BTCC Online Championship Season 3 Testing

[priesty_lfc]

Enjoyed watching you guys, some decent racers in this series.

Not my best set up and a track I'm not a fan of so didn't really do myself justice :/ , looking forward to racing with you guys again.

Question tho, are there teams in S2? Was surprised not to see teams colour schemes so thought you all might be independents?

 

[rolo912011]

We were allowed to run one-off schemes as it was the final round. There were teams this season.

 

[SkengD]

Tsukuba
Fuji F
Spa
Tokyo
Grand valley speedway
Special stage r5
Suzuka
Nurburg gpf
Rome
Deep forest

 

[rolo912011]

We can't have DLC, at least not at the moment anyway - otherwise I think all of us would have voted for it.

What's your revised list? 👍

 

[SkengD]

Trial mountain for spa

 

[rolo912011]

72 Tsukuba
66 Monza
63 Autumn Ring
51 Nürburgring GP/D
46 Grand Valley Speedway
40 Tokyo
38 SSR5
34 Deep Forest
33 Indy Road
33 Trial Mountain
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30 Grand Valley East
30 Suzuka
27 Laguna Seca
27 High Speed Ring
25 Nürburgring Nordschleife
19 Fuji F
18 London
14 Suzuka East
14 Rome
12 Nürburgring GP/F
6 CSR5
4 Nürburgring Type V
4 Cape Ring - Periphery
1 Daytona Road
0 Fuji GT
0 La Sarthe
0 La Sarthe - No chicanes
0 Nürburgring 24hr
0 Monza - No chicane
0 Cape Ring
0 Cape Ring - Inside
0 Cape Ring - North
0 Cape Ring - South
0 Autumn Ring Mini
0 Eiger Short
0 Madrid
0 Madrid Mini
0 Monaco

Drivers voted for all 10:

rallymorten
rolo912011
karsten_beoulve
gedi69
cunny17
johnboy-1975
skengdigi

Voting closes 29th September.

 

[azidahaka]

ehm dlc tracks?

 

[rolo912011]

Not included yet. Possibly if everyone wants them/has them.

I wouldn't mind a bit of Spa myself, but Geeky needs to confirm if DLC is allowed.

 

[azidahaka]

btw why so much love for tsukuba when lots of people complain of aggressive racing and crashes?

 

[SkengD]

Lets hope its a clean race , its a great track but not easy to pass on

 

[rolo912011]

If it goes in, put it on late season so all the dirty drivers will have been banned by then

 

[SkengD]

Since you guys use a reverse grid based on pts how do you organize the grid for the 1st race

 

[rolo912011]

Since you guys use a reverse grid based on pts how do you organize the grid for the 1st race

Reverse Season 2 championship order, with any newcomers put in reverse order of sign-up (i.e. last to sign up starts higher up) 👍

Since Melancholy is the only newcomer I imagine he'd be on pole by default.

 

[cunny17]

Since you guys use a reverse grid based on pts how do you organize the grid for the 1st race

Normal quali session may be the best way.

 

[kk20]

Normal quali session may be the best way.

Normal qualy wont work because reg changes messes up grid order. Thats why most GTP series with diverse regs have qualy during the week...

 

[rolo912011]

How does my plan sound?

 

[TheBosZ]

How does my plan sound?

Couldn't we simplify the whole thing?

I mean:
1)real qualify session
2)only one race instead of two with no pit limit window

 

[rolo912011]

Qualifying would be a bit of a pain to do with the way the game works - grids wouldn't line up properly, so the only way to do it is to get people to run in the week between races. For that you'd need someone to watch etc.

Besides, it's that little harder for drivers near the back to get any good results if the fast guys always start at the front.

Personally I like the two-race format.

 

[TheBosZ]

Qualifying would be a bit of a pain to do with the way the game works - grids wouldn't line up properly, so the only way to do it is to get people to run in the week between races. For that you'd need someone to watch etc.

Besides, it's that little harder for drivers near the back to get any good results if the fast guys always start at the front.

Personally I like the two-race format.

One race mode could balance qual results if one is smart to manage consumption. For quals could be done 15 min before a race and then you obtain grid orders like we always done.

 

[rolo912011]

Would take away the very essence of BTCC, in my view.

Just my opinion.

 

[ITCC_Andrew]

I definitely like most of the tracks listed.

 

[priesty_lfc]

What's wring with the quali system?


In our BTCC series (we ran same regs but with RH's) we had 2 races, 15m quali session with grid order fastest first, first race was a short race (6/7/8 depending on the track), when that finished we changed the grid order to reverse grid for feature race (12/13/14 laps, again depending on the track) but with mandatory pit. Both races had tire wear on.

We never had any issues with the grid being wrong tho?

 

[azidahaka]

the grid is ok until some smartasses start entering and exiting the room or start changing their setup. then it messes up and people start in wrog positions

 

[V8-Johnboy]

You also need to carry out the car checks dont forget, the current way is the only way to do this 100% naughty free.

 

[priesty_lfc]

the grid is ok until some smartasses start entering and exiting the room or start changing their setup. then it messes up and people start in wrog positions

Ah ok, although surely that only effects the people who join late/who exits the quali session? They start further back as they won't have posted a time?

You also need to carry out the car checks dont forget, the current way is the only way to do this 100% naughty free.

What do you mean exactly?

Bhp/drive train are set so that's not an issue, the only variable is weight, no one is gonna add extra weight to there ride as there only gonna penalise them selves?

1400kgs join the quali session first at regs of 305/FF/4WD etc, then one of the 1200kgs guys lowers the weight to 1200kgs then everybody else join, nobody is allowed to exit quali during this period so know body should breach the rules?

 

[rolo912011]

I'm quite the fan of reverse championship order.

 

[priesty_lfc]

I'm quite the fan of reverse championship order.

Is that what you run?

1st race reverse championship standings and 2nd race slowest first?

 

[SkengD]

Yeh i guess kk will be starting at the back again

 

[wiseguy007]

Ill let you decide mate , i havent thought of anything good

I've gone for lime green on my Golf havent put much thought into team name yet...Will let you know if i think of something.

Track choices in order:
Nurburgring GP/F
Suzuka Circuit
Deep Forest Raceway
Monza
Tsukuba Circuit
Cape Ring Periphery
Tokyo R246
Special Stage Route 5
Trail Mountain Circuit
Laguna Seca Raceway

 

[SkengD]

I will paint mine some type of green then