Digital Racing Commission (DRC) founded! Begins testing first series!
At long last, I've finally gotten around to starting up the series idea that had been floating around in the back of my head since I first started playing GT5. The one consistent problem I've had was implementing it. With the advent of ballast and power limiters as well as the PP system, I've begun testing on the small collection of vehicles I own.
First and foremost (with much respect to my fellow
members) my goal was to start a racing series that had a long enough list of applicable vehicles that repeat would be at a minimum of 2-4 cars at most. I wanted a series that took multiple paths to get to the same destination and I found it.
However, one series surely wasn't enough as the idea's slowly grew. So I created my sanctioning body (DRC) to oversee several racing series'. Plus, I wanted to create a body of information to help gentleman racers like me to found series' of their own.
DRC combines racers, car collectors and tuners into one spot to get applicable data on all of the cars in GT5 so we can share with others which ones can compete with what, when and where. Hence the "Commission" part of DRC.
We'll aim to extend towards photography for promotional art for others(We'll always have that car you need in your shot) as well as a regulatory body for your series, providing eager yet professional and unbiased race officials to make sure your events run smoothly.
We'll also offer tunes for select popular vehicles that maximize performance while minimizing driver effort.
But lastly and most importantly, we'll be the guys that are online in a private lobby racing for fun against each other, over the various tracks that GT provides. Using GT5 exactly like it was meant to be used.
If you'd like to join DRC, I'd be more than happy to welcome you.
If you have your own idea for a racing series, I'd be more than happy to welcome you.
If you just want to race online against competitive drivers using all of the cars in that 300+ garage of yours... well you get the point:
Join DRC!!!
The First Racing Series
Now to introduce the first DRC string of events:
Outlaw 500PP
The idea behind this came from popular events that were run before the advent of Performance Points. The formula was simple: 355hp and 1000kg. Events would be a mix of racing and street cars all battling it out in intense door-to-door action (A sample can be seen
here.)
The formula really came together when Performance Points became involved. Allowing even closer competition between vehicles. After experiencing several various PP limited events I noticed that there were several different types of racing cars hovering around 500PP. Namely the JGTC/Super GT GT300 cars, WRC/Group A Rally cars and the odd mix of touring and racing cars.
As of today, I've personally tested
23 cars with positive results and even more cars to come!
The cars were flung around Tsukuba and at the end of it all, only 2.6 seconds separated the fastest car (
Superautobacs MR-S) from the slowest (
C4 WRC It should be noted that the C4 was running low-aero too!)
Below is the list of cars and times tested. All cars were only given one lap to ensure identical times given the conditions, this was also to reduce my personal time spent given the list of vehicles I was driving. The times can and will be much faster with all cars properly tuned (some were running out-of-the-UCD configurations) and tires at operating temperature.
The Superautobacs MR-S and both Weds Sports cars were run twice. The first time with 505PP, the second time with 500PP. Vehicles in
italics have a notable performance difference, usually aero related. Still a bunch of cars to test! See you then!
