RD Nordschleife 24 Hours 2012 | INTRO & INFO
The RaceDepartment staff recommends reading this entire article for those that wish to enter the competition.
Event: Nordschleife 24 Hours 2012
Date: Saturday 31st March 2012
Game Required: rFactor
Divisions: 1 (52 teams with multiple drivers)
Mod: Endurance Series SP2 by EnduRacers
INTRODUCTION
Welcome to the inaugural RaceDepartment 24 Hours of the Nordschleife. This event will take place once a year and be one of the great challenges in the sim racing world. Riding on the back of the success of the RDLMS, 52 teams will take to the grid split between two classes, GT1 and GT2, all hoping to be crowned, the Kings of the Ring.
AVAILABLE CARS
The cars available come for the Endurance Series by EnduRacers. RaceDepartment will try to stay up to date with the latest patches and releases of this mod. This list will be updated according to the latest decisions of the staff concerning implemented patches and releases.
GT1
Aston Martin
Corvette
Lamborghini
Saleen
GT2
Ferrari F430
Porsche 997
Porsche 996
Panoz
Spyker
> All required files will be downloaded through SimSync.
SCHEDULE/SESSION INFO -
ALL TIMES IN GMT
Test Race 1 - 15/3/12 - Optional
Official Practice: 19:30 (60 minutes)
Qualification: 20:30 (30 minutes)
Warm-up: 21:00 (5 minutes)
Race: 21:05 1 hour
Test Race 2 - 24/3/12 - Mandatory
Official Practice: 13:45 (60 minutes)
Qualification: 14:45 (60 minutes)
Warm-up: 15:45 (15 minutes)
Race: 16:00 2 hours
GT1 Qualification - 26/3/12
1 Car per team entry
Official Practice: 19:00 GMT (60 minutes)
Qualifying: 20:00 GMT (60 minutes)
GT2 Qualification - 27/3/12
1 Car per team entry
Official Practice: 19:00 GMT (60 minutes)
Qualifying: 20:00 GMT (60 minutes)
Race Day - 31/3/12 - Mandatory
Official Practice: 09:45 (60 minutes)
Warm-up: 11:45 (15 minutes)
Race: 12:00 24 hours
All teams must be in the server at least 15 minutes before qualifying, anyone who joins after the start of qualifying will start from the back of their specified class with the exception of people who experience last minute technical issues.
The race has a Manual Formation Lap and a Rolling Start. The procedure will be explained in the race briefing.
TEAMS
The entry list will have a total of 52 teams that will participate in the event. Each team has a team owner who holds the license provided by RaceDepartment and takes responsibility for the organisation of the team. The team owner will be the person who communicates with the RD 24hr staff and provides the necessary information to the other members of his team.
To enter a team in the event the team owner must read and agree with all the information and rules. Additionally he must create and manage his team in the team thread.
DRIVERS
Each team consists of up to to 8 drivers who can drive and swap places during the pitstops. It is up to the team owners to decide who these drivers are. Each driver must be a Licensed Member of RaceDepartment.
> Become a Licensed Member of RaceDepartment
LIVERIES, PAINTS & SKINS
Each team is required to submit a custom livery for the event. The livery may change multiple times before the event as long as it is provided before the designated deadline for the event. The livery must meet certain requirements and must be provided in a specific way. Read the Skin Sending Instructions thread to find out what these requirements are. Note that we do not want to get buried in workload, so please do not change your skins unless it is a necessity (change of car for example).
> Skin Sending Instructions - TBC
ADDITIONAL RULES
Mandatory Driver Swap
In the race every team has to perform a certain minimum number of driver swaps. During a driver swap one driver takes over the wheel from the other. In rFactor this means a spectator takes over control of the car from a driver during a pitstop, after which the roles switch.
This procedure must take place at least six times during the event. The longer the race, the more driver swaps must be performed. Teams that do not perform enough driver swaps will be disqualified.
In case a team shares the same PC during the event they cannot perform the driver swap through rFactor, but will simply manually swap drivers. The staff cannot register such driver swaps. To counter this a special procedure is designed. It goes as follows:
Before the event the drivers sharing the PC create an rFactor driver profile that contain their names, e.g. Smith-Johnson-Bush or Smi-Joh-Bus or something similar.
Whenever the team performs a manual driver swap they move the car into the pit and stop at a designated spot at the end of the pitlane. There the car must stand still for at least 10 seconds before continuing the race. The team is allowed to combine this manual driver swap with a regular pitstop, first stopping for tyres and fuel and then moving to the designated spot for the swap.
After the race the team must notify the RD staff about in which laps the driver swaps were performed. They have until 24 hours after the finish of the race to do this.
In case not enough manual driver swaps are performed by PC-sharing teams, or in case they do not report the laps of the driver swaps the team gets disqualified. Additional manual swaps do not need to be performed, even if actual swapping takes place, but it is of course allowed to go through the procedure more often than the amount of mandatory swaps indicate (like we would stop you...).
CONTACT THE STAFF
> Marco Bijl (All)
> Joakim Skalstad (All)
> Yoeri Gijsen (General)
