Month: May 2010

TMR Game – Week 18

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.

Continue reading “TMR Game – Week 18”

Start Times: 22-23 May

Here are some selected start times for races happening this weekend, as well as qualifying at Indy. I hope I’ve got the timezone adjustments right. This week I’ve added Saturday events, though note the two NASCAR races which start on Saturday in the US are actually happening in the early hours of Sunday for us in the UK.

I have purposely left out some junior series and less popular GT events.

Saturday 22 May 2010
UK Time Duration Series Venue Event
GMT+1



10.15am Formula 2 Monza Race 1
4.15pm 1 hour FIA GT1 World Brno Qual race
5pm 7 hours IndyCar Indianapolis Motor Speedway Pole Day
10pm 6 hours ALMS Laguna Seca Race
Sunday 23 May 2010
UK Time Duration Series Venue Event
GMT+1



12.30am Sprint Cup Charlotte Showdown
2am Sprint Cup Charlotte All Star Race
10am 45 minutes Superleague Magny-Cours Race 1
12.05pm 9 laps WTCC Monza Race 1
1pm 28 laps MotoGP Le Mans (Bugatti) Race
1pm 45 laps DTM Valencia Race
1pm 1 hour FIA GT1 World Brno Champ race
1pm 45 minutes Superleague Magny-Cours Race 2
1pm Formula 2 Monza Race 2
2pm 15 minutes Superleague Magny-Cours Superfinal
2.20pm 9 laps WTCC Monza Race 2
6pm 6 hours IndyCar Indianapolis Motor Speedway Bump Day

Enjoy the racing!

TMR Game – Week 17

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.

Continue reading “TMR Game – Week 17”

Start Times: 16 May

A short post showing the start times of races being held on Sunday 16th May. I might do this weekly, as it is shorter and easier to do than the old-style ‘Weekend Preview’ posts. This is in chronological order in my time zone, BST (UK). I’ve included notable races and other sessions and it isn’t an exhaustive list. Obviously there were other races at Monaco (GP2 etc) but it is too late for that.

Sunday 16 May 2010
Time (GMT+1) Duration Series Event
Midnight 14 hrs n/a Nurburgring 24h-Rennen
(continuation)
10am 45 mins Superleague Assen Race 1
11.10am 25 laps FR 3.5 Monaco
1pm 78 laps F1 Monaco Grand Prix
1.30pm 45 mins Superleague Assen Race 2
2.30pm 5 laps Superleague Assen Superfinal
6pm 400 laps Sprint Cup Dover

There is also Rookie Practice and normal practice at Indianapolis though the schedule is no longer as published, I believe this is now scheduled to start at 4pm.

I’ll do this again for the next couple of weeks to see if it is worth pursuing, if it ends up taking a long to compile I’ll stop it but I hope it’ll be nice and easy and it’ll help some of you out as well as me!