Missed the first race for the Cup race in Martinsville which I attended in person. I should be on board for the rest though

I've decided to skip Indy (this year) and go to Mid-Ohio since it's only a 90 minute drive vs. 4 hours. Has anybody been there before? Advise? (My family didn't follow road racing, so I've never attended a road race before.. I'm determined to change that ).

I just got back from Martinsville for the Truck/Cup race on Monday evening. I must say that the Cup race was (in my opinion) the best race that I've ever seen in person. (which to me is always better than on TV)

No fake cautions, which means 0 since the mistake at Bristol (2 races). Maybe that was the best thing that could have happened, ironically.

I think the elimination of the ride height rule may have made the racing better than I estimated that it would. The spoiler likely had no effect at Martinsville, nor the splitter, so that's really the only other change that would have effected this track/race.

I enjoyed Martinsville more than Bristol as far as the track and view. Atmosphere I don't believe can be beat by any, but that's not very important to me.

What Days/times would everybody like to see? I'm likely to be available on Saturday afternoons, but I can see about other days/times.

Quote from RandomnessInside :

FE24. Didn't see that coming.

K21 and FE2 would work well though. Just not sure what kind of chicane it has, but the one we had in our version wasn't that bad. :P We also included the oval section and it should be included now as well.

The oval section is good, and the Corny chicane isn't much different. But, since we might do F24, I'd rather just keep it traditional. If we don't do F24 it would be a better choice

I made some tweaks as suggested. The reason for the odd Race #1 points was the invert in 5's. I changed to inverting top 8 only, and normalized race #1's points (while adding sandbagging disincentives as well). Endurance is hardly a factor in the MRT, so a longer race is simply to allow the disadvantaged drivers who did well in race 1 time to make up lost time. The longer race will be able to hold excitement to competitors for this reason when a normal race starting grid would not.

I'll begin working on a schedule when I get back from Martinsville and get midterms off my plate

In the mean time, suggest some short tracks to race on. I'm looking only at short tracks with as many passing opportunities as possible (not flipping opportunities though )

Edit: Some round track/lap options:

AS1: 9 & 18 laps
AS2: 8 & 16 laps
SO1: 12 & 24 laps
SO5R: 6 & 12 laps
K21: 7 & 14 laps
F24: 40 & 80 laps
FE2: 8 & 16 laps (With Cornys Chicane)

Last edited by Cornys, Thu 27 Mar 2014, 01:46.

Thanks for the help guys. I think I'll got to the Road Race with general admission. I might consider attending the Indy 500 on the same ticket (general admission) if my work remains steady.

Why not just grind the back stretch to smooth it out? Done

Why is Fontana great now? Increased drag to close in straights coupled with a track wide enough to allow aero-tight to be negated by running a different line.

Really good race. I'm headed off to Martinsville Friday morning for the Truck & Cup races . Middle of turn 1 3/4 of the way up. Never been to the track before.

I've been thinking this over. How does this format sound?

Group Qualifying: 10 min.
Race #1 (Direct from qualifying): ~10 min
Race #2 (Invert top 8*): ~20 min

* - Invert top 8 means that the starting grid for race #2 would be as follows.

8th place in round #1
7th
6th
5th
4th
3rd
2nd
1st
9th
10th
11th
12th
(Ect.)

Race# 1 points
1st - 30
2nd - 25
3rd - 22
4th - 19
5th - 16
6th - 14
7th - 12
8th - 10
9th - 8
10th - 5
11th - 4
12th - 3
13th - 2
14th - 1
Others - 0

Race #2 points
1st - 50
2nd - 40
3rd - 35
4th - 30
5th - 25
6th - 22
7th - 20
8th - 18
9th - 16
10th - 14
11th - 12
12th - 10
13th - 8
14th - 6
15th - 4
16th - 3
17th - 2
18th - 1
Others - 0

Last edited by Cornys, Thu 27 Mar 2014, 01:20. Reason : Taking some suggestions into consideration

Quote from ChristijaNL :

Great race today. Oval racing at its best.

Yes, two reasons.

1. Near terminal velocity on the straightaways.

2. Low grip level in the corners

Fake yellows were (arguably) non-existent (I only watched last 20 laps or so)

I understand that the at track experience suffers greatly with the new motors, but I think that once the teams become acclimated to the new engine package that the racing will be much improved for a TV audience (which is where the majority of income is obtained in today's motor racing environment).

I enjoyed Sundays race despite the engine failures. I thought that it was in all a pretty good race.

On a side note, maybe silence would be better. Tires squealing, crowds cheering. The atmosphere would be more pure, but clearly something would be missing unless a rumble / shaking was still achieved (which would be most awesome) . How to do this? You can't (with today's technology)

I'm seriously considering making the 2.5 hour trip to Indy for the Indy GP this May. General Admission is 25$. A seat in T1 area (T4 of oval) is 51$. Which is the better deal, or does it depend? I'd be taking my GF, so I guess the question is if the 52$ more is worth the reserved seat for the both of us. Neither of us would object to walking for the entire day.

In other news, I've made a pretty serious commitment to trying to follow this series more than ever. I'm hoping (since the racing is better in IndyCar already) that I will like it enough to forget about the crap that NASCAR's national series' have become

Quote from IsaacPrice :

Doesn't count if you don't watch it live, you muricans have it easy

I hate watching things recorded, but those rounds from 2 - 4 AM are not worth it.

I think I'll make the commitment to follow this season from start to finish this year. Personally, I think the smaller engine will make the racing a good bit better (at the price of in-person atmosphere I'm afraid, but I've never been to an F1 race sadly).

I will be disappointed to see the final race come down to double points, but oh well.

DVR is set to record at 2AM next Sunday morning local time

Las Vegas... worst races of the year. NASCAR loves going there though. Phoenix TV ratings were the lowest for the 2nd race of the season since Rockingham in 2000.

Yesterday's Nationwide race was bad. It displayed how thin the Nationwide series is now. It took only about 55 laps for less than 10 cars to be left on the lead lap. 15th place finished 3 laps down.

Now, lets see if NASCAR knows what it's doing. If NASCAR cannot make their 1.5 mile track package better, we're in for another LONG and dis-interesting year. More speed, more downforce. Sounds like something great for racing . Looks like Phoenix tells us what the fans think about the off-seasons changes. We'll see if that trend continues.

Edit: If NASCAR wanted to promote a sport rather than a show I, and thousands of other fans, wouldn't be complaining about much if any of this. The race so far (90 laps to go) hasn't shown much promise. 22 lead changes last year in this race. This year so far: 12. Most this year have been in commercial or caution

Last edited by Cornys, Sun 9 Mar 2014, 21:09.

Something has popped up in my schedule and I will cancel this event rather than move that item on my schedule. Low interest, and only 1 sign-up. Sorry

Bad weekend for me, but I knew this would happen before I made my plans.

I'll help when I can. Good luck. I hope it's clean and fun!

RandomnessInside and I have been discussing running the 2014 Formula M series, but under the Worldwide Racing banner. If you would be interested in racing in this series, please post here. I'm open to race lengths and tracks. I have my own ideas, but they don't matter as much as yours

How does a 15 min. qualifying session followed by a 30 min. race sound for this series? To short? Too long? Multiple race rounds sound better?

How does this series taking place only at tracks like AS1, FE1, SO3, short open track configs, ect. sound? Track ideas also are welcome

Let us know what sounds good in this series to you, and if you would be interested

Quote from dekojester :

Kurt Busch will try "The Double" this year

"The 300 lap stock car race..."

It's 400 laps on a 1.5 mile track to make 600 miles in the Coke 600.

I was hoping to see this happen. He is a great driver. When he's not out of control angry

Quote from Sobis :

It says the video has been removed

Quote from Gutholz :

It worked earlier but was only 360p quality. So for higher resolution wanted to watch next day when processsing is finished, but now is deleted? Or private? Either way, would like to watch it.

It was taken down. I quickly uploaded it on the SimRace.TV PC2 after the race, but I failed to realize that it was logged into another account other than SimRace.TV's. That account has since removed the video evidently. I have tried to log into my account tonight on that PC to get it back online (I don't have SimRace.TV's password), but it's giving the run-around with security .

If the file remains on that PC I'll get it back online as soon as I get the time to deal with it.

Tag Team Racing, will not be a Worldwide Racing event. I'm putting it on separately, but it will also be sponsored by MHS.

Date: Saturday, March 8th 2014
Time: 20:30 GMT
Server: Tag Team Event
Password: PMed to registered competitors.

How it will work: 2 driver teams. 1 Driver in UF1, the other in BF1. The driver in the BF1 is tasked with helping the driver in the UF1. The quickest UF1 to the finish wins. The time and position of the BF1 driver does not matter.

Rules: BF1's are not permitted to get in the way of other BF1's or UF1's. BF1's are only allowed to make contact with their UF1. Standard racing rules apply to UF1's. Only one driver may drive the UF1 and BF1. Switching after the first race starts is prohibited.

Races/Tracks: AS1 (10 laps), KY2 (5 laps), KY1 (12 laps)

Points
1st - 10 point
2nd - 7 points
3rd - 5 points
4th - 4 points
5th - 3 points
6th - 2 points
7th - 1 point
8th or worse - no finishing points
Best Lap (UF1 only) - 2 points

To Register
Fill out the following information prompt:

Team Name:
UF1 Driver's Full Name:
UF1 Driver's LFSWorld Account:
BF1 Driver's Full Name:
BF1 Driver's LFSWorld Account:

Last edited by Cornys, Sat 8 Mar 2014, 00:26.

When the video finishes being processed, this will be the link to the stream replay. Sorry for my poor commentary

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v ... GLQw&feature=youtu.be

Back online, race is ready to begin! Enjoy!

Stream is down in preparation for the race. Will come back online once race starts in about 5 min.

Today's event will feature 15 competitors, and will feature a view which will allow you to see the entire track and all of the competitors at the same time.

If the stream audio is down it is because we're working on a few changes to improve the stream for the race. Sorry for these side-effects in qualifying

LiveStream Link

Qualifying and Livestream begin at 17:30 GMT. Race will begin a little bit after 18:00 GMT. Hope you enjoy. Race will be around 45 minutes in duration (150 laps).