2013 Worldwide Racing Challenge
Please respond either in favor or against this series happening if you plan on participating.
This proposed series would be comprised of four racing events staged three months apart each starting in February of 2013 and ending in November of 2013. Each of the four rounds have been designed to emulate an existing discipline of car racing. These four disciplines include Open Wheel, Sports Car Endurance, Street Car, and Stock Car racing. Each round will adopt rules to conform with the series which it is attempting to emulate. Both drivers and teams will accumulate points. If there is enough interest in this series we will go ahead with our schedule as follows. Currently we will only be able to accept drivers who have a way of understanding written English.
Schedule
All rounds begin at 17:00 GMT on both dates.
Round 1: Stock Car Racing / Daytona 500
Kyoto 400 – 216 laps at Kyoto Ring Oval (KY1) in FZR
January 25th & February 1st
General Rules:One driver per entry. Only R2 and R3 tyres are permitted in all sessions. Double file start and restarts. No passing prior to the start/finish line on starts and restarts. Upon the issuance of a safety car pit lane will immediately close. The highest running car 1 or more laps down on each safety car will be permitted to overtake the safety car and start at the tail end of the field (free pass). Cars between the safety car and the leader at the one to go signal will be permitted to overtake the safety car as well and start at the rear ofthe field (wave around). Unless there are penalties, restarts will be in position order. Wave around & free pass recipients start behind all other entries and penalized entries will start behind them. Pit entry will be at the exit ofturn three rather than on entry to turn three as is traditional. TeamSpeak connection is required for all competitors in all sessions. Ability to speak is not required.
Qualifying Rules:January 25th – Single car qualifying with an out-lap, one or two hot laps and an in-lap. Best lap of two hot laps is lap of record. The top two qualifying times who complete their duel race will start on the front row. This will be followed by two 100 mile (54 lap) qualifying races which will split the field in two based on their qualifying times. The first duel will directly determine odd starting positions 3rd through 23rd. The second will directly determine even starting positions 4th through 24th. The final 6 starting positions will be awarded to those drivers who have the quickest lap of record from single car qualifying who are not already on the starting grid. Reserves will be pulled from the rest of this list if needed.
Race Rules:February 1st – Race will begin with 4 pace laps.
Points Treatment:Team points will be awarded to the top two finishing entries from each team. Individuals will receive points as usual.
Round 2: Open Wheel / Monaco Grand Prix
South City Grand Prix – 83 laps at South City Town Course (SO5) in BF1
May 3rd & 10th
General Rules:One driver per entry. Pit road will remain open upon issuance of Safety Car. Local yellows must be obeyed. No overtaking under a local yellow. Only R3 and R2 tyres are permitted in all sessions.
Qualifying Rules:May 3rd - All cars will be permitted to take the track for the firstqualifying session, which will last 20 minutes. Any entries which fail to meet 107% of the fastest speed in the session will not be permitted to race. If more than 32 cars attempt to qualify this session will be split in half to accommodate the extra drivers. The bottom third of the field at the end of this firstqualifying session will be set to start at the rear of the field in order oftheir times. Times for the top two thirds will be removed, and these entries will participate in a second qualifying session. This second session will last 15 minutes and allow all remaining drivers on the track. At the end of this session the bottom half of the remaining entries will be placed on the grid inorder of their times from the second session. The top half will once again have their times removed and moved into a third and final qualifying session, which will last 10 minutes. This session will determine the remaining starting positions in the upper third of the starting grid. In all sessions spectating outside of pit lane and jumping to the pits outside of pit lane will be permitted.
Race Rules:May 10th - Race will begin with a warm-up lap in which overtaking will not be permitted. Drivers will return to the starting grid and reassume their previous positions. Race control will count down to a start and when the signal is given the race will begin. Those who leave the grid prior to the signal will be given a stop and go penalty. Safety Car usage will be kept to a minimum and only used when a local yellow is deemed too dangerous to remedy asituation by race control. Entries must maintain at least 120% of their typicallap times until they catch the safety car queue unless they pit in a particular lap. In which case they must maintain an appropriate pace until entering pitlane. Exceeding 110% of an entries typical lap pace prior to reaching thesafety car queue is also prohibited. Race control will post a target lap time range upon the issuance of a Safety Car. Race control will allow a one secondbuffer to either side of this time range for competitors. After all drivershave been given a chance to pit the safety car will pick-up the field in frontof the current race leader.
Points Treatment:Team points will be awarded to the top two finishing entries from each team.Individuals will receive points as usual.
Round 3: Endurance Racing / Grand Touring Class
12Hours of Westhill – 12 Hours at Westhill International Reversed (WE1R) in GTRclass.
August 2nd and 9th
General Rules:2 to 5 drivers per entry. Each entry will be affiliated with a single teamregardless of the composition of the drivers. Drivers may only be a member of oneentry in this event. XRR will assume a 1% intake restriction and the FZR willassume a 4% in take restriction. FXR will run unrestricted. A single driverwill not be permitted to be on more than one entry’s roster. Driver rostersmust be submitted and complete before 4:00 GMT on August 1st. Changesafter that point will not be permitted.
Qualifying Rules:August 2nd - A single hour long qualifying session will be ran in which each team must electa single driver to represent them in qualifying. The driver who is elected toqualify for the team must also start the event in that entry. Jump to pit andspectating will not be permitted in this session.
Race Rules:August 9th - The start will be from a stand still in standard LFS fashion. Upon the issuance of a full course caution flag from race control all competitors will be required to turn on their pit road speed limiters immediately. Failure to do sowill result in a drive through penalty or more. Overtaking will not be permitted under a full course yellow flag. Drivers must maintain maximum speed with their speed limiter as to not slow down other competitors behind them. Pitlane will remain open at all times unless blocked or otherwise dangerous to navigate under conditions of green flag or yellow flag. Local yellows must be obeyed and over taking under them is prohibited. At least two drivers mustpilot an entry over the course of this event. Only two drivers are permitted tobe on a server for a team at a time. Following a driver change the former driver must immediately leave the server. Driver changes may occur at any time.
Points Treatment:Team points will be awarded to the highest finishing entry for a team. Individuals will be given points based upon their entry’s finish. Drivers must be behind the wheel for at least 2 hours total in order to receive individual points.
Round4: Street Stock / Continental Sports Car Challenge – Street Tuner Class
Blackwood Challenge – 118 laps at Blackwood GP (BL1) in TBO class.
November 1st and 8th
General Rules:2 or 3 drivers per entry. Each entry will be affiliated with a single team regardless of the composition of the drivers. Drivers may only be a member of one entry in this event. XRT will assume a 2% intake restriction and the FXO willassume a 5% in take restriction. RB4 will run unrestricted. A single driverwill not be permitted to be on more than one entry’s roster. Driver rostersmust be submitted and complete before 4:00 GMT on November 1st. Changes after that point will not be permitted.
Qualifying Rules:November 1st - A single hour long qualifying session will be ran in which each team must electa single driver to represent them in qualifying. The driver who is elected to qualify for the team must also start the event in that entry. Jump to pit and spectating will not be permitted in this session.
Race Rules:November 8th - The start will be double file rolling after two pace laps. Upon the issuance ofa full course caution flag from race control pit lane will close. Local yellowsmust be obeyed and over taking under them is prohibited. Cars between theleader and the safety car at the one to go signal will be permitted to overtakethe safety car and take position at the rear of the field. At least two drivers must pilot an entry over the course of this event. Only two drivers are permitted to be on a server for a team at a time. Following a driver change, the former driver must immediately leave the server. Driver changes may occur at any time.
Points Treatment:Team points will be awarded to the highest finishing entry for a team. Individuals will be given points based upon their entry’s finish. Drivers must complete at least 35 laps total in order to receive individual points.
PointsTable
1st place – 56 points
2nd place – 42 points
3rd place – 36 points
4th place – 32 points
5th place – 28 points
6th place – 24 points
7th place – 20 points
8th place – 18 points
9th place – 16 points
10th place – 14 points
11th place – 12 points
12th place – 10 points
13th place – 9 points
14th place – 8 points
15th place – 7 points
16th place – 6 points
17th place – 5 points
18th place – 4 points
19th place – 3 points
20th place – 2 points
21st place – 1 point
22nd or worse – 0 points
Tie Breakers (In order): Number of Wins, Number of Podiums, Number of Top 5’s, Number of Top 10’s, Average Finishing Position, Numberof Poles, Finish in Final Event.
