Hey THR,
it is time to celebrate!
Why?
Read along and find out!
Nineteen years after we had founded THR in a closed gaming community, the idea came to me to make it publicly accessible. Therefore, on Saturday, December 15th, 2018, we held the first race of our newly established THR community.
This means that THR will be 7 years old in a few days and we have experienced a lot in these seven years:
First Race
Our first race was held with the GPL Mod at Silverstone and we had 4 Racers on track. Our race format in the first weeks was to run as many 20-minute races in a row as we were able to.
Our first regular driver was Ben Barson. Thanks a lot for showing that the community idea was not that bad.
Our AC server
The first races were hosted on Duderei's home server.
But we quickly moved to a professional hoster.
The first entry in our STracker Database is from 2018-12-25.
After that we changed the hoster 2 times until we moved to a rented LinuxMachine (thanks franglais) which runs the ServerManager and 8 AC-Servers.
Cause of lag spikes we decided to switch to another hoster and rented a more powerful server, which is our home since 3 years now.
Races in THR
Over the 7 years, 1,740 different drivers have raced on our servers.
We have driven tens of thousands of laps and countless kilometers.
We had around 292 official events, more than 120 weekday races and many fun races.
We hosted 22 Special Events and we have completed 33 championships and the next upcoming are already planned.
Our former champions can be seen on the Wall of Champions.
Discord
The Discord Server has been set up on 2018-12-07.
Our first member besides Dude and me joined on 2018-12-14.
Currently we have 2,914 Members. Some of them are very quiet or bots, but no matter what time of day, there are always more than 500 members online.
What I find crazy is that I have written over 35,000 messages in our THR Discord. The number of PMs are also high, but I can´t count them. On Top our THR Orga members have written more than 68.000 messages.
Website
The Website followed a little later. The first entry is from 2019-01-17.
It contains 254 pages and 428 news and I wrote more than 278,000 Words.
Funfact: You will need over 18 hours to read them all.
To represent our races we have made around 300 posters.
Our Website has more than 378,000 visits and more than 1,393,000 views.
The most successfull page ist the news page, followed by the tracks page, the GPL Mod page, and the WSC Legends page.
Youtube
Nearly 1 year after our foundation we started our Youtube-Channel on 2019-02-17.
At first we started with a short PromoVideo which was made by Bo Stamper.
Another year later we started to stream our races and with the help of Klopstick and Ted we produced another brilliant PromoVideo which has been watched 1.598 times since then.
To celebrate the start of our fifth GPL championship, Greg produced another stunning video which has been watched 724 times until today.
But all got topped by the Cinematics Evgeny made about our championships.
The awesome Cintematic about our THR GTC 60s championship, which has 15,157 views.
And the stunning Cinematic about our F1 1991 Championship, which has been watched 11,359 times.
Evgeny deserves a lot more subscriptions. If you haven´t done it already hop over and subscribe his channel.
And if you like, you can do the same with our THR channel.
The channel contains more than 373 videos/streams and has 902 followers.
It was visited 73,171 times and more than 8.200 hours of our videos were viewed.
The most successful Live-Stream was the one from our 6hour 5th Endurance race at Le Mans, which is still a blast to watch and had 3.303 viewers until now.
This event was our most successful yet, with more than 30,000 views in total (some drivers streamed the race live). If you want to relive the excitement, you can find the brilliant race report here.
Social Media
Besides of the above we have a Facebook site, which get not much attention from our side, but has 529 followers, cause of the website news which get posted on Facebook automatically.
Also an unused Twitch Channel, an equally unused Instagram Account and some other cool things which I might have forgotten.
Shop
We opened our own THR Shop on 12/21/2022.
The idea behind the store was to send prizes to our championship winners / participants.
Since the opening we have donated 37 prices to our members and on top of that sold only a few products.
Does the shop make sense? Not really. But it's there, and if you ever want to order something, you can expect good quality.
If you plan to buy something and need help with it:
https://thracing.de/thr-shop-help/
Special Thanks
I’d like to extend a heartfelt thank you to the members of our Orga Group —
Flashor, Florian, FMG, Max, and Valentin.
I truly appreciate our meetings and the thoughtful decisions we make together.
A big thank you also goes out to franglais, JirkaS, and margar, who support us from time to time with their invaluable contributions.
Our teamwork is the reason THR continues to run so smoothly!
I’d also like to recognize the members of THR Race Control.
Some month ago, we introduced a new process format that significantly reduced your workload, and it’s fantastic to see how seriously you’ve all continued to take your responsibilities.
Finally, many thanks to everyone who has supported THR with their time, effort, and dedication!
The most important part of THR > YOU
At the heart of THR is the amazing community that has grown around it.
Thank you all for being a part of THR and for making it the incredible place it is today!
It’s truly wonderful to see how you support and respect one another on Discord - that sense of teamwork and kindness means a lot to me.
A special thank you as well to everyone who has donated via PayPal or become a THR Patreon supporter - your generosity is phenomenal!
With gratitude,
Your [THR] pitman
Full Length GP at Spa
Following a tradition we will celebrate THRs 7th anniversary with a full length GP over 28 laps at Spa Francorchamps.
After the race, we’ll raffle off a prize among all finishers.
3DRAP is sponsoring the raffle with a €50 coupon.
Thanks a ton to 3DRAP for making this happen!
THRs 6th Endurance Race
And in January we will have our 6th Endurance race (?hrs at Le Mans).
Further details will be published in the upcoming days.
