You also need to alter a few options for your team, click on the "Car Settings" button in GP2edit, and adjust the Grip, Power and Weight to match your team's Chassis, Engine and Tyres (list of values on Rules Page 3) and then you are ready to drive!
Now you can have all failures OFF, you can still have them on, but it will not give you an advantage...
Any setup is allowed, if you are no good at setting up your car, there are several sites that have setups you can download.
Class | Description | Notation |
---|---|---|
Formula 1 | Ace | A |
Formula 3000 | Pro | B |
Formula 3 | Semi-Pro | C |
Formula 1600 | Amateur | D |
Formula 600 | Rookie | E |
Formula Vee | Rookie (Autobrake) | F |
You MUST race at your skill level in races, in the qualifying sessions, choosing a lower skill level is illegal, but if you want to drive a higher skill level in qualifying then that's fine, but you can't do it in the race (as racing a higher level will give an advantage in terms of less traffic.)
Each skill level was made up of groups of 14 teams, so every team had a space in the carset. This year there is just one carset per division, and teams 15 onwards will be in a GP2edit 1TM file in the Zip. Your Driver ID now simply consists of your division letter and race number, so if you are car number 24 in F3000 your ID would be B24.
Each division has it's own settings for Race Length and Allowed Driver Aids. See table below for details:
Class | Race Length | Allowed Aids |
---|---|---|
Formula 1 | 75% | F2, F7 |
Formula 3000 | 60% | F2, F6, F7 |
Formula 3 | 45% | F2, F3, F6, F7 |
Formula 1600 | 30% | F2, F3, F5, F6, F7 |
Formula 600 | 20% | F1, F2, F3, F5, F6, F7 |
Formula Vee | 20% | F1, F2, F3, F5, F6, F7 |
NB1 : In Formula Vee, Autobrakes (F1)
are MANDATORY, in Formula 600 they are optional.
NB2 : Driver Aid F4 (Indestructibility)
is not allowed at ANY LEVEL. If you can't drive for at least a lap without
smashing up your car, you shouldn't be out there :-)
NB3 : You do not have to use ALL of
the allowed driver aids, for example a rookie could drive with no aids
if he finds it yields quicker lap times. The exception being Autobrakes
must be used in Formula Vee.
KEY TO DRIVERS AIDS: (In case you didn't already know)
F1-Auto Brakes
F2-Auto Gears
F3-Self-Correcting Spin
F5-Ideal Line
F6-Suggested Gear
F7-Throttle Help.
To join you have to be part of a team. If you are not, and no existing teams take up your offers for a ride, you can set up your own team, details of how in the Team Management Section.
If you qualify 27th or above, you start 26th on the grid, and one second will be docked off your time to represent the time taken to travel from your virtual grid slot to your actual one (26th), so if you start 27th one second will be taken off your time, two seconds for 28th, three for 29th, ten for 36th etc.
1st | 50 | - | 8th | 28 | - | 15th | 14 | - | 22nd | 7 |
2nd | 45 | - | 9th | 25 | - | 16th | 13 | - | 23rd | 6 |
3rd | 40 | - | 10th | 22 | - | 17th | 12 | - | 24th | 5 |
4th | 38 | - | 11th | 20 | - | 18th | 11 | - | 25th | 4 |
5th | 35 | - | 12th | 18 | - | 19th | 10 | - | 26th | 3 |
6th | 32 | - | 13th | 16 | - | 20th | 9 | - | 27th | 2 |
7th | 30 | - | 14th | 15 | - | 21st | 8 | - | 28th | 1 |
Fastest Lap - 5 points
Pole Position - 5 points