Announcement

We are delighted to announce a very special race event that will take place on our server. Please note, that despite the "Invitational" bit in the title, everybody is welcome to participate, as long as entry criteria are met.


Having completed thousands of 4-lap sprint races we thought it would be cool to see who's really quick. It's an open secret, that key to winning a 4-lapper is surviving Turn 1, and if you are reasonably fast, you stand a good chance for a good result. But what if we make the race longer? Like, 30 laps. What if we throw a compulsory pitstop in? What if we implement the pace car, that will help those victims of someone else's mess repair the car, catch up with the field, and then storm through the pack for an upset victory? But before all this, what if your starting position is determined by a qualifying session, which will reflect on your actual pace, instead of a random-drawn grid?

I'd love to say that we thought about it long and hard, but we didn't. As soon as the idea was thrown in, it gained great support. So...

Name: AirAttack Invitational 100.
Date: Saturday, 23rd May 2015, 1900 CET (Click for conversions)
Server: [AA] Demo GTi
Vehicles: XFG & XRG, any setup
Maximum entrants: 12

Criteria for entry

1. Any driver entering the event must have a Personal Best (PB) time of 1:35:00 or less in XFG or XRG on an [AA] server.
2. Current Safety rating should be 80% or above. Exception will be given to those known drivers who are known for their good driving, but have been wiped off by crashers. We understand that these things are sometimes beyond your own control.

Race format

1. The event begins with a 30-minute qualifying session. All drivers are welcome to drive as many laps during the session, trying to post the best laptime possible. The better the time at the conclusion of the session, the higher the grid spot.
2. The race is 30 laps long.
3. Each driver must make a compulsory pit stop AND tire change. This will be enforced, any driver failing to make the pit stop correctly will be penalized by having 45 seconds added to their total race time.
4. In in the event of an accident deemed hazardous to the rest of the field by race officials, the pace car will be deployed. This will be explained further down.

Pace car / caution flag rule

Should there be an accident race control deem hazardous to the rest of the field, the Pace Car will be deployed. This period of time is the Caution Period.

1. If there are 11 or less drivers on the track, there will be an actual Pace Car exiting the pits at the end of the current lap and picking up the field at 80kph / 50mph.
2. If there are 12 drivers on the track, the leader will be instructed by race control to slow down to 80kph/50mph. The race leader will be expected to abide by these instructions immediately, contact will be made in general chat AND an on-screen message.
3. The pit lane is CLOSED during the Caution Period - only to be used by the cars who crashed if instructed by Race Control. The pit stop available to the cars instructed will not count towards their compulsory pit stop meaning they still need to complete a pit stop and tire change should they have not done so already. These cars will then be directed to the back of the field by race control.
4. The field must catch up with the leader and proceed single-file at the speed mentioned above.
5. Tire warming is allowed.
6. If the Pace Car is on the field, it will be announced that the Pace Car will return to the pits at the end of that lap. The field MUST stay at 80kmh/50mph until the Green Flag message is said in chat and on-screen. Failure to abide by this will incur a 30 second penalty added to your total race time.
7. No hanging back is allowed in an effort to jump positions on the restart. All drivers must maintain a distance of 1-2 car lengths to the car in front until the Restart.
8. Race control will do it's best to inform drivers of the situation on the track via on-screen messages.

In-race communication

We recommend to refrain from extensive chatting in the race main window. This is a major distraction for those competing for the win. We recommend to use TeamSpeak, so that we could speak to each other during the race. We also advise that TeamSpeak is used for race-related talk, race announcements, and any irrelevant dialogue is not recommended.

The language of the chat and all the announcements is English. We appreciate that not everybody is fluent, however we believe it is important for everybody to be online and be able to listen to what's going on.

TeamSpeak details are:

- Download client at www.teamspeak.com
- Connect to server 49.50.246.247:9108
- Password is airattack2015

I personally recommend the 'auto-detection' mode where the program will detect you speaking and switch the microphone on automatically. This will prevent you from searching for that 'Speak' button and crashing like an idiot in a middle of the track.

It doesnt works fine with w7 HP 
Yesterday I wanted to race again at AA servers, but after seting it up, it started to work baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad
I tried with Logitech Profiler, with Control Panel. Any ideas?
Drivers are installed, I calibrated axes but nothing works.
 

Happy b'day MORRO!! Hope you get a blast! (Not the explosive, hehe)

Just to follow up on a small rant in a different thread.

5 races in a row an AA GTI I have been taken out in Turn 1 or the first chicane on the very first lap. These were not accidental gentle taps and a slow spin, but rather violent Destruction Derby'esque crashes with 5 cars entering the chicane without making any effort whatsoever to emerge unscathed at the other end.

At the time of writing I am extremely unimpressed by this standard of racing, and I do not feel like returning to the server for the next few days. To those who preach "Relax, this is just a game", I would say you should shut up and think about decency that has to be practiced on a public game server.

With this in mind, I have a proposal. Maybe we shall set up another server with very strict moderation standards and some sort of entry criteria that will only allow decent racers to join. The proposed criteria are:

1. Current RT on AA GTI of 85% or higher.
1.1. Should the entrant's RT be between 80% and 85%, he / she will be allowed to race by admin's sole discretion, as RT tends to be compromised by events outside of the player's control (see intro to this thread).
1.2. Anyone with RT lower than 80% is not allowed on the server under no circumstance. He / she shall gain the necessary RT at AA GTI server before attempt of re-entry.

2. The administrator(s) will be chosen from well-known and generally respected racers like Jacques, Destruction Derby, Caerdrion, known for their clean driving ability and general human decency.
2.1. Any driver with RT at and over 95% gets admin rights.

3. General LFS rules regarding clean racing, deliberate crashes, retaliation and general poor behaviour shall apply.
3.1. Monitoring of such will be the duty of the administrators.
3.2. Any person found to be causing deliberate crashes, retaliating against other players will be banned from the server for 7 days without warning.
3.2.2. No exception will be given for "but he crashed me first" claims. No deliberate crashes or retaliation, full stop.
3.2.3. This rule applies to all players regardless of their current RT on the server, 'general image' or 'authority'.
3.3. Racer known as BAR will not be allowed on the server. Those who get crashed by him all the time will get the idea.

4. All races, except for Special Events, will be 6 laps long and will take place at Blackwood GP circuit.
4.1. Server will occasionally run Special Events, the format will be separately designed, discussed and communicated.

5. The server can either be permanently live, or on-demand at pre-agreed time slots.
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