Indy Pro Series - General Discussion

AMR Garage on 4th April, 2013 wrote:This Thread is Extremely old, this pre-dates the 8th season of TORA GTs! for our forum yet it is being bumped ahead of something that might happen, lets bloody hope so anyways.

Think of the following words as a voice over, preferrably spoken by Paul Page

"The Indianapolis Motor Speedway, home of the Indy 500, the greatest spectacle in racing, and a long running yearly tradition since the birth of the automobile...

...for 100 years the greatest drivers, the fastest machinery have etched their names into the history books, their faces onto the Borg-Warnter trophy, but for 2012 that will all change...

...the Prototype Sportscar will take to Oval Racing's mount everest, their challenge is simple, win...

...[content removed], Audi and BMW's finest from the world of endurance racing, reborn and rebuilt for the theatre of Speed, and Cadillac, these the four muskateers of horse power, will answer the call of the Indy Prototype Series."

More info soon...

Testing has been Rigorous for the Munich based BMW Racing group, developing an "evolution" of the 1999 BMW V12 LMP, all new chassis, all new v12 engine, but the G Forces around Sedona have caused some interesting bodywork malformations.

What Actually Happened...

Racing the clockwise way around Sedona, Connor crashes out of the reverse turn 1 and is unable to right himself as the car remains sidways on the inside apron. RollinInAn STi decides to bite the bullet and Kamikaze his car into Conner's, in turn slamming it into my BMW.

i saw him sitting there sideways as we whiz'ed by and thought "i just have to do it".

Ooh sounds interesting! Is it gonna be a mix of ovals and road courses? Or just ovals?

Just ovals.

Just Ovals, we've just begun testing, so feel free to hop along when we get another hour or so of free TORA time

alright will do, won't be able to this weekend though, on nights

Paul Page in one of the studios above the Indy Speedway.

"In the past 20 years the Speedway here has been welcoming varying forms of racing machinery, traditionally the Indy 500 was the only event that would take to the brickard, a fleet of 33 open wheel chassis and engine combinations designed to give one man the ability to be the fastest man on earth for the month of may, things may have been politically and financially altered over the last decade, but the exterior remains the same

The good ol' boys of NASCAR faught wheel to wheel for the first time in 1994, the encasing bodyshell of the american stock car, v8 engines, 800hp.

Formula One, the formula to bring the world drivers championship to those quick and clever enough, came back to the States in 2000, albeit using a quarter of the speedway, and the bizzarre experience for the racefans of Indiana to turn their heads in the opposite direction that they would normally do on Memorial Day Weekend.

Moto GP, the World Motorcycle Championship has also taken to part of the Formula One course, only to do things their own way.

The Brickyard will be hosting something different, but not entirely new, Prototype Sportscars, usually seen hurtling down french roads of a sunny june weekend, pushing the technologies of the automobile to their very limits, for twenty four hours straight.

Many of Indycars alumni have got behind the wheel of these cars, Mario Andretti, Roberto Gurrero, Eddie Cheever, Mark Blundell, Geoff Brabham, but things have changed since the last time an Indycar driver, Davy Jones, won at Le Mans in 1996.

The 4 Manufacturers that have been allowed to participate in the proposed Indy Prototype Series have been given a freedom of presenting their representation of the answer to the question "How do you go fast around Indianapolis" Over To Jack Arute in Gasoline alley to present the cavalcade of carbon fibre..."

Jack Arute, Kitted out in the (insert American TV Station's) Overalls and headset walks down gasoline alley.

"The American Le Mans Series is a racing championship dedicated to the spirit of Le Mans, each race is a cross between an endurance race and a traffic jam, the fastest class in the series has always been a Le Mans Prototype..."

Firstly Jack walks past [content removed]'s car.
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"... here is the car from Audi, multiple champions at Le Mans, also brought their R8 Prototype to America for the Nation's Le Mans Series, not to be confused with the Roofed sportscar which shares the same codename, this R8 is BRAND NEW, rebuilt for the speedway based series..."


"...the 'old-skool' ethic has been applied at fellow German company BMW, their v12 engined LMP won Le Mans in 1999 and also took part in the first ever American Le Mans Series in the same year, once again, all new chassis, all new v12 engine, possibly the best sounding car of the Indy Pro Series, but wait! theres one more manufacturer..."


"...what would an American Series be without something from General Motors, Cadillac have resurrected their Northstar 2002 LMP, unfortunately their efforts around Le Mans were outclassed by Audi who to this day still have a stranglehold on the Grand Prix of Endurance. Four Manufacturers, three venues, Indy, Sedona in Arizona and Motegi in Japan, and with rumours of Ford and Ferrari expressing a future interest in this series, things are looking pretty good for two thousand and twelve, Paul...."

"Testing will be getting under way with these cars as they hone and refine their cars, more from Jack in the pits later, we'll be speaking to several of the team owners, more from the Indy Pro Series test day, right after this..."

Great car choices. Nice simple sportscar lines. Can't wait!

some Livery Inspirations for those interested in taking part:








XD kidding...




DAMN YOU EA!!!

Basic Rules - Cars and Presentation

Approved Cars

[list][content removed]

2006 #2 Audi Sport North America R8 R1/981
No Upgrades

1999 #15 BMW V12 LMR R1/971
No Upgrades

2002 #6 Team Cadillac Northstar LMP-02 R1/975
No Upgrades

Wheel Rims must not be upgraded on any of the 4 approved cars.

Colour Schemes.

Anyone wishing to run a tobacco sponsored colourscheme must do so without the product's text.

To replicate the variation of Indycar teams past and present, anyone running a three car team are advised to make an alternate colourscheme for the third car, but is not compulsory.

Teams will also be given a championship logo that is to be placed on the "Top/Bonnet" Layer, close to the front bumper of the car. And is also to be placed on both sides of the car, near the roll hoop.

To further replicate Indycar, xbox live gamertags or your actual names can be placed on either side of the cockpit area of the cars, a flag representing the drivers nationality is also advised but is not compulsory.

Im so in! what night tho?

Nothing is concrete yet, We'd like this to be on the saturdays once the Asian ISCC is finished, will have to arrange some more free practice session tomorrow (23rd Nov)

i'm definitely in for this

Attention to all TORA Members, or more than likely, Attention to all ISCC Round of Motegi competitors.

The First official Indy Pro Series Test Day will take place, almsot immediately after the Round of Motegi.

Pick a car out of the "Forza Fantastic Four" get some laps in and tune a few setups, we're going to be testing on the Indy Speedway, Motegi and Sedona.

Can't wait for the testing ive tryed 3 or the 4 and there close round Indy!

Last nights test showed how fast these cars can REALLY go, we began this project running at average speeds of 200mph, Chad Wilson's work has got three of the four manufacturers cars up to 220mph, and despite the limited amount of entries, three of the test races ended with ridiculously close finishes.

cant wait for the full series of this!

I'll be joining you guys for this soon, once exams are out of the way.

For the attention of those who are interested, Tuesday Night, Post-Mazda race, approximately 10pm, another test.

ah damn! band practice this tuesday cos of a gig this thursday (dont rearrange for me im literally busy every evening this week!)

Any later than 10??

ill be there, all cars now doing 42.oxx without draft. Acura could be a headache tho