Hello and welcome to TMR Game Week 14.
After a week’s break we are back in action, and this post accepts entries for:
– MotoGP Estoril
– IndyCar Sao Paulo (street course)
– NASCAR Cup Richmond
– DTM Hockenheim
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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Scores
With no racing this past weekend, we move straight into a reminder of the overall leaderboard.
Leaderboard
| Pos | Pre | +/- | Name | Prior | Wk 12 | Total | + |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Sean | 1886 | 356 | 2242 | |
| 2 | 2 | 0 | Sebastian X | 1840 | 330 | 2170 | 72 |
| 3 | 5 | 2 | Pat W | 1764 | 337 | 2101 | 69 |
| 4 | 3 | -1 | James | 1820 | 277 | 2097 | 4 |
| 5 | 4 | -1 | RubberGoat | 1775 | 281 | 2056 | 41 |
| = | 8 | 2 | Dylanpt24 | 1742 | 314 | 2056 | 0 |
| 7 | 7 | 0 | Startledbunny | 1744 | 272 | 2016 | 40 |
| 8 | 6 | -2 | Jay | 1746 | 260 | 2006 | 10 |
| 9 | 9 | 0 | Felipe Gana | 1650 | 346 | 1996 | 10 |
| 10 | 11 | 1 | The Crooked Cap | 1646 | 341 | 1987 | 9 |
| 11 | 10 | -1 | Maverick | 1650 | 332 | 1982 | 5 |
| 12 | 12 | 0 | Jackie | 1616 | 304 | 1920 | 62 |
| 13 | 13 | 0 | The Speedgeek | 1603 | 295 | 1898 | 22 |
| 14 | 14 | 0 | Ryan | 1582 | 311 | 1893 | 5 |
| 15 | 15 | 0 | Mike Rice | 1437 | 208 | 1645 | 248 |
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Upcoming Races
There are four races this weekend which count towards the game, this is a great chance to put some high scores on the board.
MotoGP: Estoril, Portugal
This could prove to be a fun race, however the long front straight may mean we only see one team up front. Have Ducati and Yamaha been able to catch Honda? What difference can Rossi make here? www.motogp.com
IndyCar Series: Streets of Sao Paulo
From a long-time classic street race to a newcomer, the streets of the city of Sao Paulo host their second ever IndyCar race. Last year was chaotic, what fun will this year’s event bring? www.indycar.com
DTM: Hockenheim
The first DTM race of the season takes place at the Hockenheimring. For the second year running the cars are largely unchanged as the series takes a cost-cutting break in the previously-normal annual upgrades, ahead of the all-new 2012 car. I’m sure some work has been done though so past form may not be accurate, how are Mercedes and Audi matched this season? www.dtm.com and driver list. Generally it is better to pick drivers in the more recent (2009) cars rather than those a year older.. but not always.
NASCAR Cup: Richmond
A track where the driver should be able to make some sort of difference, but I still wonder whether I’ll actually pick from this pool this week.. www.nascar.com
I Watch Too Much Racing 
MotoGP: Stoner, Lorenzo, Rossi, Spies
Indycar: Power, Kanaan, Ryan Hunter Reay
NASCAR: Kyle Busch, Denny Hamlin, Kevin Harvick
DTM: Uh…… we don’t even get DTM race televised here until the winter…
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There are one or two drivers with a history of very solid results at Richmond, but then I thought that was the case at Martinsville until the last safety jumbled it up. It would have to be a very long winter before I would want to watch the DTM, but I will be interested to find out how Green and Rockenfeller do now they have been promoted to ’09 cars, with di Resta moving to F1 and Tomcyzk being demoted.
Indycar:
Will Power
Dario Franchitti
DTM:
Bruno Spengler
Gary Paffett
Timo Scheider
Jamie Green
MotoGP:
Jorge Lorenzo
Dani Pedrosa
Casey Stoner
Andrea Dovizioso
Snooker:
Mark Williams
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Heheh! If the racing championships get too predictable we could offer one bonus point for picking the winner of a non-racing sport..
On a serious note though, DTM just doesn’t seem to feature any passing at all and even the strategy seems to have little effect. I stopped watching it. I have half a mind to drop it from the game next year.
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MOTO GP
Jorge Lorenzo
Dani Pedrosa
Nicky Hayden
NASCAR
Greg Biffle
Matt Kenseth
INDYCAR
Dario Franchitti
Will Power
Ryan Briscoe
DTM
Bruno Spengler
Gary Paffett
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IndyCar
– Will Power
– Dario Franchitti
– Tony Kanaan
– Mike Conway
MotoGP
– Casey Stoner
– Andrea Dovizioso
– Dani Pedrosa
DTM
– Gary Paffett
– Timo Scheider
NASCAR Cup
– Marcos Ambrose (just to do something different..)
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IndyCar: Conway, Franchitti, Power
MotoGP: Lorenzo, Pedrosa, Stoner
DTM: Paffett, Spengler
Cup: Ky. Busch, Hamlin
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MotoGP
Pedrosa
Lorenzo
Stoner
IndyCar
Power
Franchitti
DTM
Spengler
Green
NASCAR
Johnson
Hamlin
Kyle Busch
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MotoGP
Dani Pedrosa
Casey Stoner
Indycar
Dario Franchitti
Will Power
Mike Conway
DTM
Gary Paffett
Bruno Spengler
NASCAR
Dale Jr. (this is not a typo)
Denny Hamlin
Jimmie Johnson
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Rescue mission starts here…
MotoGP: Stoner, Pedrosa, Lorenzo
IndyCar: Franchitti, Power, Kanaan, Hunter-Reay
DTM: Spengler
NASCAR: Hamlin, Kyle Busch
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IndyCar
Dario Franchitti
Will Power
Tony Kanaan
Moto GP
Jorge Lorenzo
Dani Pedrosa
Casey Stoner
Andrea Dovizioso
NASCAR
Denny Hamlin
Kyle Busch
DTM
Gary Paffett
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MotoGP:
1. Stoner
2. Pedrosa
3. Rossi
4. Lorenzo
IndyCar
5. Power
6. Franchitti
7. Dixon
8. Briscoe
DTM
9. Gary Paffett
10. Bruno Spengler
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MotoGP
Casey Stoner
Dani Pedrosa
Velentino Rossi
Jorge Lorenzo
IndyCar
Dario Franchitti
Will Power
NASCAR
Jimmie Johnson
Matt Kenseth
DTM
Gary Paffett
Bruno Spengler
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MotoGP:
Jorge Lorenzo
Dani Pedrosa
Casey Stoner
IndyCar:
Will Power
Ryan Briscoe
Scott Dixon
DTM:
Gary Paffett
Timo Scheider
Jamie Green
NASCAR Cup:
Jimmie Johnson
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