The actual races won't start any time soon; obviously time is needed to set up the carset, and ye need time to confirm entries.
Why?
1979 was a difficult year, but nevertheless a highly successful one for the sport. Despite some minor issues, the season ran more or less faultlessly. To build upon this resounding success, some changes to the calendar have been made. The Eastern Bloc, British and French rounds have been replaced with tours to Ireland and North America, which will surely be even more successful!
What?
The cars for 1980 have been overhauled somewhat. Renzo turbo power, first seen with the Dywa F1 team in 1979, makes its way to Dywa GP, with all the cars utilising the brand-new turbo engines.
When?
Races will be streamed in the GPR Discord server when they are run for ye to come and watch, though there will not be a consistent schedule.
How?
GP2 will be used to make this into reality.
The overall format of weekends will be typical for anything run on GP2.
Races will be around 150km in length.
There will be no limit on the amount of teams that can enter. If there are fifteen or more teams on the entry list, pre-qualifying will be used to determine who goes into qualifying. The bottom fourteen teams in the Teams' Championship will take part in pre-qualifying.
The points system for races is similar to F1's points system at this time, albeit with bonus points.
- 1st - 9
2nd - 6
3rd - 4
4th - 3
5th - 2
6th - 1
Fastest Lap: 1
Where?
The calendar (provisional at the moment, dates to be decided later) is as follows:
- Enna-Pergusa (Italy)
- Imola (Italy)
- Spa-Francorchamps (Belgium)
- Halle-Saale-Schleife (Germany)
- Salzburgring (Austria)
- Mugello (Italy)
- Syracuse (Italy)
- Sanair (Canada)
- Brainerd (United States)
- Roebling Road (United States)
- Mondello Park (Ireland)
- Kirkistown (United Kingdom)
- Mantorp (Sweden)
- Monza (Italy)
Ye people of the forum are to compete in this series, as like last time. Those who ran teams in 1979 can continue on with those entries if they want. Same rules apply for drivers as in the previous two years, that is, all drivers must be canon DECs. Each team entry must comprise of a name, a team nationality, and two drivers (along with the nationality of each driver).
Submit yer entries!
Championship results can be found here: https://formularejects.com/wiki/1980_Dy ... ies_season