TMR Game – Week 34 – I Watch Too Much Racing

Welcome to Week 34 of the Too Much Racing Game!

Quick-Start

Racing this week:

IndyCar Series – Motegi;
NASCAR Sprint Cup – Loudon;
DTM – Oschersleben;

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

The cutoff is Saturday 18th September at 4.59am BST (British Summer Time = GMT+1), that’s 11.59pm Friday night US EDT.

For the full results from Week 33, 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 33	F1	Sprint Cup	WRC
	Points	Monza	Richmond	Japan
1	50	Lewis Hamilton	Denny Hamlin	Sebastien Ogier
2	40	Jenson Button	Kyle Busch	Petter Solberg
3	35	Felipe Massa	Jimmie Johnson	Jari-Matti Latvala
4	32	Sebastian Vettel	Joey Logano	Dani Sordo
5	30	Nico Rosberg	Marcos Ambrose	Sebastien Loeb
6	28	Mark Webber	Clint Bowyer	Mikko Hirvonen
7	26	Nico Hulkenberg	Juan Montoya	Henning Solberg
8	24	Robert Kubica	AJ Allmendinger	Federico Villagra
9	22	Michael Schumacher	Kevin Harvick	Jari Ketomaa
10	20	Rubens Barrichello	Carl Edwards	Martin Prokop

		Le Mans Series
	Points	Silverstone
1	50	Davidson / Minassian
2	40	Lapierre / Sarrazin
3	35	Bernard / Capello
4	32	Barazi / Hancock / Mucke
5	30	Prost / Jani
6	28	Ragues / Mailleux / Ickx
7	26	Mansell / Mansell
8	24	Leventis / Kane / Watts
9	22	Amaral / Pla
10	20	Moreau / Hein

Points Awarded – Week 33

	Player	F1	N-Cup	WRC	LMS	Week 33
1	Startledbunny	91	57	115	50	313
2	Jon Waldock	157	22	80	50	309
3	Sean	107	90	62	50	309
4	RG	163	0	143	0	306
5	Sebastian	47	0	68	170	285
6	Pat W	35	0	30	210	275
7	Jackie	117	40	58	50	265
8	Dank	0	147	0	0	147
9	The Speedgeek	0	107	0	0	107
10	Burwellian	0	92	0	0	92
11	James	0	78	0	0	78

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Well done Startledbunny, and to Jon, Sean and RG who were close behind with some tight scores.

A few of us were hit by the retirement of the McNish/Kristensen Audi, particularly Sebastian and I who picked both drivers. If that had finished 3rd or better we could have got about 320 points and led the week, unfortunately it was not to be.

We all picked Lewis Hamilton so there was no net loss for anyone for his early finish. Jackie was unfortunately unlucky that Raikkonen didn’t complete the final day of the rally and so he scored zero points.

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 33

Pos	Pre	+/-	Name	Prior	Wk 33	Total	Gap
1	1	0	Sebastian	8998	285	9283	0
2	2	0	Pat W	8479	275	8754	529
3	3	0	RG	8300	306	8606	677
4	5	1	Sean	8183	309	8492	791
5	4	-1	The Speedgeek	8221	107	8328	955
6	6	0	Jon Waldock	7890	309	8199	1084
7	7	0	Startledbunny	7766	313	8079	1204
8	8	0	James	6942	78	7020	2263
9	9	0	Burwellian	6245	92	6337	2946
10	10	0	Jackie	5787	265	6052	3231
11	11	0	Dank	3422	147	3569	5714

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Sean’s good score combined with The Speedgeek’s non-entry this week moves the former into 4th, well done Sean! Everything else is static. It is a shame for Startledbunny that his ‘week win’ came as his immediate competition scored nearly as well.

Jackie will overtake Burwellian soon, but can she catch James with just eleven weeks remaining?

Results sheets are now available on the TMR drop.io.

Coming Up – Week 34

IndyCar Series – Off to Motegi in Japan to fulfil a contractual obligation to sole engine supplier Honda. This is a sort of egg-shaped oval in that turns 1 and 2 are tight and turns 3 and 4 are long and wide. It tends not to produce a good race, it didn’t for CART/Champ Car and it hasn’t so far for IRL/IndyCar, although Danica’s fuel-saving win was better than the people who denigrate it suggest;

NASCAR Sprint Cup – The short and flat oval at Loudon, New Hampshire. Current Standings

DTM – Getting close to the end of the DTM season with a visit to Oschersleben, a tight twisty series of hairpins and annoying chicanes. Not a particularly good venue either!

Enjoy the races!

10 thoughts on “TMR Game – Week 34”

Can I catch James… you never know 🙂

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Startledbunny’s entry as he’s away this week, he’ll have a nice surprise on his return!

INDYCAR
Dario Franchitti
Scott Dixon
Will Power
Ryan Briscoe

DTM
Paul Di Resta
Bruno Spengler
Ralf Schumacher

NASCAR
Juan Pablo Montoya
Greg Biffle
Kevin Harvick

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DTM:
Timo Scheider
Gary Paffett
Paul di Resta
Bruno Spengler

IRL:
Dario Franchitti
Tony Kanaan
Scott Dixon
Helio Castroneves

NASCAR:
Jimmie Johnson
Kurt Busch

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I like fuel mileage races a lot in any series especially on tracks that would be fairly generic otherwise (like Motegi is). I denigrate Danica’s win because a fuel-mileage win has nothing to do with DRIVING talent and that one win has caused her to get even more hype which she doesn’t deserve, to be the Anna Kournikova of racing 100%. Can we please send her off to NASCAR and put well, anybody else in the #7 car? The answer is of course no, because the team will be unable to find sponsors with a real (albeit unmarketable) driver in the ride.

IndyCar: Briscoe, Castroneves, Dixon, Franchitti, Hunter-Reay
NASCAR: Ku. Busch, Johnson, Stewart
DTM: di Resta, Spengler

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IndyCar:
Will Power
Dario Franchitti
Scott Dixon
Tony Kanaan

NASCAR Cup:
Jimmie Johnson
Denny Hamlin
Tony Stewart

DTM:
Timo Scheider
Gary Paffett
Paul di Resta

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Power
Franchitti
Dixon
Castroneves

Denny Hamlin
Jimmie Johnson
Kevin Karvick

Spengler
Di Resta
Paffett

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IndyCar
Franchitti
Dixon
Briscoe
Power
Castroneves
Kanaan

DTM
Spengler
Di Resta
Paffett

Cup
Denny Hamlin

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Right, 677 points to 0 start now.

IndyCar: Will Power, Dario Franchitti, Ryan Hunter-Reay, Scott Dixon
DTM: Bruno Spengler, Paul di Resta, Gary Paffett, Mattias Ekstrom, Jamie Green, Timo Scheider

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