[simracingsystem]

New Assetto Corsa series starting December 12 !!


We are delighted to announce our new Assetto Corsa series!

Rule change - 3 championship points deduction per incindent is removed


Please note that we recently did 2 Rule changes
Minimum registered drivers for a race to be considered Official is now 5 instead of 6
5 races limit per week per championship is removed. You can race as much as you want and always get the best result.


Weekend Series (Saturdays & Sundays)


ClassicF170s (ferrari_312t,ks_lotus_72d) : 20:00 GMT 10 min Qualify + 20 min Race


Youtuber series



Some youtuber series will feature  10 mins qualy + 20 mins Race and others 20 min Qualy +  1 hour Race.



Euro youtubers

Donny, Plank & Slo Bros -Ford RS500 Rally - Mondays 20:00 GMT (all 10 mins Qualy + 20 mins Race)

Ricochet Ligier JS8-S1 - Tuesdays 20:00 GMT (all 10 mins Qualy + 20 mins Race)

Aussie Stig Renault RS01 - Thursdays 20:00 GMT (all 10 mins Qualy + 20 mins race)



America youtubers **


  GTP Porsche Cayman GT4 - Thursdays 02:00 GMT (all 10 mins Qualy + 20 mins Race)

Pro Sim Racing Oreca - Fridays 02:00 GMT (all 20 mins Qualy + 1 h Race)





Daily Series (all 10 mins Qualy + 20 mins Race)


Ferrari 458 GT2


GT3 (bmw_z4_gt3,ks_lamborghini_huracan_gt3,ks_mclaren_650_gt3,ks_mercedes_amg_gt3,ks_nissan_gtr_gt3,mclaren_mp412c_gt3,mercedes_sls_gt3,ks_audi_r8_lms,ks_ferrari_488_gt3,ks_porsche_911_gt3_r_2016)



tatuus


Ginetta GT5



Wednesday Series (all 10 mins Qualy + 20 mins Race)

Lotus 25



You can access the season details on the following link

https://www.simracingsystem.com/upcomingseries.php



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[Alexey Schevchenko]

What? Is the penalty for the incident removed?
Did I understand everything correcе? If yes - this is a terrible change.

[Alexey Schevchenko]

Sorry for my English.
But we need a compromise on incident penalties.

As I understand it, the point is that "random" incidents should do not affect the fight for the top position in the championship?

Then we can use something like...:
1 inc = 0 points, 2 inc = 3 points, penalty only for even numbers. looks like a compromise.
Or just 2 first inc are not doesn't give you a penalty. And then - the old system, 3 inc=9 points e.tc (probably easier to make this i think)

The auto penalty system is very important.

[Jose Ferraz]

I also think that penalties are important or we might get unfair races. I understand we can make reports but people will race closer to other cars and sometimes a small touch can send another car off the track.
Maybe no points to 1 incident, -1 to 2 incidents, and then -3, -5, -7...
It could penalize more but only if it was posible to penalize only the one that caused the incident.
Maybe the reason why SRS has much less people in the races, than it had in the past, is also that are more games other than Assetto Corsa: Assetto Corsa competizione, automobilista 2....
Regards.

[Juan Alberdi]

May be driver's incident rate should be taken into account. I understand this could be difficult to implement, but something like the higher the (incident) rating, the higher the punishment for race incidents.

This way, drivers take care for their incident rating, thus try to reduce it minimizing incidents in races.

Also, cleaner drivers, get awarded due to their better incident rating

[Mark Puc]

After having driven 835 races here on SRS, a decent amount of which were with zero incidents, it is a little frustrating the incident average never seems to decrease. It seems there is little reward for driving cleanly and staying out of trouble. 835 races represents quite a few years here, in that time, my average has almost never been under 2 no matter how cleanly I drive. Not sure what effect the new rule change will have though, maybe we could look at rewarding clean driving with bonus points or a more significant reduction in incident rating points? 

I do think we as a community of drivers here on SRS could and should do more to attract new drivers to the servers. It doesn't need to be a give away either. Even good old fashioned promotion can reach many on social media. Henrique has done a great job in creating somewhere for anyone to race free of charge whenever they like, if all of us who participate and enjoy racing here would spend a few minutes a week posting about and promoting SRS, I am sure we could attract new drivers and re-engage with those who have gone elsewhere. Just my 2¢ mate. Cheers AussieStig

[Pasha Paterson]

I really don't understand the backlash here. We've seen over the years that the people causing the most mayhem in races are the ones who already didn't care about championship points, and the people most hurt by the championship point penalty have been the ones trying to race cleanly who either had incidental contact or were hit by worse drivers. There's more that could be done to impose appropriate in-the-moment consequences for bad driving, and maybe in the future we'll see some of the things that have already been tested. But, as ever, this change is based on the past few years of actual experience running this site, not a snap decision. I for one think this is a step in the right direction, and appreciate the continuing efforts to improve the platform.

A platform which — as it seems we must repeatedly remind ourselves — was devised, implemented, provided, and maintained for this community mostly by the efforts of a solitary individual, and at no cost to its members.

[Lucio Distilleri]

And how are we supposed to promote SRS, saying that it has races every hour, when it is not true.
You have to reduce that format, and adjust it to reality.
Only if you start with a reduced and realistic format adjusted to the people that we are, then it could start to grow even a little.
I know of other platforms that make readjustments in their series,
for example in hourly series they didn't have people, and they put it every 2H and increased participation.
you have to try things until you find what really works.

AMEN


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Hourly races like the mazda mx5, are completely useless, people like me who would race in the afternoon find themselves unable to do so because the races are empty

I think it would be smarter to have a race every three hours, with the same format as the 9 p.m. races, (ex: mondey lotus 4 p.m., tuesday lamborghini 4 p.m.) ecc...

[Mark Puc]

And how are we supposed to promote SRS, saying that it has races every hour, when it is not true.
You have to reduce that format, and adjust it to reality.
Only if you start with a reduced and realistic format adjusted to the people that we are, then it could start to grow even a little.
I know of other platforms that make readjustments in their series,
for example in hourly series they didn't have people, and they put it every 2H and increased participation.
you have to try things until you find what really works.

Mate I wasn't being specific when I said promote SRS. How many people here promote SRS on a weekly basis? Do you know? There are other things to promote about SRS like it's free to use. It is well organised and streams the championship / daily races on YouTube. You can use your own custom skins. Are these not points to promote? It has clearly gone quiet on the servers over the past year. We might be better off looking at why that is and not criticising the system we have all enjoyed for free for the past few years. 

[Nikola Skrbic]

Biggest problem is low participation.

1. SRS should remove races with consistent low participation - they negatively impact SRS reputation. (all we can see is bunch of car/track combos with 0 drivers - and for people checking SRS in content manager for the first time is complete turn off)
   
2. Drivers should be able to mark their attendance for multiple races - it will remove those devastating ZEROS on the SRS races schedule screen.
   
3. Implement voting system for races - a race with the most votes would group drivers together.
   (example:
   8PM race - 4 votes,
   9PM race - 9 votes,
   10PM race 5 votes - it would encourage drivers who voted for 8PM or 10PM to move their schedule to 9PM race and almost double the participation)
   
4. Drivers could also apply for races a day before, or couple of hours before the race and not wait last 10-15min - when people see that there is 1 or 2 drivers for the race they get discouraged to apply and now even though 10 or more people wanted to race they don't race at all just because initial number of drivers was low.
   
   Probably it's a lot of work to implement those things in the SRS app but we still have SRS discord and a lot of this could be done there. Discord has those options and it's not that hard to manage it.
   
   Let's see how new season goes. I will be active - but it will probably be my last season here if something does not improve.