Entries open again following Round 2!

Next round 12 May.

Entries closed for Round 2. Will reopen following the round.

Round 2 lapcount has been declared:

Sprint Race will be 20 laps
Feature Race will be 33 laps

All drivers entered to the 2024 E-Challenge are automatically assumed to be attending every round, so a proactive "yes" confirmation is not required this season.

Drivers must provide a "no" if they cannot make a round, or they risk being dropped from the series entry list, and will have to re-enter.

Because we understand that things come up last minute, we give some extra time to tell us the "no" - if you will miss or do miss the round you have until 23:59 UTC on Monday, April 22, 2024 before entry list purge processing takes place.

Race Day passwords will be PMd to all competitors shortly before the event start.

Use this format:
no/number/username

example:
no/47/michal 1279

The following drivers have been dropped from the entry list for failure to participate in any capacity in the series during Round 1.

Quote from F1 mainiac :

99/f1 mainiac/Bozhidar velinov/BGR/World Class Lions

Quote from rafaelgames :

46/rafaelgames/Rafael Costa/Brazil/Master Race car/

Quote from NotExotic :

43/NotExotic/Szymon Kander/United Kingdom

Quote from Pukyy :

41/Pukyy/Ajdin Isić/Bosnia and Hercegovina/Independent(no team)

Quote from MasterKrys :

88/masterkrys/Krzysztof Mąka/Poland/Sim Racing Polska

Quote from kart-36 :

36/kart-36/Joe Holmes/GBR/NA

Quote from Ivan_2006 :

7/Ivan_2006/Iván Rodríguez/Spain/TAV Racing

Quote from chaitany :

11/chaitany/Chaitanya/india

The numbers are free for election by any driver, including the removed drivers.

Removed drivers may re-enter the series by quoting their original post and specifying their re-entry.

During the event, the following penalties were applied by the stewards following reports from the Race Director.
Race
Race 1 - Car 77 - Drive Through Penalty - Causing a Collision (Lap 2 - T1)
Race 1 - Car 42 - Drive Through Penalty - Causing a Collision (Lap 5 - T5)

The following penalties have been applied post event by the stewards following reports from the Race Director.
Race 1 - Car 21 - Drive Through Penalty - Causing an Avoidable Incident (Lap 1 - T1)
Race 1 - Car 54 - Warning - Leaving a track and gaining an advantage (Lap 11 - T6)
Race 1 - Car 54 - Warning - overtaking SC without permision (Lap 3)

The following penalties have been applied to the championship standings by the stewards following reports from the Race Director
Qualifying
Qualifying - Car 54 - 1 point deduction - No required elements on skin

Sprint Race
Race 1 - Car 54 - 1 point deduction - No required elements on skin

Feature Race
Race 2 - Car 54 - 1 point deduction - No required elements on skin

Entire Event
Entire Event - Car 54 - 1 point deduction - Did not upload skin to fourm thread

Protest Results

Quote from Bokujishin :

Session AND SERVER of Incident: Race 1
Lap AND MPR timecode of incident (or session time or UTC Time of Day): Lap 1, MPR timecode 2:20
Car(s) involved: 21, 19, collateral damage 51 and 54
Location of Incident: Turn 1
Brief Description of Incident: 21 dives on the inside and collides with 19.

Car 21 - Drive Through Penalty - Causing an Avoidable Incident (Lap 1 - T1)

Quote from rayman95 :

Session AND SERVER of Incident: Race 1
Lap AND MPR timecode of incident (or session time or UTC Time of Day): Lap 2, MPR timecode 3:33
Car(s) involved: 19 and 77
Location of Incident: Turn 1
Brief Description of Incident: 77 dives on the inside and collides with 19.

No Further Action, Incident was dealt with during the race, see above.

Last edited by Jonathon.provost, Mon, 15 Apr 2024 15:47.

Entries open following Round 1!

Round 1, Mexico City

Free Practice: Official Result | Tracker | Replay

Qualifying: Official Result | Tracker | Replay

Duels: Official Result | Replay-QF | Replay-SF | Replay-F

Sprint Race: Official Result | Tracker | Replay

Feature Race: Official Result | Tracker | Replay

Drivers Championship standings after Round 1

Teams Championship standings after Round 1


Round 2, Berlin

Free Practice: Official Result | Tracker | Replay

Qualifying: Official Result | Tracker | Replay

Duels: Official Result | Replay-QF | Replay-SF | Replay-F

Sprint Race: Official Result | Tracker | Replay

Feature Race: Official Result | Tracker | Replay

Drivers Championship standings after Round 2

Teams Championship standings after Round 2

Last edited by dekojester, Sun, 21 Apr 2024 19:27.

Entries closed for Round 1. Open again after Round 1 completes, approximately 2 hours after event conclusions.

Revision 2 of the regulations has been posted with the OP. Changes marked in red.

Some language fixes to try to clarify some procedures.

Attack Mode usage reduced to 1 in the Sprint Race. Remains 2 in the Feature Race.

Added a regulation that a season-long briefing must be read and confirmed that it was read - that briefing will be posted in the next 24 hours.

All drivers entered to the 2024 E-Challenge are automatically assumed to be attending every round, so a proactive "yes" confirmation is not required this season.

Drivers must provide a "no" if they cannot make a round, or they risk being dropped from the series entry list, and will have to re-enter.

Because we understand that things come up last minute, we give some extra time to tell us the "no" - if you will miss or do miss the round you have until 23:59 UTC on Monday, April 8, 2024 before entry list purge processing takes place.

Race Day passwords will be PMd to all competitors shortly before the event start.

Use this format:
no/number/username

example:
no/47/michal 1279

Round 1 lapcount has been declared:

Sprint Race will be 16 laps
Feature Race will be 27 laps

Hello racers!

The E-Challenge is back for it's 4th season!

Michal Malek (michal 1279) is once again the man with the grand plan, and we at NDR are happy to partner with him and Sim Broadcasts to bring you another season of the LFS version of Formula E!

The E-Challenger EVO mod will be used once again, and will still be restricted in races to 301 kW of power, but you'll be at full 350 kW in Qualifying and the Qualifying duels. This season, we are making Race 1 a Sprint race, where energy conservation is not the name of the game, we will see what you can do without having to worry about making your batteries last the length of the run. The Feature Race will remain the standard stretch the batteries to go the distance.

Also gone this year, the bumpy physics exploiting boost zone. We are using the live settable Player Handicaps that were added to the sim after last season to on-the-fly give you the Attack Boost, the same way it's been done before in Fomrula E. You will have a target zone to drive through to activate Attack Boost, which will give you 4 minutes of full 350 kW power. You'll get two of these activations in each race session. With this change, we are also removing the PowerUp Wildcard from last season.

The experimental weather system remains the same, and is unchanged. You will be given a weather forecast ahead of each round, and then wait to see if we're any better at predicting the weather than the real meterologists you listen to for your weather.

All races will be streamed live by our good friends at Sim Broadcasts

To enter the MRc E-Challenge 2024, make a post here giving your requested car number, LFS licence name, real name, nationality, team name (if representing a team). Separate each field with a /, no space between the text of the field and the /. Example:

1/dekojester/Jonathan Palmer/GBR/New Dimension Racing

Any number 2-99 is free for selection. Number 1 is reserved for the previous seasons champion, Gábor Gyüre (viperakecske)

NOTE: If you use an abbreviation, please use the ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 abbreviation. This is the standard NDR use in our systems.

Signups are open NOW, and will close at 2 hours prior to each event start, and not open again until two hours after event conclusion.

Licence Requirements for Drivers

No NDR Licence Grade limitation.
You will need an S3 LFS License to participate.

Entries are tracked in the attached PDF. This PDF is updated at least once daily.

Numbers highlighted in orange are conflicted, and that entrant needs to chance their number. They have been directly notified.

Last edited by dekojester, Fri, 19 Apr 2024 22:18.

Calendar of Events

1. Round 1 - Mexico e-Prix Circuit - LA1X - 7 April 2024
   Sprint: 16 laps - Feature: 27 laps
   
2. Round 2 - Berlin Tempelhof Circuit - LA1X - 21 April 2024
   Sprint: 20 laps - Feature: 33 laps
   
3. Round 3 - Brooklyn Cruise Terminal - LA1X - 12 May 2024
   LAPS TBD
   
4. Round 4 - Portland International Raceway - LA1X - 26 May 2024
   LAPS TBD
   

Event Timetable

16:30 UTC Free Practice - 20 minutes
17:00 UTC Qualifying - 10 minutes
17:17 UTC Qualifying Duels - 30 minutes allotted
18:00 UTC Sprint Race
18:45 UTC Feature Race

Every round broadcast live by Sim Broadcasts: https://simbroadcasts.tv

Last edited by dekojester, Fri, 19 Apr 2024 14:18.

Per the regulations, you are required to run a skin with specified elements. This season, we are requiring the following:

• Car number on the nose of the car, oriented to be read facing the car from the front, and on both rear wing end plates, facing the outsides of the car.
  
• First three initials of the driver's surname must be on the endplates of the top of the roll hoop structure
  

The series logo, the NDR logos, and SBTV logos are provided for your convenience. Get SBTV logos and usage guidelines here.

Please post your skins by 14:00 UTC on the day of a round, so we can generate a skinpack.

Attached are the rules for the MRc E-Challenge 2024. Please review them. The NDR Sporting Code is in effect with this series.

Last edited by dekojester, Fri, 5 Apr 2024 15:34.

Results and points now official following the 4th round of the 2024 GT2 Challenge.

Congratulations to Vytautas Laguckas (excellent15) on winning the Driver's Championship! Also, congratulations to Yes Motorsport on the Team's Championship.

We had 65 drivers take part in races this season, whether from attempting but failing to Pre-Qualify, to being on the grid on race day. Familiar faces, new folks. We at NDR thank all of you for your time this season, and hope you enjoyed your time with us.

Please provide the following in your protest:

Session AND SERVER of Incident (Official Sessions for Round 4: Pre Qualifying, Free Practice, Qualifying, Race; Servers: Main)
Lap AND MPR timecode of incident (or session time or UTC Time of Day)
Car(s) involved
Location of Incident
Brief Description of Incident

Pre-Qualifying Protests are due by 13:30 UTC on Sunday, 17 March 2024. Pre-Qualifying Protests should be lodged as soon as possible after the incident, however.

All race day protests are due by 12:30 UTC on Monday, 18 March 2024.

Track Map

Penalty Log
Entire Event
Car 71 - 1 Championship Point Penalty - Did not upload skin to forum thread
Car 99 - 1 Championship Point Penalty - Did not upload skin to forum thread

Pre-Qualifying

Free Practice

Qualifying
Car 39 - 1 Championship Point Penalty - incorrect number on numberboards
Car 71 - 1 Championship Point Penalty - No required elements on skin
Car 99 - 1 Championship Point Penalty - No required elements on skin

Race
Car 39 - 1 Championship Point Penalty - incorrect number on numberboards
Car 71 - 1 Championship Point Penalty - No required elements on skin
Car 99 - 1 Championship Point Penalty - No required elements on skin
Car 70 - Drive Through Penalty - Crossing pit exit blend line (Lap 15 - Pit Exit)
Car 8 - Drive Through Penalty - Causing a Collision (Lap 2 - T4)
Car 71 - 5 Championship Point Penalty - Spectated from on-track without RC permission (Lap 34 - T9)
Car 59 - Drive Through Penalty - Causing a Collision (Lap L9 - T4)

Last edited by Jonathon.provost, Tue, 19 Mar 2024 22:18.

Entries are closed ahead of Round 4.

They will not reopen - no future round of the 2024 season. Thanks for a good 2024 season, see you all (and hopefully more) next season!

Quote from ILoveBiscuits :

72/ilovebiscuits/Zdravko Ivanov/Bulgaria/no team/crack6349

72 is taken, please select another number.

Round 4, Westhill International Reversed (No Chicane)

Track Specifications
Circuit Length: 5.733 km | ]Track Map
Safety Car In-Race Position: End of Pitlane
1st Safety Car Line: Start of blend line
2nd Safety Car Line: End of blend line
Red Flag line: Start of pit wall
Penalty Box Location: End of pit lane, drivers right
Virtual Safety Car Maximum Speed: 80 kph / 49 mph
Pit Lane Speed: 80 kph / 49 mph

Event Timetable - Times are approximate, each session will follow directly on from each other
15:00 UTC Free Practice - 20 minutes
15:30 UTC Qualifying - 20 minutes
16:00 UTC Race 1 - 41 laps (or 105 minutes)

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

If you need to downloat the TeamSpeak 3 Client, please visit https://teamspeak.com/en/downloads/#ts3client and select the appropriate download for your client system.

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, [space], first initial, dot, last name [eg. 00 J.Provost].

The car number must be in white. Your name may be in colour.

5. Virtual Safety Car Test
Should time permit, there will be a test Virtual Safety Car deployment in the free practice session, starting approximately 5 minutes remaining in the session. All drivers are encouraged to participate in this test.

6. Pit Entry and Pit Exit
On pit entry, all parts of the car must be to the right of the blend line along its entire length.
On pit exit, all parts of the car must be to the right of the blend line along its entire length.

7. Qualifying Procedure
Qualifying will be set to 22 minutes, with the pit exit closed for the first two minutes. The fast lane will be closed until declared open by the race director, at which time drivers may queue at pit exit in single file. The course will open for laps with 20 minutes remaining, and remain open until the time has elapsed. The pit exit will close at the chequered flag. No driver should exit the pitlane without sufficient time to start a timed lap.

Qualifying is run in Semi-Hardcore mode. This means drivers are only permitted to Shift+S or Shift+P from within the pit lane itself. Any driver spectating outside of the pit lane will not be allowed to rejoin the session.

8. Race Start:
The race will have one unscored formation lap, followed by a double-file rolling start.

Note: the grid will be in the pit straight at 45 degrees, drivers are to leave this location in single file behind the safety car. Make sure to turn your pit lane speed limiter on when the grid spawns, then turn it off once you exit the pit lane.

During griding, the pole sitter will be asked what side of of the grid they would like to start from. All other drivers should file in accordingly.

On the exit of Turn 11 (just before split 2, the safety car will reduce speed. All drivers should get into double file formation after Turn 12. The safety car will pull into the pitlane, then the leader and all other drivers should maintain a steady speed up until the green flag signal is given, at which point overtaking is permitted.

In the event of an aborted start, drivers should maintain pace until Turn 1, and then return to single-file formation for another attempt. The race director will then instruct drivers if there are any changes to this.

For the avoidance of doubt, the race timer of 1 hour 45 mintues will start at the conclusion of the formation lap - terminated by either the green flag, or an aborted start.

The race clock will run during all flag conditions with the except of red flag.

9. Safety Car:
On Restarts, the Safety Car will pull away from the field after Turn 10 (where possible). It must not be overtaken before it crosses the 1st Safety Car line.

Overtaking is not permitted on SC restarts until YOU have crossed the start-finish line.

The race director has the discretion to operate a safety car wave around procedure as documented in the regulations.

10. End of Race
After finishing the race, please slow WELL BELOW racing speeds after Turn 1 and proceed back to the pit lane. The top 3 shall report to the start/finish line.

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.

11. Miscellany:
Do NOT under any circumstances Shift+P or Shift+S from on course during the race without authorization from Race Control.

You do NOT need permission to retire once you are in the pit lane.

If you suffer a lost connection or timeout from the server, you are permitted to rejoin the race, and we will add your completed laps to your car once you've rejoined.
Stop & Go penalties may ONLY be taken from the penalty box located at the location noted above.

Please post any procedural questions in this thread.

Good luck!

Hello racers,

Pre-Qualifying
The top 10 drivers in the Drivers Championship are locked in to Round 4 of the season. All other drivers must take at least one timed lap in Pre-Qualifying in order to be able to partake in Round 4.

Pre-Qualifying starts at 13:00 UTC on 15 March 2024, and runs for 48 hours.

The following drivers are locked in to the round:

Vytautas Laguckas (Excellent15)
Isaac Price (IsaacPrice)
Gábor Gyüre (Viperakecske)
Pauli Peltokangas (Botswanan Salama)
Darius Veržinskas (Pathseeker)
Joni Katila (jsrk)
Dennis Lind (dennis93)
Jordan Lavrikov (imudilaskyline)
Dániel Balla (MandulAA)
Niko Puntola (nikopdr)

It will take place in the NDR.Pre Qualifying server. 28 cars will make it into the round on Sunday, we ask the first three drivers outside the top 28 to be ready to jump in last minute, if necessary.

Drivers may take as many laps as they want. Drafting is permitted, bump-drafting is not. Drivers should not impede other drivers at any time.

Confirmations
All drivers are assumed to be planning to attend a round by way of their entry to the series. For Round 4, we ask that Top 10 drivers post a yes/no if they plan to race, otherwise please only confirm in this thread if you are NOT able to race. You have until 06:00 on Tuesday, 19 March 2024 to tell us a no. Please use the following format, replacing the car number and username with your own:

no/99/dekojester

If you do not state a "no" here, and do not attend pre-qualifying, you will be removed from the series entry list.

Car Declarations

You are allowed to test all cars and use all cars during Pre-Qualifying - we will use your declared car laptime to make the Pre-Qualifying result.

IF you raced or pre-qualified with a declared car for Rounds 1, 2, or 3, you are locked to that car choice, and do not need to choose again.

You must declare your car choice by 13:05 UTC on 17 March 2024.

To declare your car: post it here with your car number and username (separate line from a "no" confirmation). Example:

99/dekojester/XRR

Westhill course has been officially measured: 5.733m.

This will make the race 41 laps, 235.053km

Entry List has been updated in the OP with the purged entrants.

You'll notice some drivers are marked in light grey. This indicates drivers who did not participate at all in the last round, but have participated before. These drivers are not dropped, and will still be included in the Pre-Qualifying notifications.