TORA Community Endurance Event - Rules & Regulations

[BG Wingnut396]

Welcome to the 2013 TORA Endurance Championship - the ultimate test of team work on Forza Motorsport 4.

The third event of the year is the TORA Community Event happily named German Evolution which is to be held at Road America  which takes place on the weekend of the 3rd - 4th August

The race will start at 2pm BST on Saturday the 3rd  and end at 12am Sunday 4th (10 hours)

Teams can consist of 2-4 drivers per team

Drivers Championship

Each round of the TEC will score towards the overall Drivers Championship. Drivers will gain points for where their Teams finish overall.

Team Championship

Each round of the TEC will score towards the overall Teams Championship. Teams must use the exact same name throughout the entire TEC to continue scoring points. If a Team name change occurs for the next round then this will be classed as a new Team and will not tally up with the previous round. Drivers are not forced to race in the same team for the entire year, they may change out when required. Cars will be effected by the rules below.

Car Choice
There is a choice of 2 classes to run which runs in-line with the TEC Championship
Class 1 : LMP1     BMW V12 LMR  
Class 2 : GTE      BMW #6 Prototype Technology Group M3 GTR  

Cars will be of stock build but tuning will be allowed


Race Rules

The race will be split up into 5 stints that will last two hours. Each stint will be competed by one driver from each team, so you will not be racing on track with your team mates during the event. Driver changes take place when the stint is over at the 2 Hour mark, where we will then go back into the lobby and the drivers and lobby hosts will change over. At this point the host will enter the distances covered by the drivers into the database which will be combined for the final results at the end of the race. The race will be scored on "distance driven" where bigger is better. Driver must stop where they are on track at the end of each stint for their distance to be recorded by the Lobby Host. .

There will be one mandatory pit stop per session which must be taken in the first 30 minutes.

Grid order is to be set by qualifying position and will be of standing start grid to be set by running a 1 lap round a small track to get grid order
Stints will be set by previous result of the stint before if not available then original grid order is to be used.


Safety cars will not factor into the race as the entire event is based upon your endurance. If there is a crash you will have to recover and continue to the end of your stint and deal with any damage that you pick up. This should be incentive enough to stay out of the wall. Damage will be set to Limited to replicate fuel and tyre wear.

Qualification for this event will be held throughout the week leading up to the weekend. Each qualification round will last 30 minutes and drivers will not be allowed to use the sessions as a practice. The team will qualify as a whole, so out of the 4 possible times that could be set by the entire team then the best time will be taken. For example, if Driver 3 sets a better time then Driver 1 then Driver 3's time will be taken as the best time. Each driver may only compete in one qualifying session. There will be lobbies hosted throughout the week to accommodate racers in European time zones and American time zones.


Settings
- Collisions will be set to off during all Qualifying sessions.
- Collisions during all races will be on.
- Damage will be set to limited.
- TCS, Driving Line and Normal/Simulation Steering are the only allowed driving aids that may be used. ABS, STM, Auto-brake and Auto-gears are prohibited. Manual gears must be used but it is up to the competitor if they wish to use the clutch or not.

Livery Requirements

- Its not offensive
- It doesn't include any direct tobacco sponsorship
- It has sponsors

There will be mandatory Numberboxes for the TEC in 2013, and these will be distributed when requested in the Livery Thread.



Each competitor in the team must be registered with TORA and have a TORA Race Number. This is for admin purposes only. The number that is displayed on the car during the 24 Hour event must be one of the competitors TORA numbers who is present within the team. Whichever driver's number the team uses is up to you.

[BG Wingnut396]

There will be a slight change to calculations to see how accurate and realistic this might be.

Instead of a lobby being penalized all the same each team from lobby B down thru will get 25ft taken off to replicate grid order
so A lobby is the starting lobby and is already set now the first person in lobby B will be 25ft Behind the last driver in lobby A then the next will be 25ft behind him/her and this will carry on through the lobbies this will be calculated by the original grid order.