TMR Game – Week 41 – I Watch Too Much Racing

Welcome to Week 41 of the Too Much Racing Game!

Be advised: Next week’s post is likely to be late, I am moving to a new flat this week and I don’t expect the internet connection to be restored until the middle of next week (I don’t understand why it takes a week to flick a switch or whatever it is they do). I’ll have access from work but for obvious reasons can’t spend long on this while there, so I will most likely set up a basic thread during lunch on Monday or Tuesday and come back to the results later.
I will also be asking for game feedback soon.

Racing this week:

Formula 1 – Brazilian GP, Interlagos;
Asian LMS – 1000km of Zhuhai, China;
NASCAR Sprint Cup – Ft Worth, Texas;

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

The cutoff is Saturday 6th November at 4.59am GMT (UK is now on GMT), that’s 12.59am Friday night US EDT.

For the full results from Week 40, 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 40	DTM	Sprint Cup
	Points	Adria	Talladega
1	50	Timo Scheider	Clint Bowyer
2	40	Gary Paffett	Kevin Harvick
3	35	Bruno Spengler	Juan Montoya
4	32	Markus Winkelhock	David Reutimann
5	30	Oliver Jarvis	Joey Logano
6	28	Martin Tomczyk	Martin Truex Jr
7	26	Maro Engel	Jimmie Johnson
8	24	Mattias Ekstrom	Jeff Gordon
9	22	Paul Di Resta	Denny Hamlin
10	20	David Coulthard	Brad Keselowski

Points Awarded – Week 40

	Player	DTM	NASCAR	Week 40
1	Burwellian	177	104	281
2	Jackie	167	113	280
3	Startledbunny	177	101	278
4	Pat W	203	72	275
5	Sebastian	217	51	268
6	The Speedgeek	161	102	263
7	RG	189	68	257
8	Jon Waldock	161	85	246
9	Sean	203	42	245
10	James	0	112	112
11	Dank	0	92	92

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Congratulations to Burwellian and Jackie once more! The closest battle on the table is hotting up once more as the protagonists take this week’s results by storm, just a point between them. Startledbunny scored well this week too, and I didn’t do too badly either.

The top three won by picking five DTM and five NASCAR, while 4th and 5th (myself and Sebastian, respectively) went for what we thought was the theoretically better strategy of leaning on DTM since this was a restrictor plate NASCAR track. This had worked in the past.

Speedgeek and Sean keep making entries which ought to reward them but something always seems to happen to stop them getting those points, really bad luck for a while now.

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

Overall Standings – Week 40

*Pos*	*Pre*	+/-	*Name*	Prior	*Wk 40*	*Total*	gap
1	1	0	Sebastian	11213	268	11481	–
2	2	0	Pat W	10651	275	10926	555
3	3	0	RG	10345	257	10602	324
4	4	0	Sean	10264	245	10509	93
5	5	0	The Speedgeek	10091	263	10354	155
6	6	0	Jon Waldock	9884	246	10130	224
7	7	0	Startledbunny	9810	278	10088	42
8	8	0	James	8167	112	8279	1809
9	9	0	Burwellian	7839	281	8120	159
10	10	0	Jackie	7826	280	8106	14
11	11	0	Dank	4381	92	4473	3633

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The battle for 3rd overall is still close despite RG and Sean not scoring well relative to the rest of the competitors. Andy makes back the ground lost last week.

Startledbunny’s podium means he closes further on Jon, just 42 points in it now in what could be an interesting battle to the end of the season.

The tight battle between Burwellian and Jackie went Burwellian’s way by one point this week, there are still only 14 points in it which is nothing in this game.

Results sheets are no longer being uploaded to drop.io because Facebook bought it and they are shutting it down.

Coming Up – Week 41

Note – the final week is Week 44

F1 – I love Interlagos, it may be shabby and bumpy but it is brilliant, the atmosphere pours through the TV screen and it always turns the championship. The Brazilian GP is one of the best of the year. Watch it.

Asian Le Mans – The Asian LMS moves from last year’s venue at Okayama, to the Zhuhai circuit in China. This race has two drivers per car, but it seems like the number of cars entered is forever decreasing. Here is a PDF entry list by the ACO, and a version should hopefully appear as a web page at Planet Le Mans.

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

Enjoy the races!

15 thoughts on “TMR Game – Week 41”

Ah hehe, that’s just amazing Burwellian and I come up with a few different drivers and we end up 1 point apart. Two? weeks to go, can I hack it… doubt it but I’m going to have fun trying. Pity its LMS this week, I don’t have a good record with that.

Welcome to Week 41 of the Too Much Racing Game!

Top Tens

Points Awarded – Week 40

Overall Standings – Week 40

Coming Up – Week 41

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