Racedepartment premium races

I was looking what premium on Racedepartment has to offer and saw this:
"Race online in our daily casual racing clubs and professional leagues."
How popular and clean are those daily casual racing clubs for AC? AC is pretty much what I use atm and how often do those race occurs?

 

They're very popular and clean. Races, especially the GT3 ones, usually gather over 15 racers who are all willing to talk, share setups and generally have good racing. Driving standards are enforced and incidents can be penalised, so the racing is not full of rammers and idiots you'd see on Public Servers. Sign up to RD, get a month of Premium and try it out. There are races for all time zones in all manner of car and track combinations. I highly recommend using Race Department for well organised and enjoyable racing.

 

Thanks! I am a member already, is there a way to get premium for a month and try or only for new members? How often do race where AC is used happen? Am I forced to be in teamspeak or something if Im going to race? Thanks again for your insight.

The reason this is interesting is because I want something that isnt really serious but yet somewhat serious, a race i can sign up for but wont get a hard penalty for not being able to show up because of reasons.

 

I've been doing club races at RD for quite a while. AC is one of the most popular Sims used. Not sure if you can access their calendar but here is the link: http://www.racedepartment.com/calendar/upcoming-races
It lists how many AC races happen in a week, usually for EU guys there is AC race every day.

EU races have a lot more people than US races, and races are very clean. If they accidentally hit you they will apologize on TS and usually will give you position back. You don't have to be on TS, and you are not required to talk on TS, but it's nice to be on it and know what people are on about. Club races are casual and for fun.

They used to have premium for different length, but I think they've reduced the price by about 50% and only do 1 year sub now. I might be wrong though.

 

That actually sounds really cool. Only available in Euros though, so I'm out of luck again.

 

You get send to paypal by clicking the link. Are you not able to put the amount in euro and it translates automatically to the currency you using on paypal?

Thanks @St3fan!

 

The problem is it doesn't work that way. There's been a lot of issues with online companies that only allow you (if you're American) to check out in Euros with doing bogus conversions.

I've been hit once by it last year, and apparently it's a growing problem.

You can't see the dollar equivalent until you get your actual statement, which can be days or weeks later. I wound up paying $53.00 for an item that actually should have cost $9.25 last year.

American Express, Chase and Capitol One have all told me flat out: If you can't check out in dollars, DO NOT check out. You open yourself up for a lot of grief if you do.

 

You can only buy for the whole year now, but it's really cheap at around $10 and of course that money goes to help pay for server costs, site upkeep, and hosting all the mods. We try to have AC races almost every night of the week, I'm currently running races on Saturday (Porsche Cup), Monday (MX5 Cup), and Tuesday (varies, track day this coming week). Grid size can vary, weekends usually see the highest participation, but the racing is always good, clean, and friendly. For the club races we put an emphasis on just having fun and not worrying so much about competition, it's just a chance to get on track with your fellow simheads. There's no obligation to be on TeamSpeak but it is helpful so you can know what's going on and participate in the banter. And yes, you should be able to use PayPal to convert to your local currency.

We'd love to have you guys join up with us, we have a lot of fun and we're always looking for more cars on the grid! Here's a short highlight video I made of our first Porsche Cup race.

 

Are those league type races, so you should participate, or is it pick-up racing?
So if you want and have time you can join, but only for premium members!?

 

According to the site description, it's both.

• Race online in our daily casual racing clubs and professional leagues.

And yes, it's only available to premium members. (Again, according to the site.)

 

I was looking this week and they had a race on most days. I find their races on another level from what you'd find in say SRS. There's a decent practice season which is handy if you want to meet up and get tips of someone (most of the really good drivers wouldn't bother with practice but some met up and test setups, sharing tips).

The racing is really good, I tend to go for consistency when I do races there, the longer format means there isn't as much of a mad scramble for positions at the beginning. I think it's well worth the money, I didn't even get to use my membership this time around, but I'll have new hardware in about 2-3 weeks and I'll probably be online for every available minute.

 

I'd like it just for the instruction from a pro part.

The rest would be gravy.

 

Im happy that I started this thread. Sounds better than I hoped for!

 

Membership used to include a class with one of the top drivers. I don't know if they still do that.

 

Well, it's still in the description. In fact, it's the very first thing listed in what you get for Premium:

• Take a full 90 minute online driving course with support from a live tutor to improve your online racing skills in a racing game of your choice.

 

The daily AC events are fun and not as serious as a league. Sign up to an event and if you can't make it for whatever reason, just sign out.

I often do the Sunday GT3 races. They are mostly clean and respectful. Here's the first lap from last Sundays race:-



(I did a season at SRS, it was good but the races are too short now).

 

What time Sunday? I've been looking all over for anybody that runs a weekend race at an earlier hour than 8PM. I could be a good, solid, reliable back marker for you.

 

Most races start at about 8pm GMT.

Here are the events for this week (looks like a big grid for tonight's Porsche race at Nords):-

http://www.racedepartment.com/forums/assetto-corsa-racing-club-leagues.171/

 

If you're using PayPal to pay, you can use their exchange rates, adding Euros to your paypal balance and paying with that. Or just letting paypal handle the conversion at checkout. They do take a fee, but comparing paypal to my local forex, I'd be actually getting two bucks more for my 100 euros... $100,38 from forex, $102,53 from paypal. YMMV since you'd be doing it in the other direction.

And if the seller still manages to shaft you, you can file a dispute through paypal, who as a big company should have enough clout to get things sorted.

Then again... if PayPal shafts you, you're probably SOL.

 

Are you in US zone? @BrandonW77 is the RD US staff. You can ask him for more info on premium membership related thingy.