TORA TASCAR Season 5 - Calendar

(Daytona will run with a 10% Power Handicap, and Daytona alone)

Daytona Speedweeks Qualifying will be held at 3pm EDT (8pm BST) on Sunday, June 26th, 2016.

*** to cover race distance for the Ovals, the race will be split into "stints" since lobby settings do not go past 50 laps***
- Daytona 500 would run 5 - 40 lap stints, with the lobbies set to 41, so the Pace/Formation laps aren't counted to the race distance
- DeweyTee Memorial 400 @ Homestead will be covered by 5 stints of 44, and a 6th of 47. Again, +1 lap in the lobbies for Pace/Formation
- Night-time Daytona race & The Brickyard 400, would be 2 stints of 50 laps
- Final race at Homestead, will be 3 stints of 50 laps

You realize 02 JUL 2016 is Independence Day weekend in the United States. Any possibility of pushing it back a week?

The schedule doesn't have much leeway. The dates chosen were the only Saturdays left open between now and the Christmas/New Years holidays. I had originally planned to start on June 18th, but forgot that was the WEC Le Mans weekend.

Now that we got the cars we've desperately wanted, I'll make an effort for a better calendar in 2017.

Cheers, Bud! Looking forward to the series!

Looks like a truly fantastic schedule!!! Really looking forward to this!

Isn't the lap thing dodgy still (stops scoring once you get overlapped) ??

xebot360 wrote:Isn't the lap thing dodgy still (stops scoring once you get overlapped) ??

Doesn't matter now. Update has fixed it

Calendar updated for the Daytona Speedweeks Qualifying.
That afternoon/Evening's event will start at 3pm EDT (8pm BST), as per TORA regular Sunday start times

yay, 5am start Monday morning!
At least I don't have uni or work...

I like the sound of the xxx 300. Seems kinky.

lol

lol. the "title" for that race is still TBD, so that was just a placeholder.

Nice touch with the DeweyTee Memorial 400, fantastic way to respect and honour a man that displayed everything that's great about virtual racing!

we should call it the midland 300

Should there be some path for finishers in secondary/tertiary lobbies to move up between rounds of multi segment oval races...

This would make the overall experience more like a real race of 40+ drivers

an example might be... Bottom five of lobby move down while top five of lobby move up...

In a scenario like this, all forty+ drivers in theory would still have a chance at the win...

Thanks!

HNT

If you agree... Bump by adding your comments please!

If it would not lead to delays, it "could" be done.

Yeah... There would obviously be the potential for some delay as all lobbies would need to be completed before next segments could begin, and a slight reshuffle of party/lobby lists made...

That is the downside... Still, I'd bet anyone outside of Lobby One would be vote FOR such a plan...

The amount of delay could be mitigated by tight control over start times... which TORA seems to do well already... Still tightening up exceptions (for allowance of people with connection problems, etc) might make the potential for one lobby to take longer than the other lobbies a bit less overall.

Thanks again!

I personally would love to see mid session reshuffles, especially seen as how those who missed qualy would be confined to lower lobby when they could be lobby A speeds and would ultimately take the win from someone on a lower lobby who maybe doesn't get Libby wins all that often

Yeah as a mid pack racer I would definitely be FOR this

I disagree as why should anyone who raced/qualified their way in lobby A have to move down? Don't think that's very fair. I understand that its disappointing not making lobby A as its happened to me, but you just have to make the most of the situation that your in.

Because if the game servers allowed bigger lobbies then we would all be there at the same time just like real life so why not try and simulate it as close as possible ?

Plus another point to consider is that some people may have a bad quali but are actually quick enough to be at the front or at least in lobby A

What time does the race start today

it's stated in the rules, the race(s) start at 5pm EDT.

And yes, I'm aware of the start time for the actual NASCAR race tonight

Is Cota the Full circuit ?