FOFC Racing - Sprint Cup Series - Season 1 - The Champion is Crowned!

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Welcome to Season 1 of the FOFC Sprint Cup Racing Series. If you would like to sign-up, head on over to our sign-up thread. We now have sign-ups ongoing for our Truck Series which will begin in Season 2. If you already have drivers in the Cup series but want more, sign-up for the Truck Series. New drivers to the series will have to first enter the Truck Series and earn their way to the Cup series.

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After 10 "regular season" races, the top 10 drivers, as determined by points accumulated during the season, automatically advance to contend for the Sprint Cup championship. These drivers are joined by two "wild card" qualifiers, specifically the two drivers ranked from 11th through 37th in drivers' points who have the most regular-season race wins. The 12 drivers' championship points are reset to a base of 1,000 per driver. Each of the 10 automatic qualifiers receives a bonus of 3 points for each win during the regular season, while the two wild card qualifiers receive no bonus. Every driver then will receive a bonus for their final position after 10 races. Wild card qualifiers receive no bonus.

1st - 20 bonus points
2nd - 18 bonus points
3rd - 16 bonus points
4th - 14 bonus points
5th - 12 bonus points
6th - 10 bonus points
7th - 8 bonus points
8th - 6 bonus points
9th - 4 bonus points
10th - 2 bonus points

Normal scoring applies during the Chase, with race winners earning 43 base points plus 3 bonus points, all drivers who lead a lap earning 1 bonus point, and the driver who leads the most laps earning 1 bonus point in addition to any other points earned.


SCORING SYSTEM




Drivers

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Season 1 Schedule

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The drivers took to the track today for their first testing session for the Daytona 500.

[stevew]

Not a good day of qualifying for 9th circle.

[britrock88]

Qualifying isn't a strength for our garage, that's for sure...

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Qualifying for the Daytona 500 has been completed. Stroker Ace will start on the pole with Rob Nielsen in 2nd.

[PilotMan]

Shocked to see second row for a Dixieland car.

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The 1st season of the brand new FOFC Sprint Cup Racing Series began in sunny Daytona today as 38 drivers took the green flag. Stroker Ace started from the pole with Rob Nielsen sitting in 2nd place and depsite 39 lead changes throughout the day, on the last lap it was Stroker Ace holding off Rob Nielsen to take the victory in the season's opening race. Comrade Twelve finished in 3rd followed by Aaron Kappe in 4th and the day's leading lap leader Jackson Pace n 5th.

Some of the days strongest cars belonged to Blue Neckansack, Mustafa Henderson and Luke Duke. All three were involved in the same crash on lap #133 and Henderson and Duke were knocked out of the race. Neckansack recovered from the wreck to finish 21st. The accident on lap 133 also knocked out Bo Duke, Dexter Jackson and Bo Danville. Early in the race on lap 49 Patrick Hutt and Rex D'Car were involved in a two car crash that knocked both of them out.



Event Details:

Weather: Sunny, 81 F, South 6 mph
Laps: 200
Cautions: 3
Caution Laps: 12
Lead Changes: 39
Leaders: 11

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[Coffee Warlord]

I think that's the best finish I've ever had a driver have, in any incarnation of this.

[Grover]

Poor Rex D'Car. Living up to his name though!

[PilotMan]

SHENANIGANS!

[wolverine29]

Good race for Ricky, not so much for Dexter. We'll go get them at Phoenix.

Any chance of the Late Model series coming back again too?

[tarcone]

Ooof. 22nd and 24th. Gotta work better together. Hawk and Nile need to tweak those cars.

[Vince, Pt. II]

Stroker Ace was born to race.

[muns]

6th place. Surprised Wheely was able to do that. Didn't see that one coming. That wreck sure looks like it helped some folks be in some spots they shouldn't have been. Looking forward to race 2

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Originally Posted by wolverine29

Any chance of the Late Model series coming back again too?

I would love to do something like that eventually. If we get more drivers and go over our limit I would love to start a second feeder series. Possibly something of a relegation system where the bottom 5 from the Cup Series drop down to the lower series and the top 5 from that series move up.

[Coffee Warlord]

I should register my second driver, huh.

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The CampingWorld.com 500 from Phoenix will be run tomorrow.

[stevew]

I was wondering what the schedule was.

Also, you say base of 2000 points in the first post, but don't you mean something else for the chase? Nobody will ever have more than 430 points or so after the 10 races.

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I copied it from a previous version of the dynasty where we had more races. I'll probably just put it at 1000. I'm going to try and get races up at the very least every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.

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The polesitter wins again this week. You don't see that too often but David Ginsberg was able to pull off the feat this week winning from the pole. He didn't however, have the dominate car on the day. That belonged to Bo Duke who led 216 of the days 312 laps. Ginsberg led 87 as the two combined to dominate and lead 303 of the 312 laps. With 8 laps remaining Ginsberg dove down inside of Duke's #01 car to take the lead. In second was Duke followed by his teammate and cousin Luke in 3rd. Teammates Mustafa Henderson and Billy Bushinhimer rounded out the top 5.

A lap 199 crash knocked out two drivers, Jackson Pace and Ricky Anderson Jr. while Deacon Palmer, Lew Sifford and Bo Danville all failed to finish the race with various mechanical issues. Palmer was running in the top 10 with with less than 10 laps to go when his problems hit.

Comrade Twelve was supposed to start in the 19th position, but he was unable to even make it to the start finish line as a piston broke on the car. He did receive the 38th places 6 points for the race.

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After two races, Rob Nielsen leads the points after two top 10 finishes.

[path12]

In Soviet Russia piston breaks you!

[Coffee Warlord]

Remember kids, the best drivers drink Guinness!

[DavidCorperial]

1st place, David will take that.

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So, for season #2 I have decided we will end up switching mods to the brand new Bullring Gen 6 2015 mod for the game. I am going to be finishing up all cars by the end of season 1 so everyone's will be ready. Getting cars made for this new mod will be much easier than the original. This means there will probably not be any pictures from this season's races but I will keep you updated when I have new cars ready.

I've already started getting a lot of them painted. Here are some pictures from some of the new cars. There a still some small details to go on all of these but they are getting close to done.

In the first one you'll see the #49 Krispy Kreme car driven by Wallace Bryant, the #01 of Bo Duke, the #21 Guinness car of Rob Nielsen, #51 Mello Yello car of Mustafa Henderson and #11 Taco John's car driven by Hawk Grey.

In the second picture is the #24 Walmart car driven by Comrade Path, the #49 again, the #27 Samuel Adams car driven by Seamus Archer and the #4 Yuengling Lager car driven by Benton Gale.

In the third is the #20 Bass Pro Shops car driven by Avery Thomas and in the 4th picture you'll see the #51, the #55 Frank's Red Hot car driven by Douglas Douglas and the #11. In the 5th you can see the 21, 01, #69 Viagra car of Red Neckanback, 55, 11, 49, and 24.

[Grover]

What are you using to sim?

I remember creating cars with NASCAR Racing from Sierra/Papyrus when I was a kid. I would spend hours and hours creating paintjobs.

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Originally Posted by Grover

What are you using to sim?

I remember creating cars with NASCAR Racing from Sierra/Papyrus when I was a kid. I would spend hours and hours creating paintjobs.

I'm using NASCAR Racing 2003.

[Vince, Pt. II]

Man, The Bandit needs to finish a race at some point.

[PilotMan]

1 and 2 would have been better, but with 2nd and 3rd, Dixieland caps it's most successful race result in history. I like hearing that the car set up was solid. Woot!

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I'm hoping Cannon's consistency can bring him a title this year. An 8th and a 6th is a good way to start.

[BYU 14]

Fast Eddie being consistent, slow and steady..

[Grover]

Originally Posted by cmp

I'm using NASCAR Racing 2003.

Same line of games, whoo!

[stevew]

Like the red hot car, wish it could have flames!

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Originally Posted by stevew

Like the red hot car, wish it could have flames!

I actually might be able to make a version with flames, let me see what I can find.

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The Duck Commander 500 from Texas will be run tomorrow.

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I'm going to be updating the 3rd post in the thread with everyone's new cars.

[tarcone]

Looks great.
The Godzilla team needs to improve.

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Wow. What a race we had today. A lot of different stories in this one. The biggest one, bigger than even the race winner, was Wheely McStephens. Wheely may have just made himself the most hated driver on the circuit. On lap 159, Cannon Pace was in the midst of leading for the 25th straight when a strong charging #38 car driven by McStephens spun him around in turn 4 ending his day. Cannon hit hard on the outside wall and finished 35th. Wheely wasn't done however. His car was definitely strong and he led a good portion of the next laps before losing the lead during pit stops. Impressively he found his way back up the front where Chaci Bonaparte was leading the race followed by Ginny Tonic in 2nd. Wheely made a move to try and pass them and spun around Tonic into Bonaparte which also in turn collected Avery Thomas and Al Cohallik who were a few laps down. Wheely survived unscathed and continued to dominate until the final portion of the race when his car began to fade. Patrick Hutt who ran in the top ten all day dialed in his car for the last run and with 14 laps left passed Wheely to take the lead and cruise to the victory by over 6 seconds.

Possibly though the most impressive run of the day belonged to Bo Duke. Bo led for 70 laps early in the race and looked dominate. A pit road mishap cost him dearly though and he went at one point 2 laps down. Bo was able to make his way back to the lead lap by the end of the race and ended up with a 6th place finish.

2nd place starter Mustafa Henderson had a problem right from the beginning and only completed 10 laps on the day for a 39th place finish. Hawk Grey, Jackson Pace, Wallace Bryant, and Fast Eddie Chilton all had car problems which ended their runs.

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Rob Nielsen holds a 19 point advantage over David Ginsberg after 3 races. Stroker Ace, Bo Duke and Wheely McStephens round out the top 5.

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[britrock88]

Hmm. Helen and Lew don't seem to have it thus far. I guess I lost some of the touch I'd developed with the ratings the first time around...

[tarcone]

Dang. Im a terrible owner. I need cheat more, I guess.

[wolverine29]

Wow. Dexter has been terrible. He has a great average starting spot and then just sucks in the races.

[PilotMan]

Clearly Dixieland has made some progress this year. Keep it up ! I like where both guys are at after the double DNF.

[muns]

Originally Posted by tarcone

Dang. Im a terrible owner. I need cheat more, I guess.

You could be like Wheely and play whack a mole on the track. Goodness was that a travesty.

[stevew]

Originally Posted by britrock88

Hmm. Helen and Lew don't seem to have it thus far. I guess I lost some of the touch I'd developed with the ratings the first time around...

yeah, our team sucks

[Lathum]

Perfect. Both my drivers taken out at the same time. One running in second.