TMR Game – Week 30 – I Watch Too Much Racing

Welcome to Week 30 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:

Ok.. concentrate:

ALMS – Road America, Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin;
LMS – Hungaroring, Hungary;
IndyCar – Sonoma, Sears Point, California;
NASCAR Cup – Bristol, Tennessee;
DTM – Zandvoort, Netherlands;
WRC – Rally Germany;

Usual restrictions apply, pick up to 7 drivers any individual race up to a maximum of 10 drivers.

The cutoff is Saturday 21st August at 4.59am BST (British Summer Time = GMT+1), that’s 11.59pm Friday night US EDT.

For the full results from Week 29, 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 29

	Week 29	Sprint Cup
	Points	Michigan
1	50	Kevin Harvick
2	40	Denny Hamlin
3	35	Carl Edwards
4	32	Greg Biffle
5	30	Matt Kenseth
6	28	Tony Stewart
7	26	Juan Pablo Montoya
8	24	Martin Truex Jr
9	22	Elliott Sadler
10	20	Joey Logano

Points Awarded – Week 29

	Player	NASCAR
1	Sebastian	199
2	Startledbunny	163
3	James	157
4	Pat W	156
5	Jackie	150
6	Dank	147
7	Sean	141
8	RG	135
9	Burwellian	133
10	Jon Waldock	130
11	The Speedgeek	129

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Amazingly, Sebastian wins again! Congratulations, that’s quite a roll of luck – surely it must end soon?

I was expecting a spread of scores roughly within 20-30 points from top to bottom among the ‘full’ entries, broadly-speaking that’s what we had apart from Sebastian, who picked 4 of the top 5 finishers. Nobody else picked more than three of those, and some only got two. Startledbunny had a particularly good week too.

Sean, Jon, Speedgeek and I were unlucky with Kurt Busch. You’d expect a reasonable finish from him but he only netted a point for us. Similarly, all bar Speedgeek and Dank had Jeff Gordon in their line-ups and his 27th position only awarded 3 points. Kyle Busch, Jeff Burton and arguably Jimmie Johnson also finished lower than you might normally anticipate. Such are the risks in a NASCAR race (Cup or otherwise..).

Sebastian has worked out the scores as well and shows them in a different format, if you would like to see how your drivers performed you can see the table here.

Overall Standings – Week 29

Pos	Pre	+/-	Name	Prior	Wk 29	Total	Gap
1	1	0	Sebastian	7896	199	8095	0
2	2	0	Pat W	7405	156	7561	534
3	3	0	RG	7305	135	7440	655
4	4	0	Sean	7249	141	7390	705
5	5	0	The Speedgeek	7221	129	7350	745
6	6	0	Jon Waldock	7045	130	7175	920
7	7	0	Startledbunny	6737	163	6900	1195
8	8	0	James	6435	157	6592	1503
9	9	0	Burwellian	5623	133	5756	2339
10	10	0	Jackie	4718	150	4868	3227
11	11	0	Dank	2990	147	3137	4958

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The scores were fairly tight with there only being one race although as I said above, not as tight as I had expected. The weekend ahead will have a far greater bearing on the table and you should pick wisely.

Results sheets will available on the TMR drop.io soon.

Coming Up – Week 30

A HUGE week this week, you’re going to need to think about this one:

American Le Mans Series – Road America, arguably the greatest course in North America. Greg Pickett may be out injured but he’s replaced by the excellent Timo Bernhard who should bring the challenge to the Brabham/Pagenaud and Smith/Dyson cars – but will the top cars last or falter? www.americanlemans.com (see the Race Hub for an entry list which should be updated through the week);

Le Mans Series – Hungaroring 1000km, arguably one of the more tedious racetracks in Europe. This is the first visit of this type of sportscar racing to this circuit and it’ll be interesting to find how it plays out. The ORECA Peugeot starts as easy favourite but this is a 1000km race and anything can happen. www.lemans-series.com (see the Entry List);

IndyCar Series – Infineon Raceway, Sears Point, California. Not a fan favourite event, this dusty twisty track is quite flowing and doesn’t really lend itself to passing. www.indycar.com (driver list);

NASCAR Sprint Cup – Bristol Motor Speedway’s 2nd race of the year. For the record, the top five last time: Johnson, Stewart, Kurt Busch, Biffle, Kenseth. www.nascar.com (points);

World Rally – Rally Deutschland, an asphalt rally through military ranges which in some stages feature large concrete blocks on each side of the road which can really ruin your day.. www.wrc.com (entry list on the rally website);

DTM – Zandvoort. The DTM cars look crazy-fast out at the back of the circuit, and there’s the potential for passing into turn one (Tarzan).. but that doesn’t mean it’ll happen in this series. www.dtm.com (points – worth a look);

* IMPORTANT *

I am lucky enough to be going to the Belgian Grand Prix – it’ll be great! – but as I do not return home until late evening on Monday 30th you can expect the results to be a little late that week. You can be sure I will not be compiling any results when in Belgium or on the road home (as I’m the driver)! I will try to have results up the night of Tuesday 31st but I will have returned to a very busy day at my workplace, it being the monthly stock-take – so please be aware they may not appear until Wednesday. Apologies.

There will also be no reminders via email or Twitter next week.

17 thoughts on “TMR Game – Week 30”

More apologies for continuing to hog the luck.

ALMS:
David Brabham
Simon Pagenaud
Timo Bernhard
Klaus Graf

LMS:
Olivier Panis
Nicolas Lapierre
Stéphane Sarrazin

WRC:
Sebastian Loeb

IRL:
Will Power

DTM:
Bruno Spengler