HomeAnnouncements  IFCA Pirelli World Endurance Series Nov 23rd Fri Nov 08, 2024 11:19 am by IFCA GTDon  This is the last Official IFCA series of the year. A true "run what you brung" event! Your only restrictions are to use Sport tires in a legal C500 car. We pulled the top 10 leaderboard cars out and placed them on a no play list. Other than this, every other car and parts combo is legal. Prior to the PWE we ran a pilot program to work on the format for the PWE to get the bugs out and create a fun and interesting rule set for qualifying and starting the races. Qualifying will be done through what was the practice lap leaderboard. There won't be a 4lap qualy just prior to the race on race day anymore. Your best practice lap is your qualifying position now. We will continue to use a +0.2sec dial-in factor with a 5sec per row delayed start and inverted grid. Tire wear will be set at 3.5 with optimum race conditions. 14 Ineligible OP cars for this season. Also any car that is unable to install Sport tires is not permitted.
There is a limit of 24 grid positions based on qualifying. So the sooner you grab a C500 car and start running laps at Grand Oak Club the better chance you will have to make the grid. We will begin accepting lap times and start posting them on Sunday Nov 10th. All the usual and familiar bonuses related to pole, fastest lap, leaderboard, Wed night early bird, clean racer, and dial-in bonuses will remain. After the first race everyone not on the podium will be issued a P.I. increase for the next race, and then there will be a P.I. correction for every race thereafter. For this reason you will have to race the same car for the duration of the season. Yes, we will continue to have a Team Championship piggybacking on the individual championship as always. Any 2 man team with matching liveries is legal even if they don't use the same cars. For the full season details and schedule of tracks check out the series thread here: Good luck! [ Full reading ] Comments: 0 Season 1 IFCA SuperTouring! Wed Sep 25, 2024 12:36 pm by IFCA GTDon  Season 1 IFCA SuperTouring Oct 19th! Finally! We get to pick our own cars and build them any way we like! The only requirement is using race tires. That's it! Any car that fits into A-Class is legal! No more build sheets! No more testing multiple cars! But wait! How can we have equality this way? Simple, with a new feature borrowed from drag racing where you place a limit on how fast you can go. It's called a dial-in time. Set your fastest lap on the practice leader board and we will add +0.4sec to your best time for your dial-in time. This is the time you are not allowed to go under. If you do, there will be a massive time penalty. Because this is a very modest governor for equality and not quite like the drag race version, we will also utilize the ballast handicap after the first race at Sebring on Oct 19th 6pm CST. As with drag racing the point of having a dial-in that you can't go faster than, is to be able to run unequal cars in a more fair race. Road racing offers some different challenges in this regard mainly because we are not running a single lap but multiple laps. This is why the impact of a dial-in is not nearly as high as it is at the drag strip. Even so, during the heat of battle, knowing you are only allowed to go as fast as your dial-in on any given lap can make for some intense pressure. How hard do you push before you go too fast while chasing your rival who is giving you draft during the final few laps? As you can imagine, knowing just how fast you really are and managing your speed with a kind of restraint is key. Anyone who thinks they can run a slow sandbag time and then run faster during the race is in for a big shock. It becomes critically important to always run as fast as you possibly can so that you can go as fast as you are allowed during the race without fear of "breaking out" of your dial-in time. Sounds easy, right? Let's say you did some good practice and are steadily and consistently within 0.2sec of you best lap in practice. You might tie it on a good run or even beat it on a rare great run. But with the dial-in added, your best lap time becomes 0.4sec slower, meaning that it is much easier to reach your fastest lap time now. So much easier, that you will have to pay attention to your lap times during the race. The only remedy for this is to go exceedingly fast during practice so that you have the smallest chance of going too fast during the race. The faster practice time you have the faster race time you are allowed, and the less chance you will have of breaking out. Drivers who just run a few laps during the week, and do most of their practice during the warmup will be severally handicapping themselves in the wrong direction. They will be much faster than their dial-in and be very limited by this. Because more emphasis is being placed on your best practice lap the races are 2 weeks a part instead of 1. This will give everyone plenty of time to sharpen their laps in order to maximize their speed. Be advised this is still just a pilot program with only 3 races. Tire wear will be minimal with 2 pit stops, everyone will be on softs and 1 medium. Weather will be clear. You will drive the same car for all 3 races. For more details go here: Good luck @ Sebring Oct 19th 6pm CST! Comments: 0 Season 5 Super Spec Aug 24th Thu Jul 11, 2024 2:00 pm by IFCA GTDon  Welcome back! Season 5 of IFCA Super Spec is just around the corner with several exciting new changes happening. The Season 5 opener is Aug 24th at Watkins Glen. This time around you need only concern yourselves with 2 cars from Hollywood fame for the first three races. It's a wonderful "what if" match race between the hero cars from what is arguably the greatest car chase scene ever put to film. Steve McQueen's 1968 Ford Mustang, and (in our scenario), the hitman's 1969 Dodge Charger, both in B-Class super spec builds. Unlike last season where it was left up to the drivers to figure out what the best tire compound strategy should be, this season we have simplified the task and made it easier so that everyone uses the same optimum tire strategy. We felt that by doing so we could reduce testing time and guess work, which would in turn keep everyone on a more level playing field for closer racing. There is still some wiggle room, but it is no longer a wide open anything goes affair. How? By estimating how many laps each tire compound can last before it starts to seriously degrade for a given car and a given track. Once we know how many laps each compound can do, this then tells us how many total laps the race will be. To make things easier for everyone we created a chart to help guide you. Doing it this way means that everyone will have to use all 3 compounds during a race for maximum performance. If you attempt to use a different tire strategy you will fail to maximize your performance. This is the best combination possible for the given number of laps.
In the second half of the 6 race season, we decided to go with a more modern rivalry and settle the argument between the C8 Chevrolet Corvette and the car GM patterned it after, the Ferrari 458 in S-Class super spec builds. In essence, which manufacturer actually makes a better Ferrari? Better in terms of GT performance that is. Such a debate has been argued, but not really tested, until now. In both performance scenarios we tried to build the cars with equality in mind along with retaining some of the actual performance capabilities and characteristics of each car, to give our drivers a realistic feel for what it could be like. Additionally, we are bringing back the weight ballast handicap system to further equalize the field. Everyone will begin in the extra heavy Pro ballast build, and those that podium will stay in the Pro build while everyone else will drop down into their respective lighter builds depending on where they finish. For the second half of the season, again everyone will begin in the Pro builds. 1,2,3, = Pro/Extra Heavy 4-7 = Platinum/Heavy 8-11 = Gold/Medium 12-15 = Silver/Light 16-19 = Bronze/Extra Light 20-24 = Copper/ No Ballast Tracks 1968 Ford Mustang GT 390 vs 1969 Dodge Charger R/T 426 Hemi 1. Watkins Glen, Saturday Aug 24th 6pm CST/31laps 2. Mid-Ohio, Saturday Aug 31st 6pm CST/34laps 3. Road Atlanta, Saturday Sept 7th 6pm CST/36laps 2009 Ferrari 458 Italia vs 2023 Chevrolet Corvette ZO6 4. Mugello Saturday Sept 21st 6pm CST/23laps 5. Daytona Road Course Saturday Sept 28th 6pm CST/28laps 6. Sebring Saturday Oct 5th 6pm CST/26laps More details and actual sign-ups can be found here: https://ifca.forumotion.com/t6929-season-5-info-and-sign-ups [ Full reading ] Comments: 1 | Latest topics |
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