MSC RACE BULLETIN - ROUND 4

cablelawyer
Feb 16
2 min read

Welcome to Season 8, Round 4 of the Ricmotech MiniMite Sportscar Challenge!

This week is Round 4 of the Ricmotech MiniMite Sportscar Challenge in which we travel to Phillip Island for a 60-minute race. This is a fun but tricky track in spots. It's easy to run off track wide at Turn 2. It is also notoriously difficult to judge side-by-side distances around Turn 2, so please put in some good practice racing each other around that corner. Can you hold the inside line all the way around without pushing into a car on the outside? Can you run Turn 2 entirely in the outside lane without running off track? And then need to be ready to deal with traffic in the braking zone for Turn 4, in the short straight between Turns 4-6. And then there's the treacherous Turn 10 at the bottom of the hill.

On Monday, at 7:10pm eastern time, we will pause practice and do some practice starts. This is followed by the mandatory Drivers' Meeting on Discord at 7:30pm. Lastly, you should program your iRacing radio with channel: RSIM for "race steward instant message" as you can use that channel (and only that channel please) to notify the Race Stewards of an incident that you think they may have missed.

Let's put on a great show for the broadcast!

RACE DAY DETAILS

EVENT SCHEDULE

5:35 PM (EST) 10:35PM GMT): Practice - 95 Minutes

7:10 PM (EST) (12:10AM GMT): Practice Starts - 20 Minutes

7:30 PM (EST) (12:30AM GMT): Mandatory Drivers' Meeting - 15 Minutes

7:45 PM (EST) (12:45AM GMT): Pre-Qualifying Warmup - 20 Minutes

8:05 PM (EST) (1:05AM GMT): 4-Lap Lone Qualifying - 15 Minutes

8:20 PM (EST) (1:20AM GMT): Race Start - 60 Minutes

9:30 PM (EST) (2:30AM GMT): Post Race Drivers' Meeting - 10 Minutes

IN-SIM SESSION TIME OF DAY

8:30 AM: IN-SIM PRACTICE