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Password: see above (#post_event_password) (released 24hrs before the race)

Booking: From 19:15 (BST) (60 mins)
Practice: 20:15 (15 mins)
Qual: 20:30 (15 mins)
Race: 20:45 (60 mins)

Cars allowed:
Any car from the GT3 range (Note, the 'Ready 2 race' DLC is needed for this race)

Track: Le Mans http://www.racedepartment.com/downloads/circuit-de-la-sarthe-24-hours-of-lemans.2482/ (http://www.racedepartment.com/downloads/circuit-de-la-sarthe-24-hours-of-lemans.2482/)
Time of Day Setting: 14:00
Weather: Mid Clear
Start: Rolling
Tyre wear: normal
Fuel consumption: 2x
Pit-stops: 1 pitstop required

Server track settings:
SESSION_START=97
RANDOMNESS=0
LAP_GAIN=25
SESSION_TRANSFER=60

Damage: 70%

Notes:
(1)PLP App - Not used in this event. Cutting will be monitored on replay and penalties issued for excessive cutting.
(2)Please make sure you are fully aware of the SimRacing.org.uk Rules especially the
rules about in-game chat messages.
(3) Please exercise caution when pitting as some tracks have a speed limit.
(4) Please follow the SROUK guidelines for using kerbs etc. Please keep 2 wheels on the track surface (kerbs do not count as track surface)
Excessive cutting of corners will seen as cheating and the results may be altered to reflect this.

(5) Start procedure
*It will be the pole sitter's responsibility to complete the first lap at a pace that allows the rest of the grid to follow comfortably
*There should be no overtaking or hard accelerating/braking
*Drivers should avoid getting too far behind or too close to the driver in front
*Approximately 20 seconds before crossing the start line the pole sitter should slow down to a speed of no more than 50mph (80km/h)
*Each following driver shall close up directly behind the driver in front also maintaining a speed of no more than 50mph (80km/h)
*The pole sitter should maintain that speed until they cross the start line and then accelerate away to start the race (lap2)
*Each following driver should only accelerate when the driver directly ahead does (they do not have to wait until crossing the start line)
*No overtaking is allowed before crossing the start line at the completion of the formation lap
 

Hello racers,

The above announcement is my first go at doing an AC Race announcement and there are a couple of details that I am not 100% certain about, so the post will probably be updated over the next few days. I would also appreciate peoples views on the following points:

I will work out the fuel multiplier so that we will have to stop to fill up roughly 3/4 of a tank to ensure there is a bit of strategy but to ensure that the pitstops are not too far apart. is everyone ok to leave the tyre multiplier at 1? (I do not have much spare time to do practice and am not sure whether the tyre wear will necessitate a tyre change during a 1 hour race).

tyres and fuel at 1x always work best, AC now has a pit window you can set.. you just set the lap you want it to open and the lap you want it to close.. also you can force a mandatory pit stop in which you have to add at least 1L of fuel.

if you had to put one of the things on 2x then make it fuel. :)

Are you going to ballast the Lambos? The recent Blancpain series showed that it's going to have a good advantage at a track like this sadly. If not, just state that aliens can't drive them  :-\
Be useful to get a driver list going too.
I'm in  :)

Me too

This is the first AC race I have organised and I am still on a learning curve and trying to keep things simple for the first few races. I was not planning on using any ballast for this one off race.

In principle i am open to creating a driver list so that everyone can have their car of choice, Mark would it be possible for you to PM me with some details on how I do this?

I meant driver list on here for now as in 'show of hands' - who's racing  :)

just remove the car :) simples. lol

@Mark, good idea.

Could interested racers who plan to take part in the race please state their name and car type, the following GT3 cars are available:

Audi R8 LMS
BMW Z4
Lamborghini Huracan
Ferrari 488
McLaren 650
Mercedes AMG
Nissan GTR
Porsche 911GT3-R

Provisional list so far:

SRW - McLaren 650
Mark J - Porsche?  ;)
nfsw55 - Audi
Spanner - maclaren 650S
Apex - Porsche
Postal - Audi
Picnic - Nissan

Could all racers who wish to pre-book a car let me know what type of car they would like before the end of play Saturday

PLEASE NOTE: I have amended the race announcement to tyres=Normal and Fuel=2x (After doing a few laps I have calculated that we would need roughly 90 litres of fuel for a 1 hour race. Being as a fuel tank holds 110 litres I have set the fuel to 2x so that a pit stop for roughly 70 litres will be needed).

Vette? Is this a gt2 or gt3 race? Happy with either, just checking.

hmm.... I intended it to be a GT3 race, I thought I selected the GT3 filter in the AC car selection, maybe i filtered GT3 & GT2 by mistake. I will check when I get a chance.

I think AC tends to filter them all as 'GT' cars so includes the GT2/GTE cars as well.

I'm in though not a big fan of driving le mans strangely, always hated it on GTR2!

I'll go with the maclaren 650S

We have 4 people on the list of competitors so far, there must be more of you up for this one off Le Mans race....

This race is at the same time as CORE and some of us participate in a series there.

I'm in! I'm so happy for a Sunday drive in AC wow! Sorry but RRE is not my cup of sim racing! Yea! Thanks Srw! I will pick a car later!

911 for me please!

hi guys, i will join the fun. Car tbc.

Audi R8 LMS 2016 for me please ;)

Yup, i'll try the new Audi then

Nissan for me

Hello Racers,

Please note I have made some changes to reply#8 in this thread with regards to pre booking a car for the race

Surprised at the low take up of this but guess it's prime holiday season and several regulars race at Core  :-\

It's the start of the new series at Core on that day...  :/

Can't join this race on Sunday. I'll be out for a dinner and a drink with my friends to celebrate my birthday. Hope you will have some fun.
See you :)

^ This

I guess the formation lap counts towards the 1h race duration, right?

I'm at Rockingham all weekend so won't make this. In the unlikely event I am back there's a 55 Mod race in GPL anyway so will be in that  :)

yes  :)

I would like to do this but chances are I am out at the cinema watching the Williams F1 film.

Hi Linus27,

At the moment there is still plenty of unreserved places so I don't think you will have a problem turning up on the night. I will also be organising another Le Mans special race later in the year in a still to be decided prototype car.

Hope to get back in time but am traffic dependent. Am at Brands Hatch tomorrow.

Tried to join the server but only the older Audi R8 LMS Ultra is available, the newer Audi R8 LMS 2016 is missing.

@ nfsw55, I see what you mean, i have checked my driver file and it definitely says 2016 on it. I will contact picnic tomorrow morning to see if he can shed any light on it. I will update the thread as soon as I hear anything.

I've restarted the server and swapped the old Audi for the ks_audi_r8_lms_2016 one. Sadly I'm not clued up enough to know what is a GT3 and what is not, especially when it doesn't have GT3 in its name  :-[

Hi Racers,

The List in 'reply#8' for pre booked cars has now been saved, but there are plenty of spaces left if you want to just turn up tonight and log on manually. I am looking forward to this one, I think it is the first Sunday night race at Lemans since the GTR2 days! a few points to remember:

1. The password is a new one so don't forget to check the details on the race page
2. It is a ROLLING START tonight so we will need to complete the first lap at a slow pace to warm up the tyres (I don't mind if the leader picks up the pace a bit on the first two thirds of the lap as it is a long lap)
3. The pitstop app in AC was updated a couple of months ago, so if you haven't used it recently it is worth doing a practice pitstop before hand to familiarise yourself with the procedure

No problem, thanks for your effort ;)

We have guests now. I suspect the will be out the door in time.. ;D

I just tried to request a booking only to get told I can't join for another 53 minutes  ??? Thought practise was open from 19.15?

I haven't done any practise for this as I lost interest when only 10 names were up for it tbh, on a big track like this for an hour  :-\ but I'll give it a go as I love this circuit and the gt cars.

You can't join during booking - it's there for late arrivals to turn up and be able to select the car they want. You'll have to practice offline until booking has closed and practice has started.

If you're (as you are) already on the driver list you don't need to book.

Sorry got back a bit late

With such a low turnout on such a big track I really didn't hold out much hope of enjoying that but funny enough I did enjoy it. Just the experience of lapping a gt3 porker on this fabled circuit was enough to keep me entertained. The mod conversion is very good, I knew the track after just two laps as it was so familiar from all the Le Mans coverage I've watched over the years.

This needs to be run as a proper yearly event around the real event with a good size grid. I nearly did back in June but we were in full swing with the Blancpain series. Opportunity missed!

The race ended in a 1 hour hotlap session for me as well, but which wasn't bad at all tbh.
The track looks very good for an old conversation (should be from rfactor or rfactor2, but converted with permissions afaik) and when I suddenly noticed that the race duration would be 1h+1 lap and I need to pit for a second time things heated up for a second or two ;)

Thanks for organizing this event SRW, I really like those little fun races besides the league racing. Maybe running them on another evening in the week will result in a greater turnout.
Next one LMP1 cars @Le Mans I guess? ;D

I am sorry i missed the race yesterday gusy. Like mentioned, this track is always good fun to be lapping in a good race car. Maybe if momentum is picking up for sunday nights racing we should re-run it.

It does sound like a few guys were busy doing other things so may not be a representation of future attendance. Being this is the first sunday night AC event held here in some considerable time it may take perseverance to to get people to want to race here and not elsewhere.

I have been considering doing some AC events on Thursdays continuing the Thursday evening
traditional "historic" theme. I am wondering if there would be any more interest than we get
for R3E at the moment?

I have no other leagues on Thursday, so as long as real life allows it, then Thursdays work for me. The only thing which might be a thing, is having 2 races in 2 days. That might be too much for some and then they will have to chose, so you "steal" drivers away from eachother.

Yep, that was my concern. Most of the people who come to the Thursday events do Weds AC as well
so I doubt it would affect them, but it might get a few Weds people to come to the Thurs events as
well perhaps. I like the pre configured car groups in R3E, whereas in AC it would require a lot of
testing to get well matched car groups at each track. So would likely be mostly spec races.
Perhaps this PCars 2 might be worthwhile? I will play with that as well. I don't care too much
what the underlying product is, as long as it gets a few people and will create good on line races.

Despite the low turnout, like most of the others I enjoyed racing on Le Mans again last night.

I am planning on doing another AC Le mans race later in the year using some sort of prototype. So we will have to see how many turn up for that.

My long term plan is to mix Sunday nights up between AC series and R3E series, so maybe some racers will migrate back if they know there will be a whole AC series to compete in.

Don't forget there is still the second half of the R3E summer series to come and the AC GT3 Donington special event on 3rd September. In the meantime I am sorting out the schedule for the rest of the year, GT3 + ?......