TMR Game – Week 31

Welcome to Week 31 of the Too Much Racing Game!

Here are all the results from last weekend’s racing. Please note these have been produced in a bit of a hurry while I prepare for my F1 holiday, apologies for any errors and I will correct them upon my return. There will be no reminders via email or Twitter this week, it is your responsibility to enter.

You should not expect to see next week’s post until Wednesday, though I’ll do my best to get it done on Tuesday.

Quick-Start

Racing this week:

F1 – Belgian Grand Prix, Spa-Franchorchamps, Belgium;
IndyCar – Chicagoland Speedway, Illinois, USA;
ALMS – Mosport, Canada;
(there is NO Cup race – thought I’d point it out as it is unusual)

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

The cutoff is Saturday 28th August at 4.59am BST (British Summer Time = GMT+1), that’s 11.59pm Friday night US EDT.

For the full results from Week 30, 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!

	Week 30	Le Mans Series	IndyCar Series	World Rally
	Points	Hungaroring	Sonoma	Germany
1	50	Leventis / Watts / Kane	Will Power	Sebastien Loeb
2	40	Amaral / Pla	Scott Dixon	Dani Sordo
3	35	Lahaye / Nicolet	Dario Franchitti	Sebastien Ogier
4	32	Erdos / Newton / Collins	Ryan Briscoe	Jari-Matti Latvala
5	30	Ojjeh / Greaves / Ebbesvik	Helio Castroneves	Petter Solberg
6	28	Pirri / Cioci / Perazinni	Justin Wilson	Matt Wilson
7	26	L.Mansell / G,Mansell	Tony Kanaan	Kimi Raikkonen
8	24	Prost / Jani	Ryan Hunter-Reay	Khalid al-Qassimi
9	22	Moreau / Hein	Graham Rahal	M. van Eldik
10	20	Lieb / Lietz	Alex Lloyd	Patrik Sandell
		American Le Mans Series	Sprint Cup	DTM
	Points	Road America	Bristol	Zandvoort
1	50	Cocker / Drayson	Kyle Busch	Gary Paffett
2	40	Bernhard / Graf	David Reutimann	Paul di Resta
3	35	Brabham / Pagenaud	Jamie McMurray	Timo Scheider
4	32	Dyson / Smith	Clint Bowyer	Mattias Ekstrom
5	30	Jeannette / Julian	Kasey Kahne	Miguel Molina
6	28	Gonzalez / Diaz	Ryan Newman	Oliver Jarvis
7	26	Muller / Hand	Juan Montoya	Bruno Spengler
8	24	Bergmeister / Long	Greg Biffle	Martin Tomczyk
9	22	Beretta / Gavin	Kurt Busch	Ralf Schumacher
10	20	Magnussen / O’Connell	Matt Kenseth	Jamie Green

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Points Awarded – Week 30

	Player	NASCAR	IndyCar	WRC	DTM	ALMS	LMS	Week 30
1	RG	1	74	85	168	0	0	328
2	Jackie	17	85	50	90	70	0	312
3	Startledbunny	18	125	85	66	0	0	294
4	The Speedgeek	22	78	50	35	100	3	288
5	Pat W	0	85	0	26	150	26	287
6	Sebastian	0	50	50	26	150	3	279
7	Sean	51	85	50	0	70	9	265
8	Burwellian	80	0	0	96	70	0	246
9	Jon Waldock	17	85	50	0	0	16	168
10	Dank	137	0	0	0	0	0	137
11	James	128	0	0	0	0	0	128

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Well done RG! A great result for Jackie too.

The demise of the ORECA Peugeot meant those drivers only scored a point each rather than the 50 expected and it cost several players badly, particularly Sebastian and The Speedgeek who had chosen all three drivers. My decision to opt out of Cocker (who won) and go for Prost (who was 8th) cost me points. This meant RG’s strategy of avoiding the potentially risky sportscar picks paid off.

Jon suffered especially badly from retirements this weekend and almost all from cars you would expect to finish in the top ten in their series – the Peugeot, the Ragues/Mailleux car, Jimmie Johnson and Mikko Hirvonen all should’ve scored well.

Many other notable events happened unfortunately I’m somewhat pushed for time today and can’t run through them all. For further insight into how the scores were calculated, Sebastian shows them in a different format and you can see the table here.

Overall Standings – Week 30

Pos	Pre	+/-	Name	Prior	Wk 30	Total	Gap
1	1	0	Sebastian	8095	279	8374	0
2	2	0	Pat W	7561	287	7848	526
3	3	0	RG	7440	328	7768	606
4	4	0	Sean	7390	265	7655	719
5	5	0	The Speedgeek	7350	288	7638	736
6	6	0	Jon Waldock	7175	168	7343	1031
7	7	0	Startledbunny	6900	297	7197	1177
8	8	0	James	6592	128	6720	1654
9	9	0	Burwellian	5756	246	6002	2372
10	10	0	Jackie	4868	312	5180	3194
11	11	0	Dank	3137	137	3274	5100

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RG is once again catching me, I’m going to have to pick well this week. The battle between Speedgeek and Sean has also closed in.

Results sheets will available on the TMR drop.io next week.

Coming Up – Week 31

Formula 1 – Belgian Grand Prix! One of the best races and racecourses of the entire season – and I’m going! Surely you don’t need me to tell you about drivers, form, etc.

American Le Mans Series – Back-to-back events for the ALMS with a visit to Mosport in Canada, a fast but bumpy course. Note the driver stepping in alongside Klaus Graf this weekend is Romain Dumas, not Timo Bernhard. www.americanlemans.com (see the Race Hub for an entry list which should be updated through the week);

IndyCar Series – Chicagoland Speedway is one of the best oval races of the season. Just like any other sort of racing, ovals can have classics and duds – this is a classic. Unfortunately some of the others coming up to close out the season are duds.  www.indycar.com (driver list);

* 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 next week.

There will be no reminders via email or Twitter this week, it is your responsibility to enter.

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.