[B-Spec] 2016 World Sportscar Championship

[BKGlover]

WSC Announces First Balance Of Performance Changes in Wake of Paul Ricard Tests

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Just one day after the final test in the lead up to the inaugural TAG Heuer World Sportscar Championship, changes to the balance of performance between the machines have been announced.

In the LMGT class, the Porsche 997 has received 15kgs of ballast and a 3% reduction in overall tire grip. The McLaren MP4-12C received 10kgs of ballast and a 3% reduction in tire grip.

The LMP1 class saw changes made in favor of the Lola Aston Martin DBR1-2. It received a 22kg weight break and the car's center of gravity was lowered. The car also received a slight aero upgrade.

"The changes were made after careful study of the Paul Ricard Test," said a WSC spokesman. "We expected the conversion of the GT3 cars to LMGT spec to be the most difficult task, and they certainly didnt disappoint. However I feel we found a happy medium with the new changes. Its impossible to get these cars perfectly equal, because quite simply these cars are nothing alike, different drivetrains, multiple tire manufacturers, completely different bodies, and more. Even if you got them performing exactly the same at one track, it could be a different story at another course.

Hopefully its not a season long issue and everyone is happy after the first practice session at Daytona."

The Season Opening Daytona 24 Hours is set to run January 9-10.

Thanks for the update.

Also I just now stopped and actually looked at @rallymorten 's mad genius.

EDIT: I just realized that as of now I'm driving all three cars. Eventually my race suit will melt to or merge entirely with the seat in the 85, but the 86 and 87 need drivers.

 

[Pezzarinho17]

Thanks for the update @Earth and mostly because you left the Porsche 919 alone!

 

[tbwhhs]

I will be unveiling my liveries at 9:00CST tonight.

Edit: We at TRB Motorsport in conjunction with Aston Martin Racing are proud to officially unveil our entries into the 2016 Tag Heuer World Sportscar Championship.

Spoiler: Car Pictures

Pictures courtesy of @Earth

Spoiler: Sponsors

Primary Sponsors

The Coca-Cola Company
Coca-Cola
Diet Coke (#4)
Dasani (#5)
Sprite (#6)

Aston Martin

Associate Sponsors
Adidas
Michelin
HP
Mobil 1
FedEx

 

[Earth]

Boooo...hiss
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On a more serious note is the 10kgs just added straight to the car? It's not positioned anywhere in particular that I would absolutely need to adjust my tune front to rear for is what I am asking.

Its not positioned anywhere in particular, just an overall number

 

[BKGlover]

I will be unveiling my liveries at 9:00CST tonight.

Edit: We at TRB Motorsport in conjunction with Aston Martin Racing are proud to officially unveil our entries into the 2016 Tag Heuer World Sportscar Championship.

Spoiler: Car Pictures

Pictures courtesy of @Earth

Spoiler: Sponsors

Primary Sponsors

The Coca-Cola Company
Coca-Cola
Diet Coke (#4)
Dasani (#5)
Sprite (#6)

Aston Martin

Associate Sponsors
Adidas
Michelin
HP
Mobil 1
FedEx

Very nice tbw. Clever use of the other coke brands.

 

[aarror]

Allstar racing is pleased to reveal the liveries of the 3 Lola Aston Martins the team will campaign in the 2016 Tag Heuer World Sportscar Championship.

Spoiler: Driver Lineups (And more pics)

#25
Nick Tandy
Richie Stanaway
Sebastien Loeb

After Porsche team Pezzarinho's shock decision to leave Nick Tandy out of their lineup, we jumped on the opportunity right away. He anchors our lead car, along with GP2 and GTE ace Richie Stanaway and 9x World Rally Champion Sebastien Loeb, who has a lot of time on his hands after leaving the WTCC.

#26
Aaron Van der Linden
Noriko Minoru
Kevin Magnussen

VRR Indycar racer Aaron Van der Linden is joined by his GTR2 series teamate Noriko Minoru in the #26. They share with ex-McLaren F1 driver Kevin Magnussen.

#27
Robin Frijns
Petter Solberg
James Hinchcliffe

Blancpain GT Champion Robin Frijns and Indycar race winner James Hinchcliffe are joined by 2003 WRC Champion and 2x World RX Champion Petter Solberg in the #27. Though not expected to make an appearance this season, the drivers will be on standby in case they are needed.

Spoiler: Sponsors

Ebay
Phillips Brewery
Michelin
Aston Martin

 

[Earth]

Livery Competition poll is here

<<LINK>>

Winner gets 200,000cr

2nd place gets 100,000cr

You are allowed to change your vote

Last Day is December 27th

@aarror
@AJHG1000
@BayneHamlin1121
@BKGlover
@DCybertron
@Formidable
@Frizbe
@G_Parrilla
@Gerarghini
@goofytyler
@GTRacer22
@Harsk100
@Jahgee
@optiongamers
@Pezzarinho17
@RACECAR
@rallymorten
@swiftsmith
@tbwhhs
@YayoiGT2

 

[swiftsmith]

Do I even have a livery yet @Earth?

 

[GTRacer22]

Maybe it would help if we had a place we could view everyone's liveries... Just saying.

 

[Earth]

Do I even have a livery yet @Earth?

The date of the livery competition has been in the first post since the beginning

Maybe it would help if we had a place we could view everyone's liveries... Just saying.

Oh, I assumed everyone was already familiar with all the cars. Here they are for easy viewing, just one car per team.

Allstar Racing

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AMR Team Goodsmile

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EH Team Racing

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Parrilla Racing Corse

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Porsche Sport Pezzarinho

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Ravenwest Aston Martin

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Scuderia Pergusa

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Starion Motorsports

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TRB Motorsports

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[swiftsmith]

The date of the livery competition has been in the first post since the beginning

I know that. I was just asking if I had one submitted in general.

 

[GTRacer22]

The date of the livery competition has been in the first post since the beginning



Oh, I assumed everyone was already familiar with all the cars. Here they are for easy viewing, just one car per team.

Allstar Racing

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AMR Team Goodsmile

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Parrilla Racing Corse

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Porsche Sport Pezzarinho

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Ravenwest Aston Martin

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Scuderia Pergusa

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Starion Motorsports

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TRB Motorsports

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Where's mine?

 

[Earth]

Where's mine?

Launch your team I dont want to spoil it! Then I'll add it

I know that. I was just asking if I had one submitted in general.

No, nothing

 

[Aesthetics]

I'm so sorry for this, @Earth , but I honestly just don't have time for more b-spec stuff, so I sadly have to withdraw. I'll still keep tabs and watch though.

 

[Earth]

I'm so sorry for this, @Earth , but I honestly just don't have time for more b-spec stuff, so I sadly have to withdraw. I'll still keep tabs and watch though.

Thats cool, honestly I dont really have the time for this myself Im kind of nutty for doing it

 

[Pezzarinho17]

I presume (and I have already voted!) that voting for your own entry is not allowed!

 

[Eh Team]

EH Team Racing Enters WSC
Team members unwrapped three gigantic presents which turned out to be McLarens
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Team boss Cliff Lagueux announced on Christmas morning that Nike, who took relatively minimal actual logo space, are funding the team completely. Lagueux stated that his rather delayed action with Indycar pushed him to look elsewhere to field entries. "Indycar is such a great series to watch but it's amazingly stressful as an owner so I had a difficult time choosing what to do. So by the time I made up my mind it was already made up for me, but then WSC popped up and I knew this would be much more in my comfort zone."

"So without further adieu, I would like to introduce to you the drivers I am fielding in the 2016 Tag Heuer WSC

Car #34
Sylvain Tremblay
Robert Wickens
Bruno Spengler

Car #35
Andrew Ranger
Peter Dempsey
Alan Webb

Car #36
Renz Apoong
Tim Sadchikov
Steve Diamant

Some names you will recognize, others you will not. Sylvain is a very accomplished Grand Am road racer, who drive and owned the Speedsource Mazda RX-8. Robert and Bruno both jumped at the chance coming from DTM to race Le Mans. Andrew is one of the best road racers in Canada's stock car racing circuit. Peter Dempsey was most recently in Indy Lights in 2013 and has been driving Formula Vee as much as he can.

Now we get to the names you don't recognize, these guys are my karting buddies and we had all made a promise between us that whoever came into an owners position first would do what they could to put them in cars. I feel that Alan is the most race ready of all of us so he got the seat in the full time #35. Renz, Tim, and Steve are all good as well, so if Alan feels like he's holding the team back any one of those 3 would be able to hop in the car and be just fine."

"I'd like to give a big special thanks to Nike for making this all happen, they gave us all the startup money and are providing all of our racewear and training facilities. Again big thanks, we hope to do you proud out there."

 

[Mike458]

@RedDragon , want to be teammates?

 

[Valkyr1313]

@RedDragon , want to be teammates?

Sure thing. Pick a car and I'll have a look at livery ideas

 

[Earth]

Congratulations to @aarror and @G_Parrilla for finishing tied for 1st in the livery competition. Both teams will receive 200,000cr. @YayoiGT2 and @rallymorten finished tied for 2nd place and will receive 100,000cr each.

 

[rallymorten]

I'VE NOT COME IN LAST IN SOMETHING RELATED TO ROAD RACING

 

[RACECAR]

That Ferrari

It is just awesome and unsettling at the same time.

 

[Mike458]

Sure thing. Pick a car and I'll have a look at livery ideas

We'll take the Corvette C7R, numbers 13, 14, and 15, team name is R.T. Corsa. You know what to do...

 

[Valkyr1313]

We'll take the Corvette C7R, numbers 13, 14, and 15, team name is R.T. Corsa. You know what to do...

Who do we have as our other drivers?

 

[Mike458]

Who do we have as our other drivers?

Not sure. Any ideas?

 

[Valkyr1313]

Not sure. Any ideas?

Lemme do some thinking. Same sponsors as F1? We could even grab a couple more

 

[Mike458]

Lemme do some thinking. Same sponsors as F1? We could even grab a couple more

Actually... Just thinking about it, Stef Sanjati could be our third driver...

Also how much money do we have to start with?

 

[Earth]

Actually... Just thinking about it, Stef Sanjati could be our third driver...

Also how much money do we have to start with?

Mike, who is going to control how this team spends the credits, sends in setups etc?

 

[BKGlover]

I'VE NOT COME IN LAST IN SOMETHING RELATED TO ROAD RACING

Hmm...guess I'll eventually have to "Git Gud" when it comes to the paints.

It'll be interesting to see how this co-owner team works.

 

[Mike458]

Mike, who is going to control how this team spends the credits, sends in setups etc?

@RedDragon will be in control of the team.