WTCC'esque Mini-Series

Using cars in-game that resemble the cars that are currently being used in the WTCC, I would like to run a modern WTCC’esque mini-series.


Cars:

The cars will have set builds as seen below. These builds have been tested and should be equal, BUT, there has not been an extensive amount of testing so the builds may change slightly if any inequalities exist. Tuning is allowed. To start things off, there will be 3 spots open per car. More spots will become available as more people sign up.

BMW 135i (2009)
A 585; RWD; 319 hp; 2,718 lbs. click spoiler for build

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Chevrolet Cobalt (2010)
A 590; FWD; 289 hp; 2,486 lbs. click spoiler for build

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Ford Focus (2013)
A 590; FWD; 309 hp; 2,439 lbs. click spoiler for build

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SEAT Leon Cupra R (2010)
A 590; FWD; 324 hp; 2,516 lbs. click spoiler for build

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Calendar:

To get things going there will be a fairly short schedule of 3 race meetings that are to start 2 hours before the final 3 GT Mini-Series races. Each meeting will consist of qualifying and 2 races. The qualifying will take place on the same track as the first race for that week and consist of 1 warm up lap, 3 flying laps, and 1 cool down lap (5 laps total). The first race will be a rolling start with the grid based on the qualifying randomly generated. The second race will take place on a different track and be a standing start with a reversed grid based on the finish of the first race. The races are to be about 10 minutes long.

Meeting #1 - May 26, 2012 @ 18:00 GMT after the GT Mini-Series Race
Race 1: Suzuka East
Race 2: Suzuka West

Meeting #2 - June 2, 2012 @ 18:00 GMT after the GT Mini-Series Race
Race 1: Infineon NASCAR
Race 2: Sebring Club

Meeting #1 - June 9, 2012 @ 18:00 GMT after the GT Mini-Series Race
Race 1: Catalunya National
Race 2: Silverstone International

More race meetings may be added and/or a second season may be created if this proves to be a good series


Rules:

ABS and STM are prohibited. Everything else is allowed.



Questions? Comments? Concerns?
Signups are always open, just make it bold so that I can see it.

My opinion:

TCC is as close to WTCC as you can get in Forza. The 135i is not the same as the 335 that they use in WTCC... and is the only car on your list that isn't already in TCC.

And since we already have TCC and NATCC, another *TCC is a bit redundant. Not saying that if its scheduled on the right day and time for me that I wouldn't do this, but I would prefer something other than FWD and current.

Why not Vintage Touring Cars: Volvo, BMW, Mercedes Benz, Saab, Ford Sierra... There are enough late 80s/90s Touring Cars to run a series with.

Or, wait a week, and go for Nicky's Porsche Cup idea.

What got me on this path was me wondering exactly how well the TORA cars stacked up against the current WTCC cars. Looking through the results of the last few years of WTCC, there is only one track that they have run in real life that we have in Forza 4; Suzuka East. The 2011 WTCC pole time at that track was a 0:53.443. Taking my TCC spec Cobalt around that track the best I could do is a 0:58.9ish.

From there I upgraded my Cobalt to get me up into the 0:55.0ish range (I am usually about 1.5 seconds of the pace of the best TCC guys so that should put them in the 0:53.5ish range). The Cobalt was fun so there was some testing done on a few of the other TCC cars. There was even an idea revolving around early 2000ish Super Touring Cars.

After seeing some of the comments in the Mini-Series Suggestion thread had prompted me to do make this happen. This is only a mini-series with 3 scheduled race meetings so it should not strenuous. The BMW is included to provide that RWD chioce; and, while it is not the same as its realworld counterpart, it is the best replacement that I could find in-game. When this is over with, I may look into vintage touring cars, but, I want to try out these modern touring cars first.

Fair enough.

I'm just hoping that by tossing in my two cents, I didn't overstep my bounds.

Love the idea Bruno but its too early for me to race but i might make the 1st round. I REALLY want to see rwd in a Touring car championship on TORA we need a mix!

Times are easy to change. I wanted it Saturday so that it could accommodate people east of the Atlantic and the only reason I chose to have it before the GT Mini-Series is because I figured it would be too late for those people east of the Atlantic.

So, I will change the time for this to start just after the GT Mini-Series race. Unless there is a large number of people that sign up for this and say that they cannot make it if this starts after the GT Mini-Series.


I did say that I would have the car builds up yesterday, but, I got a little preoccupied. I will get them up today as I will have time before the NATCC race.

well i finish work at 9pm BST

For what it is worth, I have now updated the OP with the set builds that I propose to use. I hope I got everything correct.

If anyone is lazy, I will gift out the builds for anyone that asks nicely.

I'll try out a couple of these cars and see which I prefer before marrying the wrong one.

Is anyone up for this?


Also, after a fun time with last nights Wild Card race, random grid order will be used instead of qualifying.

I'll be back home on the 5th. Would like to run the race on the 9th. Going through withdrawals up here without my racing.......

I am still running this this after the GT Mini-Series. So, Anyone that still wants to race after that is done is welcome to join. We can run as many circuits as possible if people are up for it.

Anyone can ask me me for the builds if they want.