I cannot find my laptop. I just got off of work, but I'm installing LFS and TeamSpeak on a different computer. I may be late, but I will be there

Password has been applied to the server. Hope to see you guys tomorrow (later today in most places). Hope you had a wonderful Christmas :wmann3:

Last edited by Cornys, Thu, 26 Dec 2013 02:26.

TeamSpeak address has been fixed. Sorry for any confusion and thanks for the help Rony

This thread has been updated for the 2014 running of this event . As always, some information is subject to change.

TeamSpeak has been provided by NDR. Thanks a lot to those guys, and hope to see you Thursday evening for a clean race event.

I've also decided to shorten the race distance to 40 laps and require R2 tires. The shorter distance will allow the R2 tires to be a terrible idea, and show that, without ruining the session. . If this works we will move on to longer races with the R2 tires and see how they perform all the way up to a full fuel run.

Last edited by Cornys, Tue, 24 Dec 2013 05:15.

Entry List has been posted and is up to date

https://dl.dropboxusercontent. ... %20400%20Entry%20List.pdf

Quote from Sobis :

Why don't you get back the sub-forum for this? It would be more organised

That is in the works . Just waiting on the Devs to put it back to the active section.

Quote from F1 mainiac :

Off topic : Are skins a must?

Skins will not be required this year, but I will allow driver to post their skins on a special thread once we get the sub-forum back. In their place license plates will be required to show driver's entry numbers.

LFSW name: Cornys
In-game name: [WR] C.Corns
Full team name: Worldwide Racing
Nation: United States

Hopefully I'll actually make one of the races this year . The times and dates look a lot more promicing for me

!@#$ I'll not be able to make it for work Have fun! It will be!

The first practice session for the 2014 Kyoto 400 will be on December 26, 2013 at [WR] Kyoto 400. TeamSpeak will be required.

Only registered competitors will be permitted to participate in this session.

All Kyoto 400 rules apply. See the Worldwide Racing Rulebook and the Announcement Thread for reference.

Event will be 40 laps plus 2 pace laps. R2 tires only will be permitted in this session. Qualifying will be open track with drafting allowed starting at 22:00 GMT. This session will be 15 minutes in duration, followed by a five minute break and then the race session will begin.

Server: [WR] Kyoto 400
Password: practice
TeamSpeak: teamspeak.newdimensionracing.com
TS Channel: Pit Wall |or| any of its subsections

Practice Session credit will be given to those who follow the rules, complete the session, and exhibit an understanding of the Rules and an adequate ability to race the FZR on the Kyoto Ring oval (KY1)

Special thanks to Dekojester and NDR for the use of their TeamSpeak server for this session

Last edited by Cornys, Tue, 24 Dec 2013 05:12. Reason : TeamSpeak

In order to participate in the 2014 Kyoto 400 or any of its practice sessions please post the appropriate information here and receive credit for at least 2 practice sessions.


Drivers will be required to display their entry number upon their license plate in all sessions and their in game driver name will be required to show their entry number in white in front of their first initial and full last name as follows: 00 D.Name

Drivers names may be in any color desired.

Skins will not be permitted to show numbers other than that driver's entry number.

Entry List: https://dl.dropboxusercontent. ... %20400%20Entry%20List.pdf

Last edited by Cornys, Mon, 23 Dec 2013 22:32.

The 2014 Kyoto 400 will be held by Worldwide Racing and sponsored by MHServers.net on Saturday, January 25th and February 1st of 2014 with events beginning at 18:00 UTC on both days. January 25th will feature single car qualifying and two 100 mile duel races which will determine the starting grid of the 3rd annual Kyoto 400. February 1st will feature the 216 lap Kyoto 400 at the Kyoto Ring Oval in the high powered FZR.

Competitors will be required to obtain at least 2 practice session credits prior to January 25th in order to participate in this event. This will ensure that competitors are of skill and knowlege proper for such an intense challenge.

New this year will be a crash deterrent. Any vehicle with damage enough to drive their suspension up to the full marker in any of the categories shown on the F10 menu will be removed from the race with crash damage. This will give drivers more incentives to avoid crashes, reduce their commonality, and reduce their violence.

We also plan on exploring some other ideas over the course of the practice sessions such as requiring R2 tires only in order to reduce the ability of single drafting groups to break away from the rest of the field. Full race rules will be posted once a package has been decided upon by Worldwide Racing.

The first practice session for the 2014 Kyoto 400 will be held on December 26, 2013 at 22:00 GMT on [WR] Kyoto 400. I will post a full thread explaining the session after Registrations have been opened. Only registered Kyoto 400 drivers will be permitted to participate.

Registration is open!

This event is currently planned to be a stand alone single event, but may be added into a short series if interest in a series is appropriate.

Logo credited to Rony (Eclipsed)

Last edited by Cornys, Sun, 29 Dec 2013 22:26. Reason : Nevermind

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/da ... s-no-3-returns-to-nascar/

I don't think it's as big a deal as it's made out to be.

And the 2014 Rules package is out. No more ride height, a square leading edge on the splitter (not exactly sure what this is), 8 inch spoiler with the top 2 inches clear for visibility reasons, and ajustments to the sides of the cars in height and shape I beleive.

Overall effect = MORE downforce

In any event, NASCAR is going to restrict RPM to keep speeds at their former levels. I always question NASCAR.

On Double Points
I just heard about the double points finale in 2014 for Formula 1. All I can say is that I'm disappointed. I was recently criticizing NASCAR for multiple things that they have recently been trying to do in order to increase interest, and all that while I was talking up Formula 1 for their lack of doing the same.

Let me be clear about something, Formula 1 is a competition based form of motorsports. NASCAR is a spectator form. This changes my feelings on all of this, sadly. Although I will continue to enjoy the races themselves, now the season will lose something to me, just the same as with my feeling on the Sprint Cup Series and the Chase for the Cup.

Make no mistake, this is almost as though Formula 1 had added a chase for the Driver's Championship and Constructor's Championship. It's not the changes it will cause, they will be minimal, but it's the idea.

Then again, remember, there is no such thing as bad publicity.

On Driver Numbers
Sounds just fine with me. Tradition is lost, but be that as it may I suppose. I haven't been subject to F1 long enough to have feelings on that front.

On Budget Cap
Here, my answer is why? Because the teams are spending too much money (duh)? If this is so, it sounds like teams are being paid too much for their participation and/or success. Reducing the pay for victories or championships and increacing the pay for poor finishes will continue to encourage participation, but it will help prevent a single team from spending a large amount of money and gaining a large advantage over other teams because of their success.

Let's face it, if teams receive less money they will have to cut profit to or accept more loss to continue obtaining it. At the same time if lower teams receive more money, they would be able to either pocket more money or increase performance. If they pocket more money, eventually they would be replaced by another team that is willing to make less or lose more money.

Rarely are rules the solution to problems. It is more effective to disincentive things which you want to get rid of. Motorsports allows this more often than other sports. If you don't want drivers to use track outside of a certain area, plant grass there; don't paint a line and tell drivers not to use it, because they still will try, and then the officiating body will have to penalize it, but make no mistake, they will try to use it as much as they can.

Formula 1 does paint lines and says not to use the area at almost all race tracks, and they have made a similar mistake with this budget cap. This of course is one man's opinion.

Last edited by Cornys, Wed, 18 Dec 2013 01:52.

Hopefully I'll be able to make it It was fun in 2011 and I missed it last year :/

Please respond either in favor or against this series happening if you plan on participating.

This proposed series would be comprised of four racing events staged three months apart each starting in February of 2013 and ending in November of 2013. Each of the four rounds have been designed to emulate an existing discipline of car racing. These four disciplines include Open Wheel, Sports Car Endurance, Street Car, and Stock Car racing. Each round will adopt rules to conform with the series which it is attempting to emulate. Both drivers and teams will accumulate points. If there is enough interest in this series we will go ahead with our schedule as follows. Currently we will only be able to accept drivers who have a way of understanding written English.

Schedule

All rounds begin at 17:00 GMT on both dates.

Round 1: Stock Car Racing / Daytona 500
Kyoto 400 – 216 laps at Kyoto Ring Oval (KY1) in FZR
January 25th & February 1st

General Rules:One driver per entry. Only R2 and R3 tyres are permitted in all sessions. Double file start and restarts. No passing prior to the start/finish line on starts and restarts. Upon the issuance of a safety car pit lane will immediately close. The highest running car 1 or more laps down on each safety car will be permitted to overtake the safety car and start at the tail end of the field (free pass). Cars between the safety car and the leader at the one to go signal will be permitted to overtake the safety car as well and start at the rear ofthe field (wave around). Unless there are penalties, restarts will be in position order. Wave around & free pass recipients start behind all other entries and penalized entries will start behind them. Pit entry will be at the exit ofturn three rather than on entry to turn three as is traditional. TeamSpeak connection is required for all competitors in all sessions. Ability to speak is not required.

Qualifying Rules:January 25th – Single car qualifying with an out-lap, one or two hot laps and an in-lap. Best lap of two hot laps is lap of record. The top two qualifying times who complete their duel race will start on the front row. This will be followed by two 100 mile (54 lap) qualifying races which will split the field in two based on their qualifying times. The first duel will directly determine odd starting positions 3rd through 23rd. The second will directly determine even starting positions 4th through 24th. The final 6 starting positions will be awarded to those drivers who have the quickest lap of record from single car qualifying who are not already on the starting grid. Reserves will be pulled from the rest of this list if needed.

Race Rules:February 1st – Race will begin with 4 pace laps.

Points Treatment:Team points will be awarded to the top two finishing entries from each team. Individuals will receive points as usual.

Round 2: Open Wheel / Monaco Grand Prix
South City Grand Prix – 83 laps at South City Town Course (SO5) in BF1
May 3rd & 10th

General Rules:One driver per entry. Pit road will remain open upon issuance of Safety Car. Local yellows must be obeyed. No overtaking under a local yellow. Only R3 and R2 tyres are permitted in all sessions.

Qualifying Rules:May 3rd - All cars will be permitted to take the track for the firstqualifying session, which will last 20 minutes. Any entries which fail to meet 107% of the fastest speed in the session will not be permitted to race. If more than 32 cars attempt to qualify this session will be split in half to accommodate the extra drivers. The bottom third of the field at the end of this firstqualifying session will be set to start at the rear of the field in order oftheir times. Times for the top two thirds will be removed, and these entries will participate in a second qualifying session. This second session will last 15 minutes and allow all remaining drivers on the track. At the end of this session the bottom half of the remaining entries will be placed on the grid inorder of their times from the second session. The top half will once again have their times removed and moved into a third and final qualifying session, which will last 10 minutes. This session will determine the remaining starting positions in the upper third of the starting grid. In all sessions spectating outside of pit lane and jumping to the pits outside of pit lane will be permitted.

Race Rules:May 10th - Race will begin with a warm-up lap in which overtaking will not be permitted. Drivers will return to the starting grid and reassume their previous positions. Race control will count down to a start and when the signal is given the race will begin. Those who leave the grid prior to the signal will be given a stop and go penalty. Safety Car usage will be kept to a minimum and only used when a local yellow is deemed too dangerous to remedy asituation by race control. Entries must maintain at least 120% of their typicallap times until they catch the safety car queue unless they pit in a particular lap. In which case they must maintain an appropriate pace until entering pitlane. Exceeding 110% of an entries typical lap pace prior to reaching thesafety car queue is also prohibited. Race control will post a target lap time range upon the issuance of a Safety Car. Race control will allow a one secondbuffer to either side of this time range for competitors. After all drivershave been given a chance to pit the safety car will pick-up the field in frontof the current race leader.

Points Treatment:Team points will be awarded to the top two finishing entries from each team.Individuals will receive points as usual.

Round 3: Endurance Racing / Grand Touring Class
12Hours of Westhill – 12 Hours at Westhill International Reversed (WE1R) in GTRclass.
August 2nd and 9th

General Rules:2 to 5 drivers per entry. Each entry will be affiliated with a single teamregardless of the composition of the drivers. Drivers may only be a member of oneentry in this event. XRR will assume a 1% intake restriction and the FZR willassume a 4% in take restriction. FXR will run unrestricted. A single driverwill not be permitted to be on more than one entry’s roster. Driver rostersmust be submitted and complete before 4:00 GMT on August 1st. Changesafter that point will not be permitted.

Qualifying Rules:August 2nd - A single hour long qualifying session will be ran in which each team must electa single driver to represent them in qualifying. The driver who is elected toqualify for the team must also start the event in that entry. Jump to pit andspectating will not be permitted in this session.

Race Rules:August 9th - The start will be from a stand still in standard LFS fashion. Upon the issuance of a full course caution flag from race control all competitors will be required to turn on their pit road speed limiters immediately. Failure to do sowill result in a drive through penalty or more. Overtaking will not be permitted under a full course yellow flag. Drivers must maintain maximum speed with their speed limiter as to not slow down other competitors behind them. Pitlane will remain open at all times unless blocked or otherwise dangerous to navigate under conditions of green flag or yellow flag. Local yellows must be obeyed and over taking under them is prohibited. At least two drivers mustpilot an entry over the course of this event. Only two drivers are permitted tobe on a server for a team at a time. Following a driver change the former driver must immediately leave the server. Driver changes may occur at any time.

Points Treatment:Team points will be awarded to the highest finishing entry for a team. Individuals will be given points based upon their entry’s finish. Drivers must be behind the wheel for at least 2 hours total in order to receive individual points.

Round4: Street Stock / Continental Sports Car Challenge – Street Tuner Class
Blackwood Challenge – 118 laps at Blackwood GP (BL1) in TBO class.
November 1st and 8th

General Rules:2 or 3 drivers per entry. Each entry will be affiliated with a single team regardless of the composition of the drivers. Drivers may only be a member of one entry in this event. XRT will assume a 2% intake restriction and the FXO willassume a 5% in take restriction. RB4 will run unrestricted. A single driverwill not be permitted to be on more than one entry’s roster. Driver rostersmust be submitted and complete before 4:00 GMT on November 1st. Changes after that point will not be permitted.

Qualifying Rules:November 1st - A single hour long qualifying session will be ran in which each team must electa single driver to represent them in qualifying. The driver who is elected to qualify for the team must also start the event in that entry. Jump to pit and spectating will not be permitted in this session.

Race Rules:November 8th - The start will be double file rolling after two pace laps. Upon the issuance ofa full course caution flag from race control pit lane will close. Local yellowsmust be obeyed and over taking under them is prohibited. Cars between theleader and the safety car at the one to go signal will be permitted to overtakethe safety car and take position at the rear of the field. At least two drivers must pilot an entry over the course of this event. Only two drivers are permitted to be on a server for a team at a time. Following a driver change, the former driver must immediately leave the server. Driver changes may occur at any time.

Points Treatment:Team points will be awarded to the highest finishing entry for a team. Individuals will be given points based upon their entry’s finish. Drivers must complete at least 35 laps total in order to receive individual points.

PointsTable

1st place – 56 points
2nd place – 42 points
3rd place – 36 points
4th place – 32 points
5th place – 28 points
6th place – 24 points
7th place – 20 points
8th place – 18 points
9th place – 16 points
10th place – 14 points
11th place – 12 points
12th place – 10 points
13th place – 9 points
14th place – 8 points
15th place – 7 points
16th place – 6 points
17th place – 5 points
18th place – 4 points
19th place – 3 points
20th place – 2 points
21st place – 1 point
22nd or worse – 0 points

Tie Breakers (In order): Number of Wins, Number of Podiums, Number of Top 5’s, Number of Top 10’s, Average Finishing Position, Numberof Poles, Finish in Final Event.

Last edited by Cornys, Sun, 15 Dec 2013 22:34. Reason : Copy and Paste removed spaces. Fixed it.

Quote from Gougoodthing :

The spoiler probably wont be 100% solid, as the drivers right behind wont be able to see through the window.

I doubt that spoiler would be transparent actually, and I'm with PMD :|. We'll see what package they chose. Hopefully race #2 on those PDFs

And in other news, NASCAR has a New Chief Opperating Officer: Brent Dewar

http://www.nascar.com/en_us/ne ... -brent-dewar-new-coo.html

Does this mean that we'll see less of Brian France? I sure hope so

Dillon in the 3 as expected next year.

Also, NASCAR conducted 5 races at Charlotte today in (assuming) 5 different configuations. Here's PDF of thye results from each of those races just for the heck of it. No word on what each configuation is, but I'd like to see #2 not knowing anything or having seen the racing

Race 1: http://www.jayski.com/stats/20 ... ig-race1-results-2013.pdf
Race 2: http://www.jayski.com/stats/20 ... ig-race2-results-2013.pdf
Race 3: http://www.jayski.com/stats/20 ... ig-race3-results-2013.pdf
Race 4: http://www.jayski.com/stats/20 ... ig-race4-results-2013.pdf
Race 5: http://www.jayski.com/stats/20 ... ig-race5-results-2013.pdf

Edit: In no particular order, here are the variables changed in no particular order from the AP.

Quote :

—Splitters with a square leading edge.

—Skirts at four-inch minimum ground clearance on both sides of car.

—Rear fascia trimmed 1.375 inches higher in current scallop region.

—9-inch rear spoiler with 1-by-14-inch-wide end tabs.

—8.375-inch rear spoiler with 1-by-14-inch end tabs.

—1.5-inch high by 37.5-inch wide roof strip.

—43-inch wide by 13-inch long radiator pan.

—Intake manifold to throttle body plate that yields engine power of 750 horsepower

Last edited by Cornys, Thu, 12 Dec 2013 02:10.

Quote from UncleBenny :

Big time fail.

Agreed.

Good news for NASCAR on NBC Rick Allan will be the lead commentator along with Jeff Burton starting in 2015

Always liked Rick Allan

Quote from UncleBenny :

Are there stats somewhere for green flag passes for the whole year? Lead changes don't necessarily mean more passing/better racing throughout the field.

Yes, there are, and a I agree, but once again these statistics would need be be diluted as I have done once again.

I think that the new car probably did produce better racing in the middle and the back of the field, but it failed to produce great racing at the front due to the aero-issues. This was especially true on flat tracks and wide tracks I thought.

I'll look deeper into loop data statistics here soon, but until then I'll reference my favorite race, the Southern 500, compaired 2013 to 2012. I thought this year's Southern 500 was the worst I've ever seen, but let's see how the number stack up

For reference, here's the information: http://racing-reference.info/l ... p;series=W&id=2013-11 | http://racing-reference.info/l ... p;series=W&id=2012-11

Total Green Flag Passes 2012 = 2,525
Total Green Flag Passes 2013 = 2,370
2012 Yellows / Debris Yellows = 5 / 3
2013 Yellows / Debris Yellows = 8 / 1
Green flag passes per run 2012 = 505
Green flag passes per run 2013 = 296.25
(Why bother with green flag passes per debris caution 2012 has way less)

The most important Statistic? The total passes of the top 10 drivers in terms of average running position. None of these drivers DNF'ed in these events.

2012 Total green flag passes of the 10 lowest (best) average running position drivers = 583
2013 Total green flag passes of the 10 lowest (best) average running position drivers = 402

I think that this says a lot about the new car and proves my point. I haven't looked at other races yet, but I'm sure that they show the same type of things. I don't have time to look at the entire season though.

Compair this to the first Southern 500 to feature loop statistics (2005)

2005 Total Passes (Generation 4) = 1672
2005 Cautions = 12 | 3 for debris
2005 Total green flag passes of the 10 lowest (best) average running position drivers = 370

Note: Kahne and Newman had 19 & 17 passes respectively and were 2 of the 10 drivers with the best average running position. Harvick also was included with a total of 67. Outliers in 2012 were 33, 39 & 93. Outliers in 2013 were 22, 32, & 80.

2006 Total green flag passes of the 10 lowest (best) average running position drivers = 276
2010 Total green flag passes of the 10 lowest (best) average running position drivers = 403

Maybe we have just been spoiled by the CoT (Gen 5) with regards to front runners swapping positions, but then again, this is just Darlington

Last edited by Cornys, Tue, 3 Dec 2013 04:18.

Wrapping up the 2013 season with some statistical analysis and compairing it to last year. NASCARnomics.com & racing-reference.info provides some of the the information.

Lead Changes: '12 - 681 | '13 - 700
Lead Changes without plate races: '12 - 556 | '13 - 572
Cautions: '12 - 216 | '13 - 287
Cautions without plate races: '12 - 190 | '13 - 267
LC/Cautions: '12 - 3.153 | '13 - 2.44
LC/Cautions without plate races: '12 - 2.926 | '13 - 2.14
Debris Cautions per race: '12 - 1.6 | '13 - 2.0
Incident Cautions per race (wrecks & spins): '12 - 3.7 | '13 - 4.8
Mechinical Cautions per race: '12 - 0.6 | '13 - 1
Total LC/Debris Cautions per race: '12 - 425.6 | '13 - 350
Total LC/Debris Cautions per race without plate races: '12 - 347.5 | '13 - 286

Of these statistics I find the last most representative of the quality of the racing. Cautions cause lead changes, so the LC per caution count is also important. I don't like including plate track statistics in my statistics as you may have noticed

Man, I'd love to compete, but it's too early as usual Good luck and enjoy guys

Not sure if this is going to go ahead or not, but the event dates will be 25th of January and the 1st of February rather than what was previously mentioned. OP edited. (DoP 24H on the 18th)

Last edited by Cornys, Sun, 24 Nov 2013 20:33.