Category: TMR Game

Welcome to Week 13 of the Too Much Racing Game!

I hope you enjoyed as much of the feast of racing as you could over the weekend. I caught the surprisingly good F1 race and the somewhat less good IndyCar race, though my impression might be clouded by spending most of the race following the leader’s onboard camera on the official web feed so missing much of the action (not my choice of camera).

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I didn’t manage to see the ALMS because it was on so late and the lack of big name entrants wasn’t enough of a draw to stay up; the NASCAR Cup because it was delayed and I didn’t really care; or the WRC highlights because I wasn’t home when they aired.

A quieter week ahead sees the start of the DTM season, if you’re not familiar with the series be sure to check www.dtm.com for more info.

Quick-Start

Racing this week:
DTM – Hockenheim;
NASCAR Sprint Cup – Talladega;

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

The cutoff is Saturday 24th April at 4.59am BST (British Summer Time = GMT+1), that’s 11.59pm Friday night US EDT.

For the full results from Week 12, read on.

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Welcome to Week 12 of the Too Much Racing Game!

I really enjoyed both the IndyCar and MotoGP races at the weekend, I hope to write a couple of paragraphs tomorrow but we’ll see what time there is. I didn’t catch the Le Mans Series or the NASCAR Cup, I hope some of you were able to follow along.

This is a special week for the TMR Game – it is one of the busiest in terms of number of events in a single weekend. There are five eligible events this week, this is only topped by the weekend of 22-23 August with six. There are all manner of ways to play this week – do we split ourselves across as many series as possible and try and pick lots of winners, or do we concentrate on the top runners in just a couple of series and hope they have a good week? You can bet this week is going to create some differences in the scoring.

You’ll be pleased to hear we have two quiet weeks after this with only two races per week.

Quick-Start

Racing this week:
F1:  Chinese Grand Prix, Shanghai, China;
IndyCar: GP of Long Beach, California, USA;
ALMS:  Long Beach, California, USA;
NASCAR:  Texas Motor Speedway, Ft Worth, Texas, USA;
WRC:  Rally of Turkey

Usual restrictions apply, pick up to 10 drivers, no more than 7 from one race… though this week this may not be a problem!

The cutoff is Saturday 17th April at 4.59am BST (British Summer Time = GMT+1), that’s 11.59pm Friday night US EDT. I am aware the first day of the rally is Friday. I’m willing to sacrifice that in order to maintain a consistent closing point – henceforth I will only change this time when the first day is Thursday.

For the full results from Week 11, read on.

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Welcome to Week 11 of the Too Much Racing Game!

I hope you enjoyed the Malaysian GP, or at least tolerated it – I thought it was a fairly average race, nothing special but not terrible, you can read more of my thoughts here. The other series running was World Rally over in Jordan where the top Ford and Citroen teams played some rather pathetic games with time penalties in order to secure a better road position (running first means you encounter more gravel and are clearing the road for the others).

Coming up this week we have the first race of the Le Mans Series schedule – an 8-hour special rather than the usual six – as well as IndyCar at Barber Motorsport Park in Alabama and NASCAR Cup at Phoenix. See the later section for entry lists.

Just as a heads-up, next week will see five events  and is the second-biggest weekend of the year in terms of number of events to choose from – could be a tricky one! More details on that in next week’s post or check the Game page for the schedule.

Quick-Start

Racing this week:
Le Mans Series:  8 heures du Castellet, Paul Ricard, France;
IndyCar Series:  Barber Motorsport Park, Alabama, USA;
NASCAR Cup:  Phoenix International Raceway, Arizona, USA;

All you have to do is reply to this post and pick up to 10 drivers! The only limit? No more than 7 from one race.

The cutoff is Friday 9th April at 11.59pm BST (British Summer Time = GMT+1), or 4.59pm US Eastern..

For the full results from Week 10, read on.

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