Hi Racers,

Here is the calendar for the first season of the iTCC Touring Car Championship.

iTCC Season 1 Calendar 2009

Dates:

Round 1 - 11/01/09 - WE1R - Races 1/2/3 - 14 Laps
Round 2 - 08/02/09 - FE3R - Races 1/2/3 - 17 Laps
Round 3 - 15/03/09 - BL1 - Races 1/2/3 - 19 Laps
Round 4 - 10/05/09 - SO4R - Races 1/2/3 - 14 Laps
Round 5 - 24/05/09 - KY2R - Races 1/2/3 - 13 Laps
Round 6 - 14/06/09 - AS3 - Races 1/2/3 - 13 Laps

Dates in bold denote an amended date.

Format of iTCC events

All Timings are GMT(UTC)
1 week before iTCC round - Server password PM'ed to all competitors


(For Round 1 only - 11/01/09

16:15 Password Changed for Shootout 1
16:30 Reserve Shootout 1 - 20 Minutes (Race Numbers 1-49)
16:50 Server Empty & Password changed for Shootout 2
16:55 Server Open for Reserve Shootout 2
17:00 Reserve Shootout 2 - 20 Minutes (Race Numbers 50-99)
17:20 Server Empty & Password changed for Race)

• 17:00 Reserve Shootout - 15 minutes
  
• 17:15 Password changed and PM'ed to all iTCC competitors
  
• 17:45 All iTCC Competitors to be on Race Server
  
• 18:00 Qualifying - 15 minutes
  
• 18:15 Break - 5 minutes
  
• 18:20 Race 1 - approx. 25 minutes (grid as per qualifying)
  
• 18:45 Break - 5 minutes
  
• 18:50 Race 2 - approx. 25 minutes (grid as per race 1 result)
  
• 19:15 Break - 5 minutes
  
• 19:20 Race 3 - approx 25 mins (Grid - Top 6,7,8,9, or 10 from Race 2 reversed depending on number drawn by lottery – thereafter as per finishing order of Race 2)
  
• 19:45 Debrief and preliminary results
  

Thanks!

Best of luck in the iTCC

Any problems just PM me.

Cheers

Joe Keaveney - iTCC Admin

(Wasn't it going to start at 1800GMT...? :P)

Quote from J@tko :

(Wasn't it going to start at 1800GMT...? :P)

Oh Edited.....

And sorry for inadvertently editing your post

Nah, I think 18:00 is too early, and anyway the reason it took so long was due to the 15 minute practice, plus the bigger gaps in between races. I mean, 22:45 for CET isn't late - and there's still scope for moving it a little earlier and making the races say 5 mins shorter

Just a comment about the dates, isn't a month in between each race a bit too long - that's 5 months for a 6 meeting championship! Pity one of dates clashes with a BTCC meeting I'll probably be at http://btcc.net/html/racedates.php

Edit: lol, just noticed the time change...

Quote from boothy :

Nah, I think 18:00 is too early, and anyway the reason it took so long was due to the 15 minute practice, plus the bigger gaps in between races. I mean, 22:45 for CET isn't late - and there's still scope for moving it a little earlier and making the races say 5 mins shorter

Just a comment about the dates, isn't a month in between each race a bit too long - that's 5 months for a 6 meeting championship! Pity one of dates clashes with a BTCC meeting I'll probably be at http://btcc.net/html/racedates.php

Edit: lol, just noticed the time change...

1800 is decent for a Sunday, tbh. People can get to bed a bit earlier then before work on Monday.

Quote from dekojester :

1800 is decent for a Sunday, tbh. People can get to bed a bit earlier then before work on Monday.

Particularly you.

nice.Race time is good, because you need to be good for peoples from difrent countries.

Quote from boothy :

Nah, I think 18:00 is too early, and anyway the reason it took so long was due to the 15 minute practice, plus the bigger gaps in between races. I mean, 22:45 for CET isn't late - and there's still scope for moving it a little earlier and making the races say 5 mins shorter

+1000000000000000000000000000. Even if I criticized warm-up event's time-schedule, my opinion has changed now, and 20:00 UTC seems to be the best possibility for me. Boothy is right, 22:45 CET isn't really late, we've all seen worse I guess. The major problem is that, if we put the event at 18:00 UTC, it'll clash with dinner for contienental people, and if we put it at 19:00 it'll clash with the Englishman's dinner. Sorry for speaking about dinner here, but I think that you all agree with me : you doesn't look "social" when you ask your familly if you can eat alone at a very early time, and then disappear during 2 hours to stay behind your computer.

Quote from GreyBull [CHA] :

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Some people have business to attend to in the morning. I have to go to school by 11 (iirc) on mondays.

22:45 CET in my time zone is 24.45 so its very late!

OK, before this thread goes any further - I moved the time because a) I got finished at the Pre-Season event at 23:00 UTC, which was too late for me, and thus b) definitely too late for most European guys.

Also, a lot of people asked me to put it back to 1800, I try to do the best thing by everybody, but I can't please all of you.

So it's staying at 1800.

Cheers

Joe Keaveney - iTCC Admin

Quote from oldnavy :

22:45 CET in my time zone is 24.45 so its very late!

Correct me if I am wrong, but Lithuania is in UTC+2... So it would finish at 23:45pm for you.

PS : Bah, end of off topic anyway.

Plus, I tend to go to work when I'm at Uni from 1600-2400 EST on Sundays. So 1800 is much better if you want my Murray Walkerisms on teh 'casts.

Good calendar and keep the time at 18:00

Quote from DevilDare :

Good calendar and keep the time at 18:00

Apart from bloody SO4R. The worst track in LFS IMO but meh

I'll have to miss 1 race every evening for dinner but meh, thats not a big issue

Calendar looks good and time suits pretty good also.

18:00 CET is good
Might get to bed before 23:00
Not losing my job or wifey of some late scheduled event...

westhill with fxr o god.... :P

Quote from Rudy van Buren :

westhill with fxr o god.... :P

Yeah, i know. U have in mind "omg thats is perfect"

no i have in mind that realy sucks with a 4x4 understear for ever :P

good carlendar Not a single clash with oneGP... thats good

Really good

Quote from Joe_Keaveney :

Format of iTCC events

• 19:20 Race 3 - approx. 25 minutes (Grid - Top 8 from Race 2 reversed – thereafter as per finishing order of Race 2)
  

And this from the rules thread:

Quote :

1.2 Event Format (Irrespective of Track):-

* Race 3 - approx 25 mins (Grid - Top 6,7,8,9, or 10 from Race 2 reversed depending on number drawn by lottery – thereafter as per finishing order of Race 2)

Which one is correct?

Quote from Gil07 :

And this from the rules thread:



Which one is correct?

the second one will most likely be used from my point of knowledge...

Quote from Gil07 :

And this from the rules thread:



Which one is correct?

Ah sorry - thanks for spotting the mistake - it's the second one.

Thanks again

EDIT: Now corrected