iRacing is about to add a major new feature to their online racing simulation – Team racing with driver changes.
Ahead of the feature introduction, iRacing staff has revealed some details on the feature in the official forums.
“5 people can join a session at any one time for a team. However 64 in total because people can come and go then even come back again. So say a 24 hour race you might have 24 different drivers on your team or something. Say it is a 30 car field and they all had 24 drivers than you could have 720 drivers participating in that one race! , “ iRacing’s Tony Gardner explains.
Ryan Cassidy continues:??“It’s completely free-form. At any time the current driver can pit the car, get out of the car (which now leaves the car in the pit stall), and any driver on the team can then get into it (same person, or someone else).??
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From the time at which one driver brings the car to a halt in the pit stall, at least 30 seconds must elapse before some other driver that gets into the car can leave the pit stall.??
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If a team does not meet the driver-change requirements for the session, the team is DQ’d and receives 0 points for the session.
At least initially, there will be one “driver-change rule set” – “drive your fair share”. The session host is allowed to specify the minimum number of drivers that must “drive their fair share” during the session. If fewer than this number of drivers on a team drives their fair share, then the requirements are not met, and the team will be DQ’d.
A “fair share” is computed as one-quarter (25%) of an equal share of the laps that your team completes. If the host has specified a minimum of 3 drivers, and your team completes 120 laps, then an equal share for 3 drivers would be 40 laps, and the “fair share” would be one-quarter of that, or 10 laps. (#laps / #drivers / 4 == fair share, with any fractional number of laps being bumped up to the next whole number of laps). “
