RD Friday Open Series

[Ramon van Rijn]

RD Friday Open Series

I'm sure by now you're all aware of the great racing series and events that have been organised here at RaceDepartment for iRacing for our licensed members. We've got a full schedule of events this summer which we're sure many of you will enjoy but we think it would be great to also organise an event that would reach out to the wider iRacing community and show them what a fantastic group of drivers we have here and encourage them to come and race with us on a regular basis. To do this we've been advertising events in the iRacing hosted forums but taking it a step further we're going to be running an event this Friday in a hosted session with no password. We'd like to see as many of our regular drivers attend as possible and demonstrate the free, clean online racing that is the foundation that RaceDepartment was built upon so that we may welcome more iRacing fans into our racing club for future events.

For now we are thinking about one of two options:

VW Jetta @ Brands Hatch Indy
IndyCar @ Mid-Ohio

The Jetta would be more casual and the Indycar might give crashes if we have an open server. Your opinion is welcome.

 

[William Nowell]

We are not particularly interested in the noobie rookies, are we?

I thought the idea was to get more people into RD, noob or pro. The ones that stick around are the ones I want to race with.

 

[Eric Estes]

I think I am with Ramon when I say that almost every serious iRacer owns the Jetta.

I need you to tell that to my wife (no Jetta here)

 

[Eric Estes]

I thought the idea was to get more people into RD, noob or pro. The ones that stick around are the ones I want to race with.

Agreed.

 

[Kevin Watts]

I thought the idea was to get more people into RD, noob or pro. The ones that stick around are the ones I want to race with.

You are spot on with that assessment, we welcome drivers of all levels.

 

[Mark Spaeth]

I'm new to iRacing and just picked up a 3month subscription. I'd love to joing you guys, but cant say ill be going in on the additional cars just yet. I second the default content.

 

[Ramon van Rijn]

LOL, the thread is going from left to right

Lets make a decision very soon, we need to schedule it/etc.etc.
We have Jetta @ Brands Hatch Indy or Spec Racer/Mazda @ Lime Rock for this Friday.

Pick your choice (please only if you will race this Friday!) soon.

 

[Onno Naber]

Spec Racer@Brands Hatch ?,(no Matter the outcome I will be there):thumb:

 

[Nick Brooke]

Well as a complete NOOB as you put it to iracing personaly i dont mind if i can race here or have to use the iracing servers to get my race craft up. However as long as you do have NOOB events sometimes, RD is about all people being able to race some are fast some are slow but this community is about everyone.

 

[Ramon van Rijn]

I made my decision

http://www.racedepartment.com/iracing-club/58616-mazda-mx5-cup-lime-rock-park-friday-july-1-2011-open-server.html

 

[Dazmaniac]

I didn't want to sound as if I didn't want to see any 'Rookie' races (where only default content is being used) or even frown upon new iRacers joining the RD scene.

There's nothing more I would like to see than the RD iRacing community continue to grow and see grids packed with racers (and not have the Star Mazda scenario where we get 30 plus signups, yet only 15 or so turning out for most of the series later races).

As we seem to be making a grand job of organising races for a good number of days each week (excluding weekends which are usually put aside for RD race series), what about making one of the week nights a 'Rookie Race Night' where only content taken from the standard iRacing subscription is used? There's plenty to go at and some interesting combo's could be put together.

Just a thought.

 

[Kevin Watts]

Yeah thats a good idea Daz.

 

[Bob Luneski]

Since recruiting is one of the goals of this session, it would be nice to have one at a North American friendly start time ( eg Practice start time: 01:00GMT (9 PM EDT)). There is a huge NA iRacing membership and very few of them race with us here @RD. Just a suggestion.

 

[Kevin Watts]

Are you including the Cup and Roadster?

 

[Nick Brooke]

I didn't want to sound as if I didn't want to see any 'Rookie' races (where only default content is being used) or even frown upon new iRacers joining the RD scene.

There's nothing more I would like to see than the RD iRacing community continue to grow and see grids packed with racers (and not have the Star Mazda scenario where we get 30 plus signups, yet only 15 or so turning out for most of the series later races).

As we seem to be making a grand job of organising races for a good number of days each week (excluding weekends which are usually put aside for RD race series), what about making one of the week nights a 'Rookie Race Night' where only content taken from the standard iRacing subscription is used? There's plenty to go at and some interesting combo's could be put together.

Just a thought.

Daz i didnt take it like that mate i obviously came across wrong. What i ment was more or less exactly what you just said about the rookie races.

 

[Ramon van Rijn]

Only the Cup is included, to make is fair for everyone .
The Rookie night is an excellent Idea, and the Thursday is still free

But first things first, I need vacation.. From week 30 i will be active again in this forum. For now enough mid-week events are already scheduled.