Category: TMR Game

Welcome to Week 21 of the Too Much Racing Game!

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What a week of sport! Starting with Le Mans qualifying, through the race itself and the World Cup opening games to the Canadian GP, it felt like it was non-stop. I hope you enjoyed it too, and you can read some of my thoughts of the weekend in my recap.

Quick-Start

Racing this week:

IndyCar – Iowa (oval);

Sprint Cup – Sonoma (road course);

Usual restrictions apply, pick up to 10 drivers, no more than 7 from one race. Note that the Cup race is on a road course and some of the drivers have changed – more on that later.

The cutoff is Saturday 19th June at 4.59am BST (British Summer Time = GMT+1), that’s 11.59pm Friday night US EDT.

For the full results from Week 20, read on.

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Welcome to Week 20 of the Too Much Racing Game!

I usually use this space to write about the racing I watched over the weekend, but I’ve decided to do that in a breakout post which will follow shortly. All I’ll say now is this week will be crucial, so be sure to make your picks! On with the game report.

Quick-Start

Racing this week:

LM24 – 24 Hours of Le Mans;

F1 – Canadian GGP;

Sprint Cup – Michigan;

Usual restrictions apply, pick up to 10 drivers, no more than 7 from one race. Toughie this week.

The cutoff is Saturday 12th June at 4.59am BST (British Summer Time = GMT+1), that’s 11.59pm Friday night US EDT.

For the full results from Week 19, read on.

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Welcome to Week 19 of the Too Much Racing Game!

I hope you enjoyed this fantastic weekend of racing, I certainly did! It was a tense F1 race in Turkey with an all-out battle between the current fastest two teams, ending in tears for one of them – I wonder if this is the tipping point for McLaren to take the lead, or if Red Bull will douse any flames?

This was followed by an excellent Indy 500, spoiled a little by poor TV and online coverage. It took a while to get going due to several caution periods, and then developed into one of the most tense and on-edge fuel strategy races I’ve seen in a long time. It was all building to crescendo when Conway’s crash happened on the final lap, and all thoughts of the race evaporated as we thought of his safety. Thankfully he’s safe with just a broken bone, it could have been far worse. Very lucky.

Speedgeek was at the 500 and he has some pre-race updates on his blog – I hope you’ll have a race report at some stage?

I didn’t see the Cup race, it was getting late and my eyes were hurting after staring at screens during the previous two races! I don’t think I could’ve stomached Fox’s ads after the copious commercials on the ABC feed. I also missed the WRC recap show as it was on during the 500.

Quick-Start

Racing this week:

IZOD IndyCar – Texas 550k;

NASCAR Sprint Cup – Pocono;

DTM – Lausitzring;

Usual restrictions apply, pick up to 10 drivers, no more than 7 from one race.

The cutoff is Saturday 5th June at 4.59am BST (British Summer Time = GMT+1), that’s 11.59pm Friday night US EDT.

For the full results from Week 18, read on.

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Welcome to Week 18 of the Too Much Racing Game!

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I wasn’t able to watch either of this week’s eligible races as the ALMS went on until 4am and the DTM was on at the same time as the MotoGP. The GP was moderately good – the first half featured a great battle between Rossi and Lorenzo but after halfway or thereabouts when it had been settled, I lost interest in the whole thing. I spent much of the weekend watching qualifying from Indy which was fun especially in the closing stages of each day, and I plan to write about that later in the week.

[Photo: American Le Mans Series at Laguna Seca; via Picapp]

Quick-Start

Racing this week:

IndyCar – Indianapolis 500;

F1 – Turkish GP;

WRC – Rally Portugal;

NASCAR Sprint Cup – Coca-Cola 600, Charlotte;

Usual restrictions apply, pick up to 10 drivers, no more than 7 from one race.

The cutoff is Saturday 29th May at 4.59am BST (British Summer Time = GMT+1), that’s 11.59pm Friday night US EDT.

For the full results from Week 17, read on.

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