Hello and welcome to TMR Game Week 25.
This post accepts entries for these 2 events:
– MotoGP Sachsenring
– NASCAR Cup New Hampshire
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.
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Scores
Results
| Week 24 | F1 | IndyCar | |
| Points | Silverstone | Toronto | |
| 1 | 50 | Fernando Alonso | Dario Franchitti |
| 2 | 40 | Sebastian Vettel | Scott Dixon |
| 3 | 35 | Mark Webber | Ryan Hunter-Reay |
| 4 | 32 | Lewis Hamilton | Marco Andretti |
| 5 | 30 | Felipe Massa | Vitor Meira |
| 6 | 28 | Nico Rosberg | Sebastien Bourdais |
| 7 | 26 | Sergio Perez | Ryan Briscoe |
| 8 | 24 | Nick Heidfeld | JR Hildebrand |
| 9 | 22 | Michael Schumacher | EJ Viso |
| 10 | 20 | Jaime Alguersuari | Simona de Silvestro |
| NASCAR Cup | ALMS | ||
| Points | Kentucky | Lime Rock | |
| 1 | 50 | Kyle Busch | 16 Dyson |
| 2 | 40 | David Reutimann | 6 Muscle Milk AMR |
| 3 | 35 | Jimmie Johnson | 20 Dyson |
| 4 | 32 | Ryan Newman | 63 Genoa |
| 5 | 30 | Carl Edwards | 06 Core |
| 6 | 28 | Matt Kenseth | 89 Intersport |
| 7 | 26 | Brad Keselowski | 56 BMW |
| 8 | 24 | David Ragan | 45 Flying Lizard |
| 9 | 22 | Kurt Busch | 18 Performance |
| 10 | 20 | Jeff Gordon | 05 Core |
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Reutimann? Bourdais?
Player Scores
| Player | NASCAR Cup | ALMS | F1 | IndyCar | Week 24 |
| Sean | 80 | 90 | 117 | 90 | 377 |
| Jackie | – | 90 | 167 | 96 | 353 |
| Maverick | – | 90 | 157 | 100 | 347 |
| The Crooked Cap | 65 | 50 | 135 | 74 | 324 |
| RubberGoat | – | – | 195 | 122 | 317 |
| The Speedgeek | – | 118 | 117 | 82 | 317 |
| Ryan | 15 | 50 | 127 | 125 | 317 |
| Pat W | – | 120 | 117 | 70 | 307 |
| Felipe Gana | – | 40 | 167 | 97 | 304 |
| Startledbunny | 44 | 57 | 107 | 96 | 304 |
| Sebastian X | – | 40 | 167 | 86 | 293 |
| Dylanpt24 | 114 | 90 | 72 | 10 | 286 |
| No Entry Received: 80% of lowest score | |||||
| James | 229 | ||||
| Jay | 229 | ||||
| Mike Rice | 229 |
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Do check the more detailed sheet produced by Sebastian.
What a great result for Sean! He proved himself right and most of us wrong by picking 2 from the top 5 in the Cup race which, Reutimann aside, did have a predictable top ten result.
Good results from Maverick and Jackie who keep saying they don’t know much about racing outside F1, I think you’re getting the hang of it now, keep it up!
A lot of people were hit by the DNF from Will Power, and a couple of people – Sebastian and Dylan – also picked Tony Kanaan so had this been a normal IndyCar street race they’d have scored much more than they actually did.
Interesting to see a three-way tie on 317 through three different strategies. And no I haven’t ranked them, this is just how Excel did it!. The reason I don’t rank them is that my day job is working in accounts where I deal with detail in numbers, when I get home I don’t want to do any more of that, I just want to award people their points and move on.
Leaderboard
| Pos | Pre | +/- | Name | Prior | Wk 24 | Total | + |
| 1 | 2 | 1 | Sean | 5391 | 377 | 5768 | |
| 2 | 1 | -1 | Sebastian X | 5412 | 293 | 5705 | 63 |
| 3 | 3 | 0 | RubberGoat | 5193 | 317 | 5510 | 195 |
| 4 | 4 | 0 | Pat W | 5168 | 307 | 5475 | 35 |
| 5 | 5 | 0 | Felipe Gana | 5070 | 304 | 5374 | 101 |
| 6 | 6 | 0 | The Speedgeek | 5036 | 317 | 5353 | 21 |
| 7 | 8 | 1 | Jackie | 4943 | 353 | 5296 | 57 |
| 8 | 7 | -1 | Maverick | 4948 | 347 | 5295 | 1 |
| 9 | 9 | 0 | Startledbunny | 4920 | 304 | 5224 | 71 |
| 10 | 10 | 0 | Ryan | 4751 | 317 | 5068 | 156 |
| 11 | 11 | 0 | Dylanpt24 | 4748 | 286 | 5034 | 34 |
| 12 | 13 | 1 | The Crooked Cap | 4597 | 324 | 4921 | 113 |
| 13 | 12 | -1 | James | 4632 | 229 | 4861 | 60 |
| 14 | 14 | 0 | Jay | 4163 | 229 | 4392 | 469 |
| 15 | 15 | 0 | Mike Rice | 3647 | 229 | 3876 | 516 |
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Sean scoring well and Sebastian scoring badly mean they switch positions again, with a bit of a buffer between them this time.
Jackie and Mav switch places yet again and are only a point apart! They are closing in on Andy and Felipe and have actually been doing so for 4 weeks now. Time for a fightback?
All else is quiet on the leaderboard save for The Crooked Cap who relegates James a position and sets off in pursuit of Dylan.
Gavin has increased his advantage over me by 10 points..
Upcoming Races
After a few hectic weeks we just have a choice from two races this time.
MotoGP – Sachsenring
The notable aspect of this course is the never-ending series of left-handers which start tight and gradually open out, looping around the opening sequence of corners. I’m not sure it means anything, it’s just odd. Wiki / MotoGP.com
NASCAR Cup: New Hampshire
A flat 1 mile oval, I might’ve been tempted to take more than 3 picks if the ‘companion race’ wasn’t the predictable MotoGP.. and I’ll still think about it. This is the first of two visits, the other being in September. Wiki / NASCAR.com
Good luck!
I Watch Too Much Racing 
For what it is worth Loris Capirossi is returning this weekend, but I don’t reckon anyone will be picking him anyway.
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Rats! I feel I let the Birmingham league down with that. Maybe I should have gone with Dyson, not TK, but I thought the other nine were solid picks.
MotoGP:
Jorge Lorenzo
Casey Stoner
Andrea Dovizioso
Valentino Rossi
Ben Spies
Dani Pedrosa
Nicky Hayden
NASCAR:
Jimmie Johnston
Denny Hamlin
Jeff Gordon
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I don’t have much time to make any picks because I’m on holiday.
MotoGP:
1. Jorge Lorenzo
2. Casey Stoner
3. Andrea Dovizioso
4. Valentino Rossi
5. Ben Spies
6. Marco Simoncelli
7. Cal Crutchlow
NASCAR:
8. Jimmie Johnson
9. Juan Pablo Montoya
10. Jeff Gordon
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MotoGP:
Jorge Lorenzo
Casey Stoner
Andrea Dovizioso
Marco Simoncelli
Ben Spies
Dani Pedrosa
Valentino Rossi
NASCAR:
Jimmie Johnston
Jeff Gordon
Kyle Busch
“The notable aspect of this course is the never-ending series of left-handers… I’m not sure it means anything…”
They should favour Pedrosa’s shoulder funnily enough
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MotoGP
Stoner
Pedrosa
Dovizioso
Rossi
Lorenzo
Spies
NASCAR
Johnson
Edwards
Gordon
Kenseth
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MOTO GP
Casey Stoner
Jorge Lorenzo
Nicky Hayden
Valentino Rossi
Ben Spies
NASCAR
Carl Edwards
Kevin Harvick
Kurt Busch
Matt Kenseth
Dale Earnhardt Jr
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Out of my comfort zone this week, it can only go massively wrong!
MotoGP
Ben Spies
Jorge Lorenzo
Casey Stoner
Dani Pedrosa
Andrea Dovizioso
Marco Simoncelli
NASCAR
Kevin Harvick
Matt Kenseth
Jimmy Johnston
Kyle Busch
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MotoGP
Lorenzo
Stoner
Dovizioso
Rossi
Spies
Cup
Kyle Busch
Edwards
Johnson
Bowyer
Kenseth
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NASCAR Sprint Cup
Kyle Busch
Dale Earnhardt Jr.
Jimmie Johnson
Clint Bowyer
Carl Edwards
Denny Hamlin
MotoGP
Jorge Lorenzo
Ben Spies
Casey Stoner
Andrea Dovizioso
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Only the cool kids get 317…
MotoGP: Lorenzo, Stoner, Simoncelli, Dovizioso, Pedrosa, Hayden
NASCAR: Kyle Busch, Johnson, Harvick, Newman
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MotoGP:
Casey Stoner
Jorge Lorenzo
Ben Spies
Andrea Dovizioso
Marco Simoncelli
Dani Pedrosa
Valentino Rossi
NASCAR Cup:
Kurt Busch
Jimmie Johnson
Kyle Busch
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MotoGP: Ben Spies, Jorge Lorenzo, Casey Stoner, Marco Simoncelli, Valentino Rossi
NASCAR: Kyle Busch, Jeff Gordon, Kevin Harvick, Carl Edwards, Dale Junior
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Cutting it rather close here…
MotoGP: Dovizioso, Lorenzo, Pedrosa, Rossi, Stoner, Spies
NASCAR: Bowyer, Ku. Busch, Stewart, Newman
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Dagnabit, it was all going so well until NASCAR 😦
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