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It is a Gran Turismo 5 question, but is hard to decide how many laps to do for an American only online racing series I am doing between some friends of mine, and I am unsure how to calculate laps for the maps. Some are obvious for laps like Daytona Raceway, Indy Raceway and being fast tracks with high laps, but then there are other tracks, like their road courses or Laguna. Question is, what should I do to evaluate how many laps I should do on the tracks, or is there a formula I should follow? For example, determine the amount of laps for time per lap, or the mileage for the track? I am unsure how to do it, so could you please help me with this?

For some tracks I am doing so for example of what I am trying to do.

Laguna Seca Raceway (Probably gonna follow Edurance Race)
Indy Speedway/Road Course (Probably gonna do 200 on both)
Daytona Speedway/Road Course
High Speed Ring (Probably gonna do 200)
Cape Ring
Grand Valley Speedway (Probably gonna follow Edurance Race)
Deep Forest Raceway
Trial Mountian
Some Custom Tracks I never told of on forums

tl;dr I am holding online racing series between friends and need help making endurance style race laps for the tracks above, please help me.
 
If your friends are around the same pace as yourself, I'd suggest running a few laps at each of the tracks you're planning on using, then just calculate the number of laps depending on how quick your lap times are (if that makes sense?).

So for example, if a lap takes you 1 minute, and you want the race to last approximately 2 hours, then you'll need 120 laps. 120 x 1min = 120mins (2 hours). Pretty obvious example I know :D

That's how I'd do it anyway :)
 
Well, I won't be racing, I will be managing as they race, but that is a good formula to follow, as I am aiming for long, but not like doing 200 laps on a Nurb 24H and force them to do it. Thank you for the help, I will still take other answer to try to make the best races.
 
200 laps around The Ring would take a loooooOOoOong time! :D

It all depends on how long you want the races to last, and how fast the cars are going to be (350PP races would obviously require less laps than 550PP races).

I've taken part in a few racing series (all be it on Forza), and the competition organisers seemed to use this approach. It's a simple way of calculating how long a race will last. The results can be very accurate, because you know (within usually 5-10 seconds) how long each racer will take to lap each particular track.

I'm sure some other people will have different (and maybe better) suggestions :)

Happy to help
 
Well, for my races, I am going to have the PP/restrictions different per race. Like have Indy Speedway be unrestricted (obviously no hacked vehicles allowed) while have Indy Road Course have less PP required, as speed isn't required as much in the road course variant like it is for the speedway.
 
In that case, what about maybe getting your friends together for some shorter races before you plan the endurance type races? That way, you can judge how fast people are, and get a view of their lap times. You can then use the formula to increase the laps, depending on how long you want the races to last.

Even if they're not all there at one time, you can still use a few of them to get a rough idea. If you have 4/5 lap races (not at Nurburgring obviously), you could maybe get most of the tracks done in 1 session :)
 
Well, we were planning to have it be like "Race Day" races, so they are long races that happen once a week, so they will end up being long on purpose, and I will be following the standard rules of GTPlanet's races, so it will be interesting.
 
Well I hope I've helped a little :) like I say, maybe others can offer other/better ideas.

Good luck getting it sorted, and have fun :)
 

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