2012 | 300 Miles of Sebring

[Stefan Woudenberg]

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.

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.

 

[Tibor Rózsahegyi]

Thank you.
I tried the car and the tires a few hours on the server. I performed more than 45 laps (4 pit stop for fuel) and the tires are very useful. Does anyone have any experience about the optimal pit stops? (i'm talking about the tire life period only)....and sorry for my english

 

[Matt Horst]

Guys i have a problem with the game crashing when I'm in the pitbox.Others on ISI forums have reported the same thing.Doesn't always happen the first or second pit but odds are in a race this long it will crash.Can some of you guys test this out and see if you have the same problem.Try pitting two or three times and see what happens.

 

[Larry Thomas]

Pitted 4 times at 1 or 2 lap intervals without any problems. All were unscheduled; that is I didn't call up a pit stop before coming in. Also pitted daytime and nightime.

 

[Frederic Schornstein]

Are there any updates regarding the broadcast?

 

[Esteve Rueda]

I'm in time to upload my skin? I will run with this if I can autor is Ruben Grueira, a friend I know in a spanish comunity.

Link: http://www.mediafire.com/?uaky68g148nody1

 

[Jon Denton]

Will there be a "pack" of skins for this race collating all of our paints?

 

[Tiens Van Zyl]

Will there be a "pack" of skins for this race collating all of our paints?

Hi Jon, I think like the last race the skins will be included with the MOD that we will need to download for the race

 

[Jon Denton]

Goos news, thanks Tiens.

 

[Dan Coldrick]

My skin, link:

http://www.mediafire.com/?k87r7dclc4mzi2k

 

[Dan Coldrick]

Any idea what times you guys in Megane's are doing?

 

[Stefan Woudenberg]

Dead line costum skin period has ended!

 

[Nicky De Fré]

Can somebody pm me the pass for server and teamspeak pls

Cheers

 

[Kevin Cox]

I was doing some practice tonight with Nicky and noticed that in the dark if you have a car behind you his headlights light up your windscreen so much it is very hard to see the road.

What you see is an image of your cockpit on the windscreen. I was driving the Nissan 370Z. Not sure if this happens with the other cars.

Will this be fixed before the race or will we have to cope with it?

 

[Tiens Van Zyl]

Haven't found a problem like that in the GTR with a megane behind me

 

[Dan Abbitt]

Is it still possible to sign up for the race? Haven't done an RD race before (in fact haven't done an online race longer than 10 laps before!) but would be interested in having a go if possible.

I've only just decided to think about joining a league to race. Single player can get a bit boring after a while.

 

[Matt Horst]

I was doing some practice tonight with Nicky and noticed that in the dark if you have a car behind you his headlights light up your windscreen so much it is very hard to see the road.

What you see is an image of your cockpit on the windscreen. I was driving the Nissan 370Z. Not sure if this happens with the other cars.

Will this be fixed before the race or will we have to cope with it?

Try the GTR and see if you get the same thing.I know it will be somewhat of a problem no matter what car your in but it probly is fairly realistic at least when there is a car behind me at night for real it makes it a little hard to see.

 

[Stefan Woudenberg]

Is it still possible to sign up for the race? Haven't done an RD race before (in fact haven't done an online race longer than 10 laps before!) but would be interested in having a go if possible.

I've only just decided to think about joining a league to race. Single player can get a bit boring after a while.

Yes and no. Firstly you need to be a licensed member, next you need to have done some club races to get the feel how people drive here at RD.

There will be more events like this, so no worries!

 

[Tiens Van Zyl]

Try the GTR and see if you get the same thing.I know it will be somewhat of a problem no matter what car your in but it probly is fairly realistic at least when there is a car behind me at night for real it makes it a little hard to see.

Or we can use sun glasses when someone is behind us
I will try a SP race with just GTR's at night and test again.

 

[Nathan Robinson]

I had the same problem with he headlights. Because of this i will race with nose cam because it is too blinding. In a real car the lights can blind your rearview but ive never seen so much glare off the actual windshield. I hope they fix this because i was really enjoying the 370 cockpit.

 

[Kevin Cox]

Try the GTR and see if you get the same thing.I know it will be somewhat of a problem no matter what car your in but it probly is fairly realistic at least when there is a car behind me at night for real it makes it a little hard to see.

Don't see the point in trying GTR as I will be racing in the 370Z. If the problem won't be fixed I will just have to struggle to see through the reflection on the windscreen when being lapped. So apologies in advance if I have trouble keeping out of the way.