WIX Racing TCC - Round One (Brands Hatch Indy) - Drivers Briefing/Discussion

Welcome to the first round of WIX Racing TCC!  This week we are at Brands Hatch Indy Circuit, an obvious place to start a Touring Car Series.  The Brands Hatch circuit is home to many forms of motorsports and owes to its origins to a group of cyclists who wanted to practice for cycling races in the fields of the Brands Hatch Farm.


Qualifying - This will be the typical "6 laps and out" qualifying.  Drivers will have 1 warm-up laps, 4 flying laps, and 1 cool down lap during which drivers will park on Turn 1 (Paddock Hill Bend) were lobby hosts will collect times.  Remember that drivers should be/appear online 15 minutes prior to qualifying start.  

Race - There will be two races in an evening, and each will last around 25 minutes.  For Brands Hatch Indy, that will be 27 laps.  Race One will form up on the grid in the order in which the competitors qualified.  Race Two will form up on the grid in the order in which the competitors finished Race One.  There will be no mandatory pit stops during the races, but the pits will be open if your car becomes damaged.  If drivers do need to enter the pits, please remember that there is a pit of a chicane going into the pit lane.  





To sign-in for the race, please use the sign-in form that you can find here: http://forums.theonlineracingassociation.com/t16944-wix-racing-tcc-race-sign-in-live-timing

Lmr hybrid did not give the honda a 5% grip handy cap! Even after i told him 2 times

Couldn't connect, can't connect to anything forza related either Open nat, resets done, hopefully can try connect to the race

Think Ive fixed it, fingers crossed

Why are we 19 in a lobby?? Make 4 lobbies of 15 then we can use party chat, we already know game chat is sh1te???

I'm guessing there is a problem as I haven't had my race invite yet.

Just seen lobby 1 race 1 results entered in live timing so I guess my invite to lobby 3 didn't arrive. Hopefully better luck next round.

Garbage lobby setup don't think my team will continue this series due to non rational thinking hosts 16 driver lobbies should be Max guess I'll wait to see what is done for next round

I had a pretty rubbish night, couldn't keep consistent with the wheel and eventually turned it off half way through race 2 and used the controller. Much more consistency and speed, think I'll be keeping away from the wheel on Forza.

I'm not very well versed with the lobby system in this game, but it was noticeable that over 16 players and some people couldn't be heard, which is required for this grid system.

However, well done to LMP The Lad, kept the lobby going and had the courtesy to wait and try a few times to get some disconnected people in for the racing. Race 2 went pretty smoothly, I apologize if I was a mobile chicane for the most part

Dizzy as far as I'm aware the Honda does not have a grip handicap as the tyre widths have been reduced

only 3 lobbies because we only had enough hosts across the grid for 3 lobbies, yes we had 4 qualifying lobbies but after this happens you have to remember that the qualifying hosts aren't evenly spread accross the grid so we have to split it in a way that puts a host in each lobby.

A lobby ran perfectly and personally I don't see why we need game chat, everyone knows the rules, the only thing you need to know is the start time, if that is called out by one person then repeated by whoever heard then this is echoed round everyone.

Personally I'd prefer more people in a lobby and scrap having to chat, it's not needed, the drivers don't talk in real life racing so why do we need to?

Also the honda didn't have a grip handicap, I didn't read every thread but the car list and lobby settings gave no mention of it so therefore it didn't have a handicap.

I've made this point in the past so I back up TJSTEEL on this....why in the race and quali especially does there have to be any chat? It don't happen in any other form of motorsport if anything after the start time is called there should be radio silence apart from if a restart needs to be called surely?

we could also remove the need for the race start to be called out too.

We can't control the lights but we can run a safety car style start, when chat issues were even worse at the start we did it for V8's and it was flawless. clean start every race.

grid up, leader bunches cars together in final sector, races out of last corner, everyone follow with no overtaking before the line, was awesome. Especially considering the length of the races there is plenty time for everyone to get a shot at making ground

Is there a chance of swapping to 5% power for a backwards grid race? Because mainly tracks that are much more straight line speed based the top 3 will never have a chance and they would just be on the defence all race. But if it was backwards grid or at least 10 top reverse grid it will allow everyone to drive to the full and push to make over takes.

I didn't set this up but personally I think a tyre handicap over a power handicap would work better. would make the faster guys have to work for it still and they wouldn't then be tortured on the straights.

For sure both would work and both have their own merits but depends largely on the track also

I liked it. Playing defense is fun. As long as you race fair. To me I'm not going to roll over for anyone just because I have a 5% handicap. Like I was basically told in race 2. I will run the inside line n try to do my best to hold my position. I could have been much more aggressive but decided a good finish is better than being taken out. Diving into a corner that's basically a so isn't the best spot for over taking anyway.

One thing I've gotta say is I don't appreciate being dictated to...in race two I was taken out and had to pit (5th to 14th) once back on track (in front of the leaders) and put the hammer down trying to get back up the field. One of the top 3 decided that I wasn't racing my own race anymore and started shouting blue flag blue flag.....now I'm sorry but I'm well aware of blue flag rules but I WILL NOT forfeit my own race to let you through had you waited like most other racers you would have gone past on the straight......If your faster fair enough go past but I wouldn't have normally been there and i was fairly fast so sorry if I didn't bow down and move over but like I said if your faster wait untill I can move over safely rather than demanding I move over cause to be fair mate ....It ain't gonna happen.....Thank you