The GPGNC is an international offline league, bringing together 22 countries to compete for the championship. The rules are as follows (season 2 changes in bold):FormatThe championship is an offline championship. Team owners choose the performance levels of their cars, based on their own personal strategies, and the races are run on the PC of the Race Director, with a full race review posted to the GPG Forums
The ChampionshipThe championship will take place over a full season of circuits - 17 locations designed to test drivers and cars to the limit
The TeamsThe championship will consist of 22 teams. Each team MUST be themed on a nation of the world - either the owner's home nation, or one they like for some reason. Multiple cars of the same nation ARE allowed as long as they are owned by different owners, and have different drivers.
The DriversThe Driver names are a free choice. Real drivers/drivers whose names are relevant to the countries would be preferred, but this is not essential
CarshapesAs agreed by all participating members, one single carshape shall be used for Season 2 of the GPGNC. By popular vote that car shall be the SMD-09a by Snake Motorsports, a link for this carshape can be found at the bottom of this post.LiveriesThe livery of each car must be relevant to the nation the car represents. Limited sponsor logos are allowed, however, they must be of decent taste, and the company must be based, or heavily related to the nation of the car (ie, a UK car might have Yorkshire Tea as a sponsor for example, but not Sony). Each car's livery must be unique, and identifyable. Each livery must also carry the car's number, which in the second season will be allocated by choice of each participating nation. It is preferable that the livery contains the nation name on the rear surface of the rear wing.
Tobacco sponsorship cannot be used, as in some countries images of said products are banned, which may infringe on a managers ability to view the coverage.
Car PerformanceEach car will have the same performance, set using the performance file – 850bhp, 1500 reliability.
Any points gained from the season(s) previous shall be used to reduce the reliability of the managers team car AFTER such season has finished. Reliability does not change as the season progresses and shall only be changed in the break between 2 seasons.
Reliability stays with the manager, therefore if the manager is to change participating nation, the reliability is still reduced by acquired points over the last season(s).Driver PerformanceThis is where the team owner can really make a difference to his/her fight for the championship.
Each driver will be given a base performance of 16000 for races, and 17000 for qualifying. The team owner is given a ‘budget’ of 8500 points. The team owner may allocate some of these extra points to the qualifying and race performances, up to a maximum of 500 each (ie, the absolute max performance is 16500 for races, and 17500 for qualifying). This limit is imposed in order to prevent runaway races.
Boost deadlines will be at the discretion of the Performance manager, and shall all be sent to the GPGNC account.
Each performance file containing the boost shall be posted before qualifying commences. If errors are found and a session has already been run, a rerun may be called upon to correct the erroneus result.Race WeekendQualifying shall be 40 minutes in length, 22 cars on the track, 4 laps of fuel per stint, and as many laps as possible in the set time.
Race distance shall be set to 66% of full race distance, with 2 mandatory pit stops per race. If a driver does not complete both pitstops, penaltys may be used to correct any erroneus result.Season 1 Calendar:
Season 1 Final standings:
Season 2 EntrantsCar Number/Nation/GPG User:#1:
Switzerland - John Maverick
#2:
Canada - Icky
#3:
USA - CaptinFranko
#5:
Italy - senna9194
#6:
Netherlands - MDBSnake
#7:
Austria - Incident 2k9
#8:
Argentina - Rod_vs
#9:
France - Shep34
#10:
Sweden - Willward
#11:
Japan - Turbo Lover
#14:
Belgium - kenney
#16:
Montenegro - Truecrysis
#22:
Brazil - NeoLiot
#23:
Wales - Johnwarrington
#24:
Ireland - Ferrari 2007
#25:
Australia - Macca25
#27:
Finland - Oensan
#29:
Germany - Kedy89
#39:
Romania - Reve-san
#42:
San Marino - Gigi4
#69:
Portugal - X_Acto
#86:
England - Twigster151
Provisional Season 2 CalendarCountry/Track/Rain Percentage:1. San Marino – Imola – 25%
2. Austria – A1-Ring – 15%
3. Belgium – Spa – 50%
4. Holland – Zandvoort – 15%
5. Germany – Old Hockenheim – 25%
6. USA – Piranema – 0%
7. France – Le Petit Sarthe – 15%
8. Argentina – Buenos Aires – 0%
9. Australia – Phillip Island – 0%
10. Italy – Vallelunga – 0%
11. Romania – Hungaroring – 15%
12. Portugal – Estoril – 0%
13. Brazil – Interlagos – 25%
14. England – Oulton Park – 50%
15. Canada – Montreal – 15%
16. Japan – Suzuka – 75%
17. Neutral - Dubai – 0%
SMD-09a link: hereCar Presentation Kit: hereEdited 117 time(s). Last edit at 10/03/2011 03:31PM by GPG_Nations_Cup.