TCC Meeting 1 Discussion Thread – Maple Valley (Full Circuit)

[JAMIE ANDERS0N]

This Tuesday is Meeting 1, Rounds 1, 2 & 3 at Maple Valley starting at 20:00BST

Don’t forget to sign in at TORA Race Control for this event.

Its that time for the another top TORA championship to start, Yep that’s right its Touring Car time. Just to show how popular this is as of 26th June there are 11 Teams and 10 Privateers signed up that is 38 Drivers all signed up waiting to go.

The Teams

#2, #3, #4 - Mugen Motorsport
#5, #6, #7 - Dechu M&M Racing
#8, #9, #10 - Castrol Egde Strom Lighting
#11, #12, #13 - Toblerone TMD Competition
#14, #15, #16 - PTR Aero Dynamics
#17, #18, #19 - Mazda Long Shots
#20, #21, #22 - Stobart Motorsport
#23, #24, #25 - Triple Eight STORM
#26, #27, #28 - US Postal Service XTI Racing
#29, #30, #31 – Cusco DDP Motorsport
#32, #33, #34 – Leukemia Research MB Motorsport

The Privateers

#006 – DAN 2605
#025 – Crisis Nine
#028 - britracer
#043 – DMR SWITCH
#048 – Stonewall458
#059 – Fred Kite
#064 – DanniBo1
#120 – PLOW Champion
#128 – MetalMaggot66
#212 – Berty2d


Race Format

Qualifying

4 Hot Laps

Race 1 (Round 1)

Laps TBA (Approx 12 mins)
Standing Start
The grid will form in the order of fastest qualifying time first, where possible.

Race 2 (Round 2)

Laps TBA (Approx 12 mins)
Standing Start
The grid will form in reverse lobby finishing order from race 1.

Race 3 (Round 3)

Laps TBA (Approx 12 mins)
Standing Start
The grid will form in lobby finishing order from race 2.
Ranking of Lobbies will be decided in a random draw(B – E whichever gets picked will become A lobby and order will follow. Example if C Lobby drawn C, D, E, A, B)


The Calendar

Season will have 10 meetings totalling 30 rounds and will start at Maple Valley and end at Laguna Seca.

There has been talks about this for months and hopes to continue the success it has received from the previous seasons

Times
1:33.678 - Magictap
1:33.9xx - Berty2d
1:34.298 - PLOW Champion
1:35.xxx - DMR SWITCH
1:36.5xx - lfcnicklfc
1:36.xxx - nikcyf1
1:37.173 - Chucky 1982
1:37.619 - Slider S15
1:37.8xx - XTI Nightrider
1:37.xxx - Stonewall458
1:40.1xx - Britracer


Lets discuss, How’s your car handling? Do you like this track? Who do you think will win this event?

[X3R Monkey]

Who's gonna win it is anyone's guess at this stage but it will probably be close, at all levels.

[JAMIE ANDERS0N]

I think,wwr chillz or plow champion

[HCR generaltso]

who is no. 10?

[JAMIE ANDERS0N]

who is no. 10?

No one but it is allocated to the team "Castrol Egde Strom Lighting" so if they get a third driver they will ran as #10

[Matt]

Sadly I'm missing the opening round due to RL stuff.
Having tested the Civic Si extensively today I can hand on my heart, will all due confidence say AJ and ck will absolutely, completely and utterly, totally and definitely































........not win.

[ckBrenneke]

Wow... thanks Matt.

[X3R Monkey]

It is just the first round and I believe this track is best suited to RWD machinery even though the FWD cars are very close...

I wouldn't worry much about the potential of the Si

[ckBrenneke]

Cheers Monkey. We had some very close running tonight, and although I was pushing the car very hard, I managed some decent results in places. Personally, I won't be challenging for big results, but I'm looking forward to mixing it with the range of cars we are going to have on show!

Bring on tomorrow night!

[CQR Champion]

This is my worst track. I know the RWD will go round here better as i have got a Coupe down to a 1.33.5

I am not fast here hate this track, lets wait till meeting 2

[x Gashi x]

I am in the high 36's with little room for improvement. At least there will be a good group of cars in that time range, but definately not top 2 or 3 lobby material from me.

[CQR Aero]

Looks like there might be some inter-manufaturer shenanigans this year - nicky and I were already tussling in our little practise session tonight. Korea would be proud!!!!

[Guest]

1= B Lobby 1st
2= C Lobby 1st
3= D Lobby 1st

[Matt]

The member 'AJ' has done the following action : Random Generator

'Random Generator' : 1

[Stonewall458]

3 crap races for me. 8th, 8th, and 7th in my lobby.

[x Gashi x]

8th, 4th, and 32nd. Lol. I think 32nd, how many of us were there?

[ckBrenneke]

We had 29 runners tonight.

Very good racing in lobby CCB, very close at the front and a big welcome to Fred Kite for his first meeting.

[X3R Monkey]

I had better results than I should, 5th, 2nd and 3rd, it was brutal out there

In race one I overcooked it at turn 1 and took berty2d to the grass, lap 5 or something, 3 cars passed by in the process, then I couldn't keep up with Gashi but he rolled his Vauxhall some 2 laps before the end, handing me P5.

Race 2 I started 2nd and couldn't keep up with berty2d, the carnage behind helped me a lot (safety car) as rogue would have eaten me if the track had been 45cm longer...

Race 3 more of the same, the Civics and RX8s flying away and I was bringing P5 home when 2 cars way ahead of me collided at the last corner of lap 7.

This is going to be a long and tough series

[CQR Rogue]

Hey all,

Great racing tonight, X3R Monkey nice to have you back and very good close racing in race 2.

All Races are now on my store front.

Duncan

[RichXM655]

that was great stuff - though the track flatters the Beemer a lot and I think it's likely to struggle more at twistier tracks.

a great dice with Chucky for the lead in race 2 - and by the end there was less then a second covering 1st, 2nd, and 3rd.

couple of videos coming up tomorrow...

[nickyf1]

in a truly epic race 3 in A lobby, i started reeling Ian in for the lead, it climaxed in us two tangling and me somersaulting after attempting to pass on the outside of turn 1....

Awsome crash!

[Ianmr]

Thanks all for great racing

"Leading the points after the first round feels good, and to get a race victory for the team was great."

"Would just like to thanks all our sponsor, crew and team manager even though he couldn't attend this event. We have worked hard on the car and even though its not the fastest hot lapper we have built a great racer with the help of the "super vtec" developed and tuned at the M&M Racing base in Scotland."

[XTI Avenger]

Pretty uneventful and kinda boring from my point of view. I struggled to keep up in my lobby and finished alot worse than I planned. Maybe Maple just wasn't my track this time around. Really looking forward to Sunset though.

[HCR generaltso]

a great qualifying followed by a really hard first two races...but then the last race, the lower A-lobby people get hosed because of the lobby selection process..

so ultimately the whole thing felt very frustrating and futile

[XTI Jon Snow]

Did the same thing as magic, set one clean lap on the start, despite pulling over to the side of the track, and my other laps didnt register. ended up in a good lobby though, clean respectable racing racing from d lobby. A great show of etiquette and a passing clinic from magic in race 2. couldnt ask for more, roll on abarths tomorrow and sunset in two weeks

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