CMS Historic Trans-Am Series - Starts Jan 14th! (Runs through Spring)

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CMS Presents: Historic Trans-Am Series An 8 race series featuring cars from the golden era of Trans-Am racing. Big blocks and close racing is on display in this car and mod limited series. This series aims to replicate the Trans-Am Series as it was in it's early years, with modified versions of street cars at classic american tracks. There are many cars that fit into the Trans-Am theme in Forza and Mark Bell has done an excellent job at balancing these cars so they retain their vintage feel, while being closely matched in performance.

Join us in this series!

Sign up thread: http://cmsracing.com/champion/forums...-thread-18319/

Standings thread: http://cmsracing.com/champion/forums...-thread-18441/

Dates: Saturday nights starting Jan 14th (Dec 31 and Jan 7 preseason)
Practice: 6:30pm Pacific/9:30pm Eastern
Race: 7pm Pacific/10pm Eastern

Race Format:
2 race format, each race is 10 laps
1st race is a qualifying race with random grid order
2nd race is the points race with a reverse grid order based on qualifying race

Schedule
Dec 31: Pre-Season Test 1 at Top Gear Test Track
Jan 7: Pre-Season Test 2 at Silverstone
Jan 14 Race 1 at Sebring
Jan 21: Race 2 at Road America
Jan 28: Race 3 at Sedona
Feb 4: Race 4 at Infinion Raceway
Feb 11: Race 5 at Road Atlanta
Feb 18: Race 6 at Indy
Feb 25: Race 7 at Sunset Peninsula
March 3: Race 8 at Laguna Seca

Car restrictions:
Must be a car supplied by "markbell73" for this series

Avaialable Cars: (Visit markbell73's storefront, or contact him, for setups/liveries)
AMC Javelin AMX '71
Buick GSX '70
Chevy Camaro Z28 '69
Chevy Camaro Z28 '70
Chevy Camaro Z28 '79
Chevy Chevelle SS-396 '67
Chevy Chevelle SS-454 '70
Chevy Impala 409 '64
Chevy Nova '66
Dodge challenger R/T '70
Dodge Charger '69
Dodge Charger Daytona Hemi '69
Dodge Coronet Super Bee '70
Dodge Coronet W023 '67
Dodge Dart Hemi Super Stock '68
Ford Fairlane Thunderbolt '64
Ford Mustang Boss 429 '70
Ford Mustang GT '65
Ford XB Falcon
Mercury Cougar Eliminator '70
Oldsmobile Hurst/Olds 442 '69
Plymouth Barracuda Formula S '68
Plymouth Cuda 426 Hemi '71
Plymouth GTX 426 Hemi '71
Pontiac Firebird '68
Pontiac Firebird Trans Am '69
Pontiac Firebird Trans Am '77
Pontiac Firebird Trans Am SD-455 '73
Pontiac GTO '65
Pontiac GTO '69(The Judge)
Shelby GT 500KR '68
Shelby GT500 428CJ '69

Race info:
Limited Damage
No aids allowed

Points:
1st: 15
2nd: 12
3rd: 10
4th: 8
5th: 6
6th: 5
7th: 4
8th: 3
9th: 2
10th: 1

Prizes:
Each Race:
1st: 100,000 credits
2nd: 50,000 credits
3rd: 25,000 credits

Championship:
1st: 1,000,000 credits + one of a kind Viper created by Mark!
2nd: 500,000 credits
3rd: 250,000 credits


Driver Briefing:
This event has very specific car restrictions, CMS drivers can use the cars Mark posted in the club garage, and non-CMS club members can get the setups from the storeront of "markbell73", or contact him for gifting the setups and liveries. He has spent a great deal of time and effort tuning the cars to be appropriate to the period and Trans-Am series, and the end result is fantastic!

It is highly reccomended that drivers select a unique car for this series, see the signup thread for more info. http://cmsracing.com/champion/forums...-thread-18319/

All drivers are expected to follow the CMS Rules and Regulations, where appropriate.
New CMS General Rules and Regulations

Contact "markbell73" or "enamel" for race invite!

[davidan]

This should be a great time!!!!

[kevinb]

What platform in this on, rFactor, Iracing...... and where do we get the mod?

[Almsfan]

What platform in this on, rFactor, Iracing...... and where do we get the mod?

Forza 4 for Xbox Kevin.

[davidan]

Guys, lets do our best to support this series, as it looks really cool and Mark and Aaron have put in a ton of effort to it! Kudos Guys!

[markspeed]

This page looks SUPER Aaron! I love that you choose the Jerry Titus TA for the pic. Not only is the car the name sake, but I loved building this livery. It was actually the first one built, and I love how close it turned out to it's real life counterpart. Visit here if you'd like to see how close many of these liveries are. And see some of the other liveries that inspired the rest. Historic Trans Am


Just last night Ongias25 from nogrip, as well as Tic Toc, Monkeyz PJP and Bomberman300ex had a pretty successful test of the cars and tracks. We had a blast. We tested several cars on many tracks. And I think tonights test race is going to go very well. With any luck many will show up. I even received a request to join our group from a guy who saw the promo at Isimracing.com I think it was. So already I think the response to this is building. I personally do not know the newest guy. But I will take responsibility for him. I have accepted his friend request and sent him a Xbox message briefly explaning the premise of this. So I will take responsibility for his driving if he turns out to be a car/wall banger. But I get the feeling he's a good guy. So I'm not sure if we should have a protocol for recruitment. Or if it's gonna be first come first serve. Should we request that everyone become a club member? Or should we just let those who wish join, and those who don't choose to participate as they wish? I think it will be fine to do it either way, but I'm feel an inclination to encourage clubmembership is said driver has not clubbed up yet. This will add to the diversity of our club, and perhaps should be encouraged. But perhaps does not need to be required as a little club rivalry could also be a very healthy thing.

I have made some minor adjustments to the setups for all the cars mainly tire pressure, and brake pressure. A bit of feedback received during last nights pretest concluded that wheel users may have trouble with brake lockup do to brake pressure setting which seem to work fine with a controller. I tested the adjustent on a couple of cars and the resultant lap times do not seem to be affected. So tonights test race can also serve to evaluate my adjustments. I believe these cars are well sorted, but there may need to be some minor tweaks to a car or two. So please, everyone, do not hesitate to give me feedback as soon as you're aware of it.


I am gonna get some sleep now, and than later today I will make some final adjustments to the lobby race setups. I will be all ready to go by 6:30pm Pacific U.S. time tonight.

[davidan]

sounds great Mark, If you can encourage any member that aren't currently registered here on the CMS forums to join us here, so that we can communicate with them here in this setting as well and they can stay up to date on the latest info. I always encourage them to register here and then fill out the brief new driver intro profile, so that we can get to know a bit about their background. I have also found that to help weed out knuckle heads. - David

[smokee]

Thanks Mark!

It would be good to point new people to this thread so they can join in the main discussion here and sign up, but if he already saw it posted somewhere it should have the link to this page. And of course any un-clubbed are definitely welcome to join the club.

[smokee]

Last night's racing was fun, these cars are a blast! Very impressed with how close the laptimes were, lots of close racing in store for this series!

[markspeed]

We seem to be developing an odd problem. I seem to have well over 16 friends now. I think I've collected 6 or 7 since yesterday. And one of them has already joined the CMS club. I'm not sure if all of the players in my friend list wish to run the TA series, but most of them do.

So the question becomes.... what do we do if we recieve more than 16 players wishing to run the series? Does anyone have an idea how to run a tournament series? Or do we just run two side be side TA races each weekend? And then have some sort of Final Chase style run with the top 16 points scorers to make a chase for the title?

We should have a rountable regarding this. Personally, I love the rapid response this series is getting. And I love how many are responding. I'm just unsure how this will work with only 16 players able to run a race at a time. Would the points structure need to be changed? Or do we just need to run double two heat races? Or should that change as well?


Perhaps I should send an Xmail to everyone, to announce their intent to run the series, at the signup sheet, this way we can get a full head count, and then we can go from there.