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#Post#: 5992--------------------------------------------------
Endurance Racing?
DIR By: bleuneo
Date: January 29, 2018, 5:42 pm
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I was curious if anyone racing in this league is interested in
doing any form of endurance racing. I'm not recruiting for some
other league. I would just like to know everyone's interest in
doing maybe a 6 or 8 hour endurance race 1 time a year. Like
maybe convince the admins, if there is any interest, to create a
one off race of our version of a petit le mans. I've always been
interested in pairing up with someone to do an endurance race.
Or just any race longer than 2 hours. My favorite form of
motorsport currently is IMSA, the Hankook 24hr series,
blancpain, all forms of endurance motorsport are extremely
interesting to me. I know that long of race can be quite hard
for most of us responsible adults to be able to attend, but if
it was something that we planned and worked on for 6 months
before the race, getting a race day/time that would work for
everyone shouldn't be too bad. I don't really have the time for
something like that year round, but once a year, on a famous
track like sebring, or le mans, even the nurb, would be
fantastic and something I feel with months and months of
planning could be worked out for everyones benefit that would be
interested. I would personally donate any funds to make
something like this work, servers, mods, whatever would be
needed.
Like I said just a thought of mine, it may go down in flames, or
not. I'm hoping not :)
Best of luck to you all in practice this week at Valencia!
#Post#: 5993--------------------------------------------------
Re: Endurance Racing?
DIR By: Rick Adams
Date: January 29, 2018, 6:47 pm
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I would love this! I used to race at VEC in RF1. I've raced 6,
8, and 12 hours races with a team of 4 drivers.
#Post#: 5994--------------------------------------------------
Re: Endurance Racing?
DIR By: Tig_green
Date: January 29, 2018, 8:09 pm
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I like the idea. 6 hours with 3 drivers could be good.
Only problem I can see would be to get enough interest. I would
imagine this requires almost 50 drivers. Plus is there good
enough endurance mod around in rf2...
#Post#: 5995--------------------------------------------------
Re: Endurance Racing?
DIR By: Chad Brown
Date: January 29, 2018, 8:44 pm
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The idea of endurance racing has come up in the past. At those
times it was determined that there simply were not enough
drivers available to take part. Now that the league has more
members I think we can start to entertain the idea again. Mixed
class racing has always been my desire here too but the number
of drivers has also made this difficult to do. We can again
entertain this for the next series as well. But that is an
entirely separate discussion.
I think a lower time endurance race with multiple driver teams
would likely be more workable for the first race. something
along the line of a 3 hour race with 3 drivers or a 4 hour race
with 2 driver teams (Depending on how much time each driver
wishes to driver per stint). Any longer than that and I think we
will have less interest.
I will say that the 45 minute race felt like it flew by this
last week. But the time on track is relative and for members
coming from PC, AC or iracing where races tend to be around 15
minutes, a 45-60 Minute race IS an endurance race. Certainly
when I started in Sim-racing some years ago a 60 minute race
felt like FOREVER!!!!!!. But now it seems swift.
As we move through the GT3 Season we can assess the viability of
a one off endurance race. (Mixed class racing has always been my
desire here too but the number of drivers has also made this
difficult to do.)
#Post#: 5996--------------------------------------------------
Re: Endurance Racing?
DIR By: Tig_green
Date: January 30, 2018, 12:49 am
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We could arrange 3-4 hours long endurance event to see how it
goes. I think 6 prototype teams and 10 GT teams would be enough.
So minimum of 32 drivers is required. Teams could have 2-4
drivers each (free choice). Stint lenght is probably limited to
45-60 mins due to tires. In 3 hours race one driver would need
to do 45mins-1,5h depending on team size and in 4 hour race
1h-2h.
Possibility of technical failures are part of endurance racing.
How good is rf2 simulating any (random) technical failures?
-Matt
#Post#: 5998--------------------------------------------------
Re: Endurance Racing?
DIR By: red bullet
Date: January 30, 2018, 2:34 am
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Definitely interested. Although I hope I won't screw it up for
my teammates. :D
#Post#: 5999--------------------------------------------------
Re: Endurance Racing?
DIR By: DEK
Date: January 30, 2018, 4:07 am
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Also very interested. I may not be the fastest around but I'm
consistent .
Cheers
#Post#: 6010--------------------------------------------------
Re: Endurance Racing?
DIR By: Tarheel Dan
Date: January 30, 2018, 3:20 pm
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We could do some single driver endurance races of 2 or 3 hours.
Or.... here's a weird idea...
If races can be "paused", do a 2 hour stint, and pause. Then, on
another day, return, but switch drivers in a lottery. all the
same drivers, but in different cars, randomly chosen. another 2
hour stint.
repeat.
#Post#: 6012--------------------------------------------------
Re: Endurance Racing?
DIR By: Marketcrash16
Date: January 30, 2018, 3:27 pm
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Great idea.
What I would suggest is maybe run a 1 hour endurance simulation
( so a sped up day-to-night cycle within the hour) and give
eople a taste of it. Wouldn't need as many drivers for that, and
we could run a 4 track series so people could test out different
classes)
The 2 URD mods would be perfect for that. There is only 1 LMP2
car though. If we used the absolutely awful Enduracer mod, I'd
simply stick with the GTE class...either way I'd be in to that.
#Post#: 6013--------------------------------------------------
Re: Endurance Racing?
DIR By: bleuneo
Date: January 30, 2018, 5:23 pm
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In my offline experience, with mechanical failures set to time
scaled it's pretty accurate in terms of failures. Now it isn't
perfect for every mod but I'm sure we could find one. I don't
know how using mods for leagues works permission wise, but I
have some experience with the enduracers mod for rfactor 2 and
there are a plethora of cars and multiple classes. Any other
mods anyone knows about suited for a multi class endurance race?
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