SRA GT3 Endurance Series
It's been a long time coming, but the SRA Endurance Team is happy to present our first-ever SRA GT3 Endurance Series!
Yes, that's right! You can, if you choose, keep the same car and team to score points across the entire Endurance Championship. Don't fear, Solo drivers, you can also participate. Read on!
REgistration and grid size
Please Note: To participate in this series, you can register here (and please do!), but you MUST register on the SRA site - https://www.simracingalliance.com/register/endurance. Additionally, please make sure you have your profile complete on the SRA website and the @Endurance role in the SRA Discord. Registration on the SRA site is the source of truth. If you're not registered there, you won't be able to race. Round 1 has been completed, but we are still accepting registrations for the remainder of the series.
We are taking the TOP 50 qualifying teams for this series, with each team needing to be within 106% of the pole time. See below for more details.
Series Details and scoring
The SRA Endurance Series consists of 6 races across some of the greatest tracks ACC has to offer, and there's a good chance there's at least one track on the schedule where you've probably never driven an Endurance event before!
- 6 rounds with 1 drop race.
- Participating teams will be classified into three divisions: Open, Silver, and Bronze, based on qualifying results. Classification of Drivers/Teams known to SRA will also factor in their current or past pace at the series organizers' discretion, so... sandbag at your own peril.
- Points will be awarded for 1st place through 50th place, and a points breakdown can be found here, under the Points Reference Tab.
- 5 points will be awarded for Pole Position.
- 5 points will be awarded for the Fastest Lap.
- Please Note: Your entry must complete 70 percent of the race distance in order to be scored.
Schedule
Round 1: September 21, 2024 - 5:00 PM EDT- Red Bull Ring
Round 2: November 2, 2024 - 5:00 PM EDT- Brands Hatch
Round 3: December 7, 2024 - 5:00 PM EST - Misano
Round 4: January 11, 2025 - 5:00 PM EST - NĂĽrburgring GP
Round 5: February 22, 2025 - 5:00 PM EST - Paul Ricard
Round 6: March 29, 2025 - 5:00 PM EDT - Indy
Teams
- 1 - 4 Drivers allowed per team. Solo drivers are permitted, but if a Solo driver decides to team up with anyone during the series, they will effectively create a new entry for both teams.
- Each team can only field one car per event.
- Notably, all members of the team do not have to attend each race. If only 1 or 2 of the 4 members are available, the team will still be scored, as long as the missing member(s) does not connect to the server.
Practice
- Two (2) Practice servers (search "SRAN" to find them) will be live between events and will be set to run the race duration with race weather settings.
- One server will be for "open" for individual driver practice and the other will be set for driver swap.
Koalafication
- The starting grid for each race will be determined via Pre-qualification. There will be no day-of qualification session for each race.
- The Top 50 cars will qualify, with a minimum qualifying time based on 106% of pole position (subject to change per organizer’s discretion).
- The Pre-qualification server (search "SRAQ") opens four (4) weeks before the event and will include the week of the event.
- Your team's starting position will be determined by averaging together the best 3 valid laps per driver.
- Teams with a member that does not qualify will be removed from the entry list.
- Qualification progress can be checked here: https://www.simracingalliance.com/leaderboards/endurance_qualifying
Race Details and Format
- Each race will be run on one of SRA's SRAQ servers
- Race length: 6 hours
- No max driver time
- 65-minute stint timer
- Refueling time is not fixed
- Tire sets: 5 dry tire sets, Unlimited Wet Sets
Series Rules
- Full series rules and a FAQ can be found in the SRA Discord, here. You should be able to access the channel after properly joining the SRA Discord.
Balance of Performance
Live Stewarding and Incident Reporting
- Event will have Live Stewarding monitoring contact data, so in almost all circumstances, it is not necessary to open a Stewarding Ticket.
- You will be permitted to open Stewarding Tickets for non-contact incidents, such as dangerous/unsafe driving, inappropriate blue-flagged behavior, or if it was unclear that there was sufficient contact for the system to log said contact.
- Any solo drivers will obviously be forfeiting their ability to log non-contact tickets.
- Stewarding decisions are final, and there will be no appeals.
- Lastly, a team will be disqualified from the race after 5 at-fault penalties.
Liveries
- Custom liveries are encouraged! We also encourage good taste, and the organizers reserve the right to reject livery submissions.
- Custom liveries must be submitted 24 hours before each race start to the Awesome Simracing Collection found here: https://alpha.awesome-simracing.com/collection/1666
