CMS 2025 LeMans Ultimate Q1 Sprint League
Le Mans Ultimate is one of the fastest growing and most exciting racing sim to arrive in some time. With licensed content for both the Hypercars, GTEs and GT3s, it delivers solid racing action for everyone from e-racing professionals to the casual weekend simracer.
CMS is very pleased to be offering an initial sprint series for our racing community that assures them of the same high-quality racing environment that we have been offering now for over 25 years while LMU continues on the developmental path for 2025.
The Cars
This series will include the Hypercar and GT3 classes, with a limit of 38 participants.
Calendar
Event Schedule
1750 UTC – Race Brief for all drivers
1800 UTC – Session Available/Open Practice
1830 UTC – Qualifying – GT3 then Hypercar
1850 UTC – Race Start
Orange Zone (OZ)
There will be an OZ designated for each race in the driver notes that will be posted to the LMU channels and noted again in the pre-race brief. There will be an automatic review of the OZ post-race.
Race Registration and results will be managed through SimGrid at https://www.thesimgrid.com/championships/12346. All drivers are expected to have completed enough practice laps on the server to race competently and safely.
Points
30-26-23-20-18-16-14-12-10-8-7-6-5-4-3-2 points thereafter, assigned by driver championship.
Settings
Damage: 75%
Mechanical Failures: Normal
Crash Recovery: OFF
Driving View: Open
Aids:
Fuel: 1x
Weather: Scripted and will be forecast in the race brief
Race Start: LMU-controlled double file formation to the green lights.
The server name will be “CMS LMUQ1SL [track name]”.
The server race password will be provided before the session becomes active
Race Communications
We will use the CMS Discord LMU voice channel for race communications.
CMS Discord is available at https://discord.gg/cmsracing
The voice channel is only required to monitor race control during the event. You do not need a microphone if you do not want to speak.
If you have a microphone, please set it to “push to talk”. If that just doesn’t work for you, PLEASE set the voice-activated audio level up considerably so your coughing, wheezing or sim controls grinding isn’t “shared” with everyone else. Don’t be “that guy/girl”.
Chatter during free practice is permitted and encouraged! For qualification and races, please be brief in your communication on Discord and talk only if absolutely necessary. One sentence then quiet is requested. No text chat AT ALL during qualification or race.
Abusive and/or profane in-game chat, Discord, or forum post language may lead to that driver receiving a sanction up to and including a ban from CMS.
Should a driver join the event server without being in the Discord channel, they will be sent 3 text prompts in rFactor 2 text chat to join the CMS Discord server. After the 3rd prompt, they will be removed from the race server by race control until they rejoin with Discord active and monitoring the race channel.
This series will conform to the CMS General Competition Rules that may be found on the CMS Discord Server. All drivers are expected to know the GCR and shall be required to abide by them. Additional track-specific instructions will be provided via a drivers race brief that will be posted on #nars-race-info and summarized prior to the start of the qualifying session on race night.
Pit Entry/Exit Lines: On circuits that a white line is drawn at the pit road entry or/and exit, crossing this white line to entry or/end exit the pit is prohibited unless specifically permitted in a pre-race brief. Otherwise, it is permissible for tires to step on the white line, but crossing the line with one tire completely will result in a post-race Incident Review Request and penalty.
There are no live stewards. A post-race Incident Review Request may be submitted for adjudication with any resultant penalties to be served in the next race competed by the driver(s) at fault. The IRR form may be found at https://cmsracing.com/incident-report/.
LMU system assigned penalties during races must be served. The Race Director will only have the capability to clear penalties and driver DQ during practice on the race server and then AFTER qualification but before the race.
Connection Notes
Drivers are strongly advised to reboot their computer just before joining the server on race night.
Don’t use a WiFi connection. Only Ethernet cable connections are permitted for events.