SimHQ 2009 Touring Car Championship

Schedule

November 8 - Rescheduled... AGAIN! Anderstorp (included in GTR2)

November 15 - TiAida Okayama

November 22 - Macau

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Championship Points (through Event 5 - Imola)

http://simhq.com/_motorsports4/motorsports_145a.html

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Event 1 - Valencia

AutoAnalyzer - Race 1
http://simhq.net/downloads/motorsports/gtr2/SimHQ_2009_TCC_Series/Valencia_race1/g_info.htm
Replay - Race 1
http://simhq.net/downloads/motorsports/gtr2/SimHQ_2009_TCC_Series/Race1-ValenciaGP.Vcr

AutoAnalyzer - Race 2
http://simhq.net/downloads/motorsports/gtr2/SimHQ_2009_TCC_Series/Valencia_race2/g_info.htm
Replay - Race 2
http://simhq.net/downloads/motorsports/gtr2/SimHQ_2009_TCC_Series/Race2-ValenciaGP.Vcr

Thanks to Ktel for the replays and Chipwich for the AutoAnalyzer Results

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Event 2 - Brno

AutoAnalyzer - Race 1
http://www.simhq.net/downloads/motorsports/gtr2/SimHQ_2009_TCC_Series/Brno_race1/g_info.htm
Replay - Race 1
http://simhq.net/downloads/motorsports/gtr2/SimHQ_2009_TCC_Series/Race1-Brno.Vcr

AutoAnalyzer - Race 2
http://www.simhq.net/downloads/motorsports/gtr2/SimHQ_2009_TCC_Series/Brno_race2/g_info.htm
Replay - Race 2
http://simhq.net/downloads/motorsports/gtr2/SimHQ_2009_TCC_Series/Race2-Brno.Vcr

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Event 3 - Brands Hatch

AutoAnalyzer - Race 1
http://simhq.net/downloads/motorsports/gtr2/SimHQ_2009_TCC_Series/brands_hatch_race1/g_info.htm
Replay - Race 1
(not available - if anyone has the replay, please send it to me for posting)

AutoAnalyzer - Race 2
http://simhq.net/downloads/motorsports/gtr2/SimHQ_2009_TCC_Series/brands_hatch_race2/g_info.htm
Replay - Race 2
http://simhq.net/downloads/motorsports/gtr2/SimHQ_2009_TCC_Series/brands_hatch_race2.Vcr

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Event 4 - Oschersleben

AutoAnalyzer - Race 1
http://www.simhq.net/downloads/motorsports/gtr2/SimHQ_2009_TCC_Series/oschersleben_race1/index.html

AutoAnalyzer - Race 2
http://www.simhq.net/downloads/motorsports/gtr2/SimHQ_2009_TCC_Series/oschersleben_race2/index.html

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Event 5 - Imola

AutoAnalyzer - Race 1
http://www.simhq.net/downloads/motorsports/gtr2/SimHQ_2009_TCC_Series/imola_race1/index.html

AutoAnalyzer - Race 2
http://www.simhq.net/downloads/motorsports/gtr2/SimHQ_2009_TCC_Series/imola_race2/index.html

Thanks Ahmad fo providing the files.

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Introduction

This new series is modeled after the WTCC Series. It will be based on GTR2 cars and tracks. It will run on Sundays when there are not F1 races. Being a peer FIA event to the F1s, it seemed a natural solution. There will be two 1/2 hour races and a combined 30 minute practice /qualifying session. You should be able to get in and out in ~90 minutes, so you can get back to the kids soccer practice or the honey-do list.

Schedule

1:00 - 1:30 PM Combined practice and qualifying

IMPORTANT: GET THERE ON TIME! GTR2 CLOSES AFTER PRACTICE AND YOU WON'T BE ABLE TO JOIN! IF YOU'RE RUNNING LATE, GET ON TEAMSPEAK AAND LET US KNOW SO WE CAN HOLD THE DOOR OPEN FOR YOU!

1:30 - 2:00 PM Race 1 (30 minutes)
2:00 - 2:30 PM Race 2 (30 minutes)
2:30 - beer and bench racing (or back to the honey-do list)

Server

SimHQ Motorsports 2 (running GTR2 version 1.1) is up and running for testing.
NEW PASSWORD: motorSportz

Be sure and get the lobby patch from http://www.simbin.se/files/gtr2_ofp.zip
(edited September 5th)

Mod Download Link

http://www.simhq.net/downloads/motorsports/gtr2/SimHQ_2009_TCC_Series/WTCC BMW E90.zip

Tracks

June 28 - Valencia (included in GTR2)
July 5 - Brno (included in GTR2)
July 19 - Brands Hatch
September 6 - Oschersleben (included in GTR2)
September 20 - Imola (included in GTR2)

November 8 - Rescheduled... AGAIN! Anderstorp (included in GTR2)

November 15 - TiAida Okayama

November 22 - Macau

Zipped three tracks not included in GTR2 for the series (150 MB):
http://www.simhq.net/downloads/motorsports/gtr2/SimHQ_2009_TCC_Series/WTCC_Tracks.zip

Details

Teamspeak: listening mode is mandatory! voice option is strongly suggested.
Details: http://www.simhq.com/_multiplayer/multiplayer.html

Combined practice/qualifying at 1PM to 1:30PM
Race Length: 2 x 30 minutes
Mechanical damage: Normal
Damage Multiplier: 75%
Flags: Black + No Penalty Blue
Fuel: Normal
Start: Standing all races.
Restarts: 1 (any driver can call for the restart, but it must be called before the leader completes turn 3 on any track)
Driving Aids: Clutch + Shift
No car switching: Start with a car, stay with the car for all 8 races
Setups: Open
Drivers View: Open
Virtual Mirrors Available
Parc Ferme not in effect
Car selection: No duplication of cars

Qualification

We will add a second, short, qualification session and drop the warm-up session. With another qualifying session set to 5 minutes, drivers who disconnected in the first qualifying session would be able to rejoin and we wouldn´t need to restart the race. All drivers will need to stay in the pits for the second quali session and not enter the track. If there are no drivers needing to rejoin, the server will be advanced from the second qualifying session to the race. Any driver who drops connection and needs to rejoin will need to start from the back of the grid. The qualify sessions before the first race will count for the grid position in both races.

Car Sign-Up

Driver / Car Number

Papa_K / BMW Team Italy-Spain / #4
Doug Atkinson / Flash Engineering / #19
Col Kurtz / BMW Team Motorsport / #11
SteV8 / BMW Team WCR / #20
Ben Holt/ BMW Team Essex/ #009
Ian S / BMW Team UK 2005 / #001
Matthias Koch / BMW Team Deutschland / #42
Ktel / Engstler Motorsport / #6
DBR9 / BMW Team Italy/Spain / #
Saghen / BMW Team BW Racing / #38
Chris Johnson / Team Fleggaard / #023
David Kennard / Team MBR / #14
Nimrud / BMW Team Essex / #32
JonC / BMW Team FlashEngineering / #39
Andrew Knight / Team JMR / #15
GregP / BMW Team JMR / #7
Ahmad / BMW Team Motorsport / #10
TheGeezer / Team BW Racing / #36
Joe Keefe / BMW Team UK / #40

Scoring

There will be an overall champion with prizes for the championship podium 1, 2, 3 places.
Awards TBA.

Each driver must throw out one of their results during the eight race series.

1st = 10 points
2nd = 8 points
3rd = 6 points
4th = 5 points
5th = 4 points
6th = 3 points
7th = 2 points
8th = 1 point

Entries

A grid minimum of 15 entries sustained for all races is the goal.
A race that has fewer than 10 qualifying entries will be a strike against the series.
Any 3 race strikes and the entire series is canceled.

Car Selection

Signup for cars starts NOW!

Reference

http://www.fiawtcc.com/

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=wtcc

It's Saturday

Civic, or WTCC BMW E90 mod

Bringing the Race WTCC cars into GTR2...

To me, it was night and day between this mod and a normal GTR2 car. If you wonder what Race07/Evo is like, try "WTCC Mod v2.0" offline.

I'm not sure how many people here have Race07/Evo, but I'd guess it's a lot less than have GTR2.
I could be wrong, but it's probably safe to rule out any chance for a Race07/Evo series.

The WTCC cars would be my favourite choice for a series like that and as I own Race07/Evo, it would be no problem for me if we switch to those sims.

There are other mods for GTR2 like the P&G mod or the new ALMS mod, which I would prefer over the Civic or BMW E90 mod, but they wouldn´t fit as well into the 90 min event format with 2 short races.

But whatever the majority wants to run here, I think it would be the best to postpone the official series start for one week and make tomorrow a test session instead.

I can do the Civic or BMW E90 mod, but how about the Skoda Octavia mod? I did a couple of single player races with it and it seemed nice. Anybody else have opinions on it? http://www.rfactorcentral.com/detail.cfm?ID=Skoda%20Octavia%20Cup

That Skoda Octavia Cup mod's been out there for a while in different versions, but I've never tried it.

The WTCC BMW E90 mod for rFactor could be another option, sticking with the WTCC theme.
http://rfactorcentral.com/detail.cfm?ID=WTCC%20BMW%20E90
Finding WTCC tracks for rFactor might be a problem, and some people may have been waiting for a GTR2 series.

I'd like to keep this series based on a SimBin product. Going to download the Civic series and see how it is. The WTCC bimmers would be my second choice right now.

I'd like to do a race tomorrow and we can make it a test race or allow one race points to be tossed out which would cover anyone who cannot join in because of the delay.

We will have one mod to download -- that is legit -- within an hour or two.

Porsche Supercup 2008 - http://www.nogripracing.com/details.php?filenr=17676
I saw some good feedback on that mod over at r2p - http://www.race2play.com/homepage/show_posts/11850

I didn't try it myself ...

EVO GT's or a race 07 WTCC series would be good.

Anyone tried the HistorX mod for rfactor? its probably my favorite mod of all well its not just a mod its part conversion from GT legends and you need a GTL disc to install it but it is great fun and very challenging.