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Discussion in 'Endurance League: S397 Endurance Pack Closed' started by John vd Geest, Jun 6, 2020.

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  1. John vd Geest

    John vd Geest Administrator Staff Member Donator

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    Join the Endurance Racing league

    Mod Links for this series:
    S397 Endurance Pack: https://store.steampowered.com/itemstore/365960/detail/1004/
    S397 Ferrari 488 GTE: https://store.steampowered.com/itemstore/365960/
    S397 Aston Martin GTE: https://store.steampowered.com/itemstore/365960/


    The purpose of this league is to build series for Endurance racing together with interested league members.

    We will discuss and vote on all options together in how to build a series, for example:
    - What mods to use
    - Event duration
    - What tracks
    - Event rules

    To give the first series of this league a start, I have selected the Endurance Pack by Studio 397 and reserved dates on the calendar.
    Sundays 19:00 GMT: Sept 6 / Sept 20 / Oct 4 / Oct 18 / Nov 1 / Nov 15.

    The first point for discussion I want to introduce is add-on cars.

    The original Endurance Pack consists of these cars: Porsche 911 RSR, BMW M8 GTE, Corvette C7.R, Oreca 07 LMP2 and the Norma M30 LMP3.

    For this new series I want to propose that we use from the original pack these cars:
    - LMP2
    - BMW
    - Corvette
    - Porsche

    and these add-on cars:

    - Ferrari 488 GTE - (DLC Studio 397 € 4,99)
    - Aston Martin GTE - (DLC Studio 397 € 4,99)

    If we are going to do this, we might as well do it right. :)

    Let me know if you are interested in supporting this league and place your comments below.

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    Results Track Votes

    10 x S397 Le Mans
    10 x S397 Sebring
    5 x Mont Tremblant 24 hours
    4 x Daytona
    4 x Watkins Glen
    4 x Bahrain
    3 x Lausitzring Long
    3 x Spa Francorshamps
    3 x Silverstone
    3 x Sochi
    3 x Road Atlanta
    3 x S397 Nordschleife 24H
    2 x Buddh International Circuit
    2 x Mosport
    2 x Montreal 2013
    2 x Paul Ricard
    2 x COTA (Circuit Of The Americas)
    1 x S397 Portland Int. Raceway 2019
    1 x Suzuka
    1 x Brno
    1 x Dubai GP
    1 x Autopolis International Endurance
    1 x Virginia
    1 x Mid-Ohio

    S397 Nordschleife 24H
    S397 Le Mans
    S397 Sebring
     
    Last edited: Jul 12, 2020
    John vd Geest, Jun 6, 2020
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  2. Larry Thomas

    Larry Thomas Pro Driver

    Is the day fixed? Put it on saturdays and I will be in.
     
    Larry Thomas, Jun 7, 2020
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  3. John vd Geest

    John vd Geest Administrator Staff Member Donator

    Yeah, I have to take other planned series into account.
     
    John vd Geest, Jun 7, 2020
    #3
  4. Larry Thomas

    Larry Thomas Pro Driver

    Too bad (for me):(
     
    Larry Thomas, Jun 7, 2020
    #4
  5. Neil Tasker

    Neil Tasker Pro Driver Donator

    Definatly intreasted in this and will help organise in anyway i can john
    Somthing cool that follows the wec series would be cool and maybe a one of event at daytona too
     
    Neil Tasker, Jun 12, 2020
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  6. John vd Geest

    John vd Geest Administrator Staff Member Donator

    Good idea :)
     
    John vd Geest, Jun 12, 2020
    #6
  7. Neil Tasker

    Neil Tasker Pro Driver Donator

     
    Neil Tasker, Jun 12, 2020
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  8. Didier Coelo

    Didier Coelo Pro Driver

    I am interested and Sunday evening suits me very well.
    I'm ok to buy the missing items if I'm sure it stays on weekends, because working at night, I can't run on weekdays.
     
    Didier Coelo, Jun 12, 2020
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  9. John vd Geest

    John vd Geest Administrator Staff Member Donator

    You can be sure it stays on Sundays. I already reserved the dates for it for our first series. Now we have to vote for 6 tracks.
     
    John vd Geest, Jun 12, 2020
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  10. Nigel Middleton

    Nigel Middleton Administrator Staff Member Donator

    Le Mans
    Sebring
    Silverstone
    Daytona
    Road Atlanta
    Paul Ricard
    :)
     
    Nigel Middleton, Jun 14, 2020
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  11. Paul Anstey

    Paul Anstey Pro Driver

    Le Mans S397 version
    Sebring S397 version
     
    Paul Anstey, Jun 14, 2020
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  12. Leonardo Galati

    Leonardo Galati Pro Driver

    I'm definitely interested in this one! ;)

    My advice on tracks:
    Le Mans (S397 version)
    Sebring (S397 version)
    Silverstone
    Spa-Francorshamps
    Bahrain
    Paul Ricard

    2h/2.5h race duration

    Le Mans with time acceleration to simulate day-night-day shift
     
    Leonardo Galati, Jun 14, 2020
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  13. John vd Geest

    John vd Geest Administrator Staff Member Donator

    Of course :)
     
    John vd Geest, Jun 14, 2020
    #13
  14. Paul Anstey

    Paul Anstey Pro Driver

    Love the long duration as long as my body can take it o_O

    Maybe a couple of races that run through the night. Sebring is awesome at night :)
     
    Paul Anstey, Jun 14, 2020
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  15. Paul Anstey

    Paul Anstey Pro Driver

    Is there a decent LMP 1 mod ?
     
    Paul Anstey, Jun 14, 2020
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  16. Rob Vandenberg

    Rob Vandenberg Pro Driver

    Interested.
    Spa instead of Paul Ricard
     
    Rob Vandenberg, Jun 14, 2020
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  17. Paul Anstey

    Paul Anstey Pro Driver

    Yeah! Paul Ricard gives me a headache with those damn stripes :confused:
     
    Paul Anstey, Jun 14, 2020
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  18. Jerry Chen

    Jerry Chen Pro Driver

    John, The issue with adding in the Ford EGT from URD is BOP.
    I'm currently participating in another league, and the league admins have done manual/custom BOP to all the URD GTE cars to get them to be close in laptimes and fun competitively on track. If you're mixing URD and s397 cars, it probably won't go well from on track racing perspective. Not to mention the BOP problems s397 cars themselves have.

    Otherwise, i'm good with everything you listed. It will be interesting to see the next update from S397, hopefully we get the BOP changes s397 used for the virtuallm24 yesterday. (personally i'm biased because it looks like the Porsche is much stronger than the other cars :p )
     
    Jerry Chen, Jun 14, 2020
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  19. John vd Geest

    John vd Geest Administrator Staff Member Donator

    Noted. Can you give me more info with regard to the Ford BOP? How much weight did they slap on it?
     
    John vd Geest, Jun 14, 2020
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  20. Jerry Chen

    Jerry Chen Pro Driver

    It wasn't just weight. They got permission from URD to change all of the physics of all the gt cars. They spent a couple months testing and tweaking the changes so all the cars retained their unique characteristics, but basically all are within about a second of lap time.
    Weight, inertia, aero, hp, torque, tire grip/wear etc.

    So they drive more like s397 GTEs now than the original wooden tire URD cars. But i don't know how fast/slower the original URD Ford GT will be compared to the s397 GTEs ... my guess is that URD Ford GT will be faster in a straight line than s397 cars, but because it has original wooden tires from URD, it probably won't corner as well.
     
    Jerry Chen, Jun 14, 2020
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