Pat W

Start Times: 16 May

A short post showing the start times of races being held on Sunday 16th May. I might do this weekly, as it is shorter and easier to do than the old-style ‘Weekend Preview’ posts. This is in chronological order in my time zone, BST (UK). I’ve included notable races and other sessions and it isn’t an exhaustive list. Obviously there were other races at Monaco (GP2 etc) but it is too late for that.

Sunday 16 May 2010

Time (GMT+1)	Duration	Series	Event
Midnight	14 hrs	n/a	Nurburgring 24h-Rennen
	(continuation)

10am	45 mins	Superleague	Assen Race 1

11.10am	25 laps	FR 3.5	Monaco

1pm	78 laps	F1	Monaco Grand Prix

1.30pm	45 mins	Superleague	Assen Race 2

2.30pm	5 laps	Superleague	Assen Superfinal

6pm	400 laps	Sprint Cup	Dover

There is also Rookie Practice and normal practice at Indianapolis though the schedule is no longer as published, I believe this is now scheduled to start at 4pm.

I’ll do this again for the next couple of weeks to see if it is worth pursuing, if it ends up taking a long to compile I’ll stop it but I hope it’ll be nice and easy and it’ll help some of you out as well as me!

38th ADAC Nurburgring 24 Hours

This weekend sees the ‘other’ big European 24 hour race, and by many measures the biggest.

We all know about Le Mans of course, and the Spa 24 later in the year is also reasonably high profile (well it was when GT1 and GT2 were involved, jury is out on the changes this year but that’s for another post), but it seems to my eyes that the Nurburgring edition often gets overlooked by the English-speaking racing media. Thankfully this is changing.

So why should you care about a race you may not have followed or even heard of before? I mean if it were that big surely you’d know some of the winners, right? Well, here are some reasons.

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An Update

I haven’t been posting very many ‘real’ posts of late, the blog is overrun with game updates and I don’t like it. The game should be secondary, it has taken up too much of my Sunday/Monday evenings and I’ve lost focus.

I said a few months ago that I wanted to bring back the short form posts, little ‘asides’ or passing thoughts. I’m going to make more of an effort to do that, just as I need to make an effort to talk about more things other than Formula 1. F1 is my first love and it’ll always get the most attention, but this blog is supposed to be about more than that. This post is just to let you know that I’m going to do that just as soon as I find something I’m motivated to talk about.

The other purpose of this post is to let you know I’ve set up a personal blog.

TMR Game – Week 16

Welcome to Week 16 of the Too Much Racing Game!

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First of all, I hope you like the new theme! I think it makes things easier to read as the text doesn’t get lost in the background, and the links and other devices aren’t cluttered in one place. [Photo – Petter Solberg at Rally New Zealand, ZumaPress via Picapp]

You can read my thoughts on the Spanish GP in my previous post, I heard the LMS was utterly chaotic but a good race, I look forward to catching up with it. I saw the highlights of the WRC New Zealand, and what a turn of events – Loeb fell to 8th nearly 2 minutes down on day 1, but fought back valiantly to close the gap in one of the best comeback drives rallying has seen on day 2, before on the final day both he and his fellow previous frontrunners all encountered spins (including a retirement for Petter) and allowed the consistent Latvala to take the win on the final stage!