SNAIL - Endurance Series Year 2
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Guys do not forget this both this Sunday and next Sunday the Ring Rats will be running at La Sarthe. This Sunday we will be doing 14 lap practice stints and next Week its our 2.4 hour race with LMP 2 and GT3s. We will have our mandatory 5 min pit stop . Split start and random grid. Not as serious, but more fun endurance.
https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/threads/the-vln-series.386993/
https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/threads/the-vln-series.386993/
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I thought you guys might enjoy this post from the VLN thread because it not only put 90 minutes into perspective but because one of your regulars made the whole thing work!
I just found this while wandering around in my computer.....this is the preliminary stint schedule for 2015 24 hours of Nurburgring for Team DART in AJ's actual time (as in the race starts at the local time at the actual track )racing series. There were four of us on the team. @TEX36 (Jack) planned every race, taking in driver preferences. Each driver did 2 basically 3 hour turns at the wheel.
TRACT is a typo...it is Track Time.
My first stint was from 1740-2020 local...and my second was from 0420 till 0700. And...we did it....about every month. A staggering amount of time went into just the paperwork to make the stints work. BTW the sun set and sun rise were done by time progression and were NOT at European latitudes...thus it was dark as hell from about 8:30 till 0630
This is the race during which the story I have told many times took place.....and...for the last time....here it is.
Its 0630 local Ring time ( the sun is illuminating the Castle) and I am about to finish my second 3 hour Stint most of which was spent in the "green Haze" half asleep. Just as my "I'm really feeling sorry for myself" level has almost pegged....because its been real quiet..no Skype..and Messenger had been silent for hours. I had also turned off the race commentary stream on my computer (during a pit stop) because it was many minutes behind real time and confused me...try watching the road and the TV at the same time some time at the Ring, at night.
When all was presumed lost...my instant messenger on the phone "dings". It was Jack, whom I had already written off as having fallen asleep, The message was...
YOU ARE NOT ALONE!
I remember, I was on the Dottinger Hoe....and suddenly I was full of vigor, Thank you Jack!
This schedule was massaged by Jack between the other three of us of us and I think I did both of my stints in the dark with someone taking a stint in the middle so I could eat dinner...... and the race was done in a practice room....with all timing and scoring taking place when the organizer looked at every snap shot we took while entering and leaving the pits and then crunched the numbers...and about four days later a winner was declared...and then protested by everybody. It was about team work
I would do it again, but I would let some young kid take a triple while this gentleman driver took a single (in the dark but a single all the same). Our 3 hour races here in the Rats are ONE of the TWO stints done by all the drivers in that race. 48 Drivers took place in those events.
Preliminary Schedule – Please edit
DART RACE SCHEDULE
24-hours at Nürburgring, Type V
August 22-23, 2015
GT CUP and GT-3 (the LMP3s)
Lobby Open 1200 GMT (Noon) 0500 PDT – 0700 CDT – 0800 EDT NOTE:
Grid Open 1230 GMT 0530 PDT – 0730 CDT – 0830 EDT STINTS are 3 X 54 min
Parade Lap 1255 GMT 0555 PDT – 0755 CDT – 0855 EDT
Start of Race 1300 GMT ** 0600 PDT – 0800 CDT – 0900 EDT ROTATION
** Tract Time 1500 1st Stint 160 min (2hrs, 40min each) JIMMIE
at Start of Race 0840 PDT – 1040 CDT – 1140 EDT NOTE:
______________________________ Stints are 3 x 54 min ea
Tract 1740 0841 PDT – 1041 CDT – 1141 EDT
2nd Stint 160 min NED
1120 PDT – 1320 CDT – 1420 EDT 3 x 54 min
__________________________________________________
Tract 2020 1121 PDT – 1321 CDT – 1421 EDT
3rd Stint 160 min JACK 1400 PDT – 1600 CDT – 1700 EDT 3 x 54 min
__________________________________________________
Tract 2300 1401 PDT – 1601 CDT – 1701 EDT
4th Stint 160 min JT
1640 PDT – 1840 CDT – 1940 EDT 3 x 54 min
_________________________________________________
Tract 0140 1641 PDT – 1841 CDT – 1941 EDT
5th Stint 160 min JIMMIE
1920 PDT – 2120 CDT – 2220 EDT 3 x 54 min
__________________________________________________
Tract 0420 1921 PDT – 2121 CDT – 2221 EDT
6th Stint 160 min NED
2200 PDT – 0000 CDT – 0100 EDT 3 x 54 min
__________________________________________________
Tract 0700 2201 PDT – 0001 CDT – 0101 EDT
7th Stint JACK
0040 PDT – 0240 CDT – 0340 EDT 3 x 54 min
__________________________________________________
Tract 0940 0041 PDT – 0241 CDT – 0341 EDT
8th Stint JIMMIE
0320 PDT – 0520 CDT – 0620 EDT 3 x 54 min
__________________________________________________
Tract 1220 0321 PDT – 0521 CDT – 0621 EDT
9th Stint JT
1500 END OF RACE 0600 PDT – 0800 CDT – 0900 ED 3 x 54 min __________________________________________________
I just found this while wandering around in my computer.....this is the preliminary stint schedule for 2015 24 hours of Nurburgring for Team DART in AJ's actual time (as in the race starts at the local time at the actual track )racing series. There were four of us on the team. @TEX36 (Jack) planned every race, taking in driver preferences. Each driver did 2 basically 3 hour turns at the wheel.
TRACT is a typo...it is Track Time.
My first stint was from 1740-2020 local...and my second was from 0420 till 0700. And...we did it....about every month. A staggering amount of time went into just the paperwork to make the stints work. BTW the sun set and sun rise were done by time progression and were NOT at European latitudes...thus it was dark as hell from about 8:30 till 0630
This is the race during which the story I have told many times took place.....and...for the last time....here it is.
Its 0630 local Ring time ( the sun is illuminating the Castle) and I am about to finish my second 3 hour Stint most of which was spent in the "green Haze" half asleep. Just as my "I'm really feeling sorry for myself" level has almost pegged....because its been real quiet..no Skype..and Messenger had been silent for hours. I had also turned off the race commentary stream on my computer (during a pit stop) because it was many minutes behind real time and confused me...try watching the road and the TV at the same time some time at the Ring, at night.
When all was presumed lost...my instant messenger on the phone "dings". It was Jack, whom I had already written off as having fallen asleep, The message was...
YOU ARE NOT ALONE!
I remember, I was on the Dottinger Hoe....and suddenly I was full of vigor, Thank you Jack!
This schedule was massaged by Jack between the other three of us of us and I think I did both of my stints in the dark with someone taking a stint in the middle so I could eat dinner...... and the race was done in a practice room....with all timing and scoring taking place when the organizer looked at every snap shot we took while entering and leaving the pits and then crunched the numbers...and about four days later a winner was declared...and then protested by everybody. It was about team work
I would do it again, but I would let some young kid take a triple while this gentleman driver took a single (in the dark but a single all the same). Our 3 hour races here in the Rats are ONE of the TWO stints done by all the drivers in that race. 48 Drivers took place in those events.
Preliminary Schedule – Please edit
DART RACE SCHEDULE
24-hours at Nürburgring, Type V
August 22-23, 2015
GT CUP and GT-3 (the LMP3s)
Lobby Open 1200 GMT (Noon) 0500 PDT – 0700 CDT – 0800 EDT NOTE:
Grid Open 1230 GMT 0530 PDT – 0730 CDT – 0830 EDT STINTS are 3 X 54 min
Parade Lap 1255 GMT 0555 PDT – 0755 CDT – 0855 EDT
Start of Race 1300 GMT ** 0600 PDT – 0800 CDT – 0900 EDT ROTATION
** Tract Time 1500 1st Stint 160 min (2hrs, 40min each) JIMMIE
at Start of Race 0840 PDT – 1040 CDT – 1140 EDT NOTE:
______________________________ Stints are 3 x 54 min ea
Tract 1740 0841 PDT – 1041 CDT – 1141 EDT
2nd Stint 160 min NED
1120 PDT – 1320 CDT – 1420 EDT 3 x 54 min
__________________________________________________
Tract 2020 1121 PDT – 1321 CDT – 1421 EDT
3rd Stint 160 min JACK 1400 PDT – 1600 CDT – 1700 EDT 3 x 54 min
__________________________________________________
Tract 2300 1401 PDT – 1601 CDT – 1701 EDT
4th Stint 160 min JT
1640 PDT – 1840 CDT – 1940 EDT 3 x 54 min
_________________________________________________
Tract 0140 1641 PDT – 1841 CDT – 1941 EDT
5th Stint 160 min JIMMIE
1920 PDT – 2120 CDT – 2220 EDT 3 x 54 min
__________________________________________________
Tract 0420 1921 PDT – 2121 CDT – 2221 EDT
6th Stint 160 min NED
2200 PDT – 0000 CDT – 0100 EDT 3 x 54 min
__________________________________________________
Tract 0700 2201 PDT – 0001 CDT – 0101 EDT
7th Stint JACK
0040 PDT – 0240 CDT – 0340 EDT 3 x 54 min
__________________________________________________
Tract 0940 0041 PDT – 0241 CDT – 0341 EDT
8th Stint JIMMIE
0320 PDT – 0520 CDT – 0620 EDT 3 x 54 min
__________________________________________________
Tract 1220 0321 PDT – 0521 CDT – 0621 EDT
9th Stint JT
1500 END OF RACE 0600 PDT – 0800 CDT – 0900 ED 3 x 54 min __________________________________________________
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You guys are hardcore @GTP_Nail. I still cant figure out how you were able to do driver swaps though. I know for some 24H events teams were actually physically present among each other and would take turns. But how were you able to pull it off remotely?
iRacing has it down with fully supported driver swaps. Hopefully we get something like that in GT one day.
iRacing has it down with fully supported driver swaps. Hopefully we get something like that in GT one day.
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you had to wait till your current driver left the practice room which you noted by seeing the room count dropping to 15/16. Then you entered the pits, hit continue, snapped a screen shot, and off you went. It was fraught with all kinds of fu’s. Including having two driver in room at once... challenging... Absurd even
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A lot of Photos of Pit Entry & Exit to log Time progressions and length of Required Pit Stops. The photos were submitted to Race Scoring after you finished a stint.Ahhh ok that makes sense. So the race was never officially "started" in-game, it was more like an open track so people could hop in and out. If I'm understanding correctly. What a timing/scoring nightmare
Quite the challenge, to be sure. Forgetting to take a photo was a major problem. So, reminding each other about that was important.
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Tonight’s the final race night of the season.
We have 3 drivers who potentially have a shot at the title. With it being double points anything can happen.
@SAMHAIN85 @Herimopp89
Next week will be a special fun race. I don’t have all the details yet but I am closing in on the final decisions.
We have 3 drivers who potentially have a shot at the title. With it being double points anything can happen.
@SAMHAIN85 @Herimopp89
Next week will be a special fun race. I don’t have all the details yet but I am closing in on the final decisions.
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Hey, I’ve got a dollar for who takes @SAMHAIN85 out.
Also, it’s is only ONE double points (odd week) and ONE normal points (even week) that will be dropped.
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