FM Le Mans Series S1

Hey guys. thought id just throw this out there, is anybody intrested in doing a lemans style series. it would be a dual class championship with GT's and LMP1's starting at sebring and ending with an endurance event at Lemans ) Races would take place on a sunday either in the afternoon or Evening, starting in april and will rotate once a month . as with the dtm league there will be a vetting event. car classes will have a nice mix of fast and slower guys in. To make this an intresting series, upgrades would be allowed to R1 998 For LMP1s and R2 875 for GT's

races are to be the last sunday of every month dates below, the vetting event will be the w/c 16th april and will be run midweek to to f1 2011 commitments

Planned Tracks and dates

• April 29th - Round 1 - Sebring. USA 90 mins
• May 27th - Round 2 - Circuit de Catalunya. Spain 2 hours
• June 24th - Round 3 - Mugello. Italy 2 hours
• July 29th - Round 4 - Silverstone. Great Britan 90 mins
• August 26th - Round 5 - Suzuka Circuit. Japan 90 mins
• Septmember 30th - Round 6 - Nurburgring Nordschlife. Germany 2 hours
• October 28th - Round 7- Race Department Lemans Grand Prix. France 2hrs 30 mins

All assists are banned execpt line and gearing
User Created Designs and Setups Allowed.
Teams May be made but ill confirm this. Teams will be allowed one major sponsor (which appears on both cars) but designs may be individual

Points

• 1st 25
• 2nd 20
• 3rd 15
• 4th 12
• 5th 10
• 6th 9
• 7th 8
• 8th 7
• 9th 6
• 10th 5
• 11th 4
• 12th 3
• 13th 2
• 14, 15 and 16th 1
• Overal Pole 5
• Class Pole 3
• Class win 10

Huge points on offer e.g. Finish First, win your class, get Overall Pole and Class Pole = 43 points


Allowed Cars
LMP1's - Limit R1 998
Chevrolet Racing Oreca FLM09 (all Models)
Acura Arx-01b (all Models) and ARX-02A (all Models)
Bentley Speed 7
Audi R15 and R15++
Aston Martin Lola
BMW LMR
Cadillac LMP-02
Ferrari F333SP
Panoz LMP-01
Peugeot Sport 908
Mazda B09/86
Toyota GT-One

GT' 1s - Limit R2 875
Aston Martin DBR9
Chevrolet Corvette C6.R
McLaren F1 GTR
Maserati MC12
Nissan R390 GT1
Pagani Zonda GR
Saleen S7R

GT2's Limit 800
BMW Z4 GT3
BMW M3 GT2
BMW M3 GTR
Audi R8 LMS
Jaguar RSR XKR GT
Ferrari F430GT
Ferrari 458GT
Dodge Viper GTS-R
Ford GT Mk7
Panoz Esperante GTLM

See you all on the track


Intrested drivers (confirmed) = Confirmed drivers
Andrew Skinner (Confirmed)
Chris Bell (Confirmed)
Karl Raper
Tom Moreno(Confirmed)
Mark Turner
Bradley Cappas-jenner
Steve Freeman (Possibly) (Confirmed)
Jeffery Koranteng,
Billy

Planed Classes (based on sign Ups)
LMP
Jeffery Koranteng
Karl Raper
Steve Freeman

GT 1
Mark Turner
Tom Moreno
Chris Bell

GT2
Andrew Skinner
Ryan Silvestre
Billy Phelps

I was actually thinking of starting a league just like this. I might be interested

I'll be giving this one a miss I think. Nice idea though.

I know my fingers wouldn't survive this. I agree with Dan though, it sounds fantastique!

Seriously, contoller races mean 1 hour is pushing it before cramps etc set in. Shame, as I love these cars.

Fantastic.
However I can't commit because it's on Sundays.
Good luck tho.

Actually sorry I realised I can't do this either, great idea but sorry.

I`d be interested Andrew but due to 4 of "the regulars" in RD leagues counting themselves out i think numbers may be thin on the ground, so i wont say a deff yes untill we see how much interest there is.
Sounds great though.... 3 hrs at LeMans!....thats proper endurance.

Im in!!!

Put me in for this see how many we get!!!!!!!

Just curious by rotating once a month do you mean one race a month?

Yea dude

Oki,then I'm all up for this
If possible I would like to get my hands on a GT2 car for this.Never driven them for such a long stint and would love to try that out.

I'm interested, but it all depends on start times. My xbox, tv, wheel, etc are all in my living room so it would make it impossible to play before the kids (I've got a 1 year old and a 2 year old running around) go to bed. Once a month I could probably get them off to bed early, but that would still only be 7:30 at the earliest. This is why the 8:30 starts on weeknights work so well for me (and why i'm usually so frazzled when I first show up online!) because it gives me a chance to get the little ones down and set up my wheel stand and such before the 8:15 lobby opens.

start times would be arround 8pm due to the nature and length of the races

like the sound of it but the evenings can be bad for me i know i am in the minority but i would like a afternoon event but will check the dates when released

i Might be up for this, would prefer GT2 though to be honest as i doubt il be able to handle the LMP's!

will keep checking for updates

Provisional calander and Dates confirmed and assists announced

Planned Tracks and dates

• April 29th - Round 1 - Sebring. USA 90 mins
• May 27th - Round 2 - Circuit de Catalunya. Spain 2 hours
• June 24th - Round 3 - Mugello. Italy 2 hours
• July 29th - Round 4 - Silverstone. Great Britan 90 mins
• August 26th - Round 5 - Suzuka Circuit. Japan 90 mins
• Septmember 30th - Round 6 - Nurburgring Nordschlife. Germany 2 hours
• October 28th - Round 7- Race Department Lemans Grand Prix. France 2hrs 30 mins

All Assists will be allowed (as these cars can be a handfull)
the vetting event will be the w/c 16th april and will be run midweek due to f1 2011 commitments

Looking good

Hmmmn... Not a huge fan of assisted racing

I felt the same way, not a challenge to drive these cars with all assists on.. for the amount of time that these races will be on for, and in all likelyhood, long stretches of driving alone around the track, would be pretty boring without a challenge from the car itself.