DriverSports GTS Pre-Season | Sunday April 8 | Daytona Road

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DriverSports.org is proud to introduce an international championship series for GT style race cars. GTS is a class of purpose built race cars representing a broad range of manufacturers competing on iconic GP tracks the world over. The selection ranges from standard LM race cars that were made popular in GT4, to the Premium RMs new to GT5, certain SuperGT, DTM and even new Touring Car DLC are eligible for this series. All told, 17 cars are at your disposal, all of which are capable of winning. Only DriverSports offers such diversity while maintaining the competitive balance.

Each car has been prescribed a specific engine build that result in as level a playing field as possible. The prescribed parts produce a specific redline and turbo boost gauge reading, meaning all competitors can be certain of the parts equipped on their opponents cars.

This series will consist of 2 pre-season races followed by a 6 race championship series. Anyone is welcome in any one or all races, regardless of their ability or desire to complete the entire season. Once entered in the series, however, a driver must stay committed to the same car for the duration of the Regular Season. Drivers may run different cars in the Preseason.

Each driver will be awarded 1 drop of their worst finish to be excluded from the final championship standings. After the pre-season races points will be awarded to determine the order in which the first race of the championship will be sorted (if multiple divisions are required), and once at the track a live qualifying session will give everyone a chance at pole position in their division. During the season divisions will be sorted by current championship standings. Despite a maximum of 11 drivers per division, all drivers have an equal opportunity at the overall race win, as final finishing positions are determined based on a driver's overall race completion time.

No pre-qualifying or licensing is necessary. To participate a driver needs to register for each race prior to the registration deadline (30 mins before the race). A Live Qualifying Session will be held prior to each race to stage the grid. All driver aids, except ABS, are disabled.

DriverSports.org Rulebook:

Race Day: Sunday April 8, 2012

Class: GTS

This event is being run with specific regulations for each car regulations. See the Rulebook and Technical Regulations tabs for full details.

Track: Road Course - Daytona 5.73 km / 3.56 mi

Race Distance: 23 laps | 131.79 km | 81.88 mi

Time and Weather Settings:

Registration Deadline - 9:00 PM EST

Register For This Race


Drivers Meeting - Open 9:20 PM EST | Closed 9:30 PM EST

Championship Points Tables:

Proper Room Settings:

Schedule:

Pre-Season:

• April
  
  • Sunday 8. Road Course - Daytona 5.73 km / 3.56 mi
    
  • Sunday 15. Fuji Speedway F 4.56 km / 2.84 mi

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General Technical Regulations

GT Auto:
Oil change, car wash, rims, paint and refreshes are allowed.

• Front - /
  
• Rear - /
  
• Extension - /
  
• Wing - /
  
• Racing Modification - /

Tires: Race: Hard

Your installed parts, performance statistics and HUD readings must match the accompanying image exactly. If unlisted the default part is equipped. The maximum power figures are achieved with a fully broken in, oil changed and engine refreshed car with more than 200 miles and less than 6,000 miles. Adding illegal parts to make up for an unbroken car is not allowed.

Car Specific Regulations:

Audi A4 Touring Car '04 Technical Regulations:

Audi Abt TT-R Touring Car '02 Technical Regulations:

Autobacs ARTA Garaiya '08 Technical Regulations:

BMW M3 GTR Race Car '01 Technical Regulations:

Honda NSX-R Prototype LM Race Car '02 Technical Regulations:

Lexus IS F RM '07 Technical Regulations:

Lexus Weds Sport IS 350 '08 Technical Regulations:

Mazda RX-7 LM Race Car '01 Technical Regulations:

Mazda RX-7 Touring Car '02 Technical Regulations:

Mazda RX-8 Concept LM Race Car '01 Technical Regulations:

Mitsubishi FTO Super Touring Car '97 Technical Regulations:

Nissan 350Z Concept LM Race Car '01 Technical Regulations:

Nissan Skyline GT-R R33 Touring Car '97 Technical Regulations:

Opel Astra Touring Car (Opel Team Phoenix) '00 Technical Regulations:

Subaru Impreza Super Touring Car '01 Technical Regulations:

TVR Tuscan Speed 6 RM '00 Technical Regulations:

Vauxhall Astra Super Touring Car '00 Technical Regulations:

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We're sharing this event with GTPlanet and the PSN forums:

http://community.us.playstation.com/thread/4681654?start=0&tstart=0

http://www.gtplanet.net/forum/showthread.php?t=248637

[HWKII]

Hmmmm NSX or M3...

[RackAttack]

No-brainer for me :-)

[AgentWD40_FL]

No-brainer for me :-)

i saw that RX-8 in the list, oh yeah! the FTO is going to get some track time too.

nice choices. need to find some time to get alot of these on the track to see which ones dont like the busstop.

[AgentWD40_FL]

does anyone have a lvl16 ticket to trade?

[clacksman]

does anyone have a lvl16 ticket to trade?

I'll send one if I have it (have to check fake account stashes). Any weirdo friend request is said fake account.

[clacksman]

No L16 card among my stash apparently. Also GT4 pics ftw.

[AgentWD40_FL]

I'll send one if I have it (have to check fake account stashes). Any weirdo friend request is said fake account.

gracias

[AgentWD40_FL]

No L16 card among my stash apparently. Also GT4 pics ftw.

thanks for trying!

[HWKII]

I can't put up a Lounge for some reason, so I am just going to make an open lobby. Voice communication will be on, room is "Driversports.org-GTS".

[HWKII]

Well that was mildly entertaining... did a couple of 5 lap races, trying to balance out the tire wear on the M3 which seems quite severe all around. I think I got that figured out, 1'45.2 is my fastest lap time after about 10 laps, which I suspect is no where close. 1'42s?

Drivers who randomly joined either raced me for one lap or 1 corner, and left after failing to knock me off the track or spent the whole race turning donuts in the infield. So, basically we have the most mature community in the world!

The Bus Stop chicane is as spectacular in the M3 as it was in the RX-7 I last drove here in a race.

[Forgetful]

Good stuff. Thanks for giving it a go in public. If anyone is going to do so in the future, if it's not too much trouble, could we get you guys to post at the PSN and GTP threads as well? No worries if you can't.

[HWKII]

I will absolutely do so. Room was up an hour, very few people wandered in, and as I wrote, all of them were just looking to wreck people it seemed.

[HWKII]

More practice has my BMW running a personal best of 1'43.642.. Which makes me suspect the pace is further out than I previously anticipated. Hopefully someone gives me a rabbit to chase soon.

[timneyb]

Looks like I'll be keeping my one drive per week on Sundays then

I'll be driving something premium, because I am a polygon snob. Also, something with flashy decals, because I love the ugly, so I don't know if the RM lexus will be for me (although being able to break out some garish Easter paint jobs would be nice; so many pinks, yellows and purples to choose from). That reduces the cars I'll consider to a nice small number for testing next week.

[clacksman]

My car choice is already narrowed to one of either a Standard car or a Premium.

There's an FTO general tune in GTData already, I have decent tunes for the ISF and M3 somewhere on a car and will stick them in GTData shortly, the other cars I don't think I have anything beyond an edu-guess.

[timneyb]

Seems I have all of the Premiums available and broken in (with no irreversible mods yet). Get in line if you want a clone in the next week.

[clacksman]

Seems I have all of the Premiums available and broken in (with no irreversible mods yet). Get in line if you want a clone in the next week.

The DLC cars (RX-7 & R33 TCs) aren't sendable afaik. Might just be the : Tuscan, IS F, Garaiya, Weds IS that are sendable with the 1M Cr value cap on sending cars. I could also send an IS F RM or Tuscan RM either ready for this series or stock.

Also looks like I need to try HWKs tune for the M3 ...

[Forgetful]

I have all the cars built so if there are any sendables I can pitch in as well.

I'm looking lustfully at that RX-7 LM. BBS' on a Standard race car! Dat flare!

[AgentWD40_FL]

most likely will drive the standard rx-8, or if feeling groovey, then rx-7 lm. both a dream-mobile to drive. would like to make some laps in the fto (another favorite) but cant get ahold of it. might get lucky with ucd/ocd, but not holding breath.

[HWKII]

Also looks like I need to try HWKs tune for the M3 ...

... wat?

I am pretty sure I didn't screw up typing in the minute (been known to do that...) but now you have me worried that my room was set wrong... Replay doesn't seem to think so, but iono...

[clacksman]

would like to make some laps in the fto (another favorite) but cant get ahold of it. might get lucky with ucd/ocd, but not holding breath.

Yeah that thing doesn't appear often enough. I don't even have all the colours yet.

[Forgetful]

Missed your PSN PMs HWKII, sorry. Got a bad habit of turning on the PS3 the walking away to go do stuff. Showing the rental place next door, so was in and out all morning.

I'll be out to practice after lunch. Might be some rally, maybe TTTC, mabye this.

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