TORA MSA Formula 500 - Rounds 1 & 2 - Nurburgring GP - 3rd November 2011 - 8pm GMT

The Formula 500 is designed to take two of the most intense forms or racing and combine them to create one exhilarating championship. Cars from both the Japanese SuperGT Championship and the German DTM will race one another around some of the most famous Asian and German circuits.

Tuning will be allowed.

Damage will be set to Limited due to the nature of the racing.

There are no mandatory logos/stickers required, but you must run under your TORA Race Number and the website url is preferred along the top of the front window.

Auto-brake, Stabilty Control and ABS are banned.

Traction Control, Normal/Simulation Steering and Race Line are allowed and the choice is yours.

Points will only be scored by drivers, no teams involved, and the entry to the series will be relaxed. Points will be scored as per TORA standard.

To enter, simple post in this thread that you wish to take part in the race. We will then endevour to send out invites to everybody who is on that list come race night.

There will be a qualifying session before the first race which will determine your starting position in Race 1. Race 2's starting order will be set in the finishing positions from Race 1. Qualifying will be a 3 flying laps, plus a warm up and cool down lap. Clean laps will NOT take preference over dirty laps, due to the nature of the cars and the fact that we are still learning the game.

There will be two races in a night, around 20 Minutes in length. We will be using medium-long circuits due to the nature of the cars.

Who is in:

Maybe, depends on how I am feeling after coming off nightshift.

Wow, this came along quickly.

Hell yea!!

Oh no I didnt see the tuning is allowed part, Thats me to the back of the grid.

But Im IN anyway

In.

Just realised that the first round is not at Hockenheim, which is where I've been testing all this time

lol Nicky, guessing the advert picture gives that impression

IN, though i'll be racing a pretty basic paint. No time for anything else.

Tell me what you want Spartan, and I'll knock something together for ya

Cheers. Most anything will do - but a couple of liveries i was looking at were the frentzen 2003 GMAC car,

http:www.racingmodels.com

Or the PM MAGAZIN livery as on

http://autospeed.com/cms/A_1624/article.html

Dont know if the links will work as typed not copied.

But as i said, anything would be wellcome. cheers.

Simon wrote:Tell me what you want Spartan, and I'll knock something together for ya

You could knock me together a tune lol

in

thankls for the racing tonight i did enjoy leading for 4 and a half laps until aero spoiled my fun

sorry spartan for hitting you and putting you back, i did intend to give the place back but was hoping for you to pull away from the car behind you so i wouldn't compramise my posn by giving 2 away, which i did in the end anyway cus no way i was going ot beat the Gen3ral lol

cheers for a good race, hope more turn up next time

was awesome racing tonight! well done to GunDaM for fighting me off for so long.

Time for some images:

Some of mines. Not as many as I would usually take, but I can't find the sweet spot for my pic settings yet.

Race 1 was so tight between simon and I.

really good racing tonight (except from richy )

Really poor performance from me tonight, I thought I would be alot closer

I'll send you a tune before the next race. Best to test it at Nurburgring again and see if it helps

Haha Richy, I think that last pic shows how close you and I were in Race 1 pretty clearly!!!

Gutted I missed this, I have my M&M Honda painted and ready to go.

Looking forward to next week

JustOZ71 wrote:

sorry spartan for hitting you and putting you back, i did intend to give the place back but was hoping for you to pull away from the car behind you so i wouldn't compramise my posn by giving 2 away, which i did in the end anyway cus no way i was going ot beat the Gen3ral lol

No dramas OZ, it was just a wee bump

Though i almost took you out when you gave me my position back as i'd look down on the screen at distances or rear view, i forget, and you'd slowed down and all I saw wass the rear of your carsuddenly get very close- aagh! - which is why i passed on the outside. All good fun though.

Thanks again simon for the paint, looks really good.

Simon wrote:I'll send you a tune before the next race. Best to test it at Nurburgring again and see if it helps

general sent me a tune for it, i think i ran better without one, or that was the case in practice but i cant remember what lap times i done in practice to compare, i know quily done 1:36 race 1 1:35 and race 2 on the final lap done 1:34. thank you anyway, if you still want to send so i can compare no tune, general tune and yours then that would be good

Awesome racing last night, and can't believe I'm leading the championship - that won't last long!!!

Spartan - sorry for the slightly less than subtle tap in Race 2 - somehow I ended up braking ridiculously late for that corner and still got it slowed down "enough". I didn't even realise we'd made contact though as I felt nothing at the time. It was only when I watched the replay that I was wincing!!

Your forgiven :-)

The biggest pain was that it happened when it did. I couldn't safely get back on track without letting just about everyone past. Still had a good race though and definately be back for more :-D