my idea and your opinion to that
my idea and your opinion to that
Hello,
sometimes happen synchronicites in life. For some weeks I am thinking about a "long event".
I know 1.5hr seems a bit long but I wish I could do a 4hr , 8hr, 12hr and a 24hr event. One day on the 24hr event.
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One idea from me:
3 hours of Silverstone - a team race
teams: 2 or 3 drivers. Maybe with the common sense, that each team has one experienced driver or alien and one rookie and not so experienced driver. All team drivers have to use the exactly same tune for the car, so that the setup has to be a compromise for both.
race organization: the race will be divided into 30 minutes stints. After 30 minutes the race will pause, the results will be transfered to another room (@all: who is willing to host?), there is the second driver from a team. After a formation lap, due to the results from before, the leader will shout "Green, green, green". After 30 minutes there race again will be paused and the next/or first driver will race for 30 minutes. Again with a formation lap. And so on until 3 hours are completed.
Those racers who are not racing, can watch the livestream in the internet (@brntguy: would you do that for us?) and go to the toilett. Someone mentioned that this could be a problem. 
The starting driver must be announced shortly before the race and both drivers have to make minimum 2 stints. Examples:
Stint 1 - 30 min. Stint 2 - 1 hour Stint 3 - 90 min. Stint 4 - 2 hours Stint 5 - 120 minutes Stint 6 - 3 hourse
Driver A Driver B Driver A Driver B Driver A Driver B
or
Driver A Driver B Driver B Driver A Driver B Driver A
or
Driver A Driver B Driver C Driver C Driver B Driver A
or????
The results (rounds) are added together. (@church: would you make a excel/google sheet for that?) The team with the most rounds in 3 hours is the winner!
qualification race: 15 minutes to find the starting grid. the teams can decide, who will race that.
cars: GT class (like http://blancpain-endurance-series.com/) (@oldschool: would you like to design those Lambos, BMW's Ferraris, Mclarens... as realistic as possible?) (@all tuners: Is it possible to make those "blancpain cars" comparable in FM?, if not we will have to work with handicaps)
other rules: no cautions, full sim damage and drag tyres, so the team management and racing strategy (Who will make which stint? Who will have to make how much pitstops?...) is really important.
race car numbers: will be drawn by lot
time slot: Sunday. BST 7.00 pm - 10.00 pm
What do you think? Is that possible and would that be fun?
JDANKERT
Umm, I haven't looked at that series at all. It's new to me. The BMW in the front shot of their page (Z3-4-8?) I think I have Painkillers version of that livery, or extremely close. What cars are they running? Looks kinda like GT2's? I don't know that I can paint an entire series, but I might be able to do a few.
@oldschool: Here are the cars from the Monza entry list:
Belgian Audi Club Team WRT BEL Audi R8
Marc VDS Racing Team BEL BMW Z4
United Autosports USA McLaren MP4-12C
Prospeed Competition BEL Porsche 997 GT3 R
SOFREV Auto Sport Promotion FRA Ferrari 458 Italia
Black Falcon DEU Mercedes SLS AMG
Blancpain-Reiter DEU Lamborghini LP600
GT3 Racing GBR Dodge Viper
GT Academy Team RJN GBR Nissan GT-R
GPR AMR BEL Aston Martin DBRS9
Ruffier Racing FRA Lamborghini Gallardo
JD, I'm not really interested in this, for a few reasons. Off the top of my head, I don't really like to do replica's, and I can't commit the time to do a dozen existing cars.
Those are great cars to paint, but I'm not into creating copies much.
@oldschool: Okay, no problem. It was my nad english. I never thought you would design all cars, but it is okay.
There was some thing run in fm3 that was very similar. The stints were run back to back, so driver A could take part in 2 stints if necessary.
Worked exceedingly well and in this case there were R3, R1 cars taking part.
They used a series of power handicaps to balance the cars as the builds aren't that adjustable on the R classes, unless you go for standard cars and paint them up.
Once you figure it out, you'll have a fantastic race :)
I think the idea is fantastic. The only thing that's going to hold you back is getting enough people to commit a four hour window to run the races (adding time for stopping and starting the different phases). I'd love to run in something like this, but it's just not feasible for me to plan a four hour race.
A modification that may work for teams of two or three:
Random grid. Run the races simultaneously and total the distances for each driver on the team. Even if you made each race 1 hour that should still be short enough for most interested to commit too.
This sounds like a great idea JDAN. If it were on a Saturday or Sunday (except this coming weekend), I would be interested.
More opinions?
@o0Shake Zula0o: Good idea, will think about it.