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GT2 Challenge 2021: Round 3 - Pre-Qualifying and Confirmations
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Hello racers,

Pre-Qualifying
The Top 10 in the Driver's Championship are locked in for the third round. All other Drivers must take at least one timed lap in Pre-Qualifying in order to be able to partake in Round 3.

Pre-Qualifying starts at 18:00 UTC on 4 February 2021, and runs for 48 hours.

The Locked-In Drivers:

Isaac Price (IsaacPrice)
Joe Holmes (Kart-36)
Matias Mäki-Hoimela (xaxax123)
Jarno Lehikoinen (MaunoKasa)
Niko Puntola (nikopdr)
Joni Katila (jsrk)
Darius Veržinskas (Pathseeker)
Dawid Góźdź (texxxas)
Lukas Žutautas (FasTLT)
Vytautas Laguckas (Excellent15)

It will take place in the NDR.Pre-Qualifying server. 28 cars will make it into the round on Sunday, we ask the first three drivers outside the top 38 to be ready to jump in last minute, if necessary. See later in this post about the "Grid 2" race.

Drivers may take as many laps as they want. Drafting is permitted, bump-drafting is not. Drivers should not impede other drivers at any time.

Confirmations
All drivers are assumed to be planning to attend a round by way of their entry to the series. For Round 3, ALL TOP 10 DRIVERS are required to explicitly state yes or no in this thread - ALL OTHER DRIVERS need only state if they are NOT planning to partake by posting a "no". You have until 06:00 on Tuesday, 9 February 2021 to tell us a no. Please use the following format, replacing the car number and username with your own:

no/99/dekojester

If you do not state a "no" here, and do not attend pre-qualifying, you will be removed from the series entry list, and will have to enter again for Round 4.

Drivers Who Do Not Make the Top 28 Cut


We will be offering a race session for drivers who do not make it into the main grid. This race will not score points nor be officially timed, but will be full distance. Start order will be based off of Pre-Qualifying times. It will be run on another server during the time of the main GT2 Challenge race.

All drivers who attempt Pre-Qualifying, or Top 10 drivers who race, will be given 5 bonus points towards the championship. This 5-point bonus is awarded per round.
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BorislavB has been placed on 12 month's NDR Probation, with a 6-month NDR Exclusion suspended, for unsporting and racist behaviour exhibited in server during the second round of the 2021 GT2 Challenge.

BorislavB is permitted to participate under this Probation, but all words and actions in an NDR server will be monitored, and the exclusion can be applied at the discretion of NDR.
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The following drivers failed to appear at Round 2, and failed to confirm non-attendance at Round 2. All these drivers have taken part in at least one official session (yes, Pre-Qualifying is an official session), so their numbers are locked to them.

If one of these drivers wishes to re-enter the series, they must quote their original entry, and simply state "Re-entering the series".

If a car number appears in the entry pdf, it is in use and cannot be used by anyone other than the driver it's associated with.

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Quote from StepanYL :74/StepanYL/Stepan Lyazer/Russian Federation/XRR/Master race car/#6561

Quote from cathal50cc :86/cathal50cc/Cathal Croarkin/Ireland/FZR/Born To Race/8086

Quote from Huseyin41 :6/huseyin41/Kadir Yılmaz/Turkey/XRR/Air Attack Newsroom/0651

Quote from ramonero :15 / ramonero / João Gabriel Lustosa Fortes / Brazil / XRR / Roda Presa Racing Team / 3863

Quote from nxggera :5/Nxggera/Joris Bohnson/UK/FZR/B2R/1978

Quote from Duduneris_br :91/Duduneris_BR/Matheus Ribeiro/Brazil/FZR/I dont have team/3469

Quote from Math55 :92/Math55/Matheus Henrique/Brazil/FZR/i dont have a team/5555

Quote from Classikboi :21/Classikboi/Mihnea Andrei/Romania/FZR/Born To Race/7715

Quote from Jarmolo :83/JARMOLO/Evaldas Jarmolovicius/LITHUANIA/FXR/NONE/8083

Quote from Rejekt :45/Rejekt/Henri Virtanen/Finland/XRR/Born To Race/5526

Quote from Upsas966 :95/Upsas966/Paulius Petrauskas/Lithuania/XRR/Born To Race/2960

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Quote from cuprum :93/cuprum/Edgars Pulins/LVA/XRR//2003

Quote from cougar8 :24/cougar8/David Duffin/UK/FXR/Launch Racing/3732
88/paul88/Paul Duffin/UK/FXR/Launch Racing/3807

Quote from fl3nd3r :73 / fl3nd3r / Emanuele Pastori / ITA / FZR / 2153

Quote from TautisP :22/tautisp/Tautvydas Pukys/LT/XRR/GlobalGaming Racing/2280

Quote from atsvetkov :13/atsvetkov/Andrey Tsvetkov/Russia/XRR/One lap racer/1670

These entries have been dropped from the entry list for failure to appear and failure to confirm "no" for Round 2. These drivers have not taken part in any session, their car numbers are free for election by any other new entrant.
dekojester
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Official Results for Round 2 now available. Points after 2 of 6 rounds are now posted, as well.
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Car 28 - 5-point deduction - spectating from outside the pitlane without race control permission.
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Quote from Scawen :I've had a look into this now and unfortunately it is too hard for this patch. Some packets have reached their size limit because of limitations in the packet system. Not only between guests and hosts but also between hosts and master server.

I have some plans to overhaul the packet system to allow much larger packets but it's a big change and not something to be done in the old version.

Perfectly understandable, thanks for taking the time to look. The extra slots, whenever you can manage it, will be a boon to endurance races with driver swaps for starters, I'm maxing out connections right now in our events with a full 38 car grid + 2 course cars + a full control + broadcast team. We make it work, but for endurance races, we reduce grid size back to 30 to leave headroom for swaps.
dekojester
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Entries open following Round 2. (Sorry for the delay, head melt two days in a row now :o)
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Provisional results and replays in the OP for Round 2!
GT2 Challenge 2021: Round 2 - Race Discussion
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Hello racers!

Welcome to the second round 2021 GT2 Challenge! Rockingham, so far the only S3 environment. SC risk high here, with the high sausage kerbs. Attrition, perseverance.

See you at the track!
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Round 2 Official Entry list attached here.
GT2 Challenge 2021: Round 2 - Driver's Briefing
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Round 2, Rockingham International

Track Specifications
Circuit Length: 3.896 km | Track Map
Safety Car In-Race Position: End of Pitlane
1st Safety Car Line: 63m before start of warmup lane
2nd Safety Car Line: 54m after end of warmup lane
Safety Car Maximum Speed: 90 kph / 56 mph
Virtual Safety Car Maximum Speed: 80 kph / 49 mph
Pit Lane Speed: 80 kph / 49 mph
Red Flag line: Exit of Oval Turn 4, 185m before start/finish line
Wind Conditions: Low Wind - All Sessions except Pre-Qualifying

Event Timetable
Thu 18:00 UTC - Sat 18:00 UTC: Pre-Qualifying
17:30 UTC: Free Practice - 20 minutes
18:00 UTC: Qualifying - 20 minutes (Open Qualifying)
18:40 UTC: Sprint Race - 60 laps

Event Specifics

1. Alerting the Administration:
Use @sc to alert administration to look at your car or the section of track you were in when you use the @sc command. The command will tell the administration what location you're at.

2. Communications:
All drivers are required to be in the NDR TeamSpeak server: teamspeak.newdimensionracing.com - Race Control messages will be broadcast to anyone in a channel in the Pit Wall in TS. If you would like a subchannel for your team or friendly drivers, please let us know and we will create one.
Make sure you have your race number and/or your LFS username as your nickname on TeamSpeak

3. Broadcast
This race will be broadcasted by Sim Broadcasts: https://twitch.tv/simbroadcasts

They will be in the NDR TeamSpeak. You are invited to be interviewed on stream during the breaks between sessions. Please follow their terms listed at https://simbroadcasts.tv/voice - we will apply those to our Commentary Box area.

4. Driver Naming:
Be sure to be in your proper name format Number (grey or white), space, then First initial last name [eg. 00 J. Palmer]. The name may be in colour, but we prefer all white - consistency looks better, and is easier to read.

5. Tracker:
Timing will be available and running on http://tracker.newdimensionracing.com.

6. Wind Conditions:
Low wind for all sessions, except Pre-Qualifying.

7. Virtual Safety Car Test
There will be a test Virtual Safety Car deployment in the free practice session, starting about 5 minutes remaining in the session. All drivers are encouraged to participate in this test.

8. Pit Entry and Pit Exit
On pit entry, all parts of the car must be to the left of the blend line along its entire length, and must use the entry apron at all times.
On pit exit, all parts of the car must be to the left of the blend line along its entire length, and must use the exit apron at all times.
All drivers leaving a pit start position (garage bay) must join the pitlane at the break in the wall at the last paddock access gate. Do not go straight to the pit exit without doing the right-left switchback into the pitlane. Cars in the pitlane have right of way over cars coming out of the garages at all times.

9. Track Limits:
On the oval section, drivers are permitted to drive below the white line - the grass edge is the track edge on the oval.

All other sectors, the standard track limits apply, the marked course and it's blue/white kerbing.

10. Qualifying Procedure
Qualifying will be set to 22 minutes, with the pit exit closed for the first two minutes. Drivers may queue at pit exit. The course will open for laps with 20 minutes remaining, and remain open until the time has elapsed. The pit exit will close at the chequered flag. No driver should exit the pitlane without sufficient time to start a timed lap.

11. Race Start:
Each race will have one unscored formation lap, followed by a double-file rolling start.

The grid for the race will spawn in the pitlane, at the exit. When the session timing starts, drivers are to pull away from their grid spots in grid order, and maintain pitlane speed until past the pit exit line.

The SC will slow to 60 kph after Turn 10, and stay at the head of the field. From this point, the field should begin forming into dual-file formation. Polesitter will be asked their chosen side during the gridding process. The Safety Car will pull into the pitlane from the exit of Turn 11 (Oval Turn 4). Drivers should hold pace until the green flag is given - overtaking is permitted on race start from the green flag.

In the event of an aborted start, there will be no message except a voice wave-off call in TeamSpeak. Drivers should maintain pace until Turn 1, and then return to single-file formation for another attempt. Two wave-offs are permitted before the race start will be a standard safety car restart. Race laps will start counting after the first start attempt, regardless of start or no start.

12. Safety Car:
On Restarts, the Safety Car will pull away from the field after Turn 8. It must not be overtaken before it crosses the 1st Safety Car line.

Overtaking is not permitted on all restarts until YOU have crossed the start-finish line.

13. Penalties This Round:

Due to the custom pitlane, the standard LFS penalty system will not be used. The insim control application has a custom penalty system. If you are given a Stop-Go Penalty, you will need to stop in the penalty box at the end of pitlane, just before the cones for cars exiting the paddock area.

14. End of Race
After finishing the race, please slow WELL BELOW racing speeds after Turn 1 and proceed to pit lane. The top 3 shall report back to Start / Finish Line for podium pose.

Top three and anyone else wishing to be interviewed on the broadcast should join the Commentary Box Waiting Room, and one of the commentators will move you to the Commentary Box.

15. Miscellany:
Do NOT under any circumstances Shift+P or Shift+S from on course during the race without authorization from Race Control.

You do NOT need permission to retire once you are in the pit lane.

If you suffer a lost connection or timeout from the server, you are permitted to rejoin the race, and we will add your completed laps to your car once you've rejoined.

Please post any procedural questions in this thread.

Good luck!
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dekojester
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Quote from Capo-005-seba :#70

You are missing the required sunstrip from the skinpack. Please add it.
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Entry lockout for Round 2 now in effect. Please contact dekojester or Jonathon.Provost if you have any changes to make.
GT2 Challenge 2021: Round 2 - Protests and Penalties
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Please provide the following in your protest:

Session AND SERVER of Incident (Official Sessions for Round 2: Pre Qualifying, Free Practice, Qualifying, Race; Servers: Main)
Lap AND MPR timecode of incident (or session time or UTC Time of Day)
Car(s) involved
Location of Incident
Brief Description of Incident

Pre-Qualifying Protests are due by 20:00 UTC on Saturday, 23 January 2021. Pre-Qualifying Protests should be lodged as soon as possible after the incident, however.

All race day protests are due by 08:30 UTC on Tuesday, 26 January 2021.

Track Map

Penalty Log

Free Practice

Qualifying

Race
Car 46 - DSQ from the round 2 - Unsportsmanlike behaviour
Car 60 - Stop & Go penalty - Jump start
Car 03 - DT penalty for being at wrong possition on the race start
Car 36 - DT penalty for being at wrong possition on the race start
Car 96 - - DT penalty for being at wrong possition on the race start
Car 68 - DT for crossing pit exit line on lap 28
Cars 01, 07, 09, 31, 59, 94 - Stop & Go penalty for overtaking under SC
Car 88 - DT for causing a colision with car 16
Car 16 - DT for unsafe rejoin
Car 18 - Warning for moving under braking
Car 18 - DT for Causing an avoidable contact
Car 23 - DT for Causing an avoidable contact
Car 18 - Warning for Causing an avoidable contact
Car 33 - Warning for Causing an avoidable contact
Car 60 - DT for Causing an avoidable contact
Cars 02, 23, 78, 96, 98 - Caution for speeding under VSC
Car 18 - Warning for speeding under VSC
Car 76 - 5s penalty for speeding under VSC
Car 28 - 5 point deduction - spectating from outside the pitlane without permission
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GT2 Challenge 2021: Round 2 - Pre-Qualifying and Confirmations
dekojester
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Hello racers,

Pre-Qualifying
The Top 10 in the Driver's Championship are locked in for the second round. All other Drivers must take at least one timed lap in Pre-Qualifying in order to be able to partake in Round 2.

Pre-Qualifying starts at 18:00 UTC on 21 January 2021, and runs for 48 hours.

The Locked-In Drivers:

Isaac Price (IsaacPrice)
Joe Holmes (Kart-36)
Joni Katila (jsrk)
Vytautas Laguckas (Excellent15)
Matias Mäki-Hoimela (xaxax123)
Jarno Lehikoinen (MaunoKasa)
Lukas Žutautas (FasTLT)
Adam Brown (k_badam)
Reno Kööts (rkoots)
Pedro Picanco (renato.picanco)

It will take place in the NDR.Pre-Qualifying server. 28 cars will make it into the round on Sunday, we ask the first three drivers outside the top 38 to be ready to jump in last minute, if necessary. See later in this post about the "Grid 2" race.

Drivers may take as many laps as they want. Drafting is permitted, bump-drafting is not. Drivers should not impede other drivers at any time.

Confirmations
All drivers are assumed to be planning to attend a round by way of their entry to the series. For Round 2, ALL TOP 10 DRIVERS are required to explicitly state yes or no in this thread - all OTHER drivers need only state if they are NOT planning to partake by posting a "no". You have until 06:00 on Tuesday, 26 January 2021 to tell us a no. Please use the following format, replacing the car number and username with your own:

no/99/dekojester

If you do not state a "no" here, and do not attend pre-qualifying, you will be removed from the series entry list, and will have to enter again for Round 3.

Drivers Who Do Not Make the Top 28 Cut

We will be offering a race session for drivers who do not make it into the main grid. This race will not score points nor be officially timed, but will be full distance. Start order will be based off of Pre-Qualifying times. It will be run on another server during the time of the main GT2 Challenge race.

As was the case last round, all drivers who attempt Pre-Qualifying will be given 5 bonus points towards the championship. This 5-point bonus is awarded per round pre-qualifying is taken.
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Quote from Features_Gaming :Am I able to change my number from 70 to 20 then, or is it still reserved for the driver who previously used that number? Because if not, could I change my number?

That number was not used in an official session, so it is released back to the available pool.
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Quote from markantonio :14/markantonio/Gustas Pucėta/Lithuania/XRR/GlobalGaming Racing/3052

Quote from Sherlockas :20/Sherlockas/Mantas Gotautas/Lithuania/XRR/GlobalGaming Racing/1550

Quote from sarcus :8/sarcus/Sergey Markin/Russian Federation/XRR/-/#8844

These entries have been removed from the entry list for failure to appear and failure to declare no participation in round 1.

These drivers may re-enter the series if they wish to partake.
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Round 1 results now official, points added to OP.
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Quote from Features_Gaming :44/features_gaming/Lucas Wilson/Great Britain/FXR/GUM Garage/#9123

Number 44 is taken, please see the PDF in the OP for the entry list, and select a number that doesn't appear there.
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The following drivers did not appear in Pre-Qualifying, and have not yet posted a "No" confirmation. These drivers will be dropped from the series on Tuesday if they do not respond by 06:00 UTC Tuesday, 12 January:

sarcus
socalmini
markantonio
Sherlockas
cougar8
paul88
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Quote from terga :27/terga/Alen Terzic/Slovenia/FZR/5859

Car Number 27 is taken, please look at the PDF in the OP for taken numbers.
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Entries are open following Round 1!
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