Also, I'll be MIA this Sunday. Flying to San Antonio for a funeral but ill be back next week for sure.
Does anyone else race in any other weekly leagues or have any other race nights around 8-9 EST?
Racing in Sport Mode or Multi-player is frustrating enough to make me quit racing altogether. Constantly taken out or moved out of the way... constant dive bombers. Zero respect for the craft... so Id like to pick up two more race events during the week with people wanting to learn. Any suggestions are appreciated.
On the February 22 1997, scientist at the Roslin Institute in Scotland announced to the world that they had successfully cloned a sheep a year earlier named Dolly. Dolly was the first mammal ever cloned from the cells of an adult animal. View attachment 1514914 @radliffracing - was nice to see you and @Mac1032763 again on the track for practice last night. We were 12 as one point and as you said in your post "even if it was just practice", it was some of the best Snail Spec Racing I was involved in in quite some time.
What a difference double-digit grids make. Come out on folks.
Also, I'll be MIA this Sunday. Flying to San Antonio for a funeral but ill be back next week for sure.
Does anyone else race in any other weekly leagues or have any other race nights around 8-9 EST?
Racing in Sport Mode or Multi-player is frustrating enough to make me quit racing altogether. Constantly taken out or moved out of the way... constant dive bombers. Zero respect for the craft... so Id like to pick up two more race events during the week with people wanting to learn. Any suggestions are appreciated.
Not that I'd like it all that much for you to join another "circus", and since SNAIL doesn't have events/series running every night of the week, like it used to have, you are welcome to explore other series, of which there are many, located in this forum, here at GTPlanet.
With D1's usual host, @bublyman , out celebrating some thing or another this evening, I'll throw together a warm up lobby around 7p eastern.
@Worst_Driver , you know, there are some "superstars" who had their best performances when they were reportedly "not feeling well." Maybe, that'll happen for me, since I've been feeling punky since Monday last week, even if I don't qualify for either part of superstar.
@bublyman Happy Birthiversary by the way. I call it that because no one ever had more than one actual birth day. All the ones everyone else misnames "birthdays" are overrated and just excuses for retailers to sell you 💩. Since I've managed to not die for 62 of the aforementioned birthiversaries, I feel I'm well qualified to make that statement.
Unless otherwise advised, expect @DRD_Niagara to be hosting tonight's official festivities for D1. Some folks, who don't have him in their friends list, may need to search for the lobby by the track filter to find it.
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.
Some notable absences last night (@Worst_Driver / @CinnamonOD / @vovik05 / @DublDee) meant that folks like @Dragonwhisky and myself might get a chance at more than just table scraps and possible bag a podium or two. And that's exactly what happened.
Seems like I battled @Dragonwhisky all night, including this photo finish. I got a great run on @Dragonwhisky for a battle for 2nd place in C3R1 but lost by 0.007 seconds. If I had another 12 to 18 inches of track, I would have had him.
@Dragonwhisky - Great fun last night @Worst_Driver - Hopefully your Nissan lives for another week. I loved it. @hurbinator - Welcome back to Snail. Either as a full-timer or a part-timer, the more the merrier.
Here are the unofficial results from our league night on February 22, 2026
Click here for this season's points standings and click a tab at the bottom for more detail.
Click here if the data linked above has already been archived and you would like to view it. Division 1
Nic-KL ------------ voted to eliminate Round 1
Ridger23 ---------- voted to eliminate Round 1
Oshawa-Joe -------- voted to eliminate Round 1 - Prize A
Dragonwhisky ------ voted to eliminate Round 1 - Prize C
DRD_Niagara ------- voted to eliminate Round 1
Egon_driftking77 -- voted to eliminate Round 1
Kgffty ------------ did not submit a vote
Division 2
JamCar0ne --------- voted to eliminate Round 2
RacingChamp30 ----- voted to eliminate Round 1
Canoworms1 -------- voted to eliminate Round 1 - Prize B
cesarr64 ---------- did not submit a vote
Mac1032763 -------- did not submit a vote
jakeblack3 -------- did not submit a vote
The round that received the most elimination votes was:
Round 1 - MINI Cooper S '05 (CS) at Dragontrail International Raceway Gardens - S01 Afternoon (8 laps)
Therefore, the entire combo has been dropped from next week's line-up. @Oshawa-Joe wins Prize A, and gets to choose an entirely new car and track combo to replace it.
The round that received the second most elimination votes was:
Round 2 - Nissan Fairlady Z 300ZX TT 2seater '89 (SH) at Autodrome Lago Maggiore - West - S03 Early Morning (9 laps)
This means either the car or track will be replaced for next week's line-up. @CANOWORMS1 is the Prize B winner and they have the option to freeze the car or the track, or they can give that option to the Prize C winner. If they give the freeze away, they get to decide what car or track replaces the part of the combo that is left unfrozen by the Prize C winner.
Prize C goes to @Dragonwhisky - they get whichever option the Prize B winner does not select.
Preliminary prize winners, please don't announce your prize selection until all incident reports have been filed and it's confirmed you don't have any penalties.
1Hitting the "hard" limit causes the RPMs to "bounce" and reduces torque and speed. 2Hitting the "soft" limit ceases all acceleration potential. Meaning, you're not going to go any faster.
As my Prize C(B) pick, we'll be taking out a bit more HP with the Jaguar F-type R '14 at 599.87PP on SM tires to Autodrome Lago Maggiore - West - S03 Early Morning . MDLT - 1:33.xxx.
I did turn a low 1:32 on one of my ten or so check out laps.
SNAIL Friday Night Racing
Open Invite to ALL SNAILS
Less than 2 weeks to go for the opening event on March 6th. We have a 20 driver roster with the 16 grid spots based on a first to confirm attending basis and then reserve drivers in the order they confirmed.
We do have a full 16 car grid confirmed for March 3rd with 1 Reserve currently ready if needed.
We are always accepting new entries from all skill levels. This series utilizes driver specific regulations to establish pace parity regardless of skillset. In turn, this gets everyone within a pace range of approximately 7 tenths of a second from slowest to fastest on the roster. As a result, consistency and minimizing mistakes is what rewards a driver and ultimately induces many multi-car and multi-lap race battles.
Our last series saw 9 different overall event winners over nine 2-race events, and the Overall Championship Winner did not win any of these. Consistent placement in the top 5 overall across the season can and will have you in contention for the overall Championship. Winning will not come easy and if you do manage to win, it just gets harder to do so.
Have a peek at the replay capture of a recent practice session for this series. Cars with the blue banner are at a base 740.00pp regulation, cars with the red banners are running a hp handicap, and those with yellow banners are afforded concessions of more hp and/or a stickier compound tire. Pace overall has the group across the field very close in pace regardless of skillset.
If interested, please see the link in the post above for more series details and instructions on how to sign up for the series. It would be great to welcome some new names to the series.
this evening, I'll throw together a warm up lobby around 7p eastern.
