GT5 The Nurburgring (200) 500 kms and Enduro Series.

GTLOZ WORLD ENDURO Series 2011 (GWES)


Regulations
1980-2011 Race Cars (no rally, no LMP cars) *Check Eligible Car List for race cars that qualify.*
WEIGHT LIMIT: FREE (Round 4: 1170kg) (Round 5: 1150kg)
BHP LIMIT: 502 (Round 4: 522) (Round 5: 670)
Race tyres (may vary depending on initial BHP of the car) (Drivers can't change tyre compounds during a race)
DIV 1: Race Hard
DIV 2: Race Med (Round 5: See car list below)*
DIV 3: Race Soft
ABS as an option
TCS as an option

Drivers can change cars between rounds if they wish.
Time Scoring System: Winner takes 100pts, following position points calculated as percentage of winners total time:
[Driver A Total Time (s)] / [Winners Total Time (s)]*100 See also GWES LEADERBOARD
Mandatory amount of pit stops are voted in before each round taking into account the distance/laps. (tyres only are mandatory each stop)
False Start Check: ON


Tracklist and Schedule Series 1
Round 1. The Suzuka 200. 17/9/2011 Damage: Heavy

Round 2. 240kms of High Speed Ring. Weather:ON Damage:Heavy Date: 16/10/2011

Round 3. The SSR5 250 (66 laps) (Forward) Damage: Heavy. Date: Saturday 5/11/2011 2:30pm EDT

Round 4. 280kms of Circuit De Spa (40 laps) Weather: ON Damage: Heavy. Date: Sunday 20/11/2011 (prac) 2:30pm EDT
Tyres: Div.1. RH. Div.2. RM Div.3. RS BHP: 522. Weight: 1170kg




The Nurburgring 200 (test round)
17/7/2011

Round 1. The Suzuka 200 (35 laps)


[h]Round 1 Info transfered to wiki[/h]
Calender & Location Specific Regulation Notes:
Entry List:
Qualifying Result:
Race Lap Times:
(click for info)


Round 2. 240kms of High Speed Ring (60 laps)



Date: Sunday 16th October
Practice: 12:30pm (30mins)
Qualifying: 1:00pm (30mins) Track reset for qualifying.
Race Start: 1:30pm EDT
Weather: (ON) Weather at Race Start 25%, Changeability 5 and Surface Water at Race Start 0
Heavy Damage: ON
False Start Check: ON
Slip Stream: Weak
*Dynamic weather also ON for practice and qualifying sessions. Will reset track for qualifying.
*2 Mandatory pit stops to be made (tyres must be changed, fuel is drivers decision)


Race Review
Another great race today with a sample of everything, great fighting, disappointment, glory and the slight threat of rain.
The High Speed Ring providing plenty of fast and close racing with lots of unforgiving armco waiting trackside.

The start was great and all drove well off the line. There were some racing incidents and some lost the fight with the track itself.

The points table is looking all very close and there are some keen drivers that I can imagine are all looking forward to Round 3, a night race on the famous SSR5. A track with a very different character.
What will the next race bring?




Round 3. The SS Route 5 250 (66 laps Forward)
Date: Saturday the 5th of November.
Practice: 2:30pm EDT
Qualy: 3:00pm
Race: 3:30pm (2 Mandatory pit stops)


Entry List
1. SEIDO463 CLK-LM Race Car 98 Race Med Tyres
2. Chevwah (DNS)
3. KILLADRIFT (DNS)
4. Aza2672
5. Bonus888
6. MiKiD
7. X-Evilmoon
8. tekNique (DNS)
9. FloodSim
10. Aussieman


Round 4. 280 kms of Circuit De Spa (40 laps)
Date: Sunday 20/11/2011
Practice: 2:30pm EDT
Qualy: 3:00pm EDT
Race: 3:30pm EDT
Weather: ON
BHP: 522
Weight: 1170 Kg
Tyres: Div.1. RH. Div.2. RM. Div.3. RS.
Mandatory Pit Stops: 0

Entry List
1. SEIDO463 (RM)
2. Floodsim (RH)
3. KILLADRIFT (RS)
4. Aza2672 (RS)
5. Bonus 888 (RM)
6. MrB52 (RM)
7. Pagone41 (RH)
8. M1K1_D (RM)

That sounds like fun if we can find the right timeslot for it. One suggestion on the time of day, if you think it will be ~3hrs driving, why not 2pm start with progression on 8 or so to give a full 24hr cycle. Im not overly keen on driving all 500km in the dark

It gets dark about 830 in game and I didn't want to use a fast time rate, if it was set to 1 then half the race will be in the day and the other half in the dark. I want it to feel real, plus every other race we do at the ring, we have used a full 24 cycle. But we could set the start time back earlier, so the race finishes up in the dark.. maybe just 3 laps or so in the dark. The lighting effects is truly awesome at various parts of this track..
It's funny people online in Open Lobby always ask me to change it to day when I'm testing at night... I love the challenge of The Ring at night, atmosphere is great.

Yea finding the right time slot won't be easy.

Fair enough. I figured there had to be some thinking behind the timing. The dawn/dusk periods to pass to quickly in game to enjoy them most of the time.

To get it rolling, I suggest a start time of 7pm Sunday, the week before season 4 starts (whenever that is)

It's a good concept, but the 3 hour running time is just too long for me.

I'm interested. Maybe you could start with a 2hr race maybe. To ween people into it. To develop some interest.

to long for me and i hate nurburgring

If you can get enough interest in this I'd deffinatly be up for giving this ago so if this goes ahead you can deffinatly count me in for sure mate the concept sound really good :mrgreen:

lol yea... that could be a bit tough.

This could be the longest race I've done, next to the Grand Valley Enduro from GT2 and 4 which took about 3 hrs I think.

When this event goes ahead it will be something far more awesome.
Will do a bit more testing tonight!

haha, will definitely be the longest online race I have ever done, but I finished the Nurb 24hr on GT4 in 3 days (roughly 8.30am to 5.30pm with a lunch break each day)

i could only last about 2hrs. damage on heavy means you need to pit to fix it, this would tend to cripple my lap times because the fences seem to all want to hug me every now and then. still good ideas though

wow thats wikid!

well this event seems to be getting some interest. Hope you are all wiling to challenge it sometime soon!
hows sunday the 17th? exact start time TBA

May shorten the race to 2.5 hours this time...

sounds good mate :mrgreen:

Hmmm... after last night's issues with connectivity, I'm not sure that this concept has a bright future

I'm going to run a shortened version of this event this Sunday the 17th. About 1hr in length. Basically a trial race of this format. If it works, then at a later date we can run a longer more challenging race.
Would be great to see some of you show up, please reply if your interested for this Sunday and we can settle a time.

The Nurburgring 24hr Layout

prac/qual from 3:30pm
Race start at 4:30pm
8 laps (About 1 hr 10 mins, based on a 9 min lap time.)
In-game start time 7pm
Time rate 1
Heavy damage
False start check
No penalty (Really don't like the ghosting)
Dynamic weather
Off track/rain set to real
Tyre and Fuel ON

Regulations

Race cars (no rally cars)
630pp
Race tyres;
Div 1 Race Hard
Div 2 Race Med
Div 3 Race Soft
ABS as an option
TCS as an option

Would love to participate but alas I cannot.

ah, well next time then!