V8 Thunder (UK/EU online league) announces new season details.

[Ian S]

V8 Thunder announces new season details.

The European based V8 Thunder Nascar Racing 2003 Game online racing series, which caters for complete novices to experienced simracers the world over, has announced their Autumn 2008 Schedule and opened up Registrations for the 3 series. Now in it's 5th year of operation, V8Thunder continues to provide close, exciting racing between the best sim-racers in Europe.

The 12 Round series kicks off at Michigan on 16th September with the Novice "Lites" taking to the track first, followed by the intermediate Truck series on the 17th, and the headline Trophy series on the Thursday evening for a 100 laps thrash around one of the fastest tracks on the calendar. Summer 2008 Champions' Sanjin Haler (Trophy, vMaxSR), Caspar Kahari (Trucks, vMaxSR) and Sergey Rebrov (Lites, Independent) will have strong competition in the defence of their crowns.

For the first time in V8 Thunder history, both the Trucks and Trophy series will have yellow flags switched off on one oval race, yellows are always switch off on V8T road courses events, but this season Rockingham UK has been picked for the first oval as it produced the highest number of cautions in the Summer 2008 season, which is sure introduce a need for drivers to adjust their driving style for 119 & 136 laps on the ultra tough English oval. The Lites series will continue with it's traditional yellows off/yellows on double header short race format, a formula V8 have found trains drivers well for the transition to Trucks & Trophy. Other highlights include a debut for Safer Barrier Project tracks and a return to Pocono for the Lites and Truck series. The single Road Course foray this season see's Lites and Trucks visiting Lime Rock Park, and Trophy a visit to Riverside International Raceway.

Sanjin Haler celebrates his 2008 Summer Championship Victory at Homestead Miami Speedway.

V8 Thunder Lites Series (Tuesday evenings)

Date                           R1  R2
16/09/2008  Michigan           40  50
23/09/2008  Talladega BR 2006  29  29
30/09/2008  Rockingham 2007    34  51
07/10/2008  Richmond SBP       40  80
14/10/2008  Lime Rock Park     20  40
21/10/2008  Dover              60  60
04/11/2008  Atlanta            33  65
11/11/2008  Pocono             30  30
18/11/2008  Bristol Night      50 100
25/11/2008  North Carolina     59  59
02/12/2008  Daytona BR         30  30
09/12/2008  Homestead V8       41  41

V8 Thunder Truck Series (Wednesday evenings)

Date                          Laps
17/09/2008  Michigan           80
24/09/2008  Talladega BR 2006  66
31/10/2008  Rockingham 2007   119 (no yellows)
08/10/2008  Richmond SBP      120
15/10/2008  Lime Rock Park     79 (no yellows)
22/10/2008  Dover             120
05/11/2008  Atlanta            98
12/11/2008  Pocono             60
19/11/2008  Bristol Night     175
26/11/2008  North Carolina    118
03/12/2008  Daytona BR         70
10/12/2008  Homestead V8       94

V8 Thunder CoT Trophy Series (Thursday evenings)

Date                         Laps
18/09/2008  Michigan          100
25/09/2008  Talladega BR 2006  85
01/10/2008  Rockingham 2007   136 (no yellows)
09/10/2008  Richmond SBP      200
16/10/2008  Riverside PWF     100 (no yellows)
23/10/2008  Dover             160
06/11/2008  Atlanta           147
13/11/2008  Eurospeedway       88
20/11/2008  Bristol Night     275
27/11/2008  North Carolina    158
04/12/2008  Daytona BR         90
11/12/2008  Homestead V8      121

About V8 Thunder:
V8 Thunder offers 3 series, A fixed setup "Lites" series on a Tuesday evening using the ASA 2004 mod (CTS physics) for beginners to online racing, a open setup hardcore mode (open views) "Trucks" series on a Wednesday evening using the PWF Truck Series mod for intermediate racers, and the premier open setup hardcore mode (open views) "Trophy" series using the Superspeedway.net CoT mod on Thursday evenings. V8 Thunder operates a license system which ensures drivers are placed in the correct series, has designated Series Directors who run each series and perform pot-race analysis of the events. Drivers can either compete for a Team, or as an Independent, with Championships for Overall Driver, Team, Independent, Rookie and Nations in each series.

All race events run to the following schedule: Practice at 7pm; Qualifying at 8pm GMT followed by a short Happy Hour and then the Race every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. (GMT + 1 during summer months - EST -5 Hours).

For further information or to register for a series, please see V8 Thunder
(register for whichever series you want to and your license application will be issued depending on your experience with NR2003 in online leagues)

Thanks
Ian (Warwagon2 / Whelen Pitlights Author)