Detroit-Belle Isle Vallelunga was interesting. But we learned a valuable lesson, ensure everyone has the same version of the track.

Moving on...

Here is the BOP list for Race 6:

• DJ - 100kg
• Top - 90kg
• Villa - 60kg
• Ford - 20kg

Race Details:

• Fuel consumption and tire wear: 200% of normal
• Qualifying at 945pm US ET - 10 minute session
• Race - 45 minutes plus 1 lap
• Cautions will be turned off with 3 minutes to go
• Caution/restart map is below

The start line is odd and I think is part of the existing track but not the 2007 version we have.

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This week's race will take place at the Michigan State Park that is Belle Isle. (ACTrackDownloadLink) This 2.36 mile course is a new track for GASCAR. It will surely provide challenges for the drivers with limited passing areas and multiple tight turns that have no runoff.

Because we're back on a road course BOP rules are in effect. Here is the BOP list for Race 5:

• Top - 90kg
• DJ - 60kg
• Villa - 60kg
• Born - 40kg
• Ford - 20kg

Race Details:

• Fuel consumption and tire wear: 200% of normal
• Qualifying at 945pm US ET - 10 minute session
• Race - 45 minutes plus 1 lap
• Cautions will be turned off with 3 minutes to go
• Caution/restart map is below

Gather past pit out. Green at the entrance of or just after Turn 3.

Viking with win #2 of the season!

• Pole: Top
• Laps led: Born, DJ, Ford, Mini, Top, Villa, Viking

Thanks to Top for these sweet IROC style paint jobs.

Pretty colors

Here's a clip of a classic GASCAR race start from Villa's POV. Watch his mirrors: CLIP

The next race is Sunday, 8/11, at Detroit Belle Isle on AC. The track can be downloaded here

After some ultra-violence in the closing laps at BRNO, Born pulled away for the win.

This week we return to AMS2 for some oval racing. Here are the details:

• Car: MCR S2000 (Last season's car)
  • Be sure to visit This SITE and send Top your favorite color number (#XXXXXX) for your IROC style paint job.
• Qualifying:
  • Single car qualifying - qualifying order is based on pit road line up
  • Each car gets 1 hot lap(1 out lap + 1 flyer)
  • After your hot lap pull to the inside of Turn 3 and return to the pits
  • The next car in line can go as soon as the previous car passes the pit wall
• Race
  • 75 laps
  • Fuel Consumption and Tire Wear: TBD
  • Car Damage: Off
• Start/Restarts/Cautions
  • Rolling start after a standing grid
  • Race start will be double file at Start/Finish
  • Restarts will be single file between Turn 3 and Start/Finish based on the leader's call
  • Caution speed is 50mph
  • Cautions will be off at the start of lap 74.

In lieu of a post-race recap from Race 1, here is a LINK to the season points sheet. BOP for the next road race is included.

Congratulations to Viking. You can stop spraying champagne on yourself now.

Also, I noticed a mistake in the pre-season post. BRNO is race 3. Road Atlanta is the final race. Road Atlanta was listed twice by mistake. The pre-season post has been updated.

• Practice Session: Will open by at least 915pm ET
• Qualifying @ 945pm ET: 9 minute session.
  • 2 hot laps.
• Race: 45 minutes + 1 lap
  • Late join is permitted
  • Approximately 20 green flag laps, if no cautions
• Car damage will be set to 3% of reality
  • Please avoid bashing into one another during cautions.
• Fuel consumption and Tire wear: Set to 200%
  • Fuel accordingly; Have your pit strategies saved
• Remember to declare you car and car number/livery from the car list prior to 9pm ET Sunday
  • Your car(and BoP) will be assigned to you via your Steam ID
  • We have Steam IDs for the following: Born, DJ, Ford, Wit, Viking, Villa, Top, Roadie, Mini, Reed, Cowmaster

Keep two wheels on the track in Eau Rogue and Raidillon. Short cutting the track will likely result in a penalty. IIRC, the penalty for a track cut in AC is slowing way down for 15 seconds or coming to a complete stop. You've been warned.

Caution Map:

• When something happens that warrants a caution, call it. Don't say it like a question. Call it twice if you have to. Make sure it is acknowledged.
• We always race back to the line and finish the lap the leader is on.
• Anyone who is a lap down is allowed to drive past the field gathering point but we will not wait for you to restart.
• If you get dropped from the room, we will call a caution when. Just rejoin the lobby. You will start at the end of the field and the race will be scored manually. If you were already a lap down, the procedure above applies.

These corner names are all wrong? Where is Tupac?

Check the Series Announcement for cars and BoP rules. BTW, I'm adding Roadie to the BoP list, if he shows up.

• Practice Session: Will open by at least 915pm ET
• Qualifying @ 945pm ET: 6 minute session.
  • 2 hot laps.
• Race: 45 minutes + 1 lap
  • Late join is permitted
  • Approximately 23 green flag laps, if no cautions
• Car damage will be set to 3% of reality
  • Please avoid bashing into one another during cautions.
• Fuel consumption and Tire wear: Set to 200%
  • Fuel accordingly; Have your pit strategies saved
• Remember to declare you car and car number/livery from the car list prior to 9pm ET Sunday
  • Your car(and BoP) will be assigned to you via your Steam ID
  • We have Steam IDs for the following: Born, DJ, Ford, Wit, Viking, Villa, Top, Roadie, Mini, Reed, Cowmaster

Caution Map:

• When something happens that warrants a caution, call it. Don't say it like a question. Call it twice if you have to. Make sure it is acknowledged.
• We always race back to the line and finish the lap the leader is on.
• Anyone who is a lap down is allowed to drive past the field gathering point but we will not wait for you to restart.

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What?

We're using two games?

Yep. You'll see in the track list. The oval racing and track offerings in AMS2 are better than AC.

The bulk of the races will be on Assetto Corsa so we can BoP the really fast guys. But BoP doesn't end there. The top 3 finishers of each race will receive BoP for the following race, unless it's an oval, then that BoP will transfer to the next road race.

Road Racing Cars (Assetto Corsa) GT4s:

• Aston Martin Vantage
• Audi R8
• BMW M4
• Chevy Camaro
• Ford Mustang
• Ginetta
• McLaren 570S
• Mercedes AMG
• Panoz Avenzzano
• Porsche 718 Cayman
• Saleen S1
• Sin R1
• Toyota Supra
• YOU MUST DECLARE YOU CAR MAKE, MODEL, AND NUMBER BEFORE THE SERIES STARTS
• YOU WILL BE ALLOWED ONE FREE CAR CHANGE BEFORE THE 2ND TO LAST RACE
• ANY SUBSEQUENT CAR CHANGES WILL INCUR A 5 POINT PENALTY
• GASCAR Content Tracker Sheet: GT4 Cars on the Cars Tab

BOP:

• DJ, Top, and Villa will have 60kg of ballast for each race. (We reserve the right to increase or decrease this as necessary for the sake of overall competition.)
• The top 3 finishers of each road race will have 40kg, 30kg, and 20kg, respectively, added for the next road race.
• In the case of DJ, Top, and Villa the Top 3 Finisher weight will be additive to their season long BoP

Schedule each race will be approximately 45 minutes long**:**

1. Watkins Glen Boot - 7/14
2. Spa
3. BRNO
4. Gateway Oval on AMS2 - using MCR S2000(last season's car)
5. Detroit Belle Isle
6. Anderstorp
7. Fontana or Daytona on AMS2 - car TBD
8. Imola
9. Road Atlanta

Controller support: Both games have controller support. Message DJ if you don't have the script he recommends for AC.

The Season Points leave little doubt that DJ will take his eleventyith straight championship. But weirder things have happened in GASCAR. Ford and Viking are tied in points so this decade old grudge match is on.

Race details:

• 45 minute race + 1 lap as per the series announcement post.

• There will be a full course safety car caution at 25% distance.

• Non-safety car caution regroup area past pit exit.

  • See Track Map Below
  • Green will be called after all cars have exited Turn 4

• The wheel of doom will be used to determine 2x or 3x tire wear.

  • Note the location of pit entry. You must enter the pit from the area before Turn 13.

The game has a countdown timer of 2 minutes between qualifying and the race and does not allow late join once the race session has started. While I will try to time the practice session and 10 minute qualifying session to allow for a 10pm race start, please be in the lobby by 950pm ET to ensure you are allowed to race. If you miss the race start, feel free to spectate and commentate on the race.

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• Pole: Top
• Laps led: Villa, Viking, and DJ
• Fastest lap: DJ
• Next Race: Curitiba, Sunday 4/28/24; Season Finale!

Top's wheel set up gave up during the race due to a faulty cable. That severely hurt his chances to challenge DJ for the championship.

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Nice job Villa!

• Pole: Villarondo
• Laps lead: Viking, Top, DJ, Villarondo, Mini

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After a late race restart, DJ clipped Viking at the line.

Jackie has once again offered to load the planes and send the MCR S2000 cars to Gateway for this week's race. He insisted upon routing the plane through South America, which makes little sense. And why is Teeter so damned jittery again?

Regardless, here are the details for the race:

• Night race with a light rubber condition for all sessions
• MCR S2000 cars(standard series car)
• Qualifying:
  • Same as Daytona - 1 out lap and 1 hot lap pull back into pit lane after your hot lap.
  • Next car in line goes after the previous car finishes their hot lap
• Fuel consumption: 1x
• Tire wear: 2x or 3X based on The Wheel of Doom(tm)
• Race
  • Laps: 76 (slow roll off from a standing start and 2x2 green flag at the end of lap 1)
    • Pole sitter can choose outside or inside. All others hold qualifying position.
    • This will keep the lap counter accurate. The game struggles with lap counting from rolling starts.
  • Cautions off: End of lap 74

• Pole: DJ
• Laps led: DJ, Viking, Villa
• Fastest lap: Top
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Nice job DJ

Jackie sent the stock cars back to Brazil and the MCR's are headed to Australia. This is the most GASCAR of travel schedules.

• 45 minute race + 1 lap as per the series announcement post.
• There will be a full course safety car caution at 25% distance.
• Non-safety car caution regroup area past pit exit.
  • See Track Map Below
• The wheel of doom will be used to determine 2x or 3x tire wear.

The game has a countdown timer of 2 minutes between qualifying and the race and does not allow late join once the race session has started. While I will try to time the practice session and 10 minute qualifying session to allow for a 10pm race start, please be in the lobby by 950pm ET to ensure you are allowed to race. If you miss the race start, feel free to spectate and commentate on the race.

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We will gather after the chicane. Green between Turn 6 and the exit of Turn 7.

After spending sometime in Central and South America, GASCAR is going to take a low flying plane(Jackie says this is for the best.) into Florida to do some oval racing. Jackie is handling the packing of the car with Teeter's help. Teeter has a lot of extra energy this week. He's almost jittery from helping. It's so weird.

Race Details:

• Car: 2023 Toyota Corolla Brazilian Stock Car (BRB Brazilian Stock Car)
  • Please declare your livery in the discord when joining the lobby to avoid duplicate cars.
  • Ford gets the Havoline car because...well...
• Qualifying: 15 minute single car qualifying with NO drafting.
  • First car out is the first car on pit lane.
  • You get one out lap and one flyer.
  • Call out when you cross the start/finish line on your flyer and the next car can start rolling.
  • Drive hard after you cross the finish line on lap 2, pull over on the left side of the backstretch, and select "RETURN TO PIT BOX" via the in game menu.
• Race length: 50 laps
  • The 2 cautions per 10 laps rule will be in effect.
  • Fuel consumption and tire wear will be off this week.
• Cautions are off at the end of lap 48.
• There will not be a point for fastest lap this week.

Good luck.

• Pole: villarondo
• Laps led: villarondo, DJ, Top
• Fastest lap: Via
• Next Race: Sunday, 3/24, Daytona(Oval); Brazil Stock Car

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Congratulations to villa!

This track was originally over 6 miles long built around a volcanic lake. It was shortened in the 1980s to the current version. The lake is still visible on the left at the lower portion of the track. More Information It's a fun track with a lot of elevation change and some tricky corners. Oh, and it's bumpy.

DJ and Top are tied for the series lead after three races. <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ZvpGScmTdk6k6U4UrgJiPEr-uiAlicc71CfBfKsGivs/edit?usp=sharing">LINK</a>

45 minute race + 1 lap as per the series announcement post.

There will be a full course safety car caution at 25% distance.

Non-safety car caution regroup area past pit exit.

The wheel of doom will be used to determine 2x or 3x tire wear.

The game has a countdown timer of 2 minutes between qualifying and the race and does not allow late join once the race session has started. While I will try to time the practice session and 10 minute qualifying session to allow for a 10pm race start, please be in the lobby by 950pm ET to ensure you are allowed to race. If you miss the race start, feel free to spectate and commentate on the race.

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Caution Map - Boy those colors are light.

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It was a wild last few laps.

• Pole: DJ
• Laps led: Villa and DJ
• Fastest Lap: DJ(Technically a new world record at this track.)
• Next race: Autodromo Yahuarcocha(Ibirra), Ecuador, Sunday, 3/17
• Clips:
  • Villa was looking good in second...until a Top appeared
  • Born has more clips and should submit them below.

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Caution Map

GASCAR heads to another country out of the reach of Turn 10 and their f'n goon squad. This track feels like Silverstone.

45 minute race + 1 lap as per the series announcement post.

There will be a full course safety car caution at 25% distance.

Non-safety car caution regroup area past pit exit.

The wheel of doom will be used to determine 2x or 3x tire wear.

The game has a countdown timer of 2 minutes between qualifying and the race and does not allow late join once the race session has started. While I will try to time the practice session and 10 minute qualifying session to allow for a 10pm race start, please be in the lobby by 950pm ET to ensure you are allowed to race. If you miss the race start, feel free to spectate and commentate on the race.

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Top is 2/2 on the season

• Pole: DJ
• Fastest Lap: DJ
• Laps led: Top, DJ, Mini
• Next race: 3/10 at Termas de Rio Hondo (Argentina)

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Caution Map

45 minute race + 1 lap as per the series announcement post. (Estimated 43 laps.)

There will be a full course safety car caution at 25% distance.

Non-safety car caution regroup area past pit exit.

I will ensure pit stop refueling is ON this week.

The game has a countdown timer of 2 minutes between qualifying and the race and does not allow late join once the race session has started. While I will try to time the practice session and 10 minute qualifying session to allow for a 10pm race start, please be in the lobby by 950pm ET to ensure you are allowed to race. If you miss the race start, feel free to spectate and commentate on the race.

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• Pole: Top
• Lap lead: Villa and Top
• Fastest Lap: Villa

Here's the track: https://motorsportmagazine.b-cdn.net/database/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/12/Guapore-366.svg

45 minute race + 1 lap as per the series announcement post.

Non-safety car caution regroup area past pit exit. Restart will be after the next right hand turn.

Due to the late unpleasantness with Forza Motorsport, GASCAR has to flee the country but they're not gonna get us. We're taking this show on the road with Automobilista 2 and visiting some brand new tracks(mostly). If you don't own AMS2, here is a link to CDKeys so you get get it from Steam for $9. You will not need any of the DLC to run this series.

Car: MCR S2000

• We will be using default setups but you will be able to adjust anti-roll bar and brake bias once on track via whatever wheel/controller/keyboard buttons you specify.
• Two other notes about hot keys for this game: a) map a car reset button b) map a POV button. You will be sorry if you don't.
• Claim your car number for the season in the comments: 1, 3, 4, 5, 6(Mini), 8, 9, 10, 11, 12(Ford), 13(Bjorn), 14, 15(TOP), 17, 18, 19, 21, 22, 23, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 42 (Each car has a unique paint.)

Race Sessions:

• Practice session of some length determined by when I set up the lobby but at least 15 minutes
• Qualifying: 5 or 10 minutes depending upon the track length. Enough time to get at least 2 hot laps
• Race: 45 minute timed races + 1 lap (After the timer runs out the leader will have to do one full lap.)
  • Standing start except the oval
• Sundays at 945pm US ET, start of qualifying

Track list

1. Guapore (Brazil)
2. Cascavel (Brazil)
3. Termas de Rio Honda (Argentina)
4. Autodromo Yahuarcocha (Ecuador)
5. Daytona Oval - Car TBD
6. Adelaide (Australia)
7. Gateway (USA) Night Race
8. Jerez - Chicane (Spain) Night Race
9. Curitiba (Brazil)

Damage:

• Fuel and tire wear set to authentic
  • Set your pit strategy during the practice session
  • You can use automatic pit stops so you don't have to worry about pit road speed limit etc.
• Other damage will be visual only

Cautions:

• We will not use full course cautions because it makes unlapping impossible
• However, we will have a 25% of race distance competition caution!
  • This will allow people to catch back up if they had a really bad start and will mean we will NOT call a caution before this period.
  • Sometime around the 11th minute of the race, the safety car will come out. ENSURE YOU CATCH UP TO THE PACK BEFORE PITTING!
• All other GASCAR Caution rules apply, except cautions will be off with 3 minutes to go.

Dust off your wheel or find some good controller settings. We're headed to Assetto Corsa, at least for one race.

• Track - Nurburgring GP GT
• Car - Lotus Exos 125
• Laps - 30
• Qualifying - 15 minute session with the race immediately to follow
• Fuel Consumption - 100%
• Tire Wear - 200%

As usual, we will use Discord for in race chat. Check the GASCAR Update Discord for the race lobby name and password at the time of the event.

Hit up DJ if you need some controller settings.

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Lotus Exos 125

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• Pole: Reed
• Laps led: Villa and Reed
• DJ has a 2 point lead over Villa going into the last race, 11/17 @ Kyalami
• lap 1 clip: https://www.xbox.com/play/media/NWapbspDxR