Post by zero7159 on Feb 27, 2013 14:10:13 GMT -8
I am going to be doing this. Its essentially an official iRacing series, that tracks the entire NASCAR Sprint Cup schedule, starting with the 3rd week at Las Vegas. Here are the details from a post from Tony Gardner:
The NASCAR iRacing Series (NiS) 2013
Description of Series: This iRacing official series to follow the weekly Sprint Cup Track Schedule racing the new Gen-6 cars for the entire Sprint Cup season.
Objective: A new, special event style official series aimed at providing fun and competitive NASCAR racing for every license level except the rookie license level. This series also intended to have a direct tie-in to the excitement of the real world NASCAR Sprint Cup by being at the same tracks each week and battling through a long and varied schedule like the real-world drivers.
Race Times: Four different weekly time slots to keep it event style yet offering some schedule flexibility. Thursday 9:00 PM EST (2:00 GMT), Saturday 4:00 AM ET (9:00 GMT), Saturday at 11:00 AM EST (16:00 GMT) & Sunday 9:00 PM EDT (1:00 GMT). Note that the Thursday and Sunday races will always have 9:00 PM ET starts, even with daylight savings coming and going throughout this season (we will adjust the GMT times).
Car choices: Chevrolet SS-Gen6 car & Ford Fusion-Gen6 car (once released)
Tracks & Race Weeks: Every Sprint Cup track starting with the third race of the year, Las Vegas, for a full 34 week season. We are starting with third race this year because that will allow us to start the series with the new Gen6 cars which are under development. (FYI, the World Tour Daytona 500 event is available to run using old car for that race week.) Track Note: Kansas and Fontana are still under construction. Kansas should be ready for second race in October, but not the first race at that track. Fontana will not be done in time for that race week. Therefore, Rockingham will replace Fontana and Iowa will replace the first Kansas race. We will NOT run the All-star race or race week at Charlotte as part of this series.
Race distance: Half the distance of the real-world race. For example, the Coke 600 will be 300 miles in this series.
iRacing member eligibility: Oval license level D class and above. This will be an oval license class series, even though some scattered road course racing.
Resets: none
Server farms: U.S. server farms only in order to better group participants.
Race car setup: Fixed car setup
Qualifying: Single car 2-lap qualifier 15 minutes before each race. Qualifying not required to enter the race. FYI, qualifying from first race carries to the second race, unless you post a better time in the second qualifying session.
Race warmup time: 10 minutes
Number of races and drop weeks: 34 races with 4 drop weeks.
Field size: 32 cars
Caution Flags: Yes, full course for ovals & local yellows for road courses.
Other competition notes: Will work same way as a standard iRacing Series. Will be 10 standard divisions that are set based on normal procedure before the start of series. (Divsions already set) Splitting will be done by iRating. Gridding will be done by Qualifying and then by iRating. Do not need to qualify to race. The standard iRacing point system in place for series.
The NASCAR iRacing Series (NiS) 2013
Description of Series: This iRacing official series to follow the weekly Sprint Cup Track Schedule racing the new Gen-6 cars for the entire Sprint Cup season.
Objective: A new, special event style official series aimed at providing fun and competitive NASCAR racing for every license level except the rookie license level. This series also intended to have a direct tie-in to the excitement of the real world NASCAR Sprint Cup by being at the same tracks each week and battling through a long and varied schedule like the real-world drivers.
Race Times: Four different weekly time slots to keep it event style yet offering some schedule flexibility. Thursday 9:00 PM EST (2:00 GMT), Saturday 4:00 AM ET (9:00 GMT), Saturday at 11:00 AM EST (16:00 GMT) & Sunday 9:00 PM EDT (1:00 GMT). Note that the Thursday and Sunday races will always have 9:00 PM ET starts, even with daylight savings coming and going throughout this season (we will adjust the GMT times).
Car choices: Chevrolet SS-Gen6 car & Ford Fusion-Gen6 car (once released)
Tracks & Race Weeks: Every Sprint Cup track starting with the third race of the year, Las Vegas, for a full 34 week season. We are starting with third race this year because that will allow us to start the series with the new Gen6 cars which are under development. (FYI, the World Tour Daytona 500 event is available to run using old car for that race week.) Track Note: Kansas and Fontana are still under construction. Kansas should be ready for second race in October, but not the first race at that track. Fontana will not be done in time for that race week. Therefore, Rockingham will replace Fontana and Iowa will replace the first Kansas race. We will NOT run the All-star race or race week at Charlotte as part of this series.
Race distance: Half the distance of the real-world race. For example, the Coke 600 will be 300 miles in this series.
iRacing member eligibility: Oval license level D class and above. This will be an oval license class series, even though some scattered road course racing.
Resets: none
Server farms: U.S. server farms only in order to better group participants.
Race car setup: Fixed car setup
Qualifying: Single car 2-lap qualifier 15 minutes before each race. Qualifying not required to enter the race. FYI, qualifying from first race carries to the second race, unless you post a better time in the second qualifying session.
Race warmup time: 10 minutes
Number of races and drop weeks: 34 races with 4 drop weeks.
Field size: 32 cars
Caution Flags: Yes, full course for ovals & local yellows for road courses.
Other competition notes: Will work same way as a standard iRacing Series. Will be 10 standard divisions that are set based on normal procedure before the start of series. (Divsions already set) Splitting will be done by iRating. Gridding will be done by Qualifying and then by iRating. Do not need to qualify to race. The standard iRacing point system in place for series.
