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NGT Sprint Cup - Season 2, Round 1 at BarcelonaDate: Tuesday 18th October Practice 1: 8:30pm (15 mins) Qual 2: 8:45pm (28 mins) Warmup: 9:13pm (2 mins) Race: 9:15pm (40 mins) Cars allowed: Ferrari 360, Porsche 911 GT3-RS, Porsche 911 Bi-Turbo, Mosler, Vertigo or Morgan. (Lotus Elise, BMW Z3M, Porsche GT3 Cup are allowed but will not score points.) Notes:(1) Full time drivers should arrive during Practice 1 if possible. Reserve Drivers can take spots AFTER 8:40pm (5 mins to go in practice 1) to give Full Timers big enough chance to join. (2) Server Password has been emailed to those registered racers for the relevant race. Please contact a member of the admin team to get the password if you are registered and have forgotten or not received the password. It will not be given out in the GTR chatroom as that is a public place. The password wont change for the season unless there are security concerns. (3) See UKGTR Sprint Season 2 Info for general Season 2 info. (4) Please make sure you are fully aware of the UKGTR Rules
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« Reply #1 on: October 12, 2005, 10:00:01 PM +0100 » |
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Please note the password is the same as last season's NGT sprint race.
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« Reply #2 on: October 12, 2005, 10:05:17 PM +0100 » |
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Is the 45min race correct Shark? I don't remember any changes being proposed or discussed (Just to be clear, in case that sounds sarcastic or like I'm bitching, I'm not, I just wanted to clarify , I'd actually prefer 45min races) Apologies if I've missed something. Pops
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« Reply #3 on: October 12, 2005, 10:13:51 PM +0100 » |
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It is correct Pops yes. There is a possibility of last minute change down to 40 mins, but currently 45 mins is the new race length. The other sessions have changed slightly too due to user feedback (qual is longer). There were some musing here https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=628.15 btw. It's part of a move to help compliment an anticipated increase in the Endurance Events to 90 mins for Season 2 too as 60 mins isn't felt to be enough for true endurance.
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« Reply #4 on: October 12, 2005, 10:18:00 PM +0100 » |
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OK, cool. Thanks. I think I avoided that thread as it seemed to degenerate into Tyf's insane rantings Very happy about the longer Q session
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« Reply #5 on: October 12, 2005, 10:19:37 PM +0100 » |
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That sounds great. A 'true' endurance length and a sprint length that should mean things are a bit less frantic both in qualifying and during the race when driving for position. It'll be interesting to see if anyone is brave enough to regularly drive softs for races of 45 mins length.
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« Reply #6 on: October 12, 2005, 10:28:20 PM +0100 » |
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Please note the password is the same as last season's NGT sprint race.
Actually it won't be but I'll be sending out the new passwords to all registered drivers (and admins) in the next few days.
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« Reply #7 on: October 12, 2005, 10:51:54 PM +0100 » |
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Well, I have not found any information if drivers are to select a car make and model for a whole season or can change cars from race to race. If the second option is correct, theoretically fastest cars in Monza (talking about F550) will be punished as they cannot run 45minutes without refuelling, while Listers can do without a problem. Of course Lister is slower on straights, but IMHO we will see an all lister grid...
To sum up - 40 minutes is optimal.
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« Reply #8 on: October 13, 2005, 08:24:10 AM +0100 » |
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Race distance changed to 40 minutes to match GT.
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« Reply #9 on: October 14, 2005, 11:32:33 AM +0100 » |
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i know i'm new to the online racing championship but shouldnt competitors be forced to choose a car type and race it all season? (as in the real world). Otherwise people just pick the best car for a certain track surely? Might not be such an issue with NGT? but the GT beasties seem to vary greatly on their abilities at certain circuits ...or am i talking out of my derrier
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« Reply #10 on: October 14, 2005, 11:50:00 AM +0100 » |
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Personally I do try and take one car and stick to it all season but this league, as many others, does not enforce this as a rule.
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« Reply #11 on: October 14, 2005, 11:57:46 AM +0100 » |
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Mark, the rule last year season was that you could take any car in the class so you could switch every race if you wanted to. This did lead to a situation mid-season in the NGT where there were 2-3 GT3's, Tyf in his Bi-T and the rest in 360's but this seemed to sort itself out by season end with more GT3's back in so no real problem I think. Realistically, it is a shootout between the 360's and GT3's in NGT, no real way around it. My view is that it's tricky enough to get used to one car! (There was a lengthy discussion on these boards but I'll be buggered if I can find it I don't recall any discussion of changing this rule recently so I'm assuming the rule holds.) Pops.
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« Reply #12 on: October 14, 2005, 01:30:33 PM +0100 » |
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I don't recall any discussion of changing this rule recently so I'm assuming the rule holds.
Yeah. I see no evidence from the first Sprint season that there's any value in trying to enforce a "one car per season" rule. If GTR let us use weight penalties we could even the different chassis choices out and aim to get more variety (eg. more Moslers) but it doesn't so there you go.
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« Reply #13 on: October 14, 2005, 02:26:10 PM +0100 » |
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Actually there was very little chopping and changing from people from race to race. I pretty much stuck with the same car all season in both sprint champs.
It's not as clear cut as it sounds. F550 fastest at Monza? Hmm, no. Only if you can drive the F550 fast. Most people stick with the car they like best. A lot of peopl are taking the Lister as it's quite easy to drive fast, but they aren't then leaving it for the F550 at Monza and Enna.
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« Reply #14 on: October 14, 2005, 04:07:02 PM +0100 » |
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I pretty much stuck with the same car all season in both sprint champs.
With you there dude, It's hard enough getting to know the limits in this game. I find it takes a good while to get to know how far you can push, how fast you can go and most importantly how to realise early that your tires are in danger of flying you into a wall without changing car - even if you use the same car with different tires, there's a huge difference! <begin mantra> Stick with what you know <end mantra>
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