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2009BE4: grid-touring @ Le Mans
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Date: 20090704
Start time: 2100UTC (1700EST/1400PST)
Game Server: rfactor.gridmotorsports.com
TeamSpeak Server: teamspeak.gridmotorsports.com
Track: Le Mans (VLM 1979 v1.1)
http://rfactorcentral.com/detail.cfm?ID=Le%20Mans%201972-1986
Drivers Meeting:
5 minutes to reiterate rules and policies, and address any last minute event issues
Qualifying race:
- 10 minute qual
- 30 minute race
- standing start
- 0% damage
- 3x fuel, 3x tire wear
- time-scaling has not been determined, but will likely include night
Endurance race:
- No qual (grid is set via the finishing order of the qualifying race)
- 15 minute intermission/warmup
- timed race lasting 2hrs
- standing start
- 25% damage
- 3x fuel, 3x tire wear
- time-scaling has not been determined - will include night if there is no serious objection
The GMWC meteorology center advises us to expect the following conditions in Le Mans, France, on Saturday, 7/4:
Cloudy with a 60% chance of rain and an average temperature (day+night) of 20.3C (68.5F)
Track temperature is expected to be 30.5C (86.9F).
Drivers should experience slightly increased engine performance under such conditions.
NOTE: the details of this event are not finalized. Race settings (for both the qualifying round and the enduro) may be tweaked prior to the event. Any changes will be promptly reflected in this post.
Yeah - that's AJ's idea. The suspicion is that there will be some people that show up stone cold on Le Mans. And they can use the qual race to bounce themselves around the track and hopefully ramp up quickly enough to enjoy the enduro. I wanted something non-zero, but meh - it's just a qualy race.
I actually think that's a good idea, because it means that one person can't accidentally ruin qualifying for anyone else by overshooting a turn, etc.
Damage has essentially no bearing on someone's ability to ruin qual for someone else. 0% damage doesn't keep someone from clobbering another driver in a turn, and the person who had their nice clean qual hot lap spoiled won't feel any better about it just because they're sitting in the gravel trap facing backwards in a perfectly undamaged car.