TL;DR Blancpain GT/Pirelli World Challenge Schedule Comparison

[Skid_Marc_]

BSS/PWC Schedule Comparison

This is NOT an in-depth comparison between the European Blancpain GT Series and it's U.S. counterpart, Pirelli World Challenge. As a follow up to a discussion that was had in TS regarding the scheduled race times. just a schedule comparison between the two series, this is merely a schedule comparison between the two series to compare what time races start and finish, and how often both races are held on the same day or on different days.

I determination for "Track Usage" is not scientific, but rather a estimation based solely on the number of SERIES (not car count, specifically);

• A base line number of "in-house" series supported at each event
  • BSS brings GT Sports Club, GT4, and either Super Trofeo or Trofeo Abarth to most of their events.
  • PWC brings GTS/TC
• The number of external series brought in for the the weekend as support
  • BSS usually brings in other FIA series like F2, F3, and/or F4
  • PWC usually brings in other SCCA series like F1600/F2000/F Atlantic
• The number of other series PWC/BSS Supports themselves
  • BSS appears, almost always, to be the main event for their race weekends.
  • PWC usually gets paired with IMSA (P2/PC/GTLM/GTD), NASCAR, or Indycar (which brings along with it the Mazda Road to Indy: MX-5, F-2000, Pro-Mazda, Indy Lights)

The more cars are involved in the weekend, and more importantly, the wider the variety of tyre rubber that each series puts down (PWC obviously use Pirelli, IMSA uses Michelin/Continental, Indycar uses Firestone, and MR2I uses Cooper) the more the track changes over the course of the weekend.

Blancpain GT Series is a bigger series, obviously very much a "home field advantage", so it headlines all of it's races, and usually brings in a large number of series to support it.

Pirelli World Challenge is a smaller series, playing younger brother to SCCA's other "Pro series", the deeply-American-rooted Trans-Am Series, and is made up of mostly imported European brands, which makes it a little more niche. The few events that PWC does headline only see a handful of other series come in, usually other SCCA amateur series.

How/If any of this impacts our league is minimal at best, but I was enjoying digging into this and figured I would share anyways.

 

[Kenadian]

I really enjoy watching PWC (mostly because of the Caddy) but for some reason find Blancpain Races more available on YouTube by comparison.

So just out of curiosity, this shouldn't affect the way I choose to schedule races for League?

...or should I do the coin flip thing we talked about where heads is Afternoon/Late Afternoon (1 day event simulation) and Tails is Late Afternoon/Morning (2 day event simulation)?

 

[Skid_Marc_]

Not so much, Ken. Actually, if you look at the schedule, the majority of races on Saturday AND Sunday still occur between the hours of 12:00 and 16:00, which means, if we actually followed the pattern, most of our Q sessions would be Late Afternoon (Firday night, in BSS) and then our Q and M Races would BOTH be Afternoon.. It is only one or two races that break that pattern, so I'd say your system probably gives enough variety.

 

[Kenadian]

I actually tried looking at the schedule but didn't have permissions to view it

 

[Skid_Marc_]

Fucking docs....