After some deliberation after the week 1 race and the general feedback we've had over the last few weeks Paul968 & I have put together a revised schedule;
| iRacing week # | Race | date | track |
| 1 | - | 03-Nov | Summit Point Raceway(Fun / Test Race) |
| 2 | 1 | 10-Nov | Summit Point Raceway |
| 4 | 2 | 24-Nov | Lowe's Full Road Course |
| 6 | 3 | 08-Dec | Laguna Seca |
| 8 | 4 | 22-Dec | Virginia International Raceway [VIR] Full / * Lime Rock Chicane |
| 10 | 5 | 05-Jan | Lime Rock Park (non-chicane) |
| 12 | 6 | 19-Jan | Silverstone GP / * Summit Short |
Green = tracks included in the subscription
Red = tracks requiring purchase
* see below
There are a number of reasons for suggesting the revisions while still trying to retain some of the the 'cheap as possible' ethos.
Demand for the iRacing league has been much higher than we expected, we've got well over 30 drivers interested which is awesome
The original schedule was put together with an expectation there would probably be under 20 drivers if I'm honest and in retrospect, Summit Point in race 1 wasn't the best choice of tracks given the turnout and the variance in experience in the field.
With a higher turnout for race 2 expected the originally scheduled location of Lime Rock is probably an equally bad (if not worse) choice hence the change there. Moving it to Lowe's Road course gives us more pit boxes. This allows us to move Lime Rock to the end of the season when we've all had a bit more experience.
I think we roughly have 3 groups of drivers and tried to tweak the schedule accordingly;
1) The iRacing hardcore - I assume these guys will be happy to see a couple of different tracks on the schedule.
2) The "1 month trial" guys - You guys can still race on the free tracks for the first few races. I think some of you signed up with the Radical offer in which case you have Silverstone when/if you re-subscribe which is partly why that track was included.
3) The "3 month trial / re-sub" guys - I'm thinking that there might be some guys who signed up (or re-subbed) for 3 months to try out iRacing in a private league format with the expectation that you can do the whole season without buying any extra tracks. If this is the case and there's demand for it, we'll run free track alternative's in races 4 and 6 using Lime Rock Chicane and Summit Short which suit a smaller field size.
There is no getting round that if you want to continue iRacing then extra tracks are inevitable. We'll almost certainly be using Silverstone / VIR next season (whatever that ends up looking like) so they won't be wasted.
I hope that explains the changes. I think it will provide better racing than the original schedule and that's what we are all here for
