TMR Game – Week 17 – I Watch Too Much Racing

Welcome to Week 17 of the Too Much Racing Game!

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It was an enjoyable Monaco GP, with early action and the interesting strategy of bringing Alonso in early. As usual things calmed down in the second half and it was just a run for home, until the controversial pass at the end. I don’t have an opinion on it, I’m burned out from it and just don’t care any more so let’s move on. It was a good win by Mark Webber and for the team to prove it has a car suitable for everywhere, something to worry the opposition who thought Monaco would be the RBR weak point. [Photo: Mark Webber, Red Bull Racing, Monaco GP; via Picapp]

Quick-Start

Racing this week:

DTM – Ricardo Tormo Circuit, Valencia;

ALMS – Laguna Seca (6 hours);

Note the NASCAR Sprint Cup guys are taking a break from their relentless grind this week.

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

The cutoff is Saturday 22nd May at 4.59am BST (British Summer Time = GMT+1), that’s 11.59pm Friday night US EDT.

For the full results from Week 16, 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

I’ve been distracted and haven’t updated the Game rules page yet, I’m not sure when I’ll be able to do it.

I’d like to quickly give a plug to the work our players are doing elsewhere, so for this round I’ve linked their websites in the final table (if you have more than one I’ve just picked any of them so feel free to plug the others). Be sure to check out their sites if you haven’t done so already.

On to the results!

Top Tens – Week 16

	Week 16	Formula 1	NASCAR Cup
	Points	Monaco	Dover
1	50	Mark Webber	Kyle Busch
2	40	Sebastian Vettel	Jeff Burton
3	35	Robert Kubica	Matt Kenseth
4	32	Felipe Massa	Denny Hamlin
5	30	Lewis Hamilton	David Reutimann
6	28	Fernando Alonso	Greg Biffle
7	26	Nico Rosberg	Kevin Harvick
8	24	Adrian Sutil	Carl Edwards
9	22	Vitantonio Liuzzi	Tony Stewart
10	20	Sebastien Buemi	Joey Logano

Points Awarded – Week 16

	Player	F1	N-Cup	Week 16
1	Startledbunny	187	109	296
2	The Speedgeek	213	74	287
3	Jon Waldock	173	109	282
4	RG	145	133	278
5	James	142	123	265
6	Pat W	181	84	265
7	Sean	187	77	264
8	Burwellian	137	122	259
9	Sebastian	190	68	258
10	Jackie	0	149	149
11	Dank	0	135	135

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Congrats Startledbunny on the week’s win! Nice to see after a few weeks nearer the other end of the table.

A fairly compressed bunch among the rest of us, aside from Jackie and Dank’s non-entries. Burwellian’s was also a carry-over entry but with a field of both F1 and Cup drivers the score was quite respectable.

An unfortunate round for Sebastian who’s original entry would’ve placed I think 3rd in the ranking, sometimes you have to go with your first instinct I think!

Overall Standings – Week 16

Pos	Pre	+/-	Name	Prior	Wk 16	Total
1	1	0	Pat W	3715	265	3980
2	2	0	Sebastian	3686	258	3944
3	3	0	The Speedgeek	3631	287	3918
4	4	0	Sean	3579	264	3843
5	5	0	Jon Waldock	3497	282	3779
6	6	0	RG	3486	278	3764
7	7	0	James	3443	265	3708
8	8	0	Burwellian	3149	259	3408
9	9	0	Startledbunny	2967	296	3263
10	10	0	Jackie	1991	149	2140
11	11	0	Dank	1660	135	1795

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Andy’s 2nd position in this round brings him closer to Sebastian and myself, that battle for second is looking tight and I’m not far ahead. Jon and RG score about the same to keep their little battle alive. There were no position changes this 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 17

This week we have two events to choose from and one of them is a sportscar race, so get your thinking caps on for your driver choices there.

DTM – The second round of the DTM season comes from the Valencia circuit in Spain, that’s the MotoGP road course not the street circuit. This is a change for 2010 as the series used to visit the Circuit de Catalunya for the annual Spanish round. Mercedes had the advantage at Hockenheim, can Audi fight back? www.dtm.com

ALMS – The ALMS heads to Laguna Seca in California for what is a longer event than usual at this circuit, coming in at 6 hours. That could mix up the field if the retirement rate is high. There is no Audi or Peugeot presence and only 6 top-class LMP cars which is a bit of a shame, but you can’t fault the quality of those six, they’ll fight all the way. You can find the Entry List here (see link under the icons).

I think that’s everything, any questions just ask in the comments, and good luck!

16 thoughts on “TMR Game – Week 17”

DTM
Gary Paffett
Bruno Spengler
Paul Di Resta
Timo Scheider
Oliver Jarvis

ALMS
David Brabham
Emanuele Pirro
Guy Smith
Marino Franchitti
Jonny Cocker