1973 Trentonian Split 300 [March 29th]

           
                   
           
For this open event, we will use HSO 1973 Championship Cars v1.0

Both heats will be contested on the 1.5 mile Trenton International Speedway


Event Schedule

Sunday March 29th  
Participants must book their car in the Entry List prior to race day  
All times given are CET:

19h00 - Practice session (please select speedway configuration)
20h00 - Private qualifying session (4 laps -- 1 out lap, 2 qualifying laps, 1 in lap)
20h05 - Warmup session to allow switch to race engines and grid placement
20h20 - Heat 1 - 100 laps
21h20 - 15 minute break
21h35 - Heat 2* - 100 laps (grid determined by finishing order of Heat 1)
*If you DNF in Heat 1, you can still start Heat 2  
  Drivers on the reserve list may ask to drive cars that become vacant after Heat 1

Game name is: Historic Simracing USAC73
Password is: hso73
A training server will be running 24/7 (same password)


Race Start Procedure and Full Course Yellow

The start for both heats will be given rolling behind the game-controlled pace-car. 

This race will utilize the Full Course Yellow procedure. When rFactor judges that a situation is risky (a car stopped on the track, a spin on a speedway etc..), he will throw a Yellow Flag. From the time this Yellow Flag is thrown, overtaking is forbidden, but if you have doubt about your position, rFactor will tell you where you have to be when you will cut the start/finish line. At the same time the pit lane will be closed, it will be open again for the cars in the lead lap after one full lap behind the Safety Car. For the cars which are a lap or more down, they will have to wait another lap. rFactor will tell you in the chat all this information (don't deactivate in-car chat).

When the Safety Car is out, you must keep a normal pace until you reach the the line of cars behind the SC. Otherwise you'll get a penalty. Same when you exit the pit lane under yellow, you have to be quick enough to rejoin the SC.

Full Course Yellow will last between 3 or 5 laps each time.

(!) On an oval track the leader will have to be careful to not overtake the Safety Car when the latter is exiting the pit lane. (!)

Drivers must be single file for the restart.

Once the green is given, passing can occur regardless of where you are (green to the front is green to the field). You may try to get a run on someone as you anticipate the green flag, but DO NOT pass before the green is given.


Behaviour on track

A few behaviour rules :

- as for all HSO races, it is required you use your real name both in-game and on the forum. Thank you.

- Chatting is STRICTLY FORBIDDEN in race session. It is allowed in qualifying sessions for technical issues only.

- Shortcuts : If a driver gains a position after shortcutting a turn, he is required to give it back as soon as possible. In the case where a driver would not do it rapidly, a 30-second penalty will be added to his total race time. In the event of abusive and intentional shortcutting, severe sanctions will be applied (up to definitive a ban from the league). To make sure you never shortcut a turn, try to always keep two wheels on the track.

- Drivers exiting the pits must keep all four wheels under the painted line until they reach the back straight, then they can merge with race traffic. This rule applies under both green and yellow flag conditions.

- DO NOT enter the track under a red condition


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.

Photo from the actual event in April 1973  

Wow these are a handful.

To anyone who hasn't tried these yet, here's two of Josh's Top Tips from a little running I did:

1) Stay a good way away from the rev limiter. You hit the redline for more than a second in these, your engine's gone. No room for negotiation, it's just gone. You spin and redline for a second? Engine blown.

2) Your biggest problem, like more modern Indycars too, will be getting the thing started and stopped. 700+HP isn't easy to get off the line or slow down without wheelspin/locking, but is a lot easier to drive round an oval once you're up to speed.

700! Lowest we have is 775 in lowest boost form, Highest is 900bhp in top boost race trim for some cars. They have 1000bhp qualifying engines too

Richard Coxon wrote:

700! Lowest we have is 775 in lowest boost form, Highest is 900bhp in top boost race trim for some cars. They have 1000bhp qualifying engines too

Why I said 700+.

Yeah, in quali boost these are insane. They have absolutely NO tolerance to nearing the limiter, so you over-rev a little bit, you're gonna need the firemen to come to your rescue.

Maybe if I enter this I'll win by default?

E: Holy moly I thought I was slow!



That was on quali boost and Sven I think was on race... but I'm in the lead of something!!!

Our Indy 500 Pole Day promises to be a nerve wrecking event... just like the real one !

Frank Verplanken wrote:

Our Indy 500 Pole Day promises to be a nerve wrecking event... just like the real one !

Whole month of May is going to be an odyssey!

Hehe yes . I hope to be able to make my PC work for rFactor again by then, I'd love to do a full broadcast of it all, Pole Day and the race itself !

Broadcast

Hope you can get it working

Frank Verplanken wrote:

I'd love to do a full broadcast of it all, Pole Day and the race itself !

Better start working on your Tom Carnegie impression.

I'm more in the Chris Economaki lineage I gotta say, always ready to go into some poetic interludes . Anything but Jim McKay anyway ^.^

Cheers to Jason for takin on an admin role at HSO

James Knowles wrote:

Cheers to Jason for takin on an admin role at HSO  

in training. Still learning. But thank you

Most likely you'll be able to take your admin rookie stripes off when the track opens for the first day of practice at Indy !

Hotlap link added in first post (Thank you Martin for the help )

A ton up for me.
I've just managed to do 100laps without a spin or crash driving the Parnelli.

hey, for once i'm not last (at hotlapping), and that with a car i didn't even know existed

David Sabre wrote:

A ton up for me.
I've just managed to do 100laps without a spin or crash driving the Parnelli.

aha! Was that you in the replay film??

Yall know where ill be.

Seeing how the engines perform, Offy v Chevy v Ford, will be interesting to see -- and should provide valuable info ahead of the 500 in May.

I predict crashes from overly optimistic people trying to overtake braking to turn one