It’s that time again! The ARMS iRacing League is starting back up next Friday , Nov 1st.

Ryan & I have been busy testing the latest build and have come up with a new format. It will consist of a short 10-minute “sprint” race followed by a longer 20-minute “feature” race each evening. And to spice things up, most nights we’ll be running two different configurations of the evening's track!

The selected car for this season is the SCCA Spec Racer Ford. With the new-tire-model, this little car is a joy to drive. It’s very controllable and should lead to close racing. Back-to-back testing has shown that it’s even easier to drive than the MX-5, yet is marginally faster and certainly has more character.

For track selection, we focused mainly on smaller configurations to keep the field tight. Here’s the schedule:

Race Calendar



Week	Date	Track	Sprint (10 min)	Race (20 min)
Week 1	1-Nov-13	Okayama International Circuit	Short Course	Short Course
Week 2	8-Nov-13	Brands Hatch	Indy	Indy
Week 3	5-Nov-13	Lime Rock Park	Full Course	Chicane
Week 4	22-Nov-13	Suzuka Circuit	East	West
Week 5	29-Nov-13	Charlotte Motor Speedway	Infield Road Course	Road Course
Week 6	6-Dec-13	Barber Motorsports Park	Short B	Short A
Week 7	13-Dec-13	Summit Point Motorsports Park	Jefferson Reverse	Short Configuration
Week 8	20-Dec-13	Twin Ring Motegi	West	East
Week 9	27-Dec-13	VIRginia International Raceway	Patriot	South Course
Week 10	3-Jan-13	Circuit Park Zandvoort	Oostelijk	Club
Week 11	10-Jan-13	Oran Park Raceway	North Course	Grand Prix
Week 12	17-Jan-13	Canadian Tire Motorsport Park	Full Course	Full Course

Again, the first sprint race will be 10 minutes in duration, and the second feature race is 20 minutes.

Time Schedule



Session Type	Start Time	End Time	Duration
Practice	7:00 PM	8:30 PM	90 Min.
Qualify	8:30 PM	8:40 PM	10 Min.
Sprint Race	8:40 PM	8:50 PM	10 min.
Practice	8:40 PM	9:10 PM	30 Min.
Qualify	9:10 PM	9:20 PM	10 Min.
Feature Race	9:20 PM	9:40 PM	20 min.

All are welcome to participate. If you’re not already a member of the ARMS league on iRacing, you can join here: http://members.iracing.com/membersite/m ... league=410

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1997 Talon TSi AWD
2008 EVO X MR

Hey Scott,
The new format sounds like mucho fun. Really looking forward to it.
Last night I hosted a practice session with the SRF at Road America. It sure is a different animal with the NTMv5! Much easier, maybe too easy, to drive. I spent most of the session trying to dial out the understeer and fooling with tire pressures.
Should be a great season.
Later...
Rick James

Nice work Scott and Ryan!
i guess i will have to dust off the wheel.

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Brian
VP, AMP
#51 Vantage Motorsports

See you out on track! (hopefully)

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"The sport is more important than anything. More important than any of the people in it." - Gilles Villeneuve

Anybody have setups they can share with a backmarker

Thanks
Stacy

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The fricton circle for my 911 Porsche resembles more of an oblong... I'm either trailbraking or accelerating while trying to get it to turn!

I'll just be running the baseline setup.

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1997 Talon TSi AWD
2008 EVO X MR