Race #3 Le Mans Endurance Race

So here it is folks, the first of the endurance races of the season. Nervous? You should be!

It's time to get some serious racing into the season, 10 laps of the world famous Le-Mans race track (less with Clubman of course!). With night racing and tyre wear!

The track:

In the game it's called Circuit La Sarthe which in fairness it is in real life. What you need to know is that it's a fast track that benefits from little down force and lots of power... except, the pesky Porsche Curves, no down force there means no cornering.

The cars:

They're the 650Open cars that we all have (we do don't we). Things to note:

• In this class you can have TCS (traction control), I would, it'll save your tyres.
• Race cars are the order of the day.
• None of that red-bull, bull either. Check the charter if you need help on car rules.
• Racing in cockpit or behind the car may be a challenge. In car, no dash is one of the better views, it makes a difference at night.

The twist:

So this race is going to have tyre wear. For the first time (since the last update) we can now set the rate of wear. I've done some test laps (in the name of science you understand) and reckon that we'll launch on "FAST" tyre wear, the options being None/Normal/Fast/Very-Fast. I'll let your practice sessions figure out what that means...

Oh, and learn where the pit stop is, it's hard to find in the dark!

But this is not twist enough. We have time advance turned on (be thankfull I didn't want to race wet racing at night!). For this race we will start racing in game time at 1:00pm and have an advance of x45 which essentially means that for every minute of real time we advance 45 minutes in game time. So, 10 laps at roughly 4 minutes a lap means we'll have 30 hours in game time to race - plenty to see the sun come up.

Official Race Details:

Clubman:

Host: Andrew (Andyc709292)

Lounge: FCT GT5 Andrew

Date: 29-Nov-2012

Track: Circuit La Sarthe

Start time: 9:00 PM

Laps: 2

Cars: Fixed

Tyres: TBC

Boost: High

Championship:

Host: Andrew

Start time: 9:15 PM

Track: Circuit La Sarthe

Laps: 10

Cars: 650Open

Tyres: Open

Boost: Low

Tyre Wear on

Time Advance on (x45)

Reminder...

587pp Road Car, no TCS, Racing Soft, a stiff drink and a challenge from George had me hit 3:54:08: