What's this GB' Malarkey then?

Right, update time...

One of the good things about our league is a regular shuffling of the classes, opening up other aspects of racing and making use of other cars in the game - HRC460 is a classic example of this, getting the RUF into the racing amongst other things.

So, what's the GB - as in the previous post, it's Group B - or rather something like it.

Rules
I've done a bit of testing, and as a result of that and some feedback here are the new proposed rules:

1. Cars are submitted at the start of the year for 'scrutineering'.
• The car submitted remains the same make/model throughout the year.
• Cars may be tuned.
• Cars may be substituted for another same make/model car. E.g. If you have one car for dirt and one for street all good (though why not just tune).
• Where a car is substituted - the same aero package must be used - i.e. look the same (to stop scrutineering on a car with a wing, then running with none).
2. 500pp Max
3. Tyres to be used include:
• Racing Medium
• Dirt
• Wet tyres
4. Cars must have adjustable aero features (i.e. an adjustable wing or more)
5. No cars with 'prototype' or 'concept' in the name title. I.e. cars must be:
• A race car based on a road car; or
• A rally car based on a road car; or
• A road car (err based on a road car).
6. There is no age restriction.
7. There is no specific power restriction.
8. There is no specific weight restriction.
9. Not the same as someone else's car! - First in gets the deal. My advice is to submit your preferred now and change it later if you need to, that way you secure your car.

This all sounds a bit full on, but in reality it's get a car make sure you can adjust the aero on it, put dirt tyres on it and then tune it to 500pp. Easy!

Scrutineering

How're we going to do that - easy...

Take a picture of your car, share it out as a pic (in game is fine I can pick them up from there) and email me a short description of the car (why you picked it etc, no need to give away tuning secrets unless you want to!) - I'll post a blog update with the cars for racing before next season. That becomes your car for the season!

Races

The races will be something along the lines of:

• 2x Dirt/gravel tracks - slipstream turned off (so it's easier to pass).
• 2x Traditional circuit races.
• 1x Wet race.
• 1x Street race.

If the season works out longer I'll keep a similar ratio - essentially I'm trying to get a balance of off/on road so that there's reasonable racing for both 4wd and RWD cars. We'll see!

Cars

I'm supposing for some it'll be possible to run a TC500 car in this class. This in fact has good heritage when you consider that the Ford RS500 Cosworth did both touring and rally as did the E30 M3 BMW. Perhaps we need to have more power for proper Group B racing, but I think that the dirt tracks in GT5 let us down a bit.

Anyway, here's the results of my testing...

Great fun - here's the real deal!

To mad for me.

I put a lot of time into this - OK on dirt, epic on street of course.

Could be a class winner...

If it wasn't for stuff like this. Modern Group B madness really.

So there you have it, an eclectic mix of cars. Note that RM type cars (full list here) can have dirt tyres, or at least some can, so you can build your own Group B monster, and of course the track time will be better compared to a road car.

p.s. I'll be submitting one of these shortly... prob by Thursday so if you want one of these submit early!

The final settings are not made yet, so happy for testers to give me advice on best options. 

Cheers

Andrew