Endurance Round SkinPack: https://legacy.newdimensionracing.com/skin_texture_packs/TBOC/2020/TBOC2020_Round0a_SkinPack.7z

Here is the Provisional Grid for Sunday's race. The following cars will be required to qualify in the 15-minute session:

2 Fragmaster
9 simbroadcasts.tv
32 War Faction
91 Procrastination Motorsports
99 Tortoise & Hare Racing

Please check tracker input, if it's okay silence is fine.

Entries are closed. If you have any changes to make, please PM dekojester AND Jonathon.provost

Round 6 Official Results and Final Points in the OP!

Congratulations to Pauli Peltokangas on the Driver's Championship, and Team S1DUS on the Driver's championship!

Thanks to all drivers who took part in this season, we are glad you raced with us.

Don't forget the 6 Hours of Aston!

MRc E-Challenge - New York E-Prix

Track Specifications
Circuit Length: 2.230 km | Track Map
Safety Car In-Race Position: End of Pitlane
1st Safety Car Line: Start of Pit Entry Blend Line
2nd Safety Car Line: End of Pit Exit Blend Line
Safety Car Maximum Speed: 50 kph / 31 mph
Virtual Safety Car Maximum Speed: 50 kph / 31 mph
Pit Lane Speed: 50 kph / 31 mph
Practice Start Location: Driver's left at end of pitlane
Red Flag line: Behind marked grid positions

Event Timetable
15:30 UTC Free Practice (20 minutes)
16:00 UTC Qualifying (1 hotlap)
16:40 UTC Super-Pole Shoot-Out session (top 6 from qualifying compete for the top 6 grid spots in another separate session (1 hotlap))
17:00 UTC Race (100 laps; Standing Start)

Event Specifics

1. Alerting the Administration:
Use @sc to alert administration to look at your car or the section of track you were in when you use the @sc command. The command will tell the administration what location you're at.

2. Communications:
All drivers are required to be in the NDR TeamSpeak server: teamspeak.newdimensionracing.com - Race Control messages will be broadcast to anyone in a channel in the Pit Wall in TS. If you would like a subchannel for your team or friendly drivers, please let us know and we will create one.
Make sure you have your race number and/or your LFS username as your nickname on TeamSpeak

3. Broadcast
This race will be broadcasted by Sim Broadcasts: https://twitch.tv/simbroadcasts

They will be in the NDR TeamSpeak. You are invited to be interviewed on stream during the breaks between sessions. Please follow their terms listed at https://simbroadcasts.tv/voice - we will apply those to our Commentary Box area.

4. Driver Naming:
Be sure to be in your proper name format Number (grey or white), space, then First initial last name [eg. 00 J. Palmer]. The name can be coloured.

5. Tracker:
Timing will be available and running on http://tracker.newdimensionracing.com.

6. Wind Conditions:
Wind To Be Determined

7. Virtual Safety Car Test
There will be a test Virtual Safety Car deployment in the free practice session, starting about 5 minutes remaining in the session. All drivers are encouraged to participate in this test.

8. Pit Entry and Pit Exit
On pit entry, at least TWO wheels must be to the LEFT of the blend line from the intersection with the first Safety Car line.
On pit exit, ALL wheels must be to the LEFT of the blend line along its entire length.

9. Qualifying Procedure
For qualifying, the Race Director will call groups of 4-6 cars to the pit exit. Each car will be released on its own from the pit lane one the Race Directors command. Drivers are to complete ONE outlap and ONE hot lap. Following the completion of the hot lap, they are then to spectate.

The top 6 in qualifying will be advanced to a super pole session. Race Director will call one car out at a time, starting with the sixth fastest. This session will also be one lap.

10. Practice Starts
Drivers are permitted to take practice starts at the location notified above, any time the pit exit is open. Drivers taking practice starts should pull up to the grid position that marks the formal spot, and wait for a clear path to take their practice start. Cars in the fast lane have right of way over cars preparing for a practice start.

11. Race Start:
The race session will start, the lights will be overridden into all off mode. All cars will sit stationary, while an MRT is driven counter race for broadcast grid presentation. Once the presentation is completed, the race will start with lights controlled by InSim.

12. Safety Car:
On Restarts, the Safety Car will pull away from the field after Turn 9. It must not be overtaken before it crosses the 1st Safety Car line.

13. End of Race
After finishing the race, please slow WELL BELOW racing speeds after Turn 1 and proceed to pit lane. The top 3 shall report back to Start / Finish Line for podium pose.

Top three and anyone else wishing to be interviewed on the broadcast should join the Commentary Box Waiting Room, and one of the commentators will move you to the Commentary Box.

14. Miscellany:
Do NOT under any circumstances Shift+P or Shift+S during the race without authorization from Race Control, unless you are in the pit lane.

Please post any procedural questions in this thread.

Good luck!

Essentially an online dating service. This thread is the place for all drivers who are searching for a team and all teams searching for a driver. Please use the following format (just an advise, mandatory fields start with *):

Driver searches team
*LFS Licence Name
Experience
other qualities
*How to contact you
Team searches driver
*Car
*Class
Goal
*How to contact

Good Luck

Round 6 Replays and Provisional Results in OP.

The TBOC 6 Hours of Aston will largely follow the standard Series rulebook, but the attached document covers the specifics to this event. All things not covered fall to the standard TBO Challenge rules book.

Welcome to the TBOC 6 Hours of Aston!

If you wish to apply a team to this non-championship event, please follow the instructions below.

We WILL ignore ANY application that does not conform to the requirements.

ALL Application Materials MUST BE SUBMITTED IN THIS THREAD.

To Apply your Team

Make a post in this thread listing the team name, and team drivers, then a "Team Car" instance as specified for each car you wish to enter for your team.

teamName: Example Motorsports
teamManager: {username, Forename Surname}
teamViceManagers:
- {username, Forename Surname} NOTE: one vice-manager per line, maximum of 3.
drivers:
- {username, Forename Surname, Country} NOTE: one line per driver, 6 maximum
car: FXO or XRT or RB4
number: 02-99, inclusive

An example of an initial Application:

teamName: New Dimension Racing
teamManager: {dekojester, Jonathan Palmer}
teamViceManagers:
- {Jonathon.Provost, Jonathan Provost}
- {TFalke55, Thilo Falkenberg}
drivers:
- {dekojester, Jonathan Palmer, USA}
- {CSF, Chris Ford, Scotland}
- {hyntty, Timo Hynninen, Finland}
- {TFalke55, Thilo Falkenberg, Germany}
- {jonathon.provost, Jonathon Provost, England}
car: RB4
number: 42


To Edit Your Team Application

Only persons listed as team Manager or vice-manager are permitted to make entry edits. All others will be ignored.

QUOTE the first post for your team (the master post for your team) and then list the changes being made. All master posts will be linked in the entry list.

List ONLY THE CHANGES, and which line of the application it affects, and what change must be made, if necessary.

Commands (Please ALWAYS give the command all upper-case): REMOVE/DELETE, ADD, CHANGE

Examples:

REMOVE driver {hyntty, Timo Hynninen, Finland}

ADD driver {boothy, Michael Booth, Scotland}

CHANGE car FROM RB4 to XRT

To DELETE your Team Application or a Team Car

Quote the Master Post for your team, and state "withdrawing".

Applications Processing

Numbers are selected by the team from the remaining pool of numbers. Additional number space will be opened up at administration discretion if necessary.

This thread will be locked starting at 22:00 UTC on Saturday, 19 December 2020. Any edit to a Team Roster that is urgent in nature must be submitted via PM to both dekojester and Jonathon.Provost for review and implementation if permitted.

If you are intending to solo this event, please follow the same format, but you'll only have the one driver.

Entries lockout for Round 6 in effct. This being the last round of the championship, signups will not reopen.

A separate thread will be made for the 6h event in two weeks time.

Quote from GonshiiiPro :

11/gonshiiipro/facundo canobra/FXO/

#11 is also taken. Please select a number from the following list: 9, 28, 35, 37, 38, 41, 45, 49, 51, 53, 54, 56, 57, 60, 61, 62, 63, 65, 68, 70, 71, 74, 78, 79, 84, 85, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94.

Quote from GonshiiiPro :

08/gonshiiipro/facundo canobra/Argentina/FXO/

#8 is taken, please select another number. Currently available numbers are: 9, 28, 35, 37, 38, 41, 45, 49, 51, 53, 54, 56, 57, 58, 60, 61, 62, 63, 65, 68, 70, 71, 74, 78, 79, 84, 85, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94.

Hello:

Per the regulations, the top 5 in the Driver's Championship will be awarded success ballast. These values are subject to change each round, and are announced in the days leading up to the round.

The ballast is required during all sessions, positioning is free to choose.

The following drivers must carry the following ballast for Round 6:

25 kg - Pauli Peltokangas (Botswanan Salama)
20 kg - Joni Katila (jsrk)
15 kg - Sean Lee (microspecv)
10 kg - Niko Puntola (nikopdr)
5 kg - Karolis Motiejuitis (Sobis)

Hello racers,

The following drivers are locked in to Round 6 of the championship, meaning they are already eligible for qualifying on Sunday:

Pauli Peltokangas (Botswanan Salama)
Joni Katila (jsrk)
Sean Lee (microspecv)
Niko Puntola (nikopdr)
Karolis Motiejuitis (Sobis)
Sandro Chanturia (S.Chanturia)
Dániel Balla (MandulAA)
Oscar Hardwick (oscarhardwick)
Gábor Gyüre (Viperakecske)
Michal Málek (michal 1279)

These drivers must still confirm their appearance by the deadline.

All other drivers are required to attend the Pre-Qualifying session, to be held at 14:00 UTC on 6 December 2020.

It will take place in the main TBO Challenge server. Should we have more than 40 drivers able and willing to partake in Pre-Qualifying, we will split the cars evenly between two servers, and run the sessions concurrently.

Drivers will have 20 minutes of track time. There is no limit to how many laps or pit exits you may make, those restrictions are only for the proper Qualifying session.

There are currently 28 spots available for transfer to the race meeting proper. This may change based on how many of the top 10 confirm and/or appear on the day. Drivers just outside the limit should remain on standby and be ready to join in if a spot opens up in the time leading up to Race 1. As with last round, if we do not have a number of confirmed drivers making Pre-Qualifying necessary, it will be cancelled.

To confirm your attendance for Round 6 of the 2020 TBO Challenge, please give your status for the round (YES I'm attending, or NO I'm not attending), car number, and LFS licence name.

Your confirmation is due by 13:00 UTC on Sunday, 6 December 2020. Failure to confirm by this deadline will result in a pit-lane start.

Passwords will be PMd to confirmed competitors via the LFSForums shortly after the deadline.

YOU MUST POST A CONFIRMATION EVEN IF YOU DO NOT PLAN TO ATTEND!

Use this format (NO SPACES FOLLOWING THE BACKSLASHES!):

yesORno/number/username
yes/1/dekojester

Round 5 Official Results and Points after Round 5 posted.

5 drivers mathematically eligible for the Driver's Championship, Pauli with a significant lead, however. Joni and Sean are tied 304 points back, Niko is 326 back. A bad showing either race from Botsi could throw P1 wide open, but it'll be tight between the three mentioned, and Karolis could flip to P2 if the three ahead of him have a bad outing.

It's between Team S1DUS and World Class Lions for the Team's championship, but again, S1DUS heavily favoured in the math.

All drivers are reminded of their right to appeal as prescribed in NDR Sporting Code VI.4

The Stewards, having received a report from the Race Director, investigated Car 03 during qualifying.

Car 03 - Warning - 3rd pit exit despite direct warning from Race Control not to exit the pit lane.

Quote from dekojester :

FEATURE RACE:

The Stewards, having received a report from the Race Director, investigated Lap 4, Turns 6-7 between Cars 34, 87, 88, mpr time 8:40.

The Stewards issue a Drive-Through Penalty to Car 87 for Blocking.

Car 87 has submitted an appeal for this penalty, that is currently under review by the Appeals Group.

Quote from BerdyGaming :

Session AND SERVER of Incident (Official Sessions for Round 5:Feature Race; Servers: Main
Lap AND MPR timecode of incident (or session time or UTC Time of Day: Lap 1;04:05.5
Car(s) involved: Car 48 (myself) and Car 80
Location of Incident: Exit of Turn 7
Brief Description of Incident: On the exit of the turn, I was battling with a car on my right and while being behind, car 80 performed an amazing pit move on me, sending me into the wall.

The Stewards elect to take No Further Action on this.

Quote from jmeade :

Session AND SERVER of Incident: Feature Race, Main Server
Lap AND MPR timecode of incident: Lap 27, MPR 43:05
Car(s) involved: 98 / 81
Location of Incident: Turn 1
Brief Description of Incident: Last lap dive-bomb resulting in contact, resulting in spin, resulting in 4 positions lost

Car 81 - Drive-Through Penalty (converted to 25s penalty post-race) - Causing an avoidable incident.

Quote from Ayoub2016 :

Session AND SERVER of Incident (Official Sessions for Round 5) : Sprint Race, Main Server
Lap AND MPR timecode of incident : Lap 4 "8:38"
Car(s) involved : 25 and 81
Location of Incident : T1
Brief Description of Incident : 81 pushed 25 wide when side by side action between T1 and T2.

Car 81 - Warning - Causing avoidable contact

Quote from Ayoub2016 :

Session AND SERVER of Incident (Official Sessions for Round 5) : Sprint Race, Main Server
Lap AND MPR timecode of incident : Lap 9 and 10 "16:36" and "18:05"
Car(s) involved : 25 and 39
Location of Incident : T6
Brief Description of Incident : 39 didnt gave any room twice going into T6 while side by side.

Car 39 - Warning - Failure to leave Racing Room to a car with overlap.

Signups are open after Round 5.

Quote from nikopdr :

Session AND SERVER of Incident: Feature Race
Lap AND MPR timecode of incident: Lap 4, mpr @ 8:40
Car(s) involved: 87, 88
Location of Incident: Turns 6-7
Brief Description of Incident:

I'd like to make an appeal of the penalty i was given here. It was a bit of a hopeless blocking manoveur, granted, but nobody in that situation lost more than a second of time. Car 88 could've easily got me at the exit of this turn if he tried to passed me without contact and just aiming for the exit. 88 also tried to push my car out of the racing line when entering the oval just a turn before this happened, would you really expect me to give him room to go past after this kind of contact? If someone bumps in corners like that, it's safe to expect to be bumped in the next turn, which is also why I did brake a bit more excessively and dive on the inside line. I do not want to continue racing like this, though.

There are some small similarities to an incident that has happened before (3 rounds ago, to be precise) that coincidentally also includes a car included in this incident. This was not penalized, nor warned. Sure, it's a completely different braking zone than what we had today, but there is a similarity of swerving, and blocking mid-turn. This went on without a warning, even though there are 4 moves to cut off draft or block the entry into turn (I would deem first 2 moves legal, blocking the right lane 1st time and returning back to the original racing line, but there is still 2 too many after those). I have a clip of it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75DJyQYuNyY, you can find this from the Round 2 Feature Race mpr, timecode @ 7:20.

This round 2 incident in particular is one of the reasons why i think giving a drive-through for this was too harsh. I do admit what i did wasn't exactly the best way to deal with the situation in hand, but it certainly could've been worse. Nobody was spun around there, nobody was seriously hurt and racing carried on normally afterwards.

Appeals must follow the appeals process laid out in NDR Sporting Code Article Vi, Section 4.

Car 8 has received a 1-point penalty for both Qualifying and Sprint Race, a total of 2 points, for missing all required skin elements in those sessions.

Round 5 Replays and Provisioanl Results available in OP.

FEATURE RACE:

The Stewards, having received a report from the Race Director, investigated Lap 4, Turns 6-7 between Cars 34, 87, 88, mpr time 8:40.

The Stewards issue a Drive-Through Penalty to Car 87 for Blocking.
The stewards issue a warning to Car 88 for avoidable contact.


The Stewards, having received a report from the Race Director, investigated Lap 12, Turns 1-4 between Cars 80, 81, 86, mpr time 20:30.

The Stewards elect to take No Further Action.


The Stewards, having received a report from the Race Director, investigated Lap 14, Turns 1-3 between Cars 13, 30, 88, 99, mpr time 23:15.

The Stewards issue a post-race stop-go penalty equivalent 37 second time penalty to Car 88 for causing avoidable incidents.