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title: PATCO 2023 Season 1

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# PATCO 2023 Season 1
Do you like FWD touring car action? Do you love the idea of the iRacing TCC but hate the driving standards? THEN WELCOME TO PATCO*! (Penny-Arcade Touring Car Organization)

*Name pending legal battle with NJ/PA Port Authority

## We're back!!! And now with longer seasons!
Now we're going the full iRacing season for more action! Also we're tossing in some exhibition matches with the brand new GR86!
YOU WANTED MORE YOU'RE GETTING MORE!
[BTCC](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ysVLu0xZwM)
[Why TCR racing?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lg5MKgVFwS0)

## Cars
We're gonna drive those ~~3~~ FOUR shiny ~~new~~ FWD tanks!
[Audi RS3 LMS](https://www.iracing.com/cars/audi-rs-3-lms-tcr/) - [Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xs1lSFTnlOY)
[Honda Civic Type R](https://www.iracing.com/cars/honda-civic-type-r/) (video in link)
[Hyundai Elantra N TC](https://www.iracing.com/cars/hyundai-elantra-n-tc/) (video in link)
[Hyundai Veloster](https://www.iracing.com/cars/hyundai-veloster/) - [Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oToF7ICY7Ic)

## Event Format
Each event will be comprised of
1. 50 min Practice
2. 2x Quali laps (10 min max)
3. Race 1 (15 min)
4. 5 min warm-up
5. Race 2 (15 min)

Unfortunately this means each event may be a bit longer than the usual hour. I'm going to try and keep timing as tight as possible.

### Qualifying
Qualifying will follow standard iRacing solo rules. You get 2 flying laps and the best will be used.

### Races
* Each race will be worth the same number of points.
* Each race will be 15 minutes
* Rolling starts!
* No pit stops
* Fixed setups (we'll be using the iracing `sprint` setup for each car)

#### Race 1
Grid order will be determined by the fastest qualifying lap time. 
#### Race 2
Grid order will be determined by the results of Race 1, with the TOP 6 positions reversed.
eg: If the finishing order for Race 1 is 
|   1st |   2nd |   3rd | 4th |   5th |  6th | 7th | 8th |
| ----- | ----- | ----- | --- | ----- | ---- | --- | --- |
| Steve | Barry | Jimmy | Ben | Colin | Jake | Tom | Dan |

Then the starting grid for Race 2 will be
|  1st |   2nd | 3rd |   4th |   5th |   6th | 7th | 8th |
| ---- | ----- | --- | ----- | ----- | ----- | --- | --- |
| Jake | Colin | Ben | Jimmy | Barry | Steve | Tom | Dan |

#### Points
Here are the points scores awarded for the top 10 positions.

| 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9th | 10th |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ---- |
|  13 |  11 |   9 |   7 |   6 |   5 |   4 |   3 |   2 |    1 |

Points will also be awarded for
* One point for fastest qualifying lap
* One point for fastest lap (per race)
* One point for leading A lap (per race)

## Schedule
This is going to be a bit wonky as we're going to be filling the Friday night slot. In the case of a "Special Event" the series will skip that week. 
Timeslot: 2:15am GMT/10:15pm ET/9:15pm CT/8:15pm MT/7:15pm PT
3 drop weeks will be granted
| Event | Date         | Track            |
| ----- | ---          | ---              |
| 1     | Dec 16th     | Watkins Glen     |
| OFF   | Dec 23rd     | *Christmas*      |
| 3     | Dec 30th     | Laguna Seca      |
| 4     | Jan 6th      | Daytona          |
| OFF   | Jan 13th     | *Roar*           |
| OFF   | Jan 20th     | *Daytona 24hr*   |
| 7     | Jan 27th     | Oulton Nat'l     |
| 8     | Feb 3rd      | Bathurst (GR86)  |
| OFF   | Feb 10th     | *Bathurst 12hr*  |
| 10    | Feb 17th     | VIR Full         |
| 11    | Feb 24th     | Rudskogen        |
| 12    | Mar 3rd      | Knockhill (GR86) |

### Track selection
With so many tracks already a part of league content, PATCO will restrict itself to 1 non-league track per season from now on. And I will limit it to tracks that we've run before. (Donnington, Road Atlanta, & Knockhill)


## Racing standards
This is going to be the tricky part. I want to encourage close racing, but I don't want to see people treating this like bumper cars. I'm open to suggestions on how to manage this.

### Incident points
Each increment of 4x will result in -1 championship point for the race they were earned in, excluding the first 7x.
EG: 7x will result in 0 points deducted for a race
	8x will result in a 1 point deduction
	12x will result in a 2 point deduction

* ~~No incident limit. We will count them but they will not be used to hand out DQ's or drive throughs~~
* ~~(Incident point based champ point deduction calc being debated)~~