Rules and Entry

The TORA Race Pro Appreciation Society Presents... The Pro Touring Cup

Car Choice
-Car Choice is free among the 2007 WTCC Car Pack (Standard).
-Car Changes may be made, but will incur a 5 place grid penalty for the next Sprint and Feature race.
-Car Changes may only be made during days of non-competition.

Free Practice
-Free Practice runs from 20:00-20:25, any car set-up changes and practice will be done here before a race.
-Drivers may not leave pit lane before 20:00. Drivers may only leave pit lane once all singed-up drivers are present and ready, or at 20:00.
-Free Practice is not compulsary.

Qualifying
-Qualifying will be 10 minutes in duration, running from 20:30-20:40.
-Any driver who leaves pit lane before 20:30, or begins AND finishes a lap after 20:40 will start from the back of the grid for the Sprint Race.

Rolling Starts
-Grid order is called out by Lobby Host, drivers must drive single file in this order.
-Leader controls the pace of the field round the warm up lap.
-At the last corner, drivers must group side by side.
-Odd numbers inside, Even numbers outside.
-Drivers may not overtake a car in the ahead row.
-Drivers may not be concerned about the car along side.
-Edging ahead of the other driver in your row is permitted.

Safety Car
- A safety car will be called if three or more drivers are involved in a damage-incurring accident. During the safety car period, any pit stop does not count towards the mandatory pit stop, however the pit lane may be used to fix damage.
-Restarts occur in single file.

Sprint Race
-The Sprint Race will consist of a 10 minute (approx.) race.
-Race will be started using a rolling start from the positions earned in qualifying.

Feature Race
-The Feature Race will consist of a 15/20 minute (approx.) race.
-Grid order is decided by a random reverse grid from the Sprint Race (i.e, a random number is generated and the grid order will reverse from that position)
-There are two pit windows (Monza is the exception, with one pit window) which will be indicated in the calendar. Drivers may only use one pit window. Any pit stop outwith the pit window will be disallowed.

Points
12-11-10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1

Event Format (BST):
19:45 - Lobby Opens
*Wait for Drivers/Brief for Practice*
19:55 - Pit Lane Opens: Start of Free Practice
20:10 - Pit Lane Closes: End of Free Practice
*Result Collection/Qualifying Briefing*
20:15 - Pit Lane Opens: Start of Qualifying
20:25 - Pit Lane Closes: End of Qualifying
*Result Collection/Race 1 Briefing*
20:30 - Warm Up Lap for Race 1
*Race 1*
20:40 - Race 1 Chequered Flag
*Results Collection/Race 2 Briefing*
20:45 - Warm Up Lap for Race 2
*Race 2*
21:05 - Race 2 Chequered Flag
*Results Collection*

Calendar

Event 1 Brands Hatch GP - Race of Great Britain [8th June]
- Race 1 - 5 Laps
- Race 2 - 9 Laps - Pit Windows: Lap 2-4 and Lap 6-8

Event 2 Zandvoort - Race of Holland [15th June]
- Race 1 - 5 Laps
- Race 2 - 9 Laps - Pit Windows: Lap 2-4 and Lap 6-8

Event 3 Anderstorp - Race of Sweden [22nd June]
- Race 1 - 5 Laps
- Race 2 - 9 Laps - Pit Windows: Lap 2-4 and Lap 6-8

Event 4 Laguna Seca - Race of the USA [29th June]
- Race 1 - 6 Laps
- Race 2 - 10 Laps - Pit Windows: Lap 2-4 and Lap 7-9

Event 5 Oschersleben - Race of Germany [6th July]
- Race 1 - 6 Laps
- Race 2 - 10 Laps - Pit Windows: Lap 2-4 and Lap 7-9

Event 6 Monza - Race of Italy [13th July]
- Race 1 - 4 Laps
- Race 2 - 8 Laps - Pit Window: Lap 3-6

Race nights will be Wednesday, as we should be able to get done by 10pm for Trev.

SR - Sprint Race
FR - Feature Race
PW - Pit Window
* - Only one pit window at Monza

To enter, please PM me with your choice of car.

Entry List

Sounds fun guys! I won't be able to participate, but I will try and look you guys up for some practice sometime.

Keep the entries coming guys!

Jeff Harris - SEAT Leon

I'll get the game asap

Great!

Tevisio - #14 Alfa Romeo 156

Thats a good healthy number already, six drivers so far representing five makes.

looking good soon you'll have more drivers than the GT1 series

Might provide a case for running the GT1's on Race Pro, eh?

Its a shame more people don't have it, a Spa 24 Hour race would be epic.

I'll enter this GT-silentalarm42 car-#1 BMW 320si

silentalarm42 - #1 BMW 320si E90

Welcome to TORA mate!

Thanks mate. I haven't played race pro in months so im going to be rusty but i'll try and get up to speed before the first race. Im just about to practice as i type this.

How does everyone feel about racing on the Wednesday night?

Sorry I can't do wednesdays unless its over by 10pm Nicky

Wednesday is fine with me.

can you update the entry list get an idea of who's running what>?

trevisio wrote:Sorry I can't do wednesdays unless its over by 10pm Nicky

Oh yeah thats right..

And no.. I can't sorry Can't edit the OP.. I'll post a summary of the entries so far.

lfcnicklfc - #8 Chevrolet Lacetti
nickyf1 - Chevrolet Lacetti
silentalarm42 - #1 BMW 320si E90
Trevisio - #14 Alfa Romeo 156
Jeff Harris - SEAT Leon TFSI
Rickard Olsson - BMW 320si E90
VVV Slim - Alfa Romeo 156

You can change your car when ever you want, just PM me.

Hey guys, i'm opening up a lobby tommorow night at Valencia at 19:45 BST, so we can test out the race procedure and make any changes.

Free Practice will most likely be reduced to 15 minutes.

EDIT! - Forgot tomorrow was Wednesday.

Calendar (In Detail) - (amended dates)

Event 1 Brands Hatch GP - Race of Great Britain [8th June]
- Race 1 - 5 Laps
- Race 2 - 9 Laps - Pit Windows: Lap 2-4 and Lap 6-8

Event 2 Zandvoort - Race of Holland [15th June]
- Race 1 - 5 Laps
- Race 2 - 9 Laps - Pit Windows: Lap 2-4 and Lap 6-8

Event 3 Anderstorp - Race of Sweden [22nd June]
- Race 1 - 5 Laps
- Race 2 - 9 Laps - Pit Windows: Lap 2-4 and Lap 6-8

Event 4 Laguna Seca - Race of the USA [29th June]
- Race 1 - 6 Laps
- Race 2 - 10 Laps - Pit Windows: Lap 2-4 and Lap 7-9

Event 5 Oschersleben - Race of Germany [6th July]
- Race 1 - 6 Laps
- Race 2 - 10 Laps - Pit Windows: Lap 2-4 and Lap 7-9

Event 6 Monza - Race of Italy [13th July]
- Race 1 - 4 Laps
- Race 2 - 8 Laps - Pit Window: Lap 3-6

Race nights will be Wednesday, as we should be able to get done by 10pm for Trev.

If anybody would like the day changed, let me know.

OP updated with Entry List and Amended Calendar.

I have no idea why you can't edit things Nicky, I will look into it later tonight.

I can edit things, I just have not edited the OP to clean it up yet.

But thanks for doing it for me

Basically what I did earlier was tidy up the thread names.

Ok, I've tidied it up more, putting in the new race formats and a proper table for entries.

im looking forward to it Race Pro arrived today!

Sorry Nicky I had read it as if you couldn't edit. No worries. I have posted the link to this series on the Simbin Facebook page via ours so hopefully you get some more interest. I will update our InsideSimRacing thread with it as well.

ADx Garage - #19 Seat Sport Italia (The Black and White Castrol One)