Season 1 IFCA Trans Am Championship!

by **IFCA GTDon** Fri Dec 01, 2023 5:41 am

Season 1 IFCA Trans Am Championship!

Saturday Dec 9th 6pm CST

Welcome back race fans and competitors alike!

We are ready to begin a new era in Forza simulation racing beginning on Saturday Dec 9th 6pm CST! It marks the first time that the IFCA will use its Practice Leaderboard as the means to set the 2 lobby grid. In the past we have always had a qualifying session just prior to the race, but with the added logistical gymnastics imposed upon us by the limitations forged by T10 with the new game, we had to think of a better more time efficient method for getting you to your grid position. This is in part due to the fact that T10 deleted the option to manually set the grid. In addition to this among the many firsts is that we will have a post-season Wild Card set of races. Races 7,8, and 9 will be the post-season play, allowing 1 extra team to make the final championship double points round.

There were many other changes and adaptations we've had to use to continue to bring you the kind of fair and balanced racing for all skill levels the IFCA has been known for. Our prediction was that we would have more than enough new drivers to run 2 lobbies. And it appears this is now the case. Everyone should read through the very brief season format page to understand what we are doing in order for you to lead your team to victory, here:

https://ifca.forumotion.com/t6886-ifca-trans-am-championship-format

The car list and build page for this season is here:

https://ifca.forumotion.com/t6884-season-1-fm-car-builds

The new updated Driver Ratings page is here:

https://ifca.forumotion.com/t6756-ifca-forza-8-driver-ratings

Our weekly practice lap leaderboard which also acts as our qualifying grid position board for Road America is here:

https://ifca.forumotion.com/t6883-season-1-rnd-1-road-america-dec-9th

The season schedule can be found here:

https://ifca.forumotion.com/t6885-fm-season-1-schedule

Also a first for the IFCA, is, we are allowing drivers to use any of the 3 cars offered in each 3 segment set of 3 races, regardless of what cars your teammates use. In the past you were only allowed to use 1 car for the whole season. We think that this will open things up and allow drivers to be able to drive the cars they would prefer for a given track without having to compromise.

Another new change is the F1 style start we will be using. It requires everyone to get into position by doing a sighting lap and returning to their correct grid position to start the race. The green flag drops when your 'total time' clock says 6:00min.

As always, the IFCA is committed to fair, clean, close, and fun racing for all skill levels. Everything we do has these four things at the forefront of every change we implement. Our motto is, "the only good pass is a clean pass." The IFCA 'Golden Rule' is, if contact results in someone going off the track, let them regain their lost position.

It is important that everyone understands that this is a hobby that we do for fun. No one is getting paid or earning prize money to do this in other words. The prevailing attitude among our veteran drivers is to avoid contact at all cost. To pretend that your car and your competitors car costs real money to repair. Real racers are usually on a limited budget of some kind, and the last thing they want or need is to repair damage. And though we do not run full sim-damage (for the sake of increased fun) you are expected to drive as if hitting anything is going to be paid for out of your own pocket.

This is not public lobby racing as most of you know. Most of us are here because we don't want to race like it is a public lobby race. This suggests a different kind of racing that is hard to come by. The type of racing that imparts a certain level of good sportsmanship you won't find anywhere else.

It would benefit everyone to read the short IFCA Mission Statement here:

https://ifca.forumotion.com/t6819-ifca-mission-vision-value-statements

Many thanks to all our IFCA supporters, test drivers, Team Leaders, recruiters, Race Director and IFCA Founders. People like AAR OneShot, ZAR Eries, Papa creech172, GTDon2, GoSox2000, SirKane2, KislingburyUSA, and most especially our Benevolent Dictator all deserve a round of applause for their timely input and effort to make this all happen.

We wish all of our teams the best of luck this season and may the best driver win.

Race safe, race clean, race hard!