V8 Supercars 1000km (gauging interest)

so as you may or may not know, last October CRA Morphader and myself hosted (what i believe to be) the first V8 supercars 'Bathurst' 1000 at Camino viejo extreme
well, i am thinking of doing the same, it will be 5 stints of 50 laps (49 racing laps [48 in first stint], warm up lap [first stint only], and one to gather the finishing positions and time at the end.

how the stints will work (still polishing it off)
the race will start, everyone in their qualifying positions, warm up lap will commence and then the race will start (stationary start), after 48 laps of racing, everyone will take down their finishing time and position and stop at the outside of the first corner IN THE ORDER THEY CROSSED THE LINE where finishing positions and finishing times will be taken down.
the stints are estimated to take 70 minutes (using my average lap time of 1:24) so stints will start every hour and a half.
there will be one manditory pit stop each stint
Scoring
so as i said, at the end of each stint, everyone's position will be taken down a long with your finishing time, this is VITAL.
the time from each stint will be added up, with the lowest time at the end winning,
i'm deciding whether its worth having the start for stints 2-5 being random start with 1 sec roll off delay, or last team finishing position, see what you guys think is best

drivers; there will be teams of up to 2 drivers per team, but you can run the entire 1000km/5 hours 41 minutes/244 laps on your own if you would like. you can double stint as well, like TEC, but one driver must do at least 40% of the race (start 2 stints) unless extreme circumstances arise that prevent that (but please don't cheat the system)
just like TEC, you will run the same car with the same paint job and number.

now for the important part
The Cars
obviously, you can chose from either the Ford Falcon or Holden Commodore, however, I'm giving an option to align itself with Car of the Future.
if you take a Ford, you can have a Ford, OR a Mercedes (just re-badge it), the same is for Holden, if you take a Holden, you can drive a Holden OR a Nissan (just re-badge again)

The Build
Engine
Stock
Handling
Race Breaks
Drivetrain
All Race
Tyres
Max front tyre width (340)
Max rear tyre width (340)
BBS RK rims
18" Front rims
18" Rear rims

This is only to gauge interest and see your opinions on it
i am still deciding whether it will be at Road Atlanta or Laguna Seca, but i will keep you posted on decision. the build will stay the same though.
if anyone is interested in helping me test for this (mainly how the stints will work) just let me know and that would be great
thanks guys

If at Laguna or Rd Atlanta, or Maple Valley, and not start before 5AM my time, I would be all in.

i'll probs start it at 5 am (4 am earliest) my time on a sunday, so it's a saturday night/arvo for you guys

Damn I can't do weekends I would love this but ahh well

aw man that sucks,

I am not interested to do it in on "mickey Mouse"circuits laguna or Atlanta. Although fun to drive, but I think you should held the "bathurst "race again on Camino.

Yeh it does next few months I can only do between Monday to Thursday between 7:30am - 2:30pm

few months? how long until that's no longer happening?

Bout 6months covering for my gf so yeh.

ok
well i'll be looking at running the race about a fortnight after the real thing

Hmm I might be able to do it

fingers crossed

I'd possibly be interested, but I'd prefer something like Road Atlanta lol

If it is the right weekend, I may have a to at doing it on my own too!

so as you may or may not know, last October CRA Morphader and myself hosted (what i believe to be) the first V8 supercars 'Bathurst' 1000 at Camino viejo extreme

This would be the 3rd race, we did one of these in 2010, and you guys did the 2nd

Interested!

CRA Adder wrote:I am not interested to do it in on "mickey Mouse"circuits laguna or Atlanta. Although fun to drive, but I think you should held the "bathurst "race again on Camino.

"Mikckey Mouse" circuits? Two World Class facilities don't fit the "Mickey Mouse" description as much as that Fantasyland known as Camino Extreme.

CQR Franchitti wrote:

so as you may or may not know, last October CRA Morphader and myself hosted (what i believe to be) the first V8 supercars 'Bathurst' 1000 at Camino viejo extreme

This would be the 3rd race, we did one of these in 2010, and you guys did the 2nd

yea yea
where did you guys host it? and how'd it work?

change of plans, the race will now be done at Maple Valley Full reverse

CRA Erebus wrote:change of plans, the race will now be done at Maple Valley Full reverse

Cheers

so here is my proposed track layout:

here are the names i have so far for the corners (the ones in bold are staying):
Pit straight
1. Senna Kink
Mountain straight
2. Ambrose Bend
3. Esses
4. Esses
5. Esses
6. Maple Drop
7. Green corner
8. The descent
9. Campsite corner
10. Boot bend
11. EASY ONE
12. Achilles corner
Franchitti Tunnel
13. Andretti bend
Brock Straight
14. Brabham corner
15. Rock Bottom
16. McRae corner
17. Weldon bend

May I suggest a new name for 3,4 & 5: Flippy Curbs.

Kilroy8 wrote:May I suggest a new name for 3,4 & 5: Flippy Curbs.

Actually, they are not as bad (flipping wise) when the track is in reverse as they are forward. This is why I am using this variation for Friday's Mustang races.

Will there be a v8 supercars series similar to say the spec cup series or gt series at all?