General information
Like our previous season finales, the Gathering of Tweakers (GoT) Sonoma 150 event is once again a Team Challenge race. For this season we decided to try our hand at a bit more exotic combo with cars that are very well suited to great racing: the Mazda MX-5 Cup will take it up against the Kia Optima in a 150 mile endurance race around Sonoma Raceway!
Every driver is part of a two-man team, and each team must consist of one MX-5 and one Kia driver. The two cars will be in their own class and will also be gridded by class, but the only thing that matters at the end is your total team score: the sum of the points of both teammates. There is no individual winner, only the team with the most amount of total points wins!
Broadcast
The race will be broadcasted by Global Sim Racing Channel (GRSC)!
Event details
Date: Sunday July 27th, 2014.
Track: Sonoma Raceway (Long).
Cars: Mazda MX-5 and Kia Optima
Length: 60 laps (~150 miles), probably about 100 minutes.
Setups: Open, but setups will be shared in the practice sessions.
Grid: Rolling start, gridded by class.
Fast repairs: 1
Fuel limits: See below.
Cautions: Local yellows, but small chance of full course yellow, decided upon by live marshals.
Weather: See below.
Fuel limits
MX-5: 16,4 Liter (4,23 Gallon), Kia: 51,1 Liter (13,47 Gallon)
Weather
Temp: 29 degrees celsius (84,2 F)
Hum.: 65%
Wind: SW 18 km/h (11 miles/hr)
Sky: clear
Time details
Times in GMT / UTC:
Sunday, July 27th
Practice: 17:00 – 18:35 (95 minutes)
Qualify: 18:35 – 18:45 (10 minutes, 1 lap lone shootout!)
Race: 18:45 – ~20:25 (60 laps, about 100 minutes)
Extra practice:
Saturday, July 26th: 18:00 – 22:00 (4 hours)
Team racing
The Team Racing aspect is unique to our Team Challenge events. Every driver is part of a two-man team, consisting of exactly one Mazda MX-5 and one Kia Optima. Points are awarded to each driver separately based on their class finishing positions. Penalty points are subtracted when a driver has too much incidents in the race (see below). The final team score is simply the sum of each driver’s points after subtracting penalties. The overall winner of the race is therefore meaningless, only the final position of your team is what counts!
Team mates
You must sign up with a team mate, you can no longer sign up by yourself and expect us to make the teams. In case a driver has to withdraw, try to find a replacement yourself, and please let us know as soon as possible so we can see what we can do.
Points
Points are awarded for class finishing positions of each driver separately. Final team position is decided by the sum of points of all three drivers, after subtracting possible penalties. In case of a draw between teams, the team with the least amount of combined incidents wins. If there is still a draw in that case, the fastest laptime will decide the winner.
Points in order of class finishing position:
30, 27, 25, 23, 22, 21, … (one point less for every position down) …, 3, 2, 1.
In addition to that we subtract penalty points for incidents:
< 6x: No penalty
6-10x: -2 points
11-15x: -4 points
16-20x: -8 points
21-25x: -14 points
> 25x: -20 points
During the race a live team timing will be available, but will not take into account the incident penalties! These will be subtracted after the race and before price giving at the GSRC teamspeak server at the end of the broadcast.
Live marshals
Nick Thissen and Joep Willemsen will be live marshals during the whole race. They will penalize drivers who do not behave according the ‘First Official Sporting Code Version 2014.02.21.01’ during the race. They can give stop&go or stop&hold penalties to drivers.
In the unlikely event that the track gets blocked the marshals can throw in a safety car.
Restrictions
Unfortunately, we feel mandated to impose a small minimum license restriction before you are eligible to race.
Minimum road license: C class
Minimum road iRating: 1500
Gathering of Tweakers community members who do not meet these restrictions may be allowed to race at the discretion of the organization.
Podium after the Chequered Flag
Nick and Joep will calculate the final scoring (with incident penalty points) as fast as possible after the race and provide the results to GSRC. Just before price giving at the broadcast channel GSRC will show the final results. The winning team is invited to join the GSRC teamspeak server for a short interview. Details on how to join their server will be in the PM with the password of the race.
Registration