My league, VSCR (http://www.virtualsportscarracing.com/) is making a move back to rf2 after some time in AC. We have had an early Sunday starting time, official practice starts at 16 GMT and race 17 GMT. This is because our members have found that time best for them. We are aware that this isn't the most popular timeslot. Before we decide whether or not we keep this time, I wanted to find out what times leagues usually run. Maybe we could then co-operate with some other league if we have similar starting time and interests. Please, in addition to answering to the poll, also post your league information so we could see all the leagues that are out there.
On our League: http://www.gentlemen-racers.org/ we are in GMT+1 and the Practice starts at 21, so in GMT time, our Practice starts at 20 GMT (followed by qualification and Race(s))
GMT with race starts at 19:00 was the best option for us for more then a decade. Mainly because of the diversity of our group, members from all over the globe, a perfect time was never going to happen but with the majority coming from the Eurozone.. Sunday nights as well, sundays seemed to be the least intrusive in people's lives and worked well for us. We don't race anymore though, so just fyi.
Glad to see your league back Tiger. We race every Sunday at 20:00 London time, thats 21:00 Central Europe, thats 22:00 in Eastern Europe, regardless summer or winter time. We never change our schedule 3 years now, as we find that people like to know a fixed time for races that stays always the same. Sad to hear this, I think you should try to get in back again as the situation has changed for the better, lots of people keep coming from Steam, we do see a big difference for the better in attendance.
I am not so sure it is quite so rosy as that Nikos, although I wish it was. A lot of steam players on last weekend with launch and discount for sure but nowhere near as many this weekend just gone. I think various leagues have closed down so less places to race, and the end of summer has lent a good hand to the MP which is certainly a lot better than it was. Hopefully with the steady intake of new steam players over the next weeks and months will start to fill up the MP a bit the slow way, but I don't think there was hardly any of those guys online who were there in numbers at steam launch. I think TIGs issue is he is in Finland which makes most euro leagues a bit late for the Finns if you don't like racing rather late at night, which he doesn't. Unless it's a bit early for everybody else it's always gonna be a bit late for the Finns.
Thanks for the answers. Keep them coming. The point of this thread is to get broad result. Sad to hear Legends aren't racing anymore. Hope you guys find some other league. Yeah, my personal problem is being a Finn But we have people from central Europe and from US also. Generally I think Sunday is the best day for racing because there's rarely anything compulsory to do.
VEC (or ERL which was our name in the early days) was starting at 2am CET in its first season. (American based) In season 2 we had a fixed end time on our races (6-12 hour races) but in s3 we changed start time to 17:00 CET which was the best compromise between our US based and EU based drivers. In 2016 we are kicking of a new "shorter" endurance series (based of ELMS) and we have planned to start these 4 hour races at 13 CET. Both series are Saturday.
The site where I race has 8pm GMT race starts. I love it when there are earlier or later alternatives because I can consider joining more events.
Friday nights 19:30 GMT for us next season and 08:00 GMT Saturday mornings - that's for our Aussie/Kiwi series Racing-leagues.com V8Supercars Sent from my Nexus 6 using Tapatalk
Would like to see some more answers. You can also post if you know a league and their starting time wether or not you are part of that group. In that case I would like to get their contact info too.
Oh boy!!!! I want to join an ELMS league for sure. Which mod? Edit: by the way in EEC we race on sunday nights since our creation back in 2012. Practice @ 20:00, race @ 21:00 CET. We had races up to 120 minutes and this seemed to be the time that kept more people joining. On the other hand it is also a fragile time because people work on the other day so 120 minutes races always had huge drops on participation We use SCE now tho, not rF2 yet (or any time soon for that matter). We are also running stock content on saturdays with the race starting @ 16:00 and practice an hour earlier.
our league xfactorracing.com October - April = GMT +11 April - October = GMT +10 qualifying starts 20:45 AEST
Birtwell does his F3Fanatics races on Saturdays at 24:00 London time. At summer these are at 01:00 London time, no season changing at Arizona desert where he is at lol.
