OpenSpeedway Rules

These rules will be enforced by all Bosses and Admins.  First of all, we race for fun, if you can't race for fun, don't bother racing with us.  DO NOT intentionally wreck for the thrills.  This will earn you a Ban as fast as the wreck happened.  These rules are for your racing satisfaction and will be enforced on ALL OpenSpeedway Servers. 

Please read these BEFORE you commit to racing here.

   See Rules Here

OpenSpeedway News

1-4 8:00am – OpenSpeedway will be running ArcaSimRacing Servers – It’s official, OpenSpeedway will also be running ArcaSimRacing servers. Within a few hours from the Sim being released, we will have a few servers online. The servers have already been leased and will be ready to go.

We will continue to run the NR2003 servers. Between Arca, NR2003 and rFactor, the total server count for OpenSpeedway will be more than 10 servers online

8-23 9:00pm – OpenSpeedway running BR tracks - We are going try running some BR tracks on the SS server. Besure to get Daytona NightBR , Daytona MOD1 and Talladega BR.

8-14 11:00am – OPENSPEEDWAYS PASSWORD - To insure the quality of the races, we might have to password the servers.   Be sure to sign up in the forum for the password list. Go to the IMPORTANT THREADS section for the sign-up post.  Follow the instructions posted there.  Get your username on the password list to receive access to the new passwords as we have to change them. Be sure to post in the proper thread in the forum.

8-16 – Sierra never shut down completely, the chat and ratings are gone, but you can still connect thru the old lobby.

The IPs are:
Open 1 - On Sierra - 69.56.225.90:36000
Open 2 - On Sierra - 75.126.191.195:60300
Open 3 - On Sierra - 69.56.225.90:37000
Open 4 - On Sierra - 75.126.191.195:63800
Open 5 - On Sierra - 75.126.191.194:63000
Open 6 - On Sierra - To Be Announced later today

Ventrilo
You can always check on the racing on Ventrilo 69.31.96.158 Port 3932. We use version 3.0.1

7-26 8:00am – OpenSpeedway also supports rFactor - Thanks to the hard work of our staff members, we are also running rFactor servers. It's a great game with a bunch of different mods. By the end of the month, we will have 8 rFactor servers running using a number of different mods and tracks. You can log onto Ventrilo and ask for help if you'd like to try it.

7-12 10:00am - New OpenSpeedway Policy – We are about to implement a new wreck and boot policy, if you cause a wreck, you will be ejected, no questions. If you receive multiple boots in a short time frame, you will receive a ban. We are doing this to clean up the wrecking. If you must continually make reckless moves, showing total disregard for the other drivers, you will be gone for good.

6-15 8:00am – It has come to our attention that people may need a place to send replays in for review by an admin…Please email us here

11-8 2:30am – If you are having trouble getting connected to the Ventrilo server using vent2.openspeedway.net use the IP of 69.31.96.158 instead.

11-8 2am – We have been having troubles with the nameserver. I have fixed it so that the forum will always be accessible. CLICK HERE for the new link and be sure to bookmark it.

Cars and trucks - Send in your cars to be posted and download cars of other racers.

Cup Cars Page – Download all the cars and have your car posted.

CTS Trucks & Busch Page - Download the CTS trucks and Busch cars and have yours posted.

1988 Mod & TransAM Page - Download the 1988 Mod & TransAM cars and have yours posted.

Late Model & 1970s mod page - Download the Late Model & 1970s cars & files and have yours posted.

IROC & Whelen Cars Page – Download all the IROC & Whelen cars and have your car posted.

Supersprint & OWR07 Cars Page – Download all the Supersprint & OWR07 cars and have your car posted.

COT Cars Page – Download all the COT cars and have your car posted.

1990s & Street Stock Cars Page – Download all the 1990s & Street Stock cars and have your car posted.

ARCA Stock Cars Page – Download all the ARCA cars and have your car posted.

Other Stuff

Tracks and Files Page - The tracks and files have been moved to here

August Points - Archived Points Standings

Picture Page - Here are some pictures of the Open Speedway Racers.

Image Page - Here are some cool emoticons that you can use on our forum.

Series and Leagues

Ventrilo - Alot of us who race on Open Speedway use Ventrilo to chat while racing. To use it, download the files from this site. Once you have it installed, start the program and follow the intructions below to join us. Please be considerate of others using the channels, NO swearing or agruing. Please keep your mic levels adjusted so that you're not blasting the other users. Failure to comply with get you kicked off or banned from using it entirely.

You can use this link to download Ventrilo ver. 3.0.1

Instructions for Ventrilo:
1. Click on the top -> button, New and put in your username.
2. Click on the middle -> and click on New and put in the Server name and the Hostname. Create another server name using this
hostname. 3. Click on the Setup button and it should look like this.
4. Click on Connect and it should look like this. Just click on Open Speedway Main Server to switch to that channel.
5. The IP is 69.31.96.158 Port 3932

Have Fun!!

Tips - We run a fixed setup so that everyone is pretty much equal. If you are having problems controlling your car or it pushes up real bad in the turns, you might try adjusting your wheel. We have a good starting point that we give out.

1. Go into Options and Calibrate your wheel.

2. Click on Advanced. Set the Steering Assistance at 15%, Set the linearity at 75-80% and check the box for Boost steering at low speeds.

3. If you are still chasing the wheel and the car is still pushing up the track in the turns, go into the garage and turn the steering ratio down to 20 and test it. You might want to adjust it up or down from there until you get the feel that is right for you.

4. If your steering is twitchy, try turning down the linearity alittle or turning the steering ratio up.

Running the game in a Window - Running the game in a window let's you jump back and forth to your desktop without getting of the of game.

1. First, you have to run the game at the same resolution as your desk top.

2. Run the 3D config and check the "Run in a window" box.

3. Go into your game folder using Windows Explorer and find the app.ini file.

4. Open the file and look for the 2 lines like this:

windowTopLeftX=0
windowTopLeftY=0

5. Change the "windowTopLeftX=0" to windowTopLeftX=-3

6. Change the "windowTopLeftY=0" to windowTopLeftY=-23

7. Start the game, you only want to see a small line at the top of the screen. You don't want to be able to see the boxes to minimize the screen, but you should still be able to find them.

8. To raise the window higher, raise the "windowTopLeftY=" number.

Any comments, suggestions or replays email us here

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