GT Planet Indianapolis 500 Mile Race

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I'm wondering if anybody wants to run the Indy 500 1-2 weeks before the race is run on a Saturday night or Sunday morning in an open lobby. Settings would be set to make this a challenging race where driver skill is of a factor unlike normal Super-Speedway races in GT5.

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Car: Formula GT
Power: Full (936 hp)
Weight: 740 kg minimum
PP: 844 PP Max
Gearing: Top speed whatever you want
Tires: Sports HARD or less
Damage: Light


Grip edge: real
draft: weak
laps: 201 (1 pace lap)

Rules:
The race would be lightly stewarded, cheaters or dirty move makers would likely be given time penalties after the fact.

There would be one fixed caution flag for the entire race, on Lap 45. The caution speed speed limit is 80 mph. Lapped cars get an immediate wave around during this time. Restart at the end of lap 49 (beginning of lap 50). The race would be green with no cautions from there out, so clean driving is strongly encouraged and wild passes are frowned upon.

Bump drafting is banned including on straights. A certain number of accidental bumps will be allowed by the stewards, after that arbitrary number has passed penalties will ensue.
 
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Signup Interest:

1) Buraspo

2) F1WORLDCHAMPION

3) mustardaddict

4) TDZ-4-12-14-88 (reserve) **

5) DolphinDiamond

6) cbcvabch

7) JoeTruckV8

8) cheezeburger57

9) Peelster1
 
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Yes, finally somebody besides Buraspo (dont know where he went, lol). If I can get 10 then I'll move this over to the spot races forum. I've yet to ask the Nascar community if they've any interest.

I know as GT5 ages iracing is gaining popularity and they have all kinds of wild things over there like Indy car at Talladega, Pocono, etc.
 
I ran one of these last November, was open on tuning, and raced on comfort hard tires, still had way to much grip, even with minimum aero,

I'm in, Pending on race date and time of course,
 
Yes I'm thinking May 11th, around 7 PM EST might be ok for most people (unless you party Saturday nights). This is going to be around 10 AM I think in Australia (thats 90 minutes from my current post time.)
 
DolphinDiamond
Seems fun, sign me up and please notify me of the official times. :)
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If this thread makes it to the, "spot races" forum then I'll have the official times/specs set. I'm thinking of giving the option of comfort soft/medium/Hard to try and get some variation in tires.

At the moment I need at least 3 more in order to realistically have a race. I dont want to be running the 500 miles all by my little old self. :sly:
 
Rich S
Yes I'm thinking May 11th, around 7 PM EST might be ok for most people (unless you party Saturday nights). This is going to be around 10 AM I think in Australia (thats 90 minutes from my current post time.)
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That would be getting to late for me most weekends, I would need the event to finish that time,

Keep me as a reserve for now,
 
Just one question, I'm not competing, but

How do you plan to do 201 laps, since the most GT5 allows is 200?
 
When I ran it in November we went backwards around to the shute between t1 and t2 and rolled from there,
 
Rich S
Yes I'm thinking May 11th, around 7 PM EST might be ok for most people (unless you party Saturday nights). This is going to be around 10 AM I think in Australia (thats 90 minutes from my current post time.)
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joetruckv8
About what date do you propose this event to happen?
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Here Joe,
 
May 11th is my karting event, and Jstc starts racing at 4pm Pst. I normally would just miss a round but I have already missed 2 rounds in a row, and next week is a bye week and then the next 2 weeks after that I have 1 karting practice session, and then the race going down the following next week were I may have to miss another round.
 
joetruckv8
May 11th is my karting event, and Jstc starts racing at 4pm Pst. I normally would just miss a round but I have already missed 2 rounds in a row, and next week is a bye week and then the next 2 weeks after that I have 1 karting practice session, and then the race going down the following next week were I may have to miss another round.
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I can change it to Sunday perhaps...

I'll add anybody thats interested later, and I'll count up to see if we have enough to post this on the spot forum,

cheers :)

PS (yes indeed it will have to be a 200 lapper with a rolling start apparently). Or we can drive backwards which I'm not a fan of...
 
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I'll sign up. I'm good for Saturday or Sunday. Even though Saturday night works better than Sunday morning for me. Then again, you never mentioned what time zone you're basing your suggested generalized time on. Either way, I still should be good to race. So yeah, sign me up.

You do realize that you can't set the room to 201 laps right? We'll have to go backwards for half a lap to have a rolling start.
 
I'd be really interested in doing this but....no matter what you do the FGT will have way too much grip. May I suggest using LMP machines? That way you will have the elements of dirty air and tire wear to spread us out a bit. Otherwise it'll just be a 200 lap draft battle.
 
ReilavaC
I'd be really interested in doing this but....no matter what you do the FGT will have way too much grip. May I suggest using LMP machines? That way you will have the elements of dirty air and tire wear to spread us out a bit. Otherwise it'll just be a 200 lap draft battle.
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I've muled about the idea of using the Ferrari F10 PP restricted to around 860PP on sports tires, with some ballast, which doesn't have the high speed cornering and you actually have to lift considerably. LMPs drive just like Indy cars here but their not open wheel, I'm not sure the other guys would stay onboard with that. ;)

A PP restricted, fully ballasted FGT on comfort Hards will not allow for aggressive passing mid corner, I still think that's the best option really. If you look at Indy 500 the last 2 years, they slingshot each other and trade the lead quite often.
 
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You can definitely put me down for this! PSN: cheezeburger57

As far as car choice, I think I would also favor the FGT. I ran an online Indy 500 two years ago and it was indeed a bump draft fest, however we ran with racing hards and not comfort tires. Also it was before PD implemented the option to turn the draft down, so it got pretty messy out there. I certainly wouldn't be against using the F10 though if that's what is decided on.
 
I think the FGT would suffice just fine for this race imo. At least all the cars could possibly look different which would make the replay more exciting to watch. At over 900hp I'm thinking the grid would then out so if you want to keep the pack tight maybe 600-700hp would be good enough. I'm sure with low downforce and draft 600hp could still achieve 230 mph. I ca hit 217 mph with a long distance draft pull in a 473hp GT car. And that's still with downforce on the car.
 
joetruckv8
I think the FGT would suffice just fine for this race imo. At least all the cars could possibly look different which would make the replay more exciting to watch. At over 900hp I'm thinking the grid would then out so if you want to keep the pack tight maybe 600-700hp would be good enough. I'm sure with low downforce and draft 600hp could still achieve 230 mph. I ca hit 217 mph with a long distance draft pull in a 473hp GT car. And that's still with downforce on the car.
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With the right tune at max power, you can run the FGT on comfort hard tires and bump draft through corners, obviously not the right thing to do, but it can be done, I think though that the tire wear model needs to be implimented, This was not available last year when I ran my Indy 500, otherwise this would have made pit stops and strategy a lot more interesting,
 
I am interested in this. I can't commit though until I know the date and time.

Just wondering, why only light damage?
 
hatfield
I am interested in this. I can't commit though until I know the date and time.

Just wondering, why only light damage?
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Imo heavy damage is too sensitive on this game. The same lite bump contact on light damage wont give you damage unless you make hard contact, but with heavy damage if you barely tap someone you get damage. If they would switch the 2, I would run heavy in my series.
 
If I decided to move this to "spot race" and select a date what is a common day/date that would work? I'm thinking of a Saturday evening Eastern US time.

Oh and on the bump drafting, it would be banned. This should prevent people running max downforce and lower hp from working together to drive away on the PP limit.
 
Rich S
If I decided to move this to "spot race" and select a date what is a common day/date that would work? I'm thinking of a Saturday evening Eastern US time.
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That time would be most ideal for me, so I'm in for that.
 
I cannot do the 1st, 15th and 29th of June, (All Saturdays,)
 
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