Author: pitman

Starting with the upcoming championships we will change the procedure a little bit:

From now on there are 2 entries per championship in the ServerManager under the menu item "Championships".
One entry for the Practice Events on Saturday, a second entry for the Main Event race on Sunday.
http://5.75.183.156:8772/championships?server=4

If you want to participate on both days, you have to register twice from now on.

After the Sunday race I will delete the registrations again and you have to register for the next week.

Why we do this:

Over the past few months, we've noticed from time to time that new members have joined THR and immediately participated in the Sunday Main Event races.

Since we want to be a beginner friendly community, this is usually ok.

Unfortunately, there were races where it quickly became clear that the new members were not ready for the combination of car and track.

Therefore, we are changing our onboarding process. Members joining THR should first participate in wkdy races (Wednesdays) or practice event races (Saturdays), so that we can see if a direct participation in the championship race on Sunday makes sense. Also the participation in the THR Academy can give us helpful information.
If we determine that a new member is race fit, then we will give the okay for the Main Event race on Sunday.

We are aware that this means more work for us and we will learn in the next few weeks how to deal with it in the best way.

If you can't participate in the described events and/or you think you are experienced enough, you can do the following:

• fill in this form > https://bit.ly/THR_onboarding
• put in some laps on THR |1| and we have a look at it

Advantages of the new process

• racers can prove their eligibility before participating in the Main Event races on Sunday
• in addition to the Sunday races, the number of racers registered for the Saturday races is now also visible in #available-slots
• we don't need a summary championship anymore, because the Saturday races are stored separately

Disadvantage

• you have to register twice if you want to race on Saturday and Sunday

We go back to the Golden Age of Grand Prix Racing.
To be more precise, we go back to 1923, a time when races sometimes lasted longer than 7 hours. A time when racers competed on paved or gravel tracks. A time when there was no concern for the safety of the drivers.
A time when real heroes were sitting behind the steering wheels.

To celebrate this time, we have chosen two tracks on which we will drive the 1923 GP cars.

Tracks

Opel Rennbahn
https://www.racedepartment.com/downloads/rennbahn-1928.41300/
Here is an article directly from the Opel website. Including an interview with the Thomas Lächele, who brought the track back to life:
https://www.opelpost.com/05/2021/opel-rennbahn-2/

Lost Heaven (The track from Mafia)
https://sharemods.com/fx8zqx2uh57x/actk_lostheaven.7z.html

Cars

1923 Gran Prix Cars

All files from here:
https://www.racedepartment.com/downloads/authors/nicecuppatea.464114/
Install this fix manually after installing the other downloads first:
"1923 pack - camera fix, rainfx data, Delage AI fix 1.0"

Race Format

Opel Rennbahn
1st Qualifying > 10 minutes
1st Race > 30 minutes
Lost Heaven
2nd Qualifying > 10 minutes
2nd Race > 30 minutes

The week after we start with two new championships.

After a short christmas break, we get back into our cars.

On next weekend we race the AC GTC Championship event in Mexico.

Detailed information about cars, tracks, qualifying, races, etc. can be found here:
https://thracing.de/acl-gtc-championship/

Server THR |1| THRacing | is open to test the different cars.

Server THR |5| QUALI+RACE | awaits your qualifying laptimes.

To be able to join the qualifying server and the races on the upcoming weekend, you have to register your slot here:
https://bit.ly/THR_Booking

The bot in the #available-slots channel in Discord inform about the remaining slots.