Practice Session 3 for the 7th Annual Kyoto 250 will be the following:

****TIMES MOVED TO AVOID CONFLICT WITH GT MASTERS****
Sunday, 9 March 2014
Qualifying: 45 minute window Starting 20:30 UTC
Race: 40 laps + 2 pace laps (42 total) starting 21:25 UTC
Wind: NO WIND for Qualifying, LOW WIND for Race
Weather: All Sessions Cloudy Morning

If more than 30 attempt to qualify, the fastest 30 will get through to the race.

Discuss!

Even if you don't get into the race, would you still be credited or must one run x ammount of laps in the race?

Quote from TheSAgibbs :

Even if you don't get into the race, would you still be credited or must one run x ammount of laps in the race?

Rarely are there more than 30 to a session - but generally you must finish the session to be considered for credit, but your DNF reason affects if you get credit or not - I rarely give anyone who "ragequits" credit, but beyond that I can't give guidelines

Alright, thanks Deko

I'm happy with my 15th place finish, considering I crashed 3 or 4 times and haven't done this kind of race before. Despite being terrabad I enjoyed it, as well as the odd TeamSpeak laugh too :P

Wondering why I wasn't getting pushed exiting T3, and it was because it was the last lap. Thought for sure I saw 41/42 going into T3. Oh well, I blame Deko not saying "WHITE FLAG" like he normally does.

Arox must have been angry, already the second time he's spun when bumpdrafting me. Such bad luck.

Arox was actually busy blind laughing in TS like half of us in the 1v1 channel :P

I should join you next time and laugh with you, I was alone in my channel half of the race.

Yeah for sure, even though I was a newbie to the server I still had good fun. It's only a practise session so it's not like the talking matters much either.

Practice Session 3 Items:

Nothing formally protested, but on review of the session a few things have been observed:

Aggression is way too high early in the race. Gaps will always look like they exist, but that doesn't mean you should go for it, especially in heavy traffic. You need to give each other the benefit of a well-timed move to give the other cars a chance to react and allow room. A lot of the collisions as a result of the aggression are due to drivers not keeping their heads on a swivel - you're in a dogfight on the track; you need to look around you constantly, especially into the turns!

Race Timecode 20:10, Cars 911 and 3
After the Safety Car is called, Car 911 slams on the brakes just ahead of Car 3. I remember these two were in the same TS channel, and this may have been a gag between the two, but it's unsafe to stomp on the brakes when you're not in an incident scene. This action from Car 911 cost Cars 7 and 46 track position by the spin that resulted from the events triggered by the contact between 911 and 3. Drivers must gently roll out of the throttle when the SC is called; only cause to suddenly slam on the brakes / change direction is to avoid an incident!

All told, it wasn't too bad - show a bit more patience early and most issues should be sorted - it's really not fun for anyone to trundle around under Safety Car most of a race!