TMR Game 2011 – Week 23

Hello and welcome to TMR Game Week 23.

This post accepts entries for these 4 events:

– NASCAR Cup Daytona
– ILMC/LMS Imola
– MotoGP Mugello
– DTM Norisring

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

Results

	Week 22	NASCAR Cup	Formula 1	MotoGP	IndyCar
	Points	Sears Point	Valencia	Assen	Iowa
1	50	Kurt Busch	Sebastian Vettel	Ben Spies	Marco Andretti
2	40	Jeff Gordon	Fernando Alonso	Casey Stoner	Tony Kanaan
3	35	Carl Edwards	Mark Webber	Andrea Dovizioso	Scott Dixon
4	32	Clint Bowyer	Lewis Hamilton	Valentino Rossi	JR Hildebrand
5	30	Marcos Ambrose	Felipe Massa	Nicky Hayden	Dario Franchitti
6	28	Joey Logano	Jenson Button	Jorge Lorenzo	Ryan Briscoe
7	26	Jimmie Johnson	Nico Rosberg	Colin Edwards	Helio Castroneves
8	24	Martin Truex Jr	Jaime Alguersuari	Hiroshi Aoyama	Ryan Hunter-Reay
9	22	Kevin Harvick	Adrian Sutil	Marco Simoncelli	James Hinchcliffe
10	20	Brad Keselowski	Nick Heidfeld	Tony Elias	Danica Patrick

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A good weekend for ‘occasional’ winners with only Vettel spoiling the pattern.

Player Scores

Player	NASCAR Cup	F1	MotoGP	IndyCar	Week 22
Sebastian X	–	185	118	65	368
Jackie	–	157	118	79	354
Felipe Gana	–	153	68	114	335
Maverick	–	118	140	74	332
RubberGoat	–	118	135	74	327
Dylanpt24	78	50	122	75	325
Pat W	64	85	103	70	322
Ryan	19	110	125	65	319
Sean	57	82	103	65	307
The Crooked Cap	38	113	68	80	299
The Speedgeek	9	113	97	65	284
Startledbunny	9	117	68	74	268
No Entry Received: 80% of lowest score
James					214
Jay					214
Mike Rice					214

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A great week for Sebastian! A late change from Dovizioso to Spies secured an exta 15 points which meant he took this week’s win ahead of a resurgent Jackie. Felipe and Mav had good weeks too. Sean made a change from Kanaan to Dixon and lost five points.

It was clear the right strategy this week was to avoid the Cup race as everybody who skipped it finished ahead of those who didn’t. Part of that was down to a poor result from Juan Pablo Montoya who was running in the top ten until the latter stages before winding up 22nd. Speedgeek and Startledbunny picked Tony Stewart (I nearly did too), he was running 2nd until Vickers took him out in retaliation for earlier contact.

Dylan did only pick 9 entries. I had the choice of leaving it as it was, or going back and ‘topping up’ which has been done before in the game. That means going back to the last full entry featuring a series also racing this week, which was easy with both IndyCar and Cup racing just a week ago, then running through his entry from last week and using the first driver in that list which hadn’t been picked this week. That was Castroneves. Please don’t take advantage of this and purposely leave off drivers or my patience may be tested..

Do check the more detailed sheet produced by Sebastian.

Leaderboard

Pos	Pre	+/-	Name	Prior	Wk 22	Total	+
1	2	1	Sebastian X	4640	368	5008
2	1	-1	Sean	4689	307	4996	12
3	3	0	Pat W	4474	322	4796	200
4	4	0	RubberGoat	4467	327	4794	2
5	5	0	Felipe Gana	4365	335	4700	94
6	6	0	The Speedgeek	4362	284	4646	54
7	7	0	Startledbunny	4310	268	4578	68
8	10	2	Jackie	4198	354	4552	26
9	8	-1	Maverick	4217	332	4549	3
10	9	-1	Ryan	4210	319	4529	20
11	12	1	Dylanpt24	4146	325	4471	58
12	11	-1	James	4196	214	4410	61
13	13	0	The Crooked Cap	3995	299	4294	116
14	14	0	Jay	3727	214	3941	353
15	15	0	Mike Rice	3211	214	3425	516

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Sebastian takes the lead! A big points differential between he and Sean this week means they switch positions at the top, the margin is still only 12 points though and they enjoy a comfortable advantage over the chasing group.

That group is headed by myself but with Rubbergoat now only two points back that might change next time out.

Jackie jumps up to 8th and overtakes Ryan and Mav, whilst Dylan passes the non-entering James.

Upcoming Races

This is the halfway point of the TMRG season and my hasn’t it rolled around quickly? No rest this week, we have four races to choose between.

ILMC / LMS – Imola 6 Hours

I don’t remember a big endurance place taking place at Imola before, not in the current era anyway although I’m probably wrong. It should be a lot of fun though! I think it might be a bit too narrow in places so traffic management will be even more crucial than usual. It also seems quite close to Le Mans to be doing another long race.

ILMC website and PDF Entry List.

MotoGP: Mugello

Italy has another big series this weekend, Misano is always packed to the rafters with fans of both Valentino Rossi and Ducati and now the two are united expect nothing short of hysteria. Could it be enough to push him to a win..?
Dani Pedrosa is expected to return this weekend, it’ll be interesting to see if he’s fully healed.

www.motogp.com

NASCAR Cup: Daytona 400

We’re halfway through the year so the Cup Series will now start to revisit tracks it visited earlier in the year, and where better to start than Daytona itself? 400 miles this time. With the continuation of the ‘two-by-two’ racing expect the drinking term of the race to be ‘dance partner’ – you’ll have a hangover on Monday.

www.nascar.com

DTM – Norisring

One of the shortest street tracks in the world at 1.4 miles, made up by a long start/finish straight and just 5 real corners, there is always a bit of banging and barging around the streets of Nuremberg. Jamie Green has won here for the last three years.

www.dtm.com

Good luck!