TMR Game 2011 – Week 40

Hello and welcome to TMR Game Week 40.

5 weeks to go including this one. This post accepts entries for these 2 events:

– F1 Indian GP
– NASCAR Cup Martinsville

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 rules.

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Scores

Results

RIP Marco Simoncelli. Two sad and tragic weeks, unbelievable. Again, the race was rightly abandoned with no points awarded.

I didn’t see Talladega as I was watching the Dan Wheldon Memorial, but looking at the results sheet it is completely understandable why so many avoided picking drivers in that race, nobody could’ve guessed this order.

Week 39 DTM NASCAR Cup
Points Hockenheim Talladega
1 50 Green Bowyer
2 40 Tomcyzk Burton
3 35 Molina Blaney
4 32 Rockenfeller Keselowski
5 30 Paffett Vickers
6 28 Ekstrom Kahne
7 26 Scheider Stewart
8 24 Jarvis Hamlin
9 22 Spengler Waltrip
10 20 Albuquerque Truex Jr

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Player Scores

Player DTM NASCAR Week 39
RubberGoat 152 – 152
Maverick 120 31 151
The Speedgeek 150 – 150
Sebastian X 148 – 148
Pat W 146 – 146
Felipe Gana 122 20 142
Sean 133 – 133
Jackie 116 5 121
Dylanpt24 – 61 61
Startledbunny – 37 37
Ryan (80%) 30
Crooked Cap (80%) 30
James (80%) 30
Jay (80%) 30
Mike Rice (80%) 30

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Obviously the scores are again skewed by a race no longer counting, but still, well done to Gavin for the second week in a row for picking the strongest team among the remainder. Not the way anyone wants to pick up two wins though.

The weird NASCAR result meant the scores were unusually low for those who picked from that race.

Please see the score-by-score results produced by Sebastian.

Leaderboard

Pos Pre +/- Name Prior Wk 39 Total +
1 1 0 Sebastian X 10218 148 10366
2 2 0 Sean 10205 133 10338 28
3 3 0 RubberGoat 9852 152 10004 334
4 4 0 Maverick 9703 151 9854 150
5 5 0 Pat W 9691 146 9837 17
6 6 0 Felipe Gana 9679 142 9821 16
7 7 0 The Speedgeek 9601 150 9751 70
8 8 0 Jackie 9552 121 9673 78
9 9 0 Startledbunny 9449 37 9486 187
10 10 0 Dylanpt24 8792 61 8853 633
11 11 0 Ryan 8603 30 8633 220
12 12 0 The Crooked Cap 8208 30 8238 395
13 13 0 James 7729 30 7759 479
14 14 0 Jay 7260 30 7290 469
15 15 0 Mike Rice 6744 30 6774 516

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Sebastian slightly extends his lead.

Races This Week

F1 Indian Grand Prix

The first ever Formula 1 GP in India and the track looks impressive, if not quite finished. Rough around the edges, dirt and dust everywhere, stairs leading to nowhere..  I hope it gets smartened up in time for the weekend. It could be an interesting race with Pirelli reintroducing the step between tyre compounds, taking Soft and Hard this time out of the choice of four.

NASCAR Cup Martinsville

‘The paperclip’, they call it. A classic venue going back to 1947, this is the shortest track in NASCAR at 0.526 miles and with relatively flat banking. Back in the Spring, Kevin Harvick chased down and passed Dale Jr for the win with just a few laps to spare whilst Kyle Busch just missed out on 2nd. How will it play out now we’re in the Chase?

Coming Soon

To aid your planning these are the remaining races this season:

Week 41 – MotoGP Valencia, NASCAR Cup Texas

Week 42 – F1 Abu Dhabi GP, ILMC Zhuhai 6 Hrs, NASCAR Cup Phoenix

Week 43 – NASCAR Cup Homestead-Miami

Week 44 – F1 Brazilian GP

11 thoughts on “TMR Game 2011 – Week 40”

  1. What a rough week. I hate to do well in such circumstances 😦

    In all seriousness, I want this season to finish because I’ve had enough. I’m really not enjoying Motor Sport any more…

    F1:
    1. Vettel
    2. Webber
    3. Hamilton
    4. Button
    5. Alonso
    6. Massa
    7. Rosberg

    NASCAR:
    8. Jimmie Johnson
    9. Jeff Gordon
    10. Tony Stewart

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  2. Two weekends of tragedy. It has been hard to take,

    F1
    Sebastian Vettel
    Mark Webber
    Jenson Button
    Lewis Hamilton
    Fernando Alonso

    NASCAR
    Kevin Harvick
    Kyle Busch
    Matt Kenseth
    Brad Keselowski
    Carl Edwards

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  3. Terrible news about Marco Simoncelli. It seemed to me before this that the MotoGP is old-fashioned dangerous. That was a horrible accident to see.

    Formula One:
    Sebastian Vettel
    Mark Webber
    Lewis Hamilton
    Jenson Button
    Fernando Alonso
    Felipe Massa
    Nico Rosberg

    NASCAR:
    Jimmie Johnson
    Jeff Gordon
    Denny Hamlin

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  4. Amen. These last 5 weeks can wrap up any day now…

    F1:
    Sebastian Vettel
    Mark Webber
    Lewis Hamilton
    Jenson Button
    Fernando Alonso

    NASCAR Cup:
    Denny Hamlin
    Jimmie Johnson
    Ryan Newman
    Tony Stewart
    Kyle Busch

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  7. F1:
    Sebastian Vettel
    Mark Webber
    Lewis Hamilton
    Jenson Button
    Fernando Alonso
    Michael Schumacher
    Felipe Massa

    NASCAR:
    Carl Edwards
    Matt Kenseth
    Brad Keselowski

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  11. Martinsville quali washed out. Drivers line up on owners’ points and it is a track where passing is difficult and starting position matters much more than usual. I wonder if the race will be delayed.

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