Micras Endurance Racing Council (MERC) - General Thread
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Micras Endurance Racing Council (MERC) - General Thread
PLEASE DO NOT SUBMIT FORMS IN THIS THREAD, THIS IS A GENERAL THREAD FOR INFORMATION. FORMS GO INTO THE RELEVANT SEASON THREAD.
About MERC
The Micras Endurance Racing Council is an international association of endurance auto racing founded by James-Robert Knight of the Commonwealth of Vyktory on November 25, 2015. It seeks to create a multinational series of Endurance Racing named the Micras Endurance Racing Championship Series (MERCS), a 5-tier world championship staged on the world's best tracks with the world's best in class drivers, teams and cars.
About Races
The format for the competition is as follows.
Point Allocations
A maximum of 5 teams per nation is enforced.
There must be 2 drivers on each team.
A team may only enter one group, however multiple teams may share the same name with the requirement to add the group name at the end to disambiguate
A team must submit a 3 letter abbreviation. A group suffix will automatically be added upon entering.
Car Rules (Strictly IC)
Example Team Form
Nation: Vyktory
Team: Drag0n Racing (DGN))
Group: Group GT1
Car: VykMotors Dragon GTR-X
Driver Names: Kevin O'Shannasy / Liam North
Acceleration: 9
Cornering: 9
Reliability: 9
Track Entry Form
Example Track Form
Name: Harrisville Raceway
Nation: Vyktory
City: Harrisville
Length: 3.103km
Image (optional): Image Goes Here
About MERC
The Micras Endurance Racing Council is an international association of endurance auto racing founded by James-Robert Knight of the Commonwealth of Vyktory on November 25, 2015. It seeks to create a multinational series of Endurance Racing named the Micras Endurance Racing Championship Series (MERCS), a 5-tier world championship staged on the world's best tracks with the world's best in class drivers, teams and cars.
About Races
The format for the competition is as follows.
- There will be a single qualifying session between each group of drivers.
The race will take place the day after qualifying.
The races will take place over 1000 kilometres.
From 1st to 10th, championship points will be given as follows: 25, 20, 15, 12, 8, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1
Races will take place every fortnight.
The season will start on the last Saturday in February and entries must be submitted at least 7 days prior.
A maximum of 8 teams per group is enforced and a maximum of 10 tracks will be accepted
Point Allocations
- There are 5 groups with different point allocations:
Group GT1 (Racing Prototypes) - 27 points
Group GT2 (Grand Touring Cars) - 24 points
Group GT3 (Exotic Cars) - 21 points
Group A (Sports Cars) - 18 points
Group B (Touring Cars) - 15 points
The point allocations are to be distributed between Acceleration, Cornering and Reliability.
The aforementioned skills are to be given 15 points at maximum and 0 at minimum. All points must be allocated.
A maximum of 5 teams per nation is enforced.
There must be 2 drivers on each team.
A team may only enter one group, however multiple teams may share the same name with the requirement to add the group name at the end to disambiguate
A team must submit a 3 letter abbreviation. A group suffix will automatically be added upon entering.
Car Rules (Strictly IC)
- All cars must be production models, with Groups GT1 and GT2 excepted. Limited re-engineering is allowed to allow for competitve racing.
All classes are limited merely by production amounts with the exception of GT1 and GT2.
B is limited to cars which produce 250,000 or more per year.
A is limited to cars which produce 50,001 or more per year, but less than 250,000.
GT3 is limited to cars which produce 50,000 or less per year.
GT2 is limited to cars with less than 0.45 horsepower per kilogram.
GT1 is unlimited.
No real world car names may be used unless the company actually exists in your nation, which I doubt as Micras has no contact with Earth, AFAIK.
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Nation: Vyktory
Team: Drag0n Racing (DGN))
Group: Group GT1
Car: VykMotors Dragon GTR-X
Driver Names: Kevin O'Shannasy / Liam North
Acceleration: 9
Cornering: 9
Reliability: 9
Track Entry Form
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Name: Harrisville Raceway
Nation: Vyktory
City: Harrisville
Length: 3.103km
Image (optional): Image Goes Here
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