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- Zolon32
EASY-DRIVE RACING.
Greetings fellow GTPers, welcome to Easy-Drive Racing. Pull up a comfortable chair, because this is going to be easy, fun and entertaining.
Easy-Drive means that the whole experience of taking part in a meeting should be hassle free. No hours spent sorting out which is the quickest car within the regulations, then tweaking and twiddling its set up. Each meeting will have one car and it will be stock. Just turn up and youre ready to go.
But making it easy to take part will be no good if we cant produce close, enjoyable racing for lap after lap. The way I hope to do this is by ensuring that any car chosen to be used is easy to race hard right up to its limits, and also entertaining to drive. Whilst the fast guys will always be fast, they will need to work hard to make their skills count when nearly all of the performance envelope of the car can be exploited by most of the drivers racing.
The car I have identified as being ideal for a trial of Easy-Drive Racing is extremely benign in its temperament, its performance is readily accessible and its handling limits are flagged up loud and clear as soon as you get anywhere close to the edge, you will not need any driver aids. (ABS at 1 is acceptable.)
That car is the Lotus Esprit V8 02, available from the Premium Dealerships.
It is to be run stock, with tuning prohibited. The tyres are Sports Medium and tyre degradation will be off to allow consistency (this will be kept under review; pit stop strategy can be interesting). These tyres have more grip than those which the car comes off the production line with, and this further assists the ease with which it can be driven. It manages to be virtually foolproof whilst at the same time being lithe, agile and entertaining. (Note its foolproof, not idiot proof, physics are still in charge
) Wheels can be changed and painted for the purposes of personalisation.
Slipstream strength will be weak, track grip real, penalties and damage will be turned off.
There is no massive volume of rules with Easy-Driver Racing, just one word; behave. We all know what is expected of us and what is not; people who cant tell the difference will be excluded, permanently.
For the first event, on Tuesday 15th January 2013 at 8:00pm GMT, I plan on having three races, each around 20 minutes long, with a cross section of tracks. The first, 9 laps of Grand Valley, will have a quickest first grid, with reverse order grids for 14 laps of Autumn Ring and then 13 laps of Madrid. There will be 10 minutes of quali for Grand Valley and 10 minutes of familiarisation between the other races, the whole thing will run to about one and a half hours.
Easy-Drive = fewer mistakes, fewer mistakes = closer racing. Welcome aboard, lets discover some brilliant cars and some brilliant, hassle free racing.
Cheers, Zolon.
Greetings fellow GTPers, welcome to Easy-Drive Racing. Pull up a comfortable chair, because this is going to be easy, fun and entertaining.
Easy-Drive means that the whole experience of taking part in a meeting should be hassle free. No hours spent sorting out which is the quickest car within the regulations, then tweaking and twiddling its set up. Each meeting will have one car and it will be stock. Just turn up and youre ready to go.
But making it easy to take part will be no good if we cant produce close, enjoyable racing for lap after lap. The way I hope to do this is by ensuring that any car chosen to be used is easy to race hard right up to its limits, and also entertaining to drive. Whilst the fast guys will always be fast, they will need to work hard to make their skills count when nearly all of the performance envelope of the car can be exploited by most of the drivers racing.
The car I have identified as being ideal for a trial of Easy-Drive Racing is extremely benign in its temperament, its performance is readily accessible and its handling limits are flagged up loud and clear as soon as you get anywhere close to the edge, you will not need any driver aids. (ABS at 1 is acceptable.)
That car is the Lotus Esprit V8 02, available from the Premium Dealerships.
It is to be run stock, with tuning prohibited. The tyres are Sports Medium and tyre degradation will be off to allow consistency (this will be kept under review; pit stop strategy can be interesting). These tyres have more grip than those which the car comes off the production line with, and this further assists the ease with which it can be driven. It manages to be virtually foolproof whilst at the same time being lithe, agile and entertaining. (Note its foolproof, not idiot proof, physics are still in charge
) Wheels can be changed and painted for the purposes of personalisation.Slipstream strength will be weak, track grip real, penalties and damage will be turned off.
There is no massive volume of rules with Easy-Driver Racing, just one word; behave. We all know what is expected of us and what is not; people who cant tell the difference will be excluded, permanently.
For the first event, on Tuesday 15th January 2013 at 8:00pm GMT, I plan on having three races, each around 20 minutes long, with a cross section of tracks. The first, 9 laps of Grand Valley, will have a quickest first grid, with reverse order grids for 14 laps of Autumn Ring and then 13 laps of Madrid. There will be 10 minutes of quali for Grand Valley and 10 minutes of familiarisation between the other races, the whole thing will run to about one and a half hours.
Easy-Drive = fewer mistakes, fewer mistakes = closer racing. Welcome aboard, lets discover some brilliant cars and some brilliant, hassle free racing.
Cheers, Zolon.
