Author: Pat W

TMR Game 2011 – Week 15

Hello and welcome to TMR Game Week 15.

I hope you enjoyed the events this last weekend, I was away at a racetrack so I missed all of them! Hopefully I’ll see the MotoGP and IndyCar soon, although I had to look up the results to write these results so I’m not sure if I’ll bother now.

This post accepts entries for:

– F1 Istanbul
– ILMC/LMS Spa-Franchorchamps
– NASCAR Cup Darlington

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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2010 Belgian GP – Saturday Pt.2

If you missed Part 1 from Saturday at Spa, do check it out here!

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With the racing done for the day we returned to the cabins for a rest, a shower and a drink. We couldn’t really agree what to do with ourselves and we were all absolutely shattered from two days of walking the hills of the racetrack, braced against the rain.

At first we elected to be boring and stay to enjoy the hospitality of the site, nothing wrong with that as they were all very friendly and welcoming. They’d laid on food and drink although it wasn’t quite what we’d had in mind, lots of big meatballs and frites were involved and the local generic lager. Rude not to enjoy some of both. Not the high cuisine of Europe some of our group may have expected.

The food filled a hole. The beer was a bit underwhelming though as it tasted like Carling or Fosters (boring, can get that at home) yet we were in this place of beer experimentation. A few of us were getting itchy feet, particularly Bassano, Gavin and myself. We hadn’t properly explored the town of Spa itself yet, and we wanted a drinking session. Two of us would be driving Monday so Sunday night couldn’t be heavy on drink, that meant it had to be this night. Sadly some of the others didn’t want to go anywhere.

The fact I struggle to remember details suggests we were successful.

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2010 Belgian GP – Saturday Pt.1

You might remember I went to the Belgian Grand Prix last year with a group of people and I’d been writing a little diary of our adventures. Those updates had slowed to a halt… but it is time to finish off, here is the next instalment!
If you haven’t yet read the previous instalments you can start here, and there will be a summary post with links to both my write-ups and those of others.. eventually.

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Saturday dawned much brighter and drier than the wet, grey days leading up to the weekend. After the very heavy rain of Friday it was a welcome relief. We had another lift in from ‘Bueb’ and had a bit of a longer walk today as he wasn’t willing to chance his luck with the police cordons.

FP3

For the first F1 session of the day – Free Practice 3 – we decided to climb the hill at Eau Rouge and find a place on Kemmel, the long straight, as most of the group hadn’t seen it yet and those of us who had were keen to see some F1 cars in the dry there. Whilst it was dry and partly sunny there were also dark clouds hanging around giving the place an ‘impending doom’ atmosphere. Literally the calm before the storm. The view looked even more amazing in these conditions.

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Start Times: 30 April – 1 May 2011

A guide to this week’s racing.

All start times are UK (GMT+1 / British Summer Time) and are taken from official series websites or if necessary, educated guesses from elsewhere. Live TV or web coverage is not guaranteed. I include only races and a few notable qualifying sessions of larger series, and not practice sessions or warm-ups or rally stage times.

Saturday

12.30am – NASCAR Nationwide – Richmond

5.30am – V8 Supercar – Barbagallo Race 1

ALL DAY – Donington Park – Donington Historic Festival

10am – F3 Int’l Trophy – Hockenheim Race 1

1.30pm – FR3.5 – Spa-Franchorchamps Race 1

2pm – MotoGP – Estoril qualifying

2pm – International GT Open – Imola Race 1

5pm – F3 Int’l Trophy – Hockenheim Race 2

7pm – IndyCar – Sao Paulo qualifying

Sunday

12.30am – NASCAR Cup – Richmond

4.30am – V8 Supercar – Barbagallo Race 2

ALL DAY – Donington Park – Donington Historic Festival

10am – F3 Int’l Trophy – Hockenheim Race 3

11.15am – Moto2 – Estoril

11.30am – BTCC – Thruxton Race 1

11.50am – International GT Open – Imola Race 2

Midday – FR3.5 – Spa-Francorchamps Race 2

1pm – MotoGP – Estoril

1pm – DTM – Hockenheim

2pm – BTCC – Thruxton Race 2

2.30pm – 125cc – Estoril

5pm – IndyCar – Sao Paulo

5pm – BTCC – Thruxton Race 3

Monday

1pm – BSB – Oulton Park Race 1

4.05pm – BSB – Oulton Park Race 2

Enjoy the weekend!