TORA Super Saloon Car Championship

This was an idea I had a couple months ago, and after working on it and deliberating on what cars to include, it's finally finished. This was the result.

Similarly to Australia's V8 Supercar championship, this championship is meant for super-powerful saloon cars which will compete on both short and long tracks. The cars are heavy, with an average weight of over 3200 pounds, but very powerful. The engines in these beasts range from a 450 horsepower Audi S4 to a 730 horsepower Ford Taurus SHO. How would such a large gap in engine power make for a good championship? On the shorter tracks, the Audi's lightness would help it corner better while big V8 and V10 cars trudge slowly around the corners.

This thread is to gauge interest in this series. If there is enough interest, I will devise a full calender of events and lay out full details of how the championship points system would work.

RACE MEETINGS

Each meeting would have two 20 minute long races. Both races would be standing starts, with the first race grid determined by qualifying order, and the second race grid determined by first race finishing positions.

ASSISTS ALLOWED:
- TCS
- Driving Line
- Normal/Sim Steering
- Manuel or Manuel w/clutch gearbox

BUILD RULES

- RWD only
- 265 front tyre width / 285 rear tyre width
- Race tyres
- Forza adjustable front and rear wing
- All handling and transmission upgrades
- NO third party wheels
- NO aspiration conversion
- NO engine swaps (except for the Ford Taurus SHO)
- Final PI must EQUAL 670

CAR LIST

2009 Cadillac CTS-V
2012 Chrysler 300 SRT8
2006 Dodge Charger SRT8
2012 Dodge Charger SRT8
2010 Ford Taurus SHO
2011 Holden HSV GTS
2009 Holden HSV w427
2010 Jaguar XFR
2010 Mercedes-Benz C63 AMG
2010 Mercedes-Benz E63 AMG
2009 Pontiac G8 GXP

Hmm... sounds like fun on some tracks, hell on others. I'm thinking "maybe" at this point. "When" is a huge factor for me.

Just a thought... maybe eliminate the lightest car and the most powerful car to even things out?

We'll work on that if we get enough interest. Right now I'm just looking for people who would like to do a series like this.

I have a quick friend who is a huge Dodge fan, and is on teh fence about coming here due to work schedule. What's the chances of something like this on a Wed or Thurs?

I don't know. Like I said, it depends on interest level. If it's mostly US guys than it might get a US-friendly time-slot like NATCC does.

I'm all in for this.

id be in for this and probably use the Porsche Panamera or the Holden w427.

i also have a buddy interested in this as well

Stonewall, I think that this would be a great NATCC placeholder. I'm racing a class very similar to this under the MMTCC banner, and its a blast... and I actually won one at Cat Nat in it last Sat night

ive been building and tweaking the panamera, its definately a fun car to drive at this class, looking foward to when this event actually gets underway!

Flyin Mikey J wrote:Stonewall, I think that this would be a great NATCC placeholder. I'm racing a class very similar to this under the MMTCC banner, and its a blast... and I actually won one at Cat Nat in it last Sat night

That's an idea. I'll talk to the admin and see what they think.

When this takes place makes a difference for me. Got another trip planned for Sept. 14-24th. Would prefer a race during the week. Weekends usually mean going out and doing something.

Monday Wednesday Thursday as non offical community run series would be fine for this.

NATCC was used for our American friendly time zone so TCC could reach American drivers.

There will be hopefully drivers from the US that want to run in Porsche super cup etc etc as TORA official races etc

Cheers all

^ On that note, like I said previously, if this were run on a Wednesday or Thursday I have a hardcore Mopar fan friend that wants in.

SelectiveRogue wrote:Monday Wednesday Thursday as non offical community run series would be fine for this.

NATCC was used for our American friendly time zone so TCC could reach American drivers.

There will be hopefully drivers from the US that want to run in Porsche super cup etc etc as TORA official races etc

Cheers all

Will definitely run the Porsche races when I can.

I'd be down for something like this. Just need a US friendly time is all.

Definitely need another US friendly series be it Saloon cars, Porsche Cup whatever.

On another forum we where looking at replicating the Superstars Touring car series but it never really happend due to poor numbers on the site but it looks like that could match what youre looking for guys???

This sound like a great idea, didnt spot it before.

Hmmmm, the TORA Tcc is coming to an end tonight (Tues) could this not be a replacement for it at a slightly later time, say 21:00 Gmt, thats 17:00 Dallas time.

^ Actually 21:00 would be 16:00 NY time, 15:00 Dallas.

Damn it, always get that stuff wong (he he)

^ Until I joined TORA, I had no frigging clue what time... or day... it was in Europe.

Sounds like a good idea, I wouldn't mind trying it out at some point.

I'll be hosting a test session tonight at 8pm EST (1am BST). If you would like to take part, just post in here. If possible, I would like anyone who tests tonight to build multiple cars so that we can see how well they race together.