Ranked Event: Daytona 2.4H + Support race! It's the first Ranked Event of 2024 and we're going to Daytona on Saturday, February 3! First we have a support race with the Touring Cars (TCR) for an exciting 20 minutes race. The main event is the 2.4H multiclass race with the Mazda DPi and the latest GT3 cars. The European top split with the highest Ranked Multiplayer rating and reputation for both races will be streamed live and the winners will get a spot in the Hall of Fame! Leaderboard: compare your time with others Everybody is invited to set their best lap on the leaderboards to compare your time against others. You do not need to own the track and you can try every car for free. The leaderboards will close on Thursday, February 1 13:00 CET. Support Race: TCR Leaderboard Main Race: GT3 Leaderboard Main Race: Mazda DPi Leaderboard Everybody is invited to race Everyone who wants to race is invited: all skill levels and regions. You do need to own the content in order to participate. You will be matched with other drivers based on your Ranked Multiplayer Rating and Reputation of your region. Time zone/regions for the race The races are organized in three main time zones: America: ET Europe: CET Oceania: AEDT Confirm you want to race When the leaderboards close, a confirmation form will be opened. This form will be sent by mail to everybody who set a lap time on the leaderboard. The form will also be announced on Discord, Social Media and added to this topic. The confirmation form will be open from Thursday February 1 13:00 CET until race day Saturday February 3. The form will close at a different time for each region: America: 09:00 ET Europe: 12:00 CET Oceania: 18:00 AEDT Your rating and reputation will be fetched at the time listed above. To be safe, make sure your last race ends +/- 30 minutes before the deadline. Race day timetable All times below are the local times (AEDT / CET / ET). Support race: 18:00 - Practice starts 20:00 - Qualification (10 minutes, private lap) 20:10 - Warm-up (3 minutes) 20:13 - Race start (20 minutes, rolling start) Main event: 18:00 - Practice starts 20:15 - Qualification starts (30 mins, open session) 20:45 - Warm-up (3 minutes) 20:48 - Race 1 start (144 minutes, rolling start) It is possible that the servers will be opened earlier for America and Europe, however the qualification for the support race will always start at 20:00 local time and the main race will always start at 20:15 local time. It is advised to join before the qualification starts, you can (re)join during qualification and during the first warm-up. Spoiler: Adjusted timetable for EU broadcast server (quali starts minutes earlier) Support race: 13:55 - Practice starts 19:55 - Qualification (10 minutes, private lap) 20:05 - Warm-up (1 minute) 20:06 - Race start (20 minutes, rolling start) Main event: 14:10 - Practice starts 20:05 - Qualification starts (30 mins, open session) 20:35 - Warm-up (1 minute) 20:36 - Race start (144 minutes) If there are multiple drivers doing both support and main event, the qualification for the main event will be delayed with 5 minutes. The grid mail on Saturday will include the updated timetable Race server settings Ping limit Broadcast server 200 Other servers: 350 Incident limit: Broadcast server: 20/50 Other servers: 30/70 Mandatory pitstop: no Start: rolling start Setup: Support race: closed Main race: open Join during qualification: enabled Qualification: Support race: 10 minutes private/closed Main race: 30 minutes public/open Warm-up: Broadcast server 1 minute Other servers: 3 minutes Race duration: TCR: 20 minutes GT3: 144 minutes Drivers per grid: 36 If a grid has less than 30 participants, the server will start with no password Split GT3/DPi: GT3: 22 DPi: 14 This depends on the number of participants in the DPi class. The aim is to have decent grids for each class in all splits Allowed GT3 cars: Audi R8 LMS GT3 Evo II, BMW M4 GT3, Ferrari 488 GT3 EVO ‘20, Ferrari 296 GT3, McLaren 720S GT3, Mercedes-AMG GT3 '20, Porsche 911 GT3 R (992) Classes: DTM '23, DTM '21, ADAC '21, ADAC '20 and GTR 3 Note for the players who want to participate in multiple races in multiple regions: you are allowed to do so. You have to submit the form on the race day to participate in all 6 races across all 3 regions. Confirm for Oceania when the form opens. On race day there is an update post available on Discord in #announcements. When the Oceania grid is ready and/or the server has gone online without a password, you can sign up for the European race until the deadline (countdown available on Discord). When the European grids are ready, you can sign up for the American race until the deadline. Whether you go for the support race, both or all 6 races around the world (HERO!): good luck and have fun!
The only limitation is your ping to the server. If your ping to European servers is below 350 (or 200 if you're ranked high enough for top split) and you can race on them without problem, then nothing stops you from signing up. Ping limits aren't there to impose any restrictions either, really. They are only there to ensure better multiplayer experience for players, hopefully without cars lagging, jerking, etc.
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Split GT3/DPi: GT3: 22 DPi: 14 This depends on the number of participants in the DPi class. The aim is to have decent grids for each class in all splits
How can I test my ping for the EU Server? Another question I have is regarding my account appearing as inactive in RaceRoom and not counting the ranking. How can I fix it?
Thanks. Another question I have is regarding my account appearing as inactive in RaceRoom and not counting the ranking. How can I fix it?
Drive a ranked race Inactive basically means that you have an activity score of 0, so you didn't drive ranked for more than a month. This only means you are not listed in the overall ranking leaderboard (but you are still there, just invisable). So if you drive ranked again you will reapear on the lb.
But I participated in all the Carrera Cup Ranked races on the America servers and finished the championship first, and yet the raceroom puts me as inactive and hasn't counted my ranking since October.
Confirm you want to race in the Daytona 2.4H by filling out this form: https://forms.gle/FWgE9h6fEPU59W2d7 Additionally, here is the Balance of Performance: A ranked server has been setup with a short race session. This server is located in Europe. Additional non-ranked servers have been setup for America and Oceania
Honestly only a starting point, its happened to me a few times that normal european ranked servers were around 15-20 ping but the ranked event server was almost 100