OZFM Formula Ford Championship. *Idea/must run*

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Seeing as nothing ever happens on Thursdays why don't we run them tonight. And stock wheels look the best. With wings.

sempeR wrote:Seeing as nothing ever happens on Thursdays why don't we run them tonight. And stock wheels look the best. With wings.

I like this guy, This guy is good except for the wings part. But if the wing are needed to make the car drivable then so be it   

I still like them without the wings but British FF runs wing so maybe we should too

Keen to go for a run tonight

Keen as a bean !

What time are we thinking of running them?

9ish normal time id say

What build are we using??

I've got no engine upgrades, everything else maxed out, stock wheels and wings fitted. 732pi

I reckon no driveline upgrade, as they aren't allowed carbon shafts in the real series.

Lobby open, join on me

sempeR wrote:I still like them without the wings but British FF runs wing so maybe we should too

Really? I had heard that they were thinking about using wings but I didn't know that they had implemented it.

Also, What's wrong with basing it off the Australian championship? Yes, It may not be an "Official" national championship anymore but it's running within the Shannon Nationals and the grids are as strong as they have ever been.

Drag tyres. Trust me, drag tyres.

Definitely drag tires, they have a decent life wth these cars and will make the racing very interesting

JamieWhincup#1 wrote:Also, What's wrong with basing it off the Australian championship? Yes, It may not be an "Official" national championship anymore but it's running within the Shannon Nationals and the grids are as strong as they have ever been.

Speaking purely from a painters point of view, it gives us some more room to use for number boards and it doesn't have annoying glitches in it.

Dektra wrote:

JamieWhincup#1 wrote:Also, What's wrong with basing it off the Australian championship? Yes, It may not be an "Official" national championship anymore but it's running within the Shannon Nationals and the grids are as strong as they have ever been.

Speaking purely from a painters point of view, it gives us some more room to use for number boards and it doesn't have annoying glitches in it.

Aus formula for doesn't use this particular engine/chassis, we use the older chassis and the duratec and kent engines.

Not that we can't run it without wings I think at the moment the majority want to run it with wings

wings also help with slip streaming on the straights

I'd like to see this move to a permanent support event to the V8's

So.............
Run the V8's Fortnightly with qualifying on the alternating week with the Formula Fords as the support category.

Week 1 = Formula Ford Qualifying

Week 2 = V8 round 1 Qualifying (eg: 2 x 12 min sessions, one for each race) and Round 1 of the Formula Fords  

Week 3 = V8 Round 1, Race 1 and Race 2 by session Qualifying 3 race by reverse Grid if applicable

Week 4 = V8 Round 2 Qualifying ( "X" Sessions) and Round 2 of the Formula Fords

Both series would use a floating table 1st to 32nd for points with Room 1 always taking preference for a full grid of 16 cars and the remainder in room 2.

The V8's rooms for each round would be decided by each V8 Qualifying round.
The rooms for the Qualifying rounds of the V8's and the Formula Fords (after the first week) would be dictated by the players previous round "best lap" in the V8's:

Ie:
Week 1, I qualified for Room 1 in the formula fords, finishing 14th overall.
Week 2, I Join room 1 for the entire night, Qualify For the V8's and then Race Round 1 of the Formula Fords
Week 3, I Qualified 17th overall in the V8s during Week 2, making me in room 2 for round 1 of the V8's.
Week 4: My best time in the V8's was 15th fastest, So this round is in room 1: I Qualify for Round 2 of the V8's and then Race Round 2 of the Formula Fords staying in room 1.

Does this make sense to people?

I'd rather not, only because i really don't want to race V8's. These things are mad fun in their own right, no need to be a supporting series.

Agree with Recoil. They definitely need to be a permanent series.

I like the idea of this being a permanent series, A support series to the v8s would be awesome but i would suggest it follows a different format where on v8 qualifying weeks we race the formula fords on the shorter tracks, (catalunya national, silverstone international, long beach medium, road atlanta club, etc) for 20-30 laps and on v8 race weeks we race on the same tracks as the v8s but in a shorter race (10-15) laps.

Fortnightly schedule would look like this.

V8 Quali week (lobby open regular time)
X number of 15 min V8 quali session.
2 lap Formula Ford quali session (1 out lap, 1 hot lap)
20-30 lap Formula Ford race (short track race)

V8 race week (lobby open 45 minutes earlier)
2 lap Formula Ford quali session (1 out lap, 1 hot lap)
10-15 lap Forumla Ford race (full track race)
x number of V8 races (beginning at normal lobby time)

This way we are still racing every week, we can race the Formula Fords without worrying about V8 clashes and for a decent race length.

The only downside to adding the FFords as the main support race for the V8's is that it is still DLC and not everyone will have it. Might be only a couple of guys without but it still restricts those members. The V8's have been an still need to be open to ALL members as it is the signature series here.

The FFords need a series. On their own or with or as support with another series.

Wasn't it free with the Nurbburgerring track?

I only counted 5 cars - not 10

NoRecoil wrote:Wasn't it free with the Nurbburgerring track?

I only counted 5 cars - not 10

Was another 5 car "Booster Pack". May only cost around $7 but not everyone will be buying it. With the Car Pass it is free to them.

I don't think it should be a support series at all. They are good enough for standalone and they run times similar to v8's on most tracks

OK , the term support category may not be well worded.

The idea is to have a series that can be kept as a permanent event to run alongside the V8's, if we have something like this then both series can be run seperate and allow for the alternating weeks of Qualifying and racing.

So if you dont want to race the V8's you just do qualifying and come back next week