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TMR Game 2011 – Week 13

Hello and welcome to TMR Game Week 13.

We take a break this weekend as MotoGP’s Japanese round was understandably rescheduled to October, and this is one of the few weeks with no Sprint Cup action. Read on for your scores from Week 12.

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.

Email reminders will be sent on Thursdays or Fridays by either myself or Sebastian. Please leave a valid email address in the comment form. If you do not wish to receive reminders please let us know, otherwise we’ll assume we’re okay to send them. Also let us know (privately if you prefer) if you would like to use a different address to the one you use here. I may also use Twitter or other sites if I happen to see you there on Thursday or Friday.

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Friday Favourites: 15 April 2011

A series highlighting the best around the motorsport web.

After a trial run in January (wow, that long ago?) I’ve decided to make a links post a weekly feature, and it has a new name purely to make sure I do it regularly. I’ve found if I leave things free-form they never happen again so I need to create a weekly schedule. I started posting TMR Game results exclusively on a Tuesday evening, and the new Start Times series will be posted on a Thursday night.

Items I list here aren’t necessarily up to date but they are always, in my opinion, worth a read or a listen. Whilst I have over 1000 items in my Google Reader, many of them are news articles so in terms of true blog posts and podcasts it is probably nearer 200. That’s still a hefty backlog so if your thing appears here a couple of weeks late, please don’t take it personally. I will take suggestions whilst retaining the right not to include things, I want these to be concise updates!

On to this week’s links.

  • More Front Wing: MFW Podcast Episode 36– I’m going to be honest, I struggle to stay up to date with podcasts, people release far more than I ever have time to listen to and I always feel bad for not keeping up. This is one such show, and one that had dropped – not purposely –  from my rotation in 2010 when I got snowed under with content. I won’t be making that mistake in 2011.The episode I highlight here is the show after the St Pete IndyCar race, with special guest Shane Rogers who is ridiculously knowledgeable about IndyCar and F1 (and who knows what else)!
    His input is fantastic, particularly since he’d attended the Australian Grand Prix that weekend and was able to offer a direct comparison of F1 cars and IndyCars – and events – from the perspective of the stands at the track. Steph and Paul put together a great show and subsequent shows feature Ed Carpenter and James Hinchcliffe, I’m listening to Ed’s show as I write and I can’t wait to hear the show with Hinch!
  • Oilpressure: Randy Bernard Interview Part 1 and Part 2 – Even if you are not a fan of IndyCar racing you should still read this interview. Randy Bernard, CEO of INDYCAR, has been a real breath of fresh air in his just-over-a-year in charge of the series. Such a huge change from the fighting, dictating attitudes of the 90s to early 00s and the introspection and cluelessness of the mid-00s – and I count all flavours of Indy racing in that: CART, Champ Car, IRL.  The unified IndyCar Series is now led by a man who is not just open to listening to teams and drivers, but also to fans and bloggers. This is just one of many Q&As he’s granted to bloggers, but what’s good about this one, is that it was Randy’s idea! He saw George at Oilpressure ask his readers for questions ‘should I bump into Randy’ at the Barber round, and Randy came back and made it a meet-up in person for a real Q&A. And it is a top notch Q&A as well, good questions (as you would expect from the learned readers of Oilpressure), great answers – not banal PR fluff.
    Do also take a look around the rest of the site to see more photos and words from George’s weekend at Barber Motorsports Park.
  • Sidepodcast: F1 in China – Christine has questioned why F1 still races in China when it seems there isn’t a single person in the world who wants it to happen. The personnel don’t like it, there are no fans in the place.. why bother?
  • VivaF1: The Prince of Motorsport (Part 1) – A great guest post at VivaF1 from The F1 & Motorsport Archive’s Leigh all about the life and times of the man recorded in the F1 history books as Prince Bira, or ‘B Bira’. Check out Part 2 later this weekend and do have a look at the other articles at both VivaF1 (some really great F1 articles in the past few days) and F1&MA (coming live from Monza for British F3).
  • Neil Hudson: New BTCC Regulations: Who is the fastest? – This season the BTCC has added new technical regulations alongside the existing S2000 and BTC cars. NGTC is a new spec for both chassis and engine, but there’s also the option to fit NGTC engines to existing S2000 cars. But which is faster? Neil checks the lap times from the opening round at the 1.2 mile Brands Hatch ‘Indy’ short circuit and graphs the results. I hope he does the same later in the year so we can see how the cars develop. (Sadly my comment appears to have been moderated).
    Note – This article appears on Neil’s own blog, he also writes for Touring Car Times which I urge you to add to your RSS rotation immediately for superb coverage of WTCC, BTCC, STCC, CCTCC, DTM, V8SC and more.

Do let me know of any interesting articles and podcasts you find around the web, and I’ll have more here next Friday.

Start Times: 16-17 April 2011

A Guide To This Week’s Racing

I used to do versions of this quite a while ago. Now I shall do it again.

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

Saturday

5am – V8 Supercar – Hamilton Race 1

7am – F1 – Shanghai Qualifying

1pm – FR3.5 – Aragon Race 1

2pm – F2 – Silverstone Race 1

3.40pm – British F3 – Monza Race 1

7pm – Nationwide – Talladega

10.30pm – IndyCar – Long Beach Qualifying

12.30am – ALMS – Long Beach

Sunday

4am – V8 Supercar – Hamilton Race 2

8am – F1 – Shanghai

8am – British F3 – Monza Race 2

9am – London Marathon – Women’s Elite Race

9.45am – London Marathon – Men’s Elite Race, Wheelchair Elite Race, Mass Start

11am – WSBK – Assen Race 1

11.15am – British F3 – Monza Race 3

11.30am – BTCC – Donington Park Race 1

1pm – FR3.5 – Aragon Race 2

1pm – Blancpain Endurance – Monza

2.30pm – F2 – Silverstone Race 2

2.30pm – WSBK – Assen Race 2

2.30pm – BTCC – Donington Park Race 2

5pm – NSC – Talladega

5pm – BTCC – Donington Park Race 3

6.30pm – Indy Lights – Long Beach

9.30pm – IndyCar – Long Beach

Rallies running for most of the day:

WRC – Rally Jordan

With thanks to @RaceElectric for the Blancpain start time.

TMR Game 2011 – Week 12

Hello and welcome to TMR Game Week 12.

This post accepts entries for these races:
– Shanghai (F1);
– Long Beach (IndyCar);
– Long Beach (ALMS);
– Talladega (NASCAR Cup);

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.

Email reminders will be sent on Thursdays or Fridays by either myself or Sebastian. Please leave a valid email address in the comment form. If you do not wish to receive reminders please let us know, otherwise we’ll assume we’re okay to send them. Also let us know (privately if you prefer) if you would like to use a different address to the one you use here. I may also use Twitter or other sites if I happen to see you there on Thursday or Friday.

The deadline for entries is Saturday morning at 6am GMT / 1am ET.

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