TMR Game – Week 39

Welcome to Week 39 of the Too Much Racing Game!

Quick-Start

Racing this week:

* Note – there are six weeks to go including this one *

Formula 1 – Korean GP, Mokpo, Yeongam;
NASCAR Sprint Cup – Martinsville, Virginia;
World Rally – Rallye de Espana, Spain;

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 38, 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 38 DTM Sprint Cup
Points Hockenheim Charlotte
1 50 Paul di Resta Jamie McMurray
2 40 Timo Scheider Kyle Busch
3 35 Mike Rockenfeller Jimmie Johnson
4 32 Gary Paffett Denny Hamlin
5 30 Martin Tomczyk Greg Biffle
6 28 Oliver Jarvis Matt Kenseth
7 26 Susie Stoddart Joey Logano
8 24 Jamie Green Kevin Harvick
9 22 Maro Engel David Reutimann
10 20 Bruno Spengler David Ragan

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Points Awarded – Week 38

Player DTM NASCAR Week 38
1 Jackie 159 139 298
2 Sebastian 214 82 296
3 Burwellian 160 124 284
4 Jon Waldock 184 98 282
5 Pat W 184 94 278
6 Startledbunny 133 132 265
7 RG 184 61 245
8 The Speedgeek 177 61 238
9 Sean 144 70 214
10 James 90 67 157
11 Dank 0 149 149

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Well done Jackie! Also to Sebastian just two points behind.

The closest battle on the table is Jackie vs Burwellian and here they are finishing 1st and 3rd this week, brilliant!

Sean and RG were hit by two of their Cup picks only scoring a point apiece, similarly Speedgeek only picked up three points from two drivers. Normally you’d expect Kahne, Newman and Kurt Busch to reach the top fifteen at least.

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

Overall Standings – Week 38

Pos Pre +/- Name Prior Wk 38 Total Gap
1 1 0 Sebastian 10594 296 10890 0
2 2 0 Pat W 10046 278 10324 566
3 3 0 RG 9808 245 10053 837
4 4 0 Sean 9740 214 9954 936
5 5 0 The Speedgeek 9569 238 9807 1083
6 6 0 Jon Waldock 9477 282 9759 1131
7 7 0 Startledbunny 9256 265 9521 1369
8 8 0 James 7676 157 7833 3057
9 9 0 Burwellian 7247 284 7531 3359
10 10 0 Jackie 7198 298 7496 3394
11 11 0 Dank 4090 149 4239 6651

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Jackie is now just 35 points behind Burwellian following this week’s high scores from the pair. The other one to watch is Jon who is now 48 points behind The Speedgeek, and closing almost every week.

The only other pair less than 100 points apart are RG and Sean with a gap which widened to 99 points this week.

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

Coming Up – Week 39

F1 – The all-new venue in South Korea has famously struggled to finish construction on time, at the time of writing it seems as though the track itself is ready and little else is. I’m not expecting a lot of fans even if the grandstands are finished. The track layout itself looks, frankly, awful. I really hope this race is better than it looks like it will be.

Sprint Cup – Another visit to Martinsville, the little ‘paperclip’ oval.

WRC – The penultimate round of the WRC is a fast asphalt rally based near Barcelona.. so just let me know who other than Loeb you’ll be picking.

Enjoy the races!

20 thoughts on “TMR Game – Week 39”

  1. Many congratulations, Jackie.

    This is a provisional entry I will probably amend after seeing how F1 Free-Practice and Friday’s WRC goes.

    F1:
    Mark Webber
    Fernando Alonso
    Sebastian Vettel
    Jenson Button
    Lewis Hamilton

    WRC:
    Sebastian Loeb
    Dani Sordo

    NASCAR:
    Jimmie Johnson
    Jeff Gordon
    Denny Hamlin

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  2. Oh cool, my first week at the top 🙂 Totally a fluke I promise you. I bet now I’ll have a very bad week, that always seems to happen after I’ve done okay. With only 35 points between Burwellian and I one good or bad week could seasl the final result so I really must get my thinking cap on before I make my picks.

    It’s been a great game Pat. At the start of the season I had absolutely no idea of what the different series were or who the drivers were. I have learned so much so thanks to you all, I aim to be more on my game next season!

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  4. F1
    Sebastian Vettel
    Mark Webber
    Lewis Hamilton
    Robert Kubica

    NASCAR
    Kyle Busch
    Jimmie Johnson

    WRC
    Sebastian Loeb
    Jari Matti Latvala
    Sebastian Ogier
    Dani Sordo

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  6. F1:
    Mark Webber
    Sebastian Vettel
    Fernando Alonso
    Jenson Button

    WRC:
    Sebastien Loeb
    Sebastien Ogier
    Jari-Matti Lattvala

    NASCAR Cup:
    Jimmie Johnson
    Denny Hamlin
    Kurt Busch

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  8. This is so hard because my competitive streak has kicked in and I really want to bring the fight to Burwellian. Now, tactics tactics what do I go for, a 5, 3, 2 mix or something more even?

    Okay, here goes.

    Formula One
    Kubica (he’s going to spoil someone’s chance at the title)
    Hamilton
    Alonso
    Vettel

    Nascar
    Kyle Busch
    Jimmie Johnson
    Kevin Harvick

    WRC
    Sebastien Loeb
    Mika Hirvonen
    Sebastien Ogier

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  11. Nice one last week Jackie; really tight now. I’ll try and put up a good defence, but… we’ll see how it turns out I guess. I’m def stronger on F1 than on the other series though!

    Might change this after FP3, but just so I’ve got something in place. Still not convinced about rain during the race to be honest; Ian Fergusson seems to be saying rain overnight, potentially clearing with possible showers for the race.

    F1
    – Webber
    – Vettel
    – Alonso
    – Hamilton

    NASCAR
    – Johnson
    – Hamlin
    – Kenseth
    – Biffle

    WRC
    – Loeb
    – Ogier

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  13. Hehe I’m tempted to put in Webber but I have this strange feeling that he’s not figuring this weekend thereby keeping the championship battle open. I’m hoping for a bit of rain to really spice up the action

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  14. …and actually, I think I want Rob Kubica too. Knowing me, these changes will probably bite me, but ah well…

    F1
    – Webber
    – Vettel
    – Alonso
    – Hamilton
    – Button
    = Kubica

    NASCAR
    – Johnson
    – Hamlin

    WRC
    – Loeb
    – Ogier

    Only just noticed Oliver’s 6th place on last weeks DTM results; used to live around the corner from him, always glad to see him up there. 🙂

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  15. The way this season’s gone, it’d not surprise me if something conspires against Webber to keep the championship open! Some rain would be interesting, but I’m not convinced yet of a deluge during the race. Forecast is touch and go though, and it should rain at some point on Sunday at the very least.

    Part of me is tempted to mirror Jackie’s selection merely to hold the gap as is ’til the end of the season, but that just strikes me as no fun 🙂

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  16. Apologies for being looser with this than a cheap

    NASCAR
    Jeff Gordon
    Jimmie Johnson
    Denny Hamlin
    Kevin Harvick

    WRC
    Dani Sordo
    Sebastien Loeb
    Jari-Matti Latvala

    F1
    Mark Webber
    Felipe Massa
    Fernando Alonso

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  17. I am in a real quandary over this one. I think rain will be a factor in Korea, but should not be heavy. The pecking order in the WRC is so far on mostly gravel, with the rest of the event on asphalt. Normally I would avoid the uncertainty that is NASCAR but Martinsville in recent years has given very predictable results for certain drivers; however will the new cars for this season effect that? This should be interesting.

    F1:
    Jenson Button
    Lewis Hamilton
    Robert Kubica

    WRC:
    Sébastien Loeb
    Dani Sordo
    Petter Solberg
    Sébastien Ogier

    NASCAR:
    Jimmie Johnson
    Jeff Gordon
    Denny Hamlin

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  18. Carry-overs:

    Dank

    NASCAR:
    Jimmie Johnson
    Dale Earnhardt Jr
    Kyle Busch
    Greg Biffle
    AJ Almendinger
    Carl Edwards
    Juan Pablo Montoya

    Jon

    (DTM:
    Spengler
    Di Resta
    Paffett
    Ekström
    Scheider
    Green)

    NASCAR:
    Jimmie Johnson
    Denny Hamlin
    Kevin Harvick
    Jeff Gordon

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  20. Ah, my gut feeling didn’t stretch as far as Vettel though 😦 Shame, I really wanted Seb to win. I don;t think I have done at all well with my other picks. I hear Kevin Harvick has never been in the top 5 at that circuit and Ogier had a bit of a bump in the rallying…. argh!

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