TMR Game – Week 44

Welcome to Week 44 of the Too Much Racing Game!

* This is the final week! *

* Please leave any feedback and ideas for 2011 on this dedicated thread *

Racing this week:

DTM – Shanghai street race (not the F1 circuit);

Usual restrictions apply, pick up to 7 drivers in this lone race.

The cutoff is Saturday 27th November at 4.59am GMT that’s 11.59pm Friday night US EST.

For the full results from Week 43, 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 43	Sprint Cup
	Points	Homestead-Miami
1	50	Carl Edwards
2	40	Jimmie Johnson
3	35	Kevin Harvick
4	32	Aric Almirola …wait, really??
5	30	AJ Allmendinger
6	28	Kasey Kahne
7	26	Ryan Newman
8	24	Tony Stewart
9	22	Matt Kenseth
10	20	Greg Biffle

Points Awarded – Week 43

Player	NASCAR	Week 43
Burwellian	184	184
Jackie	184	184
Sebastian	174	174
Jon Waldock	165	165
RG	165	165
Sean	161	161
Dank	145	145
Pat W	125	125
The Speedgeek	124	124
Startledbunny	122	122
James	92	92

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A tie for the win, and it is between two of closest-matched players! Well done Jackie and Burwellian. They had near-identical picks, the only difference being Burwellian had Jeff Gordon and Jackie had Kyle Busch – normally this would have split them and also guaranteed a pretty strong result, as it was both drivers scored a single point each and guaranteed the tie.

Those same drivers hurt quite a few of us particularly myself, Jon and Startledbunny. Speedgeek was hit by the poor results of Montoya, Logano and McMurray while RG had Logano and Kyle Busch. Jon and RG had some pretty good scores, considering.

I’ve not ranked ties.

Check out Sebastian’s break-down of the scores to see how you got there.

Overall Standings – Week 43

Pos	Pre	+/-	Name	Prior	Wk 43	Total	plyr
1	1	0	Sebastian	12192	174	12366
2	2	0	Pat W	11622	125	11747	619
3	3	0	Sean	11224	161	11385	362
4	4	0	RG	11217	165	11382	3
5	5	0	The Speedgeek	11066	124	11190	192
6	6	0	Jon Waldock	10808	165	10973	217
7	7	0	Startledbunny	10751	122	10873	100
8	8	0	Burwellian	8802	184	8986	1887
9	9	0	Jackie	8756	184	8940	46
10	10	0	James	8750	92	8842	98
11	11	0	Dank	4731	145	4876	3966

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Sebastian’s lead has been unassailable for a while now and still he’s accelerating away, good job. I’m pottering along in 2nd position still.

The real battle is for 3rd and it has tightened up once more as RG outscored Sean by 4 points, to bring the gap to just 3 entering the final round – which way will it go?

All the other positions are pretty much set until you reach the Burwellian/Jackie battle for 8th. Burwellian has opened a real advantage ahead of a single-event week, the only way that place will be lost is if he scores as badly as I did this week and Jackie does well. This has been a fun fight!

Coming Up – Week 44

DTM – The final DTM round of the year is also the final TMRG race of the year. The venue is an as-yet unused street course in Shanghai, I’ve no idea why they aren’t using the multi-million-of-any-currency facility out of town. Being a street course it could be a bit of a crashfest, so who do you pick?

Enjoy the race if you can actually see it, and please do leave your game feedback here!