How to Navigate The IFCA Site

I've often heard that navigating the IFCA site is a bit like going into a house of mirrors for some people.  It's confusing and seems disorganized to a lot of people.  And while I can see that this can be the case, I also know that a lot of people could do better with a little instruction.

The easiest way to navigate the IFCA site is to go to what we consider to be the "front page" or "Portal" https://ifca.forumotion.com/

Once there, what you will see primarily is the IFCA Newsletter.  Above the newsletter is your forum tabs bar.  More importantly, however, is the "Latest Topics" box to the right of the page which continually scrolls the latest posts in every topic.  It is here that you can see at a glance anything that was recently posted and can click on it and it will take you there. And that's all you need.




If you instead go directly to the forums by clicking on the first tab called "Home" at the top left of any page or your browser URL save simply takes you there, you are greeted with just 4 forum categories.  The IFCA World Rankings, the IFCA Rated Events From Around The World! the Special Announcements, and the Newsletters and features category.

To make things easy to find we have "globalized" the Trans-Am build sheets for all the classifications or groups of cars we use.  This means that no matter what category you click on the build sheets for all the cars will always be at the top of every page you visit.

The "IFCA World Rankings" category has only 2 sections.  it has all the "announcements" for Lap Records, Seasonal Points, Format, Penalties, and Drivers looking for teams. And below these topics at the bottom of the page is where you can find the all-important IFCA Forza 7 Ratings and World Rankings.

The "IFCA Rated Events From Around The World!" category is where you can go to see the ratings results of all the series we rate whether they are from within the IFCA or some other league.  There is one special topic we keep here called "IFCA Relay Challenge Series News" which is where we post relevant topics to that of our series, simulation racing, and real racing.  Sort of a large news hub as it relates to our hobby.  In fact it is the most read topic on the site with over 10,000 views. Everything else that you see as you scroll down are old past rated events and are locked.  You can look at them, you just can't reply to them.

The "Special Announcements" category is a kind of continuation of the "IFCA Relay Challenge Series News" as it covers mostly Forza related topics.

The "Newsletters and features" category is where you will find the latest IFCA Newsletter which also appears on the Portal page.  You'll also see all the previous IFCA Newsletters from times past.  The Newsletter is the tip of the IFCA spear and acts as a kind of calendar of events before each new season.

Perhaps the easiest thing to do is make sure to turn on your "Notify me when a reply is posted" option.  That way if anything is posted to a topic you have read you can get an email notification of it.

Hope this helps.

"Stay Tuned!"