Welcome to the (un)official GRM - Gran Turismo 5 racing League - Series 5.
This is a championship series based on the cars and spirit of the Grassroots Motorsports (and what is available in GT5).
This league will consist of 10 races run weekly, and 2 classes (TC and Shuf).
TC Cup - This is a championship based on Touring Car style production based cars.
- Allowed Cars: Any production based car, including NASCAR cars, that have a Power Point level of 625 points
- Specifically Disallowed cars: No Prototype or Formula 1 or Formula GT open wheel style cars.
- Production (non-race) cars: Production cars are allowed.
- Tires: No restriction
- ABS: Allowed
- Traction Control or any other aids: Not allowed
Shuf - Shuffle Series
- Allowed Cars: Randomly assigned for each race
- Power Point Level: Set per race event (see below)
- Shuffle Ratio: 5 (subject to adjustment)
- 5 sprint races will be run per event, typically 1 or 2 laps (see event list)
- Races will be set to automatically cycle with a 2 minute break between races
- Points for each event are an average of finishes for races during that event.
- ABS: Allowed.
- Traction Control or any other aids: Not allowed
Points:
1st - 10 points 2nd - 8 points 3rd - 7 points 4th - 6 points 5th - 5 points 6th - 4 points 7th - 3 points 8th - 2 points 9th - 1 point
Points for the championship will consist of your 8 highest scores. With this, missing a race won't eliminate your chances.
First tie breaker is total wins. Second tie breaker is a 1 lap shootout on the final track of the season.
Rules:
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You will have to compete using the same car throughout the series. Changing your car with result in a DQ. Buyers remorse option: If you find your car choice to be uncompetitive in the first race you can opt to take a DQ for that race and use another car for the rest of the series. You of course will sacrifice one of your 2 allowed drops doing this.
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You can however tune / tweak your car to the limits of your class.
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All driving aids are off (TCS, Driving line, etc), unless otherwise specified (e.g. ABS)
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Racing etiquette applies (e.g. it is the responsibility of the overtaking driver to ensure a clean pass).
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Punting Courtesy Rule: The following driver is responsible for not making contact with the car in front. If you push someone else off of the track via a rear end collision, you are required to wait for them to return to the track and allow them to stay in front of you for at least one turn. Optional (if you feel really bad about it) suggestion: If you clearly damage a car by ramming it, follow that car into the pits for repairs.
Keep the racing clean. Repeated violations / complaints will result in a DQ.
Registration:
If you would like to compete in 1 or more classes, please send me a PM (or post in this thread if you don't mind everyone knowing your entry) listing:
- PSN ID
- GRM ID
- Desired Class(es)
- Desired Car
Custom Tracks:
This series will rely heavily on participant provided custom tracks. Download the tracks by going to the creators (listed in event schedule) community listing. The requirements for custom tracks:
- Must have pit stop (no kart based tracks)
- Must be final and shared at least 1 week prior to event.
- Please share track as much a possible prior to event.
- Leave notice in thread when the track is updated.
- Time of day, time advance rate, weather etc are all set by the creator.
- May be tweaked until 1 week prior to the event.
Schedule:
Races scheduled to be held on Wednesday evenings. Each class race would run sequentially, with TC going first at 8PM Central Time (9ET, 6PT). Shuffle Class will go approximately at 8:45PM Central Time. A 15 minute warm-up period will be given between the 2 races.
Attending Events:
Races are held in Private Lobbies in the hopes of improving connections (not much held here) and avoid interlopers. The room should be open at least 30 min before the race for practice and qualifying but many times it will be open an hour or more.
Please send friend requests to: Allaircooled and Greafin10 on PSN. Grea generally has a room open first, but if I will open a room.
Event schedule:
11/30 - Round 1 Moonshiners Run - laps: 17 / 1 480pp 5 races (2 min) [BradLTL]
12/7 - Round 2 Nurburgring GP/F - laps: 16 / 1 400pp 5 races (2 min)
12/14 - Round 3 Mt Ashole - laps: 28 / 2 340pp 5 races (2 min) [Baelwerker]
12/21 - Round 4 Big E36 M3e - laps: 30 / 2 360pp 5 races (2 min) [AllAirCooled]
1/4- Round 5 Eifel Funner - laps: 17 / 1 420pp 5 races (2 min) [GTPSypHunter]
1/11 - Round 6 E36M3 Face Shiny Happy Person - laps: 30 / 2 320pp 5 races (2 min) [F40]
1/18 - Round 7 Suzuka Circuit - laps: 14 / 1 500pp 5 races (2 min)
1/25 - Round 8 Origami - laps: 13 / 1 460pp 5 races (2 min) [Greafin]
2/1 - Round 9 Night Moves - laps: 21 / 1 440pp 5 races (2 min) [RealMiniDriver]
2/8 - Round 10 Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca - laps: 23 / 1 380pp 5 races (2 min)
215 - RoC Moonshiners Run (17 laps) / All custom tracks (in order, 7 races), 460pp
*WC - Weather Change, the setting will be left at the lobby default. GT5 will control what weather appears during the race.
Here are the online results: Series 5 Results
And list of cars (including the DLC cars): GT5 Cars
for your TC car and you find it is totally uncompetitive in the first race, you can sacrifice one of your drops and change cars for the next race.
I'm not enamored enough with the game anymore to pay for the DLC.
