[GT6] 24 Hour Endurance Series - [CLOSED]
[GT6] 24 Hour Endurance Series - [CLOSED]
The Car
2011 BMW M3 GT2 (Base Model)
2010 BMW E92 M3 (BMW Motorsport)
2011 BMW M3 GT (BMW Motorsport)
- Max PP - 577
- Max HP - 525
- Max Torque - 387.4
- Weight - 1245kg
Mandatory Services that MUST be used:
- Oil Change
- Improve Body Rigidity
Tire Selection:
- Racing: Hard
- Racing: Medium
- Racing: Soft
- Wet: Intermediates
- Wet: Heavy
Rules:
1. Custom Tuning IS allowed however no extra parts are to be added to the car. Tuneable parts are the following.
- Suspension
- Brakes
- Drivetrain
Please note Transmission and Downforce must remain at default settings as shown below.
Transmission Settings
- 1st - 4.069
- 2nd- 2.725
- 3rd - 1.983
- 4th - 1.514
- 5th - 1.213
- 6th - 1.019
- Final Drive - 3.620
- Max.Speed (Auto Set) - 199
Downforce Settings
- Front - 300
- Rear - 550
2. This is a NON-Contact event. However lightly rubbing or leaning on another car is allowed as long as it doesn't result in rubbing the other car into:
A) A Wall or Barrier
B) A 3rd/4th Car,
C) A totally different direction
D) Anything too aggressive that may prompt your opponent to submit a complaint against you.
Please drive clean and respectfully.
3. Cosmetic damage will be enabled.
4. Fuel and Tire ware will be set to Very Fast (except at Nurburgring due to track length which will be set to Fast)
5. All races will simulate a 24 hour in game cycle with dry tracks with all races starting at IN GAME TIME as 12:00pm
6. Each race night will consist of a 7 Minute Qualification Event (except Nurburgring which will be set to 10 mins) and a 1 hour and 45 minute (approx) race.
8. There are NO mandatory pit stop’s required.
9. Your lowest 1 race points will be removed from your final score.
10. Any cars found not to be built to spec and that have raced will be banned for the rest of the season.
Any complaints must be made by Private Message here on 2Old2Play within 24 hours of the race finish.
Race officials are: Parcells2, CProRacing and Grim
Points:
- 1st = 20
- 2nd = 17
- 3rd = 15
- 4th = 13
- 5th = 12
- 6th = 11
- 7th = 10
- 8th = 9
- 9th = 8
- 10th = 7
- 11th = 6
- 12th = 5
- 13th = 4
- 14th = 3
- 15th = 2
- 16th = 1
The overall champion will be decided by the driver who has the most points over the season.
Tracks and Dates:
All races are to be held on a Sunday starting promptly at 16:00 GMT, 11:00EST, 10:00CST, 09:00MST, 08:00PST
- 02/16/14 - Spa - Francorchamps - (36 Laps)
- 03/09/14 - Daytona 24 Hour - (TBD Laps)
- 03/30/14 - Silverstone GP- (TBD Laps)
- 04/20/14 - Mount Panorama - (TBD Laps)
- 05/11/14 - Nurburgring 24 Hour - (TBD Laps)
- 06/01/14 - Circuit de le Sarthe 2013 - (TBD Laps)
- 06/22/14 - Track TBD - (TBD Laps)
Each race night will take no longer than 2 hours. There will be 7 different tracks. Each track will be hosting 1 races per week.
Please sign up at the following link and include your 2O4F GT6 car number, color of body and wheels. You will be recognizable by these features.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AkjeJ12H53YmdGJhR0lKRWFJUk1...
As always if I have missed anything or you don’t think something is right please say so.
Rolling Start
Will provide base tune shortly however the stock tune is very good as well!
Better make it a good tune Grim!!!!!!
Will there be weather changes in this :)
Boo :( I'll join the next one when there's weather changes. There's to much running in the dry
Feck it love the car and track. Just doing a few laps just now WTF 7 laps I'm out of fuel
hmmm, 7 laps eh Stevie was wondering how many it would take...
1) any chance of pushing it to 8 laps?
2) how were the tires after 7 laps?
Maybe at a push you could make 8 laps.
First stint I tried softs they had about 6 front 5 rear when I needed to pit for fuel (I know we are only to use medium but I get better life from the other 2 ) and after pit stop they get worse mediums 5/3 by the time I had to make second stop.
I ended up running about 1 hour 40 mins all in. The day to night to day was cool. Lost count on the number of pit stops I made
Grim can you maybe open up the tyre compounds to all 3 just adds to the mix
Pay no attention to Church Grimm, hes trying to sabotage your series.
Its been brought to my attention that not everyone may have the Base Model. Based on this, I have also opened it up to either of the 2 BMW M3's (BMW Motorsport) (2010 or 2011) in addition to the Base Model M3 GT2
Thanks Grim! For some reason I dont have the Base model in the dealership. I dunno,you think its an Award car? Maybe it doesnt show up till after you unlock it? Seems unlikely,weird.
The base model was the first car I purchased. Then nearly all other base models.
There have been a few times in gt when things have not been as should. I could not get into snappys lobby one night so I setup my own to do a few laps only to find out I didn't have the Brands hatch track could not find it anywhere. Another time my Megan trophy car disappeared but was fine after a restart of the game.
I'm sure there is a BMW race car as an award but I'm sure it's not the base model.
Odd I was looking in my garage and I don't have a base model either just 10 & 11 with the same white paints ?
As for rain and different tire componds being added. I'll look into it.
The concern I have with adding rain is the lap times will be increased thus pushing it past the two hour mark (including the qualifying session) and I really dont want to impact someones prep time for the Super Tour Car event on the FM4 side. Im also not convinced the rain is working all that great. That said, I will look into it further as a possibility, however the initial race will be in the dry.
As for tire compond, Im still thinking about that. Looking at the Megane race at Tokyo, it really was not much of a race for me (and I dont mean that with a cocky attitude). I spent a lot of time coming up with that pit stratagy and it was clear I was the only one that was using it and winning the race by over 30 seconds even after taking 2 pit stops. After the first few laps, I was just hot lapping and that was only a 40 min race. Not everyone can dedicate the time to prepare for a race and I kinda want the pit stratagy to play a role but not a race determining role (if that makes sence). All that said, we do have 3 weeks between races so there i time to test/prepare so we may open it up. I'll get back to you shortly.
May not make much difference though as no one has signed up (hint hint, nudge nudge) - Link - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AkjeJ12H53YmdGJhR0lKRWFJUk1QQzM0cWQwQXA4RlE#gid=0
I like what you said about the optional tire compounds Grimm and totally agree with the reasoning. Having everyone on the same compound rewards smooth driving and does not give an advantage to people who have time to practice numerous different race strategies which there’s absolutely nothing wrong with that, that’s for sure but does simplify things for everyone which should generate more close battles for those of us who are somewhat close in speed.
That said I promise to give you some competition this week at Monaco!!!
For the Tokyo race my practice race involved hard tires which I knew could last 12-13 laps and also knew that hard would be required to finish the race out (because of the pit stop bug) if I wanted to do a one stop strategy that I totally assumed would be faster than any 2 stop strategy which in fact it wasn’t even close as you easily proved. Never tested soft tires so had no idea how much faster they were. Maybe inter tires could have worked better on the first stint but that’s not the point.
But for Monaco this week I tested all three compounds and the soft were significantly faster so I’m pretty sure I’ll be going with a 2 stop strategy using soft throughout the race unless you surprise me with the number of laps.
And to either a) embarrass myself or b) lay the gauntlet down for you :) I’ll throw out my best Monaco time of 1:35.2xx but if I can pull off a sub 1:36 qualy time I’ll be content with that.
I don't think it matters what tyre we use as it's down to the fuel. On all the tyres I tested I could have gone longer on all but I had to stop for fuel
Not really surprising and thanks Stevie but that sort of means there's no reason to test/practise for this race anymore and that saddens Parcells. But screw that its Spa I'm testing!
Since fuel is a significant factor in this event, and since we "may" have rain on a couple events, Im going to open it to all Race Componds. Thanks everyone for the info.
Parcells has never been a fan of BMWs and I’m not quite sure why that is but this car does handle pretty well I have to say. But I also need to say Grimm that this car is in competition with the worse sounding car I’ve ever driven in 6+ years I kid you not. WOW, is it ever terrible. I found myself wanting to let off the gas pedal just to stop the excruciatingly painful sound emanating from what I can only assume is some half-dead animal caught up in the engine block or something…no offense of course
No Base Model for me either. Strange.
I wonder (thanks to kurupt bringing this up) if those that dont have the 15th Anniversay pack are missing some of the base models? Luckily, there are two other BMW's that can be used for this series.
That's the thing about it, Grim.... I have the 15th Anniversary Edition. If I check again and it's there I will freak out.
For statistical purposes Parcells has the base model and the anniversary cars...oh and upwards of 1.4 billion in GT6 assets on account of that lovely glitch in the early days.
That's great! You can send me some cars when they open up the sharing feature. I didn't take advantage to the extent that you did. I'm down to 15 mil. Practically broke! Thanks in advance. LOL
Parcells isn't big on sharing but I might make an exception for you Snappy.
Sugar Daddy.
Well you're definitely not getting any cars now.