TMR Game – Week 33

Welcome to Week 33 of the Too Much Racing Game!

Quick-Start

Racing this week:

Formula 1 – Italian Grand Prix;
Le Mans Series – Silverstone 1000km;
NASCAR Sprint Cup – Richmond;
World Rally – Rally Japan;

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

The cutoff is Saturday 11th September at 4.59am BST (British Summer Time = GMT+1), that’s 11.59pm Friday night US EDT.

For the full results from Week 32, 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 32	DTM	Sprint Cup	IndyCar Series
	Points	Brands Hatch	Atlanta	Kentucky
1	50	Paul di Resta	Tony Stewart	Helio Castroneves
2	40	Bruno Spengler	Carl Edwards	Ed Carpenter
3	35	Timo Scheider	Jimmie Johnson	Dan Wheldon
4	32	Miguel Molina	Jeff Burton	Tony Kanaan
5	30	Gary Paffett	Kyle Busch	Dario Franchitti
6	28	Oliver Jarvis	Kurt Busch	Marco Andretti
7	26	Martin Tomczyk	Clint Bowyer	Scott Dixon
8	24	Alex Premat	Ryan Newman	Will Power
9	22	Mike Rockenfeller	Juan Montoya	Danica Patrick
10	20	Jamie Green	Marcos Ambrose	Bertrand Baguette

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Points Awarded – Week 32

	Player	IndyCar	N-Cup	DTM	Week 32
1	Pat W	145	0	167	312
2	Jackie	115	87	108	310
3	Sebastian	62	28	187	277
4	Startledbunny	130	54	90	274
5	RG	69	0	187	256
6	The Speedgeek	112	37	105	254
7	Jon Waldock	86	48	120	254
8	Sean	62	81	102	245
9	James	91	54	77	222
10	Burwellian	0	73	90	163
11	Dank	0	148	0	148

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I congratulate myself! Well done, self. It was a good choice to take RG’s route of avoiding NASCAR for this weekend, although RG himself didn’t fare quite so well. I was actually a little disappointed before I’d worked out the totals because I’d dropped Tony Kanaan in favour of Alex Tagliani based on the qualifying results, yet TK finished 4th and Tags was down in 15th so I lost 17 points. The win softens the disappointment!

Jackie’s recent run of form continues too with a good spread of scores across the series, keep it up and you’ll catch Burwellian in no time.

Not to jinx anyone but over the last three weeks (weeks 30 to 32) Jackie has scored more than anyone else with 919, I’m second on 918 and Sebastian is third on 903, Speedgeek is 4th on 871.

Some were caught out by the low than expected positions of Will Power and Ryan Briscoe in IndyCar, Mattias Ekstrom in DTM and Kevin Harvick in Cup.

For further insight into how the scores were calculated, Sebastian shows them in a different format and you can see the table here. Interesting to see the high efficiency rating of our DTM picks, it seems Spengler and di Resta are essential picks.

Overall Standings – Week 32

Pos	Pre	+/-	Name	Prior	Wk 32	Total	Gap
1	1	0	Sebastian	8721	277	8998	0
2	2	0	Pat W	8167	312	8479	519
3	3	0	RG	8044	256	8300	698
4	4	0	The Speedgeek	7967	254	8221	777
5	5	0	Sean	7938	245	8183	815
6	6	0	Jon Waldock	7636	254	7890	1108
7	7	0	Startledbunny	7492	274	7766	1232
8	8	0	James	6720	222	6942	2056
9	9	0	Burwellian	6082	163	6245	2753
10	10	0	Jackie	5477	310	5787	3211
11	11	0	Dank	3274	148	3422	5576

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No changes in position this week. I closed in a little on Sebastian and for the second week running pulled a big advantage on RG, I’m closing in on securing that 2nd position. RG and The Speedgeek retain their relative points gap. Sean remains close to Speedgeek although has been falling back of late. Startledbunny has outscored Jon for the last five consecutive weeks to varying degrees, could we see a position change there in the not too distant future?

There are 12 weeks left including this one, if we are to close the season with the Asian Le Mans Series race at Shanghai.

Results sheets are now available on the TMR drop.io, apologies for skipping the last few weeks.

Coming Up – Week 33

Formula 1 – From one classic to another, the legendary Autodromo di Monza for the Italian Grand Prix;

Le Mans Series – Silverstone 1000km. The final round of the LMS doubles as the first round of the inaugural ILMC. There’s a small chance I’ll be attending, although after the Belgian trip punched a hole in my finances I may stay back and watch Monza on TV instead. Entry list

NASCAR Sprint Cup – The short oval of Richmond. Current Standings

World Rally – After a year away the WRC returns to Japan. PDF entry list

Enjoy the races!