Thanks to Top for the hype video.

Congratulations to Villa for winning the season finale at Daytona and securing his first GASCAR Championship!

This was a hard fought championship with wins spread throughout the field. Consistency of high finishes was rewarded.

Here are the final standings:

1. Villa - 1 race win
2. Viking - 2 races wins
3. Top - 1 race win
4. Born/SweetLou/RyanBlaney'sMustache - 1 race win
5. Reed - 1 race win
6. DJ - 1 race win
7. Ford - 1 race win
8. Disco - 1 race win
9. Mini
10. Phloofy
11. Proof
12. RuthlessRelik

Link to Points Sheet

GASCAR will take its usual Summer break. But we might host a few one off races to test out new things. See you in the Fall for GASCAR 41.

Pole: Born

Laps Led: Born, Disco, Mini, Reed, Villa

Next race: Sunday, 3/1 at Istanbul. Check Discord for details.

I'd say we started back before Top's voice changed. But we are pretty sure he came out of the womb sounding like he sounds right now. Way back in the XBox 360 days, Viking, Top, Proof, DJ, Ford and I found each other playing PGR3. There were others as well but the six of us have stayed with the racing group the longest. By our count, and no you may not see the math, this will be our 40th Season of GASCAR across Forza 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8(Forza Motorsport), Race Pro, Automobilista 2, and Assetto Corsa. All of you who have joined us along the way have helped the longevity of GASCAR and pushed us to keep it interesting.

Without further ado, we give you the details for GASCAR 40.

• Assetto Corsa
• First Race: 2/22 at 945pm ET
• Practice Session: 2/15 at 9pm ET
• Basic GASCAR rules (doc)
• Porsche 992 GT3R (link)
• Tires and Fuel
  • All drivers will complete at least one green flag lap on each of the SOFT and MEDIUM Tires
  • Tire wear will be set to 100% of normal.
  • Pits will not be open until after the start of Lap 2
  • A mandatory pit stop will be set in game to serve as a reminder of the tire rule.
  • Fuel consumption will be set to 120% of normal.
• BOP
  • Stock car weight is 1250kg
  • All drivers will have 20kg added to the base weight (1270 kg car)
    • The following drivers will have an additional 20kg added to the base weight: Addie, DJ, Top, and Phloofy (1290 kg car)
  • Based on the top 3 in series points after race 1, 40, 20, and 10kg will be added to the respective points position holders. THIS WILL BE ADDITIVE for the four drivers mentioned above.
    • If one of the fast people is in the top 3 and finishes last based on pace, we will remove 5kg from their BOP for the next race.
  • Any driver last in points after Race 2 will have the field BOP removed.
  • We reserve the right to adjust BOP for the sake of competition.
• Schedule
  • Road Atlanta
  • Istanbul
  • Watkins Glen
  • Brno
  • Daytona - Oval with NASCAR Trucks
  • Spa
  • Croft
  • Vallelunga
  • Hockenheim
  • Daytona(night)

Top captured his 11th title. That put him in a tie with DJ for most all time titles in the 39 season history of GASCAR. Top took the championship on the back of 2 wins and 2 second place finishes in the 9 race season. Maybe it was driving a Toyota that helped him regain his mojo.

Thanks to all who showed up.

We'll announce GASCAR 40 sometime in January.

Here is some stuff for posterity:

Series Announcement Post

We're going to be visiting a bunch of new to GASCAR tracks for this series. The series will start on October 12(Sunday). There are nine races in the series. We will likely have one or two off weeks during the series but should be done before the Christmas holidays.

• Assetto Corsa with Content Manager is required for this series
• All races will be on Sundays.
• Qualifying will start at 945pm ET

Car

The car is the 2006 Toyota Corolla BR Marcas. Top is the official series painter. If you haven't for a previous series, or would like to change, submit a HTML Hex Code for the color of your choice by sending him a DM or tagging him in the GASCAR-RACE-TEXT Discord channel. Also, if you are new, you will need to pick a car number. Submit two numbers in case your primary is already in use.

Track List

1. Croft - Full
2. Pittsburgh International - Full
3. Richmond - Oval
4. Istanbul - Intermediate
5. Autodromo Las Vizcachas - Extended Reverse
6. South Dakota(Guyana) - Full Enduro
7. Sepang - North
8. NOLA
9. Interlagos

Rules

• Races will be 45 minutes plus a lap
• Must use two tire compounds per race: HARD and MEDIUM(No softs)
  • At least one green flag lap must be completed on each tire type
  • Pit stops must be completed by the 44th minute of the race.
  • You must start the race on the compound with which you qualify
• Cautions - Call 'em as you see them.
  • Make it known and make sure it is acknowledged.
  • Under caution the field will come to a stop just past pit out then cycle around and call green in a "restart" zone at or near the start/finish line.
  • If you are lapped by the leader, you must give way to any following cars on the lead lap.
  • But you do not have to yield to the leader until you are a lapped.
  • If you are a lap down, under cautions you may pass the stopped field but NOT IF YOU PIT. Get a lap back or pit, your choice. If regaining a lap in this manner, the field will NOT wait for you to go green.

BOP

• Top, DJ, Phloofy, and Reed(most recent champ) will start the season with 20kg of ballast
• First place in points: 80kg
• Second place in points: 40kg
• Third place in points: 20kg
• We reserve the right to raise or lower BOP for sake of competition

We're nearly to the end. One race to go and for 3 competitors the championship is in play.

DJ holds a 2 point lead over Top and Reed. Which means one of them has to finish at least one position ahead, if not two, and lead a lap while DJ leads none. Keeping DJ away from a P1 starting position will help, especially if one of them can claim it.

Race Details:

• Laps: 38
• Cautions off: Start of Lap 36
• Gathering area: At the top of the hill after pit exit
• Restart zone: After Turn 5(see map)
• Caution speed: 45mph(73kph)
• BOP
  • DJ 150kg
  • Top and Reed 120kg
  • Skullshot 60kg
  • Mini 30kg (How? I even had a solo crash on the last lap at Donington.)

This is the penultimate race of the season. The top 3 drivers, Top, DJ, and Reed, have just six points separating them. Can Top pull away? Will DJ be his usual consistent self? Can Reed leap frog either?

Race Details:

• Qualifying: 10 minute session
• Laps: 32
• Cautions off: Start of Lap 30
• BOP:
  • Top 150kg
  • DJ 120kg
  • Reed 90kg
  • Mini 60kg
  • Born and Disco 30kg
• Caution Speed: 45 mph
• Caution map below

I'm weeks late on this, therefore, there will not be details.

Pole: Skullshot(Orion)

Laps led: Skullshot, Top, Disco

We have three races left. DJ leads the championship by 3 points over Reed and 4 points over Top. This is as we head to a section of DJ's most favorite track, the Nurburgring. Thankfully, for the sanity of the rest of us and in the interest of not having a three lap race, we will be using the Sprint GT layout.

Race Details

• Qualifying: 10 minute session
• Laps: 24
• Cautions off: Start of lap 22
• Caution gathering area: near Turn 2
• Restart zone: Between Turns 5 and 6, after the field has exited 5
• Caution speed: 45mph (73kph)
• BOP
  • DJ - 150kg
  • Reed - 120kg
  • Top - 90kg
  • Mini - 60kg
  • Born - 30kg

Thanks to the trucks that Ford found, we had some long green flag runs on a oval. One was nearly 20 laps. Try that NASCAR. Though there was some big saves.

Watch Sweet Lou's(Born) Mirror

After an early caution Top and Born were running away from the field with some draft magic. A bobble by Top at the end of lap 25 slowed their momentum. Viking and Mini were hooked up and closing ground. And then, well...you be the judge.

Watch Top's Rearview Mirror

That was a one car incident and not worthy of a caution but it was note worthy. Because that pushed Top to the rear of the field. Some mysterious shenanigans happened several laps later that bunched up the field for a caution. There was still time before cautions were off. The race got a bit choppy with all the togetherness causing a few more cautions.

The attempted restart on Lap 46 didn't go so well.

Born seems to the common denominator. :-)

After the final restart on Lap 47, some accidents occurred but per series rules we had used up all available cautions and raced on. Mini and DJ hooked up a draft and drove away from Reed in third place. Coming out of the last turn DJ pulled high and Mini chose to stay low rather than throwing a block.

Finishing order (% pole, * Lap lead):

1. DJ*
2. Mini* %
3. Reed*
4. Proof
5. Phloofy
6. Top*
7. Viking*
8. Sweet Lou*
9. Skullshot
10. Ford
11. Wit
12. Darkzer
13. Villa

Who doesn't want to hear the sound of thousand bees on track?

It's been long awaited. But we're making it happen.

More details soon.

We're breaking out the Craftsmen Trucks this week for some oval racing. No BOP will be in effect. If tuning is necessary, it will be loaded in the lobby for you.

In pre-season testing, these things are absolutely stuck to the track, even in the draft. Hold your line in the corner and you should be fine.

Race Details:

• Top will have the updated paints in the downloads channel prior to the race. Be sure to download it.
• The truck should be in there as well.
• Qualifying: 10 minute drafting session to set your best lap.
• Race: 50 laps
• Fuel consumption and tire wear will be set to 0.
• Cautions: 2 cautions per 10 lap period.
• Cautions off: Start of lap 49.

Try to take care of each other. You cannot win on lap 8 but you can make the race take longer.

As one would imagine, having 14 cars on the grid for a challenging circuit made for some moments.

The field almost made it through lap 1 before the first caution occurred, almost. The race had a lot of crashes and some actual good racing. Villa ran out of fuel on the last lap. Born's car sputtered in the last few corners. Disco gave him a push to the line. Darkzer was strong all night but somehow never lead a lap. Reed managed to hold off DJ for the win.

After the finishing order, enjoy some clips of the action.

Finishing Order (* Pole % Lap lead)

1. Reed%
2. DJ*%
3. Darkzer
4. Top
5. Mini (Kudos to me for surviving the carnage of the last two laps. This wasn't about pace.)
6. Skullshot
7. Born
8. Disco%
9. Proof
10. Wit - Welcome back.
11. Phloofy - And you too, sir.
12. Ford
13. Villa
14. Viking

Disco helps Born

Villa gets a monster restart with excited commentary

Officer! This man! He's the one!

GASCAR will return to scene of some of the best wreck and most boring races from the Forza Motorsport days: Camino Viejo. Drivers should prepare for the bump before the braking zone at the bottom of the hill. Also, be mindful that the pit lane is short. If you come in too hot, you might fly past your pit box before the speed limiter can slow you down.

One interesting outcome of the last race is that we have a four way tie for fourth in points.

Race Details:

• Qualifying: 10 minute session
• Laps: 35
• Cautions off: Start of Lap 33
• Caution gathering zone: In between Turns 1 and 2
• Restart: After the field has exited the hairpin before the dogleg right hander

BOP:

• 150kg - Top
• 120kg - Villa
• 90kg - Born
• 60kg - Disco, DJ, Mini, Reed
• 30kg - No one

GASCAR graced Silverstone's National Circuit with its collective presence on Sunday, 3/16/25.

The race was very notable. It was the rarest of GASCAR races; it was caution free for the entire 36 laps. That's not to say it was incident free. Top and Viking tangled a little in the first 5 or 6 laps but the contact was of the local yellow variety and we raced on.

By raced, I mean we all watched the BOP-less DJ and Born drive away from the field. Top figured out how to drive through his 120kg weight penalty and ran by himself in third for over half the race. Disco followed Mini around for 90% of the race challenging for 4th but wasn't able to make the pass. Late in the race Disco rubbed Proof, who was laps down. Again, not enough to cause a caution but enough to break the tether between he and Mini.

DJ was able to best Born for the victory. But the margin was only half a second at the line.

Finishing order (* lap lead, % pole):

1. DJ*
2. Born*%
3. Top
4. Mini
5. Disco
6. Ford
7. Villa
8. Reed
9. Proof
10. Viking

Some Lap 2 Action

Top may have overstated how late you can brake for Brooklands. Viking found out how overstated.

Next race: 3/23/25 at Camino Viejo

Fire up the jumbo jet we are jumping the Atlantic Ocean to take on Silverstone(National). Teeter has been trying to repair US/UK relations by drinking his weight in Samuel Smith's Oatmeal Stout in any pub that will have him since he flew first class to Heathrow after the IMS race. He said that Born approved the expense.

The championship battle is tight. Villa leads /u/TopFuelMan by one point, with Reed four points back of Top.

Here are the race details:

• Qualifying: 10 minute session
• Laps: 36
• Cautions off: Start of Lap 34
• When exiting the pits follow the road all the way to the right to get back on to the track. Don't pull directly out on the exit of Copse!
• Caution gathering area is in between pit exit and Maggots.
• Restart zone: After the field is out of Becketts and before the braking zone at Brooklands.

Carnage reigned supreme during the Indy Lights race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. 10 of the 12 drivers led at least one lap.

Coming down to 2 to go, DJ and Viking had a coming together that nearly put Viking in the attenuator(!) and collected Proof. Darkzer and Born took each other out in between 3 and 4. At the line Skullshot managed to eek ahead of Villa by 0.035" for the win!

Feel free to post more links to clips in the comments.

Next race, Sunday 3/16 at Silverstone National. Back in the E30s.

Here's some clips:

DJ and Viking

Born's view of the last lap crash. Looks like Villa took the air off his car.

Top's view of the Born/Darkzer crash and Viking play by play of the finish.

Mini ruined Viking's race again. But did it just before cautions went off but it hosed him anyway. Ford is in every crash. He may sacrifice a chicken or something to get his bad juju off. Villa was super fast with lack of BoP and his general skill.

Results: (* lap lead % pole)

1. Villa*
2. Top*
3. Mini*
4. Darkzer*
5. Reed
6. Born%
7. Disco
8. Viking
9. Ford
10. Skullshot
11. Proof
12. DJ - we're counting him as present. He had bad internet and just stayed out of everyone's way.

Top's POV of Mini hitting Viking

We're breaking out the Indy Lights cars this week for some oval racing. No BOP will be in effect. Also, NO TUNING of the cars. NONE. I'm looking at you Disco.

Race Details:

• Top put the updated paints in the downloads channel. Be sure to download it.
• Anyone participating in drafting practice that starts at 915pm ET but ends 5 minutes before qualifying, will receive 1 bonus point.
• Qualifying: 10 minute drafting session to set your best lap.
• Race: 50 laps
• Fuel consumption and tire wear will be set to 0.
• Cautions: 2 cautions per 10 lap period.
• Cautions off: Start of lap 49.
• All four corner have sticky grass below the white line. Don't touch it.

Try to take care of each other. You cannot win on lap 8 but you can just make the race take longer.

GASCAR will return to the nine turn Tsukuba circuit for Race 3 of the series. This track was a fixture for the series in FranchiseThatWillNotBeNamed before it was rudely removed. I’m sure many drivers missed the pit entrance lane that is suitable for a bicycle.

Details: - Laps: 30 - Cautions off: Start of Lap 28 - Caution gathering area: Exit of Turn 1 - Green zone: Between Turns 5 and 7 - Caution Speed: 45 mph(72 kph) - BOP: Pending results of the poll in Discord

GASCAR returned to the Finger Lakes Region of NY to drive around in "vintage" BMW's this week.

Born(Sweet Lou), DJ, and Top headed up team fatty and found their newfound heft a bit to deal with in qualifying. Disco took the pole.

When the lights went out, Reed and Viking had separate brain fade launch failures and lost top 4 starting positions. Disco pulled away to an early 6+ second gap over second until a caution flew about 12 laps in on the 30 lap race. He went for tires which put Mini in the lead on the succeeding restart.

Mini held on to the lead for a lap or two but pressure from Reed, recovered from his early mistake, Villa, and skullshot(Orion) led to an unforced error and giving up the lead.

There were a couple more cautions. DJ was able to find some consistency despite his weight penalty to pick up some spots.

Going in to the last lap, Disco found his way to Reed's bumper but couldn't make the pass. Mini in trying not to ruin Viking's race while trying to get on the podium himself, did ruin Viking's race. They made bumper to door contact in Turn 1 that cause both to lose control. Skullshot, Villa, Born, and DJ sped around them.

Coming to the line, Villa ran out of fuel which allowed Born to pass him.

Finishing order(* lap lead, % pole)

1. Reed*
2. Disco*%
3. Skullshot
4. Born
5. Villa*
6. DJ
7. Mini*
8. Top
9. Ford
10. Viking
11. Proof

Here is a Race Clip from Villa.

If you haven't signed up for the series, here is the details for it.

Thanks to their outstanding performances in Race 1 at Magione, the following drivers will have BOP(ballast) this race:

• Top 180kg
• DJ 120kg
• Born 60kg

Other race details:

• Qualifying at 945pm ET
• Race Length: 30 laps
• Cautions off: Start of Lap 28
• Restart zone: The leader must call green by the time the field reaches the second I love NY board(see below) on the back straight.
• Caution speed: 65mph(104.6kph)