Round 4 Donington 2019-11-02

Donington Park

is a motorsport circuit located near Castle Donington in Leicestershire, England. The circuit business is now owned by Jonathan Palmer's MotorSport Vision organisation, and the surrounding Donington Park Estate, still owned by the Wheatcroft family, is currently under lease by MotorSport Vision until 2038.

Originally part of the Donington Hall estate, it was created as a racing circuit during the period between the First and Second World Wars when the German Silver Arrows were battling for the European Championship. Used as a military vehicle storage depot during the Second World War, it fell into disrepair until bought by local construction entrepreneur Tom Wheatcroft. Revived under his ownership in the 1970s, it hosted a single Formula One race, but became the favoured home of the British round of the MotoGP motorcycling championship.

Leased by Donington Ventures Leisure Ltd in 2007 the hope that Formula One racing could return to the track, the incomplete venture failed to raise sufficient financial backing during the aftermath of the 2008 global financial crisis. DVLL consequently lost the rights to the British rounds of both Formula 1 and MotoGP, and in its bankruptcy returned the track to the Wheatcroft family in December 2009.

Under Wheatcroft's ownership, the venue underwent significant work, with the track restored to use in 2010, before major upgrades in the following five years. At the end of 2010, it was announced that Donington would become home to an annual historic motorsport event, the Donington Historic Festival, with new events constantly being added. Since 2010, significant investment across the venue has seen major improvements made to its infrastructure, while the circuit has become a regular fixture for top class motorcycling in the form of the Superbike World Championship.

In January 2017, the circuit business and a long term lease on the estate was purchased by MotorSport Vision, with the purchase cleared by authorities in August of the same year. Significant investment has seen facilities at the venue brought up to modern standards, with a new restaurant, toilet blocks, large new grandstand and new circuit offices, as well as other detail changes. As well as improving the infrastructure, MSV has made additions to the race calendar, with additional major events planned for 2019 including extra rounds of the British Superbike Championship[6] and British GT.

 

Broadcasting events 4 / 5 / 6

I'm happy to announce that we have found a new streamer / broadcaster for round 4 / 5 / 6 in Pasha Paterson.
Pasha is a member of Sim Racing Online since July 2018, so many people should know him already.

Pasha has proven to be a skilled broadcaster / commentator and I'm very happy he accepted my proposal to step in for these events.
If you like to know more about Pasha's broadcasting work, you can watch the video below.

 

I agree, it looks really cool, but if someone doesn't install the car/skin, he will get a mismatch on the server and wonder why it doesn't work anymore. I think it's better to avoid confusion.

 

That link you gave us only holds the skin. On what car should it go and where to find it?

 

Let me bundle this together with the skin link:
https://www.simracingonline.co.uk/attachments/sro_tv-7z.6224/

 

It is programmed so the RSS GT1 series will start 1 hour after the Nords events finish. So there is plenty of time to rest and prepare.
You will be missed as one of the top-runners and I got the series back on track with the broadcasts, so all is well again
I am also doing both series.

 

As long as you know where it goes left and right ...

 

We will not be using the SRO broadcast Van for this series.

It is a cool idea and I like it, but it should have been implemented at the start of the series as part of the series promotion.
The point is that not all people read the forums or everything on this forum. Some guys will not even know we are having this discussion.
Therefore it is highly likely that some drivers will get a checksum error on the server, because they don't have th SRO broadcast Van installed. Furthermore, there is a risk it might disrupt the automated result process.