GTP Le Mans Prototype Series : Season 4 Complete

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Welcome to the GTP LeMans Prototype Series Season 4 Official Thread

Check this first OP for race info, practice dates, updates & news for the series.



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News

S5 Thread will be Up Soon ! Check back for more information






* On the Pace Lap some drivers are not maintaining the 3 car length mandatory distance between cars.
The next race the stewards will watch this closely and cars not maintaining the gap will be given penalties. - you have been warned


* There is a new race incidents info in the 4th post. This will show drivers currently under investigation, & and penalties and warnings that have been giving


* Check out the New GTP Le Mans Tuning Garage

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Congrats to Jake on becoming the Season 4 Champion!!
 
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:gtpflag::gtpflag::gtpflag: This is a LMP1 / Group C Race Car Championship Series :gtpflag::gtpflag::gtpflag:
"There is One class of cars and will only be One class"



Season 4:

* JOIN ! ! ! ! GTP Le Mans Series Group

* GTP Le Mans Night Series ! ! ! Night Series ! ! !

* Season 4 Pre-Season Thread S4 Pre-Season

* Season 3 Thread S3

* Season 3 Results Standings Spreadsheet

* Season 2 Results Here

* Season 2 Thread - Here

* Season 1 Thread - Here

* The OG 1 Hour Race GTP's First organized Le Mans Race

* Please vote for my Fuel Load Settings

INDY ROAD COURSE TESTING TIMES

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Created By ------------- BermudaKID & Jakegirard

Hosts -- BermudaKID, MikeTheHockeyFan & Tissimo

Graphic Designer ------------- MikeTheHockeyFan

Series Secretary ----------------------Bombe32

Series Steward(s) - Bombe32, MikeTheHockeyFan,
Mike46an2, AllinWitJT, & Tissimo


Series Photographer(s) - Golfer199, Jamman48 & AllinWitJT
 
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Season 4

Races are on Saturdays
Online Lobby will Open @ 12:00 PM Eastern
Qualifying Race Starts 12:30 PM Eastern
Race Starts 1:00 PM Eastern
Race Ends approx 2:00 PM Eastern

Series Rules:
Lobby Settings
Races will take place in the Hosts' lounge

Make sure to set Race Quality to HIGH - Chat Quality to LOW

Skid Recovery: Disallowed
Active Steering: Disallowed
Driving Line: Allowed for Practice & Qualifying / Disabled for Race
TCS: Allowed
ABS: Allowed
ASM: Allowed
Tire wear & fuel: On
Grip reduction rain & track edge: Real
Penalties: Off
Damaged: Light
Boost: The only boost allowed here comes from turbochargers :)

*** On weather tracks once the lobby is open the track will not be reset again back to sunny at the start of each race.

these may be subject to change

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Tracks:

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Pre-Season
1. Daytona Road Aug 6th
2. La Sarthe 2005 Aug 13th​

Season 4
1. Indy Road Course----------(Aug 20th) - 40 Laps + 1 Pace
2. Fuji F --------------------(Aug 27th) - 38 Laps + 1 Pace
3. Nurburing GP/F ------------(Sept 3rd) - 32 Laps + 1 Pace
4. Suzuka (WX) -------------(Sept 10th) - 31 Laps + 1 Pace
5. Special Stage Route 5-----(Sept 17th) -
6. Monza (WX) --------------(Sept 24th) 37 Laps + 1 Pace
7. La Sarthe '09 (WX/Time)---(Oct 1st)​


Each race will last aprox 1 hour. Each track will have an estimated lap time used to determine the number of laps. ( The # of laps will be adjusted on race day if necessary, if the average lap time will not complete the race within +/- 2mins of an hour )


Cars:

HP Limit: 601 HP
Weight Limits: Bentley Speed 8 + 60 KG

All Prototype Cars & Group C Cars are allowed except for the 2001 Audi R8

Audi R8 '05 - Slots Full
Bentley Speed 8 - Slots Full
BMW V12 LMR
Jaguar XJR-9
Mazda 787B
Mercedes-Benz CLK-LM
Mercedes-Benz Sauber C9
Nissan R89C
Nisan R92CP
Pescarolo Courage Judd - GV5
Pescarolo C60 Hybride
Pescarolo Courage C60 - Peugeot - Slots Full
Peugeot 905
Peugeot 908 - Team Total - Slots Full
Peugeot 908 - Team Manmut
Toyota GT-ONE - Slots Full
Toyota MINOLTA 88C-V
Audi R10

* There is a 4 car limit in the championship. If their are 2 liveries for a car, only 2 of the same livery is allowed
The 4 car limit remains from S3, but if there is already a team using one car i ask that you consider driving a different car

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Qualifying:

There is two stage qualifying for the series.
1: Room Lobby / Lounge will be open qualifying to post your fastest time. This will
determine your grid position for the qualifying race.
2: After qualifying there will be a 2-3 Lap Qualifying Race.
* Qualifying Race will have a grid start​


Racing:

Pace Lap: 1 lap will be added to the race distance for a formation pace lap. After qualifying drivers will be called one by one to exit the pit in the order they finished. The first driver will stop 100m after they exit the pit and everyone will line up behind them in order. DO NOT pass the driver in front of you. After everyone is out of the Pits the Race will be started.

Drivers will line up in a single File. A minimum of 3 car lengths must be between cars. You are not allowed to pass the the bumper of the car in front of you.


The Formation Lap speed limit is 100 kph / 60 mph
*Stay in your qualifying order
*Do not hit other cars or exceed the speed limit


Rolling Start: When pole driver turns onto the pit straight the race will go green flag once 100m from start/finish line. ((This point will be clarified before each race.)) No Passing is allowed until crossing the start finished line. Drivers will be penalized for false starts and illegal passing.

Pit Lane is closed during the pace lap. Drivers who enter the pits will recieve a penalty​

Rules:


You must drive the same car for the whole season that you started with. IF you decide to change cars you will forfeit all your points in the championship from the previous car / team

No ramming or bashing of other cars is allowed. All Drivers are expected to to read and follow GTP's Online Racing Rules

Cutting chicanes & corners is not allowed. 2 Wheels must remain on the track.


Overtaking: clean overtaking is the responsibility of everyone on track. Any racing incidents that happen as a result of poor overtaking, the overtaker may be held responsible and penalized. * If the defender is found braking excessively early to defend or to cause an incident they will be penalized.

**You are NOT allowed to overtake if order to make the pass its necessary to have wheels off the track in the grass or outside the white line boundaries.
EXAMPLE: At La Sarthe in the run from Muslanne to Indianapolis, if you have to cut across the grass in order to get by a driver while racing for position then you should not be overtaking. Or at Daytona trying to go two wide on between the turn 1 exit and turn 2.
This will be considered an illegal overtake & reckless driving which will be penalized​


Track Position: If you gain a position by cutting a corner or pushing another driver off the track you must immediately allow that other person to pass you and give back that position back.

Blocking: Drivers are allowed one change of direction on a straight to defend. Its not considered a block if a car stays on its racing line while in a turn

Lapped Drivers: Back markers must yield faster traffic at the first safest opportunity. Lapped do not have to pull off the track to allow lead drivers by. Always allow faster lead cars to pass freely on straights.
Lead Drivers are not allowed to ram, push, or spin back markers off the track to get by - overtaking rules are still in effect.

Bump Drafting: NASCAR style bump drafting is not allowed. (really - do i have to mention this .......:boggled: )

Pit Lane: You must you the proper pit lane entry & exit section of the track. You must also slow down before entering the pit lane. (tracks like laguna you cannot enter the pits @ race speed) Drivers are not allowed to cross pit exit line when re-entering the track.

Race Incident reporting: To report a race incident (or a suspected incident) after the race post info on what happened and what lap in happened on in the group under the Incidents thread. You must give a lap or a time of when the incident happened.

Driver reputation system:
Each driver is going to start the season with 20 points next to their name.
You will lose points for causing race incidents / accidents and poor driving.
This system should help distinguish the clean drivers / from the not so clean drivers.
Any driver who receives multiple complaints from other drivers or is given a warning or a penalty will lose rep points.

Examples
* Knocking another driver off the track and causing them to lose their position -2 pts
* Knocking a driver off the track and causing them damage - forcing them to lose more than 1 position - 4 pts
* Getting caught cutting corners - 2 pts
* Cutting a corner to gain a position - 2 pts
* Passing on the rolling start before the start line - 2 pts
* Any other rule breaking & insistences not mentioned - 1 to 4 pts

Drivers that are in both the Night Series & Season 4 (sat) will have the same rep points. Any negative points will reflect in both series' spreadsheets
Penalties: Race incidents will be viewed by the stewards and penalties will be assess afterwards.
* 10 second time added

* 15 second time added

* Drive thru penalty time added ( Not including stop time )

* 10 Second Stop & go penalty

* Loss of points

* Forfeited race position

* Disqualified from race results

* 5-10 Place grid penalty for next race ( next race driver participates )

Team Orders: If you hear "Alonso is faster than U" .... Then tell your race engineer to stfu and if Alonso wants to get by he can pass you like everyone else :lol:


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The Championship:

Driver's Championship Points System

1st - 30 points
2nd - 25 points
3rd - 21 points
4th - 18 points
5th - 15 points
6th - 12 points
7th - 10 points
8th - 8 points
9th - 6 points
10th - 5 points
11th - 4 points
12th - 3 points
13th - 2 points
14th - 2 points
15th - 1 point
16th - 1 point

To Get full race points you need to complete 90% of Full Race Distance


Bonus Points
2 Points for participating in the qualifying race.
3 Points for finishing the race.

2 pts if Disconnected from race (for trying to complete race)
2 pts for parking, yet not quitting (for following OLR about not quitting)
2 pts for quitting, but staying in lobby / lounge (for showing interest in race)

(Rage) Quitting = 0 pts, you don't deserve anything

Bonus points will replace the finishing race bonus points. This also makes it impossible for one that shows up for a race to get 0 points.

Team Championship
Teams are allowed to have two drivers. Both drivers must drive the same car with the same livery.

Only 2 drivers are allowed to score points for the same team. ( No ringers / subs for when a driver misses a race either )

Team Championship PRIZE

Each Driver on the SEASON 4 CHAMPIONSHIP TEAM will RECEIVE 1 are or any combination of cars up to 1,000,000 Credits in GT5 ( Limitation , no cars over 1 mil can be sent as a gift )



You must drive the same car for the whole season that you started with. IF you decide to change cars you will forfeit all your points in the championship from the previous car / team

The Drivers:
ACTIVE SEASON 4 DRIVERS


AllinWitJT
BermudaKID
Bombe32 - Season 2
Drum404
freshseth83
Golfer199
Jakegiraid
Jamman48 - Season 3
Kirk1701a
Mike46and2
Mikethehockeyfan
MU675
pj-gm

Razor70
SpartyFan95
Tissimo

Un-Active / Previous Series Drivers

AyrtonSenna_1994
AyrtonSchumacher - Season 1
AX7Maverick
Blaze_409
CJR
daibaspeed
garnett_racing
erickiller21
jml1010
Nashy_027
Jav122678
Paginas1


SERIES CHAMPION
SERIES VETERANS
ROOKIES [ 1st complete Season]​
 
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Standings spreadsheet


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UP NEXT
Round 4: Suzuka (weather change)

Round 1: Indy Road, 41 laps. [Pics]
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Round 2: Fuji Speedway F, 38 laps. [Pics]
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Round 3: Nürburgring GP/F, 33 laps [Pics]
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[Pic of R4 results]
[Pic of R5 results]
[Pic of R6 results]
[Pic of R7 results]
 
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What's the point of the pace lap pre-race and lining up in order and all that?

If grid order is based by qualifying time, why not just open up the lobby the hour before - set the start time for the actual start and go. Then GT5 does everything for and no need for setting up the race and opening up a big possibility for protests/mis-starts.

I understand this may be your 4th season doing it this way - but this complication has me browsing other leagues at the moment. Could just be me, just giving some feedback; feel free to ignore - it's your league :)

I may be back asking to join regardless, because it does sound fun!
 
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What's the point of the pace lap pre-race and lining up in order and all that?

If grid order is based by qualifying time, why not just open up the lobby the hour before - set the start time for the actual start and go. Then GT5 does everything for and no need for setting up the race and opening up a big possibility for protests/mis-starts.

I understand this may be your 4th season doing it this way - but this complication has me browsing other leagues at the moment. Could just be me, just giving some feedback; feel free to ignore - it's your league :)

I may be back asking to join regardless, because it does sound fun!

Le Mans racing is a rolling start, we do the same.
 
I think Johny should be enlisted to drive a Red Audi R8 V10 on the pace lap whenever there isnt a full grid then he can pull into the pits and rage quit the race
 
TEAMS:

Will you please give me some team names everyone?

And have some of you decided to team up or are we only 5 teams?
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I will not be there Saturday - someone else must take a pic of the results (hopefully the qualifier too) and I will update it Sunday.
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Powell: The rolling start actually gives you:

1. An advantage when you get pole position. With a standings start you will end up in 3rd or 4th because of everyone else slipstreaming you (very annoying!)

2. It prevents early crashes, not everytime, but since you start with a bigger distance to each other it is greatly reduced, where a standing start 90% of the times gives you a 1st turn crash.

3. It works well and you don't want to replace something that works - common sense ;)
 
Hey, I would like to join this please, my psn name is padidas1. thank you :)

If you want to join the series, you need to add me on PSN. and be online ON TIME for the series.
what car would you like to drive? 2005 R8 & GT-One & Speed 8 i think are full
 
EFJ can be deleted from the list.
Drum should be added to it.
Idk about Rocko, Seth and Peter.
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Adam, you should consider changing car if you want a team mate, it's very unlikely that someone will go to the R8 last-minute now. Besides, as it says in the OP, we suggest that those who are in a car where there are already two of them taken - chooses another car. If not, fine, but we want as many different cars as possible :)
 
EFJ can be deleted from the list.
Drum should be added to it.
Idk about Rocko, Seth and Peter.
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Adam, you should consider changing car if you want a team mate, it's very unlikely that someone will go to the R8 last-minute now. Besides, as it says in the OP, we suggest that those who are in a car where there are already two of them taken - chooses another car. If not, fine, but we want as many different cars as possible :)

I just said I was in at the top? Bentley as usual for me.
 
Me and golfer have finally agreed on a team name. We have decided on "The pie smashing Bull's"
 
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TEAMS:

Will you please give me some team names everyone?

And have some of you decided to team up or are we only 5 teams?
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That's true, Seth, I was just reporting what I know. EFJ told me that he can't race this time of the day, so he is not in this series. Drum though should be able to participate - how many times Idk, but he did finish our first pre-season race as well, so he should be just as safe on the list as me.
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Jamman: I'll shorten the name to "Pie".
 
________^^Anyone?__________

That's true, Seth, I was just reporting what I know. EFJ told me that he can't race this time of the day, so he is not in this series. Drum though should be able to participate - how many times Idk, but he did finish our first pre-season race as well, so he should be just as safe on the list as me.
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Jamman: I'll shorten the name to "Pie".

Nooooo, I've shortened it :)
 
Anyone want to team up with me in the Bentley? I'm suggesting a team name of Team S8 or Team Bentley Speed.
 
Actually I want to be the 908 Total. Just so much better than the C9 all round. Also, I won't be here until Tuesday so I'll miss the race this Saturday.
 
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