TMR Game – Week 38

Welcome to Week 38 of the Too Much Racing Game!

Quick-Start

Racing this week:

DTM – Hockenheim;
NASCAR Sprint Cup – Charlotte;

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

The cutoff is Saturday 16th October at 4.59am BST (British Summer Time = GMT+1), that’s 11.59pm Friday night US EDT.

For the full results from Week 37, 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 37	Formula 1	Sprint Cup
	Points	Suzuka	Fontana
1	50	Sebastian Vettel	Greg Biffle
2	40	Mark Webber	Jimmie Johnson
3	35	Fernando Alonso	Kevin Harvick
4	32	Jenson Button	Tony Stewart
5	30	Lewis Hamilton	Jeff Gordon
6	28	Michael Schumacher	Carl Edwards
7	26	Kamui Kobayashi	Matt Kenseth
8	24	Nick Heidfeld	Paul Menard
9	22	Rubens Barrichello	Ryan Newman
10	20	Sebastien Buemi	AJ Allmendinger

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Points Awarded – Week 37

	Player	F1	NASCAR	Week 37
1	Pat W	209	86	295
2	RG	198	86	284
3	Jon Waldock	196	86	282
4	Sean	187	87	274
5	Burwellian	187	86	273
6	Sebastian	211	58	269
7	The Speedgeek	168	95	263
8	Startledbunny	224	38	262
9	Jackie	209	28	237
10	James	0	115	115
11	Dank	0	79	79

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Congratulations to… myself! A narrow win over a tight field. As I think many of us expected there wasn’t a huge difference in scores this weekend so any difference is minor, even so I’m still pleased to take the ‘win’.

The Cup scoring in particular was quite weak when some fancied runners failed to produce a good result – notable Biffle who was picked by 8 people, but also Kenseth and Edwards.
Over in F1, everybody that made an entry (i.e. not James or Dank) picked the top five finishers, except for Speedgeek. He and three others were hit by the retirement of the unfortunate Kubica, who’s retirement cost them a lot of points and the rest of the sight of an interloper mixing it with those fighting for the title.

Check out Sebastian’s break-down of the scores per pick.

Overall Standings – Week 37

Pos	Pre	+/-	Name	Prior	Wk 37	Total	Gap
1	1	0	Sebastian	10325	269	10594	0
2	2	0	Pat W	9751	295	10046	548
3	3	0	RG	9524	284	9808	786
4	4	0	Sean	9466	274	9740	854
5	5	0	The Speedgeek	9306	263	9569	1025
6	6	0	Jon Waldock	9195	282	9477	1117
7	7	0	Startledbunny	8994	262	9256	1338
8	8	0	James	7561	115	7676	2918
9	9	0	Burwellian	6974	273	7247	3347
10	10	0	Jackie	6961	237	7198	3396
11	11	0	Dank	4011	79	4090	6504

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Nothing spectacular in the table as the field generally spaces out again. After being outscored by him last week, Jon is once again closing gradually on Speedgeek. Burwellian has begun to mount a (so far) successful defence against Jackie in the closest battle on the table – and both could soon catch and pass James.

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

Coming Up – Week 38

DTM – Formerly the DTM finale, the second annual visit to Hockenheim is merely the 3rd-from-last event of the 2010 season but this year it has a slight twist – the long Parabolika has been shortened and there’s a cut-through to rejoin in front of the Mercedes-Arena (so skipping that hairpin), this has been done in order to create more laps. In April the top four finishers were Mercedes drivers with four Audis behind, will the balance be different this time? DTM website.

NASCAR Sprint Cup – Charlotte’s second race of the year. In the May’s 600-miler the Busch brothers finished 1st and 3rd with McMurray in the sandwich – can they repeat in this week’s 500 mile race?  Current Standings

Just these two this week, enjoy the races!