United Racers League
UnitedRacersLeague:
Firstly, huge thanks to Dave 'Gizmo' Gymer, who gave permission for this post.
United Racers League started only just over a year ago, but already we have established a strong foundation for league racing, and we pride ourselves on having a friendly community with competitive racing to suit all experience levels.
The premier URL-1 league runs under simulation rules for experienced, hardcore sim racers, with URL-2 running under semi-pro rules. We also run other one-off events with a variety of mods, with new things in the pipeline all the time.
As we head into Season 4 with the main leagues, let me tell you some details about it.
UNITED RACERS LEAGUE - SEASON 4!!
Season 4 will see the biggest changes in URL since Season 2, where the mixed class grids and 3 extra car models were introduced. To explain the concept behind those changes, let's split it in a few blocks:
New Leagues
There will be 3 Leagues jointly, instead of two as we had since Season 1. To better suit our drivers all over the world, a Division concept used on several sports series is being implemented and we'll have 2 URL-2 Championships running at the same time: URL-2 West, URL-2 East. And, of course, URL-1. All 3 Leagues will be racing on the same set of cars / tracks / rules, so no compromise will be needed.
Summary of new race times:
URL-1: Saturdays, 9pm GMT/UTC (4pm EST; 2pm PST)
URL-2 East: Fridays, 9pm GMT/UTC (4pm EST; 2pm PST)
URL-2 West: Fridays, 8pm EST; 6pm PST (Saturday 1am GMT/UTC)
*Times subject to DST changes, see forum for more details.
People can run in as many leagues as they like, and can choose different teams for each league!
Season 4 cars
The same 8 models of cars available at Season 3 were brought forward to Season 4:
URL-1: Audi R15 TDi, McLaren F1, Porsche 911 GT1-98 and Porsche 956 (Spotter Guide)
URL-2: Corvette C5-R, Aston Martin DBR9, Audi R8 GT and Ferrari 458 Italia (Spotter Guide)
A total of 80 unique skins complete with helmets, wheel rims, and even some sound upgrades have been made on top.
The URL2 car remains largely the same in terms of physics after the warm reception it gained in season 3. Meanwhile the URL1 car physics have been overhauled to a more standard style compared to the Reborn physics used previously. Early impressions suggest that the new physics are proving to be very popular. So far we have had 38 sign ups for season 4 and counting.
Other Changes
- New calendar as usual, containing many classic circuits as well as some URL favourites, as voted for by racers (Season 4 Calendar)
- URL1 race length increased to 60 minutes
- A move to the use of real names ingame
Plus many more minor upgrades. See this thread for full details!
URL Season 4 starts on Friday 24th August.
Hope to see you on track,
The United Racers League team.
Thanks for taking the time to read! Any questions or comments please fire away.
Truetom:
How many racers come to a race? Do you have rules "one season - one car"? What's the time in London when the Saturday race start? I stopped trying to guess the race time when I raced with US drivers... A country should only have one time zone! :P Do you have an .exe file to patch vanila game to your mod or is it 175 steps? Dave here spoiled us hideously. :P
Berger R - 74:
Quote from: Truetom on August 22, 2012, 02:42:56 PM +0100
How many racers come to a race? Do you have rules "one season - one car"? What's the time in London when the Saturday race start? I stopped trying to guess the race time when I raced with US drivers... A country should only have one time zone! :P Do you have an .exe file to patch vanila game to your mod or is it 175 steps? Dave here spoiled us hideously. :P
hi TT,
i try to make any answears for you, i did last season around half of races and this season i do start full in url2 east.
-there is one car for complete season, there are 4 different cars in url1, WSGTlongtail mclaren, 911 98er porsche, audi R15 and a other older porsche, think 956 or so.
all this 4 cars have identical handling, power, weights, so they are same cars with only other sound and grafic. (tip...mclaren have a extrem great cockpit).
this url1 cars are little faster then orginal GT cars, they have little lower HP and lower weights too.
they are (for my personal thinking) a little bit different to orginal GT in handling and a touch more difficulty to bring this cars on limit, they have a 4th tyre become for superpole quali, supersoft tyres.
the car have 125 litres tank with and the tyres have a little more then 2xmore tyre out become, so it is extrem hard to make a race without pitstop, but still are any variables in race strategy possible in a 60min. race.
-in url2, there are 4 cars too, 458 ferrari, audi R8 GT3, aston martin and C5 corvette, same as in url1, each cars identical, only sound and grafic are diffferent.
this cars could be orginal GTR2 cars, very similar, they are something like M3, RSR and so on, but a little faster, the weight is reduced to under 1000kg and around 450hp and i like this cars a little more then url1 cars.
here the races are 45min., about tyre wear i am not sure, did only little monza testing and in monza tyre wear is extrem low.
-ther are 3 leagues, 2xurl2 one for europa, this is url2 east, where i do drive, here the quali start for me on FRIDAY at around 23.30, so it should be in london then 22.30 (i think), the other url2 west start any hours later.
url1 do start in same time as url2, but on SATURDAY 22.30 for you.
-there are 1 all in all package where the cars (incl. a patch) and tracks are in, but you can do download in each extra too, then there are perhaps 3 download.
-this season it looks like the number of driver will improve again
you should give it a try, if you have time friday (url2) or saturday (url1) late at night have free time.
servus
....think a URL admin will give you later a better explain, you know my english in not so good and i do still not understand everything in URL with my bad english.
spanner:
Thats a shame, fridays and saturdays dont work well for me.
UnitedRacersLeague:
Thanks Berger for the post. ;D
Truetom, race times for the UK are:
URL-2 East: Friday 10pm
URL-2 West: Saturday morning, 2am
URL-1: Saturday 10pm
This is when the practice servers go up. The schedule is 30 min practice, 15 mins quali, 10 min quali 2/warmup sessions, then the race.
Note that when the clocks go back for winter (28th October), the races will be an hour earlier in the UK and elsewhere, so 9pm practice start.
For driver numbers per race, usually between 12-18 in the championship events in the past 2 seasons, but in the new system we expect this may increase (especially in URL-2 East) as drivers aren't limited to one class. We have over 40 seats accounted for across the 3 leagues for season 4, with several more of our regular racers expected to sign up still.
The downloads aren't .exe, but the usual where you just extract to GTR2's main folder. We have an all in one file, so it is just 1 download and one installation step.
Spanner - even if you cannot make all races, you would still be welcome. :)
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