MSA TORA TASCAR Season 3 - Meeting 4 - Sonoma Valley 112k - 27th July 2013

Race Meeting Set-Up

We ask that all competitors are on Xbox live at least 15 minutes prior to the start of the race meeting, and appear online. Where necessary, if each competitor could post "In" in the relevant race meeting thread on the TORA forums. Anyone who wishes to race without posting "In" will need to wait for the race meeting organizers confirmation before being allowed to race. Certain factors may come into account, such as if there are 16 people racing, and one person who hasn't posted in would cause a split lobby of 9 and 8 in each lobby, in decision making for those not posted in before the event.

Qualifying

Qualifying for Meeting 2 will start at 9:30pm BST (4:30pm EDT)
- Lobby set to 4 laps. Out-lap, 2 Flying Laps, In-lap. Clean Laps take priority over Dirty Laps, so Make them count!
- 4 second roll off delay per driver for 'Road Course' races
- Limited Damage, Collisions OFF.

RACE

Meeting 4 @ Infineon NASCAR "Sonona Valley 112k" will be 35 laps in length (lobby set to 36 for the Pace lap)
- Limited Damage, Collisions ON.

Rolling Start
Competitors will form up behind the Safety Car to start the Formation/Pace Lap in a 2-by-2 fashion. The Pole Sitter will have choice over which side of the Grid to start on. We ask all drivers to listen to the lobby host for the pace speed and grid order. Once everyone is in position, And the Lead driver(s) pass the Pit Entrance, The person on pole for the given lobby can begin the 3-2-1 countdown when he/she desires.

Mandatory Pit Stops
There is 1 mandatory pit stop in each race (or race segment). Taking your pit stop under a Safety Car/Caution period will count as your Mandatory pit. You may not pit within the first 5 laps or last 5 laps of a race or race segment (First 3 or Last 3 laps at Old Mulsanne layout of Le Mans due to lower lap count.)

Race Rules

Safety Car/Caution Rules

When The Safety Car is Used
The Safety Car will be deployed when Two or more drivers are involved in an incident and severely impairs their progress. Only driver(s) involved in an incident may request the Safety Car to the Lobby Captain. A Safety Car can be called up to the penultimate lap of the race. Once the leader has crossed the line to start the Final Lap, the caution/Safety Car cannot be called.

Forming up for a Safety Car Period
When the Safety Car period is agreed upon, and goes into effect, the Lead Driver at the time of the Safety Car 'Call', will act as the Safety Car and pace around the track at the track's designated 'pace' speed. All will form in single-file. SEEING THE STOCK CARS DO NOT HAVE BRAKE LIGHTS, PLEASE DO NOT SLAM ON THE BRAKES TO SLOW DOWN. THIS WILL CAUSE CHAOS. PLEASE JUST LET OFF THE THROTTLE AND FORM UP CAREFULLY!!!

Conduct During a Safety Car Period
While under the Safety Car period, Those involved in the incident should line up at the back of the grid. All competitors are free to pit under the Safety Car/Caution period, but must form back up in order when they left pit lane at the back of the grid. Once Everyone has rejoined the field, the field will line up Side-By-Side in the positions they are currently in. Once the Leader has passed the Final Corner, he can call out the restart by counting down "3..2..1..Go/Green."

Lucky Dog Award
The Lucky Dog Award is used under Caution/Safety Car periods only. The first person 1 lap behind will be awarded the 'Lucky Dog' to get back on the Lead lap, and allowed to pass the lead cars under caution and lining back up at the back of the field. The drivers involved in the incident that brought out the current Safety Car/Caution period, are not eligible for the 'Lucky Dog'.

"Green-White-Checkered"
The "Green-White-Checkered" rule takes effect when a Safety Car/Caution is called on the penultimate lap. the Final Lap will end under caution in present order each driver is in at the time of caution. Once all drivers are back to the main lobby, the race settings will change to 3 laps, for the Green-White-Checkered attempt. One the 1st lap, will be to form up in order drivers finished the 'Scheduled Distance.' Lap 2 & 3 are green flag laps. If there is an incident on the first green flag lap, the safety car/caution Can be called, and the 3rd lap in this 'attempt' will end under caution, and once everyone gets back to the main lobby, We will have another "Green-White-Checkered" attempt. 3 Attempts are the maximum. As stated above, Once the Leader crosses the Start/Finish line to start the Final Lap, The Safety Car cannot be called.

Race Restarts
The race lobby is subject to One restart attempt if more than 50% of the lobby is involved in a major incident within the first lap. Everyone will head back to the race lobby, and try again, forming up the same as the grid formation before. if another major incident occurs, standard Safety Car rules take effect.


-----Safety Car Speed for Infineon NASCAR is: 55mph-----




***Thread will close one hour before Race Meeting start time for organization & preparations***

Bring it on!!!
not my greatest track, but one of my favourites

EDIT: solved

oh wait, i can't sunday
updated on sign up

CRA Erebus wrote:oh wait, i can't sunday
updated on sign up

  It's Saturdays for TASCAR not Sundays

for me it's sunday

i believe you're 14hrs ahead of the Eastern US time, Erebus. so a 4:30pm EDT start time would be 6:30am on a Sunday morning for you isn't it?!

Is there a drop round for this series?

LMR DarthMario wrote:i believe you're 14hrs ahead of the Eastern US time, Erebus. so a 4:30pm EDT start time would be 6:30am on a Sunday morning for you isn't it?!

yes, except i've got something starting an hour and a half earlier that'll go for a few hours

CRA Erebus wrote:

LMR DarthMario wrote:i believe you're 14hrs ahead of the Eastern US time, Erebus. so a 4:30pm EDT start time would be 6:30am on a Sunday morning for you isn't it?!

yes, except i've got something starting an hour and a half earlier that'll go for a few hours

The Indy500  jippiee     

BloodYCaiN wrote:Is there a drop round for this series?

Found this in The drop round thread

BG Chucky 82 wrote:Bit to confirm there will be one dropped round

I hope to do better this time unlike last year were I was on for a top 3 without the mistakes I made.

VAMR Wilson wrote:I hope to do better this time unlike last year were I was on for a top 3 without the mistakes I made.

I got spun, lapped, and latched onto Insanity as soon as he put me one down  

xpr nightmare in
xpr eggy in

All ready for the big race tonight.



Just hope nobody is relying on these brake markers tonight  

.....my xbox has let me down! locked up at turn 4a (the right hander onto the NASCAR 'short chute') on lap 21. there's my dropped round.

Can someone make sure to save the A lobby replay!!

Saved, and Check go the results.

Congrats to Eggy, took the Green and never looked back lol

Good racing guys, XP Racing takes the team lead going into a nice Lil break

Yeah should have been a 4 way battle for 3rd

was super nervous the lobby hadn't crashed when my system froze, but Checo confirmed that it had just been me. real bummed it happened, and cannot remember the last time i had a lag-out/box-freeze.

Lost Internet to the whole house on Lap 18. Did anyone get B lobby results and replay for me?

i got them from Loeb, Bandit. he's got the replay as well from what he's told me.

Yeah i got the result's for you Bandit & Lobby B replay will be up tommorow after Spa 24H has finished

Pleased with how my first Tascar race went, managed to jump Soundwave and BloodyCain in the pits too!

if you'd like it Wumba, i can try to create Richard Petty's #43 for you.