HomeAnnouncements  Season 1 IFCA SuperTouring! Wed Sep 25, 2024 11:36 am 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 1:00 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 Season 4 Super Spec Tue May 28, 2024 8:53 am by IFCA GTDon  After many seasons of creative and innovative formats, the IFCA will revisit its roots with a form of spec racing that promises to be very easy to enter and competitively fun to do. As with any spec format it's all about limiting what the cars are allowed to have so that the relative performance shifts from the hands of builders/tuners to the drivers. By forcing cars to be more alike, spec racing intends to level the playing field so that it becomes more of a driver's contest in other words. The car requirements for our Super Spec format follows the same pattern regardless of class, with race tires, widest width, stock rim size, stock engine power, and no engine or restrictor plate swaps. Beyond these things you can pick any car within the given manufacturer and class, and build it up any way you see fit. Unique to Super Spec is that you are not forced to drive 1 car for the entire season. Each race you are free to change your car out. In addition, the format is divided into two halves so that drivers who excel at lower class cars get as many races as drivers who prefer upper class cars. The first 3 races will be in C-Class utilizing GM vs FoMoCo products of your choice. The second 3 races will be Ferrari vs Porsche in S-Class, resulting in a kind of "Run What You Brung" spec format. Track dates and times 1.Catalunya GP, Saturday June 15th 6pm CST 2.Eagle Rock Club, Saturday June 22nd 6pm CST 3.Laguna Seca Short, Saturday June 29th 6pm CST 4.Spa, Saturday July 13th 6pm CST 5.Grand Oak Reverse, Saturday July 20th 6pm CST 6.Homestead Road course, Saturday July 27th 6pm CST We will be doing away (temporarily) with the skill ratings this season. There will be no driver or car handicaps. There will be no build sheets. So, no more trying to find the build page or trying to follow the build sheet list of parts. Build it your way! Yaay! No more objections to our testers getting an unfair advantage for testing. Because everyone becomes a tester. There will be no team mandate either. Teams will still exist, and they will have a seperate championship points table, but you do not have to be on a team to race. Drivers on teams are still racing for the individual championship too. The number of pit stops will be up to you as well during the 60 min race. There will be a predetermined tire wear setting which will allow the strategic use of different tire compounds. These will be standing start races. All bonuses will remain in place for fastest practice laps, pole, fastest race lap, clean driver. And the final race will be double points. Our 8pm CST Wed night Spec Kings will convert to a pre-race featurette race for the new format but at only half the distance. It's a chance to see what people are racing while racing the same race that officially takes place the following Saturday at 6pm CST. Welcome to, "IFCA Super Spec"! Comments: 0 | Latest topics |
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