MSA TORA Touring Car Championship - Round 4, 5 & 6 - Catalunya National – September 17th 8PM BST

by **JAMIE ANDERS0N** Tue 10 Sep 2013 - 20:03

To make sure your invited to this race, please post "IN" in the form provided in this post, before 7PM BST on the 17/09/13 We ask that all competitors are on Xbox live 15 minutes prior to the start of the race meeting, make sure their NAT settings are setup correct, and appearing online to everyone. Any competitor who does not follow these runs a very high risk of not receiving an invite, or being able to compete.

Qualifying
- A 0 second roll off delay will be in effect you have to find your own space on the track. Collisions will be set off, and damaged will be limited.
- Qualifying will be set to 6 laps, 1 warm up lap, 4 qualifying laps and a last slow-down lap used for the lobby hosts to collect times before competitors cross the line to finish the session. "Clean" qualifying laps are over "Dirty" laps. A slower "Clean" lap will start the race ahead of a quicker "dirty" lap. Make it count!

RACE

Race 1 - conditions begins under standing start with a formation lap in the order in which the competitors qualified
Race 2 - conditions begins under standing start with a formation lap in the order in which the competitors finished Race One.
Race 3 - conditions begins under standing start with a formation lap in the reverse order in which the competitors finished Race Two.

Parade Lap

Competitors will perform a single Formation lap to set the grid positions, before a standing start on lap 2 begins race conditions. When the lead driver reaches the start/finish straight, the driver will form up in the relevant grid slot. Each driver behind must form up in their order in the relevant grid slots.

Settings
- Collisions during all races will be on, and set with Limited. All driving aids will be banned apart from Driving line. Steering will be a choice between "simulation" & "normal" due to issues made aware by Fanatec for wheel users.
-Each race will be approximately 20 minutes in length, denoted by a set number of laps. Racing conditions will end upon all competitors crossing the finish line. All drivers must remember the position they finished in case the host doesn't get time to write down the orders. If we don't know where you finish, you'll class as a DNF

By filling out the below form confirms you have read the series rules

by **JAMIE ANDERS0N** Tue 17 Sep 2013 - 15:56

Bump sign ins close in 3 hours.

Also some of you may have not seen your name after posting in, hopefully this has now been corrected. So far we have 112 INs for tonight.

by **JAMIE ANDERS0N** Tue 17 Sep 2013 - 19:01

Sign INs are closed.

by **JAMIE ANDERS0N** Tue 17 Sep 2013 - 22:23

Open for discussion

by TLR Scrublord Tue 17 Sep 2013 - 22:25

TG Haydo wrote:Worst racing I've ever been apart of since I joined TORA. 2 of my races got screwed on the first lap & I can't imagine anything better for Tsukuba.

by CQR Champion Tue 17 Sep 2013 - 22:42

tsukuba is going to be a nightmare! have you considered another track on a serious note!

by **CQR Aero** Tue 17 Sep 2013 - 23:01

I feel like I've been beaten up. 'Nuff said really!

by Amarth Tue 17 Sep 2013 - 23:14

I'm not sure what to think of tonight, some ups and downs really. Had some decent battles with magic and type r that was the highlight of the night for myself. Unfortunately some aggressive driving just ruined it slightly.

by totlxtc Tue 17 Sep 2013 - 23:38

CQR Champion wrote:tsukuba is going to be a nightmare! have you considered another track on a serious note!

+1,000.000

Seriously considering waiting on the line and waiting till the end of the first lap and overtaking the wrecks.

by TFR Magic Tue 17 Sep 2013 - 23:46

totlxtc wrote:
CQR Champion wrote:tsukuba is going to be a nightmare! have you considered another track on a serious note!
+1,000.000

Seriously considering waiting on the line and waiting till the end of the first lap and overtaking the wrecks.

Well if it's anything like our lobby was tonight I'm with you on that. The quality of driving in race three was shocking.

by Guest Tue 17 Sep 2013 - 23:47

Overall a great night for me tonight. Struggled in testing to beat a 18.800 so to stick a low 18.515 in I was made up.

Races I new there was no chance in going forward so just keeping it clean covering my lines early gave a nice haul of points. Race 2 got a decent start and just hugged the apex as tight as I could why we went 3 wide came out in a better position but slowly dropped back.

by S2M Ranger Wed 18 Sep 2013 - 1:16

CQR Champion wrote:tsukuba is going to be a nightmare! have you considered another track on a serious note!

+1 best get fitting the airbags back in my megane Sad

by HandheldBee9 Wed 18 Sep 2013 - 1:46

Enjoyed race 1 and 2 tonight with Tubbi and Ranger, pretty close stuff bit nervy at times from me as I don't want to be the cause of any accidents, tubbi's Megane is soooo wide. Very Happy

by S2M Ranger Wed 18 Sep 2013 - 1:54

HandheldBee9 wrote:Tubbi's butt is soooo wide.

by CQR Vapor Wed 18 Sep 2013 - 6:05

HandheldBee9 wrote:tubbi's Megane is soooo wide.

Wide wheel base was a requirement for Tubby this season, based on his propensity to roll his DS4 every other corner last season.

by **Ax4x Mikey J** Wed 18 Sep 2013 - 7:44

Looking forward to Tsukuba. Hope I can finally make a round.

by Guest Wed 18 Sep 2013 - 9:09

CQR Champion wrote:tsukuba is going to be a nightmare! have you considered another track on a serious note!

It will be a good race Ash, if people adapt to racing lines and not hot lapping lines e.g read the race and brake were required not were they expect to for the quickest time it will be good. Alot of what happened last night with taps to peoples rears was down to people not reading whats in front of them so having to make lunges that were never on because they wanna brake that much later even though theres a bottle neck in the chicane.

by Guest Wed 18 Sep 2013 - 10:53

+1 CHRiS, Tsukuba will be difficult, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't use it - it's the responsibility of the drivers to drive in a way that doesn't endanger competitors or cause incident, stick the rules and it will be fine. BTW, you did an awesome job at Catalunya National!

by DanaeJulTeam Wed 18 Sep 2013 - 11:24

CQR CHRiS wrote:
CQR Champion wrote:tsukuba is going to be a nightmare! have you considered another track on a serious note!
It will be a good race Ash, if people adapt to racing lines and not hot lapping lines e.g read the race and brake were required not were they expect to for the quickest time it will be good. Alot of what happened last night with taps to peoples rears was down to people not reading whats in front of them so having to make lunges that were never on because they wanna brake that much later even though theres a bottle neck in the chicane.

+1000

This will be a very fun race if we all have in our mind the basic rules.

by **CQR Aero** Wed 18 Sep 2013 - 12:15

If we can race multi-class ISCC around Tsukuba successfully (actually one of the best ISCC races in memory), we can sure as hell race touring cars there!

by Guest Wed 18 Sep 2013 - 12:18

Exactly, just need to give racing room, especially on corner exits in the FWD cars as they naturally understeer, so if there's a car with an overlap just have to be careful to leave a cars width and not crowd them. The Seat should be sweet around Tsukuba too Aero, especially with the new tune Very Happy

by PLOW tubbi Wed 18 Sep 2013 - 12:52

HandheldBee9 wrote:Enjoyed race 1 and 2 tonight with Tubbi and Ranger, pretty close stuff bit nervy at times from me as I don't want to be the cause of any accidents, tubbi's Megane is soooo wide.

He He He, I was very protective of my lines as you kept sticking that bloomin yellow bonnet EVERYWHERE, I felt quite violated Very Happy

Excellent racing, excellent cars, hated the track (it's not a bad track, I'm just bad at it, no flow or rythm for me), quite a few moments where I thought 'oops, that'l keep the stewards panel busy for a while' I could hear handheldbee choking down some red mist at one point and a few gasp's of despair from Aero.
Non more so than when he braked really hard and a touch early and me being an older fella has to warm up his finger before he can use it then kindly punted him sideways on the chicane (my utmost appologies master).

Little disappointed that some were using the grass to the extent they were getting caught in the sticky, THEN coming back onto the track at minimal pace and gathering up the entire field with avoidance going on like a fireworks display.

Please turn 10, no sticky, use tyre stacks as markers, let the bu&&ers smack into that.

by BG Wumba Wed 18 Sep 2013 - 12:56

PLOW tubbi wrote:
HandheldBee9 wrote:Enjoyed race 1 and 2 tonight with Tubbi and Ranger, pretty close stuff bit nervy at times from me as I don't want to be the cause of any accidents, tubbi's Megane is soooo wide.
He He He, I was very protective of my lines as you kept sticking that bloomin yellow bonnet EVERYWHERE, I felt quite violated

Excellent racing, excellent cars, hated the track (it's not a bad track, I'm just bad at it, no flow or rythm for me), quite a few moments where I thought 'oops, that'l keep the stewards panel busy for a while' I could hear handheldbee choking down some red mist at one point and a few gasp's of despair from Aero.
Non more so than when he braked really hard and a touch early and me being an older fella has to warm up his finger before he can use it then kindly punted him sideways on the chicane (my utmost appologies master).

Little disappointed that some were using the grass to the extent they were getting caught in the sticky, THEN coming back onto the track at minimal pace and gathering up the entire field with avoidance going on like a fireworks display.

Please turn 10, no sticky, use tyre stacks as markers, let the bu&&ers smack into that.

Had a few people coming back onto the track in our lobby which was the cause of some incidents...

by Hainesy Wed 18 Sep 2013 - 17:34

PLOW tubbi wrote:Please turn 10, no sticky, use tyre stacks as markers, let the bu&&ers smack into that.

These things would be better, with the offender getting some front aero damage.

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Plus I 'm looking forward to Tsukuba, my favorite track and very underrated by most people. Loads of different lines that can be used to try and get an overtake, not just the hot lap lines.

by PLOW tubbi Wed 18 Sep 2013 - 20:30

Should get front aero damage on the cones , have you ever hit one! Man they are stiff

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