JGTC S3 Round 1 Qualif + Results
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- BradleyH131
As much as I hate to agree. I too much prefer the old deadline, especially this week where Easter will throw everyone into chaos.
'Saturday 9:00PM EST' equates to 'Sunday 1PM' for us East-Side Aussies, right? Just want to confirm, I'm not good with Time-Zones.
By the way VT, I'm taking that #01 back next season! Or I'll <insert trademark Casio death threat> you!
'Saturday 9:00PM EST' equates to 'Sunday 1PM' for us East-Side Aussies, right? Just want to confirm, I'm not good with Time-Zones.
By the way VT, I'm taking that #01 back next season! Or I'll <insert trademark Casio death threat> you!
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well saturday isnt a chocolate holiday champ so you should be able to get a lap or 2 in then... 
and now that i go through the thread again i see EV4L has answered my question about the race time frame, thanks mate...
and now that i go through the thread again i see EV4L has answered my question about the race time frame, thanks mate...
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Nuvolari
Ok so this is final. Deadline for qualification will now be on Saturday 9:00PM EST. You'll have the sunday plus a full complete week to run your race. I will also give out the # of laps on Friday night 9:00PM for who ever wants to race early or work on a pit strategy.
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SHigSpeed
Will go up with the rest of the JGTC rules in the official thread very soon.
eatsviper4lunchAnd just so you know the full calendar is now posted in the official JGTC thread.
Round 5 :
Track : Infineon Raceway - Sports Car Couse - 4.06km
It's potentially the best schedule for a series I have ever seen with my own eyes.
I love this schedule.
I love my car .
By the way.... What´s the meaning of couse???,lololollol
I'm just playing the funny guy....
You will see lot's of errors in my writing,during the all Season.
Good luck to all of you.
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- Portland, OR
- Jump_Ace
- JUMPxACE
Schedule looks good to me, I'm not big on Monaco, but I'll be the first to admit I need work there. My car rox, my teammate is cool and I still despise the Ho-Ho's 
...heheh....gl u guys and I hope u wait for me at the finish!
Jerome
...heheh....gl u guys and I hope u wait for me at the finish! Jerome
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This is going to be an awesome season, but you might wanna up the feeling of authenticity by getting some umbrella girls...
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- Portland, OR
- GTP_KLR142
So when does this official thread get posted? I'm curious as to if I want to just go for a fast qualifying lap, or just go for a decent full race time. I might want to make sure I don't get any added weight or power decreases for next week's race...eatsviper4lunch
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It's been posted since April 4, ev4l just keeps updating it.
This thread.
https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/showthread.php?t=79163
This thread.
https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/showthread.php?t=79163
If I may, a few comments on the effects of the new qualifying rule regarding tire selection:
The difficulty is that if the race distance is unknown until 24 hours before qualifying time submission, the wrong qualifying tire may be selected.
If, after a qualifying time is submitted, the driver determines a tire and pit strategy which may produce a quicker race time based on the number of race laps, but which requires starting on a different tire than was used in qualifying, the driver is honor-bound not to use that strategy and is forced to do something which may well result in a slower race time. If the submitted qualifying time is not fast enough to reward the driver with any points, the driver will find himself in the unhappy position of getting no qualifying points and knowing that he will have handicapped himself in the actual race which pays many more points than qualifying.
It seems that the only way to know which tire to use for qualifying and for the start of the race is to complete tire testing in order to be able to predict which tires produce the best average speed over a known stint distance, then wait until the number of race laps is known, then do the calculations to determine the quickest race time based on tire selection and stint length and thereby deciding on which tire is the ideal start tire, and then go out a get a decent qualifying time with that ideal start tire, hoping desperately that the effort produces at least one valuable qualifying point.
With the presently determined schedule between race laps announcement and qualifying time submission, there would be just twenty-four hours to do that.
And still there exists the possibility that, during race week, the driver may find another combination of tire selection and pit strategy that will produce a quicker race time, for some previously unknown reason, and he will be unable to change his race plan during that week of racing following submission of qualifying time.
For a driver like myself, these difficulties are worth pondering. During Season One I never found myself on the podium after qualifying, but I never found myself off the podium after the race. My approach is therefore that I cannot count on getting any points from qualifying, I can only hope to gain maximum possible points from the race itself and if I make a mistake on tire selection for qualifying I'm almost certainly going to reduce my only advantage in the overall competition.
Re-reading the rules carefully has led me to assume that, as in Season One, there is no penalty for simply not qualifying at all. In my case that would seem to be the only reasonable thing to do, because I did find on occasion during Season One that late in the week a fresh idea on strategy produced a quicker race time.
So for me, even though I would prefer to qualify if only to participate in that part of the competition, and unless there is some Season Two sanction for non-submission of a qualifying time, it would be smarter to forget qualifying altogether and just do my careful tire testing, retaining the option of making any changes I wish during race week which will produce my quickest race time.
Respectfully submitted.
Appalari Racing
The difficulty is that if the race distance is unknown until 24 hours before qualifying time submission, the wrong qualifying tire may be selected.
If, after a qualifying time is submitted, the driver determines a tire and pit strategy which may produce a quicker race time based on the number of race laps, but which requires starting on a different tire than was used in qualifying, the driver is honor-bound not to use that strategy and is forced to do something which may well result in a slower race time. If the submitted qualifying time is not fast enough to reward the driver with any points, the driver will find himself in the unhappy position of getting no qualifying points and knowing that he will have handicapped himself in the actual race which pays many more points than qualifying.
It seems that the only way to know which tire to use for qualifying and for the start of the race is to complete tire testing in order to be able to predict which tires produce the best average speed over a known stint distance, then wait until the number of race laps is known, then do the calculations to determine the quickest race time based on tire selection and stint length and thereby deciding on which tire is the ideal start tire, and then go out a get a decent qualifying time with that ideal start tire, hoping desperately that the effort produces at least one valuable qualifying point.
With the presently determined schedule between race laps announcement and qualifying time submission, there would be just twenty-four hours to do that.
And still there exists the possibility that, during race week, the driver may find another combination of tire selection and pit strategy that will produce a quicker race time, for some previously unknown reason, and he will be unable to change his race plan during that week of racing following submission of qualifying time.
For a driver like myself, these difficulties are worth pondering. During Season One I never found myself on the podium after qualifying, but I never found myself off the podium after the race. My approach is therefore that I cannot count on getting any points from qualifying, I can only hope to gain maximum possible points from the race itself and if I make a mistake on tire selection for qualifying I'm almost certainly going to reduce my only advantage in the overall competition.
Re-reading the rules carefully has led me to assume that, as in Season One, there is no penalty for simply not qualifying at all. In my case that would seem to be the only reasonable thing to do, because I did find on occasion during Season One that late in the week a fresh idea on strategy produced a quicker race time.
So for me, even though I would prefer to qualify if only to participate in that part of the competition, and unless there is some Season Two sanction for non-submission of a qualifying time, it would be smarter to forget qualifying altogether and just do my careful tire testing, retaining the option of making any changes I wish during race week which will produce my quickest race time.
Respectfully submitted.
Appalari Racing
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- Camboriu - Braz
- FASJ6418
very good points, i liked the rule, but didn´t stop to think about that... maybe we can include the number of laps in the schedule, so things are clear... in real life, everybody knows the number of laps, so i see your point. lets wait to see what viper says about your comments...
@hotboi - didn´t you just said you were going to race like in real life, with 3 stops at best? so running with hards, how did you went for pole? just curious if you changed your mind to go with mediuns or something like that
@hotboi - didn´t you just said you were going to race like in real life, with 3 stops at best? so running with hards, how did you went for pole? just curious if you changed your mind to go with mediuns or something like that
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HondaRacerThis is going to be an awesome season, but you might wanna up the feeling of authenticity by getting some umbrella girls...
Here they are, waiting for us at the last venue of the season!
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- ZeratulSG
Keep in mind we've upped the power on all the cars since last season. When I was doing testing I initially compared to my qualy time from last season so I didn't have to run again in my old car...at first I was amazed until I realized my errorhOt6o4bOi
Oh...and what off-season?
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- GTP_KLR142
Very well said. I've thought the same stuff, just not as well thought out as you. For me, I don't even know how many points the races are worth. I have an idea of what could be the fastest RACE setup, and it's definitely not the fastest qualifying setup. I was considering going for a fastest qualifying lap, so as to knowingly hurt my race time slightly and not have the chance of gaining weight/losing hp for the next race. Now, it sounds like that would be ultimately detrimental, and that it'd be better to go for race points instead.Nuvolari
EV4L, do they run their qualifying tires in RL for their race starts? I think it may be a better idea if the qualifying lap were just that, only the qualifying lap, and on SET tires. Let's say, everyone has to use medium or harder tires, that way they'll probably be using something that is somewhat like their race setup, and they'll get used to it. I think that just the limiting grip
of the tires used(no RSS, and maybe even no RS) may be enough...?
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hOt6o4bOi
those times are from autunm ring, i´m pretty sure... and we are not going to race there, so we will have to take the suzuka, motegi and laguna seca times to see what we can do now:tup:
but from the testing i´ve done, at least one second faster per track, which is good
