We're off to Japan, to Tsukuba. 3 x 18 laps on the Long circuit. This track will need the OSRW mod over the top of it to give the track extra pit boxes.

TRACK DOWNLOAD (includes the OSRW pit mod)

Weather Forecast (looking like 32 degrees and clear).

With no qualifying, Race 1 will start at 8:30pm eastern.

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RACE RESULTS

Race 1, lap 1, there was a side-by-side contact with Phil on the inside of Grat, but Phil was up to Grat's drivers door, so I'd call that one a racing incident.

Race 3, lap 1, Humper and Grat hide side by side. Grat was on the inside, and only up to Humper's rear wheel, but it was an unsettled sequence through turns 2 and 3 and again I'll call that a racing incident.

Bacchulum got into the rear of Matthew at turn 1, but Matthew was oversteering and counter-steering, so again, a racing incident.

Round Points
Guybrush Threepwood    66
Marty    66
EdWood    59
Phil.8    58
Matthew111    56
Bacchulum    55
Jeremy    55
hylas    53
Wally    50
Mael    48
Freezer    46
slideways    40
Let's Test Drive    38
Grat    34
Dave O    32
Humper    31
Joe    23
AJ    20
Bafs17    20
Rob    20
Hornbag    15

Congratulations to race winners Guybrush, Jeremy and Edwood, and tied round winners Marty and Guybrush.

Season Podium
1. Guybrush, 66
1. Marty, 66
2. EdWood, 59
3. Phil.8, 58

The opening round of season 13 is at Paul Ricard WTCC in France, with 3 x 11 lap sprints.

Weather Forecast (looking like 30 degrees and clear).

For this round only, there will be a 15 minute quallifying session, then races 2 and 3 will be in reverse order from the previous race's results.
In later rounds, each race will be in reverse order of the season standings, with no qualifying session.

Car Selection
Please get me your car selections by Sunday night. If anyone hasn't nominated a car, I will be assigning cars to balance out numbers.

Damage
I will set damage to 50% in each round.
 

TRACK DOWNLOAD

To let people practice and try out the season 13 cars with BOP ballast, we'll have 3 x 15 min sprints at Gentrack1.
The server will have the usual password.

Qualifying at 8:30pm eastern.

RACE RESULTS, CHARTS AND RIVALS

Clean starts, no penalties.

Round Points
 

Name	Qual	Race 1	Race 2	Bonus	Total
Marty	10	36	40	1	87
Matthew111	9	40	36	1	86
Phil.8	8	38	38		84
Mael	6	32	34		72
hylas	4	34	32		70
Bacchulum	7	30	30		67
Wally	3	28	28		59
Freezer	5	22	26		53
Bafs17	2	26	24		52
Rob	0	24	20		44
Joe	1	20	22		43
Doobs	0	18	18		36
Hornbag	0	16	16		32
Chap111	0	14	14		28

Congratulations to the Season 12 Champion, Marty.

Podium
1. Marty, 448
2. Matthew111, 426
3. Phil.8, 366

Season Stats
Marty dominated the statistics.

Most wins: Marty, 7
Most podiums: Marty, 11
Most poles: Marty, 6
Most fastest laps: Marty, 10
Most consistent: hylas, 4
Hunter: Bafs17, 3
Hunted: Freezer and Matthew111, 3
Busiest: Freezer, 3
Loneliest: Doobs, 3

Season 13 features rounds of 3, 20 minute, reverse grid sprint races in selected cars from the Japanese Pack (DLC).

Cars

• RX-7 Spirit R
• 370z Nismo
• Supra MKIV
• Skyline GTR R34 V-Spec

Cars are ballasted (RX-7, 145kg and 370z, 115kg) for parity. You'll have to swap between the two groups (RX-7 or 370z, swapping to Supra or Skyline and vice versa) half way through the season to balance out any unfair advantage that might creep in due to the ballast.

Season Schedule - starts August 2
R1: Aug 2, Paul Ricard WTCC, 3 x 11 laps [VERSION 0.9.7 DOWNLOAD]
R2: Aug 9, Tsukuba (Long), 3 x 18 laps [VERSION 2.0 DOWNLOAD (includes OSRW pit mod)]
R3: Aug 16, Brands Hatch Indy, 3 x 21 laps [OSRW PIT MOD]
R4: Aug 23, Imola, 3 x 9 laps [OSRW PIT MOD]
-- Mandatory car Swap (RX-7/370z <-> Supra/Skyline) --
R5: Aug 30, Baskerville, 3 x 16 laps [VERSION 0.8 DOWNLOAD]
R6: Sep 6, Silverstone International, 3 x 15 laps [OSRW PIT MOD]
R7: Sep 13, Magione, 3 x 14 laps [OSRW PIT MOD]
R8: Sep 20, Eastern Creek Druitt, 3 x 16 laps [DOWNLOAD]

Race 1 prac/qual starts at 8:30pm Eastern time, and there is usually a long practice session before that, starting from around about 6:00pm.

Round Format
Each race is a full reverse grid race with no qualifying sessions (only round 1, race 1, has a qualifying session to set start order for that round). Each race in other rounds is in reverse order of championship points standings.

Fuel and tyres are 1x and there are no compulsory pit stops.

Start Lights
We'll use AC's new jump start detection, with a drive through penalty enforced by the game that must be taken in the 1st 3 laps. The PLP start lights will NOT be used. You will need to make sure you have the latest PLP app downloaded HERE to turn the PLP lights off.

Points
Points in each race are 24, 23, 22 down to 1.
Fastest lap in each race gets a 1 point bonus.

Penalties
Every opening lap major infringement (e.g. avoidable rear hits, unsafe track re-entry causing accidents etc), will be awarded 90 kg of penalty ballast for the corresponding race of the next round (90 kg is approximately 10 seconds over the whole race, but the time lost will vary from track to track and car to car).

Weather
Weather will be taken from the local circuit forecast on each actual race day. Races are at 10:00am, 1:00pm and 4:00pm in game time.

Track grip will simulate rainy conditions:
Damp track - 85% grip
Wet track - 75% grip
Very wet track - 65% grip

Sign Up
1. Wally, Skyline, 370z
2. Bacchulum, Skyline, RX-7
3. Rolz, RX-7
4. AJ, Supra
5. slideways, 370z, Skyline
6. Hylas, Skyline, RX-7
7. Rob, Supra, 370z
8. Marty, Skyline, RX-7
9. Flattop, RX-7, Supra
10. Mael, Supra, 370z
11. Joe, RX-7, Skyline
12. Humper, Skyline, RX-7
13. Phil.8, Skyline, RX-7
14. Freezer, Supra, 370z
15. Grat, RX-7, Skyline
16. Chap, Skyline
17. Bafs17, RX-7, Skyline
18. Dave O (R), 370z
19. Hornbag, Skyline, RX-7
20. Guybrush, RX-7, Skyline
21. Jeremy, Skyline, 370z
22. Matthew111, Skyline, 370z
23. EdWood, Skyline
24. LetsTestDrive, Supra, RX-7
25. Mitchyy, Supra, RX-7
26. Insomniac, RX-7

2 x 18 laps

This is the final round of the season. Marty leads Matthew, 361 to 340.

Weather Forecast (looking like 34 and sunny - hot!)

Hey Marty, can you put one of your servers up with the Japanese cars that are a candidate for the next season, and leave it up for a while to gather times for comparison? With set conditions, say 26 degrees,  clear and 100% grip, at a fairly "balanced" AC track which is neither too fast nor too slow, so no car is unfairly advantaged.  Maybe Brands Hatch Indy? Or Imola?

Then it would be good if people could just rack up as many laps as possible in a variety of cars to see either if some cars should be excluded,  or given some equalising ballast.