IZOD IndyCar Series | Cancelled, S2 to Follow in January 2012

[cgr-10]

Welcome to the Inaugural season of the GTP IZOD IndyCar Series!
The car we will be using is the Formula Gran Turismo (FGT). Racing will be on a Friday night at Midnight GMT which is 19:00 Eastern​

All Races will be held in a public room hosted by Knelly. Please add Knelly on PSN.​

UK Race Times
FRIDAY
Room Open & Free Practice--23:00 GMT
Qualifying--23:30
Race--00:00
Estimated Finish--00:45/01:00

Driving Assists etc.
Skid Recovery--OFF
All other assists--Unrestricted
Grip Reduction--Real
Damage--Heavy
Penalties--OFF

UK settings listed above. US series has all assists turned off except for TCS on road courses.

Bump drafting is NOT allowed on any track

2 Wheels on the tarmac at all times​

TEAMS/ROSTER​

Team Penske - Black/Silver Formula Gran Turismo
Driver 1 - GTP: Knelly PSN: Knelly UK Series
Driver 2 - GTP: Niop PSN: RFLX_Niop USA Series
Driver 3 - OPEN

Sarah Fisher Racing - Black/Yellow Formula Gran Turismo
Driver 1 - GTP: LVracerGT PSN: LVracerGT USA Series
Driver 2 - OPEN

KV Racing Technology/SH Racing - White/Purple Formula Gran Turismo
Driver 1 - GTP: tombrooks97 PSN: tombrooks97 UK Series
Driver 2 - GTP: Bashman_-_ PSN: Bashman_-_ UK Series
Driver 3 - OPEN

Service Central Chip Ganassi Racing - White/Blue Formula Gran Turismo
Driver 1 - GTP: Rich S PSN: mustardaddict UK Series
Driver 2 - GTP: ronin85 PSN: ronin85 USA Series
Driver 3 - OPEN

HVM Racing - White/Green Formula Gran Turismo
Driver 1 - GTP: TomMcD PSN: Tom_97_COD UK Series
Driver 2 - GTP: disinfected PSN: disinfected USA Series
Driver 3 - OPEN

KV Racing Technology Lotus -Green/Yellow Formula Gran Turismo
Driver 1 - GTP: terrible1fi PSN: terrible1fi USA Series
Driver 2 - GTP: Cowboys965 PSN: Cowboys965 USA Series
Driver 3 - GTP: GTP_J_Turner PSN: JT977 UK Series
Driver 4 - GTP: JakobNascar88 PSN: Jakob_Nascar88 USA Series
Driver 5 - GTP: smuffyatfcp PSN: smuffyatfcp UK Series

Dragon Racing - White Formula Gran Turismo
Driver 1 - GTP: Acorner123 PSN: ACDCROCKS123 USA Series
Driver 2 - OPEN

Newman/Haas Racing - Blue Formula Gran Turismo
Driver 1 - GTP: kenkwilinski PSN: CrAzY_bAsSiSt_83 USA Series
Driver 2 - GTP: lesoldham PSN: lesoldham USA Series
Driver 3 - OPEN

Target Chip Ganassi Racing - Red Formula Gran Turismo
Driver 1 - GTP: mechyboy27 PSN: mechyboy27 USA Series
Driver 2 - GTP: 24rocks PSN: JPotak UK Series
Driver 3 - OPEN

Bryan Herta Autosport - Orange Formula Gran Turismo
Driver 1 - GTP: Gofast2006 PSN: Gofast2006 USA Series
Driver 2 - OPEN

Sign up using this form!​

PSN: E.G. Tom_97_COD
Team: E.G. HVM Racing
UK or US series?: E.G. UK Series​

Car Settings​

To make the racing as close as possible, the specs for each car are very similar. You must set your car up to these parameters for each track, it will be obvious if you've not done so due to top speed etc.

Daytona Road, Indy Road, Tokyo R246 and Tokyo R246 Reverse Specs:
Power: Detuned to 650hp
Weight: 175kg ballast on Road courses (725kg total)
Transmission: Reset to default, then put max speed at the bottom right to 211 mph, then put final gear to 4.250, and 7th gear should be at 1.509 . This should give you about 209 mph in the draft.
Tyres: Comfort Hards and Mediums. You must drive at least 2 laps on each compound.
All other tuning: Unrestricted

Madrid Specs:
Power: 650hp
Weight: 725kg
Transmission: Reset to default, set max speed at the bottom right to 193mph, then put final gear at 4.295, 7th should be at 1.655.
Tyres: Comfort hards and mediums. You must drive at least 2 laps on each compound.
All other tuning: Unrestricted

Laguna Seca Specs:
Power: Detuned to 650hp
Weight: 175kg ballast on Road courses (725kg total)
Transmission reset to default, then put max speed at the bottom right to 180 mph, then put final gear at 4.200, and 7th gear should be at 1.769 .
Tyres: Comfort Hards and Mediums. You must drive at least 2 laps on each compound.
All other tuning: Unrestricted

Daytona Oval Track Specs
Weight 690kg
Max Power 631bhp
Transmission: Reset everything to default, then put max speed at the bottom right to 217mph, then put final gear to 4.230, and then put 7th gear at 1.465 . You get 210/211 mph running solo, and these settings limit the drafting speeds to 215/216 mph
Tyres: Comfort Hards
Ride Height (Optional): Increase ride height to iron out the bumps in the road, not compulsory.
All Other Tuning: Unrestricted

Indy Oval Track Specs:
Weight: 690kg
Max Power: 848bhp
Transmission: Reset transmission to default, then set the max speed at the bottom to 236, then put your final gear at 4.212, and 7th gear at 1.366 . The other six gears can be set however you want. This will limit the top speed of your car to about 232.5 mph.
Tyres: Comfort Hards
All Other Tuning: Unrestricted​

 

[cgr-10]

Schedule

Pre Season - Spa Test
14 laps + 1 pace lap (60 miles) at Spa
26th of October

Pre Season #2 - IndyCar Shootout
20 + 1 laps at Daytona & 20 + 1 laps at Indy
2nd of November​

Round 1 - Indy Japan 100
32 laps + 1 pace lap (100 miles) at Tokyo R246 Reverse
9th of November

Round 2 - The Dan Wheldon Indy 150
60 laps + 6 pace laps, 5 of which are silent laps in memory of the late Dan Wheldon (150 miles) at Indianapolis Speedway
16th of November

Round 3 - Rolex Grand Prix of Florida
28 laps + 1 pace lap (100 miles) at Daytona Road Course
25th of November

Round 4 - Honda Grand Prix of Indiana
38 laps + 1 pace lap (100 miles) at Indianapolis Road Course
2nd of December

Round 5 - Mazda Grand Prix of California
45 laps + 1 pace lap (100 miles) at Laguna Seca
9th of December

Round 6 - Daytona 200 IndyCar Finale
80 laps + 1 pace lap (200 miles) at Daytona Speedway
16th of December

Qualifying
Road Course: The track will be reset and you will have 30 minutes to post the fastest lap time possible which will determine your starting position, simple.

Oval Course: The track will be reset and all drivers will go to the pits. Then the drivers will be called out one at a time, for 1 out lap and 2 flying laps by the steward. They will then return to the pits, DO NOT exit the track. These qualifying sessions may start 15 minutes earlier in order to fit everybody's runs in.

Pace Lap Rules
Form up in double file behind the safety car and follow it round the track in qualifying order as shown below.

At the end of the lap the safety car will pull into the pits, you should still drive at the speed limit until the first car passes the start line (or the pit wall at Indy)
Indy 3 wide start @ 80mph
Daytona 2 wide start @ 100mph
Road Courses 2 wide start @ 70mph

Pit Lane Rules
On all tracks you have to slow down to 60mph before you enter the pit lane and the computer takes control of your car. There are a couple of tracks that cause issues after the pit though so i'll clear them up:

Daytona Road: On exiting the pit lane and re taking control of your car, quickly slow down to the 60mph speed limit (you regain control automatically doing 62mph) Do not rejoin the track to the right. Instead continue along the long pit road extension to the left still adhering to the 60mph pit lane speed limit. Note that you ARE allowed to cut through the empty pit boxes on the second half of the pit lane. At the end of the pit lane barrier, you are free to accelerate away.

Indy Superspeedway: On exiting the pit lane and re taking control of the car, do not immediately turn right onto the track after turn 1. Instead, you should follow the inside pit road all the way round and exit after turn 2. There is no speed limit on this pit exit though as it is relatively simple, and slowing down would be pointless. Check that there are no faster cars approaching from behind when you rejoin on the back straight.

Daytona Superspeedway: On exiting the pit lane, stay on the inside of the track (to the left of the yellow line) until you are clear out of turn 2. This is to avoid accidents on the high banking. Speed on this pit exit is unrestricted. Check there are no faster cars approaching from behind when you rejoin on the back straight.

On all other tracks the pit entrys and exits are pretty simple, just remember the 60mph entry speed. You must have at least 2 wheels in the pit entry/exit lanes at all times.

Oval Course Cautions
Indy cautions: 4 caution laps in total. On the first lap everyone gathers behind the safety car. At the start of the second caution lap, the wavearound is given to any cars between the safety car and the race leader. At the end of the second caution lap the pits are open. Cars catch back up to the safety car near/at the end of the third caution lap. Cars go double file on the back straight on the 4th caution lap, ready to restart. Leader takes the inside line as it is an oval. Race restarts at the beginning of the pit wall. Restart speed is 100mph. NO CAUTIONS IN THE LAST 3 LAPS.

Daytona cautions: As above, 4 caution laps, race restarts at the start/finish line. Restart speed is 100 mph. NO CAUTIONS IN THE LAST 3 LAPS.

Road Course Cautions
2 caution laps. Form up behind the safety car as usual but at 70mph, the first caution lap starts when the safety car crosses the line, at this point the wavearound will be called for cars between the safety car and the leader. The pits will be open for the end of this lap, once you have pitted, catch up to the safety car and go double file for the restart at the start/finish line. The leader gets a choice of the inside or outside line for restarts.

If you feel that someone has:
-Purposefully crashed into you
-Caused an avoidable accident
-Been consistently cutting corners
please inform me or LVracer depending on which division it was in. Replays will be studied and points deductions/Time penalties will be considered if the incident was serious enough.​

 

[cgr-10]

Points System​

1st place = 50 points
2nd place = 40 points
3rd place = 35 points
4th place = 32 points
5th place = 30 points
6th place = 28 points
7th place = 26 points
8th place = 24 points
9th place = 22 points
10th place = 20 points
11th place = 19 points
12th place = 18 points
13th place = 17 points
14th place = 16 points
15th place = 15 points

Pole Position = 1 Point
Most Laps Led = 2 Points

The top 2 finishers per week on each team will have their points put towards the constructors championship. This means teams with 4 members will have little advantage over 2 man teams.​

Championship Points Table​

Constructors Points Table​

Results​

Pre-Season Spa Test (No Points)
1st= DrifterJoe - 31 minutes approx (Best Lap-1.53.173)
2nd= berty1979 - +6.420 (Best Lap-1.54.421)
3rd= Rich S - +1.00.999 (Best Lap-1.54.961)
4th= Knelly - +3.00.xx (Best Lap-1.58.197)
5th= RaPidZx - +2 laps (Best Lap-1.58.056)
6th= Cowboys965 - +3 laps (Best Lap-2.03.761)
7th= ddsLeonardo - DNF
8th= lesoldham - DNF
9th= TomMcD - DNS

Pre Season #2 - Daytona Shootout (No Points)
1st= Gofast2006 - 22m 56.xxx s
2nd= Rich S - +00.033
3rd= Knelly - +04.609
4th= GTP_J_Turner - +07.993
5th= DrifterJoe - +14.990
6th= ddsLeonardo - +24.134
7th= Chqr - +57.195
8th= RaPidZx - +1:29.789
9th= 24rocks - DNF
10th= TomMcD - DNS

Pre Season #2 - Indy Shootout (No Points)
1st= Chqr - 15:54.394
2nd= Rich S - +40.077
3rd= Knelly - +1:03.375
4th= Gofast2006 - +1:06.822
5th= GTP_J_Turner - +1:11.454
6th= TomMcD - DNS


Round 1 - Indy Japan 100

1st= TomMcD - 56:35.031
2nd= Knelly - +2.989
3rd= GTP_J_Turner - +2 laps
4th= 24rocks - +3 laps
5th= smuffyatfcp - DNF
6th= DrifterJoe - DNF

Pole - DrifterJoe
Most Laps Led - TomMcD

Round 1 - Telemundo Indy Grand Prix of Madrid

1st= LVracerGT
2nd= Ronin85
3rd= Niop
4th= lesoldham
5th= jimbobclay

Pole - Ronin85
Most Laps Led - Ronin85​

Round 2 - The Dan Wheldon Indy 150​

1st= smuffyatfcp - 47:35.546
2nd= TomMcD - +0.050
3rd= GTP_J_Turner - +1:18.797
4th= Cowboys965 - +1:30.033

Pole - TomMcD
Most Laps Led - TomMcD

Round 2 - Mazda Indy 100 at Laguna Seca

1st= Ronin85
2nd= lesoldham
3rd= Cowboys965
4th= LVracerGT

Pole - Ronin85
Most Laps Led - Ronin85​

 

[Knelly]

Joe and I are Team Penske
UK
👍

 

[cgr-10]

Thanks mate, will add you to the list. Any good for my first thread?

EDIT: And can you make the Wednesday? If so, I'll confirm it.

 

[Knelly]

Looking from iPhone briefly it looks great Tom, good job mate.

Wednesdays are fine and personally wouldn't give the option that it may change or we'll have allsorts saying 'change it to this'. 'change it to that'

Also, best put the dates in (sorry if already have)

Let's see what interest we get now.

👍

 

[cgr-10]

Thanks mate, I'll set Wednesday as a definite on the OP. We were getting plenty of interest before, hope it carries over 👍

 

[BrandonW77]

Bravo! I've been waiting for somebody to do this! I can't race on Wednesdays but I hope it goes well. 👍

 

[cgr-10]

We've been planning it out for a while. We had to make it Wednesday so our safety car driver can make it. That's a shame, thanks anyway

 

[MemorableC]

Im in

MemorableC
Newman Haas if i cant find a KV lotus
US series

pending race time etc for the US series

 

[cgr-10]

Awesome, adding you now 👍

 

[DrifterJoe]

I'm surprised that the numbers work out so weel for the cars. 10 FGT colours in the game, 3 cars per team, 30 cars total, 15 per series, leaving 1 space for the safety car in each.

Anyways, you already know I'm in. 👍

 

[cgr-10]

Yeah I was stunned it worked out so well. No worries, you're already down for Team Penske with Knelly 👍

EDIT: Don't worry about the absence of a points table, I've got them set up on Google docs and will add them after the first race.

 

[terrible1fi]

Looks good

Psn: terrible1fi
Lotus
Us series (pending race day availability)

👍

 

[cgr-10]

Looks good

Psn: terrible1fi
Lotus
Us series (pending race day availability)

👍

Awesome, I'll put you down. I'm just waiting on a US schedule and times, should get them soon from LVracer so keep your eyes on the thread 👍

Slightly off topic, but everybody check out the Q&A section for the full Spec 2 features list, I can't wait!

 

[DrifterJoe]

LV's suggestion last night was to have an extra leaderboard, with the points of people from both series, which goes towards an extra championship (I think he called it the Intercontinental Championhip). So we'd have a UK champ, a US champ, and an Intercontinental champ. He also said to let him know when you make the sign up thread, since I'm sure he has the info to give you about the US series.

 

[cgr-10]

Yeah I can just about remember him saying that, I'll make up an extra table. I might PM him to let him know about the thread 👍

EDIT: The full list will be UK Champion, US Champion, Intercontinental Champion and Constructors champions. There's probably about a 1 in 2 chance of bagging a trophy haha

 

[DrifterJoe]

Don't forget about the UK Vs US race Champion .

I may have to do a lot of testing after spec 2.0 comes out in the next 10 days or so (Kaz confirmed it'll come out on the week that is the 9th-15th), since one of the things included is "improved physics".

 

[cgr-10]

Well I've decided to start worrying about that one in December Yeah definitely, it shouldn't cause any issues though. My bet is they improve the exterior damage model as well.

 

[DrifterJoe]

Yeah, "improved physics" could mean a lot of things. Rollover online, making online and offline physics the same, handling physics, tyre physics, damage physics...

 

[cgr-10]

Tyre and fuel changes are the only things that could cause us issues, and it would be a good idea to standardize physics across online and offline. Rollover physics and damage is only a good thing

 

[DrifterJoe]

Tyre and fuel changes are the only things that could cause us issues, and it would be a good idea to standardize physics across online and offline. Rollover physics and damage is only a good thing

If they do standardise physics, hopefully they use the online physics (and add rollover), otherwise our setups will all be useless.

 

[cgr-10]

Yep, and we'll only have a week or two to sort it out. Let's hope Kaz keeps our series in mind while making the update

 

[Knelly]

Let's get physical, physical, I wanna get physicaaaaaaaal

 

[DrifterJoe]

2.0 is set to be released on the 11th (though I don't know whether this may be the 11th in Japan, which will be more like the 12th for us).

 

[cgr-10]

That early? I thought it was later, that'll be fine then

 

[DrifterJoe]

That early? I thought it was later, that'll be fine then

Yep, check the GTPlanet news page.

 

[cgr-10]

Ah I see, cockpit views look very nice as well. That means there'll be one for the FGT right?

Also guys, please tell your mates, fellow racers, wives, families, pets etc. about this series, it's gonna take some effort to fill up 25 grid spaces 👍

 

[LVracerGT]

OP looks great Tom! I just pm'd you the US schedule. Also, the US room will have mics enabled with race quality on high.

 

[cgr-10]

OP looks great Tom! I just pm'd you the US schedule. Also, the US room will have mics enabled with race quality on high.

Thanks mate! Just Pm'd you about a couple of extra things, and that's great. What team are you representing?