iRacing Indy 500 Schedule

vApex IndyCar Racing Team Schedule for May
Tuesday May 15th: vApex IndyCar Team Testing (6:30PM PDT)
Wednesday May 16th: vApex IndyCar Team Testing (6:00PM PDT)
Thursday May 18th: vApex TNT IndyCar Testing (6:30 PDT)
Friday May 19th: vApex IndyCar Team Testing (6:00 PDT)
Sunday May 20th: RaceDepartment Indy 500 2012 (Practice Indy 500)
Tuesday May 22nd: iRacing Official Week Commences (Open and Fixed)
Tuesday May 22nd: iRacing Indy 500 Qualifying Begins
Thursday May 24th: Carb Day for vApex Racing Indy Testing (6:30PM PDT)
Friday May 25th: iRacing Indy 500 Qualifying Ends (23:00GMT)
Saturday May 26th: The 3rd Annual iRacing Indianapolis 500-Mile Race

iRacing.com Indy 500 (World Tour Event)
• Event Date & Race Start: Pro - C Oval license holders will race on Saturday, May 26th, 2012, at 11am EDT or (15:00 GMT) ; D - Rookie Oval license holders will race on Saturday, May 26th, 2012 at 10am EDT or (14:00 GMT) This Indy 500 will provide for one (1) reset.

• Series: Members will select the Series tab and choose the iRacing.com Indy 500

• Car: Dallara INDYCAR

• Track: Indianapolis Motor Speedway - Oval

• Practice Sessions: Open practice sessions will begin on May 21st at 8:00PM EDT/May 22nd 00:00 GMT

• Qualifying: Qualifying will begin on Tuesday May 22 at 00:00 GMT with sessions on the hour (00:00, 01:00, 02:00, etc). The final qualifying session will be at 23:00 GMT on May 25th. Qualifying sessions will be four laps, with the average of the four being your time. You may qualify as many times as you like.

Qualifying will be open to all iRacing members. Note that you will only be able to qualify for the Indy 500 that you hold the correct license for.

Drivers will be placed in splits and gridded based on qualifying time. Qualifying is not required. If a driver does not post a qualifying time they will be placed in a split after all drivers who did post times. Then they will be gridded according to their iRating.

• Warm Up: Warm up will be 20 minutes to allow extra time to join into the event

• Safety Rating & iRating: This event is an official session and official session rules apply.

• Race Start, Pit stops, Yellow Flags: The race will begin with a two lane rolling start. Typical pit stop rules will be in effect. Full course yellows will be used. Double file restarts will be used after yellow flags.

• Race Length: 200 laps

• Field Size: 33 race cars per split

• Cost: Free, no entry fee to all iRacing members

• Content Required: Dallara and Indianapolis Motor Speedway

• Race Reporting: The top 3 drivers in each split will be reported on the iRacing member’s page, and receive a certificate.

• Broadcast: The top split of this world tour event will be broadcast live on iRacing.com.