24 Hours of Le Mans (scaled)

[rallymorten]

This is an interest check for a (almost) 24 hour race at the Circuit de La Sarthe.

Real lenght: 140 laps (about 8 hours)

Time progression: 3

Penalties: strong

Prizes (will be rewarded based on position in your class):

1st: 1.000.000 cr. "gift coupon"
2nd: 650.000 cr. "gift coupon"
3rd: 350.000 cr. "gift coupon"
"Gift coupon" = you tell me what car you want, I buy it and send it to you

Pit Rule:

Every pit-stop must be at least 5 minutes in length. And at least 1 stop must be 15 minutes. I'll check on my replay after the race. By "Pit Stop" I mean from white line where it straightens to the exit. If you are caught being too fast out, you'll have a penalty (yet to be decided).

Cars: LMP and GT cars, untuned

Cars eligible for LMP class:

Peugeot 908 HDI (all versions)
Audi R10
Audi R8R (all LMP versions)
Pescarolo (all versions)
Toyota GT-One (James6653)
BMW V12
Bentley Speed 8

Total Entrants: 1/7 allowed

Cars eligible for GT class:

Chevrolet Corvette C5-R
Ford GT LM Race Car (the white one)
McLaren F1 LM Race Car
Dodge Viper Team Oreca (all versions)
Honda NSX LM Race Car
Audi R8 LMS Team Playstation
BMW M3 GTR Race Car

Total Entrants: 0/7 allowed

This gives 14 racers. The last 2 spaces are Race Controller (Who must keep an eye on the pit times) and Safety Car (deploys when a player is disconnected or a major accident has occured. He/she is the one to tell it to if you get disconnected)

RC:
SC:

 

[NicoLoeb]

I'd best get some wheel time in, this sounds interesting.

 

[rallymorten]

Let me know which team you were thinking about

 

[james6653]

I'm intrested I need more info though first

 

[Cowboys965]

8 hours? I think you'd probably finish with 2 cars, if even, due to connection hiccups and personal problems. (i.e. Food, bathroom)

And strong penalties will make lapped cars ghosted, so the whole point of the GT class is gone.

 

[james6653]

Ya I didn't understand penalties cause from what I heard penalties are hard to miss on that track

 

[rallymorten]

8 hours? I think you'd probably finish with 2 cars, if even, due to connection hiccups and personal problems. (i.e. Food, bathroom)

And strong penalties will make lapped cars ghosted, so the whole point of the GT class is gone.

I see your point there, and about the disconnections, if it happens the driver sends me a pm (subject: disconnect) and I'll tell the others to slow down or get kicked (work in progress). I need some more experience with the penalty systems, so I'll host a test race within 2 weeks.
About food, bathroom etc. I'll think about what can be done and work out something

 

[Racingworld68]

I see your point there, and about the disconnections, if it happens the driver sends me a pm (subject: disconnect) and I'll tell the others to slow down or get kicked (work in progress). I need some more experience with the penalty systems, so I'll host a test race within 2 weeks.
About food, bathroom etc. I'll think about what can be done and work out something

Lovely event, but in my opinion almost impossible. About the pitstops, you could add some obligate stops at certain windows, people would have to stay in pits for a 5 or 10 minutes, as this would be for everyone the same, it is possible to take a bathroombrake during the race...

 

[rallymorten]

Lovely event, but in my opinion almost impossible. About the pitstops, you could add some obligate stops at certain windows, people would have to stay in pits for a 5 or 10 minutes, as this would be for everyone the same, it is possible to take a bathroombrake during the race...

Exactly what I was thinking, the only problem in that is I need someone to control that.. But as I'm "killing" the team thing it can be possible..

 

[Racingworld68]

Exactly what I was thinking, the only problem in that is I need someone to control that.. But as I'm "killing" the team thing it can be possible..

You can control it afterwards, just check the replay, they should pause the game as soon they have chosen tyre's and fuel when entering pits. When the lollipopmen let's you go, you're time will start (adding 5min for example) You just wait that time and then hit start whenever you are supposed to go...

 

[rallymorten]

You can control it afterwards, just check the replay, they should pause the game as soon they have chosen tyre's and fuel when entering pits. When the lollipopmen let's you go, you're time will start (adding 5min for example) You just wait that time and then hit start whenever you are supposed to go...

Hmm.. That's a good idea! Thanks for the advise:tup:

 

[james6653]

I think I will claim the first official spot In this race I will be driving the Toyota GT-one

 

[RedPartyhat]

Sounds good, I'd be interested but time and date would be important for me as well as everyone.
And would there be some regulations to keep the cars in equal performance? No way a BMW v12 would compete with an Audi r8 2001 or a Honda NSX Lm race car or the Audi R8 LMS race car compete with a Viper Team Oreca...
As for your pit stop rules, if there are no tire regulations, some people will be going to pit every three laps and I don't think its a good idea to sit out 5 minutes every three laps.
And the 5 minutes pit will cause this race to last well over 10 hours..
I'm not sure how one steward sitting in the lobby can check if everyone pits for 5 minutes for 10 whole hours.
Penalties being on strong would bad for GT class as they would all turn into ghosts, maybe just a 1-class race?

More works needs to be done but I'd be interested and I'd love to help out with this

 

[GTP_J_Turner]

Am i right in thinking the race will be a 'free practice' race? I mean that the race wont be started just timed using the watch race feature. If not i dont know why everyone has to slow down after someone gets disconnected. That player wont be able to rejoin the race anyway.

 

[rallymorten]

Sounds good, I'd be interested but time and date would be important for me as well as everyone.
And would there be some regulations to keep the cars in equal performance? No way a BMW v12 would compete with an Audi r8 2001 or a Honda NSX Lm race car or the Audi R8 LMS race car compete with a Viper Team Oreca...
As for your pit stop rules, if there are no tire regulations, some people will be going to pit every three laps and I don't think its a good idea to sit out 5 minutes every three laps.
And the 5 minutes pit will cause this race to last well over 10 hours..
I'm not sure how one steward sitting in the lobby can check if everyone pits for 5 minutes for 10 whole hours.
Penalties being on strong would bad for GT class as they would all turn into ghosts, maybe just a 1-class race?

More works needs to be done but I'd be interested and I'd love to help out with this

I see what you mea, and while this thing have been quiet I've been thinking about just making it a 1000km (?) enduro race. I'll be thinking about changing the regulations to the cars as well, the only reason I posted it like this was because that's the only way I can be 100% sure people do obey when we do multi-class races. That's a feature I'd love to see in an update/dlc, giving us the option to make 2 sets of car rules.