MSC RACE BULLETIN - ROUND 5 OF 8 at MAGNY-COURS

cablelawyer
Oct 27, 2024
3 min read

Welcome to Round 5 of the MSC Season 7 Championship!

Bonjour! Here we are in central France for Round 5 of the Ricmotech MiniMite Sportscar Challenge at Magny-Cours -- a new track for most of us. Let's get some great participation in the Sunday practice sessions.

Give some particular attention to handling traffic at each of the chicanes and especially the last one. On that opening lap, let's be ready for the accordion-effect slowing going down into the Turn 5 hairpin. We're also likely to see that at Turns 14 and 15. This is a very narrow track in many respects. Getting folks to show up for practice is going to be important.

We will only be inverting the top 10 in GT4 this week. We will do the top half of the LMP3 field.

Remember that we have to do some manual grid sorting especially for the inversion in the second race, so you must be able to hear the Race Steward's instructions for gridding in Race 2. Also, 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.

As usual at 7:10pm eastern time on Monday join us in the practice session for some practice starts before the mandatory drivers' meeting at 7:30pm. At 7:10pm we will line up both classes on the back straight and do at least two practice starts. And we usually finish that practice by having the GT4s line up in front of the LMP3s and then running a lap or two while everyone gets some practice with mixed-class passing in heavy traffic.

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

RACE DAY SPECS

EVENT SCHEDULE

05:50 PM (EST) 9:50PM GMT): Practice (135 min.)

07:10 PM (EST) (11:10PM GMT): 20 min. Practice Starts

07:30 PM (EST) (11:30PM GMT): 15 min. Drivers' Meeting

07:45 PM (EST) (11:45PM GMT): Pre-Qual Warmup

08:05 PM (EST) (12:05AM GMT): 4-Lap Lone Qualifying (15 Min. All Classes)

08:20 PM (EST) (12:20AM GMT): Dual 35-minute sprint races with a 5-minute break in between.

09:40 PM (EST) (01:30AM GMT): Post Race Meeting

IN-SIM SESSION TIME OF DAY

12:30 PM: IN-SIM PRACTICE

2:45 PM: IN-SIM QUALIFYING

3:00 PM: IN-SIM FIRST RACE START TIME

IN SIM DATE OF RACE (10/28/24) MINIMUM PRACTICE TIME FOR BONUS POINT

25 Laps (Complete minimum laps between all 4 practice sessions and earn a bonus point for this Round)

10/27/24 - 04:00 PM - 06:00 PM (EST) 08:00PM - 10:00PM (GMT) 5th Practice

10/27/24 - 06:00 PM - 08:00 PM (EST) 10:00PM - 12:00AM (GMT) 6th Practice

10/27/24 - 08:00 PM - 10:00 PM (EST) 12:00AM - 02:00AM (GMT) 7th Practice

10/27/24 - 10:00 PM - 12:00 AM (EST) 02:00AM - 04:00AM (GMT) 8th Practice

(Each official practice is based on the last 2 hours of the 4-hour race day session)

*IMPORTANT DRIVERS: BE CERTAIN TO REVIEW THE USEFUL LINKS OF THE MSC-SCS SERIES DISCORD CHANNEL AS WELL AS THE COMPETITOR LINK FOR SPECIFIC RACE DAY INFORMATION

MSC-SCS USEFUL LINKS: Driver information, Webcam links, Paints links, Spotter, basically Pre-race Day information...
WEBSITE "COMPETITORS" BUTTON: Rulebook, Race Day Specs w/Bop, Race Day Times, Driver Infraction Points, Incident Logs

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