Welcome to the 2017 Global GT Championship, the 3rd season of GGTC.

The idea of the Global GT Championship was when we first had presented a PRT United GT Championship Series and that series promoter Alexander Heinen was planning to do a Multi-Class GT series with Balance of the Performance applied on the cars.

On January 30th, the 2015 Global GT Championship had made a partnership with GT6 Drivers, Drifters and Gifters after its partnership with GTORacing has failed. Fifteen days later, the GGTC is launched with a Pre-Season Race at Grand Valley Speedway.

However, after the GT3's exclusion, the GGTC became a single class championship. That way, we were very proud to announce that the GGTC will have one class in it’s 2nd season.

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This one class championship tradition lives on from the 2nd season as we continue with the 3rd season of the Global GT Championship.

The GGTC season will start in January 21st, 2017, with the Pre-Season Race being held for the third time, at Grand Valley Speedway.

So, until then, we hope that you have a good time. The GRO Organizers wish you a Happy New Year, and a good luck for the season! 

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1. - Foreword:

1.1- This is a Grand Touring Championship, which contains 19 rounds: A Pre-Season Round at Grand Valley Speedway; 6 rounds from Asian-Pacific; 6 from Can-Am Cup and last, but not least, 6 rounds from European Cup.

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1.1.1- The unique addition of the Endurance Cup will be used for the first time in the series history. These races, as the last race of each cup, will be held and have a distance longer than the set 60 minutes for each Regular Cup races in the season.

1.2- The following Sporting Regulations are a living document, therefore, they must be followed at all times.
If changes are being made, it will be marked in bold red. People will be informed by us in the news section of the website, the Facebook group and on the GTPLANET threads.

1.3- Accusing, insulting and making fun towards the participants and the Organisers is strictly prohibited and it will cause major consequences if done so.

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1.4- Officials of the Global Racing Organisation and the Global GT Championship are listed here:

Alexander Heinen / MonGnoM

Mich Bearpark / J_Starscream

Trevor Holden / RoadRageDudez

Pedro Harsk / HarskGaming96

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2. - Lobby Settings:

2.1. - Hosting:

2.1.1- The lobby will be hosted by the GGTC Series Promoters. (Pedro Harsk / HarskGaming96, Alexander Heinen / MonGnoM, Trevor Holden / RoadRageDudez, and Mich Bearpark / J_Starscream) If they are not able to come, then one of the participants may host the lobby. The participants will be informed and one will be chosen to host the lobby.

2.1.2- The lobby will be set to "Friends Only", so please add:

MonGnoM

HarskGaming96

RoadRageDudez

J_Starscream

on PSN. After you do it, you will receive an invite from HarskGaming96 to receive access to the GRO Club.

2.1.3- All participants must be members of "Global Racing Organisation" Club Community.

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2.1.4- Optional, but the use of “Skype” to communicate amongst race officials and other participants in the race. Please message one of the race officials:

Alexander Heinen

Pedro Harsk

Trevor Holden

Mich Bearpark

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2.2. - Qualifying and Race Settings:

2.2.1- The lobby format for qualifying will be Set to:

Practice/Qualify/Endurance Race

After Qualifying, race will be abandoned, Format will be change to:

Practice/ Endurance Race.

Manual Grid Will be formed.

2.2.2- The Mechanical Damage will be set to "Heavy" and the Tire Wear/Fuel Consumption will be set to "Normal".

2.2.3- The Grip Edge Reduction will be set to "Real".

2.2.4- All Driving Aids will be "Off" except ABS.

2.2.5- No Power and no KG will be restricted, but the participants must follow the specs of a car. Pre-Race Penalties (BoP) will be given after each race in the series. Click here to find the specs.

2.2.6- Each race will have its weather according to the real day weather. The weather will be checked the morning before the race.

2.2.7- Each qualifying session will be lasting 15 minutes.

2.2.8- The Grid will be set to the Qualifying Order, meaning, "Fastest First".

2.2.9- Each race start will be behind a designated Safety Car.

2.2.10- Each race will be lasting 1 hour (60 minutes), aside from the Endurance Cup Races.

2.2.11- At least 1 Pit Stop is mandatory.

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2.2.12- Failure to make a pit-stop at least once in the race will result in a 1 minute and 40 second penalty after the race.

2.2.13- If a participant crashes, the Full Course Yellow will be applied.

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2.2.14- Ghosting (pressing “Start”) to avoid getting damage is STRICTLY FORBIDDEN. Any participant caught ghosting in an unfair manner to avoid being damaged will result in a 30 second post-race penalty for each offence.

2.2.15- Before the race, a participant is allowed to do the text-chatting, but not during the race unless if it is for issuing a Full Course Caution.

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3. - Race Procedure:

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3.1. - Qualifying:

3.1.1- Lobby format will be set to Practice/Qualifying/Endurance Race.

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3.1.2. Qualifying will last for 10 minutes, start from the pits with a warm-up lap.

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3.1.3.- After the qualifying session has finished, drivers must return to the lobby, exiting the race, to form a manual grid. After returning to the lobby, the event format will be changed to: Practice/Endurance Race.

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3.1.4- Drivers then have to get on track and STOP at the main straight behind the safety car.

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3.1.5- As soon as the Grid is manually lined up, race will start by activating the countdown.

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3.1.6- This procedure is has been chosen to re-engage drivers disconnecting during qualifying.

Disconnected drivers have to line up AT THE BACK OF THE FIELD with no points awarded, unless a lap was already recorded and put on the qualifying standings.

 

3.2. - Track Limits:

3.2.1- Two wheels must be on the track at all times! The white lines are the limit. Run-off  areas are not considered part of the track nor track limits, unless avoiding an incident or accident. There might be the case that run-off areas will be allowed to run over. If track limits are found being broken, the penalty will be at least 30 seconds after the race, and more time will be added if needed.

3.2.2- Do not corner cut. If you are caught cutting a corner, there will be consequences.
 

3.2.3- Corner cutting to gain an advantage (passing, track limits, dive-bombs) with STRICTLY forbidden. Failure to give back the position by the end of the race will result in 2 minute post-race penalty.

3.2.4- All drivers must keep four wheels inside of the white lines when they are pitting. Do not cross/touch the pit entry/exit lines with the tires. If you do, you will be awarded a 15 second penalty after the race.

 

3.3. - Overtaking:

3.3.1- All drivers have the responsibility of keep the overtakes clean and not cause a crash. Any contact will lead to the Steward's Investigation.

3.3.2- If you have overtaken a car by ramming the other car, do not have advantage on the rammed car. Give back the position and no penalty will follow. Failure to give the position back will result in a 15 second penalty.

3.3.3- If there's a crash between the cars and if you didn't cause a crash, safely overtake the cars without damaging the other driver’s cars.

 

3.4. - Defending a Position

3.4.1- All drivers have option to pick a line before they enter the next corner.

3.4.2- You may change your racing line once and then, return to your previous racing line. Doing the "Zig-Zag" to not let a driver to overtake is forbidden!

3.4.3- You must pick your racing line before your car approaches. If a car claims a racing line that you wish to use, then you can't use that racing line. Respect their racing line. 

3.4.4- A little rubbing and bumping is allowed, but you are not allowed to ram people off-track.

3.4.5- Dive-bombing, meaning, forcing your way into a driver is extremely prohibited!

3.4.6- Blocking the pass of a driver, meaning, closing down on a driver is prohibited! Blocking is considered when the front driver reacts to a move of the rear driver.
 

 

3.5. - Full Course Yellow Procedure:

3.5.1- The driver who crashes into a wall or into a car must write "Yellow". Please beware that calling a "Yellow Flag" is only valid for the drivers who lose control, get a severe damage and when a car comes to a complete Full Stop! The yellow must be called out while stationary.

3.5.2- The car who gets a light damage, must slowly drive back to the pits off of the main racing line.

3.5.3- When the Full Course Yellow is called out, the Safety Car will be deployed. The speed limit behind the safety car and all race cars will be no higher than 100 km/h (62 mph). 

3.5.4- All cars must give space from one another. Keep at least half a car length away from the car in front of you.

3.5.5- If a driver has mechanical damage and if it is close of the pack, he is not allowed to overtake the pack.

3.5.6- During the Full Course Caution period, pit lane will be open, and drivers are allowed to change tires and refuel their cars.

3.5.7- After the crashed and repaired car comes out of the pits again, he will be rejoining into the pack, do not overtake the cars.

Stay behind the pack. This will at least get you into the fight for position again.

3.5.8- The lap in which the crash happened will be under yellow. The following lap will also be under yellow, and next time around, the safety car will make his was into the pits and call out the green flag. The officials will call the green flag by voice chat. 

3.5.9- The Green Flag is raised up by the Safety Car driver. Jump-starts to overtake before the yellow line will result in a 1 minute post-race penalty.

 

4. - Tuning:

4.1- The drivers are allowed to adjust the Ballast Position, LSD, Transmission, Suspension and the Brake Balance Settings.

4.2- Only the Power Upgrades mentioned on the "Homologated Cars" section are legal. 

 

4.3- Improving rigidity and oil change is allowed.

4.4- If the power of your car doesn't meet the right Specifications, please use the "Power Limiter" to meet the right Power. Failure to meet BoP requirements will be subject to being moved to the back of the field to start the race.

4.5- Every car must have a racing number fitted. (PLEASE UPDATE WITH SPECIFIC NUMBER AND TAG)

4.6- Any paint color is allowed aside from the “Modded” colours

 

 

5. - Ensuring a Close Race:

 

5.1. - (BoP) - Balance of Performance:

5.1.1- The cars are equal on the Balance of the Performance, but the events do not rely on the Performance Points (PP) system made by Polyphony Digital (PD). Despite of the cars being equal on the tracks, the drivers are not equal in terms of the experience. Therefore, the Post Racing Handicap is applied to next race.

 

5.2. - (PRH) - Post Race Handicap (UPDATE TO TOP 12 DRIVERS??)

5.2.1- The Post Racing Handicap will be applied depending on your finishing position and on how many drivers show up in the race, here is an example if 8 racers showed up:

 

The first PRH application will be sanctioned by the end of the Pre-Season race.

 

First:                  -1,50% power / +0,75% weight

Second:            -1,10% power / +0,50% weight

Third:                -0,75% power / +0,25% weight

Fourth:              -0,50% power / +0,15% weight

Fourth Last:       +0,50% power / -0,15% weight

Third Last:          +0,75% power / -0,25% weight

Second Last:      +1,10% power / -0,50% weight

Last:                  +1,50% power / -0,75% weight

5.2.2- The Power/Weight Values will be given depending of the number of the drivers.

5.2.3- After each race, the PRH will be calculated based on current power and weight of each car by the Series promoters and once it's done, they will be post on the News Section of this page, on the GTPlanet thread and on the Official Facebook Page and Group.

5.2.4- A driver has the option to refuse a better performance of the car, but he isn't allowed to refuse a lower performance of the car.

 

6. - List of the Penalties to be applied and non-safe-racing: 

6.1- If an incident occurred during the race, please send a Video with your explanation to the Facebook group.

If capturing a video is not possible a PM to the officials with the exact lap and the reason of the incident, so this incident will be investigated and evaluated afterwards in a discussion in the facebook group

6.2- Leaving the track (see Track Limits; Art. 3.2) and gaining an advantage on cutting a chicane or generally going “off-track” without lifting off the throttle, you will be awarded a 15 second penalty if someone's reporting it.
 

6.3- If you enter pit lane in an unsafe manner, or enter pit lane over the white lines with the tires, you will automatically gain a 10-second post-race penalty.

6.4- If a driver makes avoidable contact or ramming people off track, then he may be awarded with a 5 to 60 second penalty, depending of their severity. Penalty will be voted

 

Avoidable contact:

Paint trading and bumping is allowed

If a driver loses control, gets off track because of contact, it will be counted as avoidable contact.

 

Pushing car off track:

Usually occurs when multiple cars drive side-by-side.

If the outer driver has to exceed the track limits for the reason of no space, it will be considered as “pushing a driver off track”

6.5- If your Driving Standards don't satisfy the other drivers, you may be awarded with a second penalty, therefor position losses or an exclusion from the race results, depending of their severity.

6.6- A driver may be excluded from the race results in case if he accumulates excessive penalties.

 

 

6.7- During full course yellow situations, no passing allowed.

Even if you're driving to the pitlane.

 

Lapped drivers may get their lap back by passing the field and the safety car, when told so.

These drivers then rejoin the back of the field.

 

6.8- Blocking:

Is considered when the leading car of a battle is changing lanes more than once.

 

It is not allowed to move the leading car in reaction to the follower.

 

7. - Point System: 

7.1- The Points System in the Global GT Championship as it follows:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

7.2- For the fastest lap of the race, you will gain 1 extra point.

7.3- For gaining positions compared to your Qualifying position, you will gain 1 extra point per position gained.

7.4- The points are applied to the Qualifying Session and Races.

7.5- Disconnecting will result in half the points of the current position.

7.6- If you back out  from the race, without any valid reason, you will not receive points from the round.

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7.7. - Average Finishing Position

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7.7.1- There will be an Average Finishing Position (AFP) which allows every driver, including a AM driver for fighting for a title.

7.7.2- For example, if you finish 2nd in 2 races, then your AFP points are 2. But if you have finished 4th in the 1st race, and 1st in the 2nd race, then you're AFP points will be 2,5. The lower are the AFP points, the better is the chance of being a champion of AFP.

7.7.3- To be classified into the AFP, a driver must have completed a minimum of two rounds. This rule is in place to prevent a driver from winning the AFP just because he has won a race once and did not come back after all.

7.7.4- If a driver finishes the AFP season with a result and if he has competed in only 1 round, then his result will not be counted.

 

8. - Event Schedule:

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8.1- The lobby will be open at 18:30 UTC.

8.2- There will be up to 1 Hour of practice before Qualifying starts.

8.3- At 19:40 UTC the Qualifying Session will start.

8.4- The race will start after the Qualifying session Manual Grid has been done and will finish approximately at 21:00 UTC

 

9. - Event Sign-Up:

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9.1- To register, we will present you an online application to enter in the series. As soon as you accept the terms of agreement of the registration form and turn an application in to the officials, you will officially be part of & have joined the series.

 

9.1.1- If you miss 4 races in a row without contacting the officials, the contract will be terminated and void. In case of re-joining the series, a new form has to be filled.

9.2- Three different Driver classification: Pro, Pro-Am and Am.
Pro means full time drivers.

Pro-Am drivers run in at least 50% of the events

Am Drivers compete in less than 50% of the events.

9.3- You are allowed to change number (#) prior to your first race, but after you have completed your first race, you are not allowed to change the number (#) during the rest of the season. This method plans to clear confusion on the Entry List of each race.

9.4- You can enter a team. You can simply invent a team name or then run as a "Privateer".

9.5- After filling out the sign-up form, the Series Promotors will ask you to share your choosen GTM car to your profile Community.

9.6- You can sign-up on clicking in "Register" bottom on the Website, on the GTPlanet thread, or on the Facebook Group pinned post. Please then send a Private Message to the Series Promoters "MonGnoM," "RoadRageDudez," and "Harsk100".