At long last the moment is there... The Virtual World Endurance Championship has finally been announced! RaceDepartment's new endurance series opens its doors for teams and drivers to sign up for the 2013 season. Make sure you don't miss out! The series will open with a 6 hour race on Sepang International Circuit in Malaysia on October 12th of this year. From there on a trip is made to the Middle East for the 8 Hours of Bahrein and the season finale: the 12 Hours of Losail. The latter circuit being a new upcoming release by RaceDepartment's Marco Bijl. The championship extends its Asian touch by its all-GT format including the Nissan GT-R GT1 in the GT1 class and the Nissan 370z in the GT4 class. The third class is the series - GT2 - features the ever-popular Chevrolet Corvette C6.R GT2. The prototypes are left in the garage this season, but will likely be reintroduced in future seasons. Perhaps the sound of 40 roaring GT engines on the grid will make us forget about them for a little while. As the Virtual World Endurance Championship moves to rFactor 2 a whole range of new features are introduced, most importantly the dynamic racing line and changeable weather that rFactor 1 lacked. No doubt these features will add some extra spice to the races as well as to the broadcast that will cover them. As in past seasons of the RaceDepartment Le Mans Series the V-WEC will have all the races broadcasted live by our team of commentators and cameramen. You will also be able to keep track of your favorite team though livetiming. For those that are interested in joining the competition or keeping track of the latest news in the series, be sure to visit the V-WEC forum. The entry list is open and team owners can apply for a team license to enter one or two cars into the series. All the necessary information can be found in the General Information thread. Read it carefully and sign up today! Application for the 6 Hours of Sepang are accepted until September 13, 2013. After that teams can only apply for a license for the next round of the championship.
Well, first round done. Biggest race till now in rf2. Between 60/100 drivers i suppose since there were aprox. 30 cars in a 6 hour race. Apart some issues with live timing and position since it was raced in practice session all went ok. I suppose ISI is working on this (endurance races in race session) and its a demanded feature. In overall all went fine, a bit laggy, some accidents, some whinning But, well, how it was the very first endurance race in rf1? We want to congrat RD on this event. P.S- Our 370 Nissan took second place
Don't have all statistics yet, but: - 6 hour race, 7 hour server up time - No server crashes - No Mismatches seen or reported - A total of 129 guys who have logged on to the server in the time it was open for the event More statistics will come available soon I am sure. All in all, it was a succesfull event. Up for round 2
