Announcement: GBR Race of Champions

[neverender158]

Announcing the next series from GBR. This is going to be something a little different. This series will consist of a different car and a different track for each event. We will be mixing it up with Stock cars, Ovals, Rally, Super Trucks, open wheel, classic cars, tin tops and even quads.

This series will be using rFactor 2 and Automobilista (AMS). Here is the schedule.
Mods and tracks will be linked in the grid below in BOLD so download and install ASAP!!!
* Car/Track official ISI or AMS content and should be included with the sim

Date	Sim	Car	Track
November 16	RF2	Howston Dissenter - ISI*	Watkins Glen Short
November 30	AMS	V8SC - AMS	Adelaide
December 14	RF2	Skip Barber formula 2000 - ISI*	Lime Rock Park - ISI*
December 28	RF2	Dallara DW12 Indy car - ISI*	Indianapolis - ISI*
January 11	AMS	Corvette C7.R Link to Car	Road America Link to Track
January 25	RF2	Stock Cars - ISI*	Northside Int. - ISI*
February 8	AMS	Super Trucks - AMS*	Velopark - AMS*
February 22	RF2	Civic - ISI*	Oulton Park link to track
March 8	AMS	Stock Car Brazil - AMS*	Goiania short - AMS*
March 22	RF2	Interceptor Quad - ISI*	Lost Valley - ISI*

[neverender158]

I am thinking TMS might still be too long for a small field for stock car racing. I have found some smaller ovals and would like to have the oval guys let me know which one we should use.

Dover - 3rd party content 0.998 mile oval
Phoenix - 3rd party content 0.998 mile oval
Northside International - official ISI content 0.738 mile oval
Joesville - official ISI content 0.41 mile oval

[Scott Beck]

Which Howston car?

[Jim T]

Sounds fun . Count me in. I agree with shorter track on oval, in fact shorter the better in my opinion. I vote for Joesville. Good question on Howston, again my 2 cents I like the group 6 better.

[neverender158]

Nov 4, 2016 9:49:00 GMT -8 Scott Beck said:

Which Howston car?

Sorry about that, the Howston Dissenter. There are two pre-built setups, 1 for ovals and 1 for road courses. 

[Scott Beck]

I have that one already. Thanks

[AngeloDS]

Hm, I dont think Adelaide is a good choice for AMS. This track is merely a GSC copy, no different track conditions and the features we have now, like progressive rubbering.
Better use Melbourne.

Those are the only conversions I trust for AMS:

www.racedepartment.com/threads/automobilista-add-on-track-list.118324/

Some combinations I will be taking part, for sure, but some others, I dont have much interest, to be honest.
I wish we could do the Dissenters at Indy...that is a awesome combo. Or at some other Oval.

Also, I love the Super Trucks, but Salvador is not a good track for them. Even for Mini races Salvador is tight.
I know those trucks race at Adelaide...but they are a lot more fun in open tracks...there are quite a few (Goiania, Guapore, Velopark).
Anyway, this is just a suggestion.

[neverender158]

The reasoning behind this series to try and to lots of iconic combinations of cars and tracks. But with the fields being smaller here at GBR we had to make some changes. GT cars and SPA would be great or the V8SC at Bathurst but if we only get a grid of around 10 those bigger tracks get boring. I know the Adelaide for AMS is just a conversion and again I think the melbourne GP track would be too long with a small grid.

I am open to suggestions for the super truck track. I just picked one, I haven't driven any of the tracks yet. If you have a better track in mind for the trucks just let me know.

These combinations are open for better suggestions so please feel free to let me know what might work better.

[AngeloDS]

My pick:
I would say...Queensland or Vanport for the V8s.
Velopark for the Super Trucks.
And Road Atlanta for the brazilian Stock Cars.

[Dan W.]

Nov 4, 2016 9:40:07 GMT -8 neverender158 said:

I am thinking TMS might still be too long for a small field for stock car racing. I have found some smaller ovals and would like to have the oval guys let me know which one we should use.

Dover - 3rd party content 0.998 mile oval
Phoenix - 3rd party content 0.998 mile oval
Northside International - official ISI content 0.738 mile oval
Joesville - official ISI content 0.41 mile oval

Go with Northside International, it's ISI, so no bugs I would hope.

[Jim T]

Just ran a few laps at NI and I agree with Dan nice track and quick. Jim

[AngeloDS]

Another track that could be fun to the V8SC...Tarumã.
Short, fast and furious!

[Dan W.]

Nov 5, 2016 14:06:21 GMT -8 AngeloDS said:

Another track that could be fun to the V8SC...Tarumã.
Short, fast and furious!

Your not getting the concept for the series Angelo, the V8SC cars have never ran at Taruma as far as I know.
The series is ICONIC tracks these cars have run on.
So it must be a V8SC track, and the more ICONIC the better, like Bathurst, but it's too big for small fields. The next Iconic track would be Adelaide, and we have that track. Now if you could find a really popular V8SC track that has all the bells and whistles share it, but non V8SC tracks will not work as long as we have a working V8SC track to use.

Not trying to pick a fight, just trying to make you understand what Jimmy is trying to do here.

[AngeloDS]

Well, the brazilian Stock Cars never will race at Spilberg, in Austria, Dan.
That is the great thing about Simracing.


Anyway...Im not a oval racer, and because of that never run much the ISI Stock Cars. But after a few laps in Northside to get a feel, I went to drive them at Mid Ohio, Road Course.
Man, that is actually quite fun!!
Those Stock Cars in Road Courses would be a series Im totally in.

[Scott Beck]

I can't even get Northside. It won't download through steam and I can't find it on the net.