- 812
- Leicestershire
- davegeorge78
Hi everyone
Following on from the successfull NRS (Nürburgring race series) which is coming to a close in a month or so, I have an idea for a "Spot Race" of grand proportions!
This idea is just in the concept stage at present, i am looking to see potential interest in the first instance from the details below and based on that furthur details can be finalised.
The 24h Rennen is a full 24 hr endurance race run on a combination of the GP + Nordschleife, examples of cars that ran during previous races are :
BMW M3 GTR
BMW 320i
Dodge Viper GTS-R
Opel Astra Coupe V8
Nissan Skyline GTR (Falken..)
Audi TT Touring
All of these cars are represented in GT4 with road/racing models.
My concept is to stage a LIVE full 24h event sometime in the forthcoming months, this would utilise drivers from around the globe aswell as the GTP community, here are some ideas ive noted down so far:
- Likely to be two car classes "Road" and "Race" to keep things simple with a choice of perhaps 5-6 cars in each class. The smaller the number of cars in each class the easier it is to keep the racing close by matching the cars up better.
- "Teams" would be created with a min of 2 drivers and a max of 4 drivers per team.
- Each team would be made up of drivers from different global positions to get round the difference in time zones, rough examples of this are below.
- Some "B SPEC" would be mandatory for each driver, this would enable time to send in live updates and laptimes and also for rest time.
- Some "Mandatory" pit stops might be required, this could be decided based on results of car testing and would equal out the differences between cars.
- Teams would be responsible for car set up and strategy bewteen themselves, this would include making sure all members had the correct times and knew when they needed to start driving, (for a two driver team a simple clock set to the other drivers time zone would be a simple way of knowing what stage they were at...)
- All teams would syncronise timing of race start with event organiser to ensure fairness, not as hard as it sounds....i think...
Example 1 - 2 driver Team
This would assume maybe a driver from Australia or that part of the globe and maybe a driver from Europe. At the agreed start time driver 1 starts his race, as these drivers would be running a 12 hr stint each after 12 hrs he would pause his system and message the event organiser with his track position. Driver 2 would have seen the 12hr marker and have started a fresh race on his system and run the remaining 12 hrs. Car set up would have to be identicle with only changes available being things that could quickly be changed in RL, downforce, tyres etc, so teams would need to do setup work before hand.
Example 2 - 3 driver team
This might assume 1 driver from australia or similar, 1 driver from europe and 1 from the US all running an 8 hr stint each, the same principle as above would apply with each driver stopping after the allocated drving time and messaging the event organiser with thier exact positioning on the track whilst the next driver had started their stint, and again all three would run with an identicly set up machine.
Example 3 - 4 driver team
Again same principle applies however a 6hr stint is run each.
Im not sure if something like this has been tried before, but what better track to try it on and if it worked it could tie together skills and people from around the globe and the GTP community!
At this stage I would welcome thoughts and ideas on the subject, cars that might be included and any changes that would make this work better, in short dont be afraid to suggest something, that also goes if you think the idea is completely crazy and will never work!! It will need dedication from those entering but i would aim to get together about 10 teams to make it interesting thats 20+ people. The dates to run on would also go down to a public vote and would be over a weekend and start times set to work best for everyone involved.
I hope you might see the potential in this idea and perhaps add any comments thoughts to help make this work.👍
cheers and regards
David
Following on from the successfull NRS (Nürburgring race series) which is coming to a close in a month or so, I have an idea for a "Spot Race" of grand proportions!
This idea is just in the concept stage at present, i am looking to see potential interest in the first instance from the details below and based on that furthur details can be finalised.
The 24h Rennen is a full 24 hr endurance race run on a combination of the GP + Nordschleife, examples of cars that ran during previous races are :
BMW M3 GTR
BMW 320i
Dodge Viper GTS-R
Opel Astra Coupe V8
Nissan Skyline GTR (Falken..)
Audi TT Touring
All of these cars are represented in GT4 with road/racing models.
My concept is to stage a LIVE full 24h event sometime in the forthcoming months, this would utilise drivers from around the globe aswell as the GTP community, here are some ideas ive noted down so far:
- Likely to be two car classes "Road" and "Race" to keep things simple with a choice of perhaps 5-6 cars in each class. The smaller the number of cars in each class the easier it is to keep the racing close by matching the cars up better.
- "Teams" would be created with a min of 2 drivers and a max of 4 drivers per team.
- Each team would be made up of drivers from different global positions to get round the difference in time zones, rough examples of this are below.
- Some "B SPEC" would be mandatory for each driver, this would enable time to send in live updates and laptimes and also for rest time.
- Some "Mandatory" pit stops might be required, this could be decided based on results of car testing and would equal out the differences between cars.
- Teams would be responsible for car set up and strategy bewteen themselves, this would include making sure all members had the correct times and knew when they needed to start driving, (for a two driver team a simple clock set to the other drivers time zone would be a simple way of knowing what stage they were at...)
- All teams would syncronise timing of race start with event organiser to ensure fairness, not as hard as it sounds....i think...
Example 1 - 2 driver Team
This would assume maybe a driver from Australia or that part of the globe and maybe a driver from Europe. At the agreed start time driver 1 starts his race, as these drivers would be running a 12 hr stint each after 12 hrs he would pause his system and message the event organiser with his track position. Driver 2 would have seen the 12hr marker and have started a fresh race on his system and run the remaining 12 hrs. Car set up would have to be identicle with only changes available being things that could quickly be changed in RL, downforce, tyres etc, so teams would need to do setup work before hand.
Example 2 - 3 driver team
This might assume 1 driver from australia or similar, 1 driver from europe and 1 from the US all running an 8 hr stint each, the same principle as above would apply with each driver stopping after the allocated drving time and messaging the event organiser with thier exact positioning on the track whilst the next driver had started their stint, and again all three would run with an identicly set up machine.
Example 3 - 4 driver team
Again same principle applies however a 6hr stint is run each.
Im not sure if something like this has been tried before, but what better track to try it on and if it worked it could tie together skills and people from around the globe and the GTP community!
At this stage I would welcome thoughts and ideas on the subject, cars that might be included and any changes that would make this work better, in short dont be afraid to suggest something, that also goes if you think the idea is completely crazy and will never work!! It will need dedication from those entering but i would aim to get together about 10 teams to make it interesting thats 20+ people. The dates to run on would also go down to a public vote and would be over a weekend and start times set to work best for everyone involved.
I hope you might see the potential in this idea and perhaps add any comments thoughts to help make this work.👍
cheers and regards
David