Donington 4h

Q1 starts at 14:00 CET.
Q2 at 15:00 CET.
Q3 at 16:00 CET.

Race will be made at Saturday.

Race is now running.

Results will be updating in some next hours.

As I'm running drivers starting from last positions, only OP1 class left to run, but you can see OP3 results now.

Okay, as I can see Wulff is 2-3 car right now... Clearly Vertigo is the team to beat in OP3... BUT A WHOLE LAP BEHIND?!?! I don't want this to be A COPY OF F1!!!

Anyway, congrats darkracer99

I'm shocked for the fact that everyone in the OP3 class finished a whole lap behind.

Perhaps some Balance of Performance or some sorts of leveling should be implemented.

As I saw every car, darkracer99 set the balance in his Vertigo Kurumi to 0,75 while Marco uses 0,735 in Wulff 717S.
Default OP3 cars (Ligier and Norma) has 0,7.
It may give an advantage on other teams about having better steering.
But it's also about using physic points. Constructors used them however they wanted.
Darkracer99 just made the best car on the grid.

Also remember that only one driver finished 1 lap before everyone. 2nd driver had only 1s advantage on 3rd.

Anyway, everything can happen during the race - especially because every driver makes his race with neutral AI which simulates overtaking/overlapping.
In OP1, one of Toyota drivers was 6th and lost 2 laps to other factory drivers because he crashed 5 times with neutral AI who didn't drive through pit limiter correctly, and Toyota almost lost with privateers.

It's not that I'm not thinking about Vertigo's domination - I just want to wait for another race and see if their drivers can still be on top of the race.
If yes - I'll think about BoP system.

E.g. in MotoGP constructors takes concession points for every podium (1st - 3p, 2nd - 2p, 3rd - 1p).
After collecting 6 concession points they cannot upgrade their engines during current and next season.

But in this case, after collecting e.g. 10 concession points, I'd add +50 to car mass.
Currently it's 1000, after another Vertigo's double victory, Kurumi's mass will be 1050.

Team Budgets updated after Donington 4h.

You can see also updated prize system.

April fools

Very nice April fool Gzehoo.

But this time more serious:

1. Balance system may be introduced during 3rd race of the season (Kyalami 4h).

Every constructor (including Ligier and Norma!) will be collecting "balance points" (BP) by every single driver on podium.

For the 1st place in the race, constructor will collect 3 BP, 2nd place - 2 BP, 3rd place - 1 BP.
It means that e.g. Ligier may get 6 BP for all 3 drivers in TOP3.

After collecting 6 BP, each constructor will get a balance +50kg (current car's weight is 1000 in OP3).
Balance will be added after collecting every 6 points, so in case of getting 12 BP, constructor will get +100kg balance.

2. I was going to introduce also continental endurance series (European, Asian, American).

Rules may be the same as GEM, but every of these series will organize 2h races (20 minutes), with exception of final race which will be 6h (60 minutes).

In these continental series, we would see only LMP2 and GTE cars.
The winner of GTE continental series may go to GEM OP3, while the winner of LMP2 continental series would go to GEM OP2.

While not very fair to the leaders, at least it'll give others a chance...

Though I'd recommend, maybe from 2nd season, control the balance value, because I do believe that's s the main factor in Vertigo's dominance. Maybe higher balance value = more weight? Just my suggestion, anyway...

About continental championships...
Could I (Wulff Motorsport) have a OP3 (OP2 or 1) team in GEM and a GTE team in, let's say, Europe at the same time?

It will be possible to have a team in GEM and continental series in the same time.
It would be something like academy/junior team (however team will decide) giving each driver a possibility to participate in global series.

EDIT: But to not confuse at this moment many series, I'll focus only on GEM.

As another round (Anderstorp 4h) is next week, I'm opening now Upgrade Window #2.

Rules are the same as in previous Upgrade Window.


Deadline for Upgrade Window #2 is at 14th April, 17:00 CET.

If you have any question - write

Only 18 hours left for Qualifs before 2nd race and deadline for Upgrade Window #2, if you are going to upgrade something in your team car.

Gonna save some money for now. Probably going to regret it later on!

Anderstorp 4h

Qualifs finished, race will be at Wednesday.

Race now started. Results will be updating after every group makes their race.

As another round (Kyalami 4h) is next week, I'm opening now Upgrade Window #3.

Team budgets updated.
Upgrades are confirmed after Qualifs.

Rules are the same as in other Upgrade Window.


Deadline for Upgrade Window #3 is at 28th April, 17:00 CET (until I won't be making Qualifs).

BTW. I want to confirm that BoP is introduced from the next race so Vertigo starts with additional 50kg in CE.

If you have any question - write

Kyalami 4h

UPDATE 1: I decided that additional balast for Vertigo will be 25kg, as 50kg is too much.

UPDATE 2: Q3 will be at next day; I decided to make them too late

UPDATE 3: Qualifs finished. S. Kimura (Wulff) had to repeat his attempt due to timer failure, but it didn't change his result.

Results from Kyalami 4h uploaded.
Classifications and tem budgets updated.
Vertigo Racing will get this time +50kg balast after collecting 15 balast points.

Also, I decided to change the rule about car balance - now every user's car constructor (Vertigo, Wulff, W&B) can set it only between 0.70 - 0.75.
At this moment, W&G doesn't apply this rule, so please update your car.

PS: I'm going to write longer post later about some ideas.

And now, I want to introduce some ideas for the GEM future.

1. CALENDAR
2. CONSTRUCTOR BUDGET
3. UPGRADES
4. FACTORY/SATELLITE TEAMS
5. OTHER THINGS

If you have any other ideas about GEM - write. I want to know your opinions.

Alright.

Forgot to write it yesterday but anyway, Upgrade Window #4 is available.

Deadline for this window is at 12th May, 17:00 CET

I don't think I even have money for an update right now gotta sack some staff via e-mail

I hope the balance upgrade works, otherwise my R&D team better get used to not having a coffee machine.