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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.

Mustang & Charger
Tire wear x3	Watkins Glen	Mid-Ohio	Road America
Soft laps	7	8	6
Medium laps	11	12	8
Hard laps	13	14	12
total race lap length	31	34	26
approximate track time	64min	55min	65min
ZO6 & 458
Tire wear x3	Mugello	Daytona	Sebring
Soft laps	5	6	6
Medium laps	7	9	8
Hard laps	11	13	12
total race lap length	23	28	26
approximate track time	45min	49min	54min

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 America, Saturday Sept 7th 6pm CST/26laps

2009 Ferrari 458 Italia vs 2023 Chevrolet Corvette ZO6
4. Mugello Saturday Sept 14th  6pm CST/23laps
5. Daytona Road Course Saturday Sept 21st  6pm CST/28laps
6. Sebring Saturday Sept 28th  6pm CST/26laps





More details and actual sign-ups can be found here:
https://ifca.forumotion.com/t6929-season-5-info-and-sign-ups


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Back by popular demand, the IFCA brings you endurance racing like only the IFCA can for Season 3!  Not even T10 has figured out how to allow drivers to share the driving duties as is done in real endurance racing.  

Well, here at the IFCA we have long since formulated a way for you and your teammate to take turns driving the same car.  That's right, through a sequence of successive pit stops of equal number, you and a buddy can act as a relay team and do a 2 hour race together, and finish the race on the same lap!

The cool twist is that teammates do not have to drive the exact same car, they only need to be in the same class.  Also, each round, drivers are permitted to switch out their cars so that you are not stuck in one car the whole season.  This flexibility enables drivers to maximize their performance each round independently of their teammate. For example, maybe you and your teammate don't like the same car, and you prefer a different car to what he likes, great, you can pick a different car!  Or, maybe the car you picked for the first round is not a car you would want to use for the second round, no problem, pick what you think will work better for the second round too!

As you can see, it really opens things up so that no one has to be forced to drive what they don't like, or what doesn't work for them.  The only thing that has to be the same is your livery.

This will be a multi-class event utilizing 2 classes too.  Each class has room for 6 two man teams.  Teams must qualify to claim a spot for the season using their best combined average practice lap times on Rivals or elsewhere, @ Road America.