SCCA National Championship - Rules

This series will be run on the Historic GT and Touring cars 1.01 mod for rFactor.

You will need the mod and its 1.01 patch. You will also need the GT Legends game CD or DVD to able to install the mod.



History

Our 2011 HGTTC championship will be based along the lines of the 1970 SCCA National Championship in the USA. The SCCA (Sports Car Club of America) who was orginally an amateur club, evolved during the 1960s towards pro racing and by 1970 it was running three of America’s biggest series : the Can-Am for unlimited Group 7 Sportscars, the Continental Championship for Formula A/5000 single-seaters and the Trans-Am Championship for Touring Cars.
Next to these high-profile series, the SCCA National Championship, which formed the backbone of the SCCA calendar since the early 1950s, was left to amateur teams and drivers. A gigantic nationwide affair, it involved hundreds of races all over the country, with regional championships deciding the qualifiers for the end of the year American Road Race of Champions (ARRC) in Road Atlanta. The ARRC gathered all the best drivers of each SCCA region, and each of the numerous classes had a race to decide its National Champion.

Rules

Our 2011 recreation of this mammoth championship will be more modest in size but will nevertheless include more than 20 of the mod’s cars (split in 4 classes) to be raced in no less than 80 races spread over 40 race days on 27 different tracks. This regular season will begin January 10th and will end on December 5th, with no races during the summer break.
Races will be held on Monday nights, on a weekly basis. Each Monday of racing will see two 20-minutes timed races. Each race will be reserved to 1 of the 4 classes of cars. Of the two classes run each Monday night, the bigger one will always be run first (i.e. AP before BP, BP before DP, ...etc.).

One of the big differences with our other championships is that you do not need to book a car for the year. Each driver is free to come to a race with the car of his choice, provided of course it is part of the class admitted for this race.

Points will be awarded to the top 10 finishers on the following scale : 15-12-10-8-6-5-4-3-2-1. All starters will be classified according to their number of laps completed and are elligible for championship points, whether they finished the race or not.
Each of the 4 classes will have 20 races to the schedule of its championship. However, only the 12 best results of a driver in a class will be retained towards the championship.

After the last race of the regular season, the 25 best drivers in each of the four championships will be invited to the ARRC in Road Atlanta, where the four National champions will be decided in four separate 30-minutes races. These four races will be strictly reserved to the top 25 finishers of each championship class - no substitutes for the eventual absents will be admitted.

Race Day Schedule

Races will be held on Monday nights, (all times CET, Paris time).

8:00pm : Free Practice, 45 minutes, open to both classes.
8:45pm : Qualifying for Race 1, 15 minutes.
9:00pm : Race 1, 20 minutes.
9:35pm : Qualifying for Race 2, 25 minutes.
9:55pm : Race 2, 20 minutes.

Server Password : hso70.


Training Server

A training server running on the next scheduled track will be online permanently. Password : hso70

Application and Interpretation of the Regulations

The admins alone are qualified to solve any problems raised by the application and the interpretation of the present regulations.

American Road Race of Champions (all times CET, Paris time).

Monday, December 19th, Road Atlanta

8:00pm : Warm-up, 50 minutes, open to all 4 classes.

8:50pm : Warm-up for Race 1, 10 minutes.
9:00pm : Race 1, 30 minutes.

9:30pm : Warm-up for Race 2, 10 minutes.
9:40pm : Race 2, 30 minutes.

10:10pm : Warm-up for Race 3, 10 minutes.
10:20pm : Race 3, 30 minutes.

10:50pm : Warm-up for Race 4, 10 minutes.
11:00pm : Race 4, 30 minutes.

This Champ It wouldn't be supposed to race on friday nights?
Ouch!... I'm very sad.

Then, nothing for fridays?

Just a curiosity of mine: the real SCCA 1970 National Championship was run in 2 races of 20 minutes featuring 2 classes too?

Eric Plana wrote:

This Champ It wouldn't be supposed to race on friday nights?
Ouch!... I'm very sad. Then, nothing for fridays?

Yes initially it was to be on Fridays, but it turns out Friday is not the best day for us admins regarding our real life job, so the last option was to switch to Mondays. We tried to spilt the schedule over both Friday and Monday but that was a bit far stretched and not very convinient so we had to make a choice... Sorry to hear it does not suit you Eric ...

Diego Dário wrote:

Just a curiosity of mine: the real SCCA 1970 National Championship was run in 2 races of 20 minutes featuring 2 classes too?

Not exactly. SCCA races usually were timed races, but each meeting of course had many more than 2 classes running. To make a long story short, a typical SCCA National meeting would see around 20 different classes competing, from 500cc production cars to CanAm-like unlimited sportscars, and including single-seaters like Formula A (=F5000), Formula B (1600cc F2-like) and Formula C (equivalent of our F3s). Some classes would run together, others on their own. It really was a gigantic affair with hundreds of races all over the year. So I guess one could say our series is just a recreation of a portion of the real SCCA NC, but that's all we could humanly do . A real SCCA NC simracing league would take three HSOs to be complete !

Wow,it was really a huge competition then! even if the HSO recreation of this series its not in the same size,still is a very big and challenging format,and a great choice for sure. Thanks for the explanation Frank!

Frank Verplanken wrote:

Sorry to hear it does not suit you Eric ...

Don't worry. I understand you must choice the better day for all drivers and admins, and friday is not a good day for online sim sessions. In fact, I was surprised the originally chosen day was Friday.

I will wait the announcement of the rest of champs to organize my personal Schedule.

Thanks.

help ; soit c est moi qui suis completement con ( ce dont je n ai aucun doute ) , mais je suis incapable de trouver le lien pour télécharger ce mod

Pour le mod, il s'agit d'HGT que tu as surement déjà installé sur ta bécane. Et en ce qui concerne le premier circuit, tu l'as certainement aussi, puisqu'on l'a fait 3 fois en IMSA.

ok c est donc bien ce que je disais je suis vraiment qu un pauvre con merci Ben

Greg, le retour ! Tu nous as manqué, le forum était bien calme en ton absence.

Pierre Pfleger wrote:

Greg, le retour ! Tu nous as manqué, le forum était bien calme en ton absence.

j aurais preferé manquer plus a des nanas qu a toi mais bon c est deja un bon départ

Gregoire Goissen wrote:

Pierre Pfleger wrote:

Greg, le retour ! Tu nous as manqué, le forum était bien calme en ton absence.

j aurais preferé manquer plus a des nanas qu a toi mais bon c est deja un bon départ

Et encore, tu n'as pas vu comme il dandine bien du derrière avec sa F5000, une vraie top model qui défile ce Pierre

je n en doute pas 1 seconde , il essaie de detourner notre concentration avec ses attitudes provocantes , ce n est vraiment pas sport ca pierre

je ne trouve pas le serveur

Il n' y a pas de serveur d'entraînement pour ce mod.

Si si y'en a un et il est en ligne
http://historicsimracing.123.st/t444-hso-rfactor-servers

Cela ne donne rien, aucun serveur ouvert dans ma liste d'ami, alors que d'habitude il y a au moins les 79...

Ha y'a eu une mise à jour du serveur ce matin, je viens de tout relancer.

J'ai accès au 79 et F5000 (ex procar), mais toujours pas de Hgttc...je reviendrais

join timed out...pfr!

Christian Steu wrote:

join timed out...pfr!

tu dois surement faire une erreur dans le code, c est : hso70 tout attaché et sans majuscule , essaye juste avec hso , ou sinon coupe ta box 5 min et relance la

I could not join to training server too, only race.

En passant par Rf/connexion/groupe d'amis = pas de serveur

En passant par raccourciRF + connect IP = join timed out

Uniquement pour HGT...