Welcome to Week 25 of the Too Much Racing Game!
Here are all the results from last weekend’s racing, and a guide to what’s happening this week.
Quick-Start
Racing this week:
IndyCar – Toronto, Canada;
Le Mans Series – Portimao, Algarve, Portugal;
Usual restrictions apply, pick up to 10 drivers, no more than 7 from one race.
The cutoff is Saturday 17th July at 4.59am BST (British Summer Time = GMT+1), that’s 11.59pm Friday night US EDT.
For the full results from Week 24, 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 24
| Week 24 | Fornula 1 | NASCAR Cup | WRC | |
| Points | Silverstone | Chicagoland | Bulgaria | |
| 1 | 50 | Mark Webber | David Reutimann | Sebastien Loeb |
| 2 | 40 | Lewis Hamilton | Carl Edwards | Dani Sordo |
| 3 | 35 | Nico Rosberg | Jeff Gordon | Petter Solberg |
| 4 | 32 | Jenson Button | Clint Bowyer | Sebastien Ogier |
| 5 | 30 | Rubens Barrichello | Jamie McMurray | Mikko Hirvonen |
| 6 | 28 | Kamui Kobayashi | Kasey Kahne | Jari-Matti Latvala |
| 7 | 26 | Sebastian Vettel | Jeff Burton | P-G Andersson |
| 8 | 24 | Adrian Sutil | Denny Hamlin | Frigyes Turan |
| 9 | 22 | Michael Schumacher | Tony Stewart | Matthew Wilson |
| 10 | 20 | Nico Hulkenberg | Paul Menard | Henning Solberg |
| ALMS | ||||
| Points | Miller Motorsport Park, Utah | |||
| 1 | 50 | David Brabham / Simon Pagenaud | ||
| 2 | 40 | Jonny Cocker / Emmanuele Pirro | ||
| 3 | 35 | Greg Pickett / Klaus Graf | ||
| 4 | 32 | Jon Field / Clint Field | ||
| 5 | 30 | Scott Tucker / Christophe Bouchut | ||
| 6 | 28 | Gunnar Jeannette / Christian Zugel | ||
| 7 | 26 | Alex Figge / ? Hyatt | ||
| 8 | 24 | Scott Tucker / Andy Wallace | ||
| 9 | 22 | Jaime Melo / Gianmaria Bruni | ||
| 10 | 20 | Bill Auberlen / Tom Milner | ||
Points Awarded – Week 24
Sebastian has been keeping his own records of the scores and has kindly made them available for all players to see, his tables are presented differently to mine and show a break-down of points awarded to each player’s drivers. You can view the table here.
| Player | F1 | N-Cup | WRC | ALMS | Week 24 | |
| 1 | Jon Waldock | 148 | 0 | 82 | 180 | 410 |
| 2 | Pat W | 155 | 0 | 80 | 140 | 375 |
| 3 | Sebastian | 98 | 5 | 90 | 170 | 363 |
| 4 | RG | 72 | 5 | 136 | 135 | 348 |
| 5 | James | 98 | 27 | 82 | 135 | 342 |
| 6 | Startledbunny | 164 | 5 | 80 | 85 | 334 |
| 7 | The Speedgeek | 92 | 0 | 120 | 104 | 316 |
| 8 | Sean | 98 | 33 | 82 | 100 | 313 |
| 9 | Jackie | 123 | 9 | 115 | 50 | 297 |
| 10 | Burwellian | 129 | 59 | 0 | 0 | 188 |
| 11 | Dank | 0 | 96 | 0 | 0 | 96 |
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Congratulations Jon! This makes up for the rather low score of last week, what a way to come back. I’m next and I’m very happy with that result! Sebastian completes the rostrum.
Scores are a little more spread out than usual this week, that’s partly due there being four events to choose from and partly because one of those was a sportscar race and those who picked both of the winning drivers were rewarded.
Overall Standings – Week 24
| Pos | Pre | +/- | Name | Prior | Wk 24 | Total | Gap |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Sebastian | 6012 | 363 | 6375 | 0 |
| 2 | 2 | 0 | Pat W | 5796 | 375 | 6171 | 204 |
| 3 | 4 | 1 | RG | 5729 | 348 | 6077 | 298 |
| 4 | 3 | -1 | The Speedgeek | 5729 | 316 | 6045 | 330 |
| 5 | 5 | 0 | Sean | 5626 | 313 | 5939 | 436 |
| 6 | 6 | 0 | Jon Waldock | 5352 | 410 | 5762 | 613 |
| 7 | 7 | 0 | Startledbunny | 5200 | 334 | 5534 | 841 |
| 8 | 8 | 0 | James | 5006 | 342 | 5348 | 1027 |
| 9 | 9 | 0 | Burwellian | 4572 | 188 | 4760 | 1615 |
| 10 | 10 | 0 | Jackie | 3529 | 297 | 3826 | 2549 |
| 11 | 11 | 0 | Dank | 2500 | 96 | 2596 | 3779 |
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Jon’s top score this week means he reigns in some of the gap lost last week, scoring nearly 100 points more than the two ahead of him and regaining some space on Startledbunny. I have closed in a little on Sebastian, again making up for a deficit last week.
RG’s 4th-best score this week propels him above The Speedgeek once again, these two have been having a battle for a little while now I think.
Not much other movement, though Jackie is beginning to get within range of Burwellian.
Results sheets will available on the TMR drop.io from Wednesday night.
Coming Up – Week 25
Two events this week:
Le Mans Series – The 1000 km of Portimao is held on Saturday evening and should end in darkness. The surprisingly thin entry list is on the official site, there are just 32 cars which is a significant drop from the usual 50 or so and that’s a shame.
IndyCar Series – IndyCars at Toronto’s Exhibition Place, now considered a traditional event for open-wheel cars despite usually being a war of attrition – that’s what makes it so challenging. It is a short and bumpy street course and completely unforgiving. More info at www.indycar.com
Enjoy the races!
I Watch Too Much Racing 
Sorry about this but I have had the luck in the James-Sebastian like-for-like challenge since suggesting it. Week 24, there were eight drivers we both picked. James also chose Ogier (4th, 32 points) and Stewart (9th, 22), giving 54. I had Sordo (2nd, 40) plus Pickett (3rd, 35), providing 75, a gain of 21. This brings my lead to 104 points (after week 14 I was 115 behind), with James on 5099, myself on 5203.
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IRL:
Dario Franchitti
Will Power
Ryan Briscoe
Justin Wilson
Scott Dixon
LMS:
Olivier Panis
Nicolas Lapierre
Pierre Ragues
Franck Mailleux
Andrea Belicchi
What news on your Grandfather’s recollections of the 1950 Great Britain GP, Patrick?
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LE MANS
Pierre Ragues
Olivier Panis
Nicolas Prost
Jean-Christophe Bouillon
Mike Newton
INDYCAR
Helio Castroneves
Dario Franchitti
Scott Dixon
Will Power
Tony Kanaan
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I haven’t asked and I’m not sure that I will, I’ve always purposely kept the blog away from ‘real life’. I’ll continue to mull it over as a future project though.
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LMS: Vanina Ickx, Nicolas Lapierre, Franck Mailleux, Olivier Panis, Pierre Ragues, Stéphane Sarrazin
IndyCar: Dario Franchitti, Ryan Hunter-Reay, Will Power
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IndyCar:
Will Power
Dario Franchitti
Ryan Briscoe
LMS:
Olivier Panis
Nicolas Lapierre
Tommy Erdos
Nick Leventis
Danny Watts
Jonny Kane
Tommy Erdos
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IndyCar: Will Power, Dario Franchitti, Ryan Briscoe, Ryan Hunter-Reay, Takuma Sato
LMS: Nicolas Prost, Neel Jani, Olivier Panis, Nicolas Lapierre, Franck Mailleux
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It seems that some third drivers have appeared that were not on the ALMS entry-list when I made my initial selection, therefore this amended entry.
IRL:
Dario Franchitti
Will Power
Ryan Briscoe
Justin Wilson
LMS:
Olivier Panis
Nicolas Lapierre
Stéphane Sarrazin
Pierre Ragues
Franck Mailleux
Vanina Ickx
Congratulations, by the way, to Jon on a very impressive win.
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LMS
Olivier Panis
Nicolas Lapierre
Jean-Christophe Bouillion
Danny Watts
Neel Jani
Indycar
Dario Franchitti
Will Power
Justin Wilson
Ryan Briscoe
Alex Tagliani
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I nearly forgot!
IndyCar
Will Power
Dario Franchitti
Justin Wilson
Ryan Briscoe
LMS
Olivier Panis
Nicolas Lapierre
J-C Boullion
Nicolas Prost
Tommy Erdos
Danny Watts
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Woooohoooo
Pierre Ragues
Franck Mailleux
Olivier Panis
Nicolas Lapierre
Nicolas Prost
Neel Jani
Will Power
Dario Franchitti
Scott Dixon
Ryan Briscoe
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And for my fourth IndyCar pick, Scott Dixon. Thank you, Sebastian.
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