GT5 The DTM World Tour Series

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The DTM World Tour

In short, 6 Rounds at real world tracks in DTM cars. There are a choice of 6 cars, and there will be 5 teams. The teams/cars are:

Audi Abt TT-R Touring Car 02
Audi A4 Touring Car 04
BMW M3 GTR Race Car 91
Mercedes-Benz CLK Touring Car 00
Vauxhall/Opel Astra 00

I am hoping to get at least 2 in each team, but would like 3 and we may have 2 rooms depending on how many guys sign up. You can sign up as a team, or sign up and you will be assigned a team-mate. I reserve the right to reassign team-mate's if we get 2 rooms or if I just want to.

We will race on Monday nights starting 10th of October. 9pm kick off. I will post up tracks after the weekend, just want to do a little bit of testing. There will be 2 enduro's (around an hour), the rest of the events will be 30-45 mins.

Rules & Regulations:
I would like to experiment will some rules that others have used with these cars, but, don't get me wrong, this will be a fun series - so if the rules are stifling competition they will be canned.

Max Power 473bhp
Min wt 1120kg
1 compulsory pitstop (there will be no specified pit window) and 2 tyre compounds (softs and mediums) are to be used during the race. No mixing of tyre compounds allowed (ie front soft, rear medium).
Weight handicaps will be trialled, ie a penalty weight will be added to cars depending on their positions in the previous races. So:
Cars which finish in the top three are awarded penalty weight.
1st +40kg, 2nd +30kg, 3rd +20kg, 4th +10kg
Cars which finish from 5th and under progressively lose any penalty weight they might have accumulated.
5th -10kg, 6th -20kg, 7th -30kg, 8th to last -40kg
The maximum weight that can be carried is 100kg.

Championship points breakdown & Leaderboards
The points for individuals will be accumulated as per the current system, but more importantly there will be a team/constructors championship. The points for this will be distributed as such:

1st: 15pts, 2nd: 12pts, 3rd: 10pts, 4th: 9pts, 5th: 8pts, 6th: 7pts, 7th: 6pts, 8th: 5pts,
9th: 4pts, 10th: 3pts, 11th: 2pts, 12th: 1pt

So if you come 3rd and your team-mate gets 7th, you have 16 pts towards the team championship.

If you are interested please post below and leave your name and preferred car.


TRACKS:

Round 1: Monza - 21 Laps
Round 2: Nurb GP/F - 19 Laps
Round 3: Suzuka - 29 Laps
Round 4: Daytona - 21 Laps
Round 5: Fuji F - 23 Laps
Round 6: La Sarthe (2009) - 13 Laps
Round 7: Spa - 25 Laps

Love the concept and the weight handicaps. Great work Anon! Not sure I can make the time-slot.
Chucked a blurb on the wiki and stickied this topic for ya

Count me in.. undecided on car at this stage.

very interested, will confirm with the hand brake tonight to see if she will let me race....sounds great.

Stu

a team event about bloody time!
great work get on board this one

Thanks Koaster.

Also, it has been suggested that folks PM me their car choice. Either way I'll do my best to even out the teams, but if you are (or have a mate who's) new to GT5 and/or the forum, this might be a good chance to get teamed up with one of the quicker guys and learn a bit about tuning and driving and get to know a few people.

@pies - I know, I've done team events with F3 previously and they were great fun.

Sorry anon, hand brake not in a very positive mood. Will have to give a miss and stay on a sunday night.

Have fun guys, looks like it will be a great series.

Sorry I've not got the tracks up yet, been a bit busy with rl. Tracks are picked just need to work out no. of laps. Will get it done tomorrow hopefully.

Tracks added to OP:

TRACKS:

Round 1: Monza - 21 Laps
Round 2: Nurb GP/F - 19 Laps
Round 3: Suzuka - 29 Laps
Round 4: Daytona - 21 Laps
Round 5: Fuji F - 23 Laps
Round 6: La Sarthe (2009) - 13 Laps

OK so far we have 7 racers confirmed. It would be good to have at least one more driver to get us to 8. 3 more would be great to have 10 - 2 in each of the 5 cars.

OK then, so far we have:

Chev
Bonus
Stumbles
Aza
Darko
Neishy
Anon
Keggs
Chev's mate

(+/- 2-3 other guys Bonus knows)

Also we will wait until after the update, so the new kick off date is the 17th of October.

I will put the teams up tonight. Any more names??