TMR Game 2011 – Week 34

Hello and welcome to TMR Game Week 34.

This post accepts entries for these 5 events:

– MotoGP Aragon
– IndyCar Motegi (road course)
– ALMS Laguna Seca (4 hrs)
– NASCAR Cup Chicagoland
– DTM Oschersleben

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 33	F1	ILMC/LMS	NASCAR Cup
Points	Monza	Silverstone	Richmond
50	Vettel	#7 Peugeot	Harvick
40	Button	#1 Audi	Edwards
35	Alonso	#24 Oak Pescarolo	J.Gordon
32	Hamilton	#13 Rebellion Lola	Ragan
30	Schumacher	#15 Oak Pescarolo	Kurt Busch
28	Massa	#16 Pescarolo	Kyle Busch
26	Alguersuari	#2 Audi	Stewart
24	di Resta	#8 Peugeot	Newman
22	Senna	#007 Lola Aston Martin	Hamlin
20	Buemi	#41 Greaves Zytek	Martin

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Player Scores

Player	F1	ILMC	NASCAR	Week 33
Startledbunny	135	116	113	364
Jackie	185	100	72	357
Maverick	157	140	50	347
Sean	167	140	35	342
Dylanpt24	117	90	129	336
Sebastian X	195	140	–	335
RubberGoat	195	140	–	335
The Speedgeek	185	141	–	326
Felipe Gana	135	140	50	325
Pat W	135	141	28	304
Ryan (80%)				243
Crooked Cap (80%)				243
James (80%)				243
Jay (80%)				243
Mike Rice (80%)				243

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Congrats to Startledbunny for another win!

I had a terrible round, with Rebellion and Webber both retiring.

Please see the results produced by Sebastian for a break-down driver by driver (I awarded an extra point for Rebellion #12 finishing 41st on laps completed, rather than something like 46th officially after it retired).

Leaderboard

Pos	Pre	+/-	Name	Prior	Wk 33	Total	+
1	1	0	Sean	8304	342	8646
2	2	0	Sebastian X	8238	335	8573	73
3	3	0	RubberGoat	7900	335	8235	338
4	5	1	The Speedgeek	7854	326	8180	55
5	4	-1	Pat W	7868	304	8172	8
6	6	0	Felipe Gana	7833	325	8158	14
7	7	0	Maverick	7765	347	8112	46
8	8	0	Jackie	7684	357	8041	71
9	9	0	Startledbunny	7661	364	8025	16
10	10	0	Ryan	7357	243	7600	425
11	11	0	Dylanpt24	7178	336	7514	86
12	12	0	The Crooked Cap	6962	243	7205	309
13	13	0	James	6483	243	6726	479
14	14	0	Jay	6014	243	6257	469
15	15	0	Mike Rice	5498	243	5741	516

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Andy jumps me for 4th after that terrible round even though he was fairly well down the order too.

I’m surprised more positions aren’t changing, if you look at the points gaps between positions on the right-hand side it is very close between several players.

 

Races This Week

IndyCar Motegi

This’ll mark IndyCar’s final visit to Twin-Ring Motegi except this year instead of using the oval, which was damaged in the earthquake, they’ll be using the other ‘ring’, the road course used by Formula Nippon and Super GT (I’m not sure if MotoGP uses the exact same layout, it may do).

Despite having a reputation as a ‘bike track to those of us outside Japan, it isn’t a narrow place all the way around, and seems comparable to many 80s and 90s European tracks in width. I’ve only ever seen MotoGP race here aside from a short FNippon clip (which I may put in a blog post later in the week), so it’ll be fascinating to see how cars race here.

ALMS Laguna Seca

Just a week after the ILMC round, and only two weeks after the ALMS last held a race, it is time for their next one. No wonder US teams baulk at trying to enter both series!

This is a four-hour race around the classic Californian venue. The watch-phrase here is: “gravel traps”. There was an ALMS round here once which had so many safety cars due to cars being recovered from gravel traps they must’ve had more yellow than green.

NASCAR Cup Chicagoland

This is the first race of the ‘Chase for the Championship’, so expect the top runners to be going all out to secure themselves a points advantage.

MotoGP Aragon

This track may only be a couple of years old but it seems to be quickly becoming a fixture in the calendar. It is a bit of an under-rated track actually. An interesting sequence of hills leading into a Tilke trademark ultra-long straight, downhill this time. I’m not sure current spec MotoGP will be too great there though, that downhill will be lapped up by the Hondas.

DTM Oschersleben

Awful, Mickey Mouse kart-style track. Featureless, start/stop, hairpin after hairpin with possibly one of the worst opening corners in racing. I suspect they only go here to facilitate an otherwise under-served market in the East. They good news? The new-for-2012 cars have been unveiled and they look like a big improvement, so we should see better racing next year!

Good luck!