Quote from Rux :

Still interested.

Give me a number between 500 & 599, please!

Quote from Gaulish :

hmm can I sugest something.. in our leauge we make protest with PM to admin..if admins see that ur protest is ok than go penalty and arguments..maybe some people dont know or not so sure that someone made mistake on them or they think maybe "i am wrong" and than they dont write nothing (becose they dont wonna make problems with other drivers)..with PM they know if they a wrong nobody will know..and they will learn for next races...and if they right than protest go in public....

Thanks for the suggestion, Gaulish - at the end of this season, we will be examining the rules and procedures for everything in the iTCC and we will definitely be considering PMs as part of the protest system.

I'll post a thread in this forum when we undertake the re-writing of the rules, this will be shortly after the end of the 2009 season (end of June)

Thanks again,

Joe

'Locked-in' Drivers for Round 5 (24th May 2009)

The following drivers, who are the top 15 drivers in the Driver's Championship after Round 4, are now 'locked-in' for Round 5 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
209 P. Diaz
94 A. Laudens
69 H. Marques
33 B. Keough
66 T. Ostgaard
285 E. Bitan
222 D. Faurie
88 D. Vuckovic
236 K. Burns
38 P. Dolezal

All other drivers must qualify through to the 5th round of the iTCC through the Reserve Shootouts.

These drivers are in the Reserve Shootouts:

Reserve List

08 V. Gruppelar
13 A. Zadro
25 T. D'Souza
31 C. Wilkinson
26 J. Atkinson
27 T. Hynninen
35 J. Ward
44 Á. Árnason
71 K. Gasiunas
73 J. Dimic
74 V. Pavlovic
77 D. Novak
91 J. Miranda
246 G. Alamaras
256 L. Baker
288 A. Perrs
353 J. Kursk
405 Y. Laprevotte
433 S. Oliveira
444 D. Jourdainne
555 R. Gonçalves

No-shows required to confirm interest

5 T. Osterhouse
7 M. Boljevic
15 L. Malecki
23 J.Pickard
30 B. Grindle
86 M. Cherkashyn
96 E. Kasperniunas
213 P. Goik
301 R. Müller

Reece Pearson

The drivers listed above did not appear at Round 4 of the iTCC Touring Car Championship and are requested to confirm their interest in the iTCC for Round 5 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.

527 Z. Ferreira
535 G. Markešić
537 J. McIntyre


Unable to attend round 5:

47 D. Lind
282 Z. Cagas

No longer interested


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 500 & 599.

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 5 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 5!

Cheers

Joe Keaveney - iTCC Admin

Last edited by Joe_Keaveney, Fri, 22 May 2009 06:36.

The following drivers are ballasted by the amounts shown for Round 5 of the iTCC Touring car Championship:

99 F. Enersen - 52 Kgs
19 R. De Jong - 47 Kgs
57 R. Van Buren - 44 Kgs
16 N. Scott - 29 Kgs
222 D. Faurie - 28 Kgs
209 P. Diaz - 23 Kgs
47 D. Lind - 18 Kgs
88 D. Vuckovic - 8 Kgs
94 A. Laudens - 12 Kgs
69 H. Marques - 12 kgs
33 B. Keough - 15 Kgs
66 T. Ostgaard - 9 Kgs
285 E. Bitan - 8 Kgs
236 K. Burns - 5 Kgs
38 P. Dolezal - 4 Kgs
55 M. Makalowski - 3 Kgs
200 K.A. Gjerde - 3 Kgs
86 M. Cherkashyn - 2 Kgs
15 L. Malecki - 2 Kgs
213 P. Goik - 2 Kgs
26 J. Atkinson - 1 Kgs
82 - S. Mathei - 1 Kg

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

Last edited by Joe_Keaveney, Wed, 20 May 2009 08:45.

Thanks for a great evening's racing guys - to Chris, Jack, Yannick and the team for running it, and to Mr. Seidler for a fantastic clean race in race 2.

Quote from Kalev EST :

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

Ah good point, well made.

Quote from J@tko :

BTW, how the hell is Azerbaijan in Europe

[Yes, I know its part of the Broadcasting Union but hey]

How about Israel? I can't work out for the life of me what freak of geographical nature brings a country with Africa on it's border into Europe. Why not invite Syria and the Lebanon in too?

I know this is going to sound wrong, but is that what they listen to in Finland? Good grief!

Ah I couldn't resist posting in this thread..

Helicopters are my job so MAYBE I'm a bit biased but I'll go for a UK aircraft first, the good old Westland Lynx, still one of the fastest rotary aircraft out there.

And how come nobody has mentioned the Chinook yet, did you know it can carry another Chinook underslung from it? Yes it can carry it's own weight. Very impressive.

Hope to see some Burt Rutan designs in this thread at some point.

Quote from Tomhah :

Hey! I'm kinda different from all the other CoRe guys I'm using a blue CoRe skin So... DONT BLAME ME! :P

Yeah I like that skin, Tom Looked great on the broadcast, keep that skin!

Quote from hyntty :

What's the point in making a protest if it can backfire on you?

Well I guess if you think it may backfire on you, you probably wouldn't say anything would you?

On the other hand, if you're sure you've done nothing wrong, then you've nothing to lose by making your protest

From the admins point of view, we're trying to lift the standard of driving of all competitors, if they drive cleanly, they'll be OK, if they drive less than cleanly, they'll get penalised. 'Simples' .

Hi Racers,

One issue that I noticed has reared it's head is that not enough protests are being made.

When the admins look at incidents after the Race weekend, we rely on our observations from the race as well as any protests made by drivers. We just haven't got enough time to be able to go through each and every race from every driver's perspective. So we need your help!

If you think you've been subjected to dirty driving, then make a protest! This is the way we will clean up and improve the standard of driving for all iTCC competitors.

Having said this, we don't want racers inundating us with protests for a little bit of rubbing and tiny contacts. So make sure you've got a case before you file a protest please.

Well done to all for your particpation so far, we have had four of the most intense rounds of racing that I've seen in LFS since I started using LFS back in 2004. Long may it continue!

Cheers

Joe Keaveney

Nah, I like that idea, it might just work. White, black, red, blue, yellow, green, purple, etc etc.

Only problem is there's more CoRe drivers than there is colours Only kidding...please try it out for Round 5 and let us know who's who via PM

Hi Racers,

Result of Driver Investigation from Round4, Race 2 - Rudy Van Buren

57 Rudy van Buren was placed under investigation by the admins during Race 2 due to a contact between the driver named and 16 N. Scott.

'Van Buren makes an over-optimistic passing move on Scott. Having drafted Scott the length of the straight, Van Buren puts his car inside Scotts but is not far enough ahead at the apex. Despite trying to keep his car from touching Scott's, as the drivers go past the apex, Van Buren drifts into Scott, who in turn is pushed towards the wall where he crashes and loses positions.'

Van Buren receives a warning for causing an avoidable accident. Since this is his second warning of the season, he is deducted 5 points from his championship points total.

Warnings

33 B. Keough (See Round 4 Protests)
57 R. Van Buren (See above Driver Investigation)

Penalties

The following drivers have received penalties at Round 4 of the iTCC Touring Car Championship

33 B. Keough - 5 point deduction
57 R. Van Buren - 5 point deduction

On a brighter note, it's pleasing to see that, these incidents aside, the standard of driving seems to have improved since Round 3. Well done to all drivers!

Cheers

Joe Keaveney

Hi guys..

I'm building another PC for a friend and am trying to figure out which CPU to use.

The ones I've looked at so far:

Intel Core 2 Quad 6600 - (It's what I use and I know it's good!)
Intel Core 2 Quad 8200 (slightly better in some applications than the Q600 - and cheaper)
AMD Phenom II X4 940 (slightly better than the Q6600 for the same-ish price)

Can you guys give me any advice on a processor around the £160 mark? Is the Q6600 still the processor to beat at that price or is there something else?

Cheers

Joe

Quote from Gaulish :

yup I am also instresting to download broadcasting...i remeber that first round was possible to download..than I invite my friends home..lots a beer..and waching ITCC...is just like F1 )...

Hi

You can download the unedited race broadcasts from the links below, however look forward to Dekojester's much better edits pretty soon.

In future I'll try to make the broadcasts downloadable from somewhere. Look out for new on this. And before you ask, we had technical difficulties in Shootout and Qualifying, so no BC's available for those. Sorry.

Race 1

Race 2

Race 3


Cheers

Joe Keaveney

iTCC - Round 4 - Results/Replays

These are the results for Round 4 of the 2009 iTCC Touring Car Championship held at South City on 10th May 2009.

Round 4 Results

Shootout

Qualifying


Race 1

Race 2

Race 3


Round 4 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, Sun, 24 May 2009 20:35.

Quote from oli17 :

nooooooo! i'm gutted about that. are there any leagues similar that a lot of the drivers race in/are good/competitive/clean that i can join in?

thanks again, Oli

Ermm, not sure about other leagues as I tend to concentrate on this one. You're best asking someone who races in a lot of leagues that question.

We will be organising more racing in the Autumn, I'll PM you when we have details.

Quote from oli17 :

hi when does season 2 start? i have GCSE's (exams) until the 15th of June, and so can't race obviously. i was planning on getting the game straight after and joining, but the last race is on the 14th!!!!! i was really looking forward to being a part of this, and was wondering when the new season is due to start?

thanks in advance, Oli

Hi Oli,

The second season of iTCC will be in 2010, mate. All of us at iCON have been very busy with real-life as well as with sim-racing, so we'll have a little break then start organising a new league for the Autumn.

iTCC is an annual Championship, so the next season will start in January 2010.

Quote from DeadWolfBones :

Admins, any chance we'll get a set of server-side replays before the protest deadline?

I'm going to extend the deadline, Ben. I didn't have enough time to upload them last night (had to go out). I'll upload them ASAP (probably about 1800 GMT tonight)

Protest deadline will be Midnight GMT Tuesday night / Wednesday morning.

Cheers

Joe

Please make your protests for Round 4 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

*You have until 0000 GMT Tuesday Night/Wednesday Morning to make your protest. (Replays will posted at about 1800 GMT tonight - 11 May 09)

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

*Amended the deadline for protest submissions

Last edited by Joe_Keaveney, Mon, 11 May 2009 06:49.

Hi guys,

The shootout session for the 4th round of the iTCC will start at 1700 British Summer Time (1600 GMT)

Just to make that clear.

Cheers

Joe Keaveney

Quote from jasonmatthews :

What about the +1 mentioned earlier?

Nah sorry mate - my brother is busy this summer with university. I dunno, where's his priorities, eh.

Good news - I'll be there! Add me to the confirmed list please and let me know when you want paying Had a great time last year

Bad news - I have to go straight after the event finishes as I'm racing on the Sunday, so I won't be attending post-race social

Quote from shiny_red_cobra :

Why not the Radeon 4870X2 instead of 2x Radeon 4870?

Yeah he's gonna need enough DVI outputs to go to 3 monitors. I don't want to spec him a PC that is then limited in some way (number of DVI outputs). If he goes with TH2GO rather than SoftTH then he can make the use of the cards in Crossfire, whereas if he uses SoftTH he can use the DVI outputs.