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Real Racing Sim Friday Endurance Race Series (10 Races)
Mazda Roadster Touring Car
Final Round, Laguna Seca
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Mazda Roadster Touring Car
Final Round, Laguna Seca
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General Info About Races: Our goal is to provide a racing simulation experience for everyone. Real off-road grip, weak slipstream, tire wear on, and yes, heavy damage! ABS is optional.
The potential for damage encourages respect and sportsmanship among everyone, making penalties unnecessary -- GT5's penalty system is easily gamed, often penalizes the victim and does nothing to further the "racing simulation".
The races are usually long enough to require at least one pit for tires and/or gas depending on the car. We also enjoy racing real life cars, and offer a wide range of racing experiences, from VW Buses to F1's, some tuned, some untuned, you name it. Feel free to check out the Facebook page ( http://tinyurl.com/GT5-LPP ) to post race suggestions and say hello!
Date & Time:
Friday September 14, 9:00 PM EDT
Friday September 14, 6:00 PM PDT
Saturday September 15, 1:00 AM GMT
Time zone converter here
Friday September 14, 6:00 PM PDT
Saturday September 15, 1:00 AM GMT
Time zone converter here
Host: Private lounge of "alefin"
Race Length: 70 minutes (not including qualifying)
Requirements: Fun, clean and fair drivers
Courses:
Round 1, Fri July 13 Tsukuba Circuit
Round 2, Fri July 20 Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps / Weather
Round 3, Fri July 27 Tokyo R246
Round 4, Fri August 3 Circuito de Madrid / Reverse
Round 5, Fri August 10 Deep Forest Raceway / Reverse
Round 6, Fri August 17 Nürburgring 24h Time / Weather
Round 7, Fri August 24 Suzuka Circuit / Weather
Round 8, Fri August 31 Autumn Ring / Reverse
Round 9, Fri September 7 Eiger Nordwand Track Short Track / Weather
Round 10, Fri September 14 Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca Raceway
Round 2, Fri July 20 Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps / Weather
Round 3, Fri July 27 Tokyo R246
Round 4, Fri August 3 Circuito de Madrid / Reverse
Round 5, Fri August 10 Deep Forest Raceway / Reverse
Round 6, Fri August 17 Nürburgring 24h Time / Weather
Round 7, Fri August 24 Suzuka Circuit / Weather
Round 8, Fri August 31 Autumn Ring / Reverse
Round 9, Fri September 7 Eiger Nordwand Track Short Track / Weather
Round 10, Fri September 14 Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca Raceway
Course Notes: "Weather" courses will start off with clear skies but will have a good chance of weather changes. "Time" courses will start in the virtual morning and end at virtual night.
Room & Car Regulations:
(Premium) Mazda Roadster Touring Car (DLC)
- Sports soft tires max
- 475 performance points max
- Turbos/Superchargers allowed
- Ballast changes allowed (mandatory with turbo/superchargers)
- Downforce changes allowed
- Please do not overly restrict the engine (no lower than 97.00%)
- Comfort tires recommended on wet tracks
- SUBJECT TO CHANGE IF ISSUES ARISE OVER THE WEEKS
- Heavy damage
- No penalties
- Weak slipstream
- Tire wear/Fuel consumption on
- Real grip reduction on wet/edge
- Visual damage on
- ABS available
- All other assists off
Qualifying & Rolling Starts:
- Qualifying begins promptly at 9:00 PM Eastern (refer to the countdown timer above if you're not on the east coast) and will last 15 to 30 minutes.
- When you have a time you like, pull over to a secluded spot or drive into the pits, while we record your time. If you are unable to complete a qualifying lap in the time allotted, or if you leave or exit the track before we record your lap time, you will start at the back of the pack.
- If lap times are not registering properly on my screen, I will tell everyone to keep track of their lap times.
- At the start of the race, drivers will manually line up in formation for a ROLLING START. When the race timer counts down, and the race START message appears, DO NOT MOVE. Stay in the starting grid until the starting line up is called out.
- We will manually line up in qualifying order. Once everyone is in the correct order, the driver in the pole position will set a pace not exceeding 60 MPH / 96 KPH, and begin the race by breaking that pace. Please do not overtake other drivers until the pole/pace car breaks pace and begins accelerating to race speed. Then, THE RACE IS ON.
Full Course Caution Until Clean Start:
- This policy applies until we complete one continuous clean lap or two continuous minutes of clean racing on longer courses, without multi-car incidents. Cautions will only be available at the beginning of the race. We will repeat it as many times as necessary to get an incident free start.
- If there are any multi-car incidents, where any driver is knocked well off the track by another driver, we will call a FULL COURSE CAUTION. The policy does not apply to individual drivers losing control, even if an offending driver has minor contact with other drivers who continue racing.
- Once a caution is issued, please do not overtake any drivers, even if you are heading to the pits.
- All drivers (not in the pits) will form-up for another Manual Rolling Start behind the current race leader, who will maintain pace speed until everyone is in formation again, and restart according the approach used at the beginning of the race.
Points Assignment:
1st, 40 points
2nd, 36 points
3rd, 33 points
4th, 30 points
5th, 27 points
6th, 24 points
7th, 21 points
8th, 18 points
9th, 15 points
10th, 13 points
11th, 11 points
12th, 9 points
13th, 7 points
14th, 5 points
15th, 3 points
16th, 1 point
Prizes:
- First place (999,999 credit maximum car, Level 24 Ticket, Ticket 1000, 5 car paints)
- Second place (500,000 credit maximum car, 5 car paints)
- Third place (250,000 credit maximum car)
Other Notes: For the most part, the GTPlanet Online Racing Rules & Guidelines apply with some changes.
- Bump drafting is allowed where it makes sense.
- Keep racing on the track, regardless of incident, unless cars behind you are approaching. Time, depending on severity of incident, will be added to your final race time once complaints are filed and replays checked. If you decide to allow the other driver(s) to pass because of a collision, be absolutely sure that you will not be in the way of other drivers. When in doubt, keep racing.
- Drivers that are to be lapped are under no obligations to move out of the way, as long as they are not intentionally blocking. Most tracks have many sections to overtake. If you're faster, you'll find a way to pass.
- There will be no race restarts for people that disconnect, unless something extreme happens like half the room disconnects at the same time. Common sense will dictate what's appropriate. People that disconnect will still earn points (where applicable) depending on when they disconnected.
- People that signed up and haven't been in 3 consecutive races without notifying a race official will be moved to "reserve/standby" slots.
- Track boundaries are generally the same as those enforced by the GT5 penalty system and as defined by section 16: Offline Racing in the GTPlanet Online Racing Rules linked above. See the illustration below. Occasional unintended incursions will be tolerated, particularly if you visibly attempt to correct a bad line by braking, etc. or you have lost control of your vehicle. Patterns of abuse will not be tolerated, and complaints will be investigated as noted in #2 above.
How to Sign-Up: Just post > GTPlanet username (Playstation Network username)
Race Officials: alefin or anyone else designated by him
Current Participants:
[Active]
alefin
DrewFrank420
elmo_too (Season 1 Third Place)
CommonDeer
phil0214 (Season 1 Second Place)
kirktreks
tacom08
BRADKINDER (Season 1 Champion)
BigNFL
FuturesPassed
ugabugaz
[On Standby/Inactive]
TDZ-4-12-14-88
bdubclub
DeyHateOnMe
Jay2DaB329
Overkiller-63
TyV2448
torzilla
NTGIH
dgafaboutany1420
KingBestJr
TheAce37
SKJ-2012
nateral00
bubba_electric
paul_koch
Overall Standings:
(see spreadsheet link)
Spreadsheet of Totals
Round 1 Results
Round 2 Results
Round 3 Results
Round 4 Results
Round 5 Results
Round 6 Results
Round 7 Results
Round 8 Results
Round 9 Results
Round 10 Results
Thanks for reading, everyone!
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