TMR Game – Week 37

Welcome to Week 37 of the Too Much Racing Game!

Quick-Start

Racing this week:

Formula 1 – Japanese GP, Suzuka;
NASCAR Sprint Cup – California Speedway, Fontana;

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

The cutoff is Saturday 9th October at 4.59am BST (British Summer Time = GMT+1), that’s 11.59pm Friday night US EDT.

For the full results from Week 36, 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 36	IndyCar	Sprint Cup	WRC
	Points	Homestead-Miami	Kansas	France
1	50	Scott Dixon	Greg Biffle	Sebastien Loeb
2	40	Danica Patrick	Jimmie Johnson	Dani Sordo
3	35	Tony Kanaan	Kevin Harvick	Petter Solberg
4	32	Ryan Briscoe	Tony Stewart	Jari-Matti Latvala
5	30	Helio Castroneves	Jeff Gordon	Mikko Hirvonen
6	28	Vitor Meira	Carl Edwards	Sebastien Ogier
7	26	Marco Andretti	Matt Kenseth	Federica Villagra
8	24	Dario Franchitti	Paul Menard	Matthew Wilson
9	22	Dan Wheldon	Ryan Newman	Henning Solberg
10	20	Graham Rahal	AJ Allmendinger	Patrik Sandell
		ALMS
	Points	Petit Le Mans
1	50	Lamy / Montagny / Sarrazin
2	40	Gene / Wurz / Davidson
3	35	Capello / Kristensen / McNish
4	32	Brabham / Pagenaud / Franchitti
5	30	Field / Field / Devlin
6	28	Fassler / Lotterer / Treluyer
7	26	Graf / Maassen / Luhr
8	24	Drayson / Cocker
9	22	Nicolet / Da Rocha / Lafargue
10	20	Gavin / Magnussen / Collard

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Points Awarded – Week 36

	Player	ALMS	IRL	NASCAR	WRC	Week 36
1	Sebastian	295	24	0	90	409
2	The Speedgeek	190	104	18	82	394
3	Sean	245	24	58	50	377
4	Jackie	225	29	0	80	334
5	Jon Waldock	250	29	0	50	329
6	Startledbunny	75	59	40	150	324
7	Pat W	204	29	0	78	311
8	RG	0	160	0	140	300
9	James	0	96	106	0	202
10	Burwellian	0	0	181	0	181
11	Dank	0	0	157	0	157

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Congratulations Sebastian – what a score! 409 is just two points shy of matching the record for the year to date. Well done too to The Speedgeek for a superb score to finish a relatively close second. Sean was a creditable 3rd a little way back. All three can pat themselves on the back, nobody else got remotely near them. Well done!

Once again the presence of both Peugeot and Audi – and with 3 drivers per car – at a major endurance race was the key to unlocking some very high scores. Both Sebastian and Speedgeek picked the three winning drivers from Petit Le Mans for the full 150 points, while Sean, Jon and myself picked two of them. Only Jackie picked all three 2nd-placed drivers. Sebastian, Sean and Jackie each picked the three 3rd-placed drivers in that race for 105 points. Jon picked two drivers from each of the podium cars resulting the 2nd-best ALMS score this week.

Some of the other scores weren’t bad in themselves, in any other week they’d be considered good scores.

Speedgeek and RG picked Dixon to win the IndyCar, he also appeared in James’ line-up but that was a carryover entry. Everybody correctly guessed Loeb as the winner of the rally. Nobody picked Biffle for the Cup race. Speaking of carryovers and NASCAR, Burwellian’s score was very impressive in the circumstances.

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 36

Pos	Pre	+/-	Name	Prior	Wk 36	Total	Gap
1	1	0	Sebastian	9916	409	10325	0
2	2	0	Pat W	9440	311	9751	574
3	3	0	RG	9224	300	9524	801
4	4	0	Sean	9089	377	9466	859
5	5	0	The Speedgeek	8912	394	9306	1019
6	6	0	Jon Waldock	8866	329	9195	1130
7	7	0	Startledbunny	8670	324	8994	1331
8	8	0	James	7359	202	7561	2764
9	9	0	Burwellian	6793	181	6974	3351
10	10	0	Jackie	6627	334	6961	3364
11	11	0	Dank	3854	157	4011	6314

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Well done for first passing the 10k mark and significantly extending your lead, Sebastian.

Sean and Speedgeek regain a large chunk of lost ground, Sean is now only 58 points behind RG and Speedgeek opens a gap to Jon. Jackie is on the cusp over beating Burwellian for that 9th spot. We may see some position changes soon.

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

Coming Up – Week 36

Formula 1 – I love Suzuka, it was a shame last year’s race wasn’t as good as many have been in the past and I’m sure it was just an abberation. For us in the UK the race is at about 5am, I have every intention of getting up for it. I can’t say I’ll be so committed for Korea in a few weeks.

NASCAR Sprint Cup – California Speedway, better known to many of us as Fontana. With only two races this week you’ll need at least 3 picks from here.  Current Standings

Enjoy the races!