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Post by Eduardo Lorente on Jan 9, 2015 2:53:08 GMT
 The "Roar Before the Rumble at Daytona" Pre-Season EventDaytona International Speedway - Daytona Beach, Florida USA
Saturday, January 10, 2015
** We will be using the iRacing league-tool this season for our races. We will continue to host public servers for practices.
Please make sure you are in the GRAsim.us league, if not please apply here. To find the races, check the "League Sessions" tab in the iRacing league page. **
****Friday (Public Server) ****Practice: 9:00pm to 11:00pm EST ****Saturday (Private League Server) ****Warmup: 6:00pm to 9:20pm EST ****Qualifying: 9:20pm to 9:30pm EST (4 Laps - Single car session) ****Race: 9:30pm to 10:00pm EDT ****Other Information****Setups: Open ****Fuel Capacity: 100% ****Pit Stop Required: No ****Race Distance: 30 Minutes ****Start Procedures: Rolling starts ****Yellow-Flag Procedures: Enabled - single file restarts ****Race Time: Afternoon ****Temperature: 72 °F ****Humidity: 50% ****Wind Speed and Direction: 8 MPH, E ****Cloud Cover: Mostly Cloudy ****Fog: 0%
A. DRIVERS MEETING: Before the qualifying session, the steward will hold a brief driver's meeting to review the rules and procedures of the event. All drivers will be asked to pit their cars prior to the meeting to ensure 100% attention is given to the steward. Failure to comply may result in a penalty at the steward's discretion. B. STARTING PROCEDURES: Please be sure to familiarize yourself with the green-flag rules for this event: - Once all drivers are on the grid, the pace car will lead the field around the track and exit the course as late as possible to enter pit lane.
- It is not required that drivers form into a single file line, but please use your judgement to determine when it's appropriate.
- After the pace car enters the pit lane, pole position has responsibility for pacing the field until the green flag.
- At this time, prior to the green flag being displayed, the leader can either maintain the current pace, or begin accelerating. However, the leader cannot slow down as this may cause an accident further back in the formation lap.
- As the front row of cars approach the start/finish line, the green flag will be displayed.
- Once the green flag has been shown, the race has begun and drivers are permitted to pass cars at this time.
C. HOW TO JOIN THE RACE SERVER: This event will be listed in the "HOSTED" section of the iRacing dashboard. Although practice servers are public and not secured, a password is required to enter official race events. D. CUSTOM CAR PAINTS ON IRACING: Trading Paints is the software that allows you to load custom car paints for your car, as well as see the custom paints used by other members. If you're not already using Trading Paints, you can install and setup the software easily by setting up an account and downloading the software at : www.TradingPaints.com. E. TEAMSPEAK CHAT SERVER: GRA member James Lamb has graciously donated the use of his TeamSpeak Server. Please feel free to use the server during this event for pre- and post-race chat. - IP Address: ts01-ga.aspnix.com:2002
- Password vapor
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Post by Troy Eddy, aka Jarhead on Jan 9, 2015 14:13:24 GMT
Will this be a day or night race? Please make it a night race. There are very few tracks with a night version and this is a good one.
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Post by Pete Hebron on Jan 9, 2015 14:21:51 GMT
Weather settings say "afternoon", but I agree night is better here.
I think Daytona and Sebring should be the only night races, the tracks are set up for night races. Spa night time is just ridiculous.
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Post by Paul D on Jan 9, 2015 14:47:45 GMT
I won't be able to make this race since I'm participating in the MOE 24 Hours of Spa. Looking forward to when the season starts though!
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Post by Eduardo Lorente on Jan 9, 2015 15:39:22 GMT
Sorry Paul - we'll miss you on the track.
Hi Pete and Troy - I hear what you guys are saying. I set this up as a day-race so that I can hold something in reserve to make our race on the 24th "unique". Otherwise, I think the two events (this pre-race, and our official race on the 24th) will feel too similar - know what I mean?
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Post by Pete Hebron on Jan 9, 2015 15:59:21 GMT
Apart from the GT3 series which is running daytime this week, Daytona seems to always run at night. A daytime race is a pleasant change.
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Post by Troy Eddy, aka Jarhead on Jan 9, 2015 16:24:03 GMT
Sorry Paul - we'll miss you on the track. Hi Pete and Troy - I hear what you guys are saying. I set this up as a day-race so that I can hold something in reserve to make our race on the 24th "unique". Otherwise, I think the two events (this pre-race, and our official race on the 24th) will feel too similar - know what I mean? Ok, I didn't remember we are also running this on the 24th. So you say that will be a night race? Sounds good. |
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Post by edwardc on Jan 10, 2015 2:54:15 GMT
Well I attempted to race tonight but didn't even get one lap in and my connection dropped, so reset the modem and get a "Could not connect to server" error message, rebooted the pc same error, logged out and back in and still get the error. I could however join the official WSC server. Went back to try and join the GRAsim server and get the same bloody error.
By now an hour has gone by and I give up.
My connection has been dropping the last couple of evenings, we either wait it out (10-15 min) or reset the modem and it comes back. I'll be calling my ISP tomorrow, don't want this happening tomorrow night!
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Post by Pete Hebron on Jan 10, 2015 3:50:40 GMT
Thanks for the practice Eduardo, managed to get into the 1:42s(without a draft) hopefully I can get to the race tomorrow night.
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Post by Eduardo Lorente on Jan 10, 2015 4:47:42 GMT
Sorry Edward - that stinks! I hope you can get it sorted before we officially launch the series next weekend.
Pete - Thanks for joining the server and hopefully we'll see you for tomorrow's final fun-run. Unfortunately, I fell asleep putting the kids to bed and didn't get up until 40 minutes after session ended (good grief).
I'm hoping to have the league announcement ready for tomorrow, so we should be able to start accepting registrations very soon.
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mario
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Post by mario on Jan 10, 2015 13:00:46 GMT
I won't be able to make this race since I'm participating in the MOE 24 Hours of Spa. Looking forward to when the season starts though! Same for me and Claude. |
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Post by Greg on Jan 10, 2015 13:07:20 GMT
I won't be able to make this race since I'm participating in the MOE 24 Hours of Spa. Looking forward to when the season starts though! Same for me and Claude. Good luck guys! |
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Post by robguru on Jan 10, 2015 22:50:19 GMT
I'll have a go tonight. Got a new DP paint I want to try out.
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Post by Greg on Jan 10, 2015 22:56:34 GMT
Nice Octan racer!
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Post by Chris Payne AKA (ziptie) on Jan 11, 2015 15:19:42 GMT
Well guys that was a blast last night ,got in late to practice but was able to pull off a top 5, every one i raced with was clean and respectful, i did get into pete early on but it was a love tap in one…….i would call it a racing incident
looking forward to the series to start,
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