2012 | 300 Miles of Sebring

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300 Miles of Sebring- INTRO & INFO

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Event: 300 Miles of Sebring
Date: Saturday - October 13th 2012
Platform: rFactor2
Class: Nissan GTR, Nissan 370Z, Renault Megane
Track: Sebring 12h
Broadcast: under investigation
Driver Swaps: None

INTRODUCTION
Welcome to second official Racedepartment World Endurance Series event.
The Racedepartment World Endurance Series, or RDWES for short, is a series of (semi)endurance races we will hold during the year.
After a blast on Mid Ohio, we will again make a visit to the USA, to Sebring to be exact.
Sebring International Raceway is one of the oldest continuously-operating race tracks in the United States, its first race being run in 1950. As this track has a long history of Endurance racing, we feel we should honor it by this event.
There will be NO driver swaps allowed in this event. Total race length is 300 miles, which will equal about 2.5 hours of racing.


AVAILABLE CARS
The cars available will all be from the GT classes. In addition to the GT Endurance Series by ISI, we have decided to include the Renault Megane Trophy.
RaceDepartment will try to stay up to date with the latest patches and releases of these mod’s. This list will be updated according to the latest decisions of the staff concerning implemented patches and releases.
Available choices will be:

GT1
Nissan GT-R

GT4
Nissan 370Z
Maserati GT (taken out due to missing whipers and brake disc glow animation).

One-Make Racing
Renault Megane

SKINS
For this round, a custom MOD will be created. Everyone who wants to use a custom skin can make one and send it in a working download link. The DEADLINE is October 1st (!!!!), so after that you'll need to pick a standard skin for the race. Happy skinning guys! Don´t forget to put a RD logo on there. :thumbsup:

Dead line costum skin period has ended!

SCHEDULE/SESSION INFO - ALL TIMES IN GMT
Official Practice: 16:30 (90 minutes)
Qualification: 18:00 (30 minutes)
Warm-up: 18:30 (15 minutes)
Race: 18:45 (82 Laps = +/- 300Miles)

All drivers 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 server will be open for unofficial practice before official starting time, and will be restarted at 16:30 GMT exactly. From that moment on, the server will stay up, so a nice rubber pavement can be made.

Signups.
To sign up for this event, you must have a valid license from Racedepartment. If you sign up, we do expect you to show up!. To sign up, please take a look in the Sign Up Thread.

For now, we have limited the signup list to 28 entrants. If needed, we can expand that number with an additional 20 drivers, so all can have a go at this.


Notes.
· Chatting of any kind during Qualifying and the Race is strictly prohibited in the chat. There is no need to say sorry/thanks/pitting/leaving pits/etc. Anything that needs to be said can wait until after the session.
· If you feel you were wronged in any way during an event and wish to report the incident, simply send the event organiser a private message. Please include a description of the incident along with a video. If you are unable to create a video, please include details such as who was involved and where the incident happened with a timestamp. Do not post reports/accusations in the thread itself - negativity and anger gets us nowhere.
· We encourage all our drivers to use Teamspeak 3, download here. Talking directly to your fellow drivers increases the fun and the ability to share information in an easy friendly way. It will improve your driving skills dramatically, Log in here
· Please take into account that rFactor 2 is still in beta stage and that technical problems might occur. If you spot a bug please post a (constructive) report in the dedicated bug forum here.
 
The idea is to start at 2:00pm and have an accelerated time, so the finish should be in the dark, so the transition from light to dark should be there. :)
I might even put in some rain aswell, but you will notice that in the race. ;)

Can I pls confirm, 2pm will be the IN GAME time for the race start? And the actual real life race start time is noted as:

Race: 18:45 (82 Laps = +/- 300Miles) ?

I think that's right, but before I tell the missus that I am racing all night I'd like to confirm. Thanks.
 
Looks nice nathan!

I have a working skin but want to get a new team logo first.
Started practicing hard for this race and tell you this track is a lot of fun :D Tested day to night driving and my word how awesome does this game look in the night. Fireworks in the background me spinning off cause I'm looking at the pretty fireworks .........

Can't wait for this race.
 
Looks nice nathan!

I have a working skin but want to get a new team logo first.
Started practicing hard for this race and tell you this track is a lot of fun :D Tested day to night driving and my word how awesome does this game look in the night. Fireworks in the background me spinning off cause I'm looking at the pretty fireworks .........

Can't wait for this race.


I have to agree with you on that one. I know Rfactor 2 is catching a lot of crap in the graphics department, but damn. I set it up at 5p.m. with a 20x scale and just turned some laps. Unbelievable with 3 monitors. On one side I could see the sun setting with the purplish hue and on the other side it was already getting black. I found that I could go faster at night because there was less sunset to watch and more driving to do, lol. The nighttime is very impressive too. I love coming off the final turn and seeing the floodlights down the start finish straight. It's like coming from out of nowhere alone to instantly seeing life and feeling like you're a part of something. Ok, maybe a little too deep there :) You really get the feeling of being at the track with Rfactor 2 though and I'm glad that these club races have got me paying more attention to this sim, because it is pretty damn fun even at this state.
 
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