TORA NATCC Meeting 6 -- Rounds 11 & 12 - Road Atlanta Club - 15th May 2012 - 9pm EST

Road Atlanta Club
15th May 2012 - 9pm EST



*Rule updates below*

PLEASE NOTE!! - Due to the massive amount of entrants we have had, you MUST post "IN" if you wish to take part in qualifying. This will be open until 8:30pm EST on the night of the race, as we will then close entries to qualifying. Once qualifying is underway, you must post in this thread if you wish to join the field at the end of the grid. This will be open until 9:15pm EST for race 1 late entries, and 10:00pm EST for late entrants to race 2.

QUALIFYING - 9:00pm EST
Event qualifying will begin at 9pm. Apart from if someone has already attempted to join a lobby but had connection issues, there are no exceptions to this start time.

Settings
-Qualifying will consist of 4 flying laps (lap counter will be set to 6 laps)
-Collisions will be forced off
-Damage will be set to Limited damage
-There will be a 5 second roll off delay
-The Grid will be set to Random
-Once you complete all 4 flying laps you will meet in the first corner so that the lobby marshals can take down your qualifying time and conduct scrutineering if required.
-Times will then be uploaded to the Live Timing application by the chief marshal of the meeting
-Clean laps take preference over Dirty laps. A slower clean lap will qualify in front of a faster Dirty lap.

Race - Grid will be the results of the qualifying session. All drivers with "clean" laps in qualifying will be before all drivers who set "dirty" laps. Races will take pace over a pre-determined amount of laps. Please see the Season Calendar for details.

*Due to the issues experienced at the last round and to reduce the number of times we need to restart lobbies all TCC meetings will now begin under a rolling start for **Race One Only**. Race Two will begin with a standing start, where the lobby points from Race One will be reversed. Rolling start speed is 60mph*

There will be two races in an evening, and all will last around 20 minutes.

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 reverse order from race one's finishing positions.

There will be no mandatory pit stops during the races.

RULES REMINDER
Track Limits
The track limits are determined by the solid painted lines (tarmac) either side of the track. At all times, two wheels must remain on this part of the circuit, unless of an occurrence where it is near to impossible to keep two wheels on the track, like avoiding a collision. During a race meeting, each time the track limits are not adhered to, a warning will be given. Each driver are allowed five warnings of all four wheels leaving the track via the inside of a corner, at any part of the circuit. If a sixth and then subsequent "corner cutting" occurrences happen within a race meeting, then that driver will lose a finishing position for each corner cut. Again, if a corner is cut to avoid a collision, this would not be given a warning.

The track limits must be adhered to in the event of gaining an advantage whilst having an on-track battle. If a driver overtakes a driver by getting all four wheels off the track, the driver must give that position back before they may continue the race. If the driver which was overtaken backs off heavily either through incident or "mechanical" failure, then the position will not need to be given back.

Settings
- Collisions during all races will be on, and set with Limited Damage. Driving Line and Normal/Simulation Steering are the only allowed driving aids that may be used. TCS, 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.
- The race will be set to a pre-determined amount of laps which the lobby host will make aware to the competitors in the lobby.

Race Etiquette
-Touring Car racing is defined as non-contact but a certain level of door rubbing and panel bashing is inevitable. With Limited damage on please take care when racing with each other so you do not ruin other people's races as well as your own. If you are found to be causing incidents that were avoidable then action will be taken by the stewards.

1st offense- Warning
2nd offense- One lap penalty that will be taken from drivers finishing distance.
3rd offense- Exclusion from the race.

IN my new car

IN with my Focus and with Azusa Nakano aka "Azunyan" on the sides

IN

Hey Rocky! Watch me pull an IN out of my hat!!!

I can hear it callINg in the air tonight...

...Hold on...

In

with a few days left until round 6, we have:

IN
Stonewall458
Rollin InAn STi
Duke of Bruno
BuckeyeBullet
Flyin Mikey J
AudiSport Louis
Dark Minun

MAYBE
Kilroy8
AMR Garage

Quiet Harriet we're supposed to be INcognetus

Maybe

[you will notice that this notice is not worth noticing]

IN

Message sent to all entries who have yet to reply:

Gentlemen,

Please join us tomorrow night, Tuesday 5/15/2012, for rounds 11 & 12 of the TORA North American Touring Car Championship held on the Road Atlanta Club Circuit!



Qualifying begins @ 9pm EST

Cheers,
Zach
BuckeyeBullet20

Maybe

....and he's back IN the room.

Thanks for a fun night of racing guys, truly enjoyed the battles I had with Louis, Flying Mikey, Stonewall, AMR...half the damn field practically!

Congrats to Mark again, well done

Rubbin' is Racin' [Lap 1; Turn 10a; Stonewall & Buckeye]

I just wish I had found the right tune before Q instead of after Race 1. The tune I used in Qualifying had the wrong gears, with an awkward shift late on both straights. The second tune had not enough brake pressure and too much rear downforce, so I overshot the chicane and T1 a few times.

Enough of my whining... the races were actually pretty good. In Race 2. I had a twenty lap battle with Buckeye and Adrian in their Cobalts. It seemed as they were taking turns trying to get the best of me, but I just focused on hitting my marks and praying that nobody was to my inside when I cut into the apex.

Put both my replays on my Storefront.

Race 1, was kinda quiet for me. After 3/4 laps I found my rythmn, and by the final laps, I saw I was closing in on the last place car.

Race 2 was a bit more interesting! Saw Bruno go off @ turn 1 @ the start, and I played it very cautious to get through the field. Had a fun fight for the lead with my teammate, AudiSport Louis. You sir, definitely know how to make a car extra wide. after a couple laps, I noticed bruno was closing in on us, so I had to press the issue harder, and eventually I got around exiting turn 10b

Race 1 was very quiet indeed. At about the half way mark there was already fairly large gaps between 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th.

Race 2 was definitely more interesting. I had a great launch off the line, but, I had just put the left side into the grass while braking for the first corner and ended up wide trying to control it. At the end of the second lap, I managed to hurt myself by hitting the tires at the start/finish line as posixmosh surprised me by drifting around the final corner. This left me with about 30% damage on the front and sides, but, I was still able to make my way up the field. One awesome pass saw my teammate, AMG Garage, and I double team Flying Mikey J. I did manage to catch up the Fords in the closing laps, but, a few more mistakes on my part left me in 3rd behind the extra wide Ford of Audisport Louis.