Introduction

The most asked for racing among those of you who completed our recent poll was Touring Cars. After a lot of review, we have picked the Octavia Skoda Cup cars. This is one of the very best mods rFactor has to offer, and is designed perfectly for this series of races. This is not a points series and the idea is to show up, run, and have fun. You'll find you need little practice to enjoy these cars, so its perfect for those who have little time to practice. We're calling it the SSTCS, or SimHQ Skoda Touring Car Series. No pre-registration or car assignments. Just pick your color of car and go!

General Information

Sim: rFactor 1.255
Mod: custom (use only the download provided for the series)
Car setups: fixed setups and upgrades
Standing Starts
Time compression: Normal
Fuel Setting: Normal
Tire Wear Setting: Normal
Free settings: Steering Ratio
Driving Aids: Auto Shift and Clutch
Damage Multiplier: 100% (don't freak -- these cars are fine with it)
Flag Rules: Black Only
Drivers do not need to come to a complete stop to ESC
Spectators allowed, but no in game chat available
Drivers can advance the server to the next session during practice
All 3 virtual mirrors available and highly recommended
Unique Vehicle Selection is off
No Parc Ferme

Weight Penalty for Race Winners

Rules addition - each race winner gets 10 20 kg / 22 44 lbs added to their car weight. It is cumulative. At the end of the event, the weight penalties are removed. Announcement: http://simhq.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/3318312/Re_ANNOUNCING_SimHQ_Touring_Ca.html#Post3318312

Schedule

Each of the 4 tracks will have two dates for competition.
Join as many as you can. Arrive late or leave early.
It's all open!

Wednesday, 8 June - 8 PM eastern time*
Sunday, 12 June - 12 PM eastern time
Birmingham Grand Prix layout

Wednesday, 15 June - 8 PM eastern time*
Sunday, 19 June - 12 PM eastern time
Autumn Ring layout

Wednesday, 22 June - 8 PM eastern time*
Sunday, 26 June - 12 PM eastern time
Cadwell Full Circuit layout

Wednesday, 29 June - 8 PM eastern time*
Sunday, 3 July - 12 PM eastern time
Old Ring Bruneck International Jr layout

* Starting an hour earlier than usual to let our European friends
get an additional hour of sleep!

Format

Race 1 - 5 lap (shotgun start)
Race 2 - 5 lap (inverted start)
Race 3 qualifying - 10 minutes
Race 3 - 20 minutes
Warm-up, leg stretch, bio break
Race 4 - 20 minutes (inverted start)
Bench racing

You will race 4 races each venue, qualify, and be done in 90 minutes!

One Download

This is a customized version of the mod that includes the tracks.
Please look at the readme.txt enclosed in the zip file for use information.
Only these cars are loaded on the server, so please choose one of them before joining.
http://simhq.net/downloads/motorsports/rfactor/SimHQ_2011_SSTCS/SSTCS.zip

Server Up and Running!

SimHQ Motorsports 2
Password: SSTCS_soc

Set your connection to 256 up/down
Grab Darren's rF Connect to avoid the login shuffle!

Replays

http://simhq.net/downloads/motorsports/rfactor/SimHQ_2011_SSTCS/SSTCS_Birmingham_8June.zip
http://simhq.net/downloads/motorsports/rfactor/SimHQ_2011_SSTCS/SSTCS_Birmingham_12June.zip
http://simhq.net/downloads/motorsports/rfactor/SimHQ_2011_SSTCS/SSTCS_AutumnRing_15June.zip
http://simhq.net/downloads/motorsports/rfactor/SimHQ_2011_SSTCS/SSTCS_AutumRing_19June.zip
http://simhq.net/downloads/motorsports/rfactor/SimHQ_2011_SSTCS/SSTCS_Cadwell_22June.zip
http://simhq.net/downloads/motorsports/rfactor/SimHQ_2011_SSTCS/SSTCS_Cadwell_26June.zip
http://simhq.net/downloads/motorsports/rfactor/SimHQ_2011_SSTCS/SSTCS_OldRing_29June.zip
http://simhq.net/downloads/motorsports/rfactor/SimHQ_2011_SSTCS/SSTCS_OldRing_3July.zip

Super Special Thanks!

Special thanks goes to Myrig, Piotr, and Professor Blythe for advisement and testing, testing, and testing!
Really appreciate it guys!

Yes! Looking forward to driving these cars in a SimHQ series. I liked driving these cars in single player back in the day, but didn't get a chance to do multiplayer with anybody.

Weaselkeeper is back too.

Weasy and EnvyODB too!

Server checked out and its now online. Info added to the first post.

Cool, I was just practising barber on iRacing.

woot

Did a practice session with Panther. Fun fun cars, but the tires go away after 4-5 laps so take it easy! Lupos on steroids!

These cars are quite fun to bang around in for sure, just fast enough to be a challenge but very stable, smooth and predictable under most circumstances. Unfortunately I'll be missing the first couple rounds as I planned my summer get away around the SCES series. Great news about WK and Envy, it's been too long since we've seen them around. Did they finally invent electricity in your neck of the woods WK?

And don't forget to hit your marks. I over drove one corner and broke the front end... just a little bit. I think it will buff out, if they can find the tires. It was a hard hit.

HAHA! Yeah, we finally got some of that there electricity stuff! Been too long away! Finally got connected with 5.5Mbps DSL out in my neck of the woods and everything ops checked okay tonight.

Steph, everything can be buffed out...been there done that (for real...lol).

Car gets light after a few laps. Hit your marks, downshift, easy brakes, and feather the throttle through the corners. Smooth is fast...don't over drive.