Indeed, we have the Grand Touring Cup starting in 1-1/2 weeks. We are also considering a novice series, once the MRT series concludes in November, using a range of cars from the UF1, through the TBO cars, and finally the Micro-GTRs (UFR/XFR).
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With a little more than two weeks remaining until the season start, we have 28 drivers registered. Plenty of spots open, as we have allocated two servers for this series.
Also, squad declaration is beginning (albeit on the forums until the automated functionality of the RLM is completed).
Our four confirmed drivers (Krafcik, Hammer, Falango, and Stnwolf) now have their skins and are set for our first "Meet & Greet) on Tuesday, August 7, 2007. We'll be getting to know each of the drivers and do some racing!
We are planning on having a few events for these CDDT guys, and the League Of The Americas is also planning a series for newer drivers under 10k miles.
The next premier racing series is upon us: the Grand Touring Series!
We will be racing GTRs in eight, hour-long races, with features common in touring series, like two mandatory pitstops and squad championships!
Registration is now open for this series, tentatively scheduled to begin on August 23, 2007.
This type of activity is exactly why we started the CoRe Driver Development Team. New and inexperienced people come on here and think that they HAVE to be in a team to feel like they belong. Many of us trudged through the independent ranks before we found people that we liked racing against. It is important to get that experience before you take on the task of managing people that are complete strangers.
CoRe Racing didn't happen overnight...and it certainly didn't happen on the LFS forums. Two guys, who are no longer active, started CoRe. We all knew each other via racing online before we joined the team, and what we have now (website, forums, LFS servers, Ventrilo server, etc.) is the result of very hard work over the course of years, not weeks, days, or even hours, as in your case.
You just can't start a team and expect a huge bunch of people to join in a matter of hours. Even if that did happen, which it has to some other "forum teams", they ended up folding in a matter of weeks because no one knew each other enough to trust each other.
I know each of my CoRe Racing teammates enough to want to meet up with them in real life to watch some racing, or go have a beer (well, at least everyone that is legal enough to have a beer ). When you get to that point, you consider these guys friends, even without having met them in reall life, and that is what makes a team strong.
We will have to talk about whether to reconsider your application, because frankly, your actions to 1) apply to the CDDT, 2) start and close a team in less than two days (all while asking to be not considered for CDDT), and 3)then ask to be reconsidered doesn't exactly instill confidence that you will stick with the CDDT long enough to make our time and effort with you worth it.
Another thing I've been wanting to make sure that EVERYONE knows, is that when you apply to the CDDT, you are not applying to be part of the CoRe Racing team. CoRe is simply organizing and supporting a "team" who's purpose is to help inexperienced drivers learn race craft. In fact, the following is an excert from the terms of joining CDDT: