Can someone explain this to me? Is this a new process I’m unaware of ? At one time it was frowned upon talking about incidents and was to be left to reporting
I didn't realize we weren't supposed to watch replays with fellow snails and try to educate them to become more sportsmanlike drivers. Kind of made sense to me at the time.
What folks do on their own time and outside GTPlanet/SNAIL and/or official Sunday lobbies and Official Thursday practice is their business.
Discussing possible incidents amongst each other is perfectly fine and I would encourage that activity. It's when questions come up and agreement cannot be made between these parties the Steward Corps should be involved.
Edit- I'll add to this by saying, any discussions amongst each other, regarding possible incidents, will not take place in GTPlanet SNAIL forums, or for that matter, any part of the GTPlanet public forums.
We are going back, back, to Cali, Cali to my nearest track - Laguna Seca. We haven't been there in about 6 months.
I was between a few cars but ultimately decided on the Civic Type R (EK) Touring Car. Backup car Honda Civic Type R (FL5) ‘22.
The EK Touring has never been used before, and is FF which makes good contrast to the other cars have this week. It is currently available in the UCD. Only thing I don't like about this selection is that we're limited to CS tires due to the current tire formula.
It should be about 1:40 a lap from my testing (9 laps) but I will finalize the time and time of day by EOD.
Hey guys. I won’t be able to race until I can get my ps5 fixed, the hdmi port went out when my cat bumped it and it needs to be replaced. So when I can afford the supplies to fix it then I will be back!
We are going back, back, to Cali, Cali to my nearest track - Laguna Seca. We haven't been there in about 6 months.
I was between a few cars but ultimately decided on the Civic Type R (EK) Touring Car.
The EK Touring has never been used before, and is FF which makes good contrast to the other cars have this week. It is currently available in the UCD. Only thing I don't like about this selection is that we're limited to CS tires due to the current tire formula.
It should be about 1:40 a lap from my testing (9 laps) but I will finalize the time and time of day by EOD.
Please remember, if the car is only available in the UCD, to pick a back up car from Brand Central. Actually, it appears to be a car obtained while completing Extra Menu book #2. Not sure if it's subject to UCD/LCD rules in this case. @JLBowler or @Akzl298 ?
Hey guys. I won’t be able to race until I can get my ps5 fixed, the hdmi port went out when my cat bumped it and it needs to be replaced. So when I can afford the supplies to fix it then I will be back!
@arethosetacos As far as I've been able to determine, the Civic Type R (EK) Touring Car is only available through the UCD. You will need to pick a Brand Central back up for when it drops out of the UCD.
@arethosetacos We won’t be racing this sunday, guaranteed that the EK touring car won’t be available come next sunday. But it’s a good pick, just a shame we won’t race it
Sunny California. Unlike rainy New England these last few days... I went ahead and showcased the FL5 in anticipation of the EK Type R falling out of rotation.
With the postponing of this event last weekend and the absence of Sunday night racing this weekend combined. We bring you an offer to join us in an endurance race tomorrow night. 9:30 PM EDT. 1 hour race. RS/RM/RH tires required.
We are excited to announce our new partnership and prize for the May SNAIL Spec Racing Season...one lucky SNAIL driver will win a free 12 month subscription to Coach Dave Delta!
Coach Dave Delta is the ultimate performance companion for sim racers across ACC, iRacing, Le Mans Ultimate, and Gran Turismo 7. Designed to elevate every driver, Delta combines seamless automatic setup installation with an advanced built-in telemetry system, enabling detailed racing line comparisons and real-time session insights.
Delta’s new Auto Insight tool breaks down lap data into clear, actionable advice, helping drivers understand exactly where and how to improve. With powerful features like a fuel estimator and comprehensive session logging, Delta is the smart, all-in-one tool trusted by sim racers and professional teams worldwide.
To be eligible for the one free draw at the end of the May SNAIL Spec Racing season…
* Race in at least 75% of the May Season AND submit your request to enter the draw in the thread below..
Thread 'Coach Dave Delta Draw' https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/threads/coach-dave-delta-draw.431785/
Welcome to SNAIL
From our humble beginnings, SNAIL (aka Sunday Night American Interactive League) is now the largest console-based sim racing league in the world. Our mission is to provide our members with clean, intense, and competitive racing - regardless of skill level! We believe that providing full grids of evenly-matched competitions is the most realistic way to race, improve skill, and refine racecraft! Our league night is Sunday at 9:30pm Eastern / 6:30pm Pacific, but we also have a a wide variety of other events held on other nights of the week. If this sounds like something you'd like to be a part of, please keep reading to learn more about us and how to join.
What Makes Us Different
SNAIL is the only sim racing league in the world that's able to combine five key features into one consolidated package. First of all, we provide you with evenly-matched competition to drivers of all skill levels. In fact, the intense level of competition that we produce has established SNAIL as the "go to" place to prepare for GT Academy. And if you want to keep track of your improvement along the way, you'll be glad to know that we keep the most comprehensive race data available on GTPlanet. We also feature an interactive process that allows all of our members to have a say in which cars and tracks we race. And last but not least, we're the only league that awards our members with valuable prizes just for racing with us!
Evenly-Matched Competition
Have you ever watched a professional race where drivers with completely different skill levels were competing on the same track? Of course not! That wouldn't be fun to watch, let alone fun to participate in. Unfortunately, that disparity of pace is something you'll often find in organized online racing. When this happens, you'll be lucky to have just a few drivers that you're truly competitive with. Everyone else will usually either be faster or slower than you. We prevent that from happening in SNAIL by dividing our drivers into separate divisions based on speed and skill. This results in full grids of evenly-matched competition and creates the closest and most intense sim racing experience around!
Prepare for GT Academy
If you'd like to compete in GT Academy, there's no better place than SNAIL to hone your skills to the elite levels necessary to make it to the finals. You need to be the best of the best to make it to Silverstone, and that's exactly what the drivers in our top division are. Half of last year's and half of this year's Silverstone Finalists have raced in SNAIL. And since our race format (which features multiple sprint races) is almost identical to the format used at the GT Academy national finals, they were able to use their SNAIL experience to help them advance to Silverstone. Click here if you want to advice from last year's eventual champion and click here if you want advice from last year's runner-up.
Valuable Prizes
Have you ever wished you could win free stuff just for having fun? If so, then you might want to know that our members win valuable real-world prizes just for racing with us! These prize are based on participation and not on race results. Some examples of prizes our members have won include GranStand sim racing products like this, this and this, ButtKicker products like a Gamer2 and a Wireless ButtKicker Kit. You can also join Team SNAIL and earn even more prizes, such as shirts (e.g. S.N.A.I.L. shirt, F1 shirt, GT Academy shirt), video capture devices (e.g. Hauppauge PVR), sim racing equipment (e.g. Playseat Evolution), and even gift cards (e.g. Amazon and PSN).
Spec Racing
SNAIL has always been a one-make series, but when we decided to prohibit tuning in all of our races, we became the first "spec" racing league on GTPlanet. Spec racing ensures that success is determined primarily by driving skill and not by differences in power, gearing, suspension, weight, or aerodynamics. Because variables in the car are eliminated, spec racing is the truest measure of driver skill! It also produces intense battles for position because all of the cars are equally strong or weak in the same areas of the track. Plus, you'll never spend hours tuning cars or wondering if someone is truly faster than you or if they just have a better tune.
Race Format
Our league night lasts for two hours and is split into three rounds. Each round consists of two races that last 10 to 12 minutes on a predetermined car and track combo. At the beginning of each round, a brief qualifying session determines the order of the starting grid. The first race is set to 'Fastest First' to reward the best qualifiers and the second race is set to 'Reverse Grid' in order to promote on-track action. Points are awarded based on our "perfect" points system. After a round is completed, we move on to the next round and repeat the same process with the next car and track combination. Once all three rounds are complete, we tally up the points and then let our interactive format kick in.
Interactive Participation
Our unique format allows everyone to have a say on which cars and tracks we race. It's also used to strike a balance between familiarity and variety of our car and track combos. In other words, the progression of cars and tracks that we race is slow enough for us to learn them well, but fast enough that they don't get "old". At the end of every league night, everyone votes on which car and track combo they enjoyed the least. The combo that receives the most "elimination votes" is dropped from the next week's lineup entirely. The combo that receives the second most votes is also dropped, but only partially. This is where our prizes come into play:
Prizes
A prize is awarded to the divisions winners with the three highest scores*. The division winner with the highest score gets Prize A. The division winner with the second highest score gets Prize B. The division winner with the third highest score gets Prize C: (NOTE: We now have a new process for breaking ties in the elimination vote) Prize A: The right to select the new car and track combo to replace the combo that was voted off Prize B: The right to replace either the car or the track of the combo that received the second most votes Prize C: The right to "freeze" either the car or the track of the combo that received the second most votes
Promotion and Relegation
Although we split our drivers into separate divisions based on performance and skill level, we realize that our drivers are constantly improving and deserve a chance to climb the ladder of success. That's why we promote and relegate drivers before every season based on the results and data compiled during the previous season. This is also done to ensure that our races are as competitive as possible for all of our league members, top to bottom. Regardless of which division you're in, you will almost always be fighting to gain or defend a position on the track. Simply put, no other Gran Turismo league in the world can offer this much competitive racing to so many different skill levels.
Comprehensive Race Data
It's not always accurate to promote and relegate drivers based on championship points alone. That's why the massive amounts of data we track are invaluable to our league. You'd be hard-pressed to find a sim racing league anywhere in the world that tracks driver data and race results more comprehensively than we do. In fact, our SNAIL Data document contains so much information that we have to archive old data to avoid exceeding the GoogleDoc's maximum capacity! You can use this data to track the points championship for each season and compare yourself to other drivers in categories such as fast laps, total race pace, total points, average points per race, and power rankings.
Rules
We expect all drivers to follow our OLR Rules and pursue good racecraft at all times. If you're not sure what good racecraft is, watch this video. It can be summed up in one simple 'Golden Rule' of motorsports: It is the responsibility of the overtaking driver, meaning the car that is attempting to execute the pass, to make sure that the pass is made cleanly and incident free. If you don't agree with this rule or don't think it applies to you, this is not the league for you. If you ever feel like a driver is not following the rules, please wait until league night is over, then file a Racing Incident Report. Our Stewards will review the incident and issue the appropriate penalties.
Based on Dealership PP (not the PP after an oil change)
below 349 PP -> Comfort Mediums
350-399 PP ---> Comfort Softs
400-449 PP ---> Sports Hards
450-499 PP ---> Sports Mediums
500-549 PP ---> Sports Softs
550-599 PP ---> Racing Hards
600 PP & up --> Racing Mediums
How To Join Us Step 1: Post a reply (by clicking the 'Reply' button at the bottom of this post) stating, "I have read the first post and would like to join," and tell us how you heard about SNAIL. (Do not start a conversation with anyone, just post your request on this thread). Step 2: Watch the thread for a reply to your post and follow the instructions provided. Step 3: Purchase the three cars listed in the lineup for our next races. Step 4: Wait to be assigned to a division and then join that division's lounge on Sunday night.
If you are not sure which division you are assigned to, please check the Offical Driver List
For a list of helpful links and FAQ's, please click here.
Thanks for your interest!
Here's what you need to know (and do) in order to join the SNAIL [Spec] Racing league:
We run a clean league by enforcing a strict penalty system based on the SNAIL OLR (which is a modified version of the GTP OLR). We also expect all of our drivers to know and follow The Good Racecraft Guide. Please become versed in both if you aren't already. Once that is complete, please follow the steps below to complete your entry into the league:
You start a conversation, by clicking this link, and add zer05ive, JLBowler, nmcp1, llNovall, Akzl298 & Dragonwhisky as "Recipients".
The conversation title should be "Request To Join".
SNAIL Administrators will respond with specific instructions on what you need to accomplish to join SNAIL [Spec] Racing.
Place the following links (URLs) in the favorites (or bookmarks) in your web browser for quick reference. Please make every effort to read and understand the following links. Over the years a great deal of time and effort has gone into creating this league and we would like nothing more than to have you but we ask that you take the time and effort to do your homework. 99.9% of any question you may have about SNAIL can be found in the posts below.
Again, the original post has everything you need to know about what to expect on Sunday night and what you will need to have completed in order to be competitive. If you have any questions, please feel free to post your question on the thread.
During the week we run a number of different events, we encourage all SNAILs to join as many as possible.
Welcome to SNAIL
As an aside, there will be more to get done once you start the conversation and, if you want to race this coming Sunday, you'll need to get it all done by 11:59PM eastern time Saturday night.
Last year at this time I posted an AI image of the RV I would be driving for a bit. That was a trial run (rental). This is the real deal. We'll be racing McLarens and Porsches on our way to Haida Gwaii. Ours isn't red and white with the #27 on the side, sadly. But it is an LTV made in Winkler, Manitoba, my birthplace.
PS,
The awning is actually on the other side of the vehicle. You just can't count on AI to generate a perfect image 😆 But, it does have the dual rear wheels like we do. I should have added smoke.
Last year at this time I posted an AI image of the RV I would be driving for a bit. That was a trial run (rental). This is the real deal. We'll be racing McLarens and Porsches on our way to Haida Gwaii. Ours isn't red and white with the #27 on the side, sadly. But it is an LTV made in Winkler, Manitoba, my birthplace.
PS,
The awning is actually on the other side of the vehicle. You just can't count on AI to generate a perfect image 😆 But, it does have the dual rear wheels like we do. I should have added smoke.
The Touring car has fallen to limited stock today/tonight and will likely be sold out sometime Saturday, prior to the Drivers list final deadline.
Here's a new combo banner, with the '22 Honda in it now, I've been working on, with some critical input from @Oshawa-Joe and currently in a state I can hopefully get ChatGPT to modify into a usable image file format. It ain't in its final form yet.
