TMR Game – Week 40

Welcome to Week 40 of the Too Much Racing Game!

Two weeks from now, along with the results for the Brazilian GP and the Asian LMS, I plan to post a dedicated thread for game feedback and ideas for next year. Get your thinking caps on!

Racing this week:

DTM – Adria, Italy;
NASCAR Sprint Cup – Martinsville, Virginia;

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

The cutoff is Saturday 30th October at 4.59am BST (British Summer Time = GMT+1), that’s 11.59pm Friday night US EDT.

For the full results from Week 39, 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 39	Formula 1	Sprint Cup	WRC
	Points	Korea	Martinsville	Spain
1	50	Fernando Alonso	Denny Hamlin	Sebastien Loeb
2	40	Lewis Hamilton	Mark Martin	Petter Solberg
3	35	Felipe Massa	Kevin Harvick	Dani Sordo
4	32	Michael Schumacher	Kyle Busch	Jari-Matti Latvala
5	30	Robert Kubica	Jimmie Johnson	Mikko Hirvonen
6	28	Vitantonio Liuzzi	Joey Logano	Matthew Wilson
7	26	Rubens Barrichello	Dale Earnhardt Jr	Khalid al-Qassimi
8	24	Kamui Kobayashi	Carl Edwards	Henning Solberg
9	22	Nick Heidfeld	Jeff Burton	Ken Block
10	20	Nico Hulkenberg	Brad Keselowski	Sebastien Ogier

Good to see Block get a good result at last.

Points Awarded – Week 39

	Player	F1	WRC	NASCAR	Week 39
1	James	92	117	125	334
2	Jackie	133	100	97	330
3	Pat W	110	105	112	327
4	Sebastian	88	145	90	323
5	Sean	128	70	112	310
6	Burwellian	158	70	80	308
7	RG	128	102	62	292
8	Startledbunny	90	137	62	289
9	The Speedgeek	88	102	94	284
10	Dank	0	0	142	142
11	Jon Waldock	0	0	125	125

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Well done James! Back after a bit of a break and on it straight away, impressive. Jackie’s now had three good weeks from the last four, despite maintaining she’s not very good at this. I am pleased to be a close 3rd.

It was a shame Jon didn’t enter. Sebastian has proposed a new carry-over rule for 2011 which carries much less of a penalty and means people won’t fall out of contention by missing a week, we’ll discuss that further in a couple of weeks in the suggestions post.

Every player who entered picked Loeb. Sean, Burwellian, RG and Speedgeek lost the most from the misfortunes of Webber, Vettel and Button, indeed the four would’ve been in the top half of the table rather than the bottom had the results been as they were at the start.

For the avoidance of doubt, had the F1 race awarded half-points as looked possible, I would also have awarded half points.

There are some interesting patterns in the break-down of the scores.

Overall Standings – Week 39

Pos	Pre	+/-	Name	Prior	Wk 39	Total	+Gap
1	1	0	Sebastian	10890	323	11213
2	2	0	Pat W	10324	327	10651	562
3	3	0	RG	10053	292	10345	306
4	4	0	Sean	9954	310	10264	81
5	5	0	The Speedgeek	9807	284	10091	173
6	6	0	Jon Waldock	9759	125	9884	207
7	7	0	Startledbunny	9521	289	9810	74
8	8	0	James	7833	334	8167	1643
9	9	0	Burwellian	7531	308	7839	328
10	10	0	Jackie	7496	330	7826	13
11	11	0	Dank	4239	142	4381	3445

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I have changed the Gap column to reflect the gap between players rather than the gap to the leader, I hope this makes it clearer.

The top two positions are all but secured meaning the race is on for third. Sean outscored RG this week and closes to 81 points.

Jon’s missing entry means Speedgeek no longer has to worry about losing 5th, Jon is now looking over his shoulder at Startledbunny just 74 points behind.

Much of the action is still at the lower end of the table. This week’s winner James opens a gap to the fighting Burwellian and Jackie who had been catching up. Jackie has now closed Burwellian down to 13 points, this battle is on!

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

Coming Up – Week 40

Note – the final week is Week 44

DTM – I can only assume the reappearance of Adria (Wiki map) on the schedule meant something else fell through and they were desparate to bulk up the calendar. I can’t stick the place, much like Oschersleben it is just a series of interconnected hairpins, like an overgrown kart track.

Sprint Cup – The year’s second visit to Talledega.

Enjoy the races… if you can!