Hello and welcome to TMR Game Week 12.
This post accepts entries for these races:
– Shanghai (F1);
– Long Beach (IndyCar);
– Long Beach (ALMS);
– Talladega (NASCAR Cup);
Housekeeping
Each week you pick 10 entries with a maximum of 7 of those coming from a single championship. You can have any mix of races from those listed in this post, and you don’t have to use all of them.
See this page for the game rules.
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The deadline for entries is Saturday morning at 6am GMT / 1am ET.
Scores
Top Tens
| Week 11 | F1 | IndyCar | NASCAR Cup | |
| Points | Sepang | Barber | Texas | |
| 1 | 50 | #1 Sebastian Vettel | #12 Will Power | #17 Matt Kenseth |
| 2 | 40 | #4 Jenson Button | #9 Scott Dixon | #33 Clint Bowyer |
| 3 | 35 | #9 Nick Heidfeld | #10 Dario Franchitti | #99 Carl Edwards |
| 4 | 32 | #2 Mark Webber | #29 Marco Andretti | #16 Greg Biffle |
| 5 | 30 | #6 Felipe Massa | #2 Oriol Servia | #27 Paul Menard |
| 6 | 28 | #5 Fernando Alonso | #82 Tony Kanaan | #9 Marcos Ambrose |
| 7 | 26 | #16 Kamui Kobayashi | #3 Helio Castroneves | #6 David Ragan |
| 8 | 24 | #3 Lewis Hamilton | #24 Simon Pagenaud | #48 Jimmie Johnson |
| 9 | 22 | #7 Michael Schumacher | #78 Simona de Silvestro | #Dale Earnhardt Jr |
| 10 | 20 | #15 Paul di Resta | #83 Charlie Kimball | #22 Kurt Busch |
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An odd F1 race with action throughout (apart from at the very front), a crazy IndyCar race with passing galore and a few too many incidents, and a Cup race I didn’t see.
Scores This Week
| Player | F1 | IndyCar | NASCAR Cup | Week 11 |
| The Crooked Cap | 128 | 151 | 59 | 338 |
| RubberGoat | 142 | 125 | 55 | 322 |
| Sean | 134 | 111 | 73 | 318 |
| Maverick | 114 | 176 | 24 | 314 |
| Sebastian X | 114 | 160 | 39 | 313 |
| Felipe Gana | 134 | 134 | 24 | 292 |
| Startledbunny | 115 | 125 | 41 | 281 |
| James | 122 | 128 | 23 | 273 |
| Pat W | 100 | 137 | 31 | 268 |
| The Speedgeek | 152 | 113 | 0 | 265 |
| Jay | 0 | 160 | 103 | 263 |
| Jackie | 134 | 94 | 31 | 259 |
| Dylanpt24 | 74 | 126 | 48 | 248 |
| No Entry Received: 80% of lowest score | ||||
| Ryan | 198 | |||
| Mike Rice | 198 |
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Congratulations to Gavin! Also a well done to Sean for another strong week.
UPDATED – Congratulations and apologies to The Crooked Cap, whose entry was found in the spam bin after publication of the original results. Sorry Gavin, still that’s a good points haul.
Almost everyone took a single-seater strategy this week with a sprinkling of Cup picks. Vettel and Power are no-brainers really, especially Power on a road course. Perhaps the street fight at Long Beach will be different. It was a slight surprise to see Webber drop back. Several were caught up out by Briscoe and Wilson’s low finishes, none more than Speedgeek who also picked Conway – that trio had one of their best opportunities of points all year and they missed out, that’s not bad picking that’s bad luck.
There were no entries from Ryan, Mike or Crooked Cap and that hurts them in a week like this.
Do check Sebastian’s figures here for a detailed look at your results, it is a better guide than taking a stab at the entry list.
Leaderboard
| Pos | Pre | +/- | Name | Prior | Wk 11 | Total | + |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Sean | 1568 | 318 | 1886 | |
| 2 | 3 | 1 | Sebastian X | 1527 | 313 | 1840 | 46 |
| 3 | 2 | -1 | James | 1547 | 273 | 1820 | 20 |
| 4 | 8 | 4 | RubberGoat | 1453 | 322 | 1775 | 45 |
| 5 | 4 | -1 | Pat W | 1496 | 268 | 1764 | 11 |
| 6 | 6 | 0 | Jay | 1483 | 263 | 1746 | 18 |
| 7 | 7 | 0 | Startledbunny | 1463 | 281 | 1744 | 2 |
| 8 | 5 | -3 | Dylanpt24 | 1494 | 248 | 1742 | 2 |
| 9 | 10 | 1 | Felipe Gana | 1358 | 292 | 1650 | 92 |
| = | 13 | 3 | Maverick | 1336 | 314 | 1650 | 0 |
| 11 | 14 | 3 | The Crooked Cap | 1308 | 338 | 1646 | 4 |
| 12 | 11 | -1 | Jackie | 1357 | 259 | 1616 | 30 |
| 13 | 12 | -1 | The Speedgeek | 1338 | 265 | 1603 | 13 |
| 14 | 9 | -5 | Ryan | 1384 | 198 | 1582 | 21 |
| 15 | 15 | 0 | Mike Rice | 1239 | 198 | 1437 | 69 |
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RubberGoat won this week with a good score and as a result he jumps up four places, well done! You overtook me.. we’ll see about that.
UPDATED – After the entry was found in spam, this week’s winner is now The Crooked Cap, and you jump up 3 places to split the VivaF1 pair! Sorry RubberGOat, but at least you still move up four spots!
Sean maintains his lead with his 2nd-place result this week. Sebastian moves back into the top three after beating James.
Dylan drops 3 places after scoring well on IndyCar but less well on the other series.
Maverick’s 3rd this week moves him 3 spots ahead and he now leads the intra-VivaF1 battle! Felipe is also up a spot.
Ryan falls to the back of the group but still has a chance to catch up. I’m less certain if Crooked Cap and Mike can, but I’d hate to lose them from the game and I hope they are able to continue playing.
Upcoming Races
Four eligible races this week plus a whole host of other events, you lucky lucky people.
F1: Chinese Grand Prix, Shanghai
The higher temperatures and demands of Sepang caused an amazing number of pitstops and marbles, Shanghai usually has lower temperatures so will we see the same effects? www.f1.com
IndyCar Series: Grand Prix of Long Beach
The classic street race could be chaos with the double-file restarts, let’s hope the drivers are able to put on a good show whilst avoiding the accidents now they’ve had a couple of events to get used to them. If there are accidents any number of drivers could score well. www.indycar.com
American Le Mans Series: Grand Prix of Long Beach
(Saturday race) There are only two LMP1 cars and two LMP2 cars entered in this race, they should easily beat the other classes unless they run into trouble. If this were one of two races I’d take a stab at an LMPC or GT entrant, but with four races this week that’s something of a gamble – how’s your luck? www.americanlemans.com (go to Racehub)
NASCAR Cup: Talladega
A superspeedway where we may see the two-car tango make a return, as seen at Daytona. I’m going to look back at the Daytona results to see who has a good engine.. www.nascar.com
Good luck!
I Watch Too Much Racing 
Well I don’t think I’ll be trying that tactic again; thankfully those around me don’t generally seem to have done much better though.
I’ll sort my entry out later in the week. Including F1 this time…
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F1
Sebastian Vettel
Lewis Hamilton
Nick Heidfeld
INDYCAR
Will Power
Scott Dixon
Dario Franchitti
NASCAR
Matt Kenseth
Carl Edwards
ALMS
#16 Dyson/Smith – Lola Mazda LMP1
#4 Gavin/Magnussen – Chevrolet GT
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80% chance of rain? Pah!
ALMS:
#6 (Muscle Milk Lola-Aston Martin: Luhr/Graf)
Formula One:
Sebastian Vettel
Lewis Hamilton
Jenson Button
Mark Webber
Fernando Alonso
Nick Heidfeld
Indycar:
Will Power
Dario Franchitti
Tony Kanaan
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Woohoo! That was a fluke eh?
Gonna go for a similar lineup this week:
F1:
1. Vettel
2. Button
3. Hamilton
Indycars:
4. Franchitti
5. Dixon
6. Power
NASCAR
7. Kyle Busch
8. Matt Kenseth
ALMS
9. #6 Aston LMP1
10. #16 Dyson LMP1
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Some varied strategies available. Stick with strong runners in a couple of series, or try and pick podiums finishers in all four and hope for big big points? 200 pts available if you pick the four winners, but not many driver slots available to do it.
F1
Vettel
Webber
Button
Alonso
IndyCar
Power
Franchitti
Kanaan
ALMS
#6 Muscle Milk AMR
#16 Dyson Lola
#06 CORE ORECA
Taking a punt on the LMPC car rather than gamble on a Cup driver at Talladega. I’m not knowledgeable about LMPC other than knowing Jeanette’s name, perhaps Startledbunny has it right taking a GT car?
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** Scoring Update – Entry Found for The Crooked Cap**
Big apologies to The Crooked Cap. For some reason your entry for last week went into my Spam bin and I’ve only just found it. The entry was posted within the time limit, at 12.41am UK time on Saturday morning, so it is eligible to be scored. I will update this post immediately!
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F1: Vettel, Hamilton, Button, Heidfeld
IndyCar: Power, Franchitti, Kanaan
ALMS: #06 Aston, #16 Dyson
NASCAR: Kyle Busch, Montoya
Bit of everything this week, hope nothing fails on me this week.
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Ryan, I count 11 in that entry.
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ALMS:
N°6 Muscle Milk Lola-Aston Martin
N°16 Dyson Lola Mazda
Formula One:
Sebastian Vettel
Lewis Hamilton
Jenson Button
Mark Webber
Fernando Alonso
Nick Heidfeld
Indycar:
Will Power
Dario Franchitti
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Seems I posted a coment but it didn´t appear to show up. :S
Well, will try it again, my picks were:
ALMS
N°6 Muscle Milk Aston Martin
N°16 Dyson Lola Mazda
IndyCar
Will Power
Dario Franchitti
F1
Jenson Button
Mark Webber
Sebastian Vettel
Lewis Hamilton
Fernando Alonso
Nick Heidfeld
Cheers, good luck!
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F1: Alonso, Button, Hamilton, Massa, Vettel, Webber
IndyCar: Franchitti, Power
ALMS: 6, 16
Picking anyone for any Talladega race post-2000 is…not smart.
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F1:
Vettel
Webber
Button
Petrov
IndyCar:
Power
Franchitti
Kannan
Nascar:
Kenseth
Kyle Busch
ALMS:
#6 Aston Martin
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Sorry Pat, maths failure, take out Busch for me please.
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ALMS: Muscle Milk Cytosport
Dyson Mazda
Indycar: Will Power
Simona De Silvestro
Tony Kanaan
F1: Sebastien Vettel
Lewis Hamilton
Mark Webber
NASCAR: Tony Stewart
Dale Jr.
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ALMS:
#6 Aston Martin
Formula One:
Sebastian Vettel
Lewis Hamilton
Jenson Button
Mark Webber
Indycar:
Will Power
Dario Franchitti
Scott Dixon
Ryan Briscoe
Helio Castroneves
NASCAR:
Ha ha ha ha ha!
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F1
Sebastian Vettel
Lewis Hamilton
Jenson Button
Mark Webber
Indycar
Will Power
Dario Franchetti
ALMS
Car #6 and #16
NASCAR
Kyle Busch
Jimmie Johnson
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What happened to my picks??? did I not press send or did they go in the bin?
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okay, here goes again
ALMS
car #6 and 16
Nascar
Kyle Busch and Matt Kenseth (why is nascar such a bad pick this week?)
Indycar
Franchetti and Power
F1
Hamilton, Button, Vettel and Webber
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WordPress seems to be having all kinds of trouble with identifying game entries as spam. I’ve allowed through everything I see, even duplicates. If yours doesn’t appear can you contact me via email or Twitter or something please – followup comments sometimes also go to spam.
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Odd, usually once you’ve been passed to comment you’re okay to keep posting, hence the friendly starter comment from spambots. Running a new version?
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I’m happy with the picks posted above Pat thanks. If the earlier comment does post just ignore it … maybe the router died when I pressed send?
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Ooh, nearly forgot. Better get my entry in so that I can be the one to dictate the 80% mark for those who forgot.
F1:
Sebastian Vettel
Mark Webber
Jenson Button
IndyCar:
Will Power
Dario Franchitti
Marco Andretti
ALMS:
#6 – Cytosport Aston Lola
#16 – Dyson Lola Mazda
#63 – Genoa LMPC
#55 – RLL BMW
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Crap. Picks to the spam, I think. Let me know if they’re not in there, please, Pat, and I can try to recreate them.
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Or, I can just try to do it myself.
F1:
Sebastian Vettel
Mark Webber
Jenson Button
IndyCar:
Will Power
Dario Franchitti
Marco Andretti
ALMS:
#6 – Cytosport Aston Lola
#16 – Dyson Lola Mazda
#63 – Genoa LMPC
#55 – RLL BMW
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I’ve changed the commenting rules by enabling this one:
– Comment author must have a previously approved comment
This might mean everyone’s first comment may go into moderation even if you’ve commented before, but after that things should be a little more smooth.
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Jackie, picking at Talladega is a lottery because it is a 500 mile race (roughly) on a restrictor-plate track. That means ‘the big one’ (taking out 10+ cars in one accident) is never far away. If it happens in a pit sequence, many front runners who dropped back after pitting could be taken out, and if not then it’ll take out anyone running slower now and working to a stronger finish later.
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F1
Vettel
Webber
Button
Indycar
Dario Franchitti
Will Power
Scott Dixon
NASCAR
Carl Edwards
Dale Earnhardt Jr.
ALMS
No.45 Flying Lizard
No.16 Dyson Racing
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F1
Vettel
Hamilton
Webber
Alonso
IndyCar
Power
Hunter-Reay
Franchitti
ALMS
Cytosport Aston Martin
NASCAR
Johnson
Edwards
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Booo… why didn’t I just stick with Jimmie Johnson LOL
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