Hello everyone!
As some of you may have noticed, in the event calendar exists an Open Endurance Cup event scheduled to take place in 11 days. Similarly, you may have noticed, that I was not that active the last few months. I currently lack the spare time to either drive a few laps LFS recreationally nor to organise anything. I’m afraid this is not going to change any time soon, so OEC will again be on hold for some time. The summer special race is therefore not going to take place either, however the idea to bring this race into existence is still on my mind.
Best regards and as always fast laps and see you on track.
The mass disconnect will be looked into after the race. It is possible that time and/or lap adjustments will happen to level the effects of the setlap. Until then the results will be provisional.
Track: Westhill National reversed (WE1r)
Cars: GT2 - FZ50 GTR with 19% intake restriction, FXO GTR with 21% intake restriction, XR GTR with 23% intake restriction
15:30 UTC Qualifying: 20-minute open qualifying session
16:00 UTC Race: 3 hours Time changed due to daylight saving time/summer time in central Europe.
Qualifying
During qualifying all drivers will be able to complete as many laps as they wish. However, a team needs at least one timed lap to be allowed to start the race. E.g. it is enough that one driver of the team sets a lap. If more then one driver of a team sets a lap time, the faster time will be taken for the starting line-up.
Important, the rules have changed slightly and only one driver of any competing team shall be on server and on track at any time.
Race
The grid departs around the final hairpin. The field shall accelerate to 80kph (49mph). Overtaking is allowed with the Green-Flag-Message. Please be careful on the approach to the first braking zone, as no race has been won yet on the first lap.
The layout with the starting grid will be published before the race.
Please remember, there are NO Safety Cars, NO restarts. Rejoins are allowed at anytime but result in the loss of one lap, including rejoins due to connection loss.
I hope you will have a fun race nonetheless.
The server is again kindly provided by New Dimension Racing. The password will be sent to the teams on race day. Please check if your profile allows private messages, otherwise you will not get the information.
PS: I am very sorry for posting this so late and for not having posted decisions on the protest and the review yet. My workload has suddenly increased a lot.
While there is still one round to go, I know how little these kind of things get talked about after a season has finished, so I want to start the debriefing for the season early. The form will stay open until one or two weeks after the final round and the results will be published here.
Track: Blackwood Grand Prix reversed (BL1r)
Cars: GT2 - FZ50 GTR with 19% intake restriction, FXO GTR with 21% intake restriction, XR GTR with 23% intake restriction
16:30 UTC Qualifying: 20-minute open qualifying session
17:00 UTC Race: 3 hours
Qualifying
During qualifying all drivers will be able to complete as many laps as they wish. However, a team needs at least one timed lap to be allowed to start the race. E.g. it is enough that one driver of the team sets a lap. If more then one driver of a team sets a lap time, the faster time will be taken for the starting line-up.
Important, the rules have changed slightly and only one driver of any competing team shall be on server and on track at any time.
Race
The grid departs around the final hairpin. The field shall accelerate to 80kph (49mph). Overtaking is allowed with the Green-Flag-Message. Please be careful on the approach to the first braking zone, as no race has been won yet on the first lap.
The layout with the starting grid will be published later this week.
Please remember, there are NO Safety Cars, NO restarts. Rejoins are allowed at anytime but result in the loss of one lap, including rejoins due to connection loss.
I hope you will have a fun race nonetheless.
The server is again kindly provided by New Dimension Racing. The password will be sent to the teams on race day. Please check if your profile allows private messages, otherwise you will not get the information.
I forgot to post the decision on the protest of round 1. I'm sorry for the inconvenience.
#24 drives behind #02 and #14. Due to the battle of the fellow two competitors, #24 has a better exit and a higher momentum on the approach of the following corner. Not breaking and having a flat angle towards the corner, he decides to cut the corner, breaking when the four tyres are back on the tarmac. Due to the dirt and the speed however, he cannot slow down the car enough and understeers across the path of #14, who took the corner regularly, and eventually makes contact.
This situation was completely avoidable by #24, there is no reason why #14 should expect someone to cut across.
#24 will be penelized with a post-race drive through penalty.
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The scene starts with the initial accident between #05 and #15. After a poor exit from the previous corner, #05 can pull along, expecting to be let pass. After the contact the car ended up with its front in the barriers. Instead of waiting for a sufficient gap on the track, #15 directly reverses into the upcoming traffic, making contact with #11 and slowing the front cars of the group so far down, in the back of the group two cars collide and spin away. #15 accelerates towards the next corner and #04 pulls along and ahead. #15 again turns in making contact with #04 eventually spinning them around.
I want to remind you what the rules state about the blue flag:
When the accidents happen, with #05 first and with #04 moments later, who protested this scene, #15 lacks any spatial awareness and turns in, while a car is on the inside. In both situations #15 should have left room to the overtaking car and let them pass, as these situations happened under blue flag it makes them more severe. Also recovering into traffic was unnecessary, if #15 waited for a few seconds, the group of cars would have passed and there would have been a good gap. After the race I noticed discussions about not respecting the yellow flag. In this situation this is not applicable, as the car causing the yellow flag actively drove into the track again.
Due to the sum of these incidents, #15 is penalized by the loss of 2 laps and the driver diogogalinho will be under probation for the rest of the season, meaning his whole stints will be reviewed, even if there was no protest. Furthermore, due to poor performance in the past two races, the team is required to fulfill the following requirements:
- additional 100 laps at Blackwood GP rev. (BL1r) with the GTR cars (FXR/FZR/XRR) recorded by LFSWorld
- fastest lap of 1:15.00 or faster on the OEC Server
These requirements have to be met by all competing drivers of the team #15 until the start of the qualifying session. That means if only two drivers meet both requirements, they are the only two who are permitted to compete in Round 3.
As of this post the drivers of team #15 have:
joaopaulopt: 9 laps -> a total of 109 laps required
diogogalinho: 0 laps -> a total of 100 laps required
Fl4vio360: 0 laps -> a total of 100 laps required
LuisM2: 3 laps -> a total of 103 laps required
SplendidModz1996: 0 laps -> a total of 100 laps required
Should Team #15 decide to not attend the next round, the requirements will be carried forward and adapted accordingly. Should diogogalinho not start for the team next round, his penalty will also be carried forward.
For endurance races the full cycle is quite nice. Even when you start in the late evening and race 3 to 6 hours into the dawn and night or starting in the early morning and finishing in the sunlight, Let alone 24 hour races.