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- Halifax, NS
- Parcells2
- Parcells2
If you’re interested in clean and laid back racing using production cars then Thursday evening’s may be right for you. Every Thursday evening from 7-10 EST Parcells hosts a friends only lobby where we run cars directly from the Manufacturer, no upgrades, add an oil change and race the bastards.
The rules are very simple, we have only 2 of them…
Format:
Each week we choose 2 cars to run and race each for 1.5 hours. The tracks can be predetermined OR voted for the night we race them. ANYONE can submit a car to run for a given week and if you choose the car you also have the privilege of choosing what tracks you want to run or we can simply pick the tracks come race time it’s your call. Usually run anywhere between 5-7 races with each car.
There are no upgrades or tuning allowed but if the consensus is to use a different tire compound than the default that can happen. Typically we just leave the default tire as-is. All cars also require an oil change.
The cars and tracks for each week will be documented in the second post of this thread.
Room Settings:
Basically everything is at the highest SIM setting. Vehicle tuning is prohibited. You can use any assist you like except for Skid recovery which is forced off. Grid order is reverse of previous race results and penalties are left OFF (random ghosting sucks).
General notes of interest:
If you have any questions about anything feel free to contact me via PM or post.
The rules are very simple, we have only 2 of them…
- Don’t be a dick
- Drive clean
Format:
Each week we choose 2 cars to run and race each for 1.5 hours. The tracks can be predetermined OR voted for the night we race them. ANYONE can submit a car to run for a given week and if you choose the car you also have the privilege of choosing what tracks you want to run or we can simply pick the tracks come race time it’s your call. Usually run anywhere between 5-7 races with each car.
There are no upgrades or tuning allowed but if the consensus is to use a different tire compound than the default that can happen. Typically we just leave the default tire as-is. All cars also require an oil change.
The cars and tracks for each week will be documented in the second post of this thread.
Room Settings:
Basically everything is at the highest SIM setting. Vehicle tuning is prohibited. You can use any assist you like except for Skid recovery which is forced off. Grid order is reverse of previous race results and penalties are left OFF (random ghosting sucks).
General notes of interest:
- Each race runs anywhere between 8-15 minutes. The fewer people the shorter the race will be. Try to provide enough laps for the faster guys to get to the front of the field in a clean and orderly fashion.
- You’ll need to be a friend of “Parcells2” to join the friends only room. I check my PS3 messages before I open the lobby each week (ONLY before - 9 times out of 10) for new friend requests.
- Anyone can submit a car/track combo via PM or post your request in this thread.
- Parcells needs to approve each car entry before it is accepted. I will approve every request unless it’s a car we’ve a) recently run b) too expensive (discretionary – cant have overly expensive cars every week) or c) A car Parcells really despises – artistic impression if you will.
- If no requests are received for a given week Parcells will choose the car and/or tracks. You won’t be disappointed…most of the time.
- Parcells reserves the right to alter any or all of the above/below rules/guidelines as he sees fit with or without sufficient warning to participants.
- We take our racing serious but the goal is fun via close clean racing. If you need to win every race don’t bother showing up.
- At this point in time we have about 6 regulars and 5-6 semi regulars leaving us with 8-10 racers most weeks. If or when we start getting a full room with consistent regulars I may restrict it to a predetermined list but for now it is first come first serve.
- We’ve been doing this since GT5 was released. We are a mature group (chronologically speaking) with an average age closer to 50 than any other decade.
- We do use mics and use them frequently as the primary goal is to have fun while racing cleanly with friends. As such there is plenty of friendly banter and of course plenty of trash talking so be forewarned.
- It’s fair to say the majority of our cars to-date have been the slower or middle of the road variety. However race and especially touring cars have been very popular.
If you have any questions about anything feel free to contact me via PM or post.
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