4 Hours of Tsukuba - Rules and Regulations

by **Ax4x Bandit** Mon 10 Dec 2012 - 2:12

This is the 4 Hours of Tsukuba, a micro endurance race for micro cars. This will take place January 26th at 2:00 PM EST and end around 6:00 PM EST the same day.

Your team can be made up of 1-4 drivers. One driver will give the driver the full four hours. Two drivers will give both two hours worth of driving. Three drivers give the first driver two hours of driving and the other two one hour of driving. Four drivers will give everyone one hour of driving. Teams must use the same car, car number, and paint scheme throughout the race. You can have different tunes on the car just for the sake of the current driver in the car. If a team member decides to drive a different car during the race, the amount of distance he/she accumulates in the stint won't be counted for your team, it will be counted towards the team he/she is driving for at the time.

The race will consist of four stints that last one hour each. Each stint will be completed by one driver from your team. Driver changes will occur at the conclusion of the stint. Driver changes happen by inviting the driver is going to drive that stint into your current lobby. During driver changes, the lobby hosts will write down the distance each driver has accumulated in that stint and calculate it into the overall distance. The timer will be 1 hour and 15 minutes so the lobby hosts can use those 15 minutes to write down all of the distances. Please remember your distance when the timer says that there are 15 minutes left in the race!

When the first stint starts, we still start off doing a formation lap by lining everyone up in qualifying order. After the formation lap, we will go back to the lobby and line everyone up by points. We will then start the actual stint under a standing start using a one second delay to lessen the risk of an early pile-up. For the start of the other three stints, we will line everyone up depending on how much distance the car has accumulated. We will do the formation lap for all the stints and line everyone up by lobby points. If you are doing multiple stints in a row, please back out of the lobby and rejoin so we can reset your lobby points.

There will be no safety cars during the event. There will be no safety cars because this event is based on how much distance you can complete in a certain amount of time. If you are involved in a collision, you will have to recover and deal with any damage you accumulate. There is a pit road at this circuit, so you can use that repair any mechanical damage you acquired in the accident. Damage will be set to limited to simulate fuel and tire wear.

If you feel that you're ready to qualify, please let me know and I will set up a lobby for you to qualify. When you and your teammates decide that they're ready to qualify, you have to pick only ONE driver from the team to qualify the car. That driver will determine where your team starts and in what lobby your team is in. That driver will have twenty minutes to set the fastest possibly lap time he/she can. If he/she is involved in a wreck, I will not allow for a restart. If they quit out of qualifying, the current, fastest time will be the time that will determine your position. If there is no time, you will be marked as a DNQ and start in last in the final lobby. If there are multiple teams that are recorded with a DNQ, the first team to DNQ will have the upper hand.

These will be the settings for qualification:
- Collisions will be set to off during all Qualifying sessions.
- Collisions during all races will be on.
- Damage will be set to limited.
- All assists can be used.

The only requirements for livery are the car number and the driver names on the car.

All members of the team will share the same car number with everyone else on the time.

The car list will consist of cars that were used during the The Online Racing Association Junior Touring Car Championship. The same build that was used during that championship will be used during the race.

Car List

Abarth 500 - FWD
Aston Martin Cygnet - FWD
Citroen C1 - FWD
Ford KA- FWD
Mazda 2 - FWD
Nissan Micra - FWD
Peugeot 107 - FWD
Renault Twingo - FWD
Smart Four Two - RWD
Toyota Aygo - FWD
Vauxhall Agila - FWD

Build Rules

PI - 430

NO Drive Train Swaps Allowed

All Cars FWD Except SMART RWD

Weight: 1600-2050lbs
Power: 150-200bhp

Mandatory

Race Brakes
Race Suspension
Race Roll Cage
Sport Tyres

Banned

Adjustable Aero is banned from all cars.
NO Centrifugal Superchargers.
NO Chrome wheels.
NO Drivetrain changes.

All other parts are allowed to build the cars to spec.