Pacifica Cup (Sydney Pre-race posted)

Approved by Cynon


With the rise of the PCC Cup Series, Australian motorsport enthusiast/billionaire Peter McCormick thought he should have a stock car series based in Australia. Thus, the Pacifica Cup was born. The inaugural season was run in 1999 in tracks exclusively to Australia. However in 2004, the series spread to, Japan, China, Malaysia, The middle east, New Zealand, and Singapore. The series has run mostly on ovals, except when the series made trips to Calder Park, and Twin Ring Motegi. Now there is talk about a few more ovals in the works. American interest in the sport rose in 2012, when it was announced that the Pacifica Cup would have two races in the United States, and one race in Canada. Interest also rose with the rise of PCC Cup Driver Ian Elias, who has been doing decent in the PCC Cup Series.

Sign Ups

Driver Name:
Age: (Must be over 16 years old)
Nationality: (I would prefer if you kept it to Australian, Japanese, Chinese, Middle Eastern, or somewhere that the series will run. If you need to have a US or Canadian driver, I will allow it, but I won’t be happy.)
Driver Info:

Team Name:
Car Number: (I’d prefer no 3-diget numbers)
Full Time/Part Time: (PCC Cup Drivers can not be full time in this series, but I encourage you to deploy them in the American Races)
Chassis: (I’ll allow pretty much anything, real life, to Canon makes)
Team Info:

Confirmed Entries:

Full Time
Possible Far-East Tour championship contenders
Possible American Tour Championship contenders


Durango Whitten -83
Mark Elias- 12
Tom McCormick- 26
Bobby Newman- 58
Magenta Nelson-Andrew- 29
Hogan Dundee- 86
Max Goose- 71
Raymond Hughes -38
Riley Suzuka- 56
Charlotte Boardman- 42
Sheila Reynolds- 43
Pete Samson- 40
Lenny Jacobs (Part Time)- 99
Derrick Green- 88
Yuji Ikkoyama- 17
Mark Kieffer- 6
Micheal Kenneth- 5
Dylan Andrew- 92
Kenji Ichikawa- 77
Les Jackson- 7
Jeremy Clovis- 47
Ian Elias- 32
Robert Nelson-029?
Sgt. Robert Caplin-75
Barry Juveno- ??

2012-2013 schedule

Road Course
Speedway
Superspeedway

*Pre-season testing venues*

A. Birch Park International
B. Calder Park Thunderdrome
C. Mallala Motorsport Park
D. Canberra Speedway

Australian Tour I
1. Canberra Speedway
2. Birch Park International
3. Sandown
4. Barbagallo
5. Adelaide Street Circuit
6. TBA (Another fake Australian Oval?)
Far East Tour
7. Shanghi
8. Suzuka
9. Twin Ring Motegi
10. Hokkaido Speed Park (Awesome track Ceej created )
American Tour
11. The All American 700 (Fontana) (United States)
12. Mazda Raceway Park (United States)
13. Talladega International Speedway
14. Autodromo Daniel Estevem (Brazil)
Australian Tour II
15. Mount Panorama
16. Queensland
17. Lakeside Speedway
18. Pukekohe
19. The Pacifica Cup Championships at Calder Park Thunderdrome




Final Note: This series uses the default Cup Mod

Driver Name: Bobby Newman
Age: 16
Nationality: Austrilian
Driver Info:

Team Name: WestFall Motorsports
Car Number: 58
Full Time/Part Time: Full Time
Chassis: Ford
Team Info:

Driver Name: Magenta Nelson-Andrew
Age: 16
Nationality: Australian
Driver Info: Dirt-track racer from Corwa, New South Wales, Australia.

Driver Name: Dylan Andrew.
Age: 18
Nationality: Australian
Driver: Dirt-track racer from Cowra, New South Wales, Australia. Older half-brother of Magenta.

Team Name: Spannerhead Racing
Car Number: 29 (Magenta), and 92 (Dylan)
Full Time/Part Time: Full-time.
Chassis: Ford Falcon (I think there's Falcon templetes, if there isn't I'll use Fusion.
Team Info: Races in PCC Cup, and expanding to Dash Cup and hopefully ARLA, has attempted one TMMC race. Bases themselves out of Emu Plains, about 35 miles west of Sydney.

How many drivers can we have max. on our teams?

Driver Name: Durango Whitten
Age: 20
Nationality: For the sake of this series ill say he is Australian.
Driver Info: 2011 Rookie Driver in the league.

Team Name: Full Throttle Australia
Car Number: 86
Full Time/Part Time: Full
Chassis: TBA
Team Info: Participates in many world championship leagues.

Driver Name: Hogan Dundee
Age: TBA
Nationality: Australian
Driver Info: From Walkabout Creek, a small hamlet in the Northern Territories of Australia

Team Name: TBA
Car Number: 86
Full Time
Sponsor:
Chassis: TBA
Team Info: TBA


Driver Name: Max Goose
Age: TBA
Nationality: Australian
Driver Info:

Team Name: TBA
Car Number: 71
Full Time
Sponsor: Interceptor Ignitions
Chassis: TBA
Team Info: Previously competed in the Aussie Dusty Road Series and Road Warrior Street Series and was denied a Master Cup license for unexplained reasons.

Tigerman wrote:How many drivers can we have max. on our teams?

Two cars

I'll add another one.

Driver: Raymond Hughes
Number: TBA
Make: Ford
Nationality: British
Age: 32
Team: WestFall Motorsports
Sponsor: TBA

First post updated, if you want to give me track suggestions, please do so.

Raymond Hughes' number is 38.

Driver Name: Riley Suzuka
Age: 23
Nationality: Japanese/American
Driver Info: 2010 World drift champion

Team Name: Suzuka
Car Number: 56
Full Time/Part Time: Full
Chassis: TBA (I may make my own chassis)
Team Info:

Also, Durango's number will be 83, not 86. My mistake.

Track suggestion:
Black Hills Backroad
Isle of Mann
Isle of Mann
Isle of Mann
Isle of Mann
Isle of Mann

Pacifica Cup announces major race to debut themselves in the United States

Peter McCormick flew to America to tour 2 of 4 future Pacifica Cup Series tracks. This is what he had to say about them, "Both Mazda Raceway Park and the California Speedway are world class facilities. I am counting on California to bring a huge crowd for are American debut. Because of that we had to get interesting in promoting the race." Peter McCormick then announced a very surprising format for the Fontana race. "Motor Racing is huge in the US, and the Pacifica Cup wants to hit all television markets around us. So myself, and California Speedway, would like to announce, The All American 700, the longest Oval track race in the world at 700 mi/1127Km! This race will be huge! Because of its length, each driver will require a reserve driver that must run half of the race. We are doing this, to increase the amount of American Racers in the race. Because if we get some big name racers, we will hit even harder on the American Motorsports map."

Driver Name: Sheila Reynolds
Age: 18
Nationality: New Zealand
Driver Info: Aussie touring car driver, looking for a career in this sort of racing
Car Number: 43
Full Time/Part Time: full time

Driver Name: Charlotte Boardman
Age: 20
Nationality: British
Driver Info: British touring car driver, but was employed by the Australian branch of Abbey Engineering after some very good performances in the Australian series.
Car Number: 42
Full Time/Part Time: full time

Team Name: Abbey Engineering
Chassis: If I can get the Aurora Scepter (car the NAJSCS is using) on a nr2003 body, can I use that?
Team Info: Rapidly expanding British team that runs in America as well as Australia after success in Europe.

Driver Name: Pete Samson
Age: 27
Nationality: AUS
Driver Info: Runs V8 Supercars on rare occasions.

Team Name: Berria Motorsports
Car Number: 40
Full Time/Part Time: Full-time
Chassis: Saar (if allowed by Cynon)
Team Info: Former Sports Car racer Alan Berria asked his friend and fellow Australian Pete Samson to drive for him and his new team in Pacifica Cup, despite Samson initially planning to go to the PCC Cup Series part-time.
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Driver Name: Lenny Jacobs
Age: 23
Nationality: USA
Driver Info: Drives for Paloma Autosport as a teammate to Ian Elias. Was interested in racing in Pacifica Cup.

Team Name: Marcel Racing
Car Number: 99
Full Time/Part Time: Part-time
Chassis: {Whatever Paloma runs in PCC}
Team Info: Canadian Touring Car Championship team looking to expand into global competition.

Could you change Durango's number to 83?

Many tracks compete for remaining spots on the Pacifica Cup Schedule

Reports have it, that Pacifica Cup CEO; Peter McCormick is coming close to finalizing the schedule. However this has only raised tension among possible race promoters for the remaining dates. Reports have it that Peter McCormick was talking with officials from Oran Park, Hidden Valley, and Lakeside Speedway in Australia. Reports are also coming in that Calder Park, may also receive a second race on its road course. On the American side of things, Pacifica Cup will most likely announce that the series will go to Brazil for the first time. More reports are stating that Peter McCormick is close to signing with Portland International Raceway for the final American spot.

My Driver

Driver Name: Jay Jianoran
Age: (Must be over 16 years old): 21
Nationality: (I would prefer if you kept it to Australian, Japanese, Chinese, Middle Eastern, or somewhere that the series will run. If you need to have a US or Canadian driver, I will allow it, but I won’t be happy.) USA
Driver Info: A Student who will be graduating from Adult Transition program at AUSD

Team Name: West Coast Racing
Car Number: (I’d prefer no 3-diget numbers): 8
Full Time/Part Time: (PCC Cup Drivers can not be full time in this series, but I encourage you to deploy them in the American Races) Full Time
Sponsor: TBA
Chassis: (I’ll allow pretty much anything, real life, to Canon makes) Toyota Camry
Team Info:

Track Idea: Sonoma Raceway

A little history

List of previous champions

1999: Eric Perth
2000: Greg Perry-Markus
2001: Eric Perth
2002: Yuji Ikkoyama
2003: Eric Perth
2004: Ian Elias
2005: Ian Elias
2006 Greg Perry-Markus
2007: Ian Elias
2008: Ian Elias
2009: Ian Elias
2010: Ian Elias
2011: Tom McCormick
2012: Wait and See


The first race of the series took place at the Sandown Circuit. Eric Perth won that race. Perth was very strong at Sandown specifically; no one in the series ever beat him there. Till his death in a traffic accident, 3 weeks before the 2006 season was set to begin. Greg Perry-Markus was the first person from Western Australia to start a race, at Barbagallo in 2000. He won that race. Yuji Ikkoyama is the only non-Australian to win in the Pacifica Cup. However since then he hasn't been very strong, in fact he has been in the mid-field since then. In 2004 a young rookie by the name of Ian Elias set foot at the new Birch Park International. He won that race, as well as 9 of the 12 that year. He won 5/6 championships he raced in the series before leaving for the PCC Cup Series. Tom McCormick won the 2011 championship, mainly because of a questionable call by the stewards (Led by his brother) at Suzuka. 2011 was also the first year a non-Australian or New Zealand track was on the schedule, with races at Suzuka and Fuji International. Fuji was dropped in 2012 due to the 2011 race seeing massive accidents entering turn 1. It's replacement is Twin Ring Motegi. Speaking of ovals, The Calder Park Thunderdrome was the first oval added to the series back in 2005. In response to Australian interest in American forms of motorsport such as the PCC Cup Series. The round of Mount Panorama is a grueling 94 lap race through the mountain. It is the biggest race in the country.

Will there be a contig set?

and what ratings do we use?

Rykia_RKXK wrote:Will there be a contig set?

There really isn't a set contig set

f1fan12 wrote:

Rykia_RKXK wrote:Will there be a contig set?

There really isn't a set contig set

so we don't use any contigs then?

Metro 6r4 wrote:

f1fan12 wrote:

Rykia_RKXK wrote:Will there be a contig set?

There really isn't a set contig set

so we don't use any contigs then?

What I am saying is, there is no real set of contingency decals. If you want you can, but I could care less


Ratings System

This can be confusing so I will put this in steps for you.

1. Each ratings block has four categories

Short Track:
Speedway:
Superspeedway:
Road Course:

Aggression
Consistency
Qualifying
Finishing

Areodynamics
Chassis
Engine
Reliability

2. Each category has a base rating of 40-60

3. For each category, you can add as many points as you want, for example
Finishing: +20

4. However each block must equal 0, example

Short Track: +10
Speedway: -5
Superspeedway: -10
Road Course: +5

10-5-10+5=0

5. NOTE: DON'T BOTHER WITH SHORT TRACK, THERE WON'T BE ANY ON THE SCHEDULE

6. Any questions, please ask me.

Metro 6r4 wrote:

f1fan12 wrote:

Rykia_RKXK wrote:Will there be a contig set?

There really isn't a set contig set

so we don't use any contigs then?

What I am saying is, there is no real set of contingency decals. If you want you can, but I could care less


Ratings System

This can be confusing so I will put this in steps for you.

1. Each ratings block has four categories

Short Track:
Speedway:
Superspeedway:
Road Course:

Aggression
Consistency
Qualifying
Finishing

Areodynamics
Chassis
Engine
Reliability

2. Each category has a base rating of 40-60

3. For each category, you can add as many points as you want, for example
Finishing: +20

4. However each block must equal 0, example

Short Track: +10
Speedway: -5
Superspeedway: -10
Road Course: +5

10-5-10+5=0

5. NOTE: DON'T BOTHER WITH SHORT TRACK, THERE WON'T BE ANY ON THE SCHEDULE

6. Any questions, please ask me.

Driver Name: Derrick Green
Age: 23
Nationality: Australian
Driver Info: Ex Sprint-Car driver; drove in Formula C Australia and got two top 5's

Team Name: Greenhouse 88.8 Racing
Car Number: 88
Full Time/Part Time: Full Time
Chassis: Hyundai
Team Info: New team using any car they can find.

I am going to set a due date for cars and ratings, October 31st at 11:59PM. I can extend the deadline if you think it is too short.

I will post race recaps of each races on youtube, WITH COMMENTARY!!!

oaklandfan2kx wrote:My Driver

Driver Name: Jay Jianoran
Age: (Must be over 16 years old): 21
Nationality: (I would prefer if you kept it to Australian, Japanese, Chinese, Middle Eastern, or somewhere that the series will run. If you need to have a US or Canadian driver, I will allow it, but I won’t be happy.) USA
Driver Info: A Student who will be graduating from Adult Transition program at AUSD

Team Name: West Coast Racing
Car Number: (I’d prefer no 3-diget numbers): 8
Full Time/Part Time: (PCC Cup Drivers can not be full time in this series, but I encourage you to deploy them in the American Races) Full Time
Sponsor: Vocal Drill Radio (plays Vocal Drill Team Music including Alameda High School's Hornettes, Carlsbad Lancerettes and Rosary's Pom Squad from Fullerton, etc.), California Music Channel
Chassis: (I’ll allow pretty much anything, real life, to Canon makes) Toyota Camry
Team Info:

Updated Driver & Team Info Application to switch car # to 8

 by Metro 6r4 Yesterday at 11:01 am

Driver Name: Mark Kieffer
Age: 19
Nationality: Australia
Driver Info: Sponsored by Fosters and Vodfone
Car Number: 6
Full Time/Part Time: full time

Driver Name: Michael Kenneth
Age: 30
Nationality: Australian (Jabiru)
Driver Info: Open wheel legend (will have to miss two races due to open wheel commitments)
Car Number: 5
Full Time/Part Time: full time

Added 2nd entry to my original post.

Alpineopossum wrote: by Metro 6r4 Yesterday at 11:01 am

Driver Name: Mark Kieffer
Age: 19
Nationality: Australia
Driver Info: Sponsored by Fosters and Vodfone
Car Number: 6
Full Time/Part Time: full time

Driver Name: Michael Kenneth
Age: 30
Nationality: Australian (Jabiru)
Driver Info: Open wheel legend (will have to miss two races due to open wheel commitments)
Car Number: 5
Full Time/Part Time: full time

I see what you did there...

oaklandfan2kx wrote:

oaklandfan2kx wrote:My Driver

Driver Name: Jay Jianoran
Age: (Must be over 16 years old): 21
Nationality: (I would prefer if you kept it to Australian, Japanese, Chinese, Middle Eastern, or somewhere that the series will run. If you need to have a US or Canadian driver, I will allow it, but I won’t be happy.) USA
Driver Info: A Student who will be graduating from Adult Transition program at AUSD

Team Name: West Coast Racing
Car Number: (I’d prefer no 3-diget numbers): 8
Full Time/Part Time: (PCC Cup Drivers can not be full time in this series, but I encourage you to deploy them in the American Races) Full Time
Sponsor: Vocal Drill Radio (plays Vocal Drill Team Music including Alameda High School's Hornettes, Carlsbad Lancerettes and Rosary's Pom Squad from Fullerton, etc.), California Music Channel
Chassis: (I’ll allow pretty much anything, real life, to Canon makes) Toyota Camry
Team Info:

Updated Driver & Team Info Application to switch car # to 8

Change your sponsers to somthing Australian based. Last I checked Alameda High School wasn't in Australia...

I'm assuming you want these in .cup.car files?

f1fan12 wrote:

Alpineopossum wrote: by Metro 6r4 Yesterday at 11:01 am

Driver Name: Mark Kieffer
Age: 19
Nationality: Australia
Driver Info: Sponsored by Fosters and Vodfone
Car Number: 6
Full Time/Part Time: full time

Driver Name: Michael Kenneth
Age: 30
Nationality: Australian (Jabiru)
Driver Info: Open wheel legend (will have to miss two races due to open wheel commitments)
Car Number: 5
Full Time/Part Time: full time

I see what you did there...

#

I don't.

Metro 6r4 wrote:

f1fan12 wrote:

Alpineopossum wrote: by Metro 6r4 Yesterday at 11:01 am

Driver Name: Mark Kieffer
Age: 19
Nationality: Australia
Driver Info: Sponsored by Fosters and Vodfone
Car Number: 6
Full Time/Part Time: full time

Driver Name: Michael Kenneth
Age: 30
Nationality: Australian (Jabiru)
Driver Info: Open wheel legend (will have to miss two races due to open wheel commitments)
Car Number: 5
Full Time/Part Time: full time

I see what you did there...

#

I don't.

Somthing in our school

Rykia_RKXK wrote:I'm assuming you want these in .cup.car files?

Yes


Pacifica Cup Announces Race at Talladega

The Pacifica Cup Series will go to the famous Talladega Superspeedway. Talladega is known for its dangerously high speeds in the PCC Cup Series, and for its close quaters racing. This will be the first time the series will go on an oval larger than 2 miles. The Pacifica Cup Series will be visiting 6 ovals this season, Twin Ring Motegi, The California Speedway, Autodromo Daniel Estevem, Talladega, Calder Park Thunderdrome, and the brand new Canberra Speedway will fill round 18.

Sweet, I love 'Dega.

Canberra Speedway, lolwut. Do you have a link to the track?

Spannerhead29 (Nelson) wrote:Canberra Speedway, lolwut. Do you have a link to the track?

Fictional track...

Driver Name: Les Jackson
Age: 32
Nationality: Australian
Driver Info: local Australian stock car driver, 3-time track champion at the 1/2 mile Speedway Super Bowl in Adelaide.

Driver Name: Kenji Ichikawa
Age: 25
Nationality: Japanese
Driver Info: Two-time Formula D champion (2008, 2011)

Team Name: Bad Boy Power Team
Sponsors: Bad Boy Power Drink, Interush
Car Number: 7, 77
Full Time/Part Time: Full Time
Chassis: Tremwell Knight
Team Info: An offshoot of the World Sports Car Championship team of the same name, this team serves as it's driver development program.

Updated original post with driver name/# change. #1 is now available if someone wants it.

Driver Name: Jeremy Clovis
Age: 27
Nationality:Austrailian Driver Info: Austrailian short track veteran

Team Name: Switch Racing Car Number: 47
Full Time/Part Time: Full Time
Chassis: Dodge Charger
Team Info: Developmental race driver program.

McCormick trying to get big name's added to the international, possible championships?

Peter McCormick has previously said that he wants to have the international tours in America and the Far East be a sucsess. However before today, he hasn't said how he plans on doing that. Today he announced his plan to get fan support on these international tours. "We have intentionally placed our American races on weekends the PCC Cup Series have off. So therefore, we are targeting those racers, to run in one-off positions at Mazda Raceway Park, Talladega, and Brazil. For the All-American 700, we want to use these American superstars to relive our drivers throughout the race. But for the other 3 races, WE WANT AMERICAN RACERS ATTEMPTING THESE RACES! WE WANT LOCAL RACERS, RACING IN THE FAR EAST TOUR! So I am proposing 2 championships, within the main championship. All the part time drivers racing in the Far-East will compete in a 3 race championship. These Far East Championship contenders, will not be able to participate full time, or in the American Championship. Now the American championship will work the same way, Mazda Raceway Park, Talladega, and Brazil, will be the American Championship. Notice, I am not including Fontana. Because that will require relief drivers. So therefore, Far-East championship contenders can relive the regular drivers and attempt a one-off position in the All-American 700." It is unknown wheather the proposed championships will happen. However, it is expected to gain support. Ian Elias stated to the press, "If they run an American Championship, I'll run in it." It is unknown weather or not if any other American teams or drivers are interested. Or if any Far-East drivers are interested.



OOC: Please, post if your drivers in the PCC Cup Series, or any American racer is interested or not.

Yeah I'll put my namesake PCC driver in.

The due date is pushed back to the 31st. However, If you get your cars in early, you will be included in the promo video, and be included in pre-season testing. Which cars that take part in pre-season testing, tend to be faster in most series, so just expect a little ratings boost if you get them in early. Pre-season testing starts Tuesday the 16th.

I am also messing with my new toy, Sony Vegas!

The first pre-season testing session will be run tomorrow. For each of the 4 sessions, I will add a 5 point rating boost on each of your car ratings. So the cars arn't due till the 27th, however you'll be at a disadvantage.

Mark Elias talks about his pre-season private testing sessions

Mark Elias, younger brother to the famous Pacifica Cup driver, Ian Elias. Is a rookie in the 2012-2013 Pacifica Cup Series season, driving for the Ausport Team. He had this to say after a private testing session at Symmons Plains. "The Inglesby handles with ease, but we are still down a bit on power. Our cars are bullet proof, however we have some, "expirmental parts" that I can not go into that are giving us some reliability issues." The only other team that has belived to have done some sort of private testing, is the Spannerhead Cars. However neither driver as of yet has spoken to the media.

OOC: Please post media updates on how your teams and drivers are preparing for the season.

f1fan12 wrote:I am going to set a due date for cars and ratings, October 27th at 11:59PM. I can extend the deadline if you think it is too short.

I thought the deadline was 10-31-12?!

SnakePlissken wrote:

f1fan12 wrote:I am going to set a due date for cars and ratings, October 27th at 11:59PM. I can extend the deadline if you think it is too short.

I thought the deadline was 10-31-12?!

And I need Rykia to send me mah cars.

SnakePlissken wrote:

f1fan12 wrote:I am going to set a due date for cars and ratings, October 27th at 11:59PM. I can extend the deadline if you think it is too short.

I thought the deadline was 10-31-12?!

Now that you mention it, I thought it was too...

It is now!

The first testing session for the Pacifica Cup Series took place at Birch Park International. Tom McCormick led for the majority of the 30 minute session, however he was involved in the only incedent in the session when Dylan Andrew blew up right in the racing line coming out of turn 4. McCormick slammed into him. Engine issues were the story of the day, as Andrew's half sister Magenta, in the Dora The Explorer 29 car blew up in a spectacular cloud of smoke coming down the frontstrech. With 2 minutes to go in the session, Charolette Boardman took the top of the time-sheets and won the first testing session.


1

42 C Boardman 1:07.535



2 12 T McCormick 1:07.754



3 40 P Samson 1:07.846

4 92 D Andrew 1:07.920

5 29 M Nelson-Andrew 1:08.019

6 43 S Renyolds 1:08.034

7 99 L Jacobs 1:08.162



8 56 R Suzuka 1:08.277



9 26 M Elias 1:08.366



10 83 D Whitten 1:08.586

Spannerhead Racing team owner Robert Nelson talks about his teams engine troubles.

Spoiler: