First off, i could use a good slogan for this, which would ideally go in the bottom left corner because im not very clever >.< :



For background, once winter break begins (one week) I'll be starting up a racing series between my friends in Gran Turismo 5 (excellent game :D ). It's going to be a Super GT series (learn!). In accordance of the GT500/GT300 split we have an 8/8 split of cars from the different classes.

Teams are picked by having all 16 drivers run a 5-lap session around Grand Valley Speedway in a stealth GT-500 GTR that was given to all players by Polyphony Digital (producers). Drivers are then paired from top to bottom (1 and 16, 2 and 15, etc)

The teams are 2 people (with optional reserve drivers in case of inability to make it to races). One driver from each team drives in each class, with the two switching off every race. Cars are not allowed to be tuned (brake balance excepted). Qualifying is done one at a time after a 15 minute practice session, with teams qualifying in a random order (picking out of a hat, ftw!). Weight penalties (which cannot be moved to change weight balance) are a bit simpler then real life because i'm lazy ^^

Pole position in either series is only applied to the next race-if you have a time that is 1 second faster then the 2nd place driver, 10 kg penalty with an additional 1 kg per tenth over 1.

Podium penalties carry on to next round's qualifying and racing-first/second/third gets you a 15/10/5 kg penalty respectively, applied to both gt500 and gt300 cars.

Unnecessarily rough driving (slamming someone out of the way) as determined by one of two referees (one for each class) as well as a replay review by myself after each race if any incidents are brought up. Not likely to be necessary, but penalties will be meted out in the form of either start position penalties or weight penalties.

Points will be a simple 8->1 based on finishes. Getting lapped twice (since there's no fatal damage) will give you a DNF, netting 0 points. Finishing first will give you 8 points, second 7, and so on. Qualifying on pole by more than two seconds will give you a bonus point. Drivers get their points based on finishes from each race, while

It's going to be a 10-round series, 1 round/week. In order it will be Fuji GT, Suzuka, Tokyo R246, Grand Valley Speedway, Tsukuba Circuit, Trial Mountain, Laguna Seca, Eiger short track, Nurburgring GP/F, and Autumn Ring

After that, the top 6 drivers overall will do a 2 hour FFA race on Nurburgring Type V to determine the best driver.

So i present this to you, TL, because you guys are probably about 5-6x more intelligent then myself, and it's a good way to procrastinate! If you have any kind of improvements you think i could make to rule systems it would be great :D