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NoGrip Legacy TC-70 Championship.

Description:
Online racing series of 23 Races (15 Events) consisting short twin races, normal races, Hill Climbs and Endurance races. Race calendar follows loosely ETCC 1970 calendar with few extras thrown in here and there. Car selection consists cars that raced in 1970 with some non-existing ones replaced with close match. All cars (except Division 3, over 2000cc class) have physics calibrated to run against each other. Carpack contains whopping 32 new skins designed for this championships. The Classification system is the same as it was in 1970 ETCC by having three Divisions and each having 2 classes. The biggest difference is in race calendar as in 1970 all divisions and classes ran all the races, but as the expected racer count could not fullfill all the classes in every race, Events have been optimized so that mostly there's only one Division running at the track same time.

Races will be held on mondays (race calendar below) with one exception race being in Saturday. Race start time is usually around 20:30 GMT/BST. Exact race time and qualifying session start time will be stated in each race invitation.

Server info:
- Server Name: NoGrip Legacy TC Server
- Password: tc4ever

Cars, their Divisions and classes:
Division 1, Under 850cc
- 1970 Mini 850 (by Protobuilders)
- 1970 Abarth 850TC (by Protobuilders)
- Suzuki Lc10w TC76 (by Shotaro & Nappe1)

Division 1, 850 - 999cc
- 1969 Mini Cooper 970 S (by Protobuilders)
- 1970 Abarth 1000TCR GR2 (by TeamZZZ & BLT)
- 1970 - 1973 Sunbeam / Hillman Imp (by Tincorna & friends)
  (Allowed skins for Sunbeam: #1 (both), #6, #79)
  (Allowed skins for Hillman: #131, #171) Note:Car #171 is listed in Windows Explorer as #172 but in-game it's #171
- 1970 Ford Escort 1.0 BD (by BLT)

Division 2, 1000 - 1299cc
- 1970 Mini 1275GT gr2 (by BLT)
- 1970 Ford Escort 1300GT (by BLT)
- 1970 Alfa-Romeo GTA Jnr GR2 (by BLT)

Division 2, 1300 - 1599cc
- 1970 Isuzu Bellett GTR (by Protobuilders & BLT & Friends)
- 1970 Ford Escort TC (by BLT)

Division 3, 1600 - 1999cc
- 1970 Alfa-Romeo GTAm GR2 (by BLT)
- 1970 Ford Escort BDB (by Protobuilders)

Division 3, over 2000cc
- 1970 BMW 2800CS (by Scyrion, Greg7 and Friends)
- 1970 FORD CAPRI 2300GT (by Simbin & Nappe1)

The Event Calendar:

N#	Date	race / track	DIVISIONS	NOTE
01	18.03.2019	Monza 1 (Junior)	DIVISION 1	Short Race
02		Monza 2 (GP)	DIVISION 3	Short Race
03	25.03.2019	St. Roch Hillclimb	DIVISION 1	Hillclimb
04	08.04.2019	Salzburg 1	DIVISION 2	Short Race
05		Salzburg 2	DIVISION 3	Short Race
06	15.04.2019	Budapest 1	DIVISION 1	Short Race
07		Budapest 2	DIVISION 2	Short Race
08	29.04.2019	Brno 2 hours	DIVISION 1	2 hours race
09	06.05.2019	Cadwell Park	DIVISION 1	Normal race
10	20.05.2019	Silvertone GP 1	DIVISION 2	Short Race
11		Silvertone GP 2	DIVISION 3	Short Race
12	01.06.2019	Nürburgring 500kms	DIVISION 2,3	500kms Race (Saturday)
13	10.06.2019	St Ursanne Hillclimb 1	DIVISION 2	Hillclimb
14	24.06.2019	Spa 2 hours	DIVISION 3	2 hours race
15	05.08.2019	Zandvoort 1	DIVISION 1	Short Race
16		Zandvoort 2	DIVISION 2	Short Race
17	19.08.2019	Puech Arnal Hillclimb	DIVISION 1	Hillclimb
18	26.08.2019	Suzuka (Asia Visit)	DIVISION 1	Normal race
19	09.09.2019	Riverside (USA Visit)	DIVISION 3	Normal race
20	16.09.2019	St Ursanne Hillclimb 2	DIVISION 3	Hillclimb
21	23.09.2019	Linas Montlhery (Evening race)	DIVISION 2	Normal race
22	30.09.2019	Jarama 1	DIVISION 2	Short Race
23		Jarama 2	DIVISION 3	Short Race

Car Rules:

• No limit on how many times you can use each car.
• Every start in new class scores 3 extra points, so 18 points available by just driving cars in every class!

Points system:

• Starting in class that driver has not yet started: 3 points. (as stated above.)
• Fastest guy in DIVISION: 1 point.
• Points per CLASS by position:
  • 1st:   9 points
  • 2nd:   8 points
  • 3rd:   7 points
  • 4th:   5 points
  • 5th:   4 points
  • 6th:   3 points
  • 7th:   2 points
  • 8th:   1 point
• Note that position points are given by CLASS position. So at least 2 drivers will score 9 points as there's 2 classes per Division.

Four different champions:

• Division 1 champion
• Division 2 champion
• Division 3 champion
• Overall Champion

Special Notes:

• Each race invitation will have notes about allowed classes and also how it is going to be scored. System won't change, but as the points system is pretty close to original 70's ETCC system, it might be a bit hard to follow.
• The time based races are really time based as I found way to organize real time based races. This means that when the race starts, clock starts counting down and when the time is up, race will be checkered flagged. :) (Thanks Geoffers helping to find this loophole in GT Legends. :) )
  
• The Nurburgring will really be 500kms race. As the distance is beyond anything ran so far at least in nogrip endurances, Everyone will get chance to drive what ever car seems to fit / like best. Hopefully we'll see big grid enough to use all 6 engine classes. I might put some sort of registration for this one, so that no one would end up driving alone in class. Race will take around 3 and half hours, so preparation highly recommended. Also use of second driver is allowed, but only one of the drivers will score points.
• I will try to organize few test races before season start. Those will be announced as usual with Race Invitations in this thread.

Downloads:

• Car pack: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1DxQlI6w68PnlzLdoLA1hwItr7qm5P0tN
• Car pack Update: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1vn_Q0bBo8pEhY8T2hrKDwEuCdwSPh3z2

EDIT: added list of Hillman / Sunbeam skins that have correct 1970's physics and so are allowed in season.
EDIT2: modified the points system due bigger racer count than expected. :) Now 8 best drivers per class gets points.
EDIT3: added car pack update, which will be in use from Silverstone onwards.
EDIT4: schedule updated. due time constrains I had to move the St. Ursanne Hillclimb 2 to later date. It would been quite lot to have four runs in same evening anyways.

That looks great !

Unfortunately I wont be available for the races on my hometrack (Nürburgring 500km)  :( and for the St Ursanne Hillclimb
event due to my holidays.

For all races I'm prepared to post the result sheets if you send me the needed files.

Looking forward to this series.

Nürburgring 500km, that must be the VLN version then. That's 25 km. That's 20 laps.
*giggles uncontrollably*

Serious consideration: shouldn't that be run with damage off? There's a realistic possibility no one would make the finish otherwise.

Note to 2019: Categorically NO heatwaves allowed this year. (Well, except for the current February one that is).

Actually,  it will be Motorfx's 1970 Nords with small patch allowing race to run more than 3 hours. And lap count will be 21 laps. I have test ran it online already so that it works. (It was rather boring thing to do alone.)

I am considering easier flag rules to prevent dqs due accidental cut tracks, which is a bit unrealistic in endurance in any case,  but damage should most likely stay on.

The car pack has been released. :) Check the first post for download link.

Three test races in Original GTL Hockenheim tracks. Possibility to everyone drive at least 3 different classes cars before season really fires up. Free Practice is set to everyone having chance to change car to new class after each race.


Server info:
- Server Name: NoGrip Legacy TC Server
- Password: tc4ever

1st Race
Track: Hockenheim Short
Allowed Classes: Division 1 (under 850cc and 850 - 999cc)
Qualifying: 15 minutes, starts at 20:15 GMT.
Race: Length 7 laps, starts at approx. 20:30  GMT.

2nd Race
Track: Hockenheim National
Allowed Classes: Division 2 (1000 - 1299cc and 1300 - 1599cc)
Free Practice: 5 minutes, starts after race 1 ends.
Qualifying: 15 minutes.
Race: Length 7 laps.

3rd Race
Track: Hockenheim GP
Allowed Classes: Division 3 (1600 - 2000cc and over 2000cc)
Free Practice: 5 minutes, starts after race 2 ends.
Qualifying: 15 minutes.
Race: Length 7 laps.


Notes
- I added skin information to car list in the first post. Hillman mod has several different physics mapped to different skins and in game it is hard to recognize which are the 1970's ones. Also the server will feature only the cars used in championship, so you can't join with skin that is not allowed.

Testrace day. :)
I double checked everything last night and we're set to go. I will start the server about an hour before the first qualifying will start.

I assume ABB lobby  8) - is there still another possibility  ???

Yep, ABB lobby. :) I Don't know if the steam release lobby is still up. Basically I have not been there at all. Perhaps once by mistake. :)

Hope to join in the fun.

ABB= Atlbierbude???, so the same lobby as UKGTL uses  ;)

Sop many cars, so little time to learn how they work.... but I guess that is the challenge ??

Thanks for organising the test races Nappe, all seemed to go well. I think once drivers get more acquainted with the cars the racing will be closer. Would be great to see a full grid of these cars but those days are long gone in GTL I'm sorry to say, still hopefully we can get around a dozen drivers for most races.  :thumbup1:

Thanks for organising the last nights event Nappe, it was my longest evening's driving for a long time. In the last race my tiredness showed up and I just couldn't get the corners right so I quit.

Good fun yesterday.  In R1 I wasn't competetive in the Abarth 850 so brought up the rear.  R2 was better in the IZZY,  had a very good finish thanks to others spins and offs.  R3 would have been fun I'm sure in the Escort, but I had to leave early to pick up the wife from her Bridge card club, hen party.  We here in the USA  went into daylight savings time so was a hour later than normal against you guys's time.     hope we pick up some more drivers,and I'm sure we will.  Thanks to Nappe, excellent cars and didn't need much tweaking for me to drive them right out of the garage......

Bob M.

yeah, the season has been designed so that around 10-15 drivers would show up in each race. More does not hurt, the system works up to full grid, but it has been made so that smaller grids work as well. :) Quite few guys that were interested about the championship were still missing so most likely we'll going to have around 10-12 drivers per race.
I surprised about how close the cars worked as I planned in test races. They seem to represent pretty much exactly the idea I have in my mind.  Server worked nicely, not much of lag... Mike had troubles but his connection was unstable last night so it was in his end.

everything looks excellent for the series. :)


I was baffled to realize in the evening that I actually was 2nd overall and won my class in Race 2. If not counting Hill climb events, it has been a years since that happened previously. Not to mention that I did it in RWD car, which has never happened before. I also did enjoy driving the Bellett. It's a bit unstable with cold tires, so I lost some time in the beginning, but after the tyres warm up, it sticks to the pavement quite nicely. It is possible that I'll drive more Division 2 events with Isuzu than I originally planned.


You're welcome. Thanks for joining. :) I am trying to make the non-endurance events take about 1 hour and half, qualifying included. As Finland is +2 GMT / BST, it's 10:30pm here already when the race starts so It is rather late when they end. Luckily there's nowadays an hour later train connection to Kouvola, so I won't be having wake up at 6:05 next morning. :)




Great to see you being around. :)
Daylight saving time thingy will get fixed when the europe soon moves the clocks as well. :)
Hopefully we'll have some great battles in this season. I recall us having some in previous championships.

Thanks for some great fun Nappe.

I only downloaded the car pack yesterday at around midday and had no idea what to expect.

Race 1 and I basically played chicken, by choosing what I thought might be the slowest car ( based upon some comments by your testers  ::) ) I have to confess that I thought I had picked a total lemon in pre race practice when a Fiat Abarth just blew past me like I was stopped!!! Then I remembered that there were 2 classes and I was hoping that your car was from the quicker group.  ;)
The race was fun until I screwed up and spun the little rice boiler when in a good position.
Race 2 and I got braver, trying the Escort from the faster group. Although it felt fast I found the brakes and the snap oversteer a problem and they caught me out on a couple of occasions.

Race 3 and I discovered the Alpha, just backed off the brakes a little and it felt almost right, well good enough to ruin Geoffers' clean sweep, although I think he allowed me to pass early in the race and later regretted it  ;)

Looking forward to more frantic fun and hopefully some bigger grids and a greater mix of cars  ;D

That little rice kettle has whopping 650cc in 3-2 configuration: three cylinders with 2 strokes.  ;D Not too bad result against cars with one pot and 200cc more. Not to mention 2 extra strokes.  ;D Street version had just 356cc and they did sell three carb version as Sporty kei car. 

The biggest difference between the classes inside the Division is in Division 1. While the ~1000cc cars are all huge budget factory built mean scream machines on their last year(s) of international racing, the lower class 850cc cars lack power and torque quite bit. However as the class was not "hot", they provide the torque in wider band than the bigger brothers. This can be advantage in some events. :)

Funny ones. Didn't know the short version of Hockenheim  ::) - nice one.

Looking forward to this series.  8)

Solved my sound issue concerning the 1969Mini970S. :)
Looks like I deleted one or more common sound files by mistake when installing the final version of the mod.

Race invitation and thread here:
https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=15435.0

Nappe, is there any chance that each race evening could get it's own thread?

Done. :)

Kiitos  :thumbup1:

Hello guys!
I am so happy to participate in your Championship. The first race was great and I enjoyed it very much!
Can't wait  for the next one!
See you all!!!!  ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;)

I apologise if my spins and errors caused any problems in both of last night's races.

Race 1 was just insanely frantic on the short circuit with the 2 small classes  ;D

Race 2 on the GP circuit with the much more powerful Alfa was entirely different, but equal fun.

For both races I was struggling with my trusty old G25, which had strangely lost calibration and decided that straight ahead was only attainable with 20 degrees of left hand lock  ??? :-\  It was surprising just how difficult I found driving the cars with that error, especially when trying to correct slides.

Eventually I lost total control of the Alfa in race 2 and sustained some serious damage against a fence, so decided that maybe I should quit rather than become a hazard for everyone else.
Looking forward to the next round.... ;) thanks for this series, if we get big grids of 16 it will be fun.

Hi Clive,

could it possibly be the same issue I was facing about two months ago:

Yes the optical encoder does that some times. However, maybe the screws that are holding it into place( the whole thing not just the wheel) might simply need some tightening. I have bought that brass encoder wheel myself, it works just fine.

On the other hand, my G25 used to lose calibration too, many years ago, before I took a break from sim racing. Once I started using it again one of the motors died, and in order for the wheel to work I had to completely remove the motor. Now I only have the one and it works just fine, combined with the brass encoder it's just like normal.
Don't want to sound pessimistic but a dying motor could be a possibility. Hopefully it's just the encoder!

I have had this issue "on and off" for probably about 12 months. It is intermittent and 90% of the time when I fire up the PC everything is fine. If there is time before a race a reboot and recalibrate usually solves the problem

But last night I was keen to practice with these cars and get up to speed and resisted the temptation to reboot, which in hindsight was probably a mistake.........maybe next time  ::)

Points table link released. Sorry being so slow, but flue took me for ~36 hours.

I also queried opinions in Event 1 thread about pumping up the points so that more racers could score points in each race. you can go and write your opinion about the change there. :)  Notice that if the system changes, I will update the score tables for the first event as well.

Nappe, any chance we could have the thread up for the next event, the Col St Roch hillclimb. I have the course as we used it in one of your previous series, but some guys will not have driven it before & it needs practice to learn it.

Geof, here you go: :)


Race Invitation here: https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=15446.0

Points Updated after the second event. :)

Nappi, is it possible to provide a link for Salzburg track so we have a chance of a weeks offline practice for the next two races?

And if anyone needs some GTL action next week, UKGTL are running American Muscle cars from the 60's & 70's at the Darlington oval https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=15270#event5817

Send me a pm if you want the car pack download.

Salzburgring is available in the downloads section here if you want to use it Nappe.

https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=3358.msg249198#msg249198

Thanks Geoff, didn’t think of that! :hammer: :hammer:

I will post the race invitation tonight. :) I need to check the lap counts for the races first. 

Race Invitation here: https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=15453.0

Points Updated after the third event. :)
Next event in Budapest will be run on Varosliget track available here: https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=3358.msg249199#msg249199
I will try to make the race invitation tonight.

Race Invitation and discussion thread available here:
https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=15463.0

Points updated after 4th Event. :)

Brno 2 hours track is available for download here: *DOWNLOAD* (https://drive.google.com/open?id=1rdFg1I1438UfoH1pZ4e_yTOzqEOe32W7)
And we will be using the "1965 Brno 2 hours" -layout.

As there was discussion about multi-class races being not close in Budapest race thread, I made following suggestion. It won't change the fact that if two fast drivers are in different classes, there will be still gap. But it does prevent differences escalating when there would been 4 or 6 classes in track at the same time.

The Possible changes without making points system utter chaos
As I want keep the points system as it is (and changing points system in the middle of the season sounds really bad idea anyways), the only thing I can change, is the endurances. However, as I want to keep the all divisions equal, that means each endurance turning in to single division race so that each of three divisions have one endurance for itself. That will mean one Division 1 endurance race as well. As No one us probably wants lap old SPA with 850cc or 1000cc engines 2 hours straight and almost 4 hours in Nords with 850cc /1000cc cars might not be anyone's bread and butter either, that would mean Brno 2 hours being Division 1 Race. (Most likely that would also mean Nurburgring being Division 2 and Spa being Disivion 3 race.)

Does it bother anyone if we make change to championship that Brno 2 hours will be Division 1 Race?

Does anyone Agree / Disagree or have opinions about this change? I will post the race invitation after this has been decided.

I'm fine with the change. I think that the original plan for two or three different categories in one race would have been great if we had a few more players. However with 16 of us tops the field would be too spread out. As far as the rest of the races are concerned I'm totally fine with how they have been organised; and so far I've only had one lonely race. Plus the points system is working really great as the fight for the championship is very close, both overall and in each division separately.
 Budapest may have been an exception, maybe the Escort was too good and that kind of explains the difference( the other factor being Markus' speed).

I am happy to race Division 1 at Brno. Thanks for the download.

OK for me too! :)

I´m fine with this too.
Thank you Nappe!

 :offtopic:

We are racing Mini's at Snetterton on Wednesday if anyone's interested  ::)

https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=15236.msg278113#msg278113

I have been thinking this many times, but always time has been bit limiting factor. I love the car and originally it was developed for one purpose only: make real world based car that would fit to my driving and to the F1 Venue Championship 2012. :)

The early history of the GTL KAD Mini is quite straight forward: F1 Venue championship was ran with faster cars in 2012 and I could not find car which I could join, so I decided to build my own. I asked from organizer about it and they were like "it is fine as long  as it fits to the pack and it is finished on time". At first I took few years old KAD works engine profile and slammed it to the Mini Marcos. :o The result was wayyy over powered monster by huge margin. There was excessive wheel spin all the other gears except the fifth gear. On straight line it really flew, but in corners the excessive wheel spin made it a beast to control.
So I needed to find something heavier to get the power to the ground. I took Mini Miglia arched Mini (As the clubman body style was not finished in Brickyard Legends Team.), Works engine torque curve and standard short ratio Mini gearbox. This was much better, but needed still some adjustments. I found 9" wide 10" racing slicks from Avon catalog and put the parameters to the tyre files. I used the Avons from original BDA escort as a template and adjusted the diameter and width and of course the grip. Front brakes got upgraded to newer and rear brakes got the 7" front discs from standard Cooper.  After this, I calculated the minimum weight I could get the car in to the championship and ran few test laps. I knew right away that this car was something I could easily think driving 8 months.

To my surprise, Geoffers and Zsoca joined me to drive it. As there was quite few car pack updates coming regular basis to include skins, I decided to continue development of the car whenever I found new real world data to fit in. I did find newer KAD Works torque curve, better brakes (biggest you can fit in 10" rims) and at least two different evolutions of 5 speed gearboxes. When the season ended, while there was no single victory for KAD, it had become so strong opposition that for 2013 season at least 2 drivers stated that KAD Mini has to go as it has become too fast. :)

I did enjoy developing the car during the season and I have been thinking joining to some championship to do it again with some other car... However development of this championship took so long that it's yet to be happening. :)

I'm happy to go with whatever is decided in the TC70 series.

I don't care about Brno as it's my worse track by far. I still remember I was once 9 (nine!) seconds a lap slower on it than Guiseppe Melis. And that was in a 911 which isn't my best car but certainly not my worst either. If a Super Alien isn't a reference I was also 3-4 seonds a lap slower than the second last guy. So eff Brno  ;D

I must admit though that this makes my nose wrinkle:
Nurburgring being Division 2
Can I has the Beemer please? Slow(er) cars are real boring on both the Schleife and the Targa for that matter.
Mind that this opinion is only that, one (1) opinion and that there's also a good chance I won't even make it because at the moment I can't manage two hours non-stop racing.

If Nords is ran with Division 3, then there's going to be 2 hours of 1965 Spa with Division 2. Talk about boring race.  ;)

We'll Deal with the other endurances later, but it seems to be settled that Brno will be Division 1 Race. I'll post the race invitation.

Race Invitation and discussion thread available here:
https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=15489.0

It's really hard to make compromises in which all would be happy...

...Nevertheless I think I am rather close with the following proposal of modifications:

• Brno 2 hours is Division 1 race
• Spa 2 hours will be Division 3 race
• Nurburgring 500kms is Division 2 and 3 race, but Division 2 scores own points and Division 3 scores own points. So from the points perspective, only two classes.
• One Division 2 race added to September to balance all the divisions to equal 8 races.

As the Nurburgring 500kms is so long race, It's nature of racing will be quite different. However limiting races so that there's only 2 winners is a good idea, so this seems to be pretty good compromise. Hard to say, how big is the gap between 1300cc and 1600cc cars in Nords, but in development testing they had less than second difference between them in zolder. Their fuel ranges match, but 1600cc cars have 10 liters bigger tanks so they do need longer stops. under 2000cc and over 2000cc cars are even bigger mystery, but the fuel consumption, fuel ranges and tank sizes compare same way as the classes in Division 2 do, so while over 2000cc cars are faster, they do need longer stops as well.

Points tables updated after Brno 2 Hours. :)

EDIT: There was a small mistake in Budapest Race 1 scoring where Tony W did not get extra 3 points while he was first time running in 1000cc class. I fixed that now as well. 

Full race invitation and discussion thread available here: https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=15502.0

The invitation has been available for few days already. Sorry about not posting the link here.

As there has been some small glitches found from the cars and for some cars had been hoped for small updates, I will be doing small car pack update before Silverstone. :)

Following things will be added / fixed:
850cc:
- Suzuki will gain 3 new final gears and one individual gear ratio.

1000cc:
- No changes.

1300cc:
- Alfa GTA Junior wheel inertias fixed. (small error in wheel inertia values, which might have caused unpredictable handling when driven on limit.)

1600cc:
- Isuzu gets (at last) working rev limit light in cockpit view! :)

2000cc:
- Alfa GTAm wheel inertias fixed. (small error in wheel inertia values, which might have caused unpredictable handling when driven on limit.)

over 2000cc:
-  Ford Capri 2300GT gains 2 new final gears and 2 new individual gear ratios.


If you find something in setup options in certain car, you can hope here for a change. I will look in to it and if it fits to the car, I will add it as well. :)

Two short races in 1970 Silverstone.

NOTICE THE CAR PACK UPDATE!
Update to car pack is available here: *DOWNLOAD* (https://drive.google.com/open?id=1vn_Q0bBo8pEhY8T2hrKDwEuCdwSPh3z2)

Race Invitation and discussion thread available here:
https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=15516.msg282820#msg282820

For the Silverstone and rest of the season car pack got updated with the mods announced few posts up. :)

The car pack update contains only the modified files, so it is really small: just 189 KB.
To install it, just extract and/or copy the gamedata folder from the zip to you gtl folder and overwrite existing files. 

Also notice that Suzuki and Capri got new individual gear settings, so if you had setups saved for one of these or both, loading the old setup with new gearbox will make the gear selections to be selected wrong, so you need to fix them manually.

Thanks for the update, Lasse  :thumbup1: I'll give it a try over the weekend.

Just did a quick test at Silverstone with all modified cars (except the Suzuki at Thruxton)-

No problems detected. Looking good.

CU on Monday at Silverstone  :)

For those who missed Silverstone, Car pack update used now on is available here:
*DOWNLOAD* (https://drive.google.com/open?id=1vn_Q0bBo8pEhY8T2hrKDwEuCdwSPh3z2)

Race Invitation and discussion thread available here:
https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=15522.0

Points updated after Nurburgring.

Few changes to the race calendar: Originally there was a plan to have two hillclimbs (two runs for each) in next Monday, but as I have bit tight schedule, I decided to move one of them to later date. So, in next monday, we will have St. Ursanne hillclimb with Division 2 cars. :) Moving Division 3 runs to later date needed some changes to August and September schedules, but nothing really big.

I will post race invitation for St. Ursanne tonight.

For those who missed Silverstone and Nurburgring, Car pack update used now on is available here:
*DOWNLOAD* (https://drive.google.com/open?id=1vn_Q0bBo8pEhY8T2hrKDwEuCdwSPh3z2)

Race Invitation and discussion thread available here:
https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=15531.0

I can't get the  link to the St. Ursanne Hillclimb race invitation and track download  to work, I finish up with the invitation for the Nurburgring 500kms race. Help required please!

Try this link Bill.

https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=15531.0

Thanks Geoff sorted thank you. ;D

Ooops,
Sorry guys about the wrong link. Fixed now.
Thanks Bill for spotting and Geoff for quick fix. :)

Points updated after St. Ursanne Hillclimb 1

Full race invitation and discussion thread is located here: https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=15549.0

Points updated after Spa 2 Hours Endurance.

After summer break, we'll start with Two short races in 1967 Zandvoort.
Full race invitation and discussion thread is located here: https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=15594.0

Points updated after Zandvoort Twin Race Event. :)

Notice that I rearranged the  overall points table events so that newest is the closest to total score.

Thanks Nappe  :rockon:

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Sorry about the delay releasing the next mondays race invitation. I will post it tonight.

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Points updated after Puech Arnal.  :)

Before the Division 1 final, situation in Division 1 championship is quite interesting:
- Geoffers and Markus are in tie. both have in 60 points.
- I have 57 points in 3rd place, but Nocatu has 56 Points in 4th place
- Salesman has 41 points in fifth position, but EvilClive has just one point less in 6th place.
- Dominic and SpecialKS are sharing 7th position both having 35 points.
- 9th, 10th and 11th positions are in side of 3 points: Bob 29 points, SeniorDan 28 points and Mike Harley 27 points.
- Roguk with 25 points in 12th place is just 2 points behind Mike.
- Tony and Bill Thomas share 13th position with 21 points
- But Suti is down just 4 points from them
- And Kanadanmajava is just 3 points behind Suti...

Points system worked quite well at least in this smallest engine division.  :)

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I am terribly sorry guys, but I have to postpone the race planned on monday. I have been wayy too busy to prepare the race and I am going to be busy whole weekend. It would be really bad idea to release track just before the race.

So, The marked race for the Monday will be postponed to be the last race of the season.

EDIT: hmmh... I was 100% sure that the evening race was planned to 16th of September...   ??? I was wrong, it is actually 23rd of September and the second St. Ursanne Hill Climb is next. That's actually ok as the track is same as it was in first Ursanne Hillclimb.

So, forget the stuff I said above. :) I Will proceed with Event Invitation.

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Next race venue has been revealed: We are heading to France for the Evening race! :)

If your planning to use a version with the banked track, you can turn cuts off, and avoid having to use those pesky chicanes  ;)

That's great idea. :) I probably go for 3km Layout...
I will post more info tomorrow. :)

Points updated after St. Ursanne Hillclimb 2. Somehow I had forgot update the points after Riverside, so those have been added as well.

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Points updated after Linas Montlhery. :)

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Sorry guys for such  late posting... I have been bit too busy.  :-[

The points updated to the score table and here are the final results.

The Division 1: (https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=122yojNnL-nUI7sH87T_G84x8ZhswXZhG)

The Division 2: (https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=1cm_NSLpANQuCJtut9mj_cvQri7n3f7XR)

The Division 3: (https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=1b3K8oZcJexpwsUU2JYMRZwCtTrXiIrJS)

And finally, The Overall Championship: (https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=1ySy7kwzHPQw91IboNdMUTucTwfv_Qtat)

Markus cleaned the table from the top spots. Congrats for the all four victories. :)
Congrats also to Geoffers, Nocatu and Salesman for their top three positions in different classes.

Big thanks to Kurt helpoing with the results and all the others helping with cars when I was making them.

Very big thanks to everyone joining in this huge championship. Hopefully you had as much of good time as I had organizing and running it.  :clap:

I'll be having some time off from the scene, before the design of next championship really starts. However there's 1970's F3 racing starting tonight run by Tony, so there's no need you to stop racing. :)
My next championship starts most likely around Late January / early February, but more about that later. :)

At first I have to say thank you Lasse for bringing all this stuff together. And thanks for all the fair and clean races, this is real gentleman racing.
The whole seaon was ups and downs for me. I hadn`t raced for quite a few years when the season started, but Monza went quite well. The first hillclimb was bad, wrong car, not enough practice. The first race Salzburg was ok, but in the second race (Div3) I had a too aggressive setup, which led to a mistake so I had no chance to fight against Geoffers (who made only very few mistakes the whole season :thumbup1:)
Budapest was ok for me, made no mistakes and was quite fast. But Brno was not good. I cared too much for tires while Geoffers pulled away. I thought my time will come, but that was not the case, bad strategy. In Silverstone the second race was quite interesting, Geoffers and I were in the small class of Div 3, and I had no chance to follow his Alfa in my Escort. Nürburgring I had to pass, the second Hillclimb went better than the first, the fast sweeps were really fun. But then followed the worst race: Spa. I was in a comfortable lead when my concentration faded slowy away and I missed one breaking point and flew off the track. No chance to make anything. I was really disappointed.
I missed the Zandvoort races and came back with the third hillclimb. I did not lead any of the 4 championships. But I changed my attitude. I put more focus on the races, practiced the starts and when working on setups safety and driveability was more important than speed. And it seems to have worked out: I gained maximum points after that. But the best race was clearly Riverside with Geoffers. Even if I hadn`t won it would have been the best race.
Grats to Geoffers, Nappe, Nocatu, Salesman and all the pother great drivers, it was a pleasure to race with you.
In the next time my Mondays are blocked, so enjoy French F3!

Many thanks to Nappe for organizing the championship. I had a great time participating and competing with you guys. Unfortunately my wheel's power supply broke down before the end of the championship so I missed the last part. Looking forward to the next one!