RD Le Mans Series Season 4 (rFactor)

[Denis Porokhniak]

Stick with the proven formula and the interest will be huge. Simotorsport would surely field several cars...

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[Roy Magnes]

RMI will field one car and at least one commentator

 

[George Talbot]

It needs to be a max of 4-5 events as teams do loose interest not matter what is said before the season starts. Seasons that go on for a long time usually see large drop outs over the season. The short season also makes little margin for error with points needing to be scored in every round to challenge for the titles and I find it makes teams and drivers practice more and take it very seriously.

Suitable tracks need to be found, its hard but normally good to draw on previous years experience of tracks such as Fuji not working well, Daytona is also a bad one.

The level of competition is important, that is why I am a believer of the 3 class setup with the highest quality/experienced teams getting the priority for prototype cars and a large GT field. 2 Classes creates clusters of traffic and 4 classes sometimes leaves a risk of only having a handful of cars in one class for some races.

Although I wont be competing in whatever is created, I will be following with interest and watching the broadcasts

 

[Roma Ljubchik]

Come on Georgy, we all know that you are The Best "Ecclestone" for this league! And if look back on your experience there is no such man to control the show.

 

[George Talbot]

I'm enjoying driving my Mini at the moment and wasting my money on that, I still like to watch races every now and then

 

[Chris Butcher]

Agreed, the 3 class format seems to work. I would like to see the LMP1 class return though, from people I have spoken to there seems to be quite a large demand for this. The balance would definitely be n the duration of both the season and races, George has it spot on that teams can get bored. But equally you don't want the season too short, teams are equally as likely to not put the effort in for short seasons as they are for long seasons

 

[Ole Marius Myrvold]

RMI will field one car and at least one commentator

We will?

 

[Bram Hengeveld]

We will?

Yes but you were supposed to hear last

 

[Paulo Martins]

Bring it back!

 

[Denis Porokhniak]

No matter how long the season is, the key is that every round should be attractive enough to be a special event. Think along the lines of Sebring 12h, Spa 6h, Nurburgring 24h, Le Mans 24, Petit Le Mans, Bathurst 12h etc.

 

[George Talbot]

24 hour events do not work on rFactor despite what people may say.

 

[Bradley Vanian]

24 hour events do not work on rFactor despite what people may say.

Yeah, you either:

a) Have too many retirements. (7 finishers in RD24N)
b) If you use rejoin plugin, you have too many problems sorting out results after race. Not too bad for shorter races on short tracks though but it can be more prone to server problems.

 

[George Talbot]

Drop outs on races from 6-12 hours are similar to real life retirements with crashes and technical issues, I know it sucks to get a disconection but sitting around at 4 am for a server to be reset and constantly having to ask team mates what position you are in, dealing with temp cars and vehicle tabs on all the race is not racing in my opinion...

Remember Road America in S3, after 6 hours racing, the P1 class was separated by 0.2s now that is Endurance racing at its best.

We did a 6 hour race at SRO on the Nurburgring GP circuit and people said it would not work and it would be a crashfest, we had 31 finishers from 38 entries.... When people follow the instructions and take car it is possible to have races like that...

 

[Mickael Folcher]

Maybe run it only with invitations for teams you know they respect the instructions.

 

[Denis Porokhniak]

George, I could argue with what you wrote about 24h races, but I'm not going to. My above point is still valid regardless. Most would rather race among Ferraris and Porsches in 1000km of Nurburgring and 6h of Spa, rather than among Zero GTs and Factory Fives at Notsomagificent Park or Navarra.

 

[Teemu Toikka]

If we run 3 classes, Nordschleife wouldnt work, I think the Nords is too bumpy and too narrow for Protos. You can barely go 2 wide with GT cars at some places.

 

[Mickael Folcher]

What about the Blancpain GT3, 2 drivers by car, 120 min race ?

 

[George Talbot]

George, I could argue with what you wrote about 24h races, but I'm not going to. My above point is still valid regardless. Most would rather race among Ferraris and Porsches in 1000km of Nurburgring and 6h of Spa, rather than among Zero GTs and Factory Fives at Notsomagificent Park or Navarra.

I would like to hear the arguments for it, I have not heard of anyone with 40+ cars in a server running in practice mode for 24 hours without a server crash. There were no server crashes in the RDLMS with 44 cars in 5 races, there were no server crashes at SRO running up to 48 cars I believe for 4 races.

 

[William Levesque]

The Nordschleife is dreadful when you have more than 30 cars, period.

 

[Andre Martins]

I would like to hear the arguments for it, I have not heard of anyone with 40+ cars in a server running in practice mode for 24 hours without a server crash. There were no server crashes in the RDLMS with 44 cars in 5 races, there were no server crashes at SRO running up to 48 cars I believe for 4 races.

Another reason for you to stop the "vacations"