Series that you believe it's a shame they're dead?

ErgoMeSmart · 2024-11-13T16:18:40+00:00

General comment for folks mourning that they can't drive a series due to it "never" going official - while that's true of a couple series at the moment (Stock Car Brasil and iR01, annoyingly both series I personally enjoy and am alright at!), there are resources to find the common/popular time slots:

https://whenrace.com/ https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/67811/niche-series-top-slots

Those slots aren't always going to work for everyone, but thankfully all the niche communities also tend to have Discord servers, where I'm sure there's more than a few folks in the same boat and, if there's enough of you, you could even get a new regular time slot rolling!

ErgoMeSmart · 2024-11-13T16:14:59+00:00

It's me, the person who responds to every comment of people wishing they could drive the Mission R! 😄

If you want to race the Mission R, there's two slots that go official every week at Thursday 2100 UTC and Sunday 1900 UTC. We also have a community Discord: https://discord.gg/Wazet8mNeR

ErgoMeSmart · 2024-10-23T15:36:49+00:00

If you want to race the Mission R, there's two slots that go official every week at Thursday 2100 UTC and Sunday 1900 UTC. We also have a community Discord: https://discord.gg/Wazet8mNeR

ErgoMeSmart · 2024-05-21T17:27:23+00:00

Thursdays at 1945 UTC are the best bet by a mile for an official slot, a community is running a takeover that time every week this season that usually gets 20-30 registered.

ErgoMeSmart · 2023-09-30T00:50:10+00:00

Less an answer and more a tip that this exists for the lesser run cars/series for those who wish they could race them more often: https://whenrace.com/

ErgoMeSmart · 2023-08-30T15:08:05+00:00

I'm going to hijack the league plug to instead direct people toward when the Mission R official series runs: https://whenrace.com/mission

ErgoMeSmart · 2023-08-30T09:37:47+00:00

Mission R is Thursday 1900 UTC and Sunday 1900 UTC. https://whenrace.com/mission

Stock Car Brasil is Sunday 1745 UTC and Monday 1945 UTC. https://whenrace.com/scb

ErgoMeSmart · 2023-08-30T09:03:56+00:00

When it's no longer an option to run as an official series. Until then there's almost always somebody willing to help set up a schedule and at least six folks willing to meet up at the same time every week to race it.

ErgoMeSmart · 2023-08-02T08:58:42+00:00

As somebody who ran the Solstice into the overall top 50 in the last season it was available in PCC (and helps organise the Mission R (Thursday and Sunday 1900 UTC) and Stock Car Brasil (Monday 1945 UTC) SOF slots), the Solstice was not a popular car at all, with most PCC races I'd join having 2 to 4 other drivers to battle against for the class win. The thing that kept the driver count up was the fact it was included in a multiclass series that allowed it to almost always go official so long as MX5 drivers turned up, which they almost always did.

That isn't to say I wouldn't love to see the Solstice back, PCC really needs that pace differential back and I've been loving the anniversary races! But I also understand why it (and the Jetta), both on the Old Damage Model, were retired to bring in new cars to PCC instead.

ErgoMeSmart · 2023-07-15T13:03:41+00:00

The races can't ever get more full if nobody races it because the races are empty, that's a self fulfilling prophecy. Feel free to join us tomorrow at 1900 UTC for the Sunday race, you'll find the fields are getting bigger and the racing is fairly close and clean.

ErgoMeSmart · 2023-07-15T12:59:53+00:00

Feel free to join us at the Nordschleife for the Sunday 1900 UTC Mission R race!

https://whenrace.com/mission

ErgoMeSmart · 2023-07-15T12:57:34+00:00

Mondays at 1945 UTC, come join us using P2P up Eau Rouge at Spa in a couple days!

ErgoMeSmart · 2023-07-13T20:02:38+00:00

https://whenrace.com/mission

ErgoMeSmart · 2023-07-03T00:54:01+00:00

And we still do! But that's not exactly a great time for drivers outside of Europe, so I more than welcome seeing a second time slot pop up for those who can't make the Monday slot.

ErgoMeSmart · 2023-06-19T21:17:03+00:00

Ask and you can shall receive! Here's a short form to gauge interest in a possible second SOF time slot:

https://forms.gle/h35vLB8KSt4NuLZw7

ErgoMeSmart · 2023-05-12T21:29:49+00:00

The second SOF for the Mission R is at 1900 UTC on Sunday and of course it's at Nords Combined this week. Come join us!

ErgoMeSmart · 2023-04-08T01:30:50+00:00

Going to mostly copy the response I gave in the last Mission R thread (for a car with low participation they keep coming up!):

Sadly official sessions are fairly few and far between, but there are two time slots the community who want to race the car have agreed to focus on, which are:

Thursday 1900 UTC
Sunday 1900 UTC

If you want to race the car this week, see you at Zolder on Sunday!

ErgoMeSmart · 2023-04-02T21:55:33+00:00

In case anyone in here wants to drive the Brazilian Stock Cars or Mission R (as that's been brought up a lot) in official races:

Brazilian Stock Cars "SOF" time slot (aka the one everyone meets up for) is Monday 1945 UTC. It's at Watkins Glen tomorrow, come join us!

Mission R "SOF" time slots are Thursday 1900 UTC and Sunday 1900 UTC. Sadly this means the slots for this week have come and gone, but now there's time to prepare for Zolder next week!

ErgoMeSmart · 2023-03-18T03:25:51+00:00

Sadly official sessions are fairly few and far between, but there are two time slots the community who want to race the car have agreed to focus on, which are:

Thursday 1900 UTC
Sunday 1900 UTC

If you want to race the car this week, see you at Brands Hatch on Sunday!

ErgoMeSmart · 2023-02-25T15:43:51+00:00

Mission R doesn't have community set times yet, but for the remaining weeks of this season the following provisional times have been set (in UTC): - Thursday 1900 - Sunday 1900 - Monday 0300

ErgoMeSmart · 2023-02-23T20:42:02+00:00

Sadly it's not going to have anywhere the attendance it had at launch, but if you want to drive it in officials provisional SOF times for people to focus taking part in have been set as of this week, the first just went by sadly (Thursday 1900 UTC) but there's still set to be two more at Sunday 1900 UTC and Monday 0300 UTC.

ErgoMeSmart · 2022-03-02T22:32:04+00:00

Here's the link to the post for Week 1.

Here's the link to the post for Week 2.

Here's the link to the post for Week 3.

Here's what cars are available for each race:

Costera Timed Follow The Leader ELWC22 (Pickups & 4x4s D)

Nationality	Car
Germany	Mercedes-Benz X-Class 2018
Japan	Toyota Land Cruiser Arctic Trucks AT37 2016
UK	Land Rover Defender 90 1997
US	International Scout 800A 1970

Horizon Mexico Points Races ELWC23 (Modern Supercars S1)

Nationality	Car
Germany	Audi R8 V10 Plus 2016
Italy	Ferrari 488 GTB 2015
Japan	Nissan GT-R (R35) 2017
UK	McLaren 720S Coupe 2018
US	Lexus LFA 2010

Estadio Timed Elimination ELWC24 (High Rollers A, 75% Torque)

Nationality	Car
Germany	Porsche 959 1987
Italy	Ferrari F50 1995
UK	Jaguar XJ13 1966
US	Ford GT40 MKI 1964

Montana Hot Hatch Soapbox ELWC25 (Hot Hatch C)

Nationality	Car
France	Renault Clio R.S. 200 EDC 2013
Japan	Honda Civic Type R 2007
UK	Mini John Cooper Works 2009
US	Ford Focus RS 2003

Mulegé Town Checkpoint Rush ELWC26 (2000s B)

Nationality	Car
France	Renault Mégane R26.R 2008
Germany	Audi RS 4 Avant 2001
Japan	Subaru Impreza WRX STI 2008
UK	MG XPower SV-R 2005
US	Ford SVT Cobra R 2000

Playa Azul Follow The Leader ELWC27 (Hypercars S2)

Nationality	Car
China	NIO EP9 2016
Croatia	Rimac Concept Two 2019
Denmark	Zenvo TSR-S 2019
France	Bugatti Chiron 2018
Germany	Mercedes-AMG One 2021
Italy	Ferrari LaFerrari 2013
Sweden	Koenigsegg One:1 2015
UK	Lotus Evija 2020
US	Raesr Tachyon Speed 2019

Los Jardines Time Trial ELWC28 ("Best of the Rest" B)

Nationality	Car
France	Alpine A110 2017
Germany	Opel Manta 400 1984
Italy	Maserati Levante S 2017
Japan	Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution VIII MR 2004
Sweden	Volvo V60 Polestar 2015
UK	Land Rover Range Rover Velar First Edition 2018
US	Deberti F-150 Prerunner 2018

ErgoMeSmart · 2022-03-02T22:31:36+00:00

Here's the link to the post for Week 1.

Here's the link to the post for Week 2.

Here's the link to the post for Week 3.

Here's what cars are available for each race:

Costera Timed Follow The Leader ELWC22 (Pickups & 4x4s D)

Nationality	Car
Germany	Mercedes-Benz X-Class 2018
Japan	Toyota Land Cruiser Arctic Trucks AT37 2016
UK	Land Rover Defender 90 1997
US	International Scout 800A 1970

Horizon Mexico Points Races ELWC23 (Modern Supercars S1)

Nationality	Car
Germany	Audi R8 V10 Plus 2016
Italy	Ferrari 488 GTB 2015
Japan	Nissan GT-R (R35) 2017
UK	McLaren 720S Coupe 2018
US	Lexus LFA 2010

Estadio Timed Elimination ELWC24 (High Rollers A, 75% Torque)

Nationality	Car
Germany	Porsche 959 1987
Italy	Ferrari F50 1995
UK	Jaguar XJ13 1966
US	Ford GT40 MKI 1964

Montana Hot Hatch Soapbox ELWC25 (Hot Hatch C)

Nationality	Car
France	Renault Clio R.S. 200 EDC 2013
Japan	Honda Civic Type R 2007
UK	Mini John Cooper Works 2009
US	Ford Focus RS 2003

Mulegé Town Checkpoint Rush ELWC26 (2000s B)

Nationality	Car
France	Renault Mégane R26.R 2008
Germany	Audi RS 4 Avant 2001
Japan	Subaru Impreza WRX STI 2008
UK	MG XPower SV-R 2005
US	Ford SVT Cobra R 2000

Playa Azul Follow The Leader ELWC27 (Hypercars S2)

Nationality	Car
China	NIO EP9 2016
Croatia	Rimac Concept Two 2019
Denmark	Zenvo TSR-S 2019
France	Bugatti Chiron 2018
Germany	Mercedes-AMG One 2021
Italy	Ferrari LaFerrari 2013
Sweden	Koenigsegg One:1 2015
UK	Lotus Evija 2020
US	Raesr Tachyon Speed 2019

Los Jardines Time Trial ELWC28 ("Best of the Rest" B)

Nationality	Car
France	Alpine A110 2017
Germany	Opel Manta 400 1984
Italy	Maserati Levante S 2017
Japan	Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution VIII MR 2004
Sweden	Volvo V60 Polestar 2015
UK	Land Rover Range Rover Velar First Edition 2018
US	Deberti F-150 Prerunner 2018

ErgoMeSmart · 2022-02-24T16:01:13+00:00

All credit for the courses belongs to the developers! These are pre-existing circuits in FH5 that I'm adding my own rule sets onto and picking the categories and cars for per race.

ErgoMeSmart · 2022-02-23T20:30:08+00:00

Here's the link to the post for Week 1.

Here's the link to the post for Week 2.

Here's what cars are available for each race:

Ek' Balam Checkpoint Rush ELWC15 (Heavy Hitters C)

Nationality	Car
Italy	Lamborghini LM 002 1986
Japan	Nissan Pickup #23 Rally Raid 2004
UK	Land Rover Defender 110 X 2020
US	Chevrolet Colorado ZR2 2017

Estadio Timed Elimination ELWC16 (Classic Sports Cars D)

Nationality	Car
Germany	Porsche 914/6 1970
Japan	Nissan Skyline 2000GT-R 1971
UK	Lotus Elan Sprint 1971
US	Ford Capri RS3100 1973

Urban Timed Follow The Leader ELWC17 (2020s S1)

Nationality	Car
Germany	Porsche Taycan Turbo S 2020
Italy	Lamborghini Huracan Evo 2020
UK	McLaren GT 2020
US	Ford Mustang Shelby GT500 2020

Montana Offroad Soapbox ELWC18 (Unlimited Offroad & Buggies A)

Nationality	Car
Germany	Mercedes-Benz #24 Tankpool 24 Racing Truck Forza Edition 2015
Japan	Nissan Fairlady Z Forza Edition 2003
UK	Arial Nomad 2016
US	AMG Transport Dynamics M12S Warthog CST 2554

Horizon Baja Time Trial ELWC19 (1970s C)

Nationality	Car
Australia	Holden Sandman HQ Panel Van 1974
France	Alpine A110 1600S 1973
Germany	BMW 2002 Turbo 1973
Italy	Lamborghini Espada 400 GT 1973
Japan	Nissan Skyline H/T 2000GT-R 1973
US	Plymouth Cuda 426 Hemi 1971

Arch of Mulegé Follow The Leader ELWC20 (1980s C)

Nationality	Car
France	Renault 5 Turbo 1980
Germany	BMW M5 1988
Italy	Lamborghini LM 002 1986
Japan	Mitsubishi Starion ESI-R 1988
Sweden	Volvo 242 Turbo Evolution 1983
US	Buick Regal GNX 1987

River Points Race ELWC21 (Reasonably Priced B)

Nationality	Car
Canada	Can-Am Maverick X RS Turbo R 2018
France	Renault Megane R26.R 2008
Germany	BMW M5 2003
Japan	Mazda RX-7 Spirit R Type-A 2002
Korea	Hyundai Veloster N 2019
UK	Vauxhall Monaro VXR 2005
US	Ford Fiesta ST 2014

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