller
Timo Scheider

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MOTOGP
Casey Stoner
Dani Pedrosa
Andrea Dovizioso
Marco Simoncelli
Nicky Hayden

NASCAR
Kevin Harvick
Carl Edwards
Kyle Busch
Matt Kenseth
Jimmie Johnson

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Thank heavens for Kenseth, kindly covered the damage of two MotoGP non-starters. Might have to start picking NASCAR heavy! Mind you, looking at the remaining schedule, I won’t have much choice in the matter. DTM Shanghai shouldn’t be on there I guess.

MotoGP:
Casey Stoner
Dani Pedrosa
Andrea Dovizioso
Marco Simoncelli

DTM:
Mattias Ekström
Martin Tomczyk
Bruno Spengler
Gary Paffett

NASCAR:
Carl Edwards
Matt Kenseth

My gut feeling is that with Lorenzo out and some of the DTM guys looking a bit off-colour in recent races, NASCAR might not be so risky actually.

p.s. Pat, thanks for your tweets and retweets this week, covering a horrible situation

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MotoGP
Stoner, Pedrosa, Dovizioso, Rossi, Hayden

DTM
Ekstrom, Tomcyzk, Spengler, Scheider, Paffett

Thanks Mav.

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Guys – just a note that one of us might have our email accounts infected with a virus, as it has been reported to me that there’s a suspicious message purporting to be from The Crooked Cap, but which likely wasn’t sent manually.

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