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Grand Turismo Motor Sports Association Presents:
GTP Lemans Series - Season 2
GTP Lemans Series - Season 2
Its that time of year racers, time to dust off the prototypes, squeeze back into that suddenly shrunken driver's suit, and fly breakneck down the straights of some of the best tracks in the world. Welcome to Season 2 of GTPLMS.
The second iteration of the series will be a bit different from the first. Many changes to classes, cars, and schedule will hopefully combine into an even better experience than the first season. For all the returning drivers, the changes will be explained below, and for our rookies, welcome to LMS competition as only GTMSA can provide.
Rules and Regulations:
All rules, regulations, car specifications, and races are controlled by GTPLMS sanctioning body, GTMSA. Any and all questions should be directed to GTMSA officials (namely me ICallShotgun) and officials will do their best to answer in a timely and accurate manor.All race and qualifying specific information will be in the individual threads. These are there for your information, not just my health and finger dexterity. This includes, but is not limited to deadlines, race length, qualifying length and type, car specifications, penalties assessed, and anything else that is if importance to that event.
All cars must run at the specified weights and horsepower settings provided by GTMSA. These have been tested vigorously for months and are as close to even as GTMSA can get them. This does not mean they are set in stone, as GTMSA will adjust any and all settings to keep competition fair and fun.
GTPLMS competition will institute round-by-round competition adjustments. These will be adjustments to horsepower in percentage points as follows.
1st - -2%
2nd - -1%
...
2nd Last - +1%
Last - +2%
Up to a maximum of +/- 5%. Each addition/restriction will last for 3 sessions, qualifying OR race. Race restrictions carry over to qualifying, and vice versa.
Penalties for Late Time Submission will be as such.
If the driver submits times Private Messaged through GTP to ICallShotgun before the deadline as time-stamped by GTP, no penaly will be given. A driver has up to 2 hours after deadline to send in their time, but a penalty will be enforced equal to the lateness of the submission, 1 second for every minute after deadline up to 3hr past deadline. Anything after 3hr will not be accepted and will post a DNS/DNQ.
ex. Deadline is 7p CST. A driver submits his/her time at 8:15p CST. This would incur a penalty of 1m15s as the time is 1h15m after deadline.
ex. Deadline is 7p CST. A driver submits at 7:18p CST. This would incur an 18s penalty.
All Standard Online Racing Rules apply.
- No Cheating, Hybrids, or any crap like that. Run the car I set up for you please.
- Try and keep two wheels on the road at all times. No shortcuts.
- No wall-riding. It slows you down.
Qualifying-Specific Rules and Regulations
Qualifying will be run in Arcade Mode. This season Qualifying will be a mixture of Hot Laps and Short Sprint Races. Each race could be different, so you will have to PAY ATTENTION TO THE RACE THREAD. Sprint races will be between 3-4 laps, depending on track-length, and drivers will submit total time and best laps to me. Hot laps will be just that, a hot lap.
Race-Specific Rules and Regulation
Races will be run in Arcade Mode. Racers will use the given track, car specifications, AI settings, and any other settings that GTMSA provides IN THE RACING THREAD (see a pattern here?).AI contact is permitted. That's right, AI contact is PERMITTED. However, with that comes penalties, which will be set up at race-time. You will not be able to use the AI as a brake, although they sometimes use you. You will, however, have incidental contact on occasion and this should not cause you to re-start. It does slow you considerably, though, so use at your own risk.
For returning drivers, we will NOT be using B-spec BOB this season. This is a driver's championship, and therefore drivers will not be hindered by BOB any longer. (please, hold your applause)
Points and Championships
There will be two Points Championships this year; a Drivers Championship and a Manufacturers Title. No Team championship will be awarded as teams don't seem to stay around.
Qualifying points will be based on finish. 1pt will go to the fast-qualifier in each class, with an additional 1pt to the fastest lap in sprint-race qualifying.
Race points will be 1st-10pt, 2nd-8pt, 3rd-6pt, 4th-4pt, 5th-2pt, 6th-1pt.
Additionally, 1pt will be awarded to the driver with the fastest lap, and 1pt will be awarded to ANY driver who makes a submission both for Qualifying and Races. Even if you say "I won't be racing this week" in a PM, you get 1pt for effort and dedication. That's 20pts throughout the season if a driver makes all qualification and races.
Manufacturer's championship will be based on the highest finishing make and be based off the driver's championship table.
ex. If the finishing order is Mazda, Mazda, Chevy, Mazda would get 10pt for a first place, and Chevy would get 6pt for 3rd. No points would be awarded to the 2nd place Mazda.
In addition, Endurance races will be Double Points Events. These are marked in the schedule below.
Race Schedule
Round 1: Yokohama Grand Prix of Suzuka - Suzuka (Double Points Event)
Qualifying (Hotlap) / Race
Round 2: Toyota presents the Mount Fuji Grand Prix - Fuji '90s
Qualifying (Sprint) / Race
Round 3: Bridgestone Streets of New York - New York Rev
Qualifying (Sprint) / Race
Round 4: California Wineries Sonoma Grand Prix - Infineon Sports
Qualifying (Sprint) / Race
Round 5: 24 Laps du Mans - Le Sarthe I (Double Points Event)
Qualifying (Hotlap) / Race
Round 6: Dodge-ing Through the Forest - Deep Forest
Qualifying (Sprint) / Race
Round 7: Generac at the Valley - Grand Valley Speedway
Qualifying (Sprint) / Race
Round 8: Hotel MonteCarlo Presents Tour de Monaco - Cote D'Azur
Qualifying (Hotlap) / Race
Round 9: Petit LeMans presented by Chevy - Tokyo R246 (Double Points Event)
Qualifying (Sprint) / Race
Round 10: Monterey Sports Car Championships - Laguna Seca (Double Points Event)
Additionally there will be some pre-season testing and possibly an invitational at the end of the season. Who knows...
The Cars and The Classes
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[color=purple]Prototype (Roughly 750hp @ 900kg)
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Audi R8
Pescarolo PS2
Pescarolo C60
Bentley Speed8
BMW V12 LMR
Toyota GT1[/center][/color]
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[color=Green]Grand Touring 1 (GT1) (Roughly 600hp @ 1150kg)
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Pagani Zonda LM
BMW McLaren F1 GTR
Dodge Viper GTSR Team Oreca
Panoz Esperante GTR1
Chevy Corvette C5R
Chevy Camaro LM
Ford GT LM SpecII
Ford Falcon XR8[/center][/color]
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[color=Blue]Grand Touring 2 (Roughly 450hp @ 1100kg)
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Mercedes CLK Touring Car
Mazda RX7 LM
BMW M3 GTR LM
Nissan 350Z LM
Audi A4 Touring Car
Audi TT Touring Car
Mazda RX8 LM
Opel Astra Touring Car[/center][/color]
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[color=red]Grand Touring 3 (Roughly 300hp @ 1070)
Toyota Altezza Touring Car
Honda S2000 LM
Subaru Cusco Impreza
BMW 320i Touring Car
Toyota MR-S Autobacs
Renault Clio Race Car
[/center][/color]If you're interested, Post your signup on this thread with the following information.
Driver Name:
Class:
Car Number:
Prototype 1-25, Grand Touring 1 26-50, Grand Touring 2 51-75, Grand Touring 3 76-99
Sponsor:
Car Model:
If there are any questions, feel free to post them here or PM me and I'll be more than happy to get back to you.
I am going to leave Registration open throughout the series, and anyone can join at any time. Pre-season events will start in early-mid April, with season starting in May. It might seem a long time, but trust me, it's not, so get your entries in now for best picks of car numbers and sponsors (no, there will not be 15 Red Bull Cars).
Welcome one and all (back) to GTMSA's LMS Series Season 2.
Chris
So it'll be week-by-week in the race thread.
If you give us 2 weeks for one round I will be very glad to run you series in 2 or maybe even in 3 classed at the same time. I like this from the very very beginning for it's fair rules, great carlists and equal characteristics. 👍 👍 👍 So count me in. I will test cars for a while and will post my entry. Also I'm going to tell about all this to my cousin.
It looks there are exciting cars down in GT3 class.I like it.
