TMR Game – Week 35 – I Watch Too Much Racing

Welcome to Week 35 of the Too Much Racing Game!

Quick-Start

Racing this week:

Formula 1 – Singapore;
NASCAR Sprint Cup – Dover;

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

The cutoff is Saturday 25th September at 4.59am BST (British Summer Time = GMT+1), that’s 11.59pm Friday night US EDT.

For the full results from Week 34, 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 34	IndyCar	Sprint Cup	DTM
	Points	Motegi	New Hampshire	Oschersleben
1	50	Helio Castroneves	Clint Bowyer	Paul di Resta
2	40	Dario Franchitti	Denny Hamlin	Bruno Spengler
3	35	Will Power	Jamie McMurray	Mattias Ekstrom
4	32	Ryan Briscoe	Dale Earnhardt Jr	Gary Paffett
5	30	Danica Patrick	Kevin Harvick	Mike Rockenfeller
6	28	Scott Dixon	Jeff Gordon	Alex Premat
7	26	Tony Kanaan	David Reutimann	Jamie Green
8	24	Graham Rahal	Ryan Newman	Martin Tomczyk
9	22	Ryan Hunter-Reay	Kyle Busch	Ralf Schumacher
10	20	Dan Wheldon	Sam Hornish Jr	Susie Stoddart

Points Awarded – Week 34

	Player	IndyCar	N-Cup	DTM	Week 34
1	Pat W	211	40	122	373
2	Jon Waldock	153	75	122	350
3	RG	125	0	202	327
4	Jackie	153	48	122	323
5	Sebastian	144	22	141	307
6	Startledbunny	135	57	112	304
7	Sean	172	28	90	290
8	The Speedgeek	129	51	101	281
9	James	88	79	86	253
10	Burwellian	0	83	98	181
11	Dank	0	123	0	123

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Amazingly I’ve taken a second win in three weeks! As a player I’m really pleased as it shows I’m improving. Clearly the IndyCar strategy was the right one for this week and I’m glad it worked. Jon split his picks to come second, RG used a DTM-heavy entry to place 3rd.

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 34

Pos	Pre	+/-	Name	Prior	Wk 34	Total	Gap
1	1	0	Sebastian	9283	307	9590	0
2	2	0	Pat W	8754	375	9129	461
3	3	0	RG	8606	327	8933	657
4	4	0	Sean	8492	290	8782	808
5	5	0	The Speedgeek	8328	281	8609	981
6	6	0	Jon Waldock	8199	350	8549	1041
7	7	0	Startledbunny	8079	304	8383	1207
8	8	0	James	7020	253	7273	2317
9	9	0	Burwellian	6337	181	6518	3072
10	10	0	Jackie	6052	323	6375	3215
11	11	0	Dank	3569	123	3692	5898

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I’m closing the gap to Sebastian but it’ll take a missed week for me to overhaul him, I’m very pleased to open the gap to RG a little to help secure my 2nd position.

Jon outscored Speedgeek for the second week running and there is a mere 60 points between them, this is the closest battle in the table at the moment. Jackie will likely catch and pass Burwellian in 2 or 3 weeks. Everyone else is doing a solid job, nobody is making massive gains or losses from week to week and it seems to largely balance out over the last few weeks – I’ve not fully analysed it though.

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

Coming Up – Week 35

Formula 1 – Singapore Grand Prix, the only full night race on the F1 schedule although Abu Dhabi races into the night. Rain is due but will it clear before the race starts?

NASCAR Sprint Cup – Dover this week. Current Standings

Enjoy the races!

14 thoughts on “TMR Game – Week 35”

Finally, got a battle on my hands. Was too far off the leading pack, so kind of hoped to slip back a bit 🙂

I’d like to switch back to my last 5+5 selection of NASCAR & F1 drivers please. Could you also remind me who the F1 drivers in that selection were; might want to adapt it.

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