Friendly Development Oval Series begins!

[Sascha Henken]

Hi everyone,

I thought before we all get to much rested, it´s time to roar the V8 engines a little and therefore i´ve created a schedule where we want to offer you all a serious racing enviroment if you like oval racing of course.

Starting in April 2008 the following Race Schedule takes place:

Practise 18:00 GMT // Qualifying 18:30 GMT // Warmup 18:45 GMT // Race: 19:00 GMT
Practise 20:00 CEST // Qualifying 20:30 CEST // Warmup 20:45 CEST // Race: 21:00 CEST

April 15th - Daytona // 40 Laps
May 6th - Iowa Speedway // 125 Laps
May 27th - The Milwaukee Mile // 100 Laps
June 10th - USA Intl Speedway // 125 Laps
June 24th - Salem // 100 Laps
July 8th - Kansas Speedway // 50 Laps
July 22th - Nashville // 57 Laps
July 29th - Talladega // 50 Laps
August 12th - Duquoin Dirt Track // 50 Laps
August 19th - Pocono Raceway Park // 40 Laps

All Races will have a 50% mileage of the original ARCA RE/MAX Race Length. Yellow Flags will be on and Lucky Dog will be in use! I suggest that everyone that is really interested in this, should practise his pitstops and how they work because many problems occur when trying to make a pitstop. Remember always the pitroad speeds, else you get a penalty. It is also important that you obey to all commands the game will tell you in the chatbox, where you belong to under line up conditions etc.

If you still have suggestions, you may post them here if you like. Please be prepared for these events and practise a little to ge suited to each track. I wish you all lots of fun

[Attila Domján]

yes yes, i need some teaching in here!

[Ramon van Rijn]

Cool. I hope to attend as much as possible.

[Yoeri Gijsen]

I want to be there as well. ARCA just rocks!

[Niklas Hjelm]

Great news!

[Lars Strydonck]

Is this going to force cockpit view? (hope not)

[Bram Hengeveld]

Originally Posted by Lars Strydonck

Is this going to force cockpit view? (hope not)

Naaah: its friendly development

[Jacco Cornelissen]

I'm in for a couple off races

[Lars Strydonck]

Originally Posted by Bram Hengeveld

Naaah: its friendly development

Cool

[Mark A Warmington]

As if you have to ask...

I'll be there as often as possible. Dates have been added to my diary... Hmmm.. How do I go about swapping my late shifts at work???

[Patrick van Driel]

Great news, love to be in as much as i can

[Will Farrar]

Sounds good, i'd suggest putting in a couple of TBD events in some of the bigger gaps between races as they'll be quite a few tracks released between now and August.

[Ghostryder]

looks good, im all for it

[Marcel Hulsbergen]

I am in too, atleast for a few races.

[Maurice Hurkmans]

Sounds great, really can need some help to master the ovals!

Already looking forward to this

[Sascha Henken]

I´m very happy to see so much interest with Oval Racing in general. I am also looking forward to these events, since this will be the first real closed events, where the game has to proof its stability and all other things, that must work in a League based enviroment. See yall then

[Roy Stevens]

Cant wait for this ..Ill be at every race

[Jarrod Crossley]

Bring on the ovals.

[Ricky Willox]

These should be good. Will try to make them all as i really need the practise.

[Sascha Henken]

Hi all,

as we´re getting closer to the first Oval Race event, I want to know the following:

As we are running 50% mileage (see the laps in the first post), there will be no pitstops at all but to have pitstops to make the event a bit more interesting for all of us, I want to use x2 Fuel Usage. The Tire Wear stays normal though. Please tell me, if that is okay for you or not. Otherwise we stay as we are and run under normal conditions.

Thank you

[James Johnson]

most of the field would pit anyways under a yellow for the final 10 laps where the newer tires count;)

[Frank Steinbach]

Just noticed this thread after asking for a chance to race with you in another thread.
Stupid me, oh the joy of getting older! ;)

Great, count me in for as many events as possible if my work schedule (and wife ) allows!

The race format and rules are looking good for me!

[Mark A Warmington]

Originally Posted by Sascha Henken

Hi all,

as we´re getting closer to the first Oval Race event, I want to know the following:

As we are running 50% mileage (see the laps in the first post), there will be no pitstops at all but to have pitstops to make the event a bit more interesting for all of us, I want to use x2 Fuel Usage. The Tire Wear stays normal though. Please tell me, if that is okay for you or not. Otherwise we stay as we are and run under normal conditions.

Thank you

I'd rather run under normal conditions. The differences in setups and the way people drive their cars will probably make pit-stops necessary anyway.

I can see cautions aplenty...

[Gareth Hickling]

Im still waiting for my copy but for stockcar practice I ran 100 laps at talledega last night/this morning with 30+ american chaps in the VHR rF mod, It was fantastic.
Still no reply from my email, All I want is conformation that is has been posted
Every day that passes is a day lost of practice, Hopefully I will be ready to race in these events.

[Sascha Henken]

Okay then. We keep it as it is. We will run under normal conditions regarding fuel and tire wear. Remember that we are since saturday night under DST (Daylight Saving Time) again which means we are now in GMT+2 so i´ve updated the times in the first post.