Hello drivers and managers!
Round 6 brings us to SO4, a dangerous and tricky race in even the best of conditions. 29 GTRs pouring around it is NOT the best of conditions.
I hope you all have a safe and fun race tomorrow, and don't bring out too many SC periods. On to the details!
1 New rules! [Just gonna quote this one wholesale from last round.] As I hope all of you have seen already, we have new rules governing SC periods, specifically relating to lapped cars mixed in among the lead-lap cars. Here I'll just cut & paste my common sense description of the changes and their effects from the rules thread:
If you have questions about this rule change, please contact me before the race!
2 Minimum SC period laps. [Also quoted from last round, with additions.] Due to the above rule change, the minimum SC period length will be extended by one lap to a total of three laps. This is to accommodate the queue resorting and the time necessary for lapped cars to get around the track to the back of the queue and then make a pitstop if necessary.
3 Weather. According to most weather forecasts for London, England, the wind speed will be about 8mph tomorrow afternoon, meaning that there will be NO WIND for this round.
4 Tire warming. Cross-posted from below in this thread:
If you have any questions regarding any of this, or if I've forgotten something (entirely possible) please let me know!
(And don't forget that you must have at least one team representative in the IRC channel (#igtc @ gamesurge) during the event.)
Round 6 brings us to SO4, a dangerous and tricky race in even the best of conditions. 29 GTRs pouring around it is NOT the best of conditions.
I hope you all have a safe and fun race tomorrow, and don't bring out too many SC periods. On to the details!
1 New rules! [Just gonna quote this one wholesale from last round.] As I hope all of you have seen already, we have new rules governing SC periods, specifically relating to lapped cars mixed in among the lead-lap cars. Here I'll just cut & paste my common sense description of the changes and their effects from the rules thread:
If you have questions about this rule change, please contact me before the race!
2 Minimum SC period laps. [Also quoted from last round, with additions.] Due to the above rule change, the minimum SC period length will be extended by one lap to a total of three laps. This is to accommodate the queue resorting and the time necessary for lapped cars to get around the track to the back of the queue and then make a pitstop if necessary.
3 Weather. According to most weather forecasts for London, England, the wind speed will be about 8mph tomorrow afternoon, meaning that there will be NO WIND for this round.
4 Tire warming. Cross-posted from below in this thread:
- Tire warming will be allowed up until the final sector of the restart lap (until the 'leader controls field' message is displayed). This also applies for the rolling start lap.
- Drivers must leave a large gap between themselves and the car ahead--think 5-7 car lengths.
- Any solo spins caused by tire warming will cause the marshals to instruct the offending car to move to the rear of the queue.
- Any multi-car incidents resulting from tire warming will result in harsh penalties for the guilty party.
If you have any questions regarding any of this, or if I've forgotten something (entirely possible) please let me know!
(And don't forget that you must have at least one team representative in the IRC channel (#igtc @ gamesurge) during the event.)
