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Mule racing?
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Not sure, I sent him the PM with around 18 other people.
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2 of which will race? 
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Basically on the ovals it's a rolling start, simples. On the road courses you drive a pace lap as normal but instead of a rolling start you park up on the grid as you would in real life, then I shout a time on the in game timer from which you can launch. I may put a photo of every track's grid up as an example to make things easier; it's easy in principle but hard to explain.
Let me know which team man 👍
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TomMcD
Read the FMSC (Flying' Miata Super Cup) pace lap, it works much better.
You all do qualy, record times, then rest track, you all enter the track and park up in grid order in practice mode, so when you start the race, you start in the correct position. 👍
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That's not really the point man, I think he misunderstood what I meant by gridding. That procedure is unnecessary for us as we don't do super lap qualifying. I'll take pics of the grid like FMSC do so people know where to park though 👍
EDIT: We do quali as usual then the race starts. We do a pace lap as usual but then instead of a rolling start we park up in the grid spots depending on quali position, I call out the time to 'launch' you get me?
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TomMcD
I understand, but this way the race just starts on the normal timer, no misconceptions about the timer.
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The reason I prefer it this way as everything flows with no loading screens between them, having the pace lap before the race misses the point entirely. Any false starts or 'illegal positioning' on the grid will be penalised so there's nothing to be worried about really 👍
EDIT: Here's your event briefing gentlemen....
Pre-Season Test Session @ Spa Francorchamps
Friday 13th April 2012
Everybody at IndyCar is gearing up for the new season and it's looking like it's going to be a very exciting few months of racing. With the season opener only a couple of weeks away it's time to pull your FGT out of the team garage and ship it to Belgium because the pre-season testing is taking place at the historic Spa-Francorchamps circuit. This will be a 3 hour session beginning at 22:00BST and ending at 1:00BST (roughly 17-20:00 Eastern) and will involve lots of 20 or so lap sessions in 'race mode', but this is no race. You can put in as many or as few laps as you want, spend 20 minutes in the pits if you want, but the aim is to post the quickest time possible; each session will obviously end shortly after somebody has completed the allotted number of 'race' laps, in which case I'll record all times from that session and just start another. I'll then compile all the fastest laps and post them on the thread; hide your speed in pre-season or go for the fastest time regardless, it's your decision. Any questions on this are welcome, I understand it's a tricky concept to get your head around. Can't wait to see you all back on track 👍
Tom McDonald
IndyCar Race Director
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Quite a lot of rounds aren't there Tom?
I don't think SSR5 without lights and such a tight track will work well...
I don't think SSR5 without lights and such a tight track will work well...
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Oh right, thought he was pulling out. But as I said most were fine with a 11:30 start till now, why change something that's not broken? Fill me in please before I make a fool of myself again, if I haven't already
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Oh right, thought he was pulling out. But as I said most were fine with a 11:30 start till now, why change something that's not broken? Fill me in please before I make a fool of myself again, if I haven't already
It's to make things slightly easier for guys in the UK as you may have noticed we only have a couple of guys from the US so we don't have to go so late really. Chqr will be able to make some races this season this way and some other guys I know might also 👍
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Hey guys,
I'm interested in this series and am signing up for the pre-season test session at Spa, if all goes well then I will sign up for the new season 👍
PSN account: Pagey279
Team: Lotus HVM
Never tried driving the FGT on anything other than racing tyres though.....I could be in for a shock tomorrow morning when I try things out
I'm interested in this series and am signing up for the pre-season test session at Spa, if all goes well then I will sign up for the new season 👍
PSN account: Pagey279
Team: Lotus HVM
Never tried driving the FGT on anything other than racing tyres though.....I could be in for a shock tomorrow morning when I try things out
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Hey guys,
I'm interested in this series and am signing up for the pre-season test session at Spa, if all goes well then I will sign up for the new season 👍
PSN account: Pagey279
Team: Lotus HVM
Never tried driving the FGT on anything other than racing tyres though.....I could be in for a shock tomorrow morning when I try things out
Welcome mate, you'll be in for a pleasant surprise as it handles quite well
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