GTP WRS-Online : Event 92 : Ardennes Skyline - June 12

[Allibubba99]

Presents...

Ardennes Skyline

An Online Race based on GTP_WRS (GT5) Week 120

:: Only Open to Qualified GTP_Registered Members ::

:: Members are not obligated to take part ::



June 12th, 2013


European Time Slot

3:00 PM Eastern | 12:00 PM Pacific | 19:00 GMT | Check Local

North American Time Slot

10:00 PM Eastern | 7:00 PM Pacific | 2:00 AM GMT | Check Local

Mine's BNR34 Skyline GT-R N1 Base '06 @ Circuit de Spa Fancorchamps

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Stewards Notes
"QUOTE" EDK - This car is a favorite from the Prologue days, and nearly was used on a combo from that time. The high speed and wide open nature of Spa suits the car perfectly. Once you figure out your braking points and how to manage getting in and out of corners with this beast, it's a very rewarding drive.

 

[Allibubba99]

In the event of a field of 13-16 drivers we will disable mics and race with one grid. With 17+ we will split the grid.

Register
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Eligibility

This WRS-Online event hosted by 3D3 Racing is open to GTP_Registered members only. If you are not currently on the registry run the GTP_Registry qualifier and join now!

Registration Instructions

The following must be performed by every driver for every event:

• Click the registration button above, fill-in and submit the online registration form (use your GTP_ tag ID)
• Leave a quick note in this thread to let us know you've registered and any other comments.

The following must be performed only one time per driver (not per event):

• Send a PSN friend request to GTP_3D3Racing, GTP_3D3_A and GTP_3D3_B from your GTP_tag account.
• Submit the 3D3 Racing Online Driver Database Entry Form. Your information will need to be verified before you are added to the db and before your ID will appear in the registered driver table above. You can view the official driver database here.

There is a 32 car/driver limit for this event (per region) and slots are awarded on the grid using a first come first serve basis. Reference the registered drivers table above for availability. This is a stand alone race and points are not tallied for a series. Future WRS-Online races hosted by 3D3 racing may have different driver limits and will require re-registration using the same first come first serve basis and participation in future events is optional.

Registration Changes

If you want to change your time slot, add a time slot or update your color choices just click on the registration link and fill out the form again and submit with new values. Your last entry will override any previous entries.

Cancellations

If for some reason, after you register for the event, you are unable to attend please click the registration button above and complete the form again selecting "cancel" as your status. Please also post a note in this thread as the table above can take some time to update.

Delaying or Restarting Race Start

Once the race countdown timer has started, the race will only be restarted in these cases:

• Multiple drivers report a black screen/hang, instead of the 3-2-1 countdown.
• One or more drivers get disconnected before race-pace has begun ("GO" for grid-starts, end of formation lap for rolling starts).
• Steward realizes there is a condition that would lead to an unfair or poor race experience.

Once the race countdown timer has started, the race will explicitly NOT be restarted for:

• Latecomers, even if you've registered
• Driver realizes he picked the wrong car parts (ie, tires) or driving options (ie, Auto tranny)

 

[Allibubba99]

Lounge Settings (@ GTP_3D3Racing)

• Race Quality: Standard
• Voice Chat Quality: Low (Disabled if grid is over 12 drivers)

Official Practice Times

• EU: Tuesdays @ 3:00 PM Eastern | 12:00 PM Pacific | 19:00 GMT
• NA: Tuesdays @ 7:00 PM Eastern | 4:00 PM Pacific | 23:00 GMT
• Pre-Race: The lounge is open for pre-race practice appx 1 hour prior to the official start of each event

Course & Car Settings

• Track: Circuit de Spa Fancorchamps
• Car: Mine's BNR34 Skyline GT-R N1 Base '06 (From Recommended Garage)
• Performance Points: ??
• Power: 591 HP (Stock)
• Weight: 1340 Kg (Stock)

Qualification Procedures

• Type: Live Online Single Stint - No pits
• Length: Single out-lap and 2 timed hot-laps
• Groups: Group qualifying will be used if the grid size is large enough to warrant in order to avoid traffic during qualification.
• Notes: Drivers not in the lounge by the time the first driver has entered the track after reset will not be allowed to qualify. They are welcome to join the race, but will start at the back of the grid. If we are running multiple qualification groups and the driver enters before the last group has entered track an exception will be made.

Event Settings

• Game Mode: Normal Race
• Laps: 23 (+1 Formation Lap)
• Start Type: Staggered Formation Lap with Rolling Start (see below)
• Grid Order: Fastest First based on Qualification
• Boost: No
• Penalty: Off
• Automatic Race Start Cycle: Disabled
• Race Finish Delay: 180sec (~175% Average lap)
• Visible Damage: Off
• Mechanical Damage: Light
• Disable Collisions: Off
• Slipstream strength: Weak
• Tire Wear / Fuel Consumption: Fast
• Grip Reduction on Wet Track/Track Edge: Real

Regulation Settings

• Car Restrictions: Select from Recommended Garage : Mine's BNR34 Skyline GT-R N1 Base '06
• Tire Restrictions: Sports Soft (S3's)
• Vehicle Tuning: Prohibited (R/A functions allowed)
• Skid Recovery Force | Active Steering | ASM: Disabled
• TCS | Driving Line | ABS: Optional

Formation Lap

• A steward will exit track, view the live timing monitor and announce the order after qualification while all drivers remain on track.
• All drivers should exit track after the order is announced and enter the pits. When all drivers are in the pits a steward will start the race.
• After the system places you on the grid drivers should proceed into stagger formation in order.
• Pole sitter will choose his/her preferred side of the track.
• There should be no overlap between cars in the staggered formation.
• Speed limit on formation lap is 75 mph / 120 km/h and pole sitter should maintain this speed (or less) to keep pack together, on the final straight before the chicane the pole sitter will reduce speed to 50mph / 80 kmh.
• Weaving or other tire warming procedures are NOT allowed during the formation lap.
• Pole sitter will exit the last corner and take care to give enough time to allow all cars behind to safely exit the final corner.
• Start marker for Circuit de Spa Fancorchamps is the start/finish line.
• The pole sitter should start the race by accelerating to race pace at the identified start marker (track specific and may or may not be the start/finish line).
• All other drivers should accelerate after the driver in front of you does so.
• No passing is allowed before the start marker.
• Be cautious and courteous in the first turn. Dive bombing will be penalized and will not be tolerated.

Pit Entry and Exit Guidelines

• Pits are open and stops are optional, but may be required to complete the race based on fuel consumption and/or tire wear.
• Drivers are responsible for determining their fuel consumption, tire wear and ultimate pit strategy. Discussion of this strategy in the thread is encouraged but not required.
• Be aware that when "Tire Wear/Fuel Consumption" is set to "Fast" or "Very Fast" that the system's fuel add recommendations will be wrong. In this case you need to do your own testing and calculations prior to the race to ensure you add the proper amount of fuel to make it to the end of the race.
• On exit from the pits stay to the pit exit side (usually right side) of the white line if there is oncoming traffic.
• On both pit entry and exit, traffic not entering/exiting the pits must stay to track side (usually left side) of the white lines and are not allowed on the pit entry/exit except to avoid collisions. Drivers cannot follow another driver entering the pits into this area to draft and cannot drive into the area to avoid being drafted if they are not pitting.
• Remember, traffic on course has the right of way after the white line ends. Drivers that cross the line in either direction are responsible for any incidents that occur.

Track Boundary Guidelines

Drivers are expected to do their best to stay within track boundaries per the OLR. Mistakes happens over the course of a long race and the random off or two will be overlooked in most instances, but if a pattern of boundary abuse is observed penalties will be handed out which include 15 seconds for a "minor" pattern of abuse, 30 seconds for a "substantial" pattern of abuse, and a DQ for "complete disregard" of track boundaries. In cases where penalties may not impact the driver (e.g. DC), the penalty may be carried over to the next event and may be applied as a 5 (minor) or 10 (major) grid spot penalty.

It's up to the admins' discretion exactly what qualifies as "minor", "substantial" or "complete disregard". Going outside the rumble by a centimeter isn't as serious as a car length wide excursions into the run off area. Factors such as dirty air and traffic also come into play. If you find yourself going wide then the next lap you're expected to slow down a bit more to make sure you stay within boundaries. If you make the same mistake multiple times and you want to avoid a penalty you can always self-penalize during the race by lifting for a very brief period upon returning to the track. Continuing to hammer the throttle after repeated boundary overruns may very well end with a post race penalty.​

General Guidelines:

• Contact with walls should be avoided. Wall riding/bouncing to gain time will be penalized and/or can result in disqualification.
• Rumble/ripple strips are part of the track
• Runoff areas are not part of the track including green painted concrete.

Track Specific Guidelines- (The Following Areas are Not Part of the Track):

Raidillion (crest of hill above Eau Rouge)

Kemmel straight after Raidillion (the tarmac outside/after the rumble is out of bounds)

Exiting Left after Rivage before Pouhon

Pouhon

Exit of Les Fagnes

Exit of Stavelot II

Blanchimont Exit

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Standard Clean OLR Rules Apply:

• Unless otherwise specified, all rules from the original WRS event apply.
• You are expected to drive clean at all times as if you are racing in the WRS. All participants are required to follow the GTPlanet Online Racing Rules & Guidelines.
• 3D3 Race Stewards (who are taking part in race, but will review the replay) reserve the right to kick out or invalidate the result of any driver from the Race Room for driving offensively. If you ignore any warnings from the stewards and are kicked out of the race room, you will not be allowed to participate in future 3D3 events.
• No hybrids - if you're caught using a hybrid or attempting to enter a hybrid onto the track during an official event you will be banned from all future 3D3 Racing events.
• No cheating of any kind
• Nothing that goes against the spirit of the rules
• Passing and Blocking: Aggressive blocking is not permitted, but the driver in front has the right to choose his/her line and braking point and drivers behind should respect that line. Be especially careful when you are on older tires than the competition as the speed difference may be significant. These events are "for fun" so just play nice and take a conservative rather than an aggressive approach when possible.

Good Luck, OLR Team

 

[Allibubba99]

 

[WRP001]

I'll be stuck on an airplane and unable even to view oink's stream.... Ugg!

Have fun guys, this one looks awesome.

 

[Ealirendur]

Hah! Millenium Jade is all mine! MIIINE!

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Er, yeah. Should be good. Don't they have wifi/in-flight ipads* on your flight, Tim?

* <grumble>Not that I can ever get at the stream from the twitch app</grumble>

 

[WRP001]

Exactly, the new twitch app is terrible. It used to work just fine, why did they mess it up? No wifi on my flights anyway, at least not in the cheap seats.

 

[gtpcaine]

Really looking forward to this one, judging by TT times I should be there or there abouts, im in need of a good race result, always seem to go backwards

 

[RobertSamuel]

The Sector time differences I get when disabling tyre wear and setting tyre wear to fast is about a second.
S1 from 37.4 to 38.4
S2 from 1:09 to 1:10,5

I'm not trying to prove a point or something, I just found it really interesting because before WRS I had no idea.
I love this track, Race is gonna be awesome!👍

 

[gtpcaine]

roughly how many laps did the tires last? im guessing about a 24 lap race (60 mins / 2.30 p/l average) so 13 laps for a 1 stop. obviously that's all guess work, I might be wrong.

 

[Speedy6543]

As much as I like to I won't be able to race at my homecircuit Spa. I'm away all week and next week with only the weekend at home. Good luck and have fun guys!

@ Tim (GTP_Caine): most likely it'll be 23 racelaps + 1 formationlap. We'll try and finalize these settings as soon as possible.

 

[oink83]

Not even sure what the colour I picked looks like My work schedule was lightened this week due to some stupid hours last week, so potentially I can attend the NA race again this week, but we will see what the family think about that

 

[mohitraina91]

Not even sure what the colour I picked looks like My work schedule was lightened this week due to some stupid hours last week, so potentially I can attend the NA race again this week, but we will see what the family think about that

Mat not working?

 

[oink83]

Mat not working?

It has helped alot with the noise. But the problem is, I am needing to get in and out of the chair a couple times, then when the race is over, switching stuff off, getting ready for bed etc makes some noise. I think if I'm careful, I can probably manage to get away with it

 

[mjdmzn]

It has helped alot with the noise. But the problem is, I am needing to get in and out of the chair a couple times, then when the race is over, switching stuff off, getting ready for bed etc makes some noise. I think if I'm careful, I can probably manage to get away with it

Put a blanket on the PS3 while you turn it off, might help with noise reduction

 

[oink83]

Put a blanket on the PS3 while you turn it off, might help with noise reduction

Lol, I don't mean the actual turning off bit, I mean just like, getting up, walking about my room sorting it out for going to bed etc. Just, little things, and my dad sucks at sleep, so that of course doesn't help.

 

[mohitraina91]

Lol, I don't mean the actual turning off bit, I mean just like, getting up, walking about my room sorting it out for going to bed etc. Just, little things, and my dad sucks at sleep, so that of course doesn't help.

I keep forgetting most people haven't received ninja training.

 

[Speedy6543]

I think your next step may be putting these all around in your room.

 

[Speedy6543]

Event Settings

• Game Mode: Normal Race
• Laps: 23 (+1 Formation Lap)
• Start Type: Staggered Formation Lap with Rolling Start (see below)
• Grid Order: Fastest First based on Qualification
• Boost: No
• Penalty: Off
• Automatic Race Start Cycle: Disabled
• Race Finish Delay: 180sec (~175% Average lap)
• Visible Damage: Off
• Mechanical Damage: Light
• Disable Collisions: Off
• Slipstream strength: Weak
• Tire Wear / Fuel Consumption: Fast
• Grip Reduction on Wet Track/Track Edge: Real

This has been updated guys.
23 racelaps and Fast tyrewear/fuelconsumption.

 

[gtpcaine]

thanks for notification

 

[RobertSamuel]

I feel like Im gonna be further up the field this race. Anyone mind sharing practice lap times of tomorrow since I probably can't be there myself?

 

[Racingworld68]

3D3 Main Lounge open for practise now. Feel free to join.

 

[Tidgney]

Not had any practice at this, so..... Should be interesting haha !

 

[GTP_Patrick1]

Looking forward to the race, have to practice some as I had guests all week, and did not get to run the TT.

 

[Racingworld68]

Really looking forward to this race at my hometrack. Did some serious practise yesterday with Koen, Stef and Jon. Good fun, but the tyrewear is not gonna make it easy, hope everyone gets his calculations right... Best time so far online 2.24.017.

 

[RobertSamuel]

wow that is exaclty what I got yesterday.

 

[Allibubba99]

I can't make EU practice but will be at NA practice.

Al

 

[NINE_HUNDRED]

Is anybody able to send me a broken in car?

 

[Racingworld68]

Is anybody able to send me a broken in car?

We will use the cars from the recommendad garage, so no cars needed, you can come on foot to the practise tonight, we will hook you up


Tonight's practise will be in the MAIN lounge. People who want to practise for GT3 can do so in the 3D3 A room. Also !!! I will do a full race practise for the Spa race tonight !! This will be held in the 3D3 Room B, we will start arround 18.00 GMT and then afterwards join the normal tuesday practises.

 

[oink83]

For everyone's information, I did some very rough fuel calculations, and figured that we are going to need somewhere in the vicinity of 200 litres. That means you'll need to add ~100 to finish the race.

I seem to often use more fuel that others, and I came to 203 for the race, so you guys will probably want to test for yourself.