Formula GEARS II - United States Grand Prix: Road America

[shaxberd]

And over the pond we go! Time for the second race, the United States Prix at Road America, will take place this Sunday, 17th March 14th April 2019!

All times are GMT

• Practice - 60 minutes, all cars on track, beginning at 18:00.
• Qualifying - 30 minutes, all cars on track, beginning at 19:00. Parc Fermé conditions*!
• Warmup - 10 minutes for setup finalisation, refuelling, and bathroom breaks, beginning at 19:30.
• Race - 305 km/47 laps with a formation lap, followed by a standing start, beginning at about 19:40.

* Parc Fermé will lock your setup once you complete a timed lap in qualifying, only allowing fuel changes afterwards

Weather Forecast

TRACK ON THE FTP/SERVER
(this is NOT one of the versions on the workshop as both are crashing the server - I'll try to get them going until Wednesday, but be prepared to run this one for now)

Real Life Lap

Stewarding Post
Coming up

Statistics
Available over at the live timing

[craighypheno]

Probably in.

[Goobertson]

I'm sure i'll have nothing better to do c:

[MrRandom287]

Should be fine for me

[Mosaegir]

Final race with Realish for quite some time

[KJP93]

Should be about!

[camp_bell]

the United States Prix at Silverstone,

Hmm

[shaxberd]

It's the obvious ally to turn to once brexit happens.

[artanonim]

50-50, depends if I get any decent practice this busy week

[TheGwiiBird]

In

[CuruxaUK]

Let's play the "How many times will I get Carousel wrong this time" game!

[Lemm314]

Final race with Realish for quite some time

I'll miss you <3 No one else's rear end is quite as nice to look at.

[Mosaegir]

Actually out. Bit disappointing that my last race at Realish was that howler at Norisring

[camp_bell]

Stewarding Post



Pit Speed Limit: 80 km/h
Pit Entry: On the right on the front straight.
Pit Exit: Rejoin on the right on the front straight. No blend line but please keep right after you exit the pit lane.

Track Notes
This race will feature a standing start. Be aware of cars around you on the first lap and don't try any banzai moves on the first lap of a 47 lap race. As always, we will not restart the race for an accident - if there's a lap 1 pile up that takes out half the field, so be it. Be aware particularly of the braking zone into turn 5 on the first lap as your brakes and tyres will not be up to temperature.

Two wheels on the track at all times please. The kerbs are often horrible enough to enforce track limits here but there are places where you can still gain an advantage.

Event Notes
This is a long race and there will be retirements (probably). If you're still running at the finish, you'll probably be near the points. Be aware of cars around you on the first lap and don't move across the track unless you're sure there's space to do so.

Due to strategy variations, you may come across cars going significantly faster or slower than you. Please be sensible about it.

These cars are quite fragile and don't take contact well. As such, we will take a harder line on avoidable contact which damages an opponent's car.

[shaxberd]

RACE ABANDONED/POSTPONED UNTIL LATER IN THE YEAR

Unfortunately, after the two mods from the workshop not working on the dedicated at all, we now had to discover that this mod seems to crash for some people at random intervals, referring a defect waypoint (#1678). The waypoint was referring -1 as its previous WP, so I changed it to a proper one as a quick fix, build an update package and checked offline to see whether it would still count laptimes (because, well, waypoints probably matter in that, I reckon? ). While that worked, the server then refused to load the updated mod package unfortunately.
We're not gonna run an event that endangers multiple, seemingly selected people to disconnect from a 90+ minute race, so this round is abandoned. I'll try to fix either this mod and/or one of the other ones and we might then reschedule this or change it to a different track for one of the empty weekends/SE slots in late summer.

Very sorry for this, and thanks for your understanding - a Wreckfest server is up

[Lemm314]

What an absolutely incredible race. I really feel like I nailed the strategy, and loved my initial battle out of the gates with @KJP93 @Mike Bell @zephyr and @RaceProUK. Absolutely gutted that I lost this race to firey death by being struck by a meteor! When am I gonna catch a break!? Dx

Congrats to @ThePope on taking the win!

[MrRandom287]

Absolutely gutted that I lost this race to firey death by being struck by a meteor! When am I gonna catch a break!? Dx

That was rather unfortunate, your stupid strategy was probably going to get you a win. But once again it got taken away by something out of your control...

[artanonim]

Congrats to @ThePope on taking the win!

Given that the Papamobile clearly isn't an open-wheel race car and the team hasn't provided a Holy Spirit sample for a fuel check-up, I demand disqualification. We're setting a bad precedent here. Stewarding team get on it now!

[KJP93]

Congrats to @ThePope on taking the win!

Given that the Papamobile clearly isn't an open-wheel race car and the team hasn't provided a Holy Spirit sample for a fuel check-up, I demand disqualification. We're setting a bad precedent here. Stewarding team get on it now!

Noted, shall we meet after club racing tonight and ban the Pope for fucking cheating look over the incidents carefully and reach a democratic decision?

[Mosaegir]

Given that the Papamobile clearly isn't an open-wheel race car and the team hasn't provided a Holy Spirit sample for a fuel check-up, I demand disqualification. We're setting a bad precedent here. Stewarding team get on it now!

Noted, shall we meet after club racing tonight and ban the Pope for fucking cheating look over the incidents carefully and reach a democratic decision?

Only if that democratic decision doesn't involve a vote.

[craighypheno]

Quali: screwed up every lap. P9.

Race: had a meh start and then plodded around at the back. P9.

[shaxberd]

Good News!

...no, not the Dacia Sandero - today's testing session went well, so we'll be able to reschedule Road America soon. Thanks so much, @Chris Williamson & @MrRandom287 for providing fixed versions!

[craighypheno]

Good News!

...no, not the Dacia Sandero - today's testing session went well, so we'll be able to reschedule Road America soon. Thanks so much, @Chris Williamson & @MrRandom287 for providing fixed versions!

"Well"







Pics are @KJP93's

[KJP93]

Bonus warm-up happenings. Or practice for Wreckfest, you decide!

[shaxberd]

RACE ABANDONED/POSTPONED UNTIL LATER IN THE YEAR

Unfortunately, after the two mods from the workshop not working on the dedicated at all, we now had to discover that this mod seems to crash for some people at random intervals, referring a defect waypoint (#1678). The waypoint was referring -1 as its previous WP, so I changed it to a proper one as a quick fix, build an update package and checked offline to see whether it would still count laptimes (because, well, waypoints probably matter in that, I reckon? ). While that worked, the server then refused to load the updated mod package unfortunately.
We're not gonna run an event that endangers multiple, seemingly selected people to disconnect from a 90+ minute race, so this round is abandoned. I'll try to fix either this mod and/or one of the other ones and we might then reschedule this or change it to a different track for one of the empty weekends/SE slots in late summer.

Very sorry for this, and thanks for your understanding - a Wreckfest server is up

Race rescheduled

This will now take palce next weekend (14th April) - the week after will be an off-week, then it'll be Cruddy 192019 already! After that we'll go to Spain for the FGEARS Spain round before heading into S28!