DRIVER BRIEFING
At least one driver from each team MUST attend the briefing voice channel and all cars must stay in the pits during briefing. This is to remind and discuss important information and for any questions to be asked before we move onto the event.
After Briefing the race server will go live and driver one (if available) or your qualifying driver must connect first. Drivers can then go to their own chats.
EVENT TIMETABLE
Practice 1 – 19:30 UTC (30 minutes): This session is used for teams to join the server and warmup before advancing to qualifying.
Driver Briefing – 19:50 UTC (10 minutes)
Qualifying – 20:00 UTC (30 minutes): All teams can qualify in this session. All teams MUST stay in this session until next practice session. All the drivers in the team can try and put a time in using the driver swap command or changing in a pitstop.
If you are unable to attend qualifying please withdraw on the SimGrid website, and we will put to the back of the grid based on date of registration. If your team fails to attend qualifying without withdrawing, you will be removed from the event.
TRACK ETIQUETTE
The usual OTL Rules apply for this event however there are some important ones that need to be noted for this event:
- Drivers are expected to be careful on pit exit and pit entry to avoid fast approaching cars. They can do this by staying on the same side of the track on entry or exit.
- There will be many cars on track at the same time so it is important for everyone to obey Blue Flags correctly when on outlaps and cooldown laps. Drivers are expected to be prepared to move off the racing line and safely let faster cars by.
- If Drivers are both on timed laps they are not to race. There is plenty of time during the session to get a timed lap in and everyone else is under the same situation so it may be better to back off and go again.
- Drivers are allowed to return to the garage during qualifying, however you must stop the car off the racing line safely.
DRIVER SWAP PROCEDURE
Drivers can swap in qualifying. To do so the active driver can type in a command in the game chat while in the pit box before pressing “DRIVE”. The command is “&swap x”, x being the number of the position of the driver in the driver roster. There is a small risk of bugging out your team connection in using this command so use this at your own risk.
You can also use a pitstop to change a driver but this takes more time. You can do this by selecting the desired driver in the MFD Pit Strategy Screen.
FINAL REMINDER
It would be a good idea to check the roster of your team to make sure all your team information is correct to make sure you don’t have any issues connecting to the server come qualifying. The deadline for confirming your qualifying line-up is Thursday 9th December 2021 – 23:59 UTC.