GT-Sport [Completed] RaceOnOz Endurance Championship

Hey Mez there was an issue with our room at the start with no BOP on which I think you herd so that needs to be doubled checked before quaily as it was a complete balls up ............................

Been organised for quite a while now. 2 different days to run it aswell. We spoke about it last night that half the people wouldnt show up. Alot of people put there name down for something and dont do it. Im not saying that problems and things dont come up but it does happen all the time.

Dunno but not all teams had enough runners. Unknown if any chucked in the towel

@NAACS had to

I'll be looking over the results and come up with a fair way to score lapped finishers as the Sunday room wasn't clear on BOP settings and Qualifying was run without BOP enforced. At this stage a fixed delta seems to be the fairest option.

As @Hatfield has suggested, scoring top two drivers from each team towards the team result may be the best option. The field spread is greater than anticipated for this series (perhaps lack of practice and setup understanding helping that). I will discuss with @Bryan_F (as organiser of sister/support TCR series) the best way forward to address this to ensure everyone is entitled to a fair result and not miss out on the teams championship due to last minute absentees. If this is the case I will introduce a separate drivers championship.

Thank you to everyone who showed up to support this series.

The first race of a new format is always expected to have a few hiccups and I haven't helped by some vague rules and regulations in the OP. This will also be addressed in full before Round 2.

I'll process results soon and start a new thread with round one results.

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@AroGantz , if you have any protests please lodge them to me. The ROOZ Stewards are not the judicial body for this series.

I had a good race...mostly against myself, getting lap times that were as good and better than those in practice. Turns out I was a little more consistant than @Matthyus, having ditched using TCS for last few races of season 1 and all of season 2.

I saw everyone pulling away using other compunds, I think every version got a run, which probably/ hopefully? speaks to how close they all are once a good strategy has been developed. Despite being left behind, I stuck to the strategy, knowing that I just wasn't as consistant on the softer compounds - though continuing to doubt myself!

I did go off a few times, and twice got some damage, which I pitted early for, but was much more consistant than my practice runs. Also I before the weekend I was getting 32 laps out of a tank (was half full after 16, didn't do a full length practise!) - but changing 2-3k lower rpm got me about 70 laps, and no slower - amazing difference!

Towards the last 30 laps or so, I gained hope and saw @AroGantz was potentially in view. He was lapping faster, on softs, but pitting every 13? laps or so.

Sorry if I hit you! Amazing to last all that way then be so tense at the end! I had a great time, I won't protest, not sure who is at fault either way, I will have a closer look later! Thanks for the redress, did you get tyres at your pit on lap 75? I would have fueled less if I realised we were doing 87 laps!

@Matthyus, you did fine mate, I didn't realise bop was meant to be on until 5 o'clock.
@Mezign, no protest mate, I was just suggesting to Jonesy that with 3 corners to go we should not bother with redressing and let you sort it out post race.
I absolutely love this format, pure racing at its best and I'm looking forward to R2.

There was no fault imo Jonesy, I was fighting for the place in a damaged car and you were trying to take it, that is racing.
And I took my last tyres at lap 71 and should have went to RS to finish, I knew I needed less fuel but didn't think about the tyres.

I've decided the fairest format (due to the large field pace spread and running two rooms) is to set it at a fixed delta. I'm working on 1min10sec for this race. Not as brutal as the initial value and within the average lap pace for everyone. I don't have a screenshot of the overall finish times, only lap down count from the Sunday race, so I have to calculate laps down as fixed delta from race winners time. Not accurate, but the most fair calculation. We'll make sure we run through all the processes before round 2 so hosts understand the entire format and data needed. I think there may have been some miscommunication last night with what data I required from Johnno. He took a screenshot of the lap times instead of overall finish time. Not a big deal. All part of the learning process to make the series work.

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I'm thinking about reducing the bonus points for overall consistency. 10 is a bit much and takes away from the team who wins overall. Either 3 or 5 seems more appropriate. Thoughts?

It's ok. I got a screenshot from Hat. Just needed the Race Results screen that shows overall time, not time to leader. Dynamite is the only one missing but his track position and finishing result don't affect results.

It was intended to help out the smaller teams to encourage the drivers to work together. Even if dead last they could sync times to get a bonus towards the championship. The intention was that drivers/teams would put in more preparation and dedication to the series considering it was a collaborative race result and long races. That hasn't seemed to happen so perhaps it is best to keep it simple until ROOZ is ready. I'm fine with dropping it.