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I know you believe you understand what I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.

It's like deja vu all over again.
 
my highest finish yet, but it could have been higher :(. i caught the spinning tom out the last corner and got engine damage and cowboys beat me to the line, but oh well, Im happy with 4th :D
 
Race briefing for next week up, clarifies caution procedure etc. 👍

Pre-Race Drivers Briefing

Firestone Gran Premio de España @ Circuito de Madrid Reverse
Friday 29th June 2012
47 + 1 laps (100 miles)

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IndyCar hops over the pond to the Spanish city of Madrid this week to begin a fortnight of European street circuit racing. The unforgiving walls, tight corners, narrow streets and tall kerbs are sure to prove a challenge for even the most experienced drivers in the field. This is a pure street track with hairpins, bumpy roads and mad elevation changes mid-corner; not to mention the buildings towering over every portion of the circuit.

Note that new caution rules are being trialled this week. Caution will be called, pits closed and field bunched up at 70mph as usual. Then when the pits are opened and people enter, everybody who stays out will accelerate to 120mph maximum and restart the race single file next time by. The cars that have pitted will be able to go full speed upon exiting the pits and will be able to overtake once green flag is called by the cars that stayed out. This creates a 15-20 cushion between the groups, a suitable but not over the top penalty for pitting.

Tom McDonald

IndyCar Race Director
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So, an idea for late race cautions that me and Joe think could work (next season possibly? Not sure yet); it's not used IRL in IndyCar but it should make for fun and fairer finishes for all.

Green, White, Checkered.

Yep. We add laps onto the counter at the end of the race to allow for 'overtime' in the event of a late caution. There would be a set number of tries at a GWC just like in NASCAR, it would run similar to their way of doing it. The race will end on a certain lap on the counter which i'll call out to the field via 'last lap!' down the mic just to clarify. We'll check results on the replay.

This also gives us a cool down lap where the cars from 4th down can go round to the pits and quit out, whilst the podium cars can come round again for a photo i'll take for the thread weekly.
 
No worries pal. I think we have more of a licence to mix things up with stuff like this than the NASCAR series do so it's something I'd like to try.
 
That’s a good idea. The new cautions sound good to, gives an advantage to those who don’t pit, and adds a little more strategy to the race.

Won’t be able to make the race at Madrid due to a friend’s birthday, but should be good until the end of the season. Sorry for the poor show.
 
Don't worry about it, cheers for the notice 👍

Yeah, all the cars will complete the cool down lap and when you reach your pit box in pit lane you can quit. Podium finishers will line up 3 wide on the main straight for a photo.

Anybody know if you need to complete the race to get the replay, if so i'll just run the remaining laps solo.
 
best not for those outside to quit, better off just waiting for the photoshoot to be done.
 
Also an idea for next race or next season. For those without a mic, if two cars crash who don’t have a mic, if they type “caution” in the chat box to inform others of the incident so You, Joe, and Knelly so then you make the decision
 
Fair point.

Either way, I want people to go to pit lane and pause after the cool down lap until phots are done. Then you can race around and get your cash if you want.

So, can you quit out and get the replay still?
 
If I remember right: If you quit then your race replay will show up to the point where you quit out, so if you want the photoshoot on there you'll have to stay in the race until it's done.
 
Sounds good. My plan is to trial both of these ideas at Madrid this Friday before reverting to our old system for the remainder of the season.

Then we can progress to next with new caution rules (including speeds for each track which we'll need to work out, which will take a while) and GWC finishes, along with looser team colour regs, the team draft/team owners, new Indy oval regs and the photoshoot/victory/cool down lap.
 
Here you go gents, on the OP:

TomMcD
Also we will be trialling 'Green, White, Checkered' finishes at this round. If a caution comes out with less than three laps to go in the scheduled race distance (47+1 laps, so the start of lap 46 in the corner of your screen) we'll go into 'overtime'. The green flag will be waved after the caution procedure above, and 2 laps of racing will remain. If there is another caution on the first lap after green, we'll have another attempt at a GWC finish. We will have up to three attempts at this and if there is a caution after the third, positions will be frozen and the race will end in the positions at the time of caution being called.

Alternatively, if we clear that second to last lap caution free and the leader takes the white flag, the next flag ends the race. For example, if there is a yellow flag the positions are frozen at that time and the race will end.

Please not that due to extra laps added onto the GT5 lap counter in order to make GWC finishes possible, the race will not actually 'finish' in the game; I'll make everyone aware of which is the final lap and when the race is done via text and voice chat. Note that if there is no caution in the last 3 laps, the race will end at the close of lap 48 on your counter. After the checkered flag is waved, on the cool down lap, finishers from 4th down must return to pit lane but the podium finishers should congregate on the home straight for a podium photograph for the thread.
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DrifterJoe
If I remember right: If you quit then your race replay will show up to the point where you quit out, so if you want the photoshoot on there you'll have to stay in the race until it's done.
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No, you get the full replay. Just don't leave the room for any reason.
 
Cowboys965
Tom did you get the PM about my idea? It's what they do in real IndyCar, not this.
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Yes, I know and we're doing that next season at Indy due to the maximum lap count.

The point is, i'm trying to make this as fun and interesting as possible and to be honest, GWC finishes are something that would make IndyCar IRL more exciting, never mind in GT5.

I mean, look at how many late race cautions we have. If we did that, every race would end under caution. That's not right in my opinion.
 
Cowboys965
I just realized we can do burnouts after we win. :D
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Exactly, and your victory lap :lol:

Also, this solves the issue of cars under AI control that have finished the race littering the track.
 
Ahem, Mr Host, I don't seem to have a yellow box highlighting my win in the tables.

I like yellow boxes :( They clearly demonstrate that Penske has so far managed 5 wins out of 8 races :D
 
Sorry, slight oversight. I'll fix it.

EDIT: Done.

By the way, I've decided to change the season finale to Motegi; still 250 miles but you'll need the DLC which apparently releases tomorrow.
 
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