'Locked-in' Drivers for Round 6 (14th June 2009)

The following drivers, who are the top 15 drivers in the Driver's Championship after Round 5, are now 'locked-in' for Round 6 of the iTCC. That is to say, they have qualified directly through to the iTCC event itself, and do not have to qualify through the 'Reserve Shootout'.

These drivers are:

16 N. Scott
57 R. van Buren
99 F. Enersen
19 R. de Jong
47 D. Lind
209 P. Diaz
94 A. Laudens
69 H. Marques
33 B. Keough
66 T. Ostgaard
285 E. Bitan
222 D. Faurie
88 D. Vuckovic
23 J. Pickard
38 P. Dolezal

All other drivers must qualify through to the 6th round of the iTCC through the Reserve Shootouts.

These drivers are in the Reserve Shootouts:

Reserve List

04 D. Lobb
05 T. Osterhouse
06 C. Zorner
07 M. Boljevic
08 C. Ford
09 V. Gruppelar
15 L. Malecki
18 J. Jokela
20 N. Grans
25 T. D'Souza
26 J. Atkinson
27 T. Hynninen
31 C. Wilkinson
32 B. Grindle
35 J. Ward
36 G. Noll
40 D. Nikolin
41 A. Ristic
42 S.A. Skavdal
44 Á. Árnason
55 M. Makalowski
61 J.J. Wang
71 K. Gasiunas
73 J. Dimic
74 V. Pavlovic
77 D. Novak
80 M. Meier
82 S. Mathei
83 F. Fredrikkson
86 M. Cherkashyn
87 J. Lovett
89 J. Matthews
91 J. Miranda
97 S. Moore
98 S. Stankevicius
200 K.A. Gjerde
207 A. Turner
213 P. Goik
217 A. Collett
226 L. Kaczmarek
236 K. Burns
246 G. Alamaras
256 L. Baker
282 Z. Cagas
288 A. Perrs
301 R. Muller
405 Y. Laprevotte
433 S. Oliveira
444 D. Jourdainne
513 L. De Jong
527 Z. Ferreira
537 J. McIntyre
555 R. Gonçalves

No-shows required to confirm interest

The drivers listed below did not appear at Round 5 of the iTCC Touring Car Championship and are requested to confirm their interest in the iTCC for Round 6 by replying to this post in this thread with 'Still Interested'. Upon receipt of their reply they will be moved to the Reserve Shootouts.


New Sign-ups

There are several places in the Reserve List. Sign-ups are invited from drivers not currently in the iTCC Touring Car Championship. These drivers will join the other drivers already in the Reserve List and must qualify themselves through to the iTCC event through the Reserve Shootouts.


Unable to attend round 6:
353 J. Kursk

No longer interested
13 A. Zadro
24 K. O'Keefe

Eligibility

To be eligibile to enter the iTCC you must be able to meet a minimum standard of outright pace - the iTCC requires that you can lap within 103% of a recognised benchmark. In this case it is Rudy Van Buren's fastest race lap from the Pre-Season meeting at Aston Grand Touring (AS6) - 2:45.22. So the time you will be required to beat is 2:50.18

When registering your interest in this series please submit a .spr hot lap of your racing at Aston Grand Touring (AS6)

Please submit the .spr as an attachment to your sign-up post.

Joining iTCC

Please signal your intention to join the iTCC by replying to this post with the following information as shown below:

• LFS Username :
  
• Real Name :
  
• Team :
  
• Eligible (Hotlap of AS6 in under 2:50.18) :
  
• Preferred Number :
  

Where new drivers belong to a team already competing in the iTCC, if they have a team currently with only 1 driver, then they may join that driver in the that team.

New team entries are allowed within the guidelines published in this thread.

Race Numbers

Any numbers are available between 600 & 699.

Allocation of race numbers is strictly on a first come first served basis.

Rules are here, bear in mind these are in the process of being revised, it would be wise to re-check the rules before Round 6 begins.

Skins must be to the guidlines published here

Best of luck to the new entrants, and to everybody, thankyou for supporting the series, let's give a good show at Round 6!

Cheers

Joe Keaveney - iTCC Admin

Last edited by snoring_snoopy, Thu, 11 Jun 2009 15:42.

Quote from The Very End :

But how high is this sound? Probally something that canot be heared by human ears, but there must be a limit on this? If it's deep down in the ocean there must be like a million things that can disturb this sound

It's a 1 Hz signal, when the beacon makes contact with water, the water acts as a switch and starts the operation of the beacon. The beacon is (normally) mounted on the side of the cockpit voice/data recorder, I'm not sure of it's output power. It won't be a lot becuase the battery is only about the size (in fact it probably is exactly the size) of a 'D' type battery (LR20 to those of you younger than me). So range won't be massive, in the order of a few miles.

The problem with that is that the plane might be 5-6 miles down at the bottom of the Atlantic, so a) how do you hear a beacon which can't transmit to the surface and b) even if you did find it, how are you going to recover the box? Only very specialised robotic submarines and diving bells can go that deep I would imagine.

Like Dan said, the battery life is in the order of a few weeks, so time is of the essence to work out it's location from the clues they have - which are it's last recorded position when it signalled the electrical fault, and the debris they have found. There are smart people (oceanographers) who can work out the prior position of the debris, by looking back over the movements of ocean currents in the last few days. 'Timecasting' is the technique they use I believe.

Still, the odds of recovery of the flight data recorderhave got to be fairly slim.

Quote from 666MePhIsTo666 :

Can't you guys forget my ballast? I'm such a n00b that i don't really need more handicaps.

Yeah, right. In a field full of really good drivers, you picked up loads of points and you want less ballast? Some n00b

Well done mate, hope to see you on the podium at Round 6

Quote from BigTime :

That ballast gap is a lot larger than I had anticipated on... Are those final?

Yes, they're final. Your points are correct and therefore so is your ballasting.

The following drivers are ballasted by the amounts shown for Round 6 of the iTCC Touring car Championship:

16 N.Scott - 56 Kgs
99 F.Enersen - 37 Kgs
57 R. van Buren - 29 Kgs
47 D. Lind - 18 Kgs
209 P. Diaz - 17 Kgs
19 R. de Jong - 17 Kgs
66 T. Ostgaard - 41 Kgs
222 D. Faurie - 24 Kgs
69 H. Marques - 13 Kgs
94 A. Laudens - 12 Kgs
33 B. Keough - 11 Kgs
285 E. Bitan - 10 Kgs
88 D. Vuckovic - 10 Kgs
23 J. Pickard - 38 Kgs
38 P. Dolezal - 7 Kgs
433 S. Oliveira - 21 Kgs
236 K. Burns - 5 Kgs
55 M. Makalowski - 3 Kgs
200 K.A. Gjerde - 3 Kgs
86 M.Cherkashyn - 2 Kgs
74 V. Pavlovic - 2 Kgs
15 L. Malecki - 2 Kgs
26 J. Atkinson - 2 Kgs
213 P. Goik - 2 Kgs
82 S. Mathei - 1 Kgs

All drivers in the list above are to ensure they are correctly ballasted.

Failure to use the correct ballast will incur heavy penalties.

Cheers

Joe Keaveney
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Hi Racers,

Warnings

16 N. Scott - Causing an avoidable accident

The following drivers receive warnings for overtaking before the start/finish line on re-start:

44. A. Arnason
209 P. Diaz
353 J. Kursk
77 D. Novak
405 Y. Laprevotte
555 R. Goncalves


Well done to all drivers for the general improving standard of driving in the iTCC!

Cheers

Joe Keaveney

Quote from rc10racer :

Any news on the ballats yet or the points?

Probably tonight or at the very lateset, tomorrow

Is this a joke or some sort of 'Highlander film' moment for teams in LFS? 'There can be only one' (LFS team) and all that. In fact, is SR Keith the Kurgan?

Anyway, best of luck to all concerned

P.S. I have something to say! It's better to burn out than to fade away!

Quote from Bose321 :

Not kick-ass, but alot better then that Piece of crap!

OK, maybe not kick-ass, but I'll settle for 'pretty good'

Don't buy that piece of crap, I've specced a PC using an Irish website.

You'd need to buy a copy of Vista, or download the beta of Windows 7 for free.

Either way you'd get a better PC and you'd save yourself 300 Euros. If you need a monitor, keyboard etc, there's still enough to get you a Logitech G15 Keyboard, G3 (or whatever it is) mouse, a decent monitor, and a decent set of speakers and you'd still come in under 1200 Euros. Just you'd have a kick-ass PC instead of a lame PC.

I'd make sure all your drivers are there and working.

Chipset drivers

Audio drivers

Network drivers

Graphics drivers

Also get rid of your old graphics driver first using Driver Cleaner Pro

That machine should run LFS easily. Update your drivers, use driver cleaner and then install the new graphics driver, run LFS, and let me know how you got on.

OK I'm closing this thread - the deadline for protests is up, and we're already looking into the re-start antics of a few drivers.

Decisions will be in a few days, and the points table will be updated and published shortly after that.

Cheers

Joe

Quote from Hypothraxer :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sportsmanship



That and I was fairly certain that you can overtake before the finish-line. My mistake and hence the protest.

Actually, if you look in the iTCC rulebook, David, you can't. But top marks for integrity and fair play.

Quote from DeadWolfBones :

You're protesting yourself?

Wow.

It shows David has a high degree of integrity, though. Well done him.

Quote from xtraction :

Hey,

This is aimed @ Joe,

When would ITCC 2010 Signups start, id like to be one of the first signing up

Im really interested in the league and i know other friends who are too..

Regards..

Wow! You're keen

Thanks for the interest Well the 2010 championship will start inviting sign-ups in November/December I would imagine - although we need to revise the rules and discuss minor format changes first.

But yeah, November....ish.

Quote from BigTime :

First and foremost, I was never upset with the contact before the our incident. Even though I was driven off the track, I was comfortable in the position we were in since I was planning on pushing Laprevotte... I knew when this incident happened that it would look like retaliation, but I can honestly say this was a mistake. The reason I was coming up the track is because I expected Laprevotte to go to the racing line, which was about a car width to the right.... I expected the car to be recoverable, but the fact is I should have lifted a bit.

I personally think lag really aided the spin, because it felt like our fenders locked. As I said, I never expected that to be unrecoverable. Regardless of which, I'm not going to overly defend this accident. I'll admit that I should have lifted, but the reason for the initial contact was a racing incident, and a misunderstanding of our racing lines.

I'll accept this as your reply to the protest, Nolan.

In future, please wait for my PM asking for your reply. This thread is meant only for posting your protest. I hope you understand the reason for keeping replies out of this thread (it gets messy and argumentative)

Thanks

Joe Keaveney

Please make your protests for Round 5 of the 2009 iTCC Touring Car Championship in this thread. You can make your protest by using the template below

iTCC Protest

Your Name:

Your LFS Username:

Protest Against: (LFS Username)

Type of Protest - Unfair Overtake or whatever)

Description - Your opinion of what happened)

Which Event / Session: (Quali or Race 1/2/3)

Attached Evidence - Attach your pictures, or other evidence (Replays can be found here)

You have until 0000 GMT Monday Night/Tuesday Morning to make your protest.

I don't want any arguments in this thread, I will PM the drivers in question to get their comments before any decisions are made.

Decisions/Penalties will be posted in a seperate thread.

Cheers

Joe Keaveney

iTCC - Round 5 - Results/Replays

These are the results for Round 5 of the 2009 iTCC Touring Car Championship held at Kyoto on 24th May 2009.

Round 5 Results

Shootout

Qualifying


Race 1

Race 2

Race 3


Round 5 Replays

Reserve Shootout

Qualifying


Race 1

Race 2

Race 3


Thanks to all who raced, it was a great race meeting to watch! (Most of the time!)

Cheers

Joe

Last edited by Joe_Keaveney, Wed, 3 Jun 2009 06:33.

Quote from PMD9409 :

Well, I was meaning anyone in general, not rushing you whatsoever. I just mainly want to see race 3 start, since the broadcast missed the pass for the lead.

Ah right I'll get them up very shortly

EDIT: They're uploaded now

Last edited by Joe_Keaveney, Sun, 24 May 2009 21:39.

Quote from PMD9409 :

Replays pl0x?

I'm getting there! Give me another 20-30 minutes and I'll have the provisional results and replays thread up. Patience, my friend.

Quote from hyntty :

Jah, I may not show up this time since my flooring is getting done and the lacquer fumes could destroy my intellect.

But even if I was planning to show up I'm sure you tards would change the schedule again just to be really annoying.

Ouch No changes planned mate, anyway the presence of your towering intellect is always welcome on the iCON servers.

Quote from MijnWraak :

Maybe if price is not a factor, yeah...

Well it was a factor The AMD Phenom II CPU's are good value, but actually the Q6700 was both better AND cheaper, like-for-like, than the AMD chip which was supposed to perform around the same.

This is not a AMD/Intel thing, it's just that the Q6700 is good and very very cheap in the UK at the moment.

Amended the ballast weights for Round 5 - some were wrong

Corrected now.

Quote from Gaulish :

my ballast is 13 kg for 5 round...on server for practice is still 3kg...change please...thanks

Yeah I still have to do the ballast weights on the Insim - will do that very soon. Thanks!

Quote from S14 DRIFT :

Q6600 is pretty good all round IMO.

However if the Q8200 is better than the 6600 and cheaper, I'd go with this. AMD are not the multicore CPU to have at the moment.. Intel are still the ones to beat.

Cheers! Thanks for the advice.....

In the end, the computer got built faster than I anticpated, I ended up getting the parts last Friday and building it on Friday evening.

I went for the Q6700 eventually, which was £25 cheaper and clocked 0.26 GHz faster. It’s essentially the same chip, I believe (from reviews), with the multiplier 1x higher.


The eventual build was:


Antec Sonata III Case with 500W EarthWatts PSU
Gigabyte EP43-DS3L
Intel Core 2 Quad 6700
Arctic Freezer 7 Pro
8 GB Corsair 800Mhz (PC2-6400) 4 x 2GB
Samsung Spinpoint F1 1TB 32MB Cache
Lite-On DVD-Writer (Dunno the model no.)
ATI HD4670 1GB GDDR3

The CPU is really nice, runs Vista (and I would imagine Windows 7) really well.

Thanks again guys! Answers much appreciated.