OWRL MRT Cup
The MRT Cup is an OWRL tradition ever since S2 was introduced and starts between Christmas and new year´s eve.

2012/2013
The MRT Cup consists of 6 races over 3 events, all organized in a short time span. The events and tracks are chosen to allow for close, competitive racing in the first real car to have been introduced in Live For Speed.

Each event consists of qualifying, a sprint race and a main race. The starting grid of the main race will be the finishing order of the sprint race with the top 8 reversed.

Calendar

All tracks use either a layout or an open config. They can be downloaded here

(# date: track - # laps sprint / main)
R1 Th 27-12-2012: South City Town (layout) - 10 / 28
R2 Sa 29-12-2012: Aston South (A14) - 18 / 50
R3 Sa 05-01-2013: Fern Bay Classic (F25) - 11 / 33

Race procedure

Drivers are allowed to join mid-season or signup for a single event, but for each event the drivers need to do two things before signup deadline (3 hours before the start of the event):
- Signup for the event page under "upcoming events".
- Set a time on our training server: OWRL MRT Cup Train

Based on the best times of the participants as tracked on our server, the drivers are divided over as many servers as we will need. We aim to have about 24 drivers per server.

The servers open at 19:30 at latest for practice. Each server will have a server admin. A 15 minute qualifying session starts at 20:00 and decides the grid for the sprint race. The sprint race starts directly after the end of the qualifying session. The finishing order of the sprint race decides the starting grid for the main race, but with the top 8 finishers starting in reversed order. Between the sprint and main race drivers will be given a 5 minute break.

Time Table:
19:30 - Server open
20:00 - Qualifying (15 minutes)
20:20 - Sprint race (±15 minutes)
20:40 - Main race(±35 minutes)

All times are CET

Layout
For all races, a layout or open config is used. The layout will be installed on the training servers before the event and will be available on our site for download. Drivers will need to practice on our training server OWRL MRT Cup Trainto set a valid practice time before signup deadline.

Points
The champion of the MRT Cup will be the driver who accumulates the most points over three events. Points are awarded in a similar system as in our S2 Seasons using the points scheme below. Drivers who do not finish will get no points, unless they cover at least 80% of the distance in laps. The 1st driver on the next server will be placed directly behind the last driver to get points on the faster server. For the sprint race 33,33% of the points depicted below will be awarded. For the main this is 66,67% for a total of 100%. The Winner on server 2 and 3 will get a bonus of 5 points, the number 2 gets 3 extra points and the 3rd place driver 1. In Qualifying, the bonus for first three places are 3 points, 2 points and 1 point.